Invincible Dad-Chapter 492 - Pay me respect with incense!_1

Benefactor?

That’s an interesting way to address someone.

Although this old man wasn’t human, he was practicing the way of Incense Wish Power here and carried a vast amount of karma on his shoulders. All of it was good karma, stemming from good deeds.

Xu Lai said calmly, "Whose tomb is at the foot of Mount Suiyue?"

"I don’t know." The old man shook his head and gave Xu Lai a deep look. "Benefactor, please leave."

Xu Lai didn’t ask again. He nodded, turned, and left the temple. Standing outside, he looked toward the location Ji Jie had mentioned. The abyss containing the tomb was unfathomably deep. It was like an eye, staring eerily at Xu Lai and luring him into its depths.

Over a hundred warriors from Sakura Country had been buried here in the past two days, including powerful cultivators of the Divine Gate Realm. Yet, not even a trace of this place’s true appearance had been revealed. There were three layers of Formations here: the first was an illusion, the second was for defense, and the third was a killing formation. However, it wasn’t the Quasi-Emperor’s Tomb that Jing Ke had searched thousands of years for, as Ji Jie had speculated. It was merely the burial site of a mere Nascent Soul cultivator.

Quite a grand gesture, but this corpse’s aura is identical to the one in the temple.

Xu Lai turned his head to look at the sky-blue temple. The one inside the temple was the soul, and the corpse in the abyss below was the body; they belonged to the same person. The soul chose to cultivate the Power of Wishes, hoping to become sanctified through endless Incense Wish Power. The corpse, however, took a dark and sinister path, absorbing an unknown amount of blood and life force to nourish and strengthen its body.

One good, one evil. One light, one dark.

Leaving the soul aside, the corpse’s strength alone was comparable to the Nascent Soul Realm. If they were to merge one day, they would unleash a terrifying power that even an ordinary Divinity Transformation Realm cultivator would likely be unable to stop.

He’s already dead, yet not only does he seek to defy the heavens and achieve enlightenment through his corpse, but he also wants to become sanctified through his soul and enjoy endless Incense Wish Power? Xu Lai sneered. The malevolent aura from the corpse in the abyss was overwhelming, originating from at least ten thousand innocent lives. If he hadn’t come across it, he would have ignored it. But now that he had, he couldn’t just walk away.

Xu Lai stood with his hands clasped behind his back.

Countless thunderclouds materialized in the sky, roiling with thunder that carried a world-ending terror. This was a Heavenly Tribulation!

"How audacious!" the old man in the temple bellowed. "You dare provoke a Heavenly Tribulation to destroy my precious body!"

"Return to your temple, and I won’t kill your soul," Xu Lai said calmly. "If you try to stop me again, I’ll kill you both."

"You’re courting death!" The old man’s expression turned grim.

He wasn’t of the Human Race. To establish himself and carry out his Cultivation in Sakura Country, he had laid plans for a full thousand years. The Incense Wish Power he gathered wasn’t much, but it was growing steadily. Meanwhile, his corpse, protected by the triple Formations, was rapidly growing stronger by feeding on human lives. With another hundred years of arduous Cultivation, he might be able to step into the Divinity Transformation Realm, which would grant him an additional two thousand years of life! Seeing his efforts so close to fruition, how could he allow it all to fail at this critical moment?

"I am Feng Xuzi, master of Sakura Country’s Third Sea City," the old man said in a dark tone. "If you retreat now, I will spare your life. But you must get rid of this Heavenly Tribulation!"

The Heavenly Tribulation was the most feared existence for any Corpse Cultivator or evil cultivator. Heavenly Thunder was supremely potent and righteous, making it exceptionally lethal to such malevolent and heretical practices.

Xu Lai’s eyebrows rose slightly. It was in this very Third Sea City that Tang Baishan had obtained the Jade Slip containing the legacy of an Immortal Domain clan capable of devouring Dragon Veins.

"Are you a cultivator from Mercury?" Xu Lai asked, looking at him.

Feng Xuzi’s pupils shrank. He asked without missing a beat, "Who are you!"

