Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 498 Incense Burner. (First Update!)

In the main hall, sunlight poured down from the hole in the roof, casting a beam of light that illuminated Yin Congyi's face without reservation.

His eyes were closed, the bronze lamp above his head glowed dimly, and in front of him sat a black pottery incense burner with a beast-face design. He sat cross-legged on the ground, motionless.

Xue Shuangzi drifted over like a wisp of smoke. She couldn't see the marriage line in Zheng Que's eyes, but as long as she did what Zheng Que said, that was fine.

So Xue Shuangzi immediately bent down slightly, grabbed the edge of the black pottery beast-face incense burner with both hands, and tried to pick it up from the ground.

However, this incense burner looked ordinary and not particularly ornate. With Xue Shuangzi's cultivation at the eighth level of the [Scissors Prison], she felt its immense weight as soon as she exerted her strength. It stood firmly on the ground like a high mountain. No matter how hard she tried, all her power was like a mud ox sinking into the sea, without any response.

The incense burner remained still on the ground, and no matter how much she struggled, she couldn't lift it even an inch.

This black pottery incense burner with animal mask design was taken out of Yin Congyi's storage bag.

A mere Qi Refining stage cultivator could easily lift this incense burner, yet I, a ghost of the [Scissors Prison], couldn't budge it an inch?!

Xue Shuangzi immediately let out a cold snort, and her body erupted with a burst of yin energy. In an instant, a cold wind swept through the room, and her hair flew wildly, obscuring her pale face. Her almond-shaped eyes were filled with icy coldness. The fingernails of her hands, which were gripping the incense burner, grew engorged, and the backs of her hands even became slightly translucent, clearly indicating that she had used all her strength.

But the incense burner on the ground seemed to be rooted to the spot, remaining completely still...

Do not!
Even if it really took root in the ground, with Xue Shuangzi's current strength, she could easily uproot it!
rustling...

Just as Xue Shuangzi was frowning and deep in thought about how to move this strange black pottery incense burner with animal mask pattern, a strange noise suddenly came from behind her.

She turned around and saw that Song Jiaoyin, who had just been sitting at the head of Zheng Que's table, was now sitting in Zheng Que's lap.

Xue Shuangzi was slightly taken aback. Was Zheng really not going to miss any opportunity to collect divination materials?
never mind!

Never mind, the other person is fine now anyway.

Thinking of this, she immediately tried to use her ghostly skills to move the incense burner in front of her.

However, even after Xue Shuangzi used all the ghost skills and Yin arts she knew, the incense burner in front of her still couldn't move an inch.

This seems like an impossible task!

Realizing this, Xue Shuangzi immediately flew into a rage.

It's just a mere incense burner that even a Qi Refining stage cultivator could easily pick up!

If I can't even understand this, how can I follow Lord Mu Xiangu to do great things in the future?
In a flash, Xue Shuangzi immediately recalled the entire process of Yin Congyi taking out the black pottery beast-face incense burner.

Soon, her gaze sharpened to the three black incense sticks stuck in the incense burner.

The incense sticks have a very simple appearance, but their color is different from ordinary incense. They are black and cold, with a faint metallic luster. It is impossible to figure out what materials they are made of. Even upon close inspection, no fragrance can be smelled. They just seem to match the black incense burner quite well.

The alluring figure that made her feel extremely dangerous was formed from the smoke produced by the burning of those three incense sticks.

The black pottery incense burner with animal mask design is now immobile, and the problem likely lies with the three incense sticks that haven't finished burning.

So Xue Shuangzi immediately grabbed the three black incense sticks stuck in the incense burner, and quickly pulled them all out at once.

Immediately afterwards, she opened her mouth and stuffed all three black incense sticks into it, chewing them fiercely before swallowing them. After doing all this, Xue Shuangzi reached out and grabbed the black pottery beast-face incense burner again.

This time, the incense burner in front of her no longer had that terrifying weight; with a single lift, it immediately left the ground.

Satisfied with the incense burner, which had returned to its normal weight, Xue Shuangzi glanced back and saw that Zheng Que's side was still not finished. She then looked away and stared intently at the bronze lamp above Yin Congyi's head.

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In the main hall, the moment Song Jiaoyin sat down in Zheng Que's arms, the figure of the alluring female cultivator whose wrist was also bound by the thread of fate and who had been drawn there overlapped with her once again.

However, unlike Yin Congyi's situation, as Zheng Que began to operate the [Yin Yang Harmony Secret Record], the figure of that charming female cultivator never appeared on Song Jiaoyin again. She disappeared without a trace, as if she had never existed.

As he practiced his cultivation technique, Zheng Que's cultivation aura rapidly increased.

His arm, which had transformed into the arm of a middle-aged, sorrowful monk, was rapidly regenerating into his own arm.

There are seven characters on the bamboo stick in his mind.

The first three characters are constantly changing, with all the strokes complete and without any omissions; the fourth character only shows half of its strokes; the fifth character is also complete; the sixth character is missing a few strokes; the seventh character is also complete.

The fourth character corresponds to a fragment on the body of the unfamiliar young cultivator.

The sixth character is the second fragment on Yan Dong's body; he's just one step away from winning it.

At this moment, yin and yang intertwined, inspirations merged, and in the midst of their intimate moments, Zheng Que "saw" the eighth character appear on the bamboo stick in his mind.

The moment the eighth character appeared, Zheng Que immediately realized that his control over "law" had greatly improved.

In the dim light, he could vaguely see traces of illusion on Liao Zhanbo and Yan Dong.

Seeing this, Zheng Que felt a sense of certainty.

The "law" of "marriage" is far more efficient at vying for fragments than the "law" of "illusion"!
Of course, he can apply that "law" of the illusion to everyone here.

However, he can only apply the "law" of "marriage" to specific female cultivators.

Another very important point is that the one currently driving this "law" is Yin Congyi's master.

Just then, Zheng Que suddenly noticed that the sixth character on the bamboo stick had its strokes completed, making it whole.

Including the fragment he just obtained from Song Jiaoyin, he now has seven fragments.

"That's a bit strange!"

"The sixth character is a fragment from Yan Dong. But my 'Law' has been restored, the illusion has dissipated, so I shouldn't be able to get the fragment from Yan Dong..."

"Wait! It was Yin Congyi's master who made the move!"

In the blink of an eye, Zheng Que immediately noticed that when he first obtained a fragment from Song Jiaoyin, he could still see traces of illusion on Liao Zhanbo and Yan Dong, but now he could see nothing at all.

Yin Congyi's master is still manipulating the illusion left behind by his previous "law"!
(End of this chapter)