Chapter 270: Clues (Please Subscribe)

"This style of burning people for sacrifices at every turn is slightly familiar..."

Aaron looked around, feeling that this secret chamber must often host gatherings, prayers, and sacrifices of evil cultists... causing the surrounding environment to exude a subtle sense of depravity.

At the front of the secret chamber, in the direction the Altar faced, stood a weird statue.

On a pitch-black thorn tree hung a blood-colored human figure.

Its face was blurred, and its arms were spread wide, as if to embrace everything.

"Why do things always go wrong in the Holy Spirit Church?"

Isabet's expression was as terrified as a fawn; although her lips kept opening and closing, she could not utter a word.

Immediately, he opened his eyes and saw cracks appearing on the blood-colored statue.

He took one last glance at the secret chamber, cleared away his traces, and wrote clues such as "Desire Spirit Sect" and "Crowned One" on the wall.

Returning to his bedroom, Aaron opened his eyes, stroked the "Green Forest Ring of Power" on his hand, and a gleam flashed in his eyes.

Aaron closed his eyes and began to sleep.

Of course, establishing a Cult and absorbing Spirituality also carries pollution and risks. The greatest hidden danger among them is that it will cause the "Godhood image" worshipped in the hearts of believers to overwrite their own personality image. If polluted for a long time, mental breakdown is the best outcome; many simply turn into different people, becoming the image in the believers' minds!

In a hazy state, he saw believers gathering, praying together to the black-red statue under the leadership of a young Cleric.

Aaron's eyes moved: "It's somewhat similar to... the missionary mode in the Secret Transmission."

"William over there... sigh... I hope time can heal all wounds."

Finally, amidst the pitch-black flames, a group of evil cultists praised loudly:

"Controller of Thorns and Blood."

This was also the final confirmation.

The young Cleric waved his hand, and two believers tied Isabet to an iron pillar: "Becoming a sacrifice for the God and opening the way forward for us is your good fortune."

"This kind of Ritual and prayer method?"

"It's Plymouth!"

"I wonder if this 'Desire Spirit Sect' believes in the 'Lord of Buried Bones', and what relationship it has with the 'Lotus Eater'..."

"Her final experience!"

"You are the guide of desire and Spirituality, please accept our Offering and open the door of Spirituality for us!"

Aaron came before the blood-colored idol on the black thorns and reached out to press the other party's blurred face: "Let me see... where are you?"

"Of course, I am different; I am the hidden Chairman..."

"Even ordinary people who touch upon the Mysterious will be exceptionally dangerous."

As he left, Aaron flicked his hand one last time.

Inside the secret chamber, everything returned to normal.

Besides this, there is another method: establishing a Cult! Let the believers who have opened their Spirituality fanatically worship the cult leader as a personality idol, design a set of exclusive honorific names and sacrificial Rituals, and thereby absorb a large amount of Spirituality from the fanatical faith!

Doing this might not be as fast in terms of progress as devouring other Extraordinarys in the early stages, but once the scale of the Cult develops in the later stages, it will definitely make others unable to catch up.

And directly seizing the Spirituality of Extraordinarys of the same path is the most effective, but also the most heavily polluted.

"We have all drunk His blood; we are all sisters and brothers."

"The interference with the divination is very strong, greater than the interference received when divining Roberts last time... As expected, the Element level exceeds the Non-human Grade. I feel the other party should have opened six Elements... Is it the leader of the 'Desire Spirit Sect'?"

Aaron muttered the information he had just divined: "The only thing that is certain is that the other party is in Plymouth! This is the same as not divining at all... The paths are—'Scarlet' and 'Darkness'. As expected, Extraordinarys of these two paths like to stir up trouble the most."

This is introduced in Aaron's Secret Transmission, and it is also one of the roots of the countless secret organizations and ancient Cults in this world.

"But the feeling this statue gives me is clearer... It seems... not that strong. Not to mention a God, it's not even a Hidden Existence... It doesn't even have the strength to trigger my 'premonition of danger'."

"In reality, the Mysterious System I created seems extremely unfriendly to ordinary people... Even for those Extraordinarys, the possibility of reaching the top is quite slim... Death and madness are the most common main themes..."

A police officer startled by the explosion ran over, saw everything in the secret chamber, and suddenly began to scream hysterically...

"Sigh... people involved in the Mysterious often don't have a good end."

"Follower of Depravity and Scarlet."

Aaron dared not provoke a God, but an Extraordinary of the sixth Element was still not much of a problem.

Aaron came to Isabet's mummified corpse; to be safe, he still used Isabet as the divination Element: "Her final experience!"

"Generally speaking, those failed Secret Teaching leaders, whose own Element level is not high, often mix into the praying crowd as a chief celebrant to satisfy the requirement of absorbing Spirituality at close range... This is easily seen through, leading to a disaster."

"And truly high-level Extraordinarys will design their own honorific names... responding within a certain range without needing to be present in person to accept the sacrifice; invisibly, their status rises quite a bit, and of course, they are also more dangerous and terrifying."

Then, the entire statue exploded, turning into countless fine fragments.

Boom—!

A large hole was broken in the wall, exposing everything inside the secret chamber to the outside.

There are many ways to accumulate Spirituality; using Meditation and other means is just the slowest.

According to Aaron's knowledge of Occultism, an Extraordinary capable of responding within a certain range does not have enough with the fourth Element; at least they must have opened the fifth Element, or perhaps even be a 'Crowned One' of the sixth Element, to possess similar divine characteristics!

"That Cleric was beaten to a pulp by Karl; his strength is too weak, he is definitely not the true leader of the Cult... The God of Suffering?"

Some inexplicable information surfaced in Aaron's heart.

"Her final experience!"

"Great God of Suffering!"

At this time, Aaron used the Evil Spirit as a carrier, equivalent to an Extraordinary of the fourth Element divining, and obtained more information.

After all, the other party is an existence that has opened the sixth Element. Before completing the Ritual and advancing to 'Furnace', Aaron was not prepared to face them directly.

"The Lord will grant us the key to push open the door of Spirituality."

Light and Shadow overlapped, making him feel as if he had returned to the history of this secret chamber.

"Desire Spirit Sect... Scarlet and Darkness..."

"The Lord shall bestow blessings upon you!"

……

After investigating slightly, he was already prepared to give up on tracking the "God of Suffering" and the "Desire Spirit Sect."

……

During the divination, Aaron's inspiration radiated outward, and a vast, magnificent city appeared before his eyes, as if he were looking down from high in the sky.

"Having exposed so many clues... even if the Investigation Bureau were a pig, they should have set their sights on the 'Desire Spirit Sect' by now, right?"

"Such a dangerous matter should be left to the Investigation General Bureau to handle."

(End of this chapter)