That night, while they were on the road, Tamamo Hotaru refused to give up and had Bright Moon try sensing it again.
The result was the same. The reflected moonlight only stretched a few hundred meters before it became impossible to make out.
As for the direction, it was still the same.
This made Tamamo Hotaru begin to suspect that someone might have taken the Fox Immortal Order away.
That was certainly possible. After all, the Land of Vegetables had only recently suffered internal turmoil and an attack by Cursed Spirits. Anything could have happened.
There was just one slight coincidence...
The direction the moonlight pointed in actually matched the direction they were heading.
But none of them read too much into it at the time, taking it as nothing more than a coincidence.
On the map they had obtained from the Bounty Station, the final marked location was a place called Black Mountain. That was the destination of Shinji and his group.
Those Cursed Spirits had occupied the entire mountain, turning it into a place no living person dared approach.
What made no sense was why these Cursed Spirits had suddenly traveled so far to attack the Land of Vegetables, then abducted so many people.
But there was one thing Shinji could be certain of: there had to be a Special Grade Cursed Spirit on Black Mountain.
Otherwise, so many Cursed Spirits could never have gathered there, nor would they have been so disciplined.
When Shinji and his group finally arrived at Black Mountain, surprise immediately crossed their faces.
The entire mountain was actually shrouded in a [Curtain]!
A [Curtain] was, in fact, a special barrier constructed from cursed energy-a Cursed Technique that could conceal a designated area.
At that moment, Black Mountain before Shinji and the others was