Chapter 609 – The True Face of the Temple God

Without any sign, Miao Youfang was forcibly stripped of his vitality, and his breath rapidly declined.

Within a few breaths, it was on the verge of death.

“What’s going on?”

Around the knowledgeable Li Lingsu, was also shocked by the scene in front of him, sprinted over and squatted down to check.

The first thing that came to Xu Qi’an’s mind was the word “spell killing”.

According to his experience, he remembered that there were not many ways to kill people silently, among which the Witch God Cult’s “Dream Witch Technique” and “Spell Killing Technique” and the Taoist Sect’s “Soul Hooking Technique” were able to do so. The “Dream Witch Technique” and “Spell Killing Technique” of the Witch God Sect and the “Soul Hooking Technique” of the Taoist Sect can do this.

However, both Dream Witch and Hooker have a prerequisite that the target must be in a state of slumber.

Miao Yufang doesn’t fit the bill.

Then it’s just spell killing.

The problem is, the spell-killing technique uses skin, blood and flesh as the medium, and at the very least, it requires a personal item. Miao Youfang has been with us all along, and hasn’t “lost” any similar items. ………. Xu Qi’an frowned.

“His internal organs are failing, and part of his Yuan Shen is missing.”

Li Lingsu’s face changed slightly as she gave the situation, while taking out pills from her storage scent pouch and feeding them to Miao Youfang.

“A part of the genjutsu is missing?!”

Xu Qi’an followed up with a confirmation-like question.

Li Lingsu nodded, understanding what he meant, and said in a deep voice:

“It’s not a spell killing spell.”

Spell-killing techniques don’t have a situation like “missing a part of the Yuan Shen”, if Miao Youfang had been hit by a spell-killing technique, then his current state would be that his Yuan Shen and his physical body were failing together.

Until death.

Li Lingsu added, “His Heavenly Soul is gone, it seems to have been forcefully extracted. Strangely enough, I didn’t even notice a single thing.”

To be able to siphon off the Yuan Shen in front of a fourth grade Yuan Ying and not be detected, this is even more bizarre than a spell killing technique ah ……… Xu Qi An retrieved his thoughts and pulled Mu Nan Gardenia to his side while leaning down to check Miao Youfang s condition.

It’s already in the wind and will die at any moment.

“What means can forcibly strip away part of the Yuan Shen and bring the physical body to the brink of death?” Xu Qi’an asked in an extremely rapid speech.

“The means of forcibly divesting part of the Yuan Shen is quite common, and I can do it as well, but to be able to conceal my senses, the other party is either in the Transcendent Realm or has a special method ………

“As for bringing the physical body to the brink of death ……… Theoretically, without the heavenly soul, a person will be in a coma; without the earthly soul, he will become a fool; without the human soul, he will die directly.”

Li Ling Su also replied in a very fast speech, then, with a heavy face, said:

“Oh no, the elixir isn’t working, at most one tea time, he’ll die.”

The lack of heavenly soul becomes a vegetable, the lack of earthly soul becomes a fool, and the lack of human soul directly reincarnates ………. Xu Qi An deliberated:

“In other words, Miao Youfang’s physical body condition has nothing to do with the lack of a Heavenly Soul.”

Li Lingsu thought for a moment and gave his conclusion from the professional perspective of the Heavenly Sect’s Saint Son, “I should say that there is no direct relationship.”

Xu Qi’an’s thoughts turned very quickly:

“Using the Heavenly Soul as a medium? Similar to the means of Spell Killing Art? Only the former is based on hair, skin, and flesh, while the latter is based on the Heavenly Soul. Hmm, I know what to do.”

Under Li Lingsu’s thoughtful gaze, Xu Qi’an stretched out his palm and lightly tapped on Miao Youfang’s head.

There were no visions produced, but the exhaustion of Miao Youfang’s five organs and six bowels stopped instantly, and the elixir that he had taken began to take effect, nourishing his organs.

Moving Stars!

Xu Qi’an utilized this high-level ability of the Heavenly Compass to “hide” Miao Youfang, cutting off the connection between the Heavenly Soul and his own body.

It really works ……… Xu Qi an exhaled a breath.

