Li Qing said, "Strength increased by 0.3 times."
Feng Ling and Ye Zheng's eyes both lit up when they heard that.
The two spoke in unison. "I want to worship too."
Feng Ling swiftly knelt down and bowed three times. Ye Zheng's body made kneeling inconvenient, so she stood where she was and bowed instead.
Afterward, they asked Li Qing, "How was it? Did it work?"
Li Qing nodded and said seriously, "Both your strength increased by 0.3 times. It lasts for thirty minutes."
Feng Ling grinned. "With a buff like this, it would feel like a waste not to go out and kill a few monsters."
Li Qing laughed at that too.
The fact that worshipping gods could produce buffs greatly reassured him.
Feng Ling said happily, "Come on, let's go worship some other gods too~"
Everyone's curiosity had been piqued, and they worshipped as they walked along the streets.
At first, they mostly encountered Martial Gods of Wealth and maneki-neko. Later, after leaving the Pedestrian Street and entering a residential area, they found that the idols here mainly depicted Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Three Stars of Fortune, Prosperity, and Longevity.
Idols were enshrined not only indoors, but outdoors as well. At some street intersections stood inconspicuous, dusty shrines, each housing a different deity: the Jade Emperor, Tathagata Buddha, Golden Flower Lady, Empress of Heaven, Lord of Fate, the Three Mountain Kings, Lord Laozi, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven... There were too many to count.
Feng Ling worshipped the God of Grains and immediately felt full. (She had not experienced a sense of fullness in a very long time.)
Ye Zheng worshipped Great Emperor Huaguang, increasing her fire resistance sixfold.
Xu Yiming worshipped He Xiangu, increasing his recovery ability by 1.5 times.
Huangfu Miaomiao worshipped Ge Hong, and