Wen Yan carefully read the hint provided this ti, trying to extract the key points.
The first key point was that Temporary Ability was completely unnecessary. Nothing could compare to simply planting a major mushroom right on the spot. Of course, he noted the reminder to choose an appropriate ti. That is to say, planting it carelessly wouldn’t achieve the best effect. Wen Yan had been cautious enough not to plant the major mushroom imdiately. When he had co to look earlier, he hadn’t sensed anything, as if it were just an ordinary, naless god statue. If it weren’t standing on the god platform, behind the offering table, enjoying the incense—if it were anywhere else—Wen Yan would truly have regarded it as nothing more than a common, rotten wood carving. He couldn’t even confirm if this was his target.
He waited a while before fully confirming. This must be the source of Hao Mingyang and the others’ excitent whenever they ntioned the Statue Ghost.It was also the root of their fate alteration.
The second key point was that this Statue Ghost seed to freely choose its own path. The path it chose, by Wen Yan’s estimation, must be a shortcut: using others’ fortunes to advance itself.Regardless, it was definitely an Evil Path, one impossible to take in the outside world.And when the Netherworld erged—a place beyond any conventional supervision—it seized the opportunity of the Netherworld’s recent appearance to tread its Evil Path, using the Netherworld itself as its conduit.Even its acts of helping people change their fate were conducted within the Netherworld.It seed to complete all its potentially scrutinized, sinister activities within the Netherworld.
Wen Yan wasn’t very clear about the opponent’s advancent route. However, he had heard of ’internal filling’ and ’eye-opening’ before; they weren’t associated with righteous practices. He had only heard back then that so Tomb Robbers particularly favored ancient statues with significant histories. This was because, at the ti such legitimate statues were crafted, their interiors would be filled with various Magic Artifacts, antiques, jewelry, Gold, Scripture Scrolls, Precious Decrees, and the like. They called this process ’internal filling.’ It was very complex, with the thods varying for statues from different regions and traditions. But one thing was certain: ordinary clay statues and those that had undergone ’internal filling’ were on completely different levels.
As for ’eye-opening,’ this was the final and most crucial step for a god statue. It required a special conjunction of auspicious timing and favorable location, calculated precisely. The requirents for the person performing the eye-opening were also extrely complex and demanding. If one saw a god statue with its eyes depicted as lowered, unless it was a specific type of deity ant to be so, it was generally a statue whose eyes had not yet been ’opened.’ The statues in the main hall of Fuyu Mountain, for example, all had ’opened’ eyes. They were full of dignity and solemnity, making people hesitant to look directly at them. rely seeing them would involuntarily calm one’s mind and disperse all stray thoughts.
According to his Great Uncle Master, respect for the Ancestors was to be held within the heart, not rely expressed through reverence for statues. Cultivating in the main hall was partly an act of reverence towards the Ancestors and partly for bettering one’s own cultivation. These statues in Fuyu Mountain had actual positive effects; they weren’t re formalities. Wen Yan knew that rely by completing the ’internal filling’ and ’eye-opening,’ this Statue Ghost was already no ordinary statue.
No wonder it possessed such miraculous abilities. Under the guise of altering fate, it was capable of such deception as to allow two people to swap identities and entire lives.Excluding the previous two, Wen Yan had now seen two more players seeking to change their fates here.
The people he’d seen who desired to change their fate must have been truly overwheld, driven to their absolute limits, to willingly brainwash themselves. They believed in this kind of fate alteration, convinced that re devout prostrations and a few incense sticks constituted a sufficient price.The first player he saw yesterday had a sallow complexion and was a cripple. He was obviously suffering from a severe illness and didn’t have much ti left.And judging from his attire, he probably didn’t co from a poor family.At such a juncture, given even a sliver of hope, such a person might genuinely not care about the price or consequences.
Wen Yan couldn’t bring himself to dissuade them. Could he really advise soone to just wait peacefully for death?What if he told them it was a huge scam? That, on so level, they might indeed succeed in altering their fate, but not for long? That they would soon die a sudden, violent death, and might not even find release in death?Perhaps after successfully altering their fate, they wouldn’t even live as long as they might have otherwise.But whether they believed him or not, Wen Yan estimated that even if they did, they would still choose to alter their fate.Soone who had endured prolonged suffering from illness, knowing death was inevitable, might still choose a little ease in their final days, even if it was a false hope.
Wen Yan recalled an old man he had once t. He had been a leader before retirent and enjoyed high post-retirent benefits, including, naturally, a substantial pension. Back when the old man was still working, the economy hadn’t yet developed. His children held ordinary jobs with modest incos, so the entire family depended heavily on his generous monthly pension. Towards the end, he was paralyzed in bed, could barely eat, and was emaciated to skin and bones. Despite this, his family did everything possible to maintain his vital signs.
Wen Yan was an apprentice in funerary services at the ti. Being young and less conspicuous, he would sotis be sent in first to assess the situation before his master would step forward. Wen Yan had visited the old man twice. By then, the man could only consu a little liquid gruel and was immobile, rely clinging to life. Wen Yan was inexperienced back then. He once overheard soone ntion that the old man was failing and that his family should prepare for his passing. Unable to bear it, and seizing a mont when the family mbers were outside arguing, Wen Yan slipped in and quietly asked the old man if there was anything he wished to eat.
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