The Fortuitous Chivalrous Spirit Incense Burner—Its Price Could Be Reversed!

Gu Qingfeng picked up the palm-sized incense burner and brushed away the ash on it.

The tiny incense burner bore faint traces of green rust across its surface, along with rows of distinct engraved patterns.

Most of those patterns were straight lines, giving off an exceptionally sharp impression.

Amid those patterns, a line of words was faintly mixed in as well.

Gu Qingfeng narrowed his eyes and read aloud, "Though mountains are high and roads are far, chivalrous spirit endures?"

The moment his voice fell, an aura both icy and scorching shot through his palm and into his body, making him shudder in exquisite pleasure.

Almost at the same instant, a string of text appeared within his sea of consciousness.

[Will Name: Chivalrous Spirit Incense Burner]

[Will Type: Extraordinary Object]

[Will Description: Once, beneath heaven, there was a peerless great hero. Unmatched in blade and sword, invincible in fist and foot, his chivalrous spirit filled heaven and earth. He slew demons and vanquished devils beneath the skies; even when evil things wailed and begged for mercy, he still slaughtered their entire families. Later, the great hero died, leaving behind several Chivalrous Spirit Incense Burners.

Light incense, use chivalrous spirit as the guide, and speak aloud, "I want to be a great hero!" Then the holder of a Chivalrous Spirit Incense Burner may communicate across tens of millions of miles.

It could be said: "Though mountains are high and roads are far, chivalrous spirit endures."]

[Price: This incense burner contains peerless chivalrous spirit, yet it has also been tainted by a strange, baleful aura. The two auras intertwine. Once contaminated, one's eyes cannot tolerate even the slightest grain of sand. No matter whether an enemy is strong or weak, one must punish evil upon seeing evil, humiliate treachery upon seeing treachery. Impulses will become impossible to control, until one descends into madness.]

[Status: Price can be reversed.]

"A cheat had arrived?"

The benefits for transmigrators truly were indispensable!

Gu Qingfeng's face lit up with excitement. He hurriedly tucked the incense burner into his robes, afraid someone might see it.

He quickly left the Hall of Morality and sat down in an empty corridor, forcing himself to calm down first.

"It wasn't an illusion!"

"Nor was it delirium born from despair. Everything was real!"

As he looked at the text in his sea of consciousness and touched the tiny incense burner hidden in his robes, Gu Qingfeng repeatedly confirmed that this was no illusion before beginning to sort through his thoughts.

The thing that had just stirred his heart was the incense burner before him. According to its description, it was called the Chivalrous Spirit Incense Burner, and it could communicate across vast distances with other holders of Chivalrous Spirit Incense Burners.

Something like a telephone?

Judging by the description, the Chivalrous Spirit Incense Burner required "chivalrous spirit as the guide." Only those whose chivalrous spirit endured could use it.

That meant the other holders of Chivalrous Spirit Incense Burners should all be great heroes whose chivalrous spirit endured!

Did that mean he could ask them for help?

Thinking of his perilous situation, Gu Qingfeng felt that this was a thread of life amid certain death.

It would be best if the great hero he contacted was not too far away—if they could arrive within ten days and wipe out Golden Core Celestial Venerable and his group, who were obviously a pack of wicked demons and Outer Dao heretics, then he could stay alive!

It was like having the chance to call the police after being abducted by criminals in his previous life.

This Chivalrous Spirit Incense Burner was absolutely a good thing!

But the price described was no ordinary matter either, especially the words "impulses will become impossible to control, until one descends into madness." That was simply the sign of someone about to become a crazed demon.

Fortunately, he could activate a cheat.

Looking at the words [Reverse price?] in his sea of consciousness, Gu Qingfeng chose "Yes!" without the slightest hesitation.

The text in his sea of consciousness blurred, then changed its form.

[Status: Price has been reversed.

Note: When using this Chivalrous Spirit Incense Burner, you will bid farewell to madness and become exceptionally calm.]

