Chapter 392: Shocking Change!
Outside [Li Hen Tian].
The White Lotus Sect had arrived in its entirety, even transporting [The Homeland of True Emptiness], a Divine Realm of incense, along with them. The soaring incense smoke almost ignited the sea of clouds.
If one were to look up from the ground, it would seem as if a second sun had risen amidst the clouds. To put it bluntly, if this [The Homeland of True Emptiness] were to fall, it would immediately cause the heavens to tilt and the earth to overturn. At that point, the Divine Dao, the myriad citizens—all would die without a burial place!
Therefore, in this moment, Divine Lord Black Lotus was full of confidence.
It’s just a mere [Li Hen Tian], an evil cult. Today, I will completely uproot it to set the world straight, teaching others not to underestimate my Dao lineage…
Divine Lord Black Lotus was aware of Lu Yang’s petty tricks.
Including the development of [Li Hen Tian]’s incense within the White Lotus Sect—he naturally could not tolerate this act of “borrowing a hen to lay eggs” and stealing the White Lotus Sect’s foundation.
That was the reason for today’s lineup.
Mobilizing the entire sect for war, dozens of Divine Lords and Great Divine Lords, and even moving [The Homeland of True Emptiness] here. If necessary, the Unborn Venerable Mother can also take action…
How could he lose?
Just as this thought arose in Divine Lord Black Lotus’s heart, he saw a vast and mighty divine sense suddenly spread out from the [Li Hen Tian] before him.
“Here it comes!”
Divine Lord Black Lotus’s expression turned grave. In the next second, he felt the incense that originally belonged to his side begin to diverge, flowing bit by bit toward the opponent.
But he remained brimming with confidence.
How many years has my White Lotus Sect ruled over its believers? A mere [Li Hen Tian] thinks it can hollow out my White Lotus Sect in just ten years? Truly absurd!
However, as time passed.
He gradually realized something was wrong. The loss of incense did not slow down as he expected; instead, it intensified, becoming faster and faster!
Correspondingly, the aura of [Li Hen Tian] grew stronger and stronger!
“Not good!”
In an instant, Divine Lord Black Lotus roared in rage, ordering all the Incense Gods of the White Lotus Sect to attack. Yet, in the very next second, a scene that drove him to despair appeared:
[Li Hen Tian] lit up.
It was as if a sun had been ignited. Intense light of incense divinity gathered upon it, manifesting myriad scenes of bustling traffic, pavilions, and towers.
In contrast, the originally brilliant and illuminating [The Homeland of True Emptiness] suddenly dimmed. Divine Lord Black Lotus looked to his side in horror. There stood a Divine Lord of the White Lotus Sect, but at this moment, his incense had scattered completely, and intense terror remained in his pupils:
“Sav—”
Before he could squeeze a cry for help out of his throat, as the incense dissipated, his body seemed to lose its support and instantly exploded into firelight!
But this was only the first one.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Divine Lord Black Lotus looked around, only to see balls of fire exploding abruptly in mid-air one after another. Behind every burst of firelight was an Incense God!
This was the flaw of the Incense Offering Divine Dao!
Inside [Li Hen Tian], Lu Yang manifested as a projection of light and shadow, calmly looking down at the crowd of Incense Gods below, gaining a bit of enlightenment regarding this cultivation system:
This system… looks impressive but is useless!
Simply put, the reliance on incense and external objects was too heavy.
Yet the starting point was too high. Even the weakest Land Deity had the level of a pseudo-Foundation Establishment, strictly speaking possessing the ability to cause mass extinction of species.
This led to a very awkward situation.
Once a fight really started without restraints, it would inevitably affect the ordinary people providing the incense, leading strictly to the sudden death of the Incense God they worshiped.
Even more awkward, Land Deities and City Gods—these gods of incense—could only unleash their full power within the gathering places of their believers. However, once they unleashed their full power, the believers worshiping them would immediately be shaken to death by the aftershocks, and then the god would follow them in death as the incense scattered…
It’s a giant pit!
Thinking of this, Lu Yang couldn’t help but laugh. In other words, the so-called Incense God was just a paper tiger, completely unable to truly battle with others.
All that talk about a Land Deity having pseudo-Foundation Establishment power was just to scare people!
Even if I were only a Qi Refining cultivator, as long as I seized the opportunity to kill all the villagers in an instant, no matter how powerful the Land Deity is, they would still end up dead!
