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What comes to mind when you think of spiritual things?

There were many things that came to mind when thinking about spirit creatures, but there was a certain word that came to mind most strongly in a situation like now where a spirit spirit has been defeated.

Naedan!

After Dang Do-yeon put on the gloves, he began to dismantle the corpse of the spirit wolf, and we chatted a little away, unable to hide our excitement.

“It is rewarding to learn Oh Seong-jin.”

“It is truly a great development.”

Everyone nodded at Yeo Il-ye’s words.

Weren’t we the ones who threw everything from people to raincoat to slay the half-spirited spirit in Shaanxi?

Now that we had used the correct method to hunt down the mysterious creature, we couldn’t help but feel new emotions.

The fact that the hard work I had put in while learning Oseongjin was not in vain was also a factor that doubled my joy.

Squeak!

Seogong let out a powerful cry as if asking her not to forget him too. At that sight, Hyeok-gi-rin laughed and lifted Seo-gong up.

“Mr. Seogong! It was really amazing earlier!”

Seogong’s tail, held in Hyukgirin’s arms, was stiffly held up, unlike usual. I don’t know exactly what that means, but just by looking at it, I could feel that Seogong was elated through the movement of his tail.

“That guy was active?”

“Dang So-yeol Sojeo should have seen that too! It was truly a movement comparable to that of a martial arts master!”

Hyeok Gi-rin is excited and talks about Seo-gong’s performance.

Squeak!

Seogong’s tail twitched even more, as if he knew he was praising me.

It was when the companions were laughing while looking at that scene.

“found.”

Dang Do-yeon returned with the extracted Naedan.

Everyone who saw the inner altar let out a light exclamation of exclamation. I, too, have seen many elixirs of one kind or another, but the exclamation that came out of my mouth was probably because it was a drug that came from a spirit object that I caught myself.

“This is a pot that can make one or two good elixirs.”

Dang Do-yeon, who showed us the inside table, emptied a suitable wooden box, stored the elixir safely, and stored it in the raincoat.

“There will be things like leather, claws, and organs that have value or weakness. Of course, it will take quite some time to dismantle that wolf spirit creature and confirm its value.”

Tang So-yeol nodded at Dang Do-yeon’s words.

“Yes. Even if I can’t do it, I’ll have to wait a few days or even a week. So how do you plan to move?”

The eyes of the companions gathered at those words.

The companions also seemed curious about how they would move forward.

“First of all, I would like to diligently search for spirits.”

“Sure…there were some inexperiences in today’s battle.”

The black cat who had the most trouble fending off the wolf attack today nodded.

“Yes. You may need to refine your Five Elements and gain more practical experience with spirits, but there are other reasons to search for spirits other than the purpose of gaining practical experience.”

“What are the other reasons?”

To Dokgo Iseol’s question, I immediately answered.

“This is to estimate how much spiritual power the blood religion possesses.”

Now, I only know that the Blood Cult can tame spiritual creatures, but I had no idea what the actual power of the Blood Cult over spiritual creatures was.

Seeing that they gave up their red blood vessels and used spirit creatures as mounts, I can only guess that they have plenty of power.

There was no way to know whether there were two or a hundred spirit creatures controlled by the blood cult.

And until now, I couldn’t even dare to check the history of such a blood cult.

If you dig into the back of a spirit being controlled by a blood cult, you may end up in a battle with a spirit being, but there was no way to completely escape from that situation.

Now that it had been proven through actual combat that it was possible to catch spirits using the Five Star Jin, it was time to figure out the power of the blood religion.

However, no matter how much of Oh Seong-jin’s power you have obtained, it is too dangerous to blindly delve into the blood religion without any information.

We should move after obtaining the minimum information necessary to understand the risk.

“If you search for spirit creatures to hunt for them, you will be able to figure out which spirit creatures the blood religion has come into contact with and which spirit creatures they have secured.”

It was a preliminary investigation to investigate the reality of blood religion.

“It’s quite a daunting task.”

It was exactly as the party soyeol said.

Hunt for traces of the spirit or confirm that the spirit has disappeared. It’s easy to say, but it was literally like looking for a needle in a sandy beach.

Unfortunately, the time and location of the appearance of the spirit was completely random in the game, except for this Thousand Forest, so there were no clues to pinpoint its location.

“But it is not impossible at all.”

As I said that, I looked at Dang Do-yeon and Black Cat.

Because we had the support of Wolbokdang, the world’s best intelligence organization, and the Bicheon Carriage.

The black cat caught my gaze and smiled.

“I was still gathering information about spirits. There are a few places you can go and investigate in person.”

As expected, I believed it was a black cat.

The black cat took out a map and started making dots. The dots taken were literally scattered throughout the central plains.

It would be hard to check all of this.

Dang Do-yeon, who checked the map, jumped up.

