Very soon, the village head led a large group of villagers to the temple.

When the villagers saw the severed limbs and broken bodies all over the ground, their expressions remained cold and numb, as though they had long since grown accustomed to the bloody, cruel killing sacrifices. Even when the corpses included their own closest kin, their indifferent expressions did not waver.

Under the guidance of the new abbot and the village head, they devoutly worshipped the new Buddha Ancestor, Namo Great Sage Relic Honored King Buddha, and offered the burning incense in their hands.

[You have drawn in incense malice. The Shell Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil has gained a certain amount of EXP!]

[The power within the Shell begins to boil. The Shell Level of Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil has risen. Current Shell Level: 62 (182)]

[You have drawn in incense malice. The Shell Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil has gained a certain amount of EXP!]

[The power within the Shell begins to boil. The Shell Level of Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil has risen. Current Shell Level: 63 (182)]

[You have drawn in incense malice…]

[…]

As the many villagers worshipped, the game prompts rapidly scrolled.

The Child of Evil’s Shell Level kept shooting upward, constantly sending level-up prompts as though it had swallowed EXP pills.

The progress bar for Extreme Evil Power Fountain on its panel was also steadily rising.

“Turning the hellish game into an AFK idle game… I’m probably the only one who has ever done this, right?”

The rapid leveling gains that came without effort gave Lin Xun the exhilarating feeling of having turned on cheats.

Thinking about it carefully, it seemed that he really had never turned them off. If it was never turned off, then it was indeed on…

By the time all the villagers had each taken their turn offering up their incense malice, the Child of Evil’s level had already shot up to Level 71.

Lin Xun smacked his lips, feeling a little unsatisfied, and had the villagers do it again.

But it seemed that the incense malice each villager could produce had already been exhausted.

Even if they continued burning incense and worshipping, he could no longer draw any power from them. He needed to wait some time until the villagers once more accumulated their own malice before the Child of Evil could continue leveling up.

The total population of Li Family Village did not exceed one thousand. Excluding the more than one hundred people Lin Xun had killed, the remaining population was estimated to still number seven or eight hundred.

With only several hundred people, it could already bring such enormous gains in power. It was hard to imagine that if the believers of an entire city were gathered together and their incense malice drawn in over many long years, to what level one’s strength could be enhanced.

Granted, the reason for such a huge improvement now was because the Child of Evil’s current level was low, even lower than the average level of the trash mobs in the current chapter, which was why it could rise so quickly.

But if the scope were expanded from a village to a city, or even to an entire nation, or even an entire chapter world, then the gains in power brought by it would become extraordinarily terrifying.

From this, it could be seen that becoming a god through incense was not a joke, but something that could truly be achieved.

“I suppose only a world like this, filled with malice everywhere, can let the Child of Evil rise this quickly. Once I leave this village, there won’t be another shop like this, so I need to make the most of it.”

After Lin Xun finished drawing in Li Family Village’s incense malice, that Mother Buddha of All Evils whose incense had been stolen still did not descend here in anger.

It was unclear whether the little bit of incense faith from Li Family Village was insignificant to it, or whether it was too frightened to show itself after being blasted earlier by Lin Xun’s world-destroying dragon breath.

“So you’re very patient, huh? Let’s see how long you can keep enduring!”

Lin Xun let out a cold sneer. He had already made preparations to head to Wusi City and destroy the enemy’s lair.

Stealing the incense of a single Li Family Village might not matter to the Mother Buddha of All Evils, but if he took the incense of the entire city of Wusi, he truly did not believe that the Buddha Mother could still sit still.

With a cheating divine tool like Chaos Authority, Lin Xun did not need to worry about his position being locked onto. Holding the absolute advantage of the enemy being in the open and himself in the dark, it would be too wasteful not to make good use of it to raise his own power.

If the Buddha Mother dared descend into the mortal world, then he dared kill the god and loot its Divinity. And if the Buddha Mother kept acting like a cowardly turtle, that still would not hinder his objective of seizing incense to raise his own power.

