Chen Baiqing stepped into the ancestral hall, looked straight at Ancestor Zhou, then turned her gaze to the other statues.
The statues all had beast heads and human bodies, each holding a different weapon.
Compared with Ancestor Zhou, whose aura was unstable and weak, those statues had rather more strength-around the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
Chen Baiqing walked to the center and carefully examined the ritual and the red incense smoke.
Before she came, her master and Chen Mouguang had speculated that they were using some method to turn wish power into seals, or perhaps other objects.
Her primary purpose this time was still to gather information.
From what she could see now, this was not a ritual for gathering wish power, but one for absorbing it.
The people here wanted to use some method to heighten the effects of wish power, or perhaps remedy its weakness-so that even after losing their wish power, they still would not fall in cultivation realm.
Chen Baiqing had read the brief notes on wish power in the Complete Guide to Cultivation Basics.
Perhaps because cultivators had compiled the book, its attitude toward those who cultivated wish power could essentially be described as respect on the lips and contempt in the heart.
The respect was because most people who could legitimately accumulate wish power were, at least in their conduct, good people.
The contempt was because, in cultivators' eyes, those who cultivated wish power were all the sort who forced a path where there was none.
The biggest reason was that wish power cultivation could lead to a fall in realm, while the higher one's cultivation, the greater the amount of wish power needed to sustain it.
Yet people's faith and convictions were actually very unstable and extremely easy to shake, making it exceedingly