Chapter 183 White-Faced Zhenwu's Form

[The Form of the White-Faced Zhenwu: The Great Emperor appears with a white face, wielding yin and yang to extinguish all things.]

[With an angry gaze and disheveled hair, red light emanates from his feet. The hands must not hold any martial or magical implements. Recite the White-Faced Zhenwu incantation above, followed by the Hongwu Emperor's words to welcome the deity: "Welcoming the deity: I look up to the Emperor of Heaven and welcome his arrival. Mountains and rivers follow in welcome, his mighty spirit is fully prepared. Incense smoke coils, the deity descends upon the Imperial Street." Consuming thirty percent of one's own Yuan Qi, this form can be manifested.]

[Cultivation increases by fifty percent, initiating "Naming". Anything named by the White-Faced Zhenwu is marked for execution. All damage inflicted upon the named target is amplified twofold!]

[Manifesting the Form of the White-Faced Zhenwu enhances the Might of Heaven Great Art and the Art of Controlling Objects to Kill.]

[Holding wrath in the heart, transforming into ruthlessness, one's own essence, Qi, and spirit will continuously generate wrath, and strength will increase with the rise of wrath (the form's recipient is a Lord of Incense, free to control the wrath)!]

Ji Xiang was shocked by this description.

He also saw that the wrath empowerment was somewhat similar to the Taiyin Calamity Fire.

The description on the blank divine tablet did not stop, just like when he obtained the Golden Strike Pestle, and began to expand his knowledge a little:

[This object originally belonged to Lishanhe, a treasure of Mount Wawu. It was forcibly taken from the front of Mount Wawu's gate by someone and placed in Mount Zhenwu. It was the first Zhenwu statue during the Hongwu era... During the Jiajing Emperor's reign, it was moved to the Forbidden City and enshrined in the Xuanji Precious Hall, using an illusion to conceal its true form. It has now been weakened, its suppressive power less than one percent of the original.]

[This object was used by the Jiajing Emperor to suppress the "Northeast Black Evil Qi." This Qi appeared in the Forbidden City during the Jiajing era, its origin unknown...]

The blank divine tablet seemed to be tracing the origin and quickly displayed more text:

[It seems to be related to the Dongyue Temple in Shuntian. This Dongyue Temple is the main post of the Shuntian Underworld, a temple from the Yuan Dynasty, built by Zhang Liusun, a grandmaster of the Xuannu Sect, and his disciple Wu Quanjie.]

The blank divine tablet only mentioned extra things with a few words and did not excessively pursue them, so when Ji Xiang saw the effect of this White-Faced Zhenwu, he was still a little clueless at the moment, but he didn't care too much. After all, it was said to suppress something, but it was moved away before, and now it has been moved back, which means everything is fine.

Ji Xiang didn't care at all. He regarded the origin as a story, and the rest was none of his business.

But he didn't expect that this White-Faced Zhenwu, this first Zhenwu statue... He originally thought it was some bird god pretending to be the Zhenwu Patriarch, but he didn't expect it to be the original killing form of the Patriarch himself. He almost smashed his grandfather's head with a hammer.

Ji Xiang grinned.

This, this wave...

He was a Heavenly God who was directly knocked down from Dafuli Land by the Yuanshi Heavenly Lord and descended into the mortal world, without registering with the Ming Dynasty's divine unit, indeed a demon from outside the heavens.

Simple and easy to understand, so this White-Faced Zhenwu was checking household registrations?

"Checking household registrations on me, an Earthling? Patriarch, do you know that the Dafuli Land above is all my connection? You are my connection now too."

And this thing was moved here by the Jiajing Emperor...

"Why is it the Jiajing Emperor again? He's everywhere. He puts all kinds of things in the Forbidden City, right? The incense spirit from the beginning was also left by the Jiajing Emperor, the Golden Strike Pestle was also the Jiajing Emperor's thing, Consort Shang was the Jiajing Emperor's woman, and it turns out that the statue in the Longde Hall was also moved here by the Jiajing Emperor from other places!"

Was he trying to create a cultivation cave, complete with magical artifacts, pets, Dao companions, and a formation eye?

But there was one question.

"My feeling should be right, but why does the text on the divine tablet tell me that the illusion of this White-Faced Zhenwu was cast by the Jiajing Emperor?"

"That was clearly the Fire Lord's illusion..."

