Regarding the abilities of Master Yutian and Master Onodera, Four Directions Huixue was not surprised.

After all, the level of exorcism mages at the present time was all similar to these two.

But—

Four Directions Huixue then turned to look at Beichuan Si beside her.

"I never expected… for the Four Directions Family to find such an exceptional talent… but why now during such a time?... Damn guy, always doing something redundant!"

Four Directions Huixue muttered to herself mentally, her eyes sparkling.

However, on the surface, Four Directions Huixue's expression remained unchanged, she organized her thoughts and then spoke:

"Due to the twilight meeting with demons, the resentful spirits that were originally detectable have become difficult to sense. If we rashly enter the Four Directions Shrine, we will certainly be ambushed by resentful spirits that are hard to detect. Let's stay on the periphery of the shrine for now and enter the Four Directions Shrine once the twilight of demons has completely passed."

"That's good," Master Yutian and Master Onodera were not pushing their limits.

At the time of dusk, when the present world and the hidden world overlap, sensing resentful spirits hiding their forms is undoubtedly very difficult.

This is also why despite the two clearly possessing the ability to see resentful spirits, they still relied on Beichuan Si to find the spirits.

"What does Beichuan Master think?" Four Directions Huixue tilted her head and asked Beichuan Si, who had not yet expressed his opinion.

Hearing Four Directions Huixue's question, Beichuan Si also nodded, removing his gaze from the repetitive motion of playing with the Moon Obscuring Mirror at his chest and replied:

"...It's fine."

After securing the last approval from Beichuan Si, Four Directions Huixue also led them to find an area on the outer edges of the shrine to sit down and rest.

They sat there straight into the evening.

When night completely enveloped the shrine, Four Directions Huixue stood up from the ground without hesitation.

"The time is right now," she said solemnly, turning on the flashlight she carried, "I will now assign tasks to everyone, and I hope everyone can accomplish them."

Four Directions Huixue didn't ponder further, apparently having prepared her reasoning during the rest just now:

"Master Yutian and Master Onodera will explore the temple at the front of the mountain together, there shouldn't be any problems with that, right?"

"...Do we... have to split up?" Master Onodera frowned.

In such a crisis-filled shrine, wouldn't it be safer to stick together?

But Four Directions Huixue insisted they split up… although he had Master Yutian by his side for support, the psychological gap felt by suddenly having two fewer people in such a gloomy shrine, where countless people had died, was not something that could be easily explained with just a few words.

Mages are people too, ordinary people with extraordinary abilities.

It's quite normal for them to feel fear and anxiety.

Faced with Master Onodera's query, Four Directions Huixue unusually insisted, "As everyone has seen, the Four Directions Shrine complex is massive; we don't know how long it will take just the few of us to explore. If we further consolidate manpower together... this will again augment the burden of the investigative task."

"Moreover, as I've said before, the good will in the Moon Obscuring Mirror is limited, I still need to preserve the mirror's good will to restart the Four Directions Shrine. I can't open the barrier multiple times for everyone. Therefore, it's necessary to explore separately."

Four Directions Huixue made her points logically and with reasons, leaving Master Onodera unable for a moment to counter. He reluctantly nodded, seemingly accepting the conclusion, "Then what area are Beichuan Master and Miss Huiye intending to investigate as a team?"

Since he and Master Yutian had taken over the temple at the front of the mountain, Beichuan Si and Four Directions Huixue were supposed to investigate the pleasure altar in the mountain center or the sacrificial area behind the mountain accordingly.

While Master Onodera was contemplating this, the voice of Four Directions Huixue also rang out:

"Beichuan Master will investigate the sacrificial area behind the mountain alone, while I will investigate the pleasure altar area in the mountain center alone."

"...This..."

Now it wasn't just Master Onodera, even Master Yutian stood up: "Miss Huiye, are you asking Mr. Beichuan… Master to investigate an area alone?"

Master Yutian nearly let slip "Mr. Beichuan" in his surprise.

Surely, the request made by Four Directions Huixue was too tough on them.

Even for experienced exorcists like the two of them, investigating an area alone was somewhat unsafe.

You're letting Beichuan Si, who is easily deplete of energy, investigate the entirety of this area?

And Beichuan Si has to traverse both the front and middle sections of the mountain alone?

As a member of the Four Directions Family, Four Directions Huixue naturally knew the surrounding area well and had the powerful spiritual tool, the Moon Obscuring Mirror, it could be argued her investigating one area was manageable, but having Beichuan Si investigate one?

Isn't that asking too much?

"I disagree," Master Onodera raised his hand.

What Four Directions Huixue was suggesting was tantamount to sending Beichuan Si to his death, completely illogical.

He quite liked young Beichuan Si, who was enthusiastic and kin-hearted; watching him be sent to his death was something Master Onodera could not do.

"I also disagree," Master Yutian stood up as well.

Beichuan Si had come on his watch, and he could not agree to let him die in such a place.

Confronted withObjecting from both Master Onodera and Master Yutian, Four Directions Huixue did not respond. She simply turned her head and fixed her calm gaze on Beichuan Si: "What do you think, Beichuan Master?"

"..." Beichuan Si.

Beichuan Si glanced at Four Directions Huixue and then looked at Master Onodera and Master Yutian, his voice unwavering as he said, "Thank you both for your concern, but I should be able to manage investigating alone."

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