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"Did you notice something different about the statue?"

After the worship was completed, the director asked his subordinates.

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"There is indeed a slight change. It feels... how should I put it? The statue has changed, as if it's not a newly erected statue, but one that has stood for endless years, accumulating the passage of time." The subordinate replied.

A new statue is completely different from a statue that has been worshiped for countless years.

It's not just spirituality, but also charm.

"Director, what are you worried about?" The subordinate asked, seeing the director's solemn expression.

This director experienced the very beginning of the strange resurgence and also participated in the grand worship organized by the government.

"Nothing, I just thought of some bad things."

After saying that, he added: "However, that was worship without the suppression of will. This statue is the incarnation of a Mystic Master, so there won't be any accidents."

The director firmly trusts the Mystic Master.

"Alright, our mission is complete, we can retreat." After saying that, he added: "By the way, who is the arranged temple host of the shrine?"

"Director, because we chose ordinary people and to avoid suspicion, fearing being accused of direct appointment by our government, we conducted a publicly guaranteed selection. Currently, a person named Wei Qiancheng has the most cultivator guarantees. Barring any accidents, it will be Wei Qiancheng."

"Is he here?" The director nodded.

The shrine was built with government funding, but the final payment was given after the Merit Hall's acceptance.

The shrine cannot be handed over to the government or any other force.

This is a channel for ordinary people. The shrine staff, such as the temple host, must also be ordinary people, preferably selected through open selection.

Ordinary people guaranteed by cultivators are the most trustworthy. After all, cultivators learn the Xuan Huang Daoist methods, and their Dao hearts are the original intentions set by Xuan Huang.

Having a cultivator's guarantee prevents accidents.

"He is." The subordinate said: "Like us, he has been piously guarding outside for a week. He's not young and still an ordinary person. Fortunately, ordinary people's bodies have also been strengthened by the strange resurgence. If it were before, they wouldn't have been able to withstand it."

"Wei Qiancheng, a good name, very pious," the director muttered.

Soon, Wei Qiancheng, who was thin but full of energy, was brought into the side room of the main hall, which would be the place for service personnel and the temple host to stay in the future.

"Old Wei, right?" the director said with a gentle smile.

"Yes!" Wei Qiancheng was very uneasy.

He must secure the position of temple host. He hadn't strived for his dreams in a long time.

His ideal almost withered in his fifties, but he never expected that his withering ideal would sprout hope again.

Because he worked in a cultivator's club for a long time, he was also invited by Daoist Luo to manage the place and knew many cultivators.

Because of Luo Feng's respect for him, other cultivators also looked at him with different eyes because of Luo Feng.

This time, he used all his favors, requesting the cultivators he knew to guarantee him.

The cultivators also recognized Wei Qiancheng as a person and thought he wouldn't commit any 'heinous' acts, so they agreed to guarantee him.

He became the ordinary person with the most cultivator guarantees.

"Being guaranteed by so many cultivators, and seeing your piety, if there are no accidents, I will contact the Merit Hall later. As long as the Merit Hall approves, you will be the temple host of the Xuan Huang Dao Lord Shrine," the director said with a smile.

"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir." Wei Qiancheng hurriedly bowed excitedly.

The director is also a cultivator, although he also has the identity of a government official, it is not an exaggeration to call a cultivator 'sir'.

"Work hard and prove that your colleagues' guarantees were not a mistake, and don't disappoint me," the director said with a smile.

He is also a crucial step.

There are many cultivators guaranteeing, but what can you do if the director doesn't report your name?

Of course, the director won't be foolish. With so many cultivators guaranteeing, if he pretends it doesn't exist, he will be sued to the Cultivator Alliance Committee.

"Definitely, definitely," Wei Qiancheng said excitedly.

"Alright, I'll report it now." Saying that, the director took out his merit token, entered a piece of information, and transmitted it to the Merit Hall.

The Merit Hall quickly approved it, after all, it's not an important position.

Therefore, the news came quickly.

"Eh?" The director said, looking at the message on the merit token: "Old Wei, congratulations. You passed. There's also a surprise?"

"Ah—"

Wei Qiancheng was so excited that he didn't know what to say.

He passed. This is his greatest dream.

As for the surprise, he didn't care. Being a temple host is the greatest honor of his life.

"Look, because of the first shrine and the first temple host, the Deputy Director Xia Qing of the Merit Hall also values you very much. You also have to play a leading role, summarizing experience for future shrine temple hosts, etc... In short, it's not just a simple temple host, but also..."

The director looked at the dazed Wei Qiancheng with a bit of envy and continued: "The first temple host will be an external member of the Merit Hall, that is, someone who doesn't need to be at the Qingyun Mountain Merit Hall. If you perform well in the future, you will become a formal member. Old Wei, congratulations, you are a temporary employee of the Merit Hall, and there is also merit pay bestowed by the Mystic Master."

