After leaving the Shadow Sect, Li Lin headed straight for Shangzan Province, which was separated from Navoli Province in the northeast by only a snow-capped mountain range.
Since Zed's attack on the Kinkou, the remaining followers have been hiding in the mountains of Shangzan Highlands under the leadership of the Kinkou's three leaders: Shen, who inherited the duties of the Eye of Twilight, Meimu Yeoman Tessi, the Fist of Shadow, and Kennen, the Heart of Rage.
Through the enhancement of his brain, he could vaguely recall some details of the hiding place of the Order of the Balance.
In addition to searching the miniature Runeland, he quickly located the abandoned temple east of Sarnjuru Village and very close to Xuannain Village.
The valley to the south of the snow-capped mountains is very spacious, with various varieties of plants growing there. There are also many boulders and abandoned city walls scattered around. The terrain is dangerous and large landslides often occur.
Such a dangerous place that is not suitable for humans to stay for a long time is undoubtedly a natural refuge for those who are in urgent need of seeking refuge.
In particular, there are rumors that this place is haunted.
After crossing the basalt ridge, Li Lin quickly arrived at his destination.
When he landed, clear and melodious bird calls were heard from the surrounding trees.
However, no matter how lifelike the imitation is, the intelligent computer can still distinguish that this is actually a secret code between ninjas.
Li Lin ignored it and avoided the various hidden traps on the road until he arrived at an emerald green lake - a lagoon, which was covered with purple lantern lotus, a very common vegetation among the large and small lakes in Ionia.
Before he could go any deeper into the area to find the temple, a young girl's gentle voice stopped him: "Stop, outsider!"
Li Lin turned his head and saw a young girl with a ponytail, wearing a dark green ninja uniform, holding a sickle and a kunai, squatting on the treetop beside him, staring at him fiercely.
"Akali Yoman Texi." He called out the girl's name directly, which made her feel quite surprised.
"Huh? You actually know me?"
But before she could ask in detail who the man in strange armor was, an angry woman's voice called out to her, "Akali!"
"Mother?"
Akali turned her head in surprise and saw a slender figure approaching at a high speed in the form of an afterimage.
Following closely behind it was a round ball that was flashing with pale electric light.
"Didn't you hear the warning whistle just now from the sentry?!"
"Also, as a ninja, the successor of the Shadow Fist, how can you expose yourself directly to outsiders? Have you forgotten what Shen taught you?"
As soon as they met, Meimu started to accuse and criticize Akali, as if Akali was not her biological daughter at all.
"I……"
"You disappoint me greatly, Akali."
Akali pursed her lips, tears welling up in her eyes.
Although Mei Mu, dressed in a flowing silk gown, is always kind to those around her and behaves gracefully, once she sees her daughter, she becomes a different person and becomes very unfriendly.
Meimu has been like this since the disaster of the Order of the Balance five years ago.
And after the accident four years ago when the Navoli Brotherhood came to her house and caused her personal apprentice and the daughter of her deceased friend to lose her right leg, Mei Mu's attitude became even worse.
On the side, the electric ball that had just approached turned into a Yodel wearing a purple ninja suit and a turban, who was the violent heart of the Order of the Balance.
"Meimu, don't blame Akali like that. It's not her fault."
As he spoke, Kennen glanced at Akali worriedly, then turned with a wary and alert look to Li Lin, who was more than twenty steps away from them, with the four-edged shuriken in his hand ready to go.
"Even if Shen, you, and I were to attack today's uninvited 'guest' together, we wouldn't be a match for him."
Upon hearing this, Li Lin became unhappy. "Wait, what do you mean by uninvited? Didn't I just send a machine to deliver a letter to you a week ago?"
Kenan and Meimu looked at each other, recalling their previous encounter with a "humanoid steel monster" that was made entirely of machinery and did not belong to the spiritual realm.
"Shen did receive a letter, but he didn't tell me what it contained."
Kennen lowered his voice as much as possible so that only Meimu and Akali beside him could hear what he said.
Although this is completely unnecessary in front of Li Lin.
"I said I would come to visit today." Li Lin guessed something. "Could it be that Shen is not here?"
Kenan scratched a strand of hair beneath his turban, a little embarrassed. "Shen is out to fulfill his duty of maintaining balance."
Meimu has resigned from his position as the Fist of Shadow and is wholeheartedly training new disciples for the Order of the Balance. Most of the important matters in the sect are now handled by Kennen.
When Li Lin thought of Shen's rigid personality, he actually didn't want to communicate with him too much.
Anyway, no matter what, there is no way to convince this guy who insists on the principle of "balance" and is inflexible.
"Okay." Li Lin nodded and unfolded his mask. "I will explain the reason for my visit to you in detail, but..."
He raised an eyebrow and gave Kennen and Maymu a look across from him. "After all, the reputation of the Kinkou was once known throughout Ionia. Your hospitality shouldn't mean turning guests away, right?"
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Compared to the magnificent and spacious temple standing halfway up the mountain, the abandoned temple where the Order of the Balance now lives is extremely pitiful.
Since the temple was not big enough to accommodate everyone, the remaining members of the Order of the Balance could only build simple thatched huts outside the temple that could barely provide shelter from the wind and rain.
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