Seven days had passed since the destruction of the Jashin religion.
It was like a wave in the sea, not causing the slightest ripple.
The five major countries were all busy with their own affairs, cleaning up Cursed Spirits. They didn't care about the small sects in remote small countries at all.
And those small countries around the Jashin religion wouldn't send people to their deaths to inquire about the Jashin religion's movements and information.
This led to the fact that almost no one knew that the Jashin religion no longer existed.
If it was placed in the entire ninja world, or it could be said that almost no one knew that there was such a thing as the Jashin religion.
It was under such circumstances that Hidan and Shinji, these two Jashin religion traitors, survivors, miracles, and hopes for the future, embarked on a wandering journey without a destination.
The bright sunlight shone through the sparse branches and leaves, warming people up.
"Hey, don't we still have a lot of money, why do we still have to go to the bounty station to accept quests?"
After coming out of the bounty station, Hidan chewed on a foxtail grass boredly, very puzzled by Shinji's actions just now.
Shinji looked at the bounty list in his hand while answering, "It has nothing to do with money. Actually, it doesn't matter whether we do the quest or not. I mainly want to understand some information."
"After all, only the two of us are left in such a large Jashin religion. Besides the bounty station, do you have any other channels to obtain information?"
Hidan was speechless for a moment, tch-ed, and spat out the foxtail grass.
Actually, Shinji didn't say all the reasons.
Using the bounty station to collect information was only one aspect. On the other hand, he could also issue some quests or buy some things through the bounty station.
He had no interest in those human bounties, at most he would take action if he happened to encounter them.
What he was really interested in were those bounties and quests about Cursed Spirits!
Obviously, the world had changed.
The major forces were extremely interested in the Cursed Spirits that had suddenly appeared, and this naturally included the boss behind the bounty station.
So many related quests or bounties appeared in the bounty stations in various places.
Now that he was free from the shackles of the Jashin religion, Shinji could completely use the bounty station's intelligence network to go around and eliminate Cursed Spirits, earn Cursed Soul Points, and also earn more money along the way.
At the same time, if others obtained some strange things after killing Cursed Spirits, he could also try to buy them.
You had to know that one of the ways to form cursed objects was from the bodies of Cursed Spirits.
For example, when Shinji killed [Special Grade Cursed Spirit - Greed], he obtained the cursed object [Greedy Eyeball] that was transformed from the other party's eyeball.
He wasn't sure if this was a special case, but he felt that when a Cursed Spirit's strength reached Special Grade, there would be a certain possibility of producing cursed objects.
And cursed objects had strengths and weaknesses, and their abilities were also strange and varied, and some cursed objects would even bring disaster.
Shinji believed that no one in this world knew more about this thing than him.
So if he could buy it with money, it would undoubtedly be a big profit!
The only problem now was that the bounty station had been collecting corpses all along, and they might not be willing to sell them to him.
Shinji frowned slightly and put away the bounty list and everything.
"Where are we going now?" Hidan asked somewhat boredly.
Shinji pondered for a moment, "Let's go to the Land of Wind first. I just saw in one piece of information that a Cursed Spirit with the strength of an elite Jōnin was suspected to have appeared in the Land of Wind. For this reason, Sunagakure also lost two Jōnin and several Chūnin and Genin."
"Cursed Spirit? The new name you gave those ghost things?"
Hidan was somewhat jealous, and at the same time recalled that embarrassing memory.
"That bald four-eyed monster said it himself last time, saying that he was some kind of Special Grade Cursed Spirit or something."
Shinji was talking nonsense with a straight face. Anyway, that bald four-eyed monster had already died, and wouldn't jump out to expose him.
He could put all the things that were difficult to explain on that guy.
Hidan didn't suspect it at all. After all, he was embedded in the wall and couldn't move at the time, and later Shinji and that monster had fought to the next floor, so he wouldn't know if he really said anything.
"Special Grade Cursed Spirit... did he tell you how many levels there are above Special Grade?"
Glancing at Hidan, whose face was a little unnatural, Shinji pretended not to see it, "He didn't say, but it seems that Special Grade is the strongest."
He was really not sure if there was anything above Special Grade in the system's rating.
But even if there wasn't, the difference in strength between Special Grade and Special Grade could be Kaguya Ōtsutsuki against Konohamaru Sarutobi, anyway, they were all one-shot kills.
Of course, there was no need to say these things, for fear of hitting Hidan too hard!
See, after hearing that the monster that embarrassed him that day might be the strongest, Hidan's face actually relaxed a lot.
For example, what would you feel if you, as a professional boxer, were KO-ed with one punch in an extremely amateur community boxing performance?
But when you later learned that the other party was Mike Tyson, would you suddenly feel much more relieved and not so depressed and angry.
"I won't be careless this time!"
Hidan looked arrogant, typically remembering the pain but not the lesson.
Shinji was too lazy to look at him, dealing with Special Grade Cursed Spirits still depended on himself.
Hidan?
Just a free-range dog.
...
At the same time, Sunagakure in the Land of Wind.
"Kazekage-sama, the reconnaissance team sent back information that another village was massacred, and the corpses were all sucked dry and appeared as dried corpses, suspected to be the work of the entity codenamed 'Sand Spirit'."
Rasa looked gloomy, "Let Baki choose two partners to form a Jōnin team. Give him twenty more Chūnin, and they must find 'Sand Spirit'. After finding it, first try to capture it. If it's too difficult, bring the corpse back to me!"
"Yes, Kazekage-sama!"
After the person went down, Rasa felt very distressed when he thought of the two Jōnin who had sacrificed before.
In the beginning, capturing those unknown creatures went very smoothly.
Even the newly formed research and development department had begun to make many attempts, such as using those unknown creatures to make puppets, or extracting some new toxins, and some even had the wild idea that they could seal those monsters in the human body and then mass-produce cheap pseudo-Jinchūriki.
In short, the research topics were varied.
Of course, if they wanted to produce results, they would definitely need time.
However, as time went on, not only did these monsters grow very quickly, but some somewhat different ones were also born...
Among them, the monster codenamed 'Sand Spirit' was a very special existence.
It wore a tattered black robe, with two thick chains crossed and tied around its body, and a red ribbon with incomprehensible incantations was tied to the middle ring, with a golden hourglass hanging from its waist, and a strangely shaped snake sword in its hand.
It killed two Jōnin in its first appearance, and turned many Chūnin and Genin into dried corpses. In the end, it also rescued that batch of captured experimental subjects.
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