Chapter 96 Mysterious Temple

Chapter 96 Mysterious Temple

Chapter 96 Mysterious Temple
This couplet on the door is very charming, and Chen Shi couldn't help but take a few more glances at it.

"The images of the heavens and the earth are all my images. It is better to rely on yourself than to rely on gods or ghosts. People in the world struggle in this world. When can they achieve this? If they can achieve this, they will be transcendent, right?"

He climbed the stairs and walked into this strange ancient temple.

This ancient temple actually has a sandy texture, and seems unreal, as if it would break if touched even slightly.

There was a faint smell of incense in the temple. He looked around and saw that there were two pillars supporting the main beam in the temple. There were no decorations on the pillars, and the ground was made of ordinary blue bricks. The walls on both sides were brick walls covered with white lime and there were no murals.

He reached out and touched the wall, and his palm went through it.

The same goes for pillars and the ground.

"This temple is not a real temple, but an illusion. Strange, how did I enter the illusion?"

He was confused, wondering if he had really encountered an evil spirit.
Directly in front of him was an incense burner, two feet high and four feet wide. There was no incense in it, only full of ashes.

In front of the incense burner is a vermilion gatehouse built against the wall, six feet high and about five feet wide.

The gate tower is hollow and contains a shrine.

The shrine was empty, without any statue.

"This shrine is like my shrine. I don't have a fetus, and it doesn't have an image."

Chen Shi looked around but didn't find anything else.

"How do I leave this strange place?"

Just as he thought of this, he suddenly felt dazed and unknowingly left the mysterious little temple and returned to his body.

Chen Shi opened his eyes and found himself still standing under the tree, without moving.

He was extremely surprised and looked around. The temple he had just seen did not exist, as if it were a dream.

"Xiao Shi, are you distracted?"

Zhu Xiucai asked in confusion, "You just stood here motionless, and then you light another stick of incense... Wait, why is there a temple behind your head?"

Chen Shi was shocked: "Is there a temple behind my head?"

"There really is a temple! It's a lonely temple with only the main hall and two pillars in front of it!"

Zhu Xiucai was very surprised and said, "It's right where you originally placed the shrine! Wait a minute, where is your shrine? Your shrine is gone!"

Chen Shi was even more shocked. Wasn't the temple described by Zhu Xiucai the same temple he had just seen in his vision?

Also, the temple takes up the space for the shrine, so where does one's own shrine go?

Zhu Xiucai hurriedly said: "Turn around slowly and let me see!"

Chen Shi turned around as he was told and let him take a closer look at the temple, feeling uneasy.

He couldn't help but feel a little regretful. He returned home this time just to burn incense for his grandfather, godmother, Zhu Xiucai and others, and then to meet Grandma Sha and others. He didn't expect such a thing to happen!
He originally had one less realm of Divine Embryo than the others. If the shrine disappeared, wouldn't that mean he would have lost two realms?

Without these two realms, how can you compete with your peers?
Zhu Xiucai breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "The shrine is still there, in the temple... Wait a minute, why am I in the temple? Why am I sitting on the shrine?"

He exclaimed again and again.

Chen Shi's eyes widened even more. Zhu Xiucai, who was hanging on the crooked tree, had disappeared, leaving only an empty hanging rope!

And Zhu Xiucai's voice came from behind his head!
Zhu Xiucai panicked and shouted, "Xiao Shi, let me out! This temple is too weird!"

"I don't know how to let you out." Chen Shi was also a little panicked. He had never encountered such a thing before.

Suddenly, he had an idea and he activated the small temple as if it were a shrine. The small temple lit up, and the shrine in the temple was filled with divine light. Zhu Xiucai bathed in the shrine, opened his mouth and spit out his tongue which was three to five feet long. Hei Guo, who was taking a rest under the tree, was so scared that he jumped up and ran away with his tail between his legs.

Chen Shi was also frightened by the tongue and quickly stopped urging it.

Zhu Xiucai felt that his body belonged to him again, and he couldn't help sweating. He quickly said, "Xiao Shi, I'm sitting on the shrine in your temple. How do you feel?"

Chen Shi heard this and carefully sensed it, saying, "It seems like I have an extra self, like another self is sitting behind my head, helping me regulate my true qi and practice my skills!"

He activated the Ziwu Zhanxie Sword and made sword gestures with his hands. Zhu Xiucai exclaimed and involuntarily followed suit.

Chen Shi activated his sword energy, and Zhu Xiucai also activated his sword energy. The power of the sword energy surged, and it broke through the air with a whoosh, reaching a distance of a hundred feet!
Chen Shi was stunned. The distance of this sword energy was 20% higher than before!

The power is also 20% greater!
With such power, why do we need to sacrifice the golden elixir?

