Should I go or not? If I went, it might be an ambush. If I didn't, the Wu Family would have a reason to take revenge on the people around me. Mother was still in Lin County. She would be the first to run into trouble.
The deceased female lay Buddhist's mother hadn't come. She had only sent Yu Xiaoxue to burn incense and keep vigil.
I called Mother. She said nothing unusual had happened on her end and told me to put my mind at ease and not be so anxious.
After thinking for a while, I still had no clue. There was some time before the appointment I had made with Zhang Xiaofei, so I prepared to take out the ancient texts and continue studying them, so I could cultivate diligently that evening.
By coincidence, I came across the Nest Ancestor statue I had found beneath the Wang Family Ancestral Hall before. I took it out, hung it in the study, burned incense, paid my respects, and asked the orthodox tradition to send down its power.
There might be very few disciples who worshipped the Nest Ancestor, but the orthodox tradition had given me quite a lot of power. It had granted me one strand before, and now another wash of golden light enveloped me. I was tremendously excited. It seemed my cultivation last night had been remarkably effective. The Patriarch was delighted, so he had rewarded me with the light of the orthodox tradition.
The Nest Ancestor had given me a reward. What about the Great God Taiyi and the Patriarchs of the Four Little Immortals? Perhaps they would give me something too?
Back in Little Yi Village, Li Qinghe had once taken out a portrait of the Patriarch to borrow his power. I called Li Qinghe