Inside the Ancestral Temple.
The Sect Leader of the Evil Moon Sect pushed open the temple doors that had been sealed for countless years. One by one, oil lamps flared to life in the vast, dark temple, and the divine statue enshrined at the center radiated waves of divine light.
At first glance, the statue appeared to have been molded from clay. It had never been gilded, and the passage of time had eaten it full of holes. Its face had suffered the worst corrosion, leaving its features impossible to make out.
Yet judging from the statue's clothing and figure, it was not hard to tell that it depicted a woman.
In truth, the material used to mold the statue was no ordinary clay.
The statue had an extremely long history behind it.
After the Moon Goddess preached her teachings in the past, the sect enjoyed a long period of prosperity and flourishing. But later, as her disciples grew increasingly negligent, the Evil Moon Sect gradually declined. Other sects, which had long coveted it, surrounded and attacked it, leaving its disciples almost entirely dead or wounded and causing its legacy to vanish.
After the Evil Moon Sect was destroyed in the Demon Realm, no one remembered it for a very long time.
Then, several hundred thousand years ago, a martial artist found a divine statue in a mountain ravine within Moon Province. He obtained the "Evil Moon Divine Art" from within it and rebuilt the Evil Moon Sect.
This was the Evil Moon Sect that Lin Bai saw now.
In other words, the Evil Moon Sect truly founded by the Moon Goddess had already been destroyed. The Evil Moon Sect that existed now had been rebuilt by someone in later generations after obtaining its legacy.
After establishing the new Evil