In other words, the incense burner would no longer turn people into crazed demons. It would even keep them calm.

With anxious anticipation, Gu Qingfeng headed toward the practice rooms.

The Chivalrous Spirit Incense Burner required incense to use, and the fragmented memories told him there happened to be some over by the practice rooms.

After passing through a long corridor, rows of black wooden huts appeared ahead.

Those wooden huts were scattered throughout a forest. They were the practice rooms where they usually cultivated their pellet arts.

The forest grew inside a gloomy cave, yet it was remarkably lush. Gu Qingfeng could not tell what kind of trees they were.

Most of them leaned crookedly, their trunks twisting like snakes. At a glance, they resembled enormous serpents coiled in place, giving off a rather sinister air.

Whenever they entered the practice rooms to cultivate the Golden Core Immortal Art, the disciples of the Golden Core Immortal Sect had to burn incense and kowtow toward the forest, as if worshipping something.

At this moment, quite a few figures were already in the forest. Many burning sticks of incense had also been planted in the muddy ground ahead, indicating that many fellow disciples were already cultivating inside.

If the "Golden Core" on one's pellet branch was too small and dim, as his was, it was easy to be eliminated and turned into "human material." Thus, the fellow disciples here had always cultivated diligently.

Gu Qingfeng should have been the one most desperately cramming at the last minute, considering he was the main subject of scrutiny in the next assessment. But at a time like this, how could he possibly be in the mood for that?

He needed to "call the police"!

He would "call the police" and summon a great hero to kill these wicked demons and Outer Dao heretics!

So, after secretly slipping two sticks of incense into his sleeve, he headed toward his residence.

The Golden Core Immortal Sect did not have many disciples. By Gu Qingfeng's estimate, even counting core disciples like senior sister Zhang Yao, there were only forty or fifty people at most.

Yet the Golden Core Immortal Sect occupied no small area. More than half the mountain had been hollowed out, so even ordinary disciples like them lived in separate bamboo huts.

Some of the bamboo huts even had their own small courtyards.

The bamboo huts were scattered along a slope. A stone stele stood before every house, and at a glance, the place looked like a field of graves, each one marked by a tombstone.

The stele before Gu Qingfeng's bamboo hut bore the two words "Excavate Years." He had no idea what they meant.

He quickly entered the room and shut the doors and windows tight.

At this hour, most fellow disciples were cultivating by the practice rooms. It was the perfect time for him to secretly use the Chivalrous Spirit Incense Burner.

Gu Qingfeng hurriedly lit the stolen incense in the Chivalrous Spirit Incense Burner and spoke according to the description in his sea of consciousness, "I want to be a great hero!"

The incense smoke curled upward, but no strange change occurred.

"Why isn't it working?"

"Could the incense have gotten damp?"

"Right, chivalrous spirit has to be used as the guide. How was I supposed to guide chivalrous spirit? Were my emotions not strong enough just now?"

Gu Qingfeng quickly focused his mind and imagined one chivalrous scene after another, filling up his emotions.

Ever since he was young, he had loved wuxia novels and films. He loved tales of slaying demons and vanquishing devils, upholding justice, robbing the rich to aid the poor, slaughtering evil demons' entire families and leaving not a single one alive. He had also fantasized about becoming such a great hero, admired by everyone!

Unfortunately, the environment of his previous life had not allowed it.

But the environment of this life should allow it!

At that moment, he felt that if he were a great hero, he would definitely kill his wicked demon of a master, Golden Core Celestial Venerable, first!

Then there was his daughter too—senior sister Zhang Yao, who had viciously kicked him today!

A great hero did not hold grudges, but he remembered very clearly how others treated him!

A great hero had to act!

He had to kill!

At that moment, as if divine inspiration had descended upon him, Gu Qingfeng said, "I want to be a great hero!"

Almost at the same instant, the incense smoke, which had been drifting freely, trembled and stretched taut into a straight line. Like an antenna, it shot toward the roof, as though seeking to connect with some patch of empty void...

It worked?!