Chapter 435: Chapter 242: Meditation Room, Deification through Incense Offering?_1
Lin Xun didn’t rush to use the ’Easter Egg Bookmark’ and the ’Sacred Object Bookmark’.
The special event about rescuing his elder martial sister at the ’Wuzhi Shrine’ had been delayed for a long time.
The urgent matter at hand was to explore ’Wuzhi Shrine’ first. If everything went smoothly, he would have the capital to kill the Yiye Palace’s vice chief and obtain the shell of the Yin Yang Master.
This way, he could escape the ’Anti-Addiction Mechanism’ that restricted him during the day.
Moreover, the ’Wuzhi Shrine’ wasn’t a small society like the Shishan Society. It might even contain the sought-after witch’s shell...
Right now, there was only the ’Meditation Room’ left unexplored in Dharma Temple.
Being a perfectionist, he decided to explore the last location in the Dharma Temple before rushing to Wuzhi Shrine.
After leaving the ’Five-Tier Pagoda’, he went straight to the ’Meditation Room’.
[...]
[The monsters who serve the ’Chaos Origin Dragon’ in the temple are referred to as the ’Meditation Group’, and the Meditation Rooms are their dwelling places.]
[Behind the lecture hall are rows of dilapidated houses known as the ’Meditation Rooms’.]
[You cross the lecture hall and arrive in front of the dilapidated houses...]
[You randomly choose one to enter.]
[The house is simply furnished. A disheveled woman sits on the bed with her back to you. In one hand, she holds a bronze mirror, in the other, a horn comb, posing as if she were dressing up.]
[Oddly, the woman’s limbs are stiff, unmoving. You move forward a couple of steps and catches a glimpse of the woman’s face in the mirror.]
[The woman’s face is pale, her twisted smile revealing a mouthful of black, sharp teeth.]
[There is a placard at one end of the bed, which read: Monster - Blue Maiden (Moderately Dangerous), a disheveled female monster with a mouth full of black teeth who likes to eat humans raw.]
[This kind of monster pretends to dress up using a mirror every night. If the person seen in the mirror is not its ideal prey, it will kill and eat them...]
[You study the woman with her back to you closely and find that she’s just a lifelike sculpture, not a living thing.]
[You search the house carefully but find nothing.]
[Reluctantly, you leave the house and head towards the next ’Meditation Room’...]
[...]
There were dozens of Meditation Rooms in Dharma Temple, each with monster sculptures for display.
If Dharma Temple was a zoo, and the Golden Hall exhibited live animals, the Meditation Rooms were where statue specimens were presented.
Besides the statues in each of the Meditation Rooms, there were no extra props.
After exploring for a long time, only the last Meditation Room was left.
[At the end of a row of shabby houses was a slightly larger ’Meditation Room’, which seemed to belong to the highest-ranking ’Priest’ in the temple.]
[You step forward, push open the door...]
[Inside, there’s still a monster sculpture. By the looks of it, it’s a wrinkled-faced, baggy-eyed old man.]
[The old man’s bald head is conspicuously striking, much like a peculiarly shaped, dwarf winter melon.]
[A nearby placard describes: Monster - Asura (Extremely Dangerous), a bald monster with a bizarre-looking head, very cunning, and adept at exploiting human weaknesses.]
[If you encounter such a monster, do not overreact, you should promptly report it to the government office or shrine to round up and execute this demon remnant.]
"So, Asura is not only a monster who guards the Dharma Temple but also the ’Priest’ here."
[You search carefully inside the room, not missing any corners. Finally, on a beam, you find a dusty little incense burner.]
[You carefully wipe the incense ash off the burner, revealing its original form.]
[The palm-sized bronze burner, its outer wall is engraved with a wriggling dragon soaring in the clouds, identical to the one you got from the ’Shipwreck Monk’.]
[You have obtained the ’Coiling Cloud Dragon Incense Burner’ (Excellent Level Tool): An ancient bronze incense burner. Its outer wall is carved with a pattern of a dragon twisting and dancing in the clouds.]