“There!”

Li Lingsu was overjoyed that the person behind the curtain could no longer persecute Miao Youfang through the Heavenly Soul.

In a few words, they had cracked a problem that had left most cultivators helpless.

This was both due to the fact that both of them were learned and knowledgeable, as well as because Xu Qi’an possessed sufficiently rich means.

The Seven Extinction Compass was simply too powerful, and although it hadn’t grown to the Third Grade Transcendent Realm, the Seven Extinction Compass was, at certain times, more useful compared to the Wu Fu system, which could only display destructive power.

However, new problems came elbow to elbow, and Li Ling Su frowned:

“Who is against us?”

Xu Qi’an asked rhetorically:

“Didn’t you already have a guess.

“The ones that are currently in clear conflict with us are close at hand.”

The two of them looked at the collapsed temple god sculpture together, and Xu Qi’an said, “It was Miao Youfang who chopped down its sculpture just now.”

Li Ling Su let out a “hiss”:

“This shouldn’t be, a small county, a small obscene shrine, can there be something so terrifying? Speaking of which, what exactly is this temple god? I haven’t detected any soul fluctuations so far.”

Xu Qi’an shrugged, “All I know is that there’s a nonce in our midst.”

To be subjected to such a tricky contraption in a small county is like a child touching a fish in a stream and ending up with a dragon.

Can’t really find a more plausible explanation other than the skin being too dark.

Without the “Senior Xu” persona, Xu Qi’an spoke much more freely:

“Go out and ask the spirits first to find out what this temple god is.”

I’m in the light and the enemy is in the dark. If I want to solve the temple god, I have to find out what it is first.

So far, they hadn’t been able to figure out the temple gods.

Li Lingsu immediately carried Miao Youfang on his back and was planning to leave the temple, but the moment he turned around, he suddenly froze, and in the next moment, he perfectly repeated Miao Youfang’s mistake.

Bang!

Both fell to the ground at the same time.

On the other side, Mu Nanjia and the little white fox also synchronized into a coma, Li Lingsu and the little white fox’s life breath rapidly declined, only Mu Nanjia was unharmed, but could not wake up.

Xu Qi’an grabbed the Flower God Reincarnation in his arms before she fell.

He looked at the place where the sculpture had collapsed with a grave expression.

The half of the stone mirror held by the little ghost, do not know when to float up, “click” sound, the surface of the stone shell cracked.

It was half a bronze mirror, its outer extension wrapped in vine-like patterns, its smooth surface reflecting an eye without eyelashes, staring coldly, emotionlessly at the crowd inside the temple.

It was split down the middle with a smooth cut, as if it had been severed by a sharp blade.

The moment he was scrutinized by this eye, Xu Qi’an’s martial intuition immediately warned, releasing a signal of danger.

At the same time, Xu Qi’an finally understood what the so-called temple gods were.

A magic treasure, a crippled magic treasure.

It is undoubtedly self-aware and can be regarded as an alternative being.

A magic treasure, worshipped here, absorbing incense ……… Xu Qi an s heart moved, vaguely guessing some insider information.

The eye in the mirror looked down indifferently at Xu Qi’an, suddenly shooting out a ghostly green light.

The ethereal light was unavoidable and worked directly on the soul.

In an instant, Xu Qi’an only felt a tremendous force pulling on the Yuan Shen, trying to tear the soul out of his body.

“Hmph!”

His Yuan Shen was the first to pull out the Demon Sealing Nail, a genuine Third Grade Yuan Shen, the Yuan Shen of a Transcendent Mortal Realm powerhouse, even if it was a Wufu, it was not something that could be easily ingested by a magic treasure.

Xu Qi’an stabilized his Yuan Shen and fought against the pull while pulling out pieces of the Earth Book and shaking out the Floating Pagoda.

He was going to use a complete magic treasure against a crippled one.

The moment the Floating Pagoda appeared, a vast and majestic aura descended, filling every space.

Floating Pagoda 2nd level – suppression!

It was specifically used to suppress top-tier powerhouses, such as the second-ranked Rain Master Nalan Tianlu in the beginning.