“Hehe, it’s truly a journey across the world! As a coachman, my blood boils!”

Dang Do-yeon is already excited and has started urging him to leave. Seeing Dang Do-yeon like that, we smiled bitterly and got into the raincoach.

“Hey!!”

Doo doo doo doo!!

It was the beginning of a long journey to understand the power of the blood religion.

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The foot of an unknown mountain.

A masked person running quietly at the foot of a mountain.

Since he was wearing a hat and a hat, it was impossible for others to see him, but the masked person’s eyes were as red as blood.

Without hesitation, the masked bloodman followed the entrance of the hidden cave and entered the cave.

How long did we walk along the cave that continued to deepen and widen?

The blood man’s steps stopped.

Shhh!

This was because the chilling sound of a snake was heard.

The blood man swallowed his saliva at the sight of a huge snake visible in the darkness. Although he was a blood person who had seen many spiritual creatures, the shape of the snake was so large that even a blood person was nervous.

The blood man trembled as he looked at that gigantic figure.

This was because I was once again impressed by the power of the blood religion that could wield such spiritual creatures.

With that feeling in mind, the blood man bowed down and shouted.

“Blood zone! Congratulations on the success of Dafa! Blood tax! Blood tax! Blood tax!”

Blood Zone’s answer flew out of the darkness.

“To report.”

“Yes! Every place is preparing for the start of the great work without any problems! Moyongse’s heightened vigilance due to what happened in Shaanseobunta has dulled again over time, and no special movements have been detected in Gupailbang or Odaegas!”

Is everything going as planned?

Hyeoljon looked at the huge snake. Although he was a blood-zone who had seen many spiritual creatures, he was so strong that he let out an exclamation of admiration the moment he saw him.

Could this be the majesty of the legendary dragon?

Blood Zone let out a low laugh.

I couldn’t help but laugh when I met this guy, tamed him, and said that there weren’t any problems while taming him.

Hearing the blood man’s laughter, he lowered his body even further and prostrated himself.

The blood lord’s laughter stopped as he realized there was something wrong with his reaction.

“It’s not a problem, but there is one thing I would like to report.”

“Say.”

“This is the trend of Noegeomnangin.”

The blood man’s report followed.

“For the past few months, I have been traveling throughout the entire midfield looking for traces of the spirit. We have confirmed that we have found the former home of the secured spirit creatures and hunted the spirits that were deemed unsuitable for practicing Great Law. The reason he shows such movement is because…”

Although the blood person blurted out his words, the blood person understood what the blood person wanted to say.

This means that the Brain Swordsman is following in the footsteps of the Blood Bridge.

“That’s foolish.”

“What should I do?”

Heoljon was troubled for a moment by the blood man’s question.

Ho Cheon-an rejected his offer.

‘Originally, I tried to drag him to the blood religion after showing him a hot taste, but…’

When I heard the news that the Imoogi had been discovered, I chose to tame the Imoogi first. I succeeded in taming the Imoogi, but it took much longer than expected.

Is there any need to move to seize Hocheonan with a great cause at hand?

After thinking of such a thing, Hyeolzon soon realized that there was no need for it.

‘It wouldn’t be a bad idea to use that guy as bait.’

Hyeoljon recalled the rumors in Murim about Hocheonan.

Did they say that even if it rots, it’s still worth it?

Although the vessel through which everyone in the world could attain enlightenment was broken, he nevertheless succeeded several times in unprecedented feats even in the history of martial arts.

Considering the fact that he was aware of the power of the blood religion and Ho Cheon-an’s performance, there was a strong possibility that Ho Cheon-an would become a major obstacle to the blood religion’s progress.

however.

Ho Cheon-an could never overthrow the blood religion.

Therefore, the more Hocheonan shows activity against the blood religion’s campaign, the more its value as a trap will increase.

“Leave it to do what it wants.”

“Honorable name!”

Although he answered without a moment of hesitation, a ray of worry bloomed in his head. They haven’t been discovered yet, but if Noegeonnangin is following the traces of spirits like he is now, it was only a matter of time before one of his hiding places was discovered.

However, the worries in the blood man’s mind disappeared in an instant.

“Let’s start the plan.”

This was because the name of the blood clan that had been long-awaited and long-awaited had come.

‘at las…! It’s starting! The world of blood religion!’

“Honorable name!!”

The blood man was overcome with trepidation and recited with more force than ever.

A blood religion that has been lurking behind the scenes in the central region for a long time, waiting for the right moment.

They started moving.

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Squeak! Squeak!!

“Uh-huh! Stay still!”

Seo-gong struggles to escape and Hyuk-gi-rin holds on to Seo-gong’s tail tightly.

The winner was Hyeok Kirin.

Seogong failed to escape the water bucket and was forced to be brushed until the fur and body fluids tangled with it were completely removed.

