[After you finished browsing through ’The Abbey’s Abbot’s Essays’ and were about to leave the bedroom, a plump figure suddenly appeared in front of you.]

[Its body was so obese that it stretched its cloak like an inflated football, and from its wide sleeves peeked a fat limb filled with folds.]

[The ’Feathered Abbey’s Abbot’ wore a pale mask of carapace on its face. The small mask couldn’t fully cover its face, and pieces of greasy flesh bulged out from the edges of the mask.]

[The abbot, leisurely stepping inside with his belt in hand, unexpectedly ran into you...]

[It clearly froze, and a voice of interrogation came from under his mask...]

[Your ’sacred ceremony’ failed, instead of going to confession to the ’Wet Nurse’, what are you doing here!]

In order to conveniently acquire information and memories, Lin Xun, except for when he was fighting and would switch to the ’Shell’ of the Star Lord Canis, he spent the rest of time using the initial ’monk’ shell for exploration.

Encountering such a scenario might have triggered a related event, so he wasn’t in a hurry to switch back to the Star Lord Canis to gain experience points.

[You lower your head, staying silent.]

[Seeing this, the abbot swallowed the words that he was about to question you with, heaved a long sigh, turned around, and closed the door.]

[He patted your shoulder and spoke encouragingly, on the path to ’Feathering’, there are millions of devout pilgrims, and you are one of them.]

[Every ’Feathering’ is a test from the ’Wet Nurse’ to her child, if there is the slightest wavering in your devotion, ’Feathering’ will fail, thereby contaminating you with demonic power.]

[No one can resist the corruption of demonic power, death is the only relief for you now...]

[Rest sooner, that way even in death, you can return to the embrace of the ’Wet Nurse’... It’s much better than becoming a demon, being banished to the ’Sea of Corruption’, and ultimately sink into the sea, to dance with darkness.]

[It looks towards the bedroom wall behind you, its gaze seeming to pierce through the wall and reach far beyond.]

[Would you like to leave the ’Abbot’s Bedroom’?]

After some thought, Lin Xun chose ’No’.

[Seeing that you weren’t making your way to the confessional room and were still lingering in the bedroom, the abbot finally lost his temper.]

[He chastised your obstination loudly, claiming that the ’Wet Nurse’ wouldn’t accept a child willing to become a demon!]

[The ’Feathered Abbey’s Abbot’ held onto the pale mask on his face. The carapace mask instantly spread and enveloped his obese body, forming a sturdy exoskeleton armor.]

[He lunged at you fiercely, his movements were extraordinarily swift and did not match his plump physique at all...]

[You possess the ’Shell’ of ’Star Lord Canis of Desire’!]

[With a flick of your sword, the celestial sword turned into a ray of flowing light that pierced through the abbot’s hard shell, penetrating his chest...]

[You knew well the tremendous vitality of the feathered monsters, a wound piercing the chest was not enough to pose a fatal threat to them, so you didn’t stop wielding the sword, and continued to control the flying sword to attack...]

[Chilled by sword energy, the celestial sword moves back and forth, quickly turning the abbot’s plump body into a sieve...]

[The abbot twitched and fell to the ground, beneath the pale mask came an incredulous murmur, you’re not a child of the ’Wet Nurse,’ who are you...]

[You have defeated the ’Feathered Abbey’s Abbot’, there’s a small increase in your experience points.]

[You have obtained an ’Enlightening Shard of Spirituality’ *1]

[You have obtained an ’Exoskeleton Mask’ (Excellent Level Equipment)!]

[You look at the plump shell that fell to the ground...]

[’Feathered Abbey’s Abbot’: The abbot of the abbey who has undergone numerous ’Featherings’, their form of ’Feathering’ varies due to the different ’ceremonial blood’ administered during the ’sacred ceremony’. The abbot’s ’Feathered’ form is relatively weak at this stage and is not suited for battle. Compatibility: 86%（+55）]

[Would you like to possess this shell?]

Lin Xun raised an eyebrow.

He did not know whether it was due to the ’Star Lord’s Coronet’ increasing the drop rate, but the abbot dropped equipment directly. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

He actually had no preference for the monster to drop equipment, but wished rather for it to drop tools and spirituality.

Because the former could be seized through possessed talent plunder monster equipment to achieve ’drop’ effect, whereas the latter purely depended on luck, as acquiring spirituality or tools wasn’t possible through possession.

[You possess the ’shell’ of ’The ’Feathered Abbey’s Abbot’!]

Lin Xun waited for a while, but there was no sign of the abbot’s memories recovering.

He opened the panel to check, and he found that the attributes of the abbot were utterly deplorable, only slightly higher than that of an ordinary practitioner.

His attention was entirely on the mask equipment he just acquired.

[Exoskeleton Mask (Excellent Level Equipment): After some unique feathered creatures die, their carcass rots away, but their sturdy exoskeleton can be preserved intact. This exoskeleton is fashioned into a war armor by subsequent generations, again molded into the shape of a mask through various means, it continues to serve the ’Wet Nurse’.]

[Once you equip it, the mask will automatically extend and wrap your body when you enter battle, forming a robust exoskeleton armor.]

[This equipment is currently in a damaged state and needs to be repaired before it can be used.]

"This equipment is pretty interesting..."

Based on the description of the abbot’s shell, and the text displayed by this piece of equipment.

Lin Xun inferred that there must be many kinds of feathered creatures, creatures like the abbot were not good at fighting.

And those whose bodies could be made into ’Exoskeleton Masks’ after death, might be powerful monsters.

He used the abbot’s shell to explore the remaining rooms.

[You left the ’Abbot’s Bedroom’, and proceeded to walk along the corridor...]