Chapter 40: The Incense Temple Appears

In a silent and uninhabited ancient town somewhere in Jiangzhou, the scent of burning incense and smoke permeated the air.

This ancient town was different from other places. There were no roads leading to other places around the town, and it was surrounded by dense mountain forests, looking like a paradise.

The houses in the ancient town were also different from other places. These houses resembled small temples, and inside, they were like real temples, enshrining simple clay statues of gods.

In a small temple near the center of the ancient town, a disciple who was offering incense to the statue on the altar suddenly heard a dense "click-clack" sound, and then looked up to find that the statue of the Fifth Ancestor of the Incense Temple had cracked!

"It's bad! It's bad!"

After a brief astonishment, this Incense Temple disciple shouted loudly, breaking the long-standing silence of the ancient town.

Soon, people came to this small temple one after another. It could be clearly seen that everyone had some abnormal appearance to a greater or lesser extent.

Either their skin was blue-black, or their chests had basically no rise and fall, or they were just skin and bones.

But these people could still move freely like living people, and the power emitted by each person was not to be underestimated.

"What's going on?"

The leading old man, still stained with incense powder left over from making incense, entered the small temple and directly questioned the disciple.

"Third Uncle-Master, I, I don't know either. Just a moment ago, the dharma body of the Fifth Ancestor suddenly broke..."

Stared at by the other party's sharp eyes, this Incense Temple disciple's legs trembled, and then he stammered out this sentence.

"Junior Brother, don't be anxious, this matter has nothing to do with him."

At this time, an old man who looked like a withered corpse and was like a dead body slowly opened his mouth and said to the old man.

"Yes, Senior Brother."

The old man known as Third Uncle-Master immediately bowed and responded.

"Still not retreating, you useless thing!"

"Yes, yes, retreating now! Retreating now!"

That Incense Temple disciple was scolded by the Third Uncle-Master and immediately slipped away. If he stayed any longer, his life might not be guaranteed.

"Cough, cough, it seems that the Fifth Ancestor has encountered trouble while performing the living person sacrifice outside this time."

After the disciple left, the leading old man, who was the current sect leader of the Incense Temple, Song Zhong, spoke slowly.

"However, the Fifth Ancestor's strength is not to be underestimated. The ghost that stores his spiritual consciousness has already reached the level of a Fierce Ghost, and his strength is not weak even among the 'Zhiren' (Ultimate Persons). Who on earth could hurt him?"

He also couldn't help but frown. As a secret force of the Great Xia Dynasty, there were a total of ten ancestors in the Incense Temple.

The strength of each ancestor was not to be underestimated, and they were all existences who had cultivated a ghost body and were immortal. Such figures were basically existences in legends.

"Hmph, it must be that the old immortal of the Ghost Suppression Division took action. Only they can kill us like this!"

Another old man with blue-black skin couldn't control his anger and said so.

When he walked in the Jianghu before, he had formed a deep grudge with the people of the Ghost Suppression Division, but besides that, he also knew the strength of the Ghost Suppression Division well.

"This time, the Li King is making trouble. We cannot not take action because of past feelings. However, if we suffer heavy losses because of this, it won't be worth it!"

"Later, I will go and ask the Fifth Ancestor's original spiritual ghost what happened. You all wait for a while!"

"Yes!"

"We will protect the Senior Brother!"

Soon, except for Song Zhong, the others left the small temple one after another. As the temple door closed, only two candle flames remained in the small temple for lighting.

Song Zhong sat cross-legged on a prayer mat, then pulled out two specially made "Soul-Passing Incense" sticks from his sleeve and lit them, inserting them into the incense burner on the altar table.

He closed his eyes just like that, and the smoke from the burning Soul-Passing Incense gradually swirled around him, then brought his spiritual consciousness to a void and ethereal place.

Here, a huge, strange, twisted, and unusually exaggerated statue was enshrined. If one looked closely, one would find that this statue was somewhat similar to the clay statue of the Fifth Ancestor in the Incense Temple.

However, at this time, a huge gap appeared on this statue, looking as if it had suffered a serious injury.

"Fifth Ancestor! Fifth Ancestor!"

"Song Zhong, the seventeenth-generation eldest disciple of the Incense Temple, has come to pay a visit!"

After Song Zhong's consciousness arrived here, he immediately shouted loudly at the statue.

"..."

It was just that at this time, there was no sound in this strange place to respond to him, but the terrifying aura became heavier and heavier.

This made Song Zhong feel as if some terrifying disaster was about to happen, but he knew that this was just a sign of the Fifth Ancestor's own spiritual consciousness awakening.

So he didn't speak again and waited quietly. He didn't know how long it had passed, but the terrifying and strange statue of the Fifth Ancestor suddenly moved.

The extremely exaggerated movement made Song Zhong couldn't help but shout: "Fifth Ancestor, Fifth Ancestor, please calm your anger, it's me, Song Zhong, the seventeenth-generation eldest disciple!"

"Return, return my... ghost body..."

But at this time, the Fifth Ancestor, who had just awakened, was furious, and his huge body let out a heart-palpitating roar.

"Fifth Ancestor, Fifth Ancestor, please calm your anger. I came here this time just to ask what happened!"

Under the impact of the other party's terrifying aura, Song Zhong felt that his own spiritual consciousness was about to collapse, and couldn't help but shout at him again.

"Ghost, a ghost that disrupts the world... No, it's a person who disrupts the world!"

"A person beyond common sense, catch him, catch him..."

Finally, the Fifth Ancestor gradually calmed down, but his speech still appeared extremely stiff. Song Zhong knew that this was a manifestation of self-conscious incompleteness caused by the loss of part of his spiritual consciousness.

It was no wonder the Fifth Ancestor was so angry. For these old immortals who had lived for heaven knows how many years, spiritual consciousness was the true foundation.

In order to enhance their spiritual consciousness, they didn't even hesitate to kill wantonly to perform living person sacrifices, and now not only did they fail, but they also lost part of their spiritual consciousness. The anger in their hearts could be imagined.

"Fifth Ancestor, who on earth took action?"

"Ghost, three... No, four ghosts. Not one person... Ah! It's a living person!"

Hearing Song Zhong's inquiry, the Fifth Ancestor was furious while answering. Then, wisps of smoke condensed in front of Song Zhong, showing the scene of that night.

At that time, the paper-burning ghost that the Fifth Ancestor's spiritual consciousness was parasitic on was suppressed into silence under the forcible suppression of Lin Feng's four ghosts, and part of his consciousness was also sealed because of this.

If Lin Feng hadn't performed the sacrificial ritual today to completely kill the paper-burning ghost, it wouldn't have alarmed his original body.

"Four ghosts, who is this person? Why have I never heard of him?"

Song Zhong looked at the person in the image of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven condensed from smoke and couldn't help but fall into doubt.

This person could suppress one of the Fifth Ancestor's ghost bodies, which was enough to show that his strength was not weak, but they had never heard of him. This was the strange thing.

"Catch him! Catch him!"

"This person can erase a ghost body, he is a person who disrupts the world!"

However, immediately after, the Fifth Ancestor's words caused a shocking wave in Song Zhong's heart. Ghosts could not be erased; this was an iron law, but now this iron law had actually been broken! ===== CHAPTER 41 =====