Lord Template
[Mountain Lord Authority is being consolidated, progress: 45.17%]
"Still so far..." Lin Xu frowned, looking at the progress bar on the Mountain Lord Seal, feeling troubled.
Due to the keen intuition of Soul Refining cultivator, whenever he saw the Mountain Lord Seal condensing its authority, he would feel an inexplicable sense of urgency, as if condensing this authority would be of great benefit to him.
Even if he plundered all the incense stored in the Merit Hall, and added all the incense obtained through opening treasure chests and other means, he only advanced the progress to 35%, still far from fully condensing the authority.
"Does this mean we have to collect incense offerings in the real world?" Lin Xu frowned slightly.
In this era of extraordinary arrivals, the value of any extraordinary resource will be amplified.
He didn't believe he was the only monk who could utilize faith; he was almost certain that once someone discovered the value of incense and faith, that resource would immediately be monopolized by certain forces.
Given his real-world connections and status, it would be virtually impossible for him to gain a large following in Meng City.
"Master, that woman is back." A telepathic message flashed by, Qiuqiu proactively shared its vision.
"So fast?!" Lin Xu was genuinely surprised this time. He "saw" Li Yingqiu moving through the mountains and forests. Before she even realized it, she was already surrounded by patrolling Red-Robed Ghost.
With a flash, the quiet room was empty, and when he reappeared, he was already in front of Li Yingqiu.
"Daoist Master!" Li Yingqiu quickly bowed and presented several incense burners as if they were treasures. "I'm back. I've brought what you asked for."
Lin Xu looked her up and down. "How... how did you collect so much incense in such a short time?"
The bag she was carrying contained about a hundred incense sticks, a number that surprised even him.
"There are places in temples and Daoist monasteries that specialize in this business." Li Yingqiu paused for a moment, "I went directly to the clerk and traded using the Spirit Grain Pill you gave me; one pill costs 60 bottles of incense."
Lin Xu frowned slightly. This seemed to be different from the situation in Meng City. He remembered that the Daoist temples and Buddhist temples in Meng City had already become semi-official.
He took the incense bottle, which was not much different from the ones produced by Xuanwei Monastery. Each bottle contained 100 points of incense, and ten bottles could be refined into one or two Heaven Silver. Of course, this was referring to him; for others, refining one tael from 15 bottles would be considered a profit.
"How much did you bring?" A hint of surprise flashed in his eyes; this was truly a timely help.
"600 bottles," Li Yingqiu replied, noticing his surprise, and quickly explained, "I saw that you, Daoist Master, urgently needed incense offerings, so I exchanged all the pills for them."
There was something new in Lin Xu's gaze as he looked at her. Perhaps the intelligent girl had realized that everything he had done before was a test, but he didn't care.
There are many smart people in this world, but few can achieve great things. Ability and wisdom are only one aspect; what is more important is the courage and drive to take risks.
When you see an opportunity, seize it without hesitation, even if the risks are unknown.
This decisiveness is what he admires most.
"Very good." Lin Xu raised his hand and gently waved it, and six hundred bottles of incense floated in mid-air, with green smoke swirling inside, before instantly falling into the Glazed Spirit Lamp.
Li Yingqiu stared in astonishment at the flickering candlelight of the spirit lamp. Amidst the soft crackling sounds, the originally pure light began to shimmer with a riot of seven colors, as if countless tiny stars were exploding and reforming within the flame.
A bright silver Incense Fire Heaven Silver condensed in the lamp flame, slowly dripped down, and instantly transformed into a gold ingot, its surface shimmering with subtle iridescent light.
Ten bottles of incense cost one Heaven Silver, with almost no loss.
As incense bottles were opened one by one, thick blue smoke gathered in the Glazed Spirit Lamp, silver droplets dripped and solidified continuously, and piles of gold ingots accumulated on the ground, their colorful light gradually intensifying.
Li Yingqiu held her breath, her fingertips unconsciously clenching the hem of her clothes. It was the first time she had ever seen so many Incense Fire Heaven Silver piled together.
Sixty- Heaven Silver was refined and piled up into a small mountain.
"That's enough~" Lin Xu looked at the pile of gleaming Incense Fire Heaven Silver in front of him with satisfaction, his heart filled with joy.
Clouds, like smoke and mist, rose beneath his feet, engulfing Heaven Silver and Li Yingqiu together. "Hold on tight!"
"Ah~" Before Li Yingqiu's exclamation could even finish, the clouds and mist had already carried the two of them straight into the sky. With a gentle breeze on their faces, the scenery before them was already quite different.
Originally limited by the Spirit Realm Mist, her vision was only about ten meters ahead, which was undoubtedly a huge constraint for an archer skilled in archery.
But now, the clouds are in the sky, and beneath your feet lies a verdant expanse of earth, with sunlight spreading like gold foil, dyeing the entire hill a warm amber color.
Li Yingqiu was taken aback at first, then quickly opened her personal panel and saw that an identity column had been added. She was both surprised and delighted.
In the blink of an eye, the two had arrived at the open space in front of the cave.
"Master!" Meng Yaoguang and Meng Yaohua came forward and bowed in unison.
Lin Xu nodded in agreement. "Let's take her for a walk around the neighborhood first."
Without pausing, he entered the cave and headed towards the quiet room.
A vast amount of information converged on the Mountain Lord Seal, like weary birds returning to their nests, and quickly poured into this special seal.
Visibly, a faint glow appeared on the cyan-gold seal, and the speed at which the Mountain Lord Authority was condensing was rapidly increasing.
The chaotic and fragmented information constantly collided, and the tiny fragments of information combined with related information to form larger fragments.
Larger fragments merge and grow even larger, eventually coalescing into a complete skeleton, which then begins to attract more fragments to take shape.
About an hour later, the disturbance at the information level finally subsided, and a special talisman took shape within the Mountain Lord Seal.
The Azure Cloud Mountain Lord Talisman Edict is a rare red-grade item. The holder of the edict gains control of the Spirit Mountain Realm, becoming the Azure Cloud Mountain Lord and obtaining the Lord Template.
"A red item? Lord Template?" Lin Xu gasped. He had thought that the grade of the Mountain Lord Seal would increase after the authority was condensed, but he never expected that this seal would actually become a red-grade artifact!
Gold-grade equipment is Legendary, while red-grade equipment is invariably related to rules; it belongs to the realm of the gods.
He reached out and grabbed the Mountain Lord Seal.
"Buzz~"
A flash of crimson-gold light appeared on the seal, and a beam of red light detached from the bronze seal, instantly entering Lin Xu's forehead.
"Boom~"
His mind was violently trembling, and Lin Xu stood frozen in place, like a sculpture in a dream.
At this moment, his consciousness had already entered the sea of consciousness along with the talisman.
This crimson-glowing talisman merged with the great sun at the center of the mind's sea, and at the boundary between light and darkness, the boundary line rapidly expanded outward.
In just a few breaths, the space in his sea of consciousness doubled in size, and the speed at which its boundaries expanded showed no signs of slowing down.
Inside the quiet room, Spiritual Qi surged like a tide, rushing into Lin Xu's body.