Chapter 212: Chapter 99: Benefits 1, 2 (Extended Chapter)

Although it’s not as quick as before, when it was "in and out in a second," he eventually came out after spending a little time.

Upon asking Rose, his body had apparently started to become dim.

Asked whether the Corpse-eating Rat had such a condition before, Rose just shook her head saying she didn’t know, because the Corpse-eating Rat often stayed alone, who knows what it was up to.

"Oh right, I remember now," Rose’s eyes suddenly brightened, "When I was with that big rat, although we ate and drank well, later I started to have headaches, and felt like sleeping."

Li Xuan pondered deeply.

Rose thought for a moment and added, "Just now, I felt that way again, just a mild headache."

Scenes of "golden aura drifting across the Buddha Mother’s golden body" flickered through Li Xuan’s mind, "the golden aura enveloping the Buddha’s empty shell."

Such drifting away felt as natural as water flowing downwards.

Li Xuan was suddenly enlightened and said, "Perhaps... I just ate some meat, that’s why you felt a headache."

Immediately, he described the scene he had just seen to Rose in detail.

The couple discussed once more and decided to look through the Buddhist scriptures to see if they could find some clues.

Rose had recently read many Buddhist scriptures, although she didn’t understand their contents, she knew what they were.

She said, "Scriptures related to the Buddha Mother? That’s the ’Great Peacock King Sutra of Buddha Mother’, I’ll go get it."

Li Xuan said, "No need."

The incense-rich Cyan Wood Province, this is indeed his true domain.

Here, he truly had eyes and ears everywhere.

Want to find a book, and have to go out?

Is incense such an inconvenient thing?

His gaze followed the spreading incense, scanning over the bookshelves in Xinci Temple’s scripture library, he quickly drew and moved one of the books, and then flipped through it rapidly.

He had a photographic memory, after one look, he remembered the contents, and then tossed it to Rose, asking, "Is this the right one?"

Rose glanced and said, "It’s thicker than the one I read in the Li family."

Li Xuan said, "Xinci Temple is also an ancient temple, it makes sense to have a more complete collection." 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

This era was unlike Li Xuan’s previous life, many of the books here were copies, and as is common with copies, there might be mistakes or omissions. If subjected to warfare and disaster, many books could end up lost forever.

Li Xuan savored the ’Great Peacock King Sutra of Buddha Mother’ carefully.

High spirit made his brain like a computer, rapidly filtering various information and analyzing it.

Buddha Mother Peacock swallowed the Buddha, the Buddha was born from her belly, respected her as mother, forged relations, and promised "countless beings will look up to you, anyone doing me a favor, I’ll teach him to first offer to your mouth."

This spoke of Buddha’s great filialness to Buddha Mother, that whenever there were offerings, Buddha would let Buddha Mother choose first.

But for Buddha, this offering, should actually be incense.

From another angle, this was a shared incense exchange.

Li Xuan’s mind suddenly formed a hypothesis.

’Now in that world I am but an empty shell of Buddha, but Buddha Mother is a genuine Buddha Mother, and there is already an incense sharing relationship between the two.

Once the connection is made, the incense gathered on Buddha Mother would naturally flow to the Buddha’s empty shell, thereby making my Buddha golden body more consolidated, and then rediscovering the original distribution scene of Buddhist incense.

As the concentration grows, I would increasingly immerse into the real Incense Fire Divine Realm, thus seeing the true side of the realm not just the glittering outside scenery.

Precisely because I entered within, that is why a sense of stickiness arose.’

’And this incense distribution is in fact eating meat.

After all, Buddha is just an empty shell, but Buddha Mother is real.’

’The Corpse-eating Rat must have done the same...’

Li Xuan’s mind flashed to Rose’s words about "big rat clearly had no incense, yet lost a layer around it but still transformed into a rainbow and left."

’Indeed, the Corpse-eating Rat was damaged in the battle at Lingbo Mansion.’

’So, since the Corpse-eating Rat dared to do so, why shouldn’t I?’

Li Xuan pondered deeply, deciding to delve further to look, for the world was turning increasingly frightening, and his foster father gave him, the Demon Buddha, a challenge: to deal with the Drought Demon.

If it were the Corpse-eating Rat, it would be no concern, even if not handled, it could coerce the Cyan Wood Province people to join against the southern army, and make all sides tumultuous, leaving ten households out of nine empty.

But Li Xuan knew that "Grand General couldn’t defeat the Drought Demon, and Demon Buddha suppressed the Drought Demon, and then smoothly established a temple to receive incense, and even become the national religion of the Great Yin" was the best choice.

’However... delving into the Incense Fire Divine Realm still harbors unknown variables.

It is a completely unfamiliar world.’

Li Xuan suddenly fell into hesitation again.

Then, he questioned himself: ’Do I have any other options?’

After thinking for a while, he answered himself: ’Yes.’

Of course, he did.

Killing demons to gain attribute points, that was his choice.

Previously, he needed to wait for the Prime Minister’s forces to act as his eyes, although those eyes were not too timely, and feedback was slow, he had no other way.

But now, he had other options.

In this incense-rich land, which demon could escape his gaze?

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Several days later...

Outside the back hall of Xinci Temple.

As the abbot, Jing Miao gently knocked on the temple door.

Upon hearing a voice from inside, she entered and said: "Buddha Mother, Prince Qing has sent many supplies, including food, cotton clothes, and herbs..."