"Ah—"

Wei Qiancheng continued to say 'ah' as always, because he was so shocked by the surprise that he didn't know what to say.

"The Merit Hall will send your exclusive merit token tomorrow. Old Wei, congratulations, congratulations," the director congratulated enthusiastically.

The 'aloofness' of being a cultivator sir was gone, and he shook Old Wei's hand warmly, with a bit of flattery.

A complete change of face.

Wei Qiancheng: …

Driven by the director's enthusiastic and strong handshake, he woke up from the surprise.

"Thank you, sir, for your guidance, thank you, sir, for your recommendation. Wei Qiancheng will never forget it," Wei Qiancheng quickly said.

"Hey, Old Wei, are you looking down on me? What are you calling me sir for? My surname is Liu, just call me Old Liu, or call me by my name, Liu Zhiren, the 'zhu' in 'casting', and the 'ren' in 'heaven, earth, and man'. Old Wei, you must remember, don't forget your brother."

"No, no, no, I won't. Zhuren Daoist friend, Brother Liu," Old Wei said tremblingly, not knowing what he was saying, but he blurted it out without thinking.

"Haha, that's right." Liu Zhiren, or Director Liu, held Old Wei's hand, gave some more instructions, and then left enthusiastically with half of the government personnel.

The other half remained to help Wei Qiancheng manage, and they would leave after Wei Qiancheng, the Wei temple host, got on track and gathered the shrine staff.

He was very good at dealing with people, leaving Wei temple host with a starting team.

After some tidying up, Wei temple host officially took on the position of temple host.

Fully dressed in the attire of a temple host, he began to walk out of the side room, receiving the constant stream of believers and pilgrims.

Qingyun Mountain.

When the spirituality of the statue appeared, after the first worshiper piously worshiped.

Xuan Huang had new gains again. When wisps of faith and incense passed to him through the statue that gave birth to spirituality.

He finally understood the mysterious energy of faith and incense.

It is a high-dimensional energy no less than spiritual energy, a very malleable energy.

The key is malleability.

Nearly a hundred wisps of faith were purified under the control of the Xuan Huang will, extracting the poison of desire mixed in the faith.

A pure faith spirit crystal, the size of a fingernail and white in color, was extracted by him.

This is equivalent to spirit stones, yet superior to them. It is an extraordinary material and a pure crystalline energy that can be absorbed and refined.

This demonstrates its powerful plasticity.

The extracted poison of faith, however, resembles a contaminated spirit. Under the perception of will, it bares its fangs and claws, seeking to drag everything into the abyss of silence.

These two appear to be one sacred and pure, the other extremely evil.

But for Xuan Huang, both are treasures.

The difference lies in how you use them.

Xuan Huang's creation of the 'Investiture of the Gods' is not simply a gift to ordinary people or for the growth of the black cat.

It also involves his own experiments and ideas.

For example, the previously conceived revival of mythology, the revival of mythology after the resurgence of the uncanny.

He can also create gods himself.

If the guess is correct, there will be a revival of mythology in the future. There's no guarantee that he and those gods won't come into conflict.

Since he can't guarantee it, he must prepare in advance.

Xuan Huang is a very cautious person, always preparing in advance and making plans for the unexpected.

To cope with the possible revival of mythology, you must first understand them, even infiltrate their ranks.

Therefore, a plan is needed.

The plan involves these god crystals (non-toxic faith) and demon crystals (toxic faith).

The statue has already manifested uncanny traits, and it is starting at the peak of the first order.

Since this is the case, it will be modified according to the statue.

The temple will be opened up to a divine domain (uncanny domain), similar to the uncanny domains possessed by those powerful uncanny beings, which are also standard for third-order uncanny beings.

Demon crystals will be used for opening up the divine domain, with the purpose of the statue suppressing the uncanny evil demons in the future, similar to the City God's domain connecting to the underworld controlled by the City God.

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The god crystals will be integrated into the real Xuan Huang Dao Lord Temple, slowly achieving replacement.

The temple built with god crystals is equivalent to a magic weapon, and it will continuously change with the increase of believers and become stronger with the changes of the statue.

This is Xuan Huang's plan.

God crystals are the material for the real temple, and demon crystals are used to open up the underworld's divine domain.

Moreover, there is no need for self-cultivation and accumulation. Both the underworld's divine domain and the real temple are composed of the faith and incense of living beings.

The only core is Xuan Huang's suppression as the source.

Just prevent the statue, divine domain, and temple from getting out of control.

It's simple to do.

The uncanny characteristics of the statue, coupled with Xuan Huang's ability, can turn the temple into a faith converter, slowly replacing the current temple with the accumulated god crystals.

As for the opening up of the divine domain and the frequent sorting out to avoid the difficulty of refining the poison of faith, it can be handed over to the Heavenly Will Hammer.

