[There are three bedrooms left in the corridor to explore, you come to the door of the nearest bedroom.]

[Strangely, the bedroom door isn’t tightly closed, but slightly ajar, leaving a small crack.]

[Through the door you can see a disheveled nun lying on the bed, it appears as if she just had a moment of pleasure, her cheeks still tinged with the blush from it.]

[Your prying movements caught the attention of the inhabitant, an accidental push on the wooden door made a ’creaking’ sound.]

[The nun, startled, turns her head sharply towards you.]

[At the sight of your return, she pats her chest lightly, grumbling in complaint, and then opens her two long, bristly limbs, waving you over....]

[Do you wish to move forward and experience pleasure?]

???

Lin Xun gritted his teeth, feeling as if he had been pepper-sprayed.

Without hesitation, he switched to his shell mode, his sword piercing repeatedly, instantly sending the nun to her death.

After killing the nun, he gained a little spiritual energy.

But this wasn’t important, the important thing was that although the Nun’s shell contained no skills, it held memories...

[...]

[After experiencing the ’Sacred Ritual’ for the first time, the nun felt deep remorse.]

[What she regretted was not undergoing the Feathered transformation, but her choice of an inferior ’Ritual Blood’.]

[Feathereds come in all shapes and sizes, like the obese monastery abbott, whose appearance is ugly, body fat, and has no demonstratable strength, but these are just characteristics of the initial stages of Feathering.]

[Rumor has it, after the abbot undergoes Feathering a few more times, he could grow wings, fly across the strait and reach the Divine Kingdom.]

[The nun was envious, but her chosen path no matter how many times she Feathered, would never grant her flying abilities, signifying... she could never reach the Divine Kingdom in this lifetime.]

[Just as she sank into despair, the abbot told her that the path chosen during the first Feathering is indeed crucial, determining one’s future fate, but that’s not to say it’s unchangeable.]

[Since she has undergone Feathering only a few times, there’s a possibility of altering her form.]

[By injecting a large amount of ’Ritual Blood’ from other methods, there is a chance to change the Feathered form, ultimately gaining the ability to fly.]

[After discovering this secret, the nun was overjoyed, but the ’Ritual Blood’ capable of growing wings was rare, she was utterly unable to afford it.]

[Fortunately... the abbot was generous, willing to selflessly infuse his own blood into her, fulfilling the nun’s lifelong dream...]

[...]

[Oh, so the abbot’s stinger is that large...]

[...]

[The fragmented memory ends abruptly here.]

Lin Xun frowned as he finished reading the memory.

The Feathereds indeed have different forms and the initial ’Sacred Ritual’ is a choice of form.

The ’Ritual Blood’ in his item list was of unknown origin, but with its ’Ruined Level’ quality, it was obvious that it was worthless, it definitely wasn’t the abbot’s ’Ritual Blood’.

A normal Apostle, without the skill to fly, would probably need to obtain ’Ritual Blood’ from the abbot and go through Feathering several times to cross the strait and reach the Divine Kingdom.

He tossed aside the nun’s shell and began exploring the remaining rooms.

The other two bedrooms also housed monks, Lin Xun slaughtered them all, turning them into experience points.

Besides gaining spiritual energy, there was no other harvest.

At this point, the exploration of the monastery interior was complete.

He thought for a moment, returned to the ’Rest Page’ to refresh and planned to farm monsters repeatedly.

All other monsters reappeared upon respawn, only the abbot was judged an elite monster by the underworld game, refresh couldn’t make it respawn.

Lin Xun decimated the monastery up and down twice before finally stooping.

Normally, the second round of monster farming would only yield some junk items, or nothing at all. But this time he surprisingly managed to gain some spiritual energy.

However, when the third round of farming monsters came, the drop rate returned to zero.

After cleansing the monastery, ensuring that nothing was missed, he began to explore the outside world...

[...]

[You descend the spiral staircase, return to the central courtyard...]

[A huge iron door connects the courtyard to the garden outside, and you can leave the monastery through it.]

[Do you wish to push open the door?]

[You slowly push open the courtyard door...]

[At the dead of the night, the dome of the sky is covered with dark clouds, deprived of moonlight, still it isn’t pitch-black but a peculiar grey light. ]

[Looking up at the sky, trying to find the source of light, you see a greyish light piercing through the gaps in the clouds, sprinkling the earth. By intuition, you determine... that’s not the moon.]

[The garden is overrun with weeds, seemingly untouched for a long time.]

[The smell of damp and salty ocean air permeates the air, and if you listen closely, you can faintly hear the rhythmic crashing of waves against the rocks.]

[At end of the garden wall is a metal gate, and through it, you can see a vast expanse of sea.]

[You hurriedly stride forward, through the gate and out of the monastery...]

[The endless sea is a few hundred meters down from your feet, revealing the monastery perched atop a cliff facading the sea.]

[On one side of the precipice is a barren and desolate land void of any buildings or life.]

[On the other side is the vast sea, surprisingly not pitch-black in the night.]

[You widen your eyes, and clearly see the sea displaying an unusual amber color.]