Not only that, with Zhu Xiucai sitting in charge of the shrine in the small temple, he felt that his inner energy was flowing more smoothly and peacefully, not as violent as before.

But when the qi and blood explode, the explosive power is even more terrifying!
This situation is like...

He was thinking of an appropriate metaphor when Zhu Xiucai suddenly said, "It's like there is a primordial spirit behind your head, helping you regulate your true qi, stimulate your qi and blood, refine the golden elixir, and cast spells, right?"

Chen Shi said: "I haven't cultivated to the level of Yuanshen yet, so I don't know what wonderful uses Yuanshen has."

Zhu Xiucai sighed and said, "What I just said is the wonderful use of the divine fetus. The true god descends and bestows the divine fetus. The cultivator is blessed by the true god. With the divine fetus, it is equivalent to having an extra soul in the lower realm. It is easier to regulate qi and blood, refine pills and practice magic than before. Moreover, both the magic power and the power of the magic moves are more powerful than before."

Chen Shi murmured, "So the divine fetus is so strong..."

"The true god has blessed the cultivator with a divine fetus, which helps the cultivator to reach a higher level in a short period of time. His contribution is immeasurable."

Zhu Xiucai's voice came from behind him, saying, "Obtaining the divine fetus is a crucial step in achieving great success in cultivation. However..."

His tongue slipped out of his mouth again, and he murmured, "The true God descended. Isn't it only the true God who can bless me? How did I become a divine fetus?"

He just felt it was absurd. How could one give himself away and become someone else's divine fetus?

I was originally hanging on the tree, and everything was fine, so how did I become someone else's divine fetus?
"Xiucai, don't worry, I'll think of a solution!"

Chen Shi's eyes lit up, and he took out three incense sticks and quickly lit them. He said, "I remember there was an incense burner in the temple. Since there is an incense burner, it must be for burning incense! Put these three incense sticks in the incense burner, and maybe you can get out!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a big hand reached out from the small temple and grabbed three incense sticks. It was Zhu Xiucai's hand.

Hei Guo watched the scene from a distance. Suddenly, a hand appeared at the back of Chen Shi's head, which still scared the dog a lot. He thought that his little master was going to show his true form, so he didn't dare to get close for a while.

This scene was indeed extremely scary.

In the temple, Zhu Xiucai just wanted to hold the incense, but he saw his arms getting longer and longer. From his perspective, his arms suddenly became several meters long.

This change also puzzled him, and he could only say that this small temple was a little weird. He didn't bother to think deeply, and inserted three incense sticks into the incense burner, and the fragrance floated towards him.

When Zhu Xiucai smelled the aroma of incense, he felt refreshed and energetic, which was much more comfortable than hanging on the tree and smelling the fragrance.

He even felt that the aura of the incense was rapidly transforming into extraordinary power, condensing within his body and taking its true form!
He was extremely surprised. This was exactly the legendary god-making!

The so-called creation of gods is different from the creation of gods by extraordinary power.

The extraordinary power takes shape in the minds of the people and is shaped into different forms.

These forms are tangible but intangible, invisible to the naked eye and intangible. They have magical powers but cannot show their holiness.

But the creation of gods is to deify the spirit on the basis of the spirit. For example, in the ancient times of China, there was a mortal named Nezha who died tragically for some reason. His mother felt sorry for his early death, so she made a golden body for him and a statue of him, so that his soul could be attached to the statue and receive incense from the people. Over time, Nezha became a god.

This is deification.

The prerequisite for creating a god is to confer the title first.

The so-called imperial decree can be divided into two types: one is the imperial decree, where the emperor deifies a god; the other is the imperial decree of immortals, where other immortals deify a god.

Only these two are the true ways of creating gods.

But how could a small temple have the means to create a god?
Does this small temple possess imperial power, or does it possess immortals and gods, and can it create gods?

Zhu Xiucai was really puzzled.

Chen Shi asked, "Scholar, can you come out now?"

Zhu Xiucai tried to get up from the shrine, but he felt his body was as heavy as a mountain and he couldn't get up at all. Especially after absorbing the scent of incense, he felt even heavier, as if his butt was growing on the shrine.

"Or not!"

Zhu Xiucai asked, "You were stunned earlier, did you also enter the temple? How did you leave?"

Chen Shi said: "I just had the thought of leaving, so I left. You try it."

Zhu Xiucai kept thinking, but he couldn't leave the shrine at all. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and he said, "Could it be that you have to think, so that I can leave?"

Chen Shi tried to think, and suddenly the crooked old tree shook. Chen Shi looked hurriedly and saw Zhu Xiucai hanging on the rope, his body swaying back and forth, as if he had just been hanged.

Chen Shi breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhu Xiucai also breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Xiao Shi, how did you get this temple?"

