[For killing the Evil Corpse, gained Universal Proficiency +6000]
Carrying the weakened Master Chan Hui back the way they had come, Ning Xiu had just emerged from the secret passage in the Buddhist Pagoda when he heard the system panel's alert.
Ning Xiu froze. Where had this extra reward come from?
Gaining 6,000 points of Universal Proficiency at once meant the one he had killed had to be a major figure.
After thinking it over, Ning Xiu guessed that the Demonic Buddha True Body must have done it—and that the one he had killed was the Evil Corpse, Chan Hui.
What a fast kill! Was this the efficiency of the Buddha Path First Rank? I love it, I love it.
Just as Ning Xiu was wondering how killing Evil Spirits with the Demonic Buddha True Body could earn him Universal Proficiency, and whether he could use this method to reap a massive amount of it in the future,
Master Chan Hui, who should have been too weak to speak, suddenly gathered all his strength and whispered in Ning Xiu's ear, "Don't leave yet. Go to the side hall. There's something important hidden there. You must take it with you."
Ning Xiu glanced back at Master Chan Hui. The other man's gaze was resolute. If Ning Xiu refused, the master probably wouldn't budge, no matter what.
Ning Xiu had no choice but to follow Chan Hui's directions and hurry toward one of the side halls that had survived more or less intact inside Cloud Mist Temple.
It was called a side hall, but in truth, it was no different from an ordinary mud-and-tile house.
The interior was quite crudely furnished. The only thing that drew the eye was a clay statue of some unknown Buddha on a clay platform.
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