Chapter 205 As Expected, Evil Only Attracts Evil (1/2)

"good."

Ruan Tang happily stepped forward, took his hand, and led him back to the unfolded map.

"Then... let's start with the closest one."

Ruan Tang stretched out her hand, her fair fingertips touching a small red dot not far from the ancient temple.

It was an unremarkable shrine called Inari.

Yan Yu pulled her slender waist into his arms with a slight thought.

The two disappeared from the spot in the next instant.

When it reappeared, it was in a quiet back alley of a commercial street.

The small Inari shrine on the street corner, its vermilion torii gate peeling paint in the night, exudes an air of antiquity.

Several students in school uniforms were standing at the door, their hands clasped together, muttering something.

Everything was perfectly normal.

Ruan Tang closed her eyes.

The divine sense, like invisible mercury, silently seeped into the ground of the shrine, probing all the way to the depths of the earth.

Soon, directly beneath the fox statue, Ruan Tang saw a tiny energy node buzzing, like a beating heart.

Below the energy node is a small array embedded in the vortex of earth energy.

At the very center of the formation, an almost invisible gray energy thread extends towards the sea of ​​cherry blossoms.

The national fortune stolen from the Yan Kingdom is being continuously injected into the formation through this thread.

The students' devout prayers transformed into wisps of white light, constantly converging at the center of the earth's energy vortex, futilely trying to nourish the somewhat withered earth's energy that had been drained.

Just as Ruan Tang's consciousness was about to withdraw, a shattered image rushed into her mind without warning!

During the day, a middle-aged man in a gray kimono prays devoutly before a statue of a deity, but what he is whispering is not the blessing of the gods.

Indeed, the curses were repeated in segments, their malice intense and sharp.

At the peak of its malice, it actually accelerated the rate at which the earth's energy was being extracted.

Ruan Tang opened her eyes and looked at the shrine in front of her with a cold expression.

Sure enough, even the darkest aspects of human nature can become nourishment for an evil formation.

"Let's move on to the next one."

She tugged at Yan Yu's sleeve, her voice tense.

Yan Yu didn't ask anything, he just pulled her closer to him and activated the spatial jump again.

Light and shadow switching.

One temple after another, one shrine after another.

Yan Yu led her like a ghost, traversing the land of the Cherry Blossom Country time and time again, from bustling cities to remote countryside.

Ruan Tang's divine sense probed into the core of each formation, and countless filthy images flooded into her mind, as if trying to taint her soul.

She "saw" an old monk with a withered face chanting incantations, distorting and stripping away the believers' devout faith, discarding kindness as garbage, and leaving only pure energy to flow into the ground.

She "saw" politicians praying for victory in war at shrines, using the blood of enemy nations to commemorate their own achievements.

She "saw" that a wealthy family was setting up a blood sacrifice in their family temple, exchanging the lives of the living for the family's century-long fortune.

She "saw" researchers in white lab coats praying for "breakthrough" progress in their biological weapons development in front of a shrine in a secret base.

Greed, resentment, ambition, slaughter...

All the darkest and ugliest aspects of human nature are constantly being played out at these nodes scattered throughout the country, turning into fuel to make that evil array that steals the nation's destiny run ever more frantically.

The sincere prayers and heartfelt wishes of ordinary, kind-hearted believers were all treated as "cheap consumables" for repairing the earth's veins, a drop in the ocean.