"What does Your Supremacy mean?"
"What's the rush?"
Great Emperor Fengdu could not be bothered to explain. His gaze suddenly flicked toward the City God Temple.
His eyes narrowed, and a meaningful smile curved his lips. "This fellow is more anxious than anyone..."
Meanwhile, on City God Street, Li City God silently clenched his fist.
Of course, he hoped Lu Chen would succeed.
After all, Great Emperor Fengdu's incarnation had already arrived in person.
That meant the selection for the Prefectural City God had officially begun!
"Kid, you must succeed!"
"If you fail..."
"This game of chess can't go on!"
Meanwhile, in Southern Mountain Residential Compound.
The veins at Lu Chen's temples bulged. Sweat had long soaked through his Daoist robe, plastering it to his back.
He could clearly sense the [Hearthfire Register]'s "craving" for hearthfire aura.
It was not a simple need, but an almost instinctive, greedy devouring, like parched earth drinking sweet rain after a long drought.
Yet the little bit of hearthfire aura gathered in Southern Mountain Residential Compound was merely a drop in the bucket compared to its appetite.
A resolute gleam flashed through Lu Chen's eyes. "Damn it! If the compound's hearthfire aura isn't enough, then I'll use the whole city's!"
The key was that drawing upon the entire city's hearthfire aura required more than ten times his current spiritual power!
He obviously could not bear it!
But the light on the ritual altar was already dimming, and its fortune was about to scatter...
"Fuck it, I'm going all in!"
A fierce light flashed through Lu Chen's eyes. Without further hesitation, he raised his hand, bit through his fingertip, forced out several drops of bright-red essence blood, and scattered them across the Bagua mirror.
Sizzle—!
The instant the blood droplets touched the mirror,