Chapter 169 Borrowing Incense

Knowing that he had arrived at a town with a huge flow of people, he was overjoyed and immediately used the technique of driving the spirit.

But the object of the driving was himself.

It was himself driving himself!

"A new use for the spirit driving technique: find the coordinates of the Zhenwu statue, and then I can possess it and enjoy the incense offerings."

The divine form has a natural connection to the divine statue. The technique of driving the spirit was originally used in this way: the enshrined deity descends its form and spirit, which are then dispatched by this spell to act.

Moreover, where there are many people, there must be traces of the White Lotus Sect's activities. They always like to distribute leaflets in crowded places, so in this way, having a place to stay with flourishing incense can also be a good way to freeload.

"The Great Manifestation of Brilliant Light Dharma Master's incense of the myriad people, he dissipated a lot of it before, and did not obtain it completely. My consumption is also very large, and I must replenish it immediately."

Soon, the spirit driving technique guided Ji Xiang to possess a bright and solemn Zhenwu statue.

Directly possessing the statue, rather than reflecting it, is not a rare method. Those with divine positions can do this. The Yin Si divine generals of the Forbidden City will possess statues. Huo Jun also did this in Shichahai, directly turning the Fire Virtue True Lord's big beard image into her own beautiful appearance. That was the ability possessed by her divine position.

Although Ji Xiang does not have the divine position of Zhenwu, he has the divine positions of the other three holy generals, especially Marshal Tianpeng. As the saying goes, when Tianpeng is here, make way.

The Zhenwu statue's eyes moved, and a faint brilliance was released from it. However, this statue was not in the main seat. Ji Xiang looked around the temple. Although it was not particularly large, the decoration was very good, with a faint national prestige of the Great Ming Dynasty permeating it. Obviously, the local government had conferred honors upon this place.

"It's normal not to be in the main seat. This temple doesn't seem to be dedicated to the Zhenwu Emperor. Many temples enshrine Zhenwu in the side hall, or as an accompanying deity to the main hall's god. After all, the incense of the Zhenwu Emperor was very prosperous in the Ming Dynasty."

"Is this a White Lotus Sect temple?"

"Doesn't seem like it."

Ji Xiang looked at the layout of the temple. This was a folk temple, not set up by the White Lotus Sect. It is easy to distinguish White Lotus Sect temples: see if there are any unfamiliar immortals, or if they enshrine mountain spirits such as foxes. You can tell at a glance.

Just like the Eastern Great Vehicle Temple, Ji Xiang felt something was wrong when he saw them putting foxes in the temple hall.

However, at that time, the Eastern Great Vehicle Temple claimed to have government procedures and was a formal unit. In fact, it was indeed the case. If the county magistrate in the government becomes your person, isn't that your procedure?

Ji Xiang looked at the statue of the temple master. The temple master of this temple was a goddess, but he had never seen her before, but she was wearing armor....

A Mulan temple?

There are only a few famous female generals in ancient times, but Ji Xiang couldn't see the temple gate, so he didn't know who this female general was.

There are many spontaneous temple constructions among the people, worshipping some ancient people, and some are even far-fetched.

The souls of these people may not have truly become gods, giving birth to divinity. Or rather, the person who grasps divinity is often another person, or the divine position has received incense for many years and has given birth to its own spirituality, thus borrowing the statue and becoming a living local god.

But still, the saying goes, not belonging to the Thirty-Six Heavens' orthodox gods.

In short, this temple didn't seem to have any problems, and the incense was very orthodox. Ji Xiang felt at ease and began to cultivate, to restore his form and spirit. Some pilgrims outside also had some doubts about the Zhenwu statue.

They felt that something seemed wrong with the statue, but they couldn't explain it.

It seemed that the beard was a little shorter than the last time they saw it?

Most people thought it was an illusion, and only thought that the Zhenwu statue had become more effective, so with such publicity, when Ji Xiang felt the strong and continuous power of incense coming, he saw many people not worshipping the temple master, but running to worship him.

In front of the temple master's statue, the incense was sparse, the gate could be let down, and it was deserted and cold.

