"Let's begin." The sect leader said flatly.
They walked to another secret room. Two unfortunate people with terrified expressions were tied to crosses like Jesus. Their wrists had been slashed, and blood flowed profusely into bowls placed beside them, which quickly filled up.
Facing such a scene, everyone in the room had no reaction, including Shinji who had already gotten used to this situation over the past few days.
Then, Hidan walked directly to one of those unfortunate people. Under everyone's gaze, he unceremoniously took one of the bowls of blood, looked up, and drank it down to the last drop!
The bowl fell to the ground and shattered into pieces. The remaining blood that hadn't been drunk yet flowed out.
Next, Hidan grinned coldly and stepped on the spilled blood, starting to draw a special pattern.
Before long, a circular pattern wrapped in a triangle was completed using blood on the floor.
After completing all this, Hidan standing inside the pattern was very excited. He could feel that at this moment, the Chakra in his body was rapidly transforming into a special power, which then swarmed and wrapped around all the blood he had swallowed before!
"That's right, like this, like this, hahahaha!"
Hidan couldn't hold back his insane laughter, covering his forehead with his hand while bending over.
When he stood upright again, his entire appearance had undergone a drastic change!
Hidan's skin immediately turned black, and then white lines quickly appeared on top of it, evenly and characteristically distributed across various parts of his body, looking very frightening and terrifying!
Then, amid laughter, Hidan once again pulled out a short spear from behind his clothes, and with curiosity and joy, he lightly scratched it across his chest.
Instantly, a long wound appeared.
Was he just doing simple self-mutilation?
No!
Hidan's eyes became increasingly excited and restless!
Because the unfortunate person whose blood he had drunk earlier suddenly had the exact same wound appear on his chest right now!
*PLOP!*
While continuing to stare sharply at the victim, Hidan stabbed the short spear in his hand into his own right leg.
"Ugh..."
The right leg of the unfortunate person whose mouth was gagged immediately spurted blood, but he could only produce a muffled sound.
"Very painful... but truly... truly very comfortable!!"
"Hahaha... Let's die together!"
Amid hysterical laughter, Hidan continued swinging the sharp short spear in his hand, opening blood hole after blood hole in his own body. Blood splattered everywhere, while his expression changed from pain to pleasure as if he would ascend to heaven!
"Thud!"
Hidan, whose Curse Technique suddenly released automatically, fell flat on the floor forming an 'X' shape, with a face full of satisfaction. He probably didn't even need a cigarette afterward.
At some point, the unfortunate man opened his eyes wide, and it turned out he died of fright!
Seeing this scene, all the Jashin Cult members observing and recording everything in the distance showed very excited expressions.
They had succeeded once again!
Even Takihata couldn't hold back a satisfied smile. Hidan was indeed the most precious treasure that Jashin had given him. Only a month had passed, and he had already trained this Curse Technique to such a level.
Although the duration was still very short, it was already gratifying enough.
Compared to Hidan, that other person looked more like a castrated version of the Curse Technique...
Takihata's eyes flickered slightly, and he turned toward Shinji and said, "Your turn, Shinji."
Shinji immediately stepped forward several steps. The gazes of admiration and joy around him immediately changed to observation and doubt directed at him.
This was because, compared to Hidan who was able to use Death Controlling Possessed Blood to such a level in just a month, Shinji's current progress was... zero!
Actually, even Shinji himself didn't expect that he couldn't train the Curse Technique: Death Controlling Possessed Blood!
Although he had overcome his own 'mental cleanliness' and convinced himself with ridiculous reasons like 'drinking human blood at least doesn't contain many parasites', so he dared to drink it once...
But it seemed his existence was an accident.
Someone who shouldn't have come back to life mysteriously lived, and by coincidence obtained the castrated version of Immortality.
Therefore, his failure to complete the training of Curse Technique: Death Controlling Possessed Blood seemed reasonable.
Moreover, he himself wasn't too willing to do the blood drinking thing.
It wasn't anything else, he just felt it was dirty!
Who knows whether the other party had blood-borne infectious diseases, like HIV or something!
If he got infected, he couldn't even die...
Really damn it!
So, besides not knowing how to face these Jashin Cult members, Shinji himself wasn't too disappointed.
After all, he was a man who had a "golden finger"!
And the reward he got this time completely allowed him to get through this difficult time smoothly.
As Shinji stepped forward, he didn't imitate Hidan by drinking a bowl of blood that who knows what infectious diseases it stored, but suddenly pulled out a sharp kunai, and forcefully slashed his left wrist!
In the silent secret room, Shinji held his left hand flat downward, letting the flowing blood form a line dripping to the ground.
Seeing this, Takihata frowned slightly first, and a trace of displeasure passed through his eyes, then he asked, "What are you do... Hmm!?"
Shinji didn't try to explain anything. Instead, he closed his eyes and felt the power inside his body.
Chakra suddenly accelerated its journey through certain meridians, and under strong emotions, quickly transformed into another power, namely Cursed Energy used to cast Curse Techniques!
Then, Shinji suddenly opened his eyes and formed seals with one hand.
Blood Manipulation!
Under everyone's astonished gaze, a large amount of blood that had previously flowed out of Shinji's body suddenly seemed to come alive, transforming into lines of blood that flowed rapidly and irregularly around him.
The secret room with dim and flickering lights, the corpse nailed to the cross, the strange religious pattern, and the blood that suddenly came alive and started swimming...
This scene somehow had a terrifying beauty!
The question not fully uttered by Takihata seemed unnecessary to answer, but in order to completely fool these people, Shinji still spoke, "This is the new Curse Technique specifically bestowed upon me by Jashin — Blood Manipulation!"
New Curse Technique?
Blood Manipulation?!!
Takihata recovered from his shock, then stared deeply at Shinji. Then, he returned to his friendly appearance and praised, "Excellent, since Jashin has bestowed a new Curse Technique upon you, focus on this. Praise to Jashin~"