A Child Is Born in Liu Family Village

Come to think of it, Yin Fire was supposed to start at the Yongquan acupoints.

In other words, it was a flame that emerged from within the body.

It burned the body itself, reducing everything to ashes.

He did not know whether he could withstand it, but he had Samadhi True Fire as a foundation, and he also cultivated the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts.

So getting through Yin Fire should not be too difficult. He would play it safe for now; after all, he had only just passed his Lightning Calamity yesterday.

Although he had used up his spirit stones in cultivation, he still had medicinal pills.

The Three-Turn Golden Elixir did not sound like much, but the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir above it could truly bring the dead back to life and put flesh on bare bones. Even if your soul had reached the Underworld, a Nine-Turn Golden Elixir could forcibly drag you back. So the immense power contained within a Nine-Turn Golden Elixir was also a considerable boon to the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts.

What Jiang Zhe was most curious about was the thousand taels of incense offerings.

What exactly is this stuff?

With a thought, a mass of golden, glowing energy appeared in Jiang Zhe's hand.

This was the so-called incense offering.

Almost the moment he brought it out, a faint, elusive fragrance wafted toward Jiang Zhe.

"Oh! Where did you get so many ownerless incense offerings?" Just as Jiang Zhe was hesitating over whether to absorb them, Weaver Girl's surprised voice reached his ears.

Weaver Girl stood in the doorway, rubbing her eyes as she asked him curiously.

"I got them by chance. Speaking of which, what are they good for?" Jiang Zhe asked curiously, tossing the incense offerings, which looked like a golden basketball, in his hand.

"They're incredibly useful. They can prolong your life, strengthen your dharma form, stabilize your divine body, and even let people communicate with gods. If a believer prays to you, you can use that power of faith to send down a dharma body and act directly on the believer's behalf." As Weaver Girl spoke, she came over to Jiang Zhe's side, curious.

Then she sniffed them like a puppy.

"How do you use them?" Jiang Zhe's eyes lit up at that. He did not care about the other uses, but stabilizing his divine body and strengthening his dharma form sounded quite good.

He could set the divine body aside for now!

But a dharma form was something he would have to condense to break through to True Immortal.

Everyone's dharma form was different. A demon's was almost always its true form, while an immortal's was the immortal himself. Of course, one could also condense an ancestor from one's bloodline, or form one through one's cultivation technique and future path.

For example, the Bull Demon King's dharma form was a typical bull, while Erlang Shen's was a divine general clad in silver armor and wielding a three-pointed, double-edged blade.

Human Immortals cultivated the self, Earth Immortals cultivated the soul, and Heavenly Immortals sought laws to establish their own paths.

Jiang Zhe's current path was the Law of Fire. After all, he had now fused with the Law of Fire, and flames and lightning were what he had most in his body.

So Jiang Zhe was in no hurry to comprehend a law. With his innate foundation and so many flame talents, he could stack them up until he reached the Law of Fire.

"Do you want some?" Jiang Zhe asked, looking at Weaver Girl.

"Can I?" Weaver Girl rubbed her hands, her eyes lighting up.

Jiang Zhe immediately broke off a piece of the incense offerings and handed it to Weaver Girl, roughly a dozen or so taels.

After Weaver Girl accepted the incense offerings, they instantly merged into her body.

At the same time, Jiang Zhe seemed to see a star in the sky begin to twinkle.

"The Weaver Girl Star?" Jiang Zhe asked, raising an eyebrow.

"That's right. I don't have a shrine, so of course the incense offerings go into my star palace," Weaver Girl said with a nod.

"I see. Then it looks like I'll have to store these incense offerings for now." Having figured it out, Jiang Zhe immediately put them away.

"By the way, do you want to become a star palace?" As if a thought had struck her, Weaver Girl looked at Jiang Zhe expectantly.

"Not for now. We'll talk about it when I go to the Heavenly Court." Jiang Zhe shook his head. He would go to the Heavenly Court sooner or later, but for now, he still had to reap whatever merit he could in the mortal world.

"All right." A trace of disappointment flashed through Weaver Girl's eyes.

Just then, startled cries suddenly reached them from the street.

"The head of Liu Family Village has had a young son! Everyone, come with me to offer your blessings and collect a reward!" a villager called out loudly.

In an instant, the street came alive.

"Village Head Liu is such a good man. No wonder his family is so prosperous."

"I do good deeds every day too. Why are all the children I have daughters?"

"I heard Village Head Liu's eldest son seems to have gone missing. He organized more than a dozen villagers to search the mountains yesterday, but they couldn't find him."

"A happy event and a sad one together again. I heard the same thing happened in Liu Family Village decades ago."

"Perhaps Heaven couldn't bear to see Village Head Liu's line die out."

Although the discussion in the street was several hundred meters away from Jiang Zhe, with his current cultivation, he naturally heard every word.

No wonder there had still been no notification that the mission was complete, even though he had killed Joyful Boy.

So the thing was like a parasite: kill one, and another appeared.

To kill him for good, Jiang Zhe would have to destroy his soul completely.

The body had no magic power, but that did not mean the soul had no magic power or means of attack.

Joyful Boy was Joyful Buddha's disciple, after all. Who knew what contingency he might have left behind?

Besides, his Samadhi True Fire was not yet powerful enough to burn a soul away completely.

This mission really was going to take a long time.

But! It was not impossible.

As for the Underworld...

Would Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva pay attention if the monkey barged into the Underworld?

If I could piggyback on the monkey's karma, stir up some trouble in the Underworld, and then use Samadhi True Fire to burn the souls of those the Underworld has already determined to be guilty of heinous crimes...

Would my merit skyrocket?

The monkey will take the blame anyway, so stirring up a little trouble should be fine, right?

Primordial Summoning and Transforming Divine Lightning had also made his fate impossible to trace through karma, placing him beyond the Three Realms and outside the five elements.

As long as he hid himself well enough, he should not be easy to discover.

Once my strength reaches Golden Immortal, I can make a sweep of the Western Ox Continent. Wouldn't my merit come pouring in?

The thought instantly excited Jiang Zhe.

"What is it? Why did you suddenly get so worked up?" Weaver Girl had been staring blankly at Jiang Zhe from beside him, only to see him inexplicably go from deep thought to excitement. In the end, he could barely control his expression.

"Nothing. Come on, let's go take a look at Liu Family Village," Jiang Zhe said decisively.

He still had the five thousand merit from the Soul-Fixing Jade the system had reclaimed. As its name suggested, the Soul-Fixing Jade was used to secure a soul.

Moreover, when he had previously eavesdropped on the conversation between Tiger-Taming's clone and Joyful Boy, Jiang Zhe had gained a general understanding of what the Soul-Fixing Jade did.

Broadly speaking, it kept a soul fixed in one place as a marker, allowing it to reincarnate again and again without end.

And through connections with Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, it exempted the soul from the effects of Meng Po Soup, allowing it to reincarnate with its memories intact.

The purpose was to win Yang Chan over, lifetime after lifetime.

With the added help of Joyful Buddha Light and a thousand years of scheming, even a fairy could not withstand it.