After leaving the Konoha camp, Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masaya quickly reached the cult's secret base.

Just as Miwa Masayo said, the place was very simple, and the so-called daily necessities were just some cups and bowls, and a hundred or so dirty blankets.

There were dirty yellow and white things everywhere, and the foul and sour smell made people dizzy.

Miwa Masayo covered his nose and said sullenly, "At first, I had a hard time finding it by following the traces of chakra, but later I found that every cultist had this smell, so I found it quickly."

Uchiha You stuffed two pieces of grass into his nose and said in a muffled voice: "Thank you for your hard work."

In the center of this dirty underground cave is a very conspicuous stone platform, which is polished to be very smooth and flat, and is out of tune with the surrounding environment.

Miwa Masayo introduced: "This is the altar for sacrifice. When we rushed in, those cultists were holding a sacrificial ceremony, a living sacrifice."

Uchiha You jumped onto the altar in one step, and instantly he found that the stench surrounding his nose had disappeared. It was obvious that there was a power around the altar that isolated the dirty smell.

Not only that, he also felt a warm and comfortable atmosphere, as if he was lying on a quilt under the sun.

Uchiha You asked curiously: "There is actually a smell of sunshine here, can we get some sun?"

Miwa Masayo pointed at a crack on the top of the cave with his paw and explained, "Yes, at noon every day, the sun will shine through that crack. It feels very sacred, meow."

Uchiha You took a look and confirmed that the cracks were purely natural. He couldn't help but click his tongue, feeling that this evil god was really powerful.

He didn't believe that there could be a natural cave church here. It must have been built by the power of the evil god, but it was indeed flawless.

Think about it, living in this dirty cave, if you are lucky enough to participate in the sacrifice, you can go up to the altar and enjoy the fresh air and warm sunshine. Isn’t this a real miracle?

Moreover, every day at noon, a sacred pillar of light descends from the sky, illuminating the altar and making it sparkle, filling the atmosphere with a sacred atmosphere.

In such a sacred atmosphere, how can the faith of believers not be firm?

Apart from the issue of human sacrifice, what this evil god does is no different from religion.

Thinking of the living sacrifice, Uchiha You asked again: "Rika-chan, where were the people who were sacrificed at that time?"

"We didn't have time to save him. When we came in, his internal organs had been dug out. There's no way to save him, meow."

"You later cleaned this altar?"

"Cleaning? No meow, we just moved the body meow."

At this point, Miwa Masayo realized the problem. She jumped down and carefully checked every crack on the altar. After sniffing carefully, she said, "Strange, the blood is gone. There is not even a smell left."

Uchiha You smiled. He raised his head and looked at the top of the cave, but his gaze penetrated the rocks and looked into the void.

"To be so greedy, it seems that even if this evil god has some power, it is still very weak."

"Perhaps I should try to use bait. It would be easy to poison the bait, but... I don't know what kind of existence God is, let alone what is considered poison to God?"

"Greed, anger, and ignorance, but I don't know how to collect and deliver them."

Uchiha You shook his head and decided to implement the existing plan: "I still have to rely on Xiao Ke. Although this guy is weird, I can still control him more or less."

Uchiha You finally did not act rashly here.

In his shallow knowledge of Shinto, shrines, temples, and altars are all extensions of the power of the gods and can even be regarded as part of the kingdom of God.

Without sufficient preparation and lacking understanding of the gods, Uchiha You was absolutely unwilling to provoke the gods at the altar.

He thought that apart from observing, it would be best to do nothing at the altar. God knew which pattern was the key to communicating with the gods.

Uchiha You memorized all the patterns and carvings on the altar, including the height, diameter, material and other data of the altar, all of which were memorized exactly.

Having completed three breakthroughs in the Foundation Establishment Stage, he possesses a photographic memory. Coupled with the observation ability of the Three-magatama Sharingan, he can ensure that his memory is absolutely correct. As long as he finds the right materials, he can copy an altar in other places.

After setting up numerous sealing techniques and fully understanding the intelligence of the gods, he will communicate directly with the evil god to see if he can get any benefits in exchange.

Of course, if he discovered that God had no power, it would be natural for him to swallow God in one gulp and digest Him slowly.

At this time, Uchiha You had not considered at all that the evil god might be very powerful. This was self-evident. A cult church that could only be active underground and was confined to the central and southern parts of the Land of Hot Springs, the god behind it could not be very powerful.

In the future, the greatest manifestation of the evil god's power is the undead monster Feiduan, the useless waste who relies on his high-end immortality to do whatever he wants.

In the ninja world of the ninja era, gods are existences that cannot be on the stage and cannot have any powerful power.

After Uchiha You confirmed that no information was missed, he sealed the entrance to the cave and returned to the Konoha camp.

In his tent, he carefully recalled the information in the Uchiha family collection room, compared it with all the patterns he remembered today, and found a hundred or so records that were somewhat related.

After eliminating those records that were too unreliable and those that contradicted the locations and other descriptions, Uchiha You focused his suspicions on three gods.

