Chapter 560: Chapter 358: The Five Gods Return to Their Positions, Wishing to Cross Tribulation_2
The radiance retracted, revealing Zhao Sheng’s form.
He looked up towards the straight-as-a-line green stone steps, at the end of his gaze, the great doors of the Five Passes Temple stood wide open; a dense crowd of believers ford a long dragon, ascending the steps in order.
Having not visited for three years, to see the Five Passes Temple’s incense burning as vibrantly as this was indeed heartening.
Sensing the five powerful fluctuations coming from the mountain, Zhao Sheng’s eyes shimred slightly as he stepped forward, following the crowd upwards.
“Mrs. Liu, who would have thought you’d also attend today’s incense ceremony? Are you here to offer incense or to fulfill a vow?”
“I’ve specially co to fulfill a vow. It has been three years since my daughter-in-law entered our family and she has always been unable to conceive a child, so half a month ago, I ca to the temple to offer incense and pray to the Mouse God for offspring. Who would have known that just ten days later, my daughter-in-law started having morning sickness. Upon examination, it was indeed a pregnancy. Therefore, I must fulfill my vow today and offer three hundred taels of incense money.”
“…I’ve run into back-to-back bad luck these past few days, losing at every gamble. Today nobody better stop ; if I can change my fortunes and beco wealthy, I’ll kneel to death at the foot of the Toad God.”
“…God of Fortune above, bless this young maiden with finding a suitable gentleman.”
“…”
The stream of people slowly ascended, groups of Five Passions believers continuously flooded into the Divine Temple’s gates. Zhao Sheng blended into the crowd, ascended the thousand stone steps, arrived in front of the temple, then crossed the threshold and walked into the front temple courtyard.
In the center of the courtyard, five giant incense cauldrons of half human height stood in a row, inside each cauldron thick sticks of yellow incense as dense as a forest and thick as a child’s arm emitted rising incense smoke, diffusing in all directions, causing the courtyard to be shrouded in swirling fog, veiled and mysterious.
Zhao Sheng made his way past the crowd and the incense cauldrons, crossed the vast courtyard, and arrived at the front of the Five Passes Temple.
Upon entering the temple and standing montarily in front of the Divine Statue, Zhao Sheng’s eyes suddenly shone with a layer of dazzling Divine Light, looking up to see the Divine Statue bathed in Golden Light, surrounded by a large expanse of Radiance of various hues, with an exceptionally thick Power of Incense.
Zhao Sheng nodded with satisfaction, then his Divine Sense abruptly expanded out, instantly locking onto a person deep within the temple, before sending them a thought.
Soon after, the short and child-faced Ye Tianyun hurried to the temple hall. Upon seeing Zhao Sheng, his face lit up with great joy, and just as he was about to bow, a look from Zhao Sheng stopped him.
“Sir, please follow ,” Ye Tianyun hinted with a nod, his voice transmitted over.
Zhao Sheng gave a slight smile, a wave of his sleeve sending out an invisible surge of Spiritual Power that enveloped Ye Tianyun, and in an instant, both of them disappeared from the temple, with the surrounding believers none the wiser.
In a simple and elegant quiet room deep within the temple, Zhao Sheng sat cross-legged on a cushion, listening intently.
Ye Tianyun stood at his junior position, his expression one of excitent as he carefully reported the progress of the Five Passes Divine Sect over the past three years to the mysterious superior.
With the aid of the five Divine Communication Spiritual Beasts, the influence of the Five Passes Divine Sect advanced by leaps and bounds, swiftly “unifying” Qian’an County and extending its reach into several neighboring states.
In three years’ ti, the Five Passes Divine Sect swept through Songlan Prefecture; believers from most of the states were integrated into the Divine Sect system, and a group of Qi Refining Practitioners were also subdued.
The Five Passes Divine Sect could now be described as enjoying boundless glory and prosperity.
However…
“Sir, the Prefecture Temple of Songlan Prefecture has recently issued an edict, ordering us to restrain ourselves and forbidding casual cross-border preaching.”
“Mmm, that’s easy to resolve,” Zhao Sheng said lightly upon hearing this, waving his hand and tossing out a sword order.
Ye Tianyun caught the sword order, his face showing confusion.
Zhao Sheng instructed, “Take this sword order to the Qingfeng Temple. He will know what to do next.”
“Sir, this… this token—
Mmm!
Zhao Sheng looked up at Ye Tianyun, imdiately pushing the rest of his words back down his throat.
“What you need to know, you will be told. What you don’t need to know, don’t ask a single question!”
“Yes yes, I’ll keep your teaching in mind,” Ye Tianyun urgently bowed, his forehead beading with sweat as he sensed the even more profound and unfathomable aura emanating from his superior.
…
The next day, the Five Passes Temple atop Nuanyu Peak suddenly announced they were sealing the mountain and closing the temple, with an indefinite duration for the closure.
This news instantly confused countless Five Passions believers and even led to high-ranking preaching Taoists from within the Divine Sect rushing up the mountain to find out what was happening.
However, all of them were stopped by Ye Tianyun and the five Great Spirits outside the temple, prevented from taking even a single step inside.
The Five Passes Temple had been emptied; apart from Zhao Sheng, not a single soul was present.
In front of the temple courtyard, Zhao Sheng flicked his wrist and cast out Array Banners over a yard tall around the edges of the courtyard.
The wind howled, and thirty-six Mist Banners stood tall, their surfaces undulating with the wind, rippling with layers of spirit light.
Soon, a great amount of Cloud Mist began to rise, engulfing the entire temple, and Nuanyu Peak was quickly shrouded in thick fog, obscuring both the mountain and the temple.
Zhao Sheng followed a special route along the courtyard at a brisk pace, dropping clusters of green light from his palm at intervals, each encapsulating a fist-sized Array Bead.
The mont the green light touched the ground, it plunged with the Array Bead into the earth, and then a pinpoint of starlight erged on the surface.
As night fell, the courtyard was brilliantly lit by starlight, weaved waves of Radiance intermingling with the vast sky’s stars.
After setting up the Great Array, Zhao Sheng sat cross-legged in the center and began to ditate.
An hour later, as the Netherworld Star climbed halfway up the sky, Zhao Sheng suddenly opened his eyes, shooting two long beams of Divine Light from them.
At the thought, five orbs of golden light abruptly soared from deep within the night, piercing through the temple roof and flying before Zhao Sheng to reveal five “Divine Spirits” with a humanoid but not quite human appearance, standing suspended in the air.
These five Vengeful Chang Gods were enveloped in a colorful Divine Light, creating an eerie yet magnificent spectacle.
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