Chapter 369 - The Old Man Who Sell Incense in God Cui Temple
Chapter 369 The Old Man Who Sell Incense in God Cui Temple
Zhuo Fan did not know what the Heaven Pass was, nor did he dare to ask. He could only kneel there and tremble without saying a word.
After a while, the voice sounded again.
“Forget it, I won’t waste my breath on you. Now that the spatial shackles have loosened, I’ve already obtained the opportunity to return to the mortal world. In a few days, I’ll split my divine sense and reincarnate into the mortal world.
“You have to be prepared to welcome my reincarnation. At that time, I will give you the power of the Heavens and let you become the Lord of the Heavens of the Eighth Realm of the Immortal World.”
After saying that, there was silence. There was no mention of the consequences if Zhuo Fan did not do as he was told.
However, Zhuo Fan did not dare to disobey. This was a big shot from the Heaven Realm, a great existence who could casually give out the power of a Lord of the Heavens. If he violated his will, the consequences were definitely not something he could afford.
“But wouldn’t that be betraying Immortal Venerable Cui?” Zhuo Fan fell into a dilemma. He was incomparably conflicted in his heart. “Immortal Venerable Cui can defeat the Holy Mother of White Lotus, who is the ruler of a Heaven. He’s at least an expert who stands at the Ninth Realm of the Immortal World…”
“However, there has been no news of Immortal Venerable Cui in the past 300 years, nor has there been any news from the Great Zhou. Perhaps he has already left the Purple Sun Realm.
“That’s right, that’s right. How can a big shot like Immortal Venerable Cui stay in a small place like the Purple Sun Realm forever? He should at least go to the true Heaven Domain to cultivate.”
For a moment, fear and luck occupied his heart.
“If I continue to stand on Immortal Venerable Cui’s side, I will definitely die without any chance of survival…” Zhuo Fan thought to himself. “I haven’t cultivated bitterly for tens of thousands of years just to wait for death. I can’t die.
“I’m sorry, Immortal Venerable Cui!”
Purple Sun Star, Great Zhou, Clear Lotus County.
300 years ago, this was still an oasis in the desert. It was the headquarters of the White Lotus Lifeless Sect. It was the gathering place of all evil and also a huge obstacle in the development of the Great Zhou.
Fortunately, Immortal Venerable Cui Heng took action and used a supreme divine power to destroy the White Lotus Lifeless Sect. Only then could the Great Zhou develop and spread throughout the world.
Now, this place had already become Clear Lotus County under the rule of Pingyang Prefecture of the Great Zhou. It was also the richest county. There was even a God Cui Temple built in the county city to worship Immortal Venerable Cui.
At first, the Imperial Court did not allow the commoners to worship Immortal Venerable Cui privately. However, as Immortal Venerable Cui’s deeds spread, more and more commoners wanted to worship him.
Moreover, this worship was different from the unconditional superstition towards the Holy Mother of White Lotus in the past. It was the gratitude and reverence of the people from all over the world.
Hence, a hundred years ago, under many requests, the Imperial Court finally ordered that a God Cui Temple be built in Qinglian County to worship Immortal Venerable Cui
Heng.
The former Yellow-scarved Guardian God sat at the side as a Guardian God.
From then on, Clear Lotus County became the holy land of the Great Zhou. Every year, countless people from all over the world rush over to burn incense and worship in God Cui Temple to express their respect for Immortal Venerable Cui Heng.
At this moment, Ren Feng was standing in front of God Cui Temple in Clear Lotus County. Looking at this simple and dignified palace, his heart surged with boundless respect and gratitude. His family had really been saved by Immortal Venerable Cui.
300 years ago, his ancestor, Ren Ping, had lost his family because of the battle between the different factions of the White Lotus Lifeless Sect. In his extreme despair, he already had the will to die.
It was Immortal Venerable Cui’s Guardian God, the Yellow-scarved Guardian God, who had descended and used a resurrection technique to revive his ancestor’s wife, children, and parents. That was how the Ren family came about and the current Ren Feng.
“Immortal Venerable Cui and Yellow-scarved Guardian God have done a lot of good deeds.” Ren Feng sighed with emotion in his heart. Then, he walked into God Cui Temple with respect and gratitude.
Actually, he had not come here just to pay his respects to Immortal Venerable Cui, but also to pray for his unborn child.
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This was not superstition, just a good wish. God Cui Temple was not large. There was only one main hall and two side halls, and there were only a few temple priests.
Logically speaking, for a place of this scale to receive so many visitors every year, there would definitely be chaos. However, there had never been any chaos here.
Everyone who came to God Cui Temple followed the rules very consciously.
This came from everyone’s respect for Immortal Venerable Cui.
When Ren Feng walked through the door, he saw an old man selling incense.
He looked to be in his seventies or eighties. His hair was clearly white, but the skin on his face was still rosy and lustrous. He was sitting there with his eyes closed, shaking his head and humming a tune. He was very relaxed.
“Uncle, how much are these incense sticks?” Ren Feng pointed at the various incense sticks placed on the stall and asked.
“Huh?” The old man stopped humming and slowly opened his eyes. He looked at Ren Feng and sized him up slightly before chuckling. “Just take whatever you want.”
“Ah?” Ren Feng immediately shook his head and said, “How can that do? I can’t take it for nothing. I still have to pay.”
“This is your fate.” The old man chuckled and stood up. He was even taller than Ren Feng. After waving his hand, he left the door of God Cui Temple and walked out.
He left behind a table full of all kinds of incense.