Shantong, also known as Shanhelu, is short and child-like, with a hairy body and long and sharp nails. He likes to play with children the most.

Shanlao, also known as mountain demon, is a deity that looks like an old woman. She has a side that grants the land a good harvest and wealth, but also a side that eats travelers and children.

Jianyue is a huge god who gains people's faith by intimidating them and will attack those who are not afraid of him.

After narrowing down the possible new scope, Uchiha You once again came to the tent for interrogation and detention of prisoners.

He asked Miwa Masayo to take everyone away, and told them to stay at least 50 meters away, and then put his hand on the monster's head.

A few more hours passed, and wrinkles appeared on the monster's facial skin. It grew hard black hair, its teeth became sharp, and its nose became noticeably higher. It no longer looked like the boy it once was.

As for the monster's body, it looked even more creepy at this time. Long gray-black hair covered its entire body. The knees of its legs had completely retracted between the waist and abdomen, and the inverse joints of the ankles became the main active joints.

It takes a lot of energy for the body to undergo such a mutation, and all the changes tend to strengthen the body rather than natural forces.

[This evil god doesn't seem to be able to do it. 】

Uchiha You felt a little regretful. He was not the evil god who created Hidan, but only gave his believers the power of madness and physical mutation. This level was too much of a difference.

[Forget it, it’s almost good, it’s almost safe. It’s too risky to go after a powerful evil god first.]

[It's time to show my weapon, Xiao Ke. 】

Uchiha You's breathing became extremely steady, his mind slowly immersed in his own spiritual world. He grabbed the cute porous octopus Xiao Ke and invaded the monster's spiritual world along the connection created by physical contact.

The evil high priest who turned into a monster, his spiritual world is no longer a complete world.

A certain huge but fragile consciousness is embracing this world, ruthlessly devouring everything in the spiritual world. Only a small part of it remains basically stable.

The appearance of Uchiha You shocked the huge consciousness, and the undisguised greed and hunger swept in like a storm, but it could only peel off the source of the monster's spiritual world bit by bit, and could not directly attack Uchiha You.

The attack failed, making the huge consciousness angry. It increased the power of the storm and accelerated the peeling of the spiritual world, not even caring about the fragments flying everywhere. It was completely different from the previous cautious appearance, unwilling to lose even a little bit. It can be imagined that Uchiha You's desire far exceeded this spiritual world.

At the same time, He also conjured up hundreds of illusory tentacles, which penetrated into the broken spiritual world in an attempt to capture Uchiha You and prevent him from escaping before He broke through the world.

Uchiha You did not feel any fear. He could clearly feel his own spiritual world and was sure that he could return at any time with just a thought and cut off the connection between the two sides.

With confidence in his mind, he could observe the giant consciousness with confidence and boldness.

Uchiha You saw countless mysterious runes from the huge and thin box. The runes formed a series of ring chains, which were the framework of the manifested rules.

These frameworks constrain the huge consciousness, making it slow to react and move, while the rule framework also maintains its existence which is about to collapse.

“So, this is God.”

Uchiha You said with emotion that those runes were similar to the sealing runes he had learned, but were obviously more complicated and... too complicated.

Too complex and not flexible enough.

This was the evaluation given by Uchiha You. He intuitively concluded that this was the reason for the decline of the gods.

The huge and complex rune system itself has become the basis for the existence of gods, and the basic condition for the existence of a rune system must be a sufficiently large spiritual body, because if it is not large enough, it cannot accommodate the huge rule framework constructed by the runes.

No matter how weak the gods are, the framework of this set of rules cannot be shaken, so this extremely fragile consciousness exists today.

This is not a good thing, as it means that the energy concentration is extremely thin, which means that the reaction would be slow and the upper limit of the maximum output is shockingly low.

The current god's total spiritual power exceeds that of Uchiha You by at least a thousand times, but His size is forcibly supported by the framework of rules, and His density is less than one percent of that of Uchiha You.

Uchiha You even doubted whether this spirit had really captured him, and whether he could really digest his highly ordered self?

Uchiha You is different from ordinary people. His mental power is highly concentrated and extremely orderly.

It is precisely because of the extremely high quality of his own spirit that his illusions are so powerful, just like an army with high fighting spirit and iron discipline attacking an army that lacks fighting will and has loose discipline, and easily crushing it.

No, that's not right.

Uchiha looked at the spiritual world around him and realized that he had overestimated the weakness of God. He should not even be able to devour ordinary people.

This is the spiritual world of the chief of his fanatics, the high priest.

The soul of this kind of person who sees himself as a servant of God and wants to integrate into God wholeheartedly can be said to be defenseless, and may even help God digest things.

The weak god could only eat away at it slowly. Even after discovering his existence, he was so eager to give up the food at hand and tried to destroy it desperately, but he was unable to quickly break the spiritual wreckage that was about to die.

