Hidan held the letter.
The letter was filled with delicate handwriting, detailing the white-haired leader's plan.
Originally, the leader only planned to use the Jashin Cult's secret methods, along with Hidan's own talent, to create an immortal to spread the Jashin Cult's teachings.
However, he encountered Tsunade.
A woman blessed by fate.
Senju Hashirama's bloodline, the slug Katsuyu from Shikkotsu Forest, and the Strength of a Hundred Seal.
Three of the ninja world's most vibrant and unique life forces, following the wound on Tsunade's chest, fell into the white-haired leader's hands under the effect of the evil god's ritual.
The descent of the divine kingdom within the evil god village.
Limitless's revival by transferring bodies.
The power boost from pleasing the evil god... was all based on this.
Tsunade's life force was simply too compatible with the evil god!
This was a sign from fate.
The white-haired leader saw a new possibility—
To go a step further, drain Tsunade and Linto, and use them as materials to turn Hidan into a Holy Grail to contain the evil god's descent.
Ironically, Tsunade came to the Land of Hot Water to relax because of Linto, and encountered the Jashin Cult's attack, which led to the white-haired leader's new plan.
But this plan was thwarted by Linto again.
Linto was the initial cause and the final result.
Hidan did not become the evil god's Holy Grail, he just…
Hidan raised his hand. He could faintly sense that a special power was attached to his fingertips.
He had the ability to touch and transmit death at close range.
"But at this close range... can't I just stab them with a knife?"
Hidan scratched his head, bit into his flatbread, and looked at the end of the letter:
"...By the time you see this letter, I'm probably dead. This is my fate, Hidan, go find your fate."
"Good luck."
Hidan held the letter blankly.
"But... where is my fate?"
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, blowing the letter out of his hand.
The letter flew in a circle in the air, then flipped over and landed on the ground.
On the back of the letter was an arrow.
Below the arrow was written a sentence:
"By the way, if you don't know where to go, just take a step in any direction, and that's your path forward."
Below was a simple drawing of the leader's head, smiling at Hidan.
Seeing the smile, Hidan's eyes turned red again.
He knelt down and bowed deeply, with his forehead touching the ground, in the direction of the village.
Then Hidan stood up, picked up the letter, carefully put it in his chest, and held the flatbread in his hand.
He strode towards the direction pointed by fate.
...
"Is the so-called 'Holy Grail Hidan' here?" Kakashi asked.
Linto looked around at the corpses on the ground and said, "Besides the leader, I didn't sense a second special person. He probably escaped."
Tsunade's relaxed eyebrows furrowed slightly again: "Can you track him?"
Leaving such a cultist outside, she was always worried that something would happen.
"No." Linto said.
There was no direct cause-and-effect relationship between him and Hidan, and in the Left Guardian's memory, Hidan's body, appearance, and possibly soul were changing during the Jashin Cult's transformation experiment.
No one knew what Hidan would become after completing the transformation experiment.
The two nodded slightly. There would always be some who slipped through the net in battle, especially when the enemy deliberately hid them.
"But..."
Tsunade looked up at the sky: "Does 'God' really exist in this world?"
Blood curse.
Divine kingdom ritual.
Limitless's revival.
It sounded like a miracle, especially since they had seen it with their own eyes.
If the Jashin Cult's teachings weren't so inhumane, Tsunade wouldn't have been able to help but believe it if they were slightly milder.
"God... I don't think it exists," Linto said.
Tsunade turned to look at him. She saw the certainty in Linto's expression: "But you saw it just now—"
She pointed to the sky.
Linto raised his right hand.
When he fought the evil cult's Left Guardian, the evil god's power on the opponent's hand invaded, and Linto cut off his right hand and regrew it, so the color of the skin was slightly different.
"I sensed their so-called 'divine power' up close."
When Linto used Ripple at full power, he could borrow the power of nature and listen to the world's breath.
When fighting the evil cultists, he could hear the joy in their hearts, the wails of the innocents who died tragically, and also the pure, extreme desire for self-destruction transmitted from the power of the evil god.
People tend to have a desire for self-destruction when facing high-pressure environments.
For example, high school seniors, when they think about the mock test tomorrow, will say they want to die.
For example, office workers can't wait for the world to end, so they don't have to go to work tomorrow.
Of course, most people are just thinking about it.
But the civilians in the Hokage world suffer more, and their desire for self-destruction is stronger.
Linto said: "It's like a region where the sun is scorching, the river is evaporating, which may cause heavy rain."
"The evil god is more like this world has been in war for a long time, and the people's will to die 'evaporates', condenses together, and forms a heavy rain called the evil god."
Kakashi and Tsunade listened blankly to Linto's speculation.
Tsunade licked her lips and asked, "So... the evil god is a 'natural disaster'?"
"Yes, a weather phenomenon that combines the will of the people, the world situation, and the power of nature. Of course, this is just my personal speculation, and I don't know the specifics."
Linto looked at Tsunade deeply.
If the truth is really like this.
Then Tsunade, as the granddaughter of Senju Hashirama, who single-handedly created the ninja world pattern, the meaning of her bloodline to the evil god...
Is no different than the importance of the Joestar family's blood to Dio.
"You should go back to Konoha and become the village chief as soon as possible."
Linto's subtext was:
"Don't run around with the direct bloodline of the Senju family."
With the enemy dead, Tsunade returned to her usual unreliable self, with her hands on her hips, laughing loudly and saying:
"We'll talk about the village chief's matter later. We won against a strong enemy today, which means my luck is great.
Let's go back and pick up Shizune, and find a place to gamble!
Linto, you've helped me so much, I'll give you half of the money I win later!"
Gambling... Linto's expression froze slightly.
He hated two things most in his life, one was drugs, and the other was gambling.
Considering that they were comrades who fought side by side, Linto didn't punch, just persuaded:
"You'll lose nine out of ten times."
Tsunade waved her small hand, raised her chin:
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! I can't lose today!"
Linto shook his head helplessly.
The three embarked on the road back to town. Linto gave one last look at the village stained red with blood.
This "death rain" was stopped, but as long as the world doesn't change, the dark clouds will eventually re-condense.
"The road is difficult and arduous, but... it's not without gains."
Linto checked the system.
Current total soul fragments: 6714.
Linto took a deep breath, finally collecting them all.
"Upgrade Star Platinum: The World."
The system popped up a prompt: "Please enter the number of soul fragments to invest."
"Max it out."
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