Hearing this, I narrowed my eyes and shook my head.
At the same time, I made a gesture for silence.
I signaled Zhang Yuchen to abandon the idea and not say anything for now. We would talk after these people had passed.
After all, if we killed these monks here, we might expose ourselves ahead of time.
What we needed to do now was conceal our tracks.
As long as they did not know what area we were in, our chances of escape would be greatest.
The monks continued talking as they walked forward.
Before long, they passed right by us.
We remained hidden where we were for over ten minutes. Only after confirming that they had gone far away did we rise.
Then Mao Jing spoke.
"These monks should be from the Medicine King Temple on Mount Takao.
Just as Yui said, these monks have already joined forces with the onmyoji of the Nine Chrysanthemum Sect and begun hunting us down."
"Ou Doudou, there isn't a single good thing in all of Japan. Why not kill them?"
"Senior Brother, I observed those monks just now and found that their qi wasn't particularly strong. They wouldn't be our match at all. But the crows that flew past earlier have a serious problem.
Those crows were all corpses..."
Pan Ling echoed the sentiment.
Naturally, I had noticed that as well.
I nodded beside them and said, "The onmyoji and monks here each have their own unique cultivation methods.
So when we encounter them, it is fine if we do not act. But if we do, we must kill without mercy.
We cannot let them use some unknown evil art or curse to harm us.
Of course, the reason we spared those monks was to conceal our tracks.
The Kanto mountains are