Innate Religion.
Inside the towering, majestic altar, a sea of flames surged.
A cluster of flames twisted, then revealed Ji Chi's figure. He was one of the Innate Religion's Old Ancestors, and an elder blood relative of the current sect master.
Previously, when an elder who had gone to witness and offer congratulations at the Chongming Sect's Holy Son Ceremony called for help, Ji Chi had personally gone to his aid. He had even sent a voice transmission praising the Li Clan Old Ancestor's clever methods. Later, though, it seemed there had been some sort of misunderstanding...
At that moment, Ji Chi sat cross-legged in midair. He slowly opened his eyes, sensing that something was amiss.
In the next instant, he abruptly rose and took a single step, appearing in a dim ancestral ground. Darkness and gloom filled his view, yet countless Life Soul Lamps floated in midair, freely swallowing and exhaling their light.
This was where the Life Soul Lamps of the main altar's disciples were kept.
He beckoned with one hand, and an especially exquisite, ornate Life Soul Lamp immediately floated before him. The flame within had already gone out.
It was the Life Soul Lamp of one of his descendants, Young Sect Master Ji Changfu!
"Though Heaven bestowed an opportunity upon you, you failed to seize it. Now that you've perished, it is also Heaven's will." Ji Chi looked at the lamp in his hand and gave a slight shake of his head. Then he vanished from the spot.
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Tower of Reincarnation.
Yellow sand stretched for thousands of miles, and stone towers stood in rows.
The deep, lingering toll of bells swayed with the wind and carried far into the distance.
In the middle of the tower forest, within the hundred-and-eight-story Glazed Pagoda, lay a quiet