Back at their temporary residence, Han Yuchen casually set up a Starlight Barrier, cutting off the omnipresent prying eyes and bloody stench outside.
"You mentioned the Shadow Contract just now?" Leng Yuebai sat on the stone bed, idly playing with the seemingly ordinary Star Radiance Heavenly Silk in her hands. A trace of doubt colored her voice. "That organization was the one that attacked you last time, right? Xue Beng was one of them too?"
As a Titled Douluo, she was not entirely ignorant of the continent's hidden forces. But the Shadow Contract was truly mysterious.
"Of course. Or perhaps they can be called the Holy Spirit Cult from now on." Han Yuchen sat cross-legged and closed his eyes. A brilliant point of starlight slowly lit up between his brows. "Because they do not belong to the 'official history' of this era..."
In the original work, the Holy Spirit Cult was a terrifying Evil Spirit Master organization that only officially emerged during the Peerless Tang Sect era ten thousand years later. But at this point in time, they should still have been lying low—or rather, secretly gathering strength.
And that so-called Holy Son was clearly the driving force behind it all.
"Since they have reached this far, there must be something in the City of Slaughter that has caught their interest."
With a thought from Han Yuchen, [Star Atlas · Star Map Navigation] activated instantly!
Bzzzz—!
Within his spiritual world, the originally dark and chaotic map of the City of Slaughter suddenly lit up with countless red points of light. They represented living beings filled with intense killing intent and evil thoughts.
Amid those points of light, an extremely faint energy source pulsed slowly from deep beneath the city, giving off an eerie dark-red fluctuation.
It was not the aura