White Lotus Dharma Envoy and Seven-Turn Pure Incense (Part Two)

On his way back, Yu Ci was still thinking about that matter.

The woman White Lotus occupied quite a significant portion of Ling Xi Wanderer's memories. More accurately, she occupied an important position within the memories of the Fragrance Teaching Cult preserved by Ling Xi Wanderer.

Most of those memories lacked distinct emotional coloring, indicating that Ling Xi Wanderer's relationship with White Lotus was relatively distant. In the already organized memories, whenever White Lotus appeared, it was mostly related to the sacrificial rites and administrative decrees of the Fragrance Teaching Cult.

The title of Dharma Envoy meant she was the spokesperson in this realm for the "Life-Giving Mother" worshipped by the Fragrance Teaching Cult. Her every word and action could be considered the decree of the Life-Giving Mother, carrying even more detachment than the leader of the Fragrance Teaching Cult.

From this, one could see how high White Lotus's status was.

As for why it was the "Life-Giving Mother" rather than the "Great Black Heavenly Buddha Mother Bodhisattva", one only needed to think of the relationship between the Rakshasa Sect and the Xuan Yin Sect to guess the truth.

"Brother seems rather indifferent to this business?"

Yu Ci looked up and saw Gu Zhi's relaxed smile. He did not respond, because he was actually still hesitating.

To say nothing else, just from the request for the Seven-Turn Peaceful Incense itself, one could roughly discern Flower Lady's train of thought: on one hand, she wanted to ask local serpents who controlled the channels, such as Three Families Market and Evergreen Gate, to collect finished products from various sources—this was the most costly yet easiest method; if that truly failed, she wanted to ask Yu Ci, the unfathomable Perfume Master with quite a reputation for refining spices, to cooperate with White Lotus—correct,