Ji Xiang was confused and couldn't understand, only feeling that the water here was even deeper. Why was the Fire Lord's illusion so similar to the Jiajing Emperor's illusion? Did the Fire Lord also pass on the Dharma to the Jiajing Emperor back then?

Or was the Fire Lord the Jiajing Emperor's disciple?

This was simply outrageous. The Jiajing Emperor's disciple was going to kill his grandson? Was there something seriously wrong with this lineage?

"She probably secretly learned it from somewhere, or perhaps Zhu Changluo helped her find the Jiajing Emperor's spellbook or something..."

"It's none of my business. I'm running away in a few days anyway."

Thinking like this, Ji Xiang bowed respectfully to the White-Faced Zhenwu. After all, this was from the Hongwu era, the first Zhenwu statue, the grandfather of the Patriarch.

Then, Ji Xiang began to prepare to improve his own strength and cultivate.

He had obtained the benefits, so don't ask. Just say it was a gift from his grandfather! Wasn't it normal for the Patriarch to dote on his grandson!

Ji Xiang had just entered the fourth realm. Benefiting from swallowing a large amount of Qian Guang's fire energy, eating Song Zhongzheng's Fire God Essence, and adding the Fire Lord's incense from the people, Ji Xiang's physical strength had reached saturation again in the fourth realm.

The incense was accepted by the main body, and the physical body circulated the divine fire, condensing glory, requiring the devouring of a large amount of Yuan Qi.

The blank divine tablet in his body began to operate, and Yuan Qi frantically poured into the hall, creating a whistling sound.

Dust rose, gathering and dispersing like flowing clouds.

Essence, Qi, and spirit circulated continuously in the body. The incense body and the physical body complemented each other. Golden tendons shone, and jade bones grew in the physical body. The condensing of essence, Qi, and spirit was like countless streams converging into rivers and seas. With the help of the blank divine tablet, the speed of condensing glory was greatly increased.

Ji Xiang could feel that the speed at which the blank divine tablet was now devouring Yuan Qi was faster than when he first used it, and the storage capacity was also greater. Perhaps it was because he had entered the realm of fetal breathing, locking the Qi in his body. The Yuan Qi of heaven and earth only entered and did not exit, like a bottomless abyss, constantly devouring external Qi.

Gradually, time changed, and a illusory flower appeared above Ji Xiang's head due to the condensation of essence, Qi, and spirit.

After condensing glory, there was also a demon trial. After a day and night of condensing, this flower on Ji Xiang's head had condensed into one-third of its form. This was a white lead flower, and now it looked hazy like a cloud of mist. Ji Xiang's physical condition was very good. Perhaps in less than two days, this flower could be completely condensed.

As more and more Yuan Qi was devoured, the condensation of the flower became faster and faster... The entire hall was like a cloud-shrouded mountain, with a gentle breeze swirling, causing the people outside to be suspicious.

"Is that Taoist Ji of Mount Wudang practicing? The commotion is really not small."

"He is so young and already has such cultivation. No wonder he was able to save His Majesty from the Fire Lord."

"This is a fierce man. The commander said that he has killed several gods in a row."

Even the people in the Northern Garrison Division had a trace of awe for Ji Xiang's current movements, which gave them a vague understanding of the Fire Lord's strength.

It was said that the Fire Lord was a half-earth immortal. In terms of strength, she was not a top figure, but she was able to deceive the Heavenly Secretary of the Shenwu Gate, gather incense from the people, and use mysterious means to enter the Forbidden City in one step under the identity of the national god...

The Northern Garrison Division had just begun to investigate the Fire Lord's rotten corpses, but it was estimated that nothing would be found. As for the Heavenly Secretary of the Shenwu Gate, it had been investigated clearly that the Fire Lord had considerable means, rather than the Heavenly Secretary being negligent.

As night fell, a white lead flower had taken shape in the Longde Hall, emitting a faint light.

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The main post of the Underworld, Chaoyang Gate, northeast of the Forbidden City, Dongyue Temple.

It was time again to strike the gong and pass the bell. The Underworld traveled, and the living avoided. It still started from the Dongyue Temple and went to the first red shop at Chang'an Right Gate to ring the bell.

After many Underworld gods left, in the Dongyue Temple, probably after the second quarter of the night, a god suddenly walked out.

It was also a god that the people of this world had never seen before.

He did not hold the Book of Life and Death, but he was indeed wearing clothes similar to those of the Underworld, but this dress was not like that of the Great Ming, but like... the Song Dynasty.

Behind him, the plaque of the Dongyue Temple also changed...