The bronze mirror slowly “raised its eyes”, and its attention shifted to the Floating Pagoda.

“Go!”

Xu Qi’an pointed at the copper mirror remotely, and the Floating Pagoda suppressed towards this crippled magic treasure.

The bronze mirror flipped over, its surface aimed at the Floating Pagoda in the sky above, and the eyelashless eye shot out a piercing eerie green light.

Snicker!

The ethereal green beam of light radiated against the base of the Faustian Pagoda, rippling with blinding green light, like sparks created by a welder.

Faodu Pagoda unswervingly pressed down, the green beam of light is constantly compressed, compressed, until “clang” sound, Faodu Pagoda landed, the copper mirror was suppressed underneath.

Xu Qi’an didn’t bother to check out the Floating Pagoda, and hurriedly drew closer to Bai Ji and Li Lingsu, hiding them with the ability to “move the stars and change the bucket” to avoid the death of his physical body from exhaustion.

After doing this, he entered the Floating Pagoda with confidence and directly ascended to the third floor.

Old Monk Taling sat on a futon, playing with a half-bronze mirror in his hand, watching his arrival with a smile.

“Master!”

Xu Qi’an clasped his hands together and performed a salute, then asked:

“Does the Master know what this is?”

Old Monk Taling did not answer at first, but asked in return:

“Where did you get that?”

Xu Qi’an then briefly recounted today’s encounter.

Old Monk Ta Ling said indistinctly, “It turns out that it has long been lost in the folklore, Master Xu deserves to be a person with great fortune to have managed to find this item.”

So, what the hell is this thing? Xu Qi’an was about to ask a follow-up question when Old Monk Pagoda Spirit shook the mirror and shook out four souls, three of them and a fox.

Miao Youfang, Mu Nanjian, and the little white fox, floating in the air in a muddle.

Only Li Lingsu was alive and well, fully demonstrating the Taoist Sect’s specialization in the field of Yuan Shen, and he looked around in surprise:

“How I came to be in the tower.”

“You’ve been detained by this mirror for your heavenly soul.” Xu Qi’an pointed at the bronze mirror.

“Is this the mirror? It was this mirror that sneaked up on us in the temple just now?” Li Lingsu tsked, “What is this, a magic weapon?”

“It’s a magic treasure, but it seems to be crippled.” Xu Qi’an said while looking at the old monk.

Old Monk Taling revealed a few emotional expressions:

“This is a magic treasure called the Hun Heavenly Divine Mirror, it is the vanity mirror of the Lord of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom, the Nine-tailed Skyfox.

“It shines through the Nine States and allows that Demon Lord to know all the world’s affairs without leaving his home.

“Anyone who is illuminated by it will have their Yuan Shen ingested into the mirror, their physical body will not be allowed to be free, and their life, death, and behavior will be subject to its manipulation, and it is said that only the Nine-Tailed Fox can be immune to the effects.”

“Back then, when the Azi swept the demons, it was chopped in half by Bodhisattva Guangxian, and then disappeared without a trace. I didn’t expect it to appear here today, perhaps it’s because of the karmic connection between Scholar Xu and the demon race.”

The flesh shall not be free. Is this the thing that controlled the corpse of that Li Gui’s wife?

Xu Qi’an immediately questioned, “It should have appeared a month ago. Why is it forcing the people to make incense offerings in the name of the temple god?”

Old Monk Taling explained:

“Dharma treasures can absorb incense and wish power, which can help it stabilize its state. The poor monk has been practicing at the Three Flowers Temple for hundreds of years, and has also been nourished by the incense and fire day in and day out. It’s just that the poor monk is in perfect condition and the incense is dispensable.

“And it is crippled, and therefore needs incense to feed it.”

Incense and fire could warm magic treasures, so the Zhen Guo Sword had been enshrined in the Yong Zhen Shan He Temple in Sang Po, so the Confucian Sage Carving Knife and the Sub-Sage Confucian Crown were enshrined in the Sub-Sage Temple? Xu Qi’an drifted off.

Tidbits that didn’t feel useful were added.

“This piece of shit mana has been doing its job of impersonating a wild god for the past five hundred years?”

