Same place as before.
The same familiar little dark room.
Natsume flashed inside.
Sure enough, the weakened Princess Xingye was still tightly bound within.
From the look of her, her initial tsundere arrogance and willfulness had long since vanished.
Obviously.
Over the past few months, Kuramitsuha had truly put her through quite a bit of torment...
It couldn't be helped.
Who told her to be the purest-blooded direct princess of the Otsutsuki Royal Family?
Given the blood-deep feud between the [Yellow Spring Lineage] and the [Royal Family], how could Tsuha possibly hold herself back?
Even one ten-thousandth of that hatred, if inflicted upon Xingye, was enough to leave her unable to bear it...
All that could be said was—
The fact that she was still alive was already proof of Tsuha's restraint.
At that moment.
Seeing Xingye looking utterly drained, stripped of her usual spoiled airs and stubbornness.
Natsume's interest immediately dropped quite a bit.
So much so that.
From entering the [little dark room] to leaving it.
It took less than ten minutes in total.
And it was done.
His efficiency was extraordinarily high!
Just as Natsume had expected.
Xingye did indeed possess the complete version of the secret technique Shrine, and she had been concealing it all along.
Natsume also easily obtained the complete version from Xingye.
However.
The complete version of Shrine had extremely demanding requirements.
It contained a vast amount of knowledge concerning souls. Not only did it require an enormous amount of time to study and comprehend.
One also needed to grasp the [Law of Mind] just to barely learn it!
To the point that even Xingye herself had failed to master the complete version of Shrine.
After all, she was not skilled in [Mind Divine Arts].
If she had truly mastered the complete