Uchiha You smiled wickedly. He raised the palm-sized hole octopus in his hand and said, "Unknown God, I guess you can't digest my existence. Why don't you try this?"

"It has a water content of up to 80%, is soft and easy to digest, and the most valuable thing is that it has no body. It is a pure spiritual creature, and is definitely the supreme tonic for the gods."

Gods do not speak to humans, and God cannot understand Uchiha Yu's words. He still destroys the spiritual world and dances his tentacles to try to capture it.

He did not expect the gods to understand him, so he finished his words and threw the hole-shaped octopus in his hand onto a tentacle that stretched out to him.

The hole octopus was not caught by the tentacles, but merged into the tentacles smoothly without any hindrance.

The sudden appearance of the foreign object inside obviously made the god's tentacles feel uncomfortable. The tentacles suddenly shrank and curled up into a ball like a leech touched by salt.

The god has thousands of tentacles that probe into the spiritual world. The change of one tentacle is insignificant. The god doesn't care at all. He stares at Uchiha Yu's spiritual body and attacks tirelessly.

He didn't even care that the tentacles couldn't keep up with Uchiha You's movement speed, and didn't even care about Uchiha You's thoughts, and crushed dozens of tentacles into pieces.

Regardless of the success rate, feasibility, or any loss, he was determined to pursue Uchiha You. This made Uchiha You ponder what was so special about his spiritual body that could drive the gods crazy.

Comparing the differences between his own spiritual body and the god's spiritual body, eliminating one difference after another, Uchiha You discovered that his spiritual body had three advantages: high density, tendency of entropy reduction, and fast reaction speed.

The high density is the result. As long as the gods gain enough faith, they can certainly achieve it easily. After all, the rule framework not only supports the size of the spiritual body, but also suppresses the size of the spiritual body.

The tendency of entropy reduction refers to the high consistency of one's own spiritual body, and the natural absorption of nutrients from the surroundings and transformation into one's own spiritual body.

This is a big deal.

Although such continuous growth can only be achieved in one's own spiritual world with the help of the four heart shapes, this is still a very terrifying reality, because it means that the upper limit of one's growth is constantly rising, and there is no established insurmountable ceiling.

And now, Uchiha You is in a dead spiritual world, and he finds that this collapsed world is being absorbed and digested by his spiritual body, growing itself at a very fast speed.

The key is that Uchiha You did not find anything abnormal, nor did he obtain any impurities such as other people's emotions or knowledge. Perhaps it was because the person died, and the remaining mental power returned to the purity of a baby.

He was silent for a while, silently trying many methods and suspending the absorption of his spiritual body.

Absorbing the spiritual power of others after their death does not make Uchiha You feel like a cannibal, but he firmly believes that he cannot increase his own strength through methods such as the Star Absorbing Technique.

This is an evil path, a devilish path.

Yes, the mental powers of these dead people are very pure, and it seems that there should be no trouble.

But you think there will be no problem as long as there are no mental and physical problems. The fundamental danger of the magic path does not lie in power, but in making people accustomed to the rapid growth brought about by plundering.

It is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality, but it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance.

Anyone who is accustomed to rapid growth will inevitably develop a dislike for polishing his or her own foundation, which is hard and tiring with no visible results.

It's like someone who wins the lottery. After getting an unexpected, reasonable and legal huge income, no lottery rich person has a good ending.

The reason is that the money comes too easily, and those who get rich quickly are unlikely to use the money with a cautious attitude and in a reasonable way.

Even saving the money and earning interest is impossible.

Mentality and habits, these are what Uchiha You values ​​most and the foundation that he must never relax on.

However, this should not be the focus of the gods.

Uchiha You discovered that after the god stared at him, he revealed two major problems, namely confusion and slowness.

Thousands of tentacles invaded the spiritual world, but less than 1% of them attacked Uchiha You. The other 99% of the tentacles either stayed motionless or attacked the spiritual world indiscriminately.

Not only did these tentacles seem out of control, but even the god's spirit itself, one end was clearly doing completely different things than the other.

God does not behave like a living spiritual being, but rather more like a country composed of countless spiritual beings.

Because they are bound by a framework of rules, the gods do not split, disintegrate, or perish, but the chaos within the framework is enough to make humans' scalps tingle.

Another serious flaw was the reaction speed. The tentacle that was invaded by the porous octopus Xiao Ke suddenly curled up and retracted all the way back into the body of the god.

During the retraction process, the god seemed unaware that there was a problem with the tentacle. It was not until it retracted into the god's main body that hundreds of light spots began to gather towards Xiao Ke.

Part of the god's spirit observed Xiao Ke curiously, watching it stretch out its eight tentacles and shake its head full of holes.

Until a trace of crazy breath flowed out from Xiao Ke and was captured by the light spot.

Suddenly, all the light spots fled frantically, and the gods began to twist madly, trying to peel off the body that Xiao Ke was in.

His actions conveyed frank fear, and Uchiha Yu even thought he heard the god's hysterical shout:

"Don't come over here--!"