"Tell me, why have you, the Moon Clan, and cultivators from other stars come to Earth? What are you looking for?" Xu Lai asked coolly.

"What we are looking for is none of your business," Feng Xuzi replied coldly.

Hmm, so they really are searching for something. Xu Lai nodded. "Is it a key?"

"..."

Feng Xuzi’s pupils constricted again. This time he didn’t speak, instead directly summoning a golden incense stick the length of a finger. This was incense forged from Incense Wish Power, a true treasure!

Xu Lai had one too. It was just... a lot longer than this one.

"I will use this incense to strike you down, avoiding any karmic entanglement!" Feng Xuzi’s face was like ice. As he formed a hand seal, the Golden Incense emitted waves of profound Dao sounds, condensing strange, glowing golden characters one after another in the void.

"*Ashkainbu...*"

The characters were all different, yet each carried a terrifying pressure that would make anyone who saw them tremble in fear.

Xu Lai curled his lip. "You call this incense?"

"You’ve never seen it before, have you?" Feng Xuzi scoffed. "Only a great power venerated with merit tablets by living beings can gather Incense Wish Power. Today, I’ll let you witness it."

The moment he finished speaking, the characters in the void bore down on Xu Lai’s sea of consciousness, as if to forcefully grind his soul to dust. Incense attacks with Divine Sense. If the victim’s sea of consciousness was fragile, they would be rendered a witless fool in an instant, their death leaving no trace.

Given the vastness of Xu Lai’s Divine Sense... he couldn’t even be bothered to defend himself.

He allowed Feng Xuzi’s attack to land. Then, the Incense Cultivator witnessed a bizarre scene. His incense attack entered the intruder’s mind and vanished without a response, like a single drop of water falling into a vast ocean.

Could it be that he specializes in Divine Sense? Feng Xuzi’s expression flickered with shock and uncertainty. That would make things difficult. He was a soul who specialized in incense, and his physical strength was no match for the corpse in the abyss below.

As Feng Xuzi racked his brain for a solution, he suddenly noticed the Golden Incense before him begin to flicker unsteadily, as if on the verge of collapsing. He was horrified and hastily tried to nourish it with his Divine Sense. After all, this Golden Incense was condensed from a thousand years of Incense Wish Power from all his followers; it was his most precious treasure.

But his efforts were useless. The Golden Incense was extinguished in an instant and then shattered inch by inch.

Feng Xuzi was completely dumbfounded. Golden Incense condensed from Incense Wish Power was supposed to be indestructible. Not even the great powers of the Immortal Domain could break it. Only when Incense Cultivators battled with incense would the weaker party’s Golden Incense shatter and become nourishment to empower the stronger one.

And just as expected, the shattered Golden Incense turned into a wisp of smoke and drifted toward Xu Lai. But Xu Lai seemed to disdain it, waving his hand and letting the Incense Wish Power dissipate into the air.

"You... you... you..." Feng Xuzi’s finger trembled with rage. The incense he had painstakingly collected for a thousand years had been disdained by his opponent.

"You’re an Incense Cultivator too! Show me your incense! Let me accept my defeat without regrets!" Feng Xuzi roared furiously.

Xu Lai’s expression was strange. He wasn’t an Incense Cultivator in the purest sense. Although he was now the envy of all other incense powerhouses in the Immortal Domain for single-handedly receiving over seventy percent of the universe’s incense veneration, he had never once used this power. Xu Lai had always believed that true strength came from within. The path of growing stronger through the faith of others was a path that could not be walked for long.

"Light your incense for me!" Feng Xuzi’s cultivation realm had plummeted from the destruction of his Golden Incense, and his temper flared. "Otherwise, I will risk the destruction of both my body and soul to ensure you die on Mount Suiyue!"

"I didn’t really want to crush your spirit, but since you insist..." Xu Lai trailed off.

The next moment, the sky went dark.

Feng Xuzi instinctively looked up, only to see a hundred-mile-long golden mountain appear behind Xu Lai.

The height of this mountain—

It breached the heavens, its summit lost to sight