“The game experience after forging immortality and becoming a god really is worlds apart…”

Lin Xun could not help sighing.

If the former him, even with Thousand Faces, Ten Thousand Forms, could not be said to have had a good gameplay experience, to the point where it could even be described as suffering, then the current him had exchanged a bird gun for a cannon and could just charge straight through.

Of course, part of that was also because this was the newbie benefit period right after entering the chapter…

[…]

[After the crowd of villagers finish worshipping, you tell the New Abbot that you are going to Wusi City to rescue the suffering people there and help them break free from the clutches of the evil heterodox wild god.]

[Knowing that your divine abilities are vast, the New Abbot fetches brush and ink, marks the exact location of Wusi City on a map, and respectfully offers it to you with both hands…]

[You obtained Wusi City’s Location Map (Map)!]

[The New Abbot respectfully says to you, Supreme Buddha Ancestor, when eliminating evil, one must do it thoroughly.]

[The Fire-Worship Church has erected Buddha statues for evil heterodox wild gods and taught the people the method of killing sacrifices. If you execute the Mother Buddha of All Evils, yet do not wipe out the evildoers within the Fire-Worship Church, then there will still be thousands upon thousands of Mother Buddhas of All Evils born.]

[You understand in your heart that what it says is only an excuse. The New Abbot is worried that if you only kill the Mother Buddha of All Evils and do not deliver the Fire-Worship Church, then the Fire-Worship Church will settle accounts with Li Family Village later.]

[T/N: In Buddhism, ‘delivering’ or ‘deliverance’ refers to liberation from suffering (Dukkha) and the cycle of rebirth (Samsara)]

[After all, this incarnation of yours as the new Buddha Ancestor looks like a wrathful Vajra who only kills and does not deliver…]

“Only kills and does not deliver? That’s actually a pretty accurate description.”

“If I beat these monsters fallen into extreme evil, together with the gods fallen into extreme evil, into complete annihilation, then naturally there is no need to deliver them.”

[You ask the New Abbot about another doubt in your heart. You previously heard the old abbot, who has now been cast into the Beast Path, mention remnants of evil demons. Does it know any information about those remnants of evil demons?]

[The New Abbot is startled and says, Supreme Buddha Ancestor, those evil demons and great yokai were long ago either dead or grievously wounded. Those that were suppressed were suppressed, those that were delivered were delivered. Those who submitted could become mounts and playthings of the various Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, while those who refused have all long since died out.]

[For several hundred years now, no true remnants of evil demons have appeared in the mortal world. Even if beasts or spirits in the mountains gain enlightenment and awaken intelligence, they will be seized by the Fire-Worship Church, and these birds, beasts, and spirits that have only just awakened intelligence are still far from being called demon races or remnants of evil demons.]

[According to rumor, there seem to still be things like a Holy Land of the Demon Race or a Great Yokai Grotto Heaven, but those are all strange tales fabricated by the common folk.]

[If Buddha Ancestor also wishes to seize a great yokai as a mount, I fear you can only snatch one from the hands of those evil heterodox wild gods…]

Lin Xun felt somewhat speechless. “How is it that the demon race in Vermilion is doing even worse than in Sakura Falls?”

Then, upon thinking it over, the ground of Vermilion was full of believers in Ancient Heavenly Enma, and the skies were filled with gods and buddhas. If the demon race could thrive there, that really would be a ghost story.

No wonder the ancestors of the Nine-Tailed Fox had secretly boarded a returning tribute ship and fled in secret from Vermilion to the remote little place of Sakura Falls.

So it turned out that they had been unable to survive here, and would rather be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix, fleeing to Sakura Falls to avoid their natural enemies and carry out an ancient biological invasion.

In this chapter’s Oath camp, Lin Xun still belonged to the side of the Chaotic Origin Dragon. Compared to the huge camp advantage he had in the Omniscience chapter, the camp advantage in this chapter could be said to be almost nonexistent.

Not only was there no advantage, but if he exposed his own camp, he might even trigger the enormous disadvantage of being besieged by gods and buddhas.