It just so happens that Twisted Heavenly Will needs it. Toxic faith is human desire, and it can also be tempered and absorbed.

Achieving the fusion of Heavenly Will poison and human desire poison.

In the future, adding something like abyss regional poison, the Heavenly Will Hammer will become a three-talent hammer.

Using the poison of heaven, earth, and man to temper the will?

Xuan Huang is a little expectant just thinking about it.

With the spiritual statue as an anchor, remote control is possible.

In the evening, the Xuan Huang Dao Lord Temple experienced the closing of its doors for the first time.

Previously, for seven days, sacrifices were made day and night in order to condense spirituality as soon as possible.

Now that spirituality has been born, such formalism is no longer needed. The temple closes at eight in the evening and opens promptly at eight in the morning.

Wei Qiancheng, exhausted from a day's work, stumbled through his half-day as a temple keeper.

He had already explained everything to his family, and he would be stationed in the temple from now on, occasionally going home, or going home at night.

But today was the first day, and he wasn't going anywhere. He wanted to familiarize himself with the process and establish rules, so he chose to stay overnight in the temple.

Carefully, he inspected the temple again after the officials left.

Arriving at the main hall, he inexplicably felt a magical fluctuation.

The statue seemed to be alive, performing illusory hand seals in unison.

Wei Qiancheng rubbed his eyes in fright, realizing he had seen wrong.

He thought he was too tired and his eyes were playing tricks on him.

But he didn't know that Xuan Huang was remotely transforming everything.

"Eh?"

Xuan Huang let out a soft 'Eh'.

"Such a sincere heart, like white jade, such a pure soul, like mutton fat? A person chosen by the Investiture of the Gods, a person blessed by the Qi Luck of the Investiture of the Gods?"

Xuan Huang exclaimed in surprise after detecting Wei Qiancheng while transforming.

He should also be an existence pushed out by Qi Luck, a chosen son of the gods after the birth of the Investiture of the Gods, where Qi Luck converges.

The wonder of Qi Luck's creation.

Xuan Huang ignored it for the time being and continued to transform the temple.

Allowing the uncanny characteristics and divine characteristics to coexist in the statue as the core, collecting faith, forming cycles and classifications within the statue.

The different hand seals of the statue's hands, one condenses god crystals, the other condenses demon crystals.

Then the god crystals will begin to merge from the statue's altar, slowly turning every floor tile, every brick, wood carving, stone pillar, tile, and everything that builds the statue into god crystal.

The other hand seal is the passage to the divine domain.

Here, Xuan Huang opened up a... palm-sized space.

It's not that Xuan Huang can't open up a larger space, but that there are too few demon crystals. It will take time to fill this palm-sized space with demon crystals.

Afterward, a very miniature phantom of the Heavenly Will Hammer was left in this palm-sized space.

In the future, the Heavenly Will Hammer will refine the human desire poison in this palm-sized space, and then absorb the essence. The energy will be spat out by it as energy to open up and expand the space.

After doing everything, Xuan Huang looked at Wei Qiancheng, who was still kneeling in front of the statue and praying sincerely.

Even if he didn't guide him, this person would be accepted and accommodated by the statue's field in a few days, and granted the incantation to condense the soul seed.

That is, divine bestowal.

Since he saw him a few days in advance, it can be considered fate.

Now, he will give him a helping hand.

"Believer Wei Qiancheng!"

"Boom!"

Wei Qiancheng, who was devoutly worshiping, suddenly felt as if he had been pulled into a mythical land.

A vast and boundless figure, its size difficult to see, mighty and majestic, its divine power unfathomable.

"Believer Wei Qiancheng is here," Wei Qiancheng said as if being guided.

"Believer Wei Qiancheng, your divine heart is like jade, respectful and devout, bestow: Soul Condensation Incantation, bestow: Divine Soul Seal."

"Whoosh!"

It was as if two shooting stars flashed across the sky.

Until they disappeared into Wei Qiancheng's soul.

One is the Soul Condensation Incantation, and the other is the Divine Seal.

The Soul Condensation Incantation is standard, while the Divine Seal is bestowed separately by Xuan Huang, after all, he is the chosen son of the Investiture of the Gods.

The function of the Divine Seal is to directly open up his soul space, and also to absorb faith at all times to stabilize the soul space.

It nourishes the soul seed, eliminates the souls of false believers, communicates with the upper god, suppresses other believers, and can also serve as a defensive and offensive Divine Seal.

It is equivalent to bestowing upon him half the ability of a pope.

"This?"

Suddenly waking up, Wei Qiancheng almost fell from the prayer mat.

He remembered that he was kneeling and praying, and suddenly he was pulled into a mythical land.

Then the Dao Lord bestowed two streams of light, and he returned to reality.

"This? Really, it's not a dream."

Awakened, Wei Qiancheng felt the changes in his soul, and he understood.

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