When ordinary people wanted to worship them, they would usually bring home a statue and enshrine it in a family shrine or shop, then conduct their business honestly and sincerely, drawing on the gods' righteousness to improve their own financial fortunes.
But these little God of Wealth temples that sprang up on their own in marketplaces were quite different from those of the True Gods of Wealth.
Most of the Gods of Wealth enshrined in such temples had no specific divine name or appearance. Often, people simply fashioned a clay statue of a fair-skinned fat man and began offering incense to it.
Afterward, such a God of Wealth temple would develop in one of three directions:
First, a demon seeking to cultivate through the power of its abundant incense offerings might come to inhabit the empty temple, which would then become the sanctuary of a Demon God of Wealth.
Second, a wandering ghost with some attainment in cultivation might take a fancy to the incense offerings there and come to take over. These were called Night Gods of Wealth.
The third kind relied purely on the power of incense offerings and Vow Power accumulated there over time to spontaneously condense a consciousness and divine soul within the clay statue, becoming a Human God of Wealth.
There was no distinction of superiority or inferiority, nobility or lowliness, among these three kinds of Gods of Wealth.
Having accepted the incense offerings of a place, they would naturally fulfill their divine duties and bless their followers with prosperity.
For those who came to burn incense and pray, there was little difference in the results.
The God of Wealth temple that preceded this Golden Immortal Temple had originally produced a Human God of Wealth.
This had been a good thing, and hardly unusual. Wherever