Xu Qi’an asked out of doubt.

Old Monk Taling looked down at the bronze mirror, as if communicating with it, and after a few seconds, looked up and said:

“It said it couldn’t remember what happened before and woke up and was picked up by an old woman. Then asked the old woman for incense ……… hmm? Thieving bald ass?”

The old monk’s expression lurched as he shook his head and lost his smile, “Because of the mutilation, its sanity is confused and unclear.”

Spiritual state not quite right for crippled magic treasure ……. Xu Qi’an nodded and said, “I’ll trouble senior to watch over this object for the time being.”

After saying that, he took the souls of the three people and the fox and left the Floating Pagoda.

After the soul returned to its place, they woke up one after another, Xu Qi’an briefly told what happened, listening to Miao Youfang dumbfounded, the temple god is a mountain spirit demon, evil cultivator fanatic and so on, he had assumed.

The only thing I didn’t realize was that it was a mirror.

“Li Ling Su, invoke the spirit!”

Xu Qi’an commanded.

Li Lingsu recited the words under his breath, and in a moment, the temple was filled with a gloomy wind and the temperature plummeted.

Because it hadn’t been long since he died, he didn’t need auxiliary materials to set up the formation.

The two souls were condensed into an old woman with white hair; a stout man, both with dull eyes and a mute look.

Goddess mother and son.

Xu Qi’an asked, “How did you get the mirror.”

The goddess stared blankly ahead, her voice hollow:

“The old family home with a dry well.”

Newly deceased ghosts don’t think, they answer what they are asked and don’t speak more than half a word.

Xu Qi’an asked a whole bunch of questions off and on before realizing what was going on in general.

About a month ago, because of a bad harvest and frequent disasters, the son of the godmother, unwilling to support his mother, pushed her into a dry well.

The godmother picked up the bronze mirror in the well.

She was then driven by the bronze mirror, for which she repaired the temple, and she lived a rich life and never had to go hungry again.

But she thought the temple god was a nervous wreck, wanting incense offerings one minute, going to kill a bald donkey the next, and shouting about the immortality of the lord of the kingdom the next.

The good thing was that the temple god that drove her was actually quite obedient and would basically do what she proposed and kill whoever she was told to.

It is worth mentioning that Li Gui’s mother-in-law was killed by the Goddess, who knew Li Gui’s mother-in-law and had a plan after learning by chance that she used the “wooden ghosts” in the City God Temple as firewood.

And so it came to pass that what happened to Li Gui.

She thus gained her first bucket of gold from Li Gui, and used it to make a name for herself, making the people of the county fear her with the power of the Mirror of the Muddy Sky.

In the past month, her son also followed the temple god’s might, in the name of seeking a son, w***d several beautiful women from good families.

“Death is deserved!” Miao Youfang coldly grunted, “If I had known, I wouldn’t have let this beastly mother and child die so cleanly.”

“Miao Youfang, turn around and find someone to inquire about those few guardian hans, kill them all together.” Xu Qi’an arranged in an organized manner.

His qi cultivation was much deeper than before, and he could hide his joy and anger in his heart.

Those few enablers have long been in his must kill list, but will not be as fiery as before, there is a kind of unhurried but everything is in control of the calm.

More and more, there are a few of Wei Yuan’s old ways.

Now the only thing that is not clear is why the bronze mirror will be strayed into the Central Plains, of course, but also this is not important that is, just like there is no need to figure out whether there is a chicken or an egg ………. first. Xu Qi’an waved his sleeve and sent the souls of the godmother and her son up in smoke.

He turned to think about what to do with the Muddy Sky Divine Mirror.

Normally speaking, this broken magic treasure to stay with the side to drive, let it “redeem the crime” is the best choice. One more treasure is one more means.

The more means, the greater the ability to cope with risk.

But since this magic treasure is the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox’s “dressing mirror”, Xu Qi’an thought that he might be able to maximize the benefits.

Would that noble princess be interested in her mother’s relics?

Maybe I can sell it for a higher price ……….. Xu Qi’an looked at Bai Ji with an amiable smile:

“Cutie, can you contact the princess of your house?”