Lin Mo immediately handed one of the Black Sun Tokens to Gongsun Fu.
To be safe, they also stripped the black robes and bamboo hats off the two men and put them on.
After entering the city, Lin Mo realized just how wise his decision had been.
Just as Lu Zhi had said, the entire Shadow Ink State was now ruled by the Great Black Heaven Divine Church.
Every cultivator coming and going along the streets wore black robes and a bamboo hat, leaving almost all their faces obscured.
As Lin Mo passed these people, he could sense that they had not been corrupted by the evil soul seal like the soul slaves he had encountered before.
Yet all of them gave off varying traces of clearly abnormal evil aura.
It was probably because they carried some sort of evil object on them.
Lin Mo pondered inwardly. This Heaven-Connecting Church Master surely had some connection to the Netherworld.
Perhaps, like the Saint King, he was pretending to collude with the Netherworld while secretly harboring some grand plan.
Perhaps, like Xi Ying, he was also a member of the Netherworld, sent to rule the Divine Land by a different means.
Or perhaps he was merely borrowing the Netherworld's name, a fox borrowing a tiger's might, to become an ambitious dictator in the Divine Land.
As countless thoughts swirled through Lin Mo's mind, he suddenly heard a woman calling from behind him.
"Are you two also from the former Heaven-Seeking Academy?"
Lin Mo and Gongsun Fu paused, then turned in unison to take a closer look.
A young woman had come up behind them.
Although she, too, wore black robes, a black cloth over her face, and a black bamboo hat, they could still make out her slender, graceful figure, snow-white skin,