"Could this be the legendary crooked cult?"
Shu took the gold-trimmed invitation from Uchiha Gin, one brow lifting slightly.
"Crooked cult? There's already an organization like that?"
"Yeah. Some traveling merchants mentioned it a while back. A suspicious organization called the Jashin Cult appeared in the Land of Hot Water. Its members don't do anything all day except squat outside Hot Spring Inns and recruit people."
After thinking it over carefully, Shu described the still-fledgling Jashin Cult as nothing more than one of those common groups of wannabe tough guys.
The Jashin Cult?
Uchiha Gin rubbed his chin. Wasn't that the secret organization that had produced Hidan?
Why were the Ghost Soldier Squad stationed in the Land of Hot Water so incompetent? He had specifically instructed them to report any suspicious cult that appeared there immediately.
Who was in charge of the Ghost Soldier Squad in the Land of Hot Water now? Once he got back, he would definitely hold them accountable.
At that thought, Uchiha Gin could not help nodding to himself.
Such dereliction of duty required his uncle to mete out severe punishment!
But he had no idea that the person currently in charge of the Ghost Soldier Squad in the Land of Hot Water was his uncle himself, who had already honorably retired.
"So Victor was taken away by people from the crooked cult?"
After studying the invitation over and over for quite a while, Shu finally reached the obvious conclusion.
"Maybe your little temple just couldn't hold a great Buddha like him."
Uchiha Gin nodded thoughtfully. Jigen's side was the orthodox Otsutsuki Divine Cult. The immortality and wealth it promised were no empty fantasy, so it was only natural for a mortal like Victor to be drawn in.
"I refuse to believe he could have gotten