“Hey, Uncle!” Ren Feng subconsciously wanted to stop him, but someone suddenly patted his shoulder and stopped him.
“Young man, this is your first time here, right?” This was a middle-aged man with gentle facial features and kind eyes. He smiled and said, “Elder Cui is like this. He finds a pleasing person to send incense and candles to for free every day.”
“Is, is that so?” Ren Feng was stunned when he heard that. He immediately said in embarrassment, “It’s indeed my first time coming to God Cui Temple. You called that old man Elder Cui just now. Is his surname Cui?”
“It’s Cui. Hey, I know what you’re thinking. It’s not what you think.” The middle-aged man smiled. “Elder Cui is a legendary figure. He’s over a hundred years old and has been selling incense and candles here for a hundred years. We all know his habits.”
“He actually sold a hundred years’ worth of incense!” Ren Feng looked in the direction that Elder Cui left and exclaimed, “I believe this old man has also received Immortal Venerable Cui’s favor.”
“Young man, you can’t say it like that.” The middle-aged man shook his head and said, “Which one of us from the Great Zhou has not received Immortal Venerable Cui’s favor? Without Immortal Venerable Cui, we wouldn’t have our current stable and rich life.”
“That’s right.” Ren Feng nodded and sighed with emotion. He asked, “Big Brother, my name is Ren Feng. I’m from Hexi Province. How should I address you?”
“My surname is Lu, and my name is Huo. You can just call me Old Lu.” The middle-aged man smiled and said, “Pick some incense sticks and let’s go pay our respects to Immortal Venerable Cui together.”
“Alright, Brother Lu.” Ren Feng nodded and chose some candles from the table before walking towards the main hall with Lu Huo. As they walked, he suddenly asked, “Brother Lu, do you know where Uncle Cui lives? I want to thank him.”
“That’s easy. I’ll bring you over after the incense is burned.” Lu Huo smiled brightly.
Cui Heng maintained the appearance of an old man with white hair and a youthful face. He bowed with his hands behind his back and walked leisurely on the street. His gaze swept across the stable and peaceful scene around him. He was rather satisfied.
After watching the situation in the Great Zhou back then, he understood what he was missing. The order and rules implemented by the Purple Sun Realm and the set of rules that were expanding in the starry sky of the myriad worlds were indeed set by him. The source was also him.
This was his method of transformation of this world. It was the foundation for a Peak Nascent Soul cultivator to break through to the Soul Formation realm.
However, if one was purely the creator of the rules and did not personally participate in it, then there would naturally be flaws and disharmony.
Therefore, from then on, Cui Heng temporarily abandoned his original identity and lived under this order with a normal identity.
This was not just to experience the life of mortals, but to practice life under his rules of order.
In fact, in the past 300 years, he had lived with a total of six identities, four of which were Martial Dao experts with high realms.
He was a Creator, a Sage King, a Sage, and even a Human Immortal.
As an ordinary Human Immortal of the Great Zhou, he had once followed the rules and cultivated peacefully. He had also been a lone Sage on Tai Cang Star with a precious treasure.
He had even taken on an identity on Purple Sun Planet with the intention of breaking through the rules. Then, he was forcefully suppressed by the Imperial Court. In the end, that identity was brought to justice as a warning to others.
In addition, he also appeared in the Great Zhou as a Creator from the outside world and experienced the life of an outsider Creator under the stable rules of order.
These four identities allowed him to obtain different life experiences.
In the eyes of ordinary people in the mortal world who did not have martial arts or had not become Immortals, life under the rules of order was different.
Cui Heng had truly lived as an ordinary person for nearly a hundred years.
In the past hundred years, he had never used any extraordinary power and had always worked hard to live like an ordinary person.
Although he had experienced a lot of hardships, his body still died of old age in the end.
As for the current identity of “Elder Cui”, although it was not of a high level, his experience was relatively complicated. It was also the last identity he planned to try.
He had already accumulated enough Purple Golden Divine Light, and his cultivation was about to be completely perfected.
The Soul Formation realm was right in front of him.
Therefore, he used the Cui surname this time.
This identity was high-spirited when he was young and liked the martial world. He was on good terms with all the young geniuses at that time and could be said to be a hero of a generation.
However, after the geniuses of his age stepped into the Human Immortal realm, he could only stop at the Deity Realm and could not take another step forward.
He could only watch helplessly as he was left behind.
His good friends in the past had expressed many times that they wanted to help him and could give him pills to help him break through, but he had rejected them all. He firmly believed that he could rely on his own strength to break through.
However, he did not succeed and even damaged his foundation. His realm fell from the Deity Realm to the Inner World realm. In the end, he was disheartened and returned to his hometown.
He became an ordinary person who sold incense in God Cui Temple.
His former enemies naturally would not let go of this opportunity. Many people came to seek revenge, but under the stable rules of order, such things were clearly not allowed.
Under the protection of the Imperial Court, he still lived a stable life.
As time passed, he no longer cared about the past and became more carefree.
To Cui Heng, today was just the most ordinary day, but he cherished such times. Such a peaceful life was ultimately just a formality for his cultivation. It could not last
long.
At this moment, he had already arrived at his house in Clear Lotus County.
But his footsteps suddenly stopped.
In front of this ordinary courtyard stood a beautiful young woman. She was wearing a light yellow dress and carrying a long sword on her back. She looked valiant and heroic, still looking as stunning as a hundred years ago. She was looking at “Elder Cui” with a smile.
“Long time no see.”