Guanhai Mountain, [Temple of the Dead Buddha].
The temple sat halfway up the mountain and was renowned throughout [Lush City] and even all of Han East Province.
There were especially many tourists offering incense today, a sea of people nearly filling the entire mountainside.
Ji Yan had come here once before. Back then, his career had repeatedly hit setbacks, and he suspected there was something wrong with his birth chart, so he had come to burn some incense and see if it helped.
The prolonged tolling of a bell echoed through the vast temple.
Ji Yan queued up and entered the largest temple hall. Everyone held thick sandalwood incense, but none of it was lit. Instead, they dipped half of each stick into a vat of Dark Red Blood Plasma before inserting it into the censer beneath the enormous Buddha statue.
From afar, beneath the golden Buddha was a gruesome expanse of dripping blood, chilling to behold.
Even stranger, blood flowed from the eyes of the enormous bronze Buddha—bloody tears—
A thick stench of blood permeated the air. Everyone was stained with blood, smearing it over their faces with happy smiles, as though this were a way of praying for blessings.
Clearly, the [Devil] card had affected this place as well.
Not wanting to stand out, Ji Yan dipped his incense in blood and placed it in the censer.
Staring at the enormous Buddha statue, Ji Yan narrowed his eyes.
[Omniscient Understanding] showed that this huge Buddha statue was actually a sleeping eerie entity!
Clearly, once the side quest began tonight, every eerie entity in the temple would awaken.
"Young benefactor, you have been kneeling devoutly before the Buddha for so long. Have you encountered some obstacle in life?"
A bald monk stood beside Ji Yan, holding a mallet as