[Using this tool will slightly increase your Incense Power (Power of Faith).]
[You feel the Incense Power contained in the incense burner, thinking it’s somewhat bizarre.]
[The Power of Incense in it is not as pure as the Power of Incense from directly burning incense to the ’Chaos Origin Dragon’, it appears profane and complex.]
"The incense burner the Shipwreck Monk got was a waste product, but what I got this time is an Excellent Level Tool."
"Hmm? You don’t need to offer this thing at the statue of the god?"
Lin Xun noticed that the incense burner required fewer conditions to be used compared to burning incense.
Items like incense sticks required a specific deity to be worshipped, and thus necessitated setting incense before an idol, yet this little incense burner lacked such conditions.
In other words, when Lin Xun used this item, he wouldn’t see the ’Chaos Origin Dragon’ nor draw the attention of the ’Extreme Delusional Evil Fruit.’
Just to be safe, he returned all the way back to the Rest Page at the top of the ’Five-Pagoda.’
He opened his item slot and used the incense burner.
If using it drew the gaze of the Extreme Delusional Evil Fruit, he would immediately teleport away to avoid another ’Extreme Evil Asura’ incident.
[You have used the ’Coiling Cloud Dragon Incense Burner’...]
[A profane and chaotic smoke billows up, directly entering your body...]
[Your ’Fallen Dragon Seed’ level has increased!]
[You have been tainted with the sixth layer of Fallen Dragon Seed!]
The game text stopped there, not flickering any further.
???
Lin Xun was completely baffled.
What was happening? Wasn’t it said that it would increase the power of the incense? Why had it turned into increasing the ’Power of the Dragon Seed’?
Did this damned game bug out again?
He faintly remembered that the shipwrecked sorcerer had mentioned two ways to enhance the Dragon Seed; one was through rigorous cultivation, and the other was to offer incense to the ’Chaos Origin Dragon.’
During his first incense offering, the smoke that rose was directed towards ’some great entity in the void,’ which was an offering to the ’Chaos Origin Dragon.’
If his Dragon Seed were elevated under such circumstances, Lin Xun wouldn’t find it strange.
But the smoke from this peculiar incense burner was drifting toward him...
He frowned and pondered for a long time, but still could not figure it out.
Hesitating for a moment, he teleported back to the ’Dragon Pond Temple.’
First, he went to find the ’Bull Demon, the Master of Ceremony.’
In the interface to learn demonic arts, there was text displaying the balance of his incense power.
[...]
[’Demonic Arts: Message Transmission Technique’ (Rare+ Level), Incense Power Required for Training: 400]
[’Demonic Arts: Dotting the Dragon’s Eye’ (Rare+ Level), Incense Power Required for Training: 700]
[You have absorbed an unknown source of incense, Current Incense Power: 500]
Lin Xun shivered all over, and instantly felt the ecstatic thrill of striking gold.
He was able to absorb the incense!!
Wouldn’t this allow him to become a god through the power of incense?
For a moment, Lin Xun thought of many clever manipulations, like learning a petrification skill, disguising himself, standing on a deity platform, and impersonating a certain deity to accept incense worship, and so on...
But on second thought, would such an obvious bug appear in this damned game?
The current benefit from absorbing the incense was only to increase the Dragon Seed. As for whether there were other enhancements, he would need to collect more items like the peculiar incense burner to verify.
"I need to find more incense burners to test..."
Lin Xun ran to the ’shipwreck sorcerer’ to inquire about more information.
Unfortunately, the shipwreck sorcerer was still researching day and night without obtaining any useful information.
And, the sorcerer’s incense burner was a dud, probably because the incense within it had been completely depleted and no longer had the ability to increase power.
The newly added 500 points of incense power were only enough to learn simple skills like ’Message Transmission Technique,’ but there was still a shortage of 200 points to learn ’Dotting the Dragon’s Eye.’
Seeing no other progress in the Dragon Pond Temple, he teleported back to the ’Five-Pagoda.’
"Next I will go to ’Wuzhi Shrine’ to rescue my senior sister..."
