Putting away the Notebook, Chen Miao looked at the Incense-Free Lord beside him.
Although the eyes on the bronze cauldron betrayed no emotion, he had sensed the meaning behind the Incense-Free Lord's gaze shifting ever since earlier.
[Status · Heart Illumination] was only a third-tier status. Sensing the Incense-Free Lord's gaze was difficult enough; expecting to sense what the deity was thinking would have been absurd.
Still, Chen Miao could roughly guess why the Incense-Free Lord's emotions had changed.
The deity had probably seen that golden silkworm.
The Incense-Free Lord could not see the Notebook, but the golden silkworm had been formed from yin virtue, so it was only natural that it was visible.
Judging by the method of dispelling karmic burden the Incense-Free Lord had described earlier, the deity had probably never seen anything like a golden silkworm of yin virtue either.
Being surprised was only natural.
Chen Miao did not volunteer an explanation for the golden silkworm. Instead, he continued asking about Immortals and Gods.
"There's something I'm curious about. Just how many Immortals and Gods are there?"
"As far as I know, over the past several centuries in the Mortal World, only one person seems to have forged the Heaven-Ascending Steps and successfully achieved ascension. Yet the Mortal World worships many different Immortals and Gods. Where did they all come from?"
Chen Miao had wondered about this for a long time.
The Mortal World's history of yin cultivation spanned no more than a thousand years, and only one yin cultivator had successfully ascended. Yet there seemed to be plenty of Immortals and Gods.
Each of the Blood Incense One Hundred and Eight Paths corresponded to a different deity, to say nothing of those worshipped by other incense ways.
Where had all these Immortals and Gods come from?