Qi Refining killing Foundation Establishment—it was genuinely possible to achieve here!
Borrowing external force is harmless, but relying entirely on external force results in something like these Incense Gods… Lu Yang murmured in his heart, then couldn’t help shaking his head.
A person must rely on themselves.
He didn’t think much of it at the time, but looking at it now, that saying truly applied everywhere.
However, Lu Yang quickly recovered from his various emotions. Although relying on oneself was correct, sometimes external objects were necessary means to break a deadlock.
The defects of the Incense Offering Divine Dao are indeed huge, but in my hands, they don’t count as defects at all. After all, as long as they enter my Myriad Spirits Banner, they can immediately avoid these problems. So what if their strength is just for show? At the very least, the stature is real, and that is enough!
With this thought, Lu Yang hesitated no longer.
Incense Augmentation!
Finally, as over ninety percent of the White Lotus Sect’s incense drained away, all the Incense Gods, including Divine Lord Black Lotus, exploded into sky-filling flying ash.
Just then.
“Who is it…?”
Inside [The Homeland of True Emptiness], a confused inquiry was heard. A graceful figure emerged—a female cultivator with a beautiful face, dressed in a white dress.
She was the Unborn Venerable Mother.
Previously, she had been in a deep sleep. Awakened now by the loss of incense, she was grabbed by Lu Yang before she could even react.
Boom!
Lu Yang stood in mid-air, feeling a sharp pain in his head. Myriad streams of incense augmented [Li Hen Tian], making him feel as if he were infinitely ascending, standing at a level where no further progress was possible. Correspondingly, the Unborn Venerable Mother before him was shrinking bit by bit.
In the end, held in his palm, she seemed to have turned into a palm-sized doll.
This is stature…
The stature of Foundation Establishment Perfection!
This gap was like looking down at Qi Refining from Foundation Establishment in the past. One high, one low—any method the latter used was vulnerable before the current him!
However, at the same time, Lu Yang felt a stabbing pain in his brain. Faint, chaotic noises rang in his ears—these were the emotions contained within the incense offered by the people. Some prayed for fame, some for profit, some for divination, and there were even those praying for children…
No wonder the Patriarch said incense can temper Sword Intent!
Lu Yang took a deep breath, then once again entered the state of [Sword Heart Illuminating Clarity]. Yet even so, the headache remained unbearable.
Three minutes… no, at most one minute.
With his Sword Heart, he could only last one minute before this level of incense. Once exceeded, he would suffer irreversible effects.
But right now, one minute was enough.
After all, with the White Lotus Sect’s incense transferred, his stature went up, and the Unborn Venerable Mother naturally fell down, no longer as she was before.
Squish!
Lu Yang squeezed gently, crushing the Unborn Venerable Mother in his hand like popping a balloon. Then, with a turn of his palm, he refined her into a Banner Spirit.
Only after doing all this did he exit the state of Incense Augmentation.
The dust had settled!
Borrowing the hen to lay the egg was a success. Next, I can repeat this old trick to usurp the entire City God system, and then cultivate nine Foundation Establishment Perfection Great Incense Gods!
It went incredibly smoothly…
Thinking of this, Lu Yang couldn’t help but brush himself with the [Tribulation Wave], afraid that he was dreaming and would wake up to find himself still in front of the Myriad Poison Sect’s mountain gate…
However, right at this moment.
“Hm?”
Suddenly, Lu Yang’s heart stirred. It was a change in the [Marionette] talent. After sensing it briefly, a strange look appeared on his face.
“The Ancestor of the Yun Family has reincarnated? And he went to the [Refining Arts Secret Realm]?”
Something wasn’t right!
Normally speaking, the Ancestor of the Yun Family should have waited another few decades before reincarnating, and then secretly traveled to the Saint Sect’s [Refining Arts Secret Realm] on the orders of the Sword Pavilion Sect Master…
Why was it ahead of schedule?
This deviation, completely different from his past life, snapped Lu Yang out of the relaxation of “smurfing.” He quickly cast his gaze through the [Marionette].
In the next second—
“Hahaha!”
Lu Yang suddenly heard a burst of manic laughter. Looking up, he saw a powerful soul shouting curses at the sky:
“Son of a bitch demonic path!”
“Fuckkkk!”
“You bastard!!!”
“I, Mu Changsheng, and you are irreconcilable—!!!”
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