Global Awakening: Start with the Asura template unlocked

Inside the bedroom of the old house.

Several tens of minutes later.

Once Saori Otona had calmed down, Su Ye said softly, "Are you calmer now?"

"Um."

The girl nodded: "I'm sorry, Yoru-kun, Otono was a little out of line..."

"That's normal. If my closest relatives were wiped out for no reason, I might be even more agitated than you."

Su Ye smiled and said, "Tell me, what exactly happened?"

After gathering her emotions, Saori Otona glanced at Su Ye, her pretty face turning somewhat serious: "Since the extraordinary era a hundred years ago, the old-fashioned shrines inherited from various base cities in our Sakura Country, after gaining extraordinary power..."

We have always been the ones who uphold the barrier of the Cherry Blossom Kingdom, and we have done a great job in doing so!

But thirty-nine years ago, Abe no Juichi suddenly convened a meeting, summoning all members of our shrine to the main city of Tokyo. He claimed he had developed a new sealing barrier and wanted to discuss it together. But... when we arrived, he had indeed developed a new barrier.

But the ones being banned are us!

That day, Otona would never forget. That bastard imprisoned us in the barrier, looked down upon us, and then released countless evil spirits to devour us! Although the old witch was a transcendent being, among those evil spirits were quite a few high-level evil spirits of the seventh or eighth rank.

In the end, all tens of thousands of shrine staff members perished, including myself.

As she spoke, the girl's tone carried a hint of anger: "It was also the day after that day that Otono miraculously survived in this way, and then she continued to purify evil spirits, create ghosts, and secretly and cautiously investigate Abe Juichi's purpose by using the power of children."

Decades of investigation have led me to discover that Abe no Juichi was likely already a member of the Evil God Temple! His elimination of us shrine staff who control the barrier of the Sakura Kingdom was to make it easier and more completely become a lair for the Evil God Temple!

Upon hearing this, Su Ye's expression hardened: "People from the Evil God Temple? Abe no Tomoya?!"

This…

One of the ten supreme gods of mankind is actually a member of the Temple of Evil Gods?

If the news is true, it would be a major blow to humanity!

Saori Otona nodded emphatically: "Yoru-kun, Sakura Country has now very likely become a complete den of evil spirits and evil god temples. If the strongest person in a country is like this, you can imagine what the current situation of the entire country is like."

After speaking, the girl suddenly stretched out her jade-like finger and pointed to the wooden floor beneath her feet, which Su Ye sensed with a puzzled expression.

Su Ye couldn't help but swallow hard: "You mean..."

"Yes, deep underground in the Ninth District, beneath the Night Watch headquarters, a branch of the Evil God Temple has been built. It's shrouded in a dense, black, gaseous mist, like a vast black sea. If it weren't for the fact that one of my children is powerful enough to infiltrate the Evil God Temple, even Otono wouldn't have been able to discover what's happening underground!"

The black, gaseous mist was difficult to detect...

Su Ye gasped, "A Devouring Demon!"

That eerie and malevolent spirit during the first freshman trial!

Absolutely!

Saori Otono then said, "Yoru-kun, and it's not just the Ninth District; Otono has personally observed all the other districts of the Eastern Capital Base City. Without exception, they all have branches of the Evil God Temple, shrouded in the same dark clouds and mist, possessing an even more concealing effect than shielding barriers."

That's why Otona was so certain that the entire Sakura Country had completely become a lair for evil spirits and the Evil God Temple. If it weren't for Abe no Juichi's machinations in the shadows, how could the Evil God Temple have the ability to silently establish such a large-scale presence in the Sakura Country?

Otona even felt that many high-ranking officials in Sakura Country had already become members of the Evil God Temple…

As she finished speaking, this natural-born shrine maiden couldn't help but reveal a self-deprecating expression: "The so-called land of monsters wasn't influenced by my children at all, but by Abe no Toshiichi. If Otono hadn't miraculously survived that extermination,..."

Nobody knows what that guy really is. A prodigy who went to save the Sakura Kingdom from beyond the borders? It was all an act for the other six countries. What a despicable fellow! He doesn't deserve our respect; he's unworthy!

Looking at Su Ye, Saori Otono's pretty face showed a hint of helplessness: "Ye-kun, it's fortunate that you can hear Otono's voice, otherwise, Otono could only watch all this silently and helplessly."

After hearing the girl's words, Su Ye felt a heavy weight in his heart.

I thought that the corrupt officials in the Temple of Evil Gods had only been causing minor troubles over the years and had no impact on the foundation of the Seven Kingdoms.

Who knew?

Having infiltrated so deeply, the Cherry Blossom Country, one of the Seven Kingdoms, has become a den of evil spirits…

Most of the high-ranking members have likely become followers of the evil god's temple.

And those geniuses from the Sakura Kingdom who were transferred to the six countries under the pretext of studying abroad…

Thinking hard!

Thinking of this, Su Ye felt a chill run down his spine.

"Otona, can you take me down to see this branch temple of the evil god below the Ninth District?"

Upon hearing this, Saori Otono's pretty face changed: "Yoru-kun, if Otono goes down, they might not notice, but Otono doesn't dare to go too far in. Are you sure you're okay going down? If you're discovered, it'll alert them."

"Shouldn't you inform the seniors in the Dragon Kingdom first...?"

He glanced at the girl unexpectedly and was surprised to find that she had been so naive just a moment ago, but when it came to important matters, she became so meticulous.

Right.

Without such meticulous attention to detail, it would have been impossible to uncover such a secret.

Looking at the girl, Su Ye smiled and said, "Don't worry, my methods of concealing my aura are no worse than yours. I at least need to understand the specific situation before informing the seniors, right?"

The system's blocking capabilities are insufficient to even cover a small branch temple of an evil god.

Even if Abe no Juichi, the supreme god among men, were present, he would be undetectable unless he was directly shown off to the naked eye.

Of course, it does consume a bit of energy.

"Yes, Yoru-kun believes in Otona, and Otona believes in Yoru-kun too!"

……

Half an hour later, we passed through a deep, dark passage carved out by a hundred ghosts.

Su Ye kept the system's shielding function open, and after enveloping Saori Otona, he continued to walk downwards into the Ninth District.

Of course, the two of them left the city and walked diagonally down into the wilderness, not daring to explore the vast city center at all.

"Shh~ Night Lord, if we go any further, we'll reach the boundary of the underground space of the Evil God's Temple. Be careful."

Floating ahead, Saori Otona turned her head and made a cute shushing gesture to Su Ye before stopping.

Su Ye nodded, and then, with the help of the system's shielding power, enveloped his own sense of fluctuations and slowly spread towards a thick earthen wall in front of him.

whoosh whoosh whoosh~

The next moment, in their perception, countless Devouring Demons emitted eerie howls as they roamed within a vast and infinitely dark space.

Hundreds of billions, countless, like a vast black ocean, and without the system's shielding power, their existence would probably be undetectable.

Seeing this, Su Ye subconsciously swallowed: "How many energy points is that?!"