Chen Shi’s heart stirred slightly as he glanced at Old Lady Zhuang.
"Granny, I apologize."
Old Lady Zhuang had yet to recover her wits when, in the next mont, the world seed to spin around her. Upon waking, she found herself atop the altar in a small temple, bound by a force, with the Heaven and Earth Righteous Qi from another ti and space flowing into her continuously.
And within this temple, there was another altar, upon which sat a woman with a head several tis larger than her body, regulating the Heaven and Earth Righteous Qi.
Though Old Lady Zhuang had boundless mana, she felt significantly inferior to that woman.
Realizing that she was in the small temple at the back of Chen Shi’s mind, she relaxed and mimicked Stone Rock Lady, aiding Chen Shi in regulating the Righteous Qi.
The Heaven and Earth Righteous Qi ca from the ancestral land, the Huaxia Divine Continent, pure and free from any evil Qi. As Old Lady Zhuang helped Chen Shi regulate the Righteous Qi, she felt the evil Qi she had absorbed was being gradually refined within her, a mixture of shock and joy in her heart.
"Little Ten really is not bad."
With Old Lady Zhuang and Stone Rock Lady regulating the Righteous Qi, Chen Shi felt as if he had gained two powerful Primordial Spirits like Zhuang and Stone Rock to assist his cultivation. Not only did the cultivation of the ginseng babies surge rapidly, but his own cultivation was also crazily increasing!
"Could the Innate Dao Embryo have such speed in cultivation?" Chen Shi thought to himself.
Suddenly, his small temple rumbled, and divine light surged and circulated, and the space within the temple actually began to grow!
This kind of change had occurred once before, last ti the small temple had grown bigger, gaining an additional altar!
Although Chen Shi was no longer surprised by such oddities, the prospect of an additional altar still excited him imnsely.
An extra altar ant essentially gaining an additional Divine Embryo.
Even if every Divine Embryo was not as formidable as the Innate Dao Embryo, the combined strength of three Divine Embryos could surely match or even surpass it!
When the strange noises in the small temple ceased, the space inside was much larger, and sure enough, on the right side of the temple, another altar had appeared.
Three altars: in the center sat Stone Rock Lady, on the left sat Old Lady Zhuang, and the right was still empty.
At the thought of Chen Shi, a ginseng baby flew up and landed on the altar.
However, the ginseng baby’s cultivation was not high, offering him limited enhancent to his own cultivation.
Seeing this, the other babies pulled themselves out from the soil outside the temple’s entrance, ran inside, and crowded onto an altar.
Chen Shi exclaid in surprise; with these ginseng babies crowded together, their collective effect unexpectedly greatly boosted his cultivation speed!
Black Pot felt better after resting until evening and was lying on a lounge chair reading a book when he saw Chen Shi return from outside, bringing lots of mutant beasts’ flesh to nd his body, which ward his heart.
But the thought of being bled again after recovering brought worry once more.
Chen Shi said excitedly, "Black Pot, could you enter my small temple to cultivate? You’ve got a spirit, right? In my temple, there’s a new altar! Want to give it a try?"
Black Pot considered fleeing but hesitated for a mont, then put down the book and nodded.
When Chen Shi conjured up the small temple, Black Pot only saw a blur before appearing on the third altar of the small temple.
The altar had been full of ginseng babies, squished all over the place.
Uncontrollably, Black Pot crossed his legs and sat in the lotus position, with the soles of his feet, crown of his head, and all the five hearts toward the heavens, feeling Vast Righteous Qi surge forth, which greatly expedited his cultivation compared to doing it on his own.
"Wow!" Black Pot was amazed.
"What’s a dog barking for?" Stone Rock Lady was quite displeased.
Old Lady Zhuang was more amiable and said to Black Pot, "Doggy, the two of us together can’t beat her, just grin and bear it."
Chen Shi looked at the lounge chair; only a ghostly book remained, with no sign of Black Pot, who had clearly been taken into the small temple with his physical body as well!
"Strange, isn’t the small temple supposed to take spirits, not physical bodies?" he pondered.
Apparently, a lot had changed with the small temple this ti.
As Chen Shi studied the small temple, a small ghost’s voice ca from outside the village, "...Sangyu sister, has Scholar Ma returned yet?"
"Scholar Ma said he hasn’t co ho yet," replied Sangyu.
The small ghost and Lantern Ghost left dispiritedly.
Overnight passed, and Chen Shi freshened up early in the morning.
Sohow, during the night, Black Pot had slipped out of his small temple, started cooking, with Old Lady Zhuang also sneaking out to help Black Pot with the cooking. By the ti Chen Shi returned from paying respects to his grandfather, godmother, and Zhu Xiucai, the al had been prepared.
Black Pot and Old Lady Zhuang returned to his small temple to continue their cultivation.
After Chen Shi finished his al, he found that Black Pot had also left him a bowl of Black Dog Blood, clearly indicating that cultivating in Chen Shi’s small temple yielded twice the results with half the effort, prompting Black Pot to offer his blood voluntarily, saving Chen Shi the trouble of doing it himself and also saving ti.
"Why doesn’t Old Lady Zhuang ntion going ho?"
Chen Shi wondered, but Old Lady Zhuang’s staying was only helping his cultivation.
"When Old Lady Zhuang can’t stand it any longer and wants to go ho, then I’ll bring Xuan Shan into the small temple."
He hesitated, knowing Xuan Shan was profound and inscrutable like the Outer Heaven True God, and he wondered if Xuan Shan would be angered by being brought into the small temple.
After the al, Chen Shi continued to sketch the wooden cart and Hua Gai.
By noon, Black Pot and Old Lady Zhuang had snuck out of the small temple to prepare lunch for Chen Shi.
When Stone Rock Lady saw their diligence, she sneered, "Flatterers, thinking such tricks can elevate their status in the presence of the higher-ups. Humph, surely the higher-ups are not so crude."
Despite her words, she couldn’t help but feel uneasy.
Having occupied the best position among the three altars in the small temple, and although she had the highest cultivation, she had many blemishes, having been haughty on nurous occasions and even threatening to take down Chen Shi along with herself.
Now, the actions of Black Pot and Old Lady Zhuang made her fear for her own position.
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