Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 740 - 211: Locust Great Immortal? A Temple Behind the Village’s Mountain!_4
She probably could tell that this Locust Great Immortal was formidable.
He had the power to quell a large area affected by a locust plague.
Allowing the villagers to return to their normal lives as before.
Then, the villagers held him in great admiration.
It sounded like a good thing, but Yun Jiuqing didn’t know why it felt strange, after all, the problem resolved was a locust plague, and the resolver was called the Locust Great Immortal.
Yun Jiuqing had reason to suspect, could the so-called locust plague have been concocted by the so-called Locust Great Immortal?
Although her mind wasn’t the sharpest on ordinary days, after experiencing many things, she couldn’t help but theorize a conspiracy.
Of course, Yun Jiuqing also knew that she was just guessing wildly.
She shook her head, casting aside the wild thoughts in her mind.
Then, she turned to the woman and said gratefully, "Thank you, sister, for informing me of a place to stay!"
The woman waved her hand: "It’s a trifle."
"Oh right!" It seemed like she remembered something and hastily reminded Yun Jiuqing, "As an outsider entering the temple of the Locust Great Immortal, you need to offer three sticks of incense to the Great Immortal, as a sign of respect."
"Was it that Immortal Master who said it?" Yun Jiuqing asked curiously.
The woman nodded.
Then Yun Jiuqing inquired about the location of the mountain behind the village.
The woman patiently answered.
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Afterwards.
Fan Wu and others... arrived at the mountain behind this village, and they also learned from that woman that the village was called "Double Chair Village."
Because the mountain behind Double Chair Village resembled two big chairs, it was given such a plain and unadorned name.
Inside the mountain, there indeed was a building that looked like a simple temple.
After all, it was a temple built by a group of villagers.
It couldn’t be too luxurious.
Moreover, this temple was built during the most difficult times for the villagers; it was already their utmost effort to have built it as it was.
"Is this the temple of the Locust Great Immortal?" Xing Fengzi was the first to walk inside, quite curious about the Locust Great Immortal.
Then, he asked Liu Feng who was beside him, "Scholar Liu, as a man from the Great Yan Dynasty, have you heard of the Locust Great Immortal?"
Liu Feng shook his head and replied, "I have never heard of him, probably because people in the Imperial City don’t believe in the Locust Great Immortal."
Fan Wu and Yun Jiuqing also followed into the temple.
As they entered, Fan Wu immediately focused his attention on the center of the temple.
There stood a divine statue.
The statue was not particularly big, appearing only about two meters tall, and in front of the statue was a long altar table with various offerings laid out on it.
Many of the offerings looked fresh, presumably placed there recently.
At the same time, Fan Wu noticed a relatively large incense burner.
Inside the incense burner, numerous incense sticks had been burned to ashes, but the incense was exceptionally vigorous.
A village of people worshipping every five days apart—plus some perhaps even more diligent, worshipping daily—it was hardly surprising that the incense was thriving!
Furthermore, there must have been more than one village affected by the disaster.
The combined incense of all the villages would indeed be astonishing.
But what Fan Wu found strange was this.
This statue lacked any divinity, for he had not seen any attribute information from it.
This meant it was just a common clay sculpture.
Nothing particularly special.
"There’s so much incense here!" Yun Jiuqing pulled out three sticks of incense from a spot next to the statue; she ignited them directly with her mana, and holding the three sticks of incense, she said with a smile, "I was thinking whether I should borrow some incense sticks from the village, but now it seems... there’s no need."
After finishing.
Yun Jiuqing respectfully bowed three times to the statue and then inserted the three sticks of incense into the incense burner, thus fulfilling the etiquette mentioned by the woman.
However... just at that moment, Yun Jiuqing suddenly froze.
"What is this?"
Yun Jiuqing’s eyes widened in shock, "Something strange has appeared in my Dantian!"
The reason for Yun Jiuqing’s change in expression and the shock was that she clearly sensed something wrong with herself.
A moment ago.
As she placed the three sticks of incense into the incense burner, she felt the flow of mana in her meridians slowing down.
And she could vaguely sense that something had emerged in her Dantian.
"Scholar Yun, do not panic," said Xing Fengzi with a grave expression, "What strange thing has appeared inside you?"
Yun Jiuqing took a deep breath, trying hard to calm herself down, then sat down cross-legged on the ground and closed her eyes.
She began to scan her Dantian and the meridians throughout her body.
After about ten breaths’ time.
She finally opened her eyes.
"A bug!" Yun Jiuqing did not look very happy, "It looks like a locust!"
After making such a statement, she went on to explain in more detail, "It’s not an ordinary locust but a strange locust made of mana. It’s very small, as small as an ant."
"If it weren’t for the uniqueness of my Yun Clan’s Divine Path Hundred Kills technique, I might not even be able to detect such a minuscule and eerie locust!"
Faced with such a bewildering situation, it was no surprise Yun Jiuqing’s complexion was not good!
Yun Jiuqing realized she had been naive. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
She didn’t know whether that woman had deceived her or that woman had also been deceived; she only knew that there was a big problem with this temple, and the so-called Locust Great Immortal was extremely dubious.
He was not any good!
By then, the sky had already darkened, and the gloomy night made the inside of the temple especially sinister and terrifying.
Only the three sticks of incense that Yun Jiuqing had just lit.
Were emitting a faint glow.
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