Well, Seogong’s resistance is understandable.

Since it’s already been cleaned for the second time, you probably want to escape.

As I was watching this, a black cat spoke to me.

“This place is also nonsense.”

“That’s right.”

It has already been three months since I caught a wolf spirit in the forest.

We searched over twenty places and found traces of spirit creatures in seven of them, and in three places we encountered spirits that were not traces.

And the place where we are now was the place where we encountered the third spirit creature.

I looked at the corpse of a spider spirit that had been hunted less than an hour ago.

Even here, there were no clues about the blood religion or the spiritual objects it deals with, but it was not completely fruitless.

Blood religion was selecting and taming spiritual creatures.

The standard seemed to be the combat power of the spirit entity itself.

All of the spirit creatures we encountered were relatively weak in their original strength and used powers that had nothing to do with their main body’s combat power.

The spirit wolf had the power to strengthen the pack, and in the case of the spirit spider we hunted, it laid eggs and gave birth to baby spiders in an instant.

As I was removing the baby spiders, I looked at Seogong, who was covered in bodily fluids.

Squeak squeak!

I stroked his chin while listening to the boy’s cries, protesting fiercely why he should be treated like this despite his considerable efforts.

“Hmm….”

If this hypothesis is true, the attitude of Hyeolgyo, which does not care much about the direction of the Duke of China, can be explained.

The power of Seogong is scaled.

It would be a useful power if it could be freely increased in size in a battle situation, but Seogong has never increased its size since reducing its size.

Therefore, the combat power of the main body was evaluated as weak, so it was put into an experiment and easily given up.

Traces of disappeared spirits also added strength to that hypothesis.

Considering that there were many destruction marks that did not disappear even after a long period of time, there was a high possibility that they were all strong or large.

“They are spirit creatures that specialize in solo combat, and the number… at most, is ten, but if you catch the maximum, it will be twenty or thirty.”

There are only seven places where traces of disappeared spirits remain. Among them, I could not find any traces of winged spirit creatures, so there were at least eight.

Considering the places we have not yet confirmed or the rumors we have investigated at Wolbokdang, the number of spiritual creatures possessed by the blood religion is estimated to be between ten and thirty.

And there was a guess that naturally emerged from the numbers and the results of the selection of spirit creatures, which was that it was impossible to command multiple spirit creatures at the same time.

There was no need to think deeply.

A blood cult that possesses a considerable number of spiritual creatures.

If they had been able to unite and control such spirits, the blood religion would have already taken the martial arts into their hands a long time ago.

If spirits gather in groups, will the nine-file group or the five-generation family be the problem?

It was a terrible disaster to even imagine, but I felt like I didn’t have to worry about it.

Instead of securing spiritual creatures with various abilities, a blood cult that strictly selects and tames only spiritual creatures with high combat power.

If I had even considered the situation of wielding multiple spirit creatures at once, I would not have chosen the same uniform structure as I did now, so it seems that using multiple spirit creatures was not even a possibility.

Although it can be said to be a blessing among misfortunes… can we really call this a blessing when the circumstances are becoming clear that the blood cult is using dozens of spirit creatures in the first place?

“Ugh.”

The black cat smiled bitterly at my sigh.

“We need to find traces of blood ties as soon as possible.”

“Yes. Only then will we be able to announce the news to Moorim and receive cooperation from other forces.”

The Blood Cult was a huge organization that my group and I could not fight against alone.

Therefore, in order to deal with the blood religion, it was necessary to receive help from other powers.

But now, no matter how much I tell people about the fact that blood religions use spiritual powers, people will not believe it.

The claim that the blood cult wields not one, but dozens of spirit creatures is difficult to believe without any evidence.

I know that Wijicheon’s blood religion wields spiritual powers, but…Wijicheon is a heavenly demon.

The Heavenly Demon Church does not intervene in matters outside the church.

There is no way that Wi Ji-cheon, the representative of the Heavenly Demon Church, would break the principles of the religion and testify for me, and even if Wi Ji-cheon did testify, others would not believe it.

If the Church of the Heavenly Demon, which has been following an independent path for a long time, suddenly announces news to Wulin, will we be able to immediately believe it?

Rather, they must be busy doubting its intention.

So, we need to secure evidence somehow… Even though we know the history of the Blood Cult, we have not yet been able to find any clues leading to the whereabouts of the spirits controlled by the Cult, or the Cult’s hideout or stronghold.

If you have to find clues, you’ll have to either create a witness or secure physical evidence.

That was when I was thinking about that.

Food deuk.

Jeon Seo-gu flew into the black cat.

Heukmyo’s expression hardened as he read the letter handed down by Jeon Seo-gu.

“Senior, it is said that the Blood Cult attacked Botamun in Zhejiang.”

When I heard that news, I let out a long sigh.

…I guess I was a step late.