[Lu Wu is too lazy to bother with the White Elephant Demon and says to you, next, it is your turn.]
[The treasure mountain will set all kinds of strange illusions according to the depth of your own fortune and fate. What treasure you obtain depends entirely on your own fortune.]
[Therefore, you must remember not to force it, lest you return empty-handed.]
[Go…]
[As He speaks, He waves His hand, and you uncontrollably transform into a stream of light, shooting straight toward the eastern treasure mountain filled with golden platforms and jade towers, Tianyong City.]
[You feel the world spin. When you open your eyes, you discover that everything around you is hazy and blurry. Those magnificent golden platforms and towering jade towers are all distant and unreachable illusory backgrounds.]
[Only the Daoist temple not far in front of you is a real existence within reach.]
[This Daoist temple is very small in scale, extremely old and dilapidated. From its appearance, it is clearly not a public monastery that any Daoist lineage disciple can enter and reside in, but a hereditary temple passed down generation after generation between master and disciple.]
[The Daoist temple’s plaque reads Yuanwu Temple. Looking past the outer wall of the temple, it seems that there is only one main hall within.]
[You push open the creaking broken main gate and step into the Daoist temple…]
[In the courtyard, apart from one main hall, there are only a few withered yellow ginkgo trees. Golden fallen leaves all over the ground drift and dance with the wind.]
[You look toward the main hall with its doors wide open. On the divine platform in the deepest part of it, there is a divine image enshrined.]
[The divine image is dressed in black, with loose hair and bare feet, five strands of long beard, its left hand forming a sword seal upright before its chest, its right hand holding a Dharma sword reversed behind its back. It steps on a tortoise and snake, awe-inspiring and majestic, with wind rising in all eight directions.]
[You do not discover any valuable items in the courtyard, so you step into the main hall and examine carefully.]
[In front of the divine platform, there is an incense burner and offerings. The three burning incense sticks have long since gone out, leaving only half-truncated remnants of incense.]
[You subconsciously want to pick up the incense burner and see whether this thing has the same effect as the censer you previously obtained in Sakura Falls.]
[Your hand has only just stretched out when you hurriedly stop.]
[You remember Senior Brother White Elephant’s terrible outcome from having a cheap hand. This incense burner is clearly not any good item and is not worth wasting such a great opportunity over.]
[Although Lu Wu helped you set a restriction so that low-tier treasures will not run to you and recognize you as owner on their own, it cannot withstand you actively teasing treasures.]
[You look around and soon discover a painting scroll hanging on the wall beside you. The unfolded scroll depicts another Dharma form of the main hall’s divine image holding a sword and eliminating demons. Below it are textual explanations.]
[Emperor Yuanwu is Primordial Saint Benevolent Might Dark Heaven Supreme Emperor, Heavenly Venerate Who Saves the Suffering at the End of the Kalpa, also known as Dark Heaven Supreme Emperor, True Lord You Sheng, and True Lord North Pole. He is also called Demon-Sweeping Heavenly Venerate, Ancestor of Repaying Grace, and Loose-Haired Ancestor. He is the lord of sword immortals who presides over military affairs.]
[In ancient times, demonic qi repeatedly rose in the heavenly realm, and black poison, blood light, and filthy mixed qi brought chaos to the heavenly realm.]
[Emperor Yuanwu subdued demons and eliminated evil. With His supreme divine power, He came forth wielding a sword. In one night, He cut down all evil demons, traveled throughout the six directions, and awed all spirits!]
[He controls weapons and killing, guards the heavenly realm, and makes the livers and gallbladders of all evil beings burst, leaving the masses of demons panic-stricken all day long…]
[…]
“This Emperor Yuanwu seems very fierce…”
If Skanda Deva was Buddhism’s dharma-protector war god, then this Emperor Yuanwu was very likely the Daoist sword immortal war god.
Lin Xun noticed that Emperor Yuanwu worshiped by the Daoist temple also had the title Demon-Sweeping Heavenly Venerate, and was also a sword immortal who controlled weapons and killing.
He could not help thinking of the Greedy Wolf Star Lord, who had long been gathering dust in his Shell Slots.
The Greedy Wolf Star Lord was also a sword immortal, and he also possessed Star Commander Spirit Pivot Demon-Banishment Grand Art.
“Could it be because of the Greedy Wolf Star Lord that I encountered this illusion?”
Lin Xun felt that this was very likely the case. According to Lu Wu’s statement, the Greedy Wolf Star Lord had great fate with this Emperor Yuanwu, which was why the treasure mountain let him come to Yuanwu Temple.
“I didn’t expect the Greedy Wolf Star Lord to receive benefits in the Evil God chapter…”
Generally speaking, after obtaining a main Shell, if one wanted to refine this Shell and develop all the potential of this Shell, the best method was to enter the subsequent chapter world where the Shell was obtained.
That group of Disciples in New World did exactly this. For example, Amos’s Calamity Lich Shell was initially only a necromancer and did not have advanced skills like summoning bone dragons at all.
Amos continuously anchored subsequent chapters and conquered the subsequent worlds of the necromancer chapter, which allowed the necromancer to improve step by step and finally advance into a Calamity Lich.
There were also many elite Apostles in the official organization who took this route.
When Lin Xun first entered the organization, the Anchor Bookmark benefit he received was used to follow a dedicated refinement route.
Apostles could skip to subsequent chapter worlds to develop all the potential of their main Shells, completing various methods of improving Shell strength, including but not limited to strengthening, learning skills, changing class, expanding bloodline, obtaining suitable weapons and equipment, and so on.
However, the official organization did not squeeze bottom-level Apostles like New World did. The number of Anchor Bookmarks they collected was limited, making it impossible for most elite Apostles to follow such a dedicated refinement route.
The Greedy Wolf Star Lord’s Shell came from an Easter Egg Chapter, so it was impossible to use an Anchor Bookmark to enter a subsequent Easter Egg Chapter. Therefore, aside from the Star Commander Spirit Pivot Demon-Banishment Grand Art itself improving by killing monsters, the Greedy Wolf Star Lord had great difficulty obtaining other methods of improvement.
Moreover, although the Greedy Wolf Star Lord could improve Shell Quality by killing monsters, the number of monsters required was abnormally high.
Since Lin Xun obtained this Shell, he had killed countless monsters, but he had only raised the Greedy Wolf Star Lord’s Shell grade by two levels.
And that was still under the circumstances of later obtaining the double accumulation special effect of Flesh Growth…
Of course, this was not the most criticized aspect of the Greedy Wolf Star Lord.
The large number of kills required was not actually a big problem for ordinary Apostles.
Ordinary Apostles had to conquer a dozen or so chapter worlds before advancing in difficulty. Before advancing in difficulty, the Greedy Wolf Star Lord might have long accumulated enough Demon-Banishment Merit to improve Shell Quality.
The greatest restriction of this exclusive Shell was that it could not, like the little dragonkin, improve the grades of other Shell Skills after advancing its bloodline.
And cultivation skills like sword seals were very rare in the hellish game. Even when they occasionally appeared in the library, they were all trash like Sword Control Art, Qingyuan Sword Technique, and White Lotus Sword Song.
Being unable to improve Shell Skills was the greatest restriction of this Shell.
[After learning the origin of the divine image, you carefully examine every corner of the main hall, attempting to find treasures that belong to the high grade category…]
[…]
[After searching, three items draw your attention.]
[One is the wooden ritual clapper placed in the corner of the divine platform, one is the Dharma sword held by the divine image, and one is the Dharma flag inserted behind the divine image.]
[Which ritual implement do you want to choose to touch?]
