Incense offerings.
An incense burner!
Vast Purple Qi!
For a moment, Chen Sanshi did not know how to judge the situation.
Setting aside the fact that incense qi still existed in this world, the key question was this: why did a mere Ciyun Temple possess a treasure capable of gathering purple qi?
What was it used for?
If it was meant to raise cultivation, why was there only one Perfected Hua Jin expert?
Even assuming the temple master traveling abroad had already reached the Meridian Passage Realm, that was still far too low, wasn't it?
After analyzing it, there were only two possibilities.
Either the incense offerings had only begun to be collected recently.
Just like Chen Sanshi himself: he held an immortal treasure, but because he had possessed it for too short a time, he had yet to reach great heights in martial cultivation.
Or the furnace did not belong to them at all!
Not everyone knew the Qi Observation Technique or had a way to sense the various auras between heaven and earth. Thus, even if the incense burner sat here devouring incense offerings, Ciyun Temple's Taoist priests might know absolutely nothing about it.
As for which of the two possibilities it was, there was no way to tell.
Chen Sanshi examined it closely.
An unknown ferocious beast was carved into the bronze incense burner's surface. Its bloody maw stood open as it ceaselessly devoured the incense offerings that should have belonged to the deity statue. Greedy, strange, and utterly unlike anything of the mortal world.
"This thing has a high chance of withstanding strange fire!"
His heart stirred.
But in the end, it was not his property.
If Ciyun Temple knew about the incense offerings, they would absolutely never sell it.
If they did not know, then