With Hanasato having absorbed all the filth in the Sacred Sakura's roots, the problem here was resolved. Next, they needed to visit the other contaminated roots.
The tree's roots spread across Narukami Island.
The main locations were Konda Village, Araumi, Chinju Forest, and Mt. Yougou.
With Konda Village and this location taken care of, Araumi was next.
With Hanasato and Yae Miko present, there was hardly any need to search. They quickly teleported to the Sacred Sakura's roots in Araumi.
This was another Underground Space, and the contaminated Sacred Sakura roots were also protected by a barrier.
Li Qiuzhi broke the barrier again, and Pitch-Black Samurai formed from filth appeared once more. Only this time, there was more than one—a whole squad appeared!
Their levels ranged from seventy to eighty, so dealing with them was not particularly difficult.
Experience Points +4,325 Experience Points +5,612 Experience Points +4,152
As the Pitch-Black Samurai were easily dispatched, Li Qiuzhi looked at the notifications appearing on his Character Panel and discovered that he had gained over thirty thousand Experience Points in total.
Once the Pitch-Black Samurai had been cleared away, Lumine stepped forward to extract the filth from the Sacred Sakura's roots, condensing it into a pure ball of filthy energy for Hanasato to absorb.
The whole process took around twenty minutes. After Hanasato absorbed the filthy energy, her level rose again.
It shot from level seventy-three to level eighty!
At her current state, provided she did not fight, the Filth Power within her would sustain her for two or three hundred years.
With Araumi taken care of, Li Qiuzhi and the others headed to Chinju Forest.
Li Qiuzhi remembered that a bake-danuki named Gohyōzō had been sealed here. He was Kitsune Saiguu's friend and a very powerful youkai.
However, the one