From the moment those who practiced the forbidden technique, Night Netherworld Spider Lily, formed the seal of cultivation, a spirit medium known as the "Night Demon" took up residence within their body.
The Night Demon's conditions for existence and growth were exceedingly harsh. Only while the host remained conscious could the Night Demon exist and absorb the power of the night to grow.
Its growth period lasted one year. If, for any reason during that time, the host lost consciousness, the Night Demon would leave the host's body and could never be summoned back.
That was the truth behind the harsh cultivation requirements of the forbidden technique, Night Netherworld Spider Lily.
Even if the Night Demon's one-year growth period passed safely, one could not relax immediately, because the "Cocoon Break" ritual still had to be performed.
Legend had it that the Night Demon came from the mysterious Netherworld and was inextricably linked to the Pure Land.
The Night Demon developed different forms depending on its host. Only at the moment of Cocoon Break would one learn what it had truly become.
At this moment, Konan was about to undergo the Cocoon Break ritual.
The ritual had to be held outdoors in a low-lying area at least two hundred meters below sea level, and the location had to either currently contain or once have contained a "shrine" or "temple." The reason was unknown.
What family's shrine or temple was not built atop a mountain?
A place meeting such harsh requirements truly was not easy to find.
Fortunately, there was a ready-made location: the Amegakure Mountain Shrine, destroyed in the Tumen Battle a month ago. The shrine and the mountain had both been blasted by the Super Shinra Tensei into a gigantic depression thirty kilometers in radius!
After a month of relentless