Chen Shi said: "I don't know either. I just offered incense to my godmother and was about to discuss knowledge with you, but suddenly..."

Having said this, he was stunned and quickly turned to look at the stone tablet godmother. The stone tablet godmother was still half-inserted in the roots of the old willow tree, just like before, without any change.

The incense smoke is curling up in front of the stone tablet and drifting towards it.

But in the past, every time Chen Shi burned incense, there would be light on the stone tablet flowing along the words "Lao" and "Ji", but this time there was no green light. It was as if the power that had been accumulated for a long time on the stone tablet had suddenly run out.

"Could it be that my godmother blessed me?"

Chen Shi was stunned. He had been worshipping his godmother for more than two years, but there had been no movement on the stone tablet. Now, he was suddenly given a small temple. Could it be that his godmother had appeared in person?

He touched the stone tablet with his palm, trying to get in touch with his godmother's spirit, but all he sensed was the vast void and no other consciousness.

"Scholar, do you know the origin of Shibei's godmother?" Chen Shi asked, looking up.

Zhu Xiucai shook his head and said, "I don't know. When I came here in despair and hanged myself on a tree, this stone tablet was here and has never been moved."

"How long ago did it happen?" Chen Shi asked.

"Maybe a thousand years." Zhu Xiucai was not sure.

Chen Shi was stunned, he thought Zhu Xiucai had been hanged for at most a few decades, but he didn't expect that Zhu Xiucai had died a thousand years ago!
In other words, this crooked old willow tree and the stone tablet godmother under the tree have existed thousands of years ago!
So, how long have the crooked old willow tree and the stone tablet existed?

Chen Shi looked at the loess hill under his feet.

Could it be that this tree and this monument already existed as early as the time of the True King?

Huangtu Hill is kaolin clay, which is specially used for firing porcelain. This Huangtu Hill can be traced back to the end of the Zhenwang era.

If the true king wanted to build a kiln, why did he pile the kaolin here instead of next to the kiln?
It is obviously closer to the kiln factory, making it more convenient to get soil.

"What is the True King hiding by piling the kaolin here? Why did the True King bury it? Why has no one tried to dig this slope of earth in the past few thousand years?"

Chen Shi looked towards Qianyang Mountain. How many ancient secrets were buried in this extremely ancient mountain range with towering peaks?

"My godmother gave me this little temple, it will definitely be of great use!"

On his way back to the village, Chen Shi ate a watermelon that he had stolen from Old Lady Wuzhu's field and thought, "My shrine is hidden in the temple. After the announcement of the results, can the true God still grant me a divine fetus during the great sacrifice? I am not very knowledgeable, so I should ask Granny Sha. Maybe she will know."

He sat on the wooden cart left by his grandfather and called Hei Guo. The man and the dog rode the cart to Gangzi Village, but Grandma Sha was not at home and no one knew where she had gone.

Chen Shi went into the mountain and asked Granny Zhuang about it. Granny Zhuang was not as knowledgeable as Zhu Xiucai and could not explain why. She said, "I just felt a sacred and extraordinary atmosphere, solemn and dignified, but I have never seen such a temple before."

Chen Shi came to ask the big snake Xuanshan, and the big snake Xuanshan looked deeply at the small temple behind his head. After a long time, Fang said: "The origin is so great that it is beyond words."

Chen Shi asked again what the big snake Xuanshan should know, but he didn't say a word.

Along the way, Hei Guo remained silent, as if he was a little afraid of the small temple behind his head.

Chen Shi just felt that the blame was a little strange, but he didn't think much about it.

This place was not far from the Tiger Temple, which had been repaired by masons long ago. Chen Shi simply drove to the temple to see whether the image of the Tiger God in the temple had been formed.

Outside the main hall of the mountain tiger was still hanging the charm he had left behind. Chen Shi took off the charm and walked into the main hall, but saw that the extraordinary power in the temple had become extremely weak, and the image of the god in the shrine had been mostly formed, with a human body and an ox head, and a yellow tiger sitting on it, but both the image of the god and the yellow tiger were blurry, as if they could collapse at any time!
"The extraordinary power in this temple is not enough to condense the divine appearance!"

Chen Shi had just thought of this when suddenly the deity and the yellow tiger in the shrine in front of him disappeared!

Chen Shi was stunned, then came to his senses, and hurried to the wooden cart, rummaging through the boxes and cabinets, and found a mirror.

He looked at himself in the mirror and saw a small temple floating behind his head. In the small temple, there was smoke from incense. Indistinctly, he saw a strange figure with a human body and a bull's head sitting in the shrine. At its feet was a tiger that suddenly jumped down from the shrine and let out a thunderous roar!
Chen Shi calmed himself down.

"Oh no, I'm pregnant with a divine fetus!"

(End of this chapter)