"...After that, I kept traveling all over Tianlan Continent. Every so often, I'd return to the village to rest, fulfill my duties as a Sacred Beast, adjust the feng shui, and so on."
Bai told everyone about the past few centuries of her life.
"An ancient village in the Southern Borderlands... that should be really far away, right?" Yao Ziyue propped up her chin and sighed. "Hey, Bai, then how did you hear about Origin Mall? The Moon Worship Cult?"
As far as Yao Ziyue knew, Yue Ling had come from the Southern Borderlands, and she herself was the leader of the Moon Worship Cult.
"The Moon Worship Cult? Never heard of it." Bai shook her head. "A monk came to our village some time ago. I heard about it from him."
"A monk?" Yao Ziyue's eyes widened slightly.
The other people in the shop also turned their gazes toward her, clearly sensing a faintly unusual implication in Bai's words.
A monk who knew about Origin Mall and had traveled from the Central Region to the Southern Borderlands...
There were not many who fit those conditions.
"One of our village members met him back then. That monk said he wanted a drink of water, and perhaps because he'd been walking for too long, he decided to rest in the village." Bai described what had happened. "After that, some other things happened, and several unfamiliar monks came to our village."
"Were those Monks in the same group?" Qing Yuan always harbored immense hostility toward humans.
"No." Bai shook her head and began recounting what had happened with Empty Cicada Temple.
They had flown over directly from the sky in a grand and swaggering manner, then pompously declared that they wanted to take her back to become some mountain-guarding Spirit Beast, study