Saiō?
For a moment, no one understood.
Because they had never heard the term before.
Mao Jing explained:
"A Saiō is like a religious holy maiden, and also the designated successor of the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect."
"I see!"
"Looks like this one is pretty extraordinary!"
"..."
From afar, we watched her control the mass of ghostly undead. Her ability was indeed formidable.
As we observed while fleeing, onmyoji below began shouting again.
"A god has been killed!"
"The Eight-Foot Jade Magatama is gone!"
"..."
In an instant, the onmyoji became even more chaotic.
Mao Jing explained:
"They've discovered that those two ghost gods were killed, and they've also discovered that the Eight-Foot Jade Magatama is missing..."
"It's normal for them to find out. We just need to run fast enough!"
"..."
As we spoke, we were already nearing the mountaintop.
But at that moment, the summoned undead below began to scatter with whooshing sounds.
They spread out in every direction, densely packed.
Seeing this, I raised an eyebrow.
Those scattered undead were clearly the Saiō's eyes and ears.
"Run! If those undead spot us, we'll be exposed ahead of time."
As I spoke, we sped up and fled forward.
But there were too many scattered ghost souls.
There were thirty or forty undead alone that had come near our side.
We kept sprinting wildly. Even with Yang-Suppressing Talismans on us, being discovered was still hard to avoid.
Suddenly, one ghost soul darting through the air spotted us.
It instantly stopped midair and let out a shrill, piercing scream.
In an instant, the sound spread throughout the entire Abyssal Moon Soul Shrine.
"Ahhhhhh..."
The dead soul's howls continued without end.
At the same time, even more dead souls flew toward us.
The dead soul that had discovered us swooped down, intending