And the temple keeper of this temple didn't seem to care. On the contrary, seeing the Zhenwu here being so crowded, he immediately began to vigorously promote it, attracting more pilgrims to offer merit money.

He even implicitly raised the price of incense.

This made Ji Xiang dumbfounded.

"When I possess the statue, mortals can't see the problem. They just feel that this statue is stained with incense, has received offerings, and has spirituality, so they think it is effective, and will come here to worship. But I have robbed the temple master's incense. This is not a good thing."

"I am robbing other people's incense. If I make enemies, it will have a bad influence. I, a dignified Dao Lord of the Great Ming, am not reduced to doing these things."

Ji Xiang immediately restrained his cultivation activities, and the spiritual power of the Zhenwu statue gradually faded away. As a result, the pilgrims who came later found that the Zhenwu statue did not have the kind of magical feeling that the previous pilgrims had advertised.

But they didn't ask for a refund.

After all, they had come to the temple, so it was good to worship anyway. What if it was effective?

Ji Xiang felt a sense of familiarity in his heart.

Sitting on the divine platform, receiving the worship of the myriad people, those divine tablets in the Great Floating Li Earth back then were like this, accepting the wishes and incense offerings of the lower realm. Countless prayers rose into the blue sky, whether good deeds or guilty deeds, they would always be heard by the gods.

With a thought, he almost alarmed the temple's divine spirits again. Ji Xiang immediately restrained his mind and saw a small red dog appearing under the statue of the temple master.

Ji Xiang recognized this kind of small dog divine spirit.

"Lianggui, the essence of the house, calling its name can improve people's eyesight."

This is a kind and benevolent divine spirit.

The little red dog wagged its tail, circled twice in front of the temple master's statue, and then looked at the Zhenwu statue, as if it had heard Ji Xiang calling it, but it couldn't find Ji Xiang's existence, so it disappeared.

The temple keeper also saw the little dog, but just as he was about to drive it away, the little dog had already disappeared. The temple keeper was immediately confused and stopped paying attention to its problem.

Soon it was night, and the temple no longer received tourists, but the doors were still open.

The temple keeper didn't seem to intend to lock the door, and Ji Xiang felt strange.

He doesn't take the incense money home, is he not afraid of being stolen?

In this temple, there seemed to be newly arrived servants. Seeing that the temple door was not closed, they kindly reminded him, but the temple keeper smiled:

"No need to close the door, the temple master hasn't come back yet! When she comes back later, the temple door will close by itself!"

"By the way, you few newcomers, don't run over here in the middle of the night to steal money. If you are killed at that time, don't blame me for not reminding you!"

The temple keeper reminded the few new servants, and told them:

"The temple master has a very bad temper, and she hates people who say bad things about her the most. There was a scholar who came here to humiliate her before, and as a result, she shot him in the back with an arrow. After the scholar went back, a big sore grew on his back, and he died the next day."

"But she does things for people, as long as she agrees, she will definitely do it, keeping her promises. Don't look at her as a woman, she is a woman of her word."

Several servants looked at each other in dismay: "Temple keeper, you just said bad things too!"

The temple keeper then reacted: "Bah! I didn't say it, who of you heard it, whoever dares to hear it, don't take your salary this month!"

After he finished speaking, he left, and several servants dared not stay any longer and left here one after another. However, some people still looked at the merit box, and seemed to have bad intentions, and would definitely come again in the second half of the night.

The temple gate was wide open.

Some night watchmen also came here, went in to offer incense, put money into the merit box themselves, and then left.

Around the second watch, a young girl stood at the door, and shouted to the main hall of the temple from afar:

"Which god is it, who came to my temple to ask for incense?"

"My temple, usually doesn't have such a strong incense."

Ji Xiang didn't say anything.

Can this be called asking?

This is called borrowing.

The young girl walked in step by step, looked around, paused on the Zhenwu statue for a while, and then shook her head:

"It seems that he has left. The incense of the Zhenwu statue is so prosperous, which wild god is so bold as to borrow the incense of Lord Zhenwu?"