Starting as the young master of a medicine shop, he practiced swordsmanship for twenty years

The abbot of Lotus Birth Temple immediately scanned his surroundings, and after confirming that the Xuan Bird Guard hadn't followed, he felt relieved.

He then walked into the dilapidated Buddhist hall and approached the Buddha statue in front of the hall.

The abbot of Lotus Birth Temple reached out and gently pushed the foot of the Buddha statue.

In an instant, a deep pit appeared under the offering table in front of the Buddha statue.

The pit was filled with profound darkness, and in front of the pit was a stone path made of bluestone slabs, leading straight down.

Just as the abbot of Lotus Birth Temple was about to push away the offering table placed above the pit, a shadow, elongated by the bright moonlight, appeared on the ground near the abbot's feet in front of the Buddha hall's gate.

The abbot of Lotus Birth Temple froze instantly, a few drops of cold sweat slowly streaming down his forehead, and he suddenly raised his head to look at the front of the Buddha hall's gate.

Reflected in the depths of the abbot's pupils was a tall and upright figure, arms crossed, looking down at the abbot from a commanding position.

"You!"

The abbot of Lotus Birth Temple's frightened eyes were filled with disbelief.

He couldn't understand why the other party had found him.

However, it didn't matter if he didn't understand, as Lu Xuan didn't intend to give the abbot of Lotus Birth Temple enough time to figure it out.

Lu Xuan mobilized his inner energy, enhancing his legs, and his body disappeared from the spot like a ghost, leaving only a blurry afterimage.

Bang!

With a whistling sound of the wind!

A muffled sound!

The abbot of Lotus Birth Temple's body shot towards the wall of the Buddha hall like a cannonball, and finally embedded itself straight into the wall.

Lu Xuan, on the other hand, stood in the abbot's previous position.

"Huh?"

"Not dead?"

Lu Xuan looked at the wall of the Buddha hall with some surprise, where the abbot of Lotus Birth Temple was located.

He had not held back at all, and the power of that attack would have been unbearable even for a Blood Refinement realm martial artist.

Yet the other party, a mere Marrow Cleansing realm martial artist, was not dead.

Although the other party was only one step away from death, it was still not death after all.

The abbot of Lotus Birth Temple's remnant body hung on the wall of the Buddha hall, the tattered kasaya on his hunched body swaying gently in the breeze.

In his dry, sunken eye sockets, a faint, eerie white light flickered, and his shriveled, cracked lips opened slightly, saying something intermittently.

"Heh heh heh!"

"Xuan Bird Guard, you can't kill me. I have the White Lotus Scripture bestowed by the Holy Church to protect my body, making me immortal and indestructible."

"White Lotus Scripture?"

"Looks like that's the martial arts technique that old guy cultivated," Lu Xuan thought to himself.

When his inner energy had invaded the old guy's body just now, he had discovered that there was an aura similar to that of the White Lotus Blood Infant within him.

However, this aura was far less powerful than the aura within the White Lotus Blood Infant, being too mottled and incomplete.

Lu Xuan lightly stomped the ground with his right foot, and the hard ground instantly split apart.

Small cracks appeared on the ground, like a spider web.

Whoosh!

The sound of rushing air broke the quiet night as a piece of gravel shot towards the abbot of Lotus Birth Temple on the wall of the Buddha hall.

In the next moment, only the sound of an object bursting open was heard.

The abbot of Lotus Birth Temple's head instantly exploded, and red and white matter flowed slowly down the wall of the Buddha hall.

After dealing with the abbot of Lotus Birth Temple, Lu Xuan's gaze locked onto the deep pit under the offering table.

"An underground palace?"

"They said that deep within the underground palace, there seems to be that so-called incense master?"

"I just don't know what the strength of the incense master in their mouths is."

Lu Xuan pondered in place, and after about a minute, he decided to go down.

If he encountered a situation beyond his expectations, Lu Xuan could also use the Wind Chasing Steps to escape as quickly as possible.

Beneath the underground palace!

The Lotus Birth Temple's underground palace was a large plaza occupying about half the area of the Lotus Birth Temple.

In the very center of the empty plaza was a wide lotus platform, and the lotus platform was covered with white bones.

Above the lotus platform was a pure white lotus flower, comparable in size to five or six people.

The petals of the pure white lotus flower were closed, and the petals emitted an eerie white light.

Inside, wrapped by the petals of the pure white lotus flower, seemed to be a deep red object like blood.

In front of the huge lotus platform were many prayer mats, and on the largest prayer mat at the very front sat a middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man was wearing a loose white robe, embroidered with pure white lotus flowers, and his thick black hair was neatly arranged into a Taoist bun.

He wore a white crown on his head, embroidered with white lotus flowers.

At this time, the middle-aged man had an angry look on his face, scolding the two monks standing next to him.

"Where is Kong Xin, that waste?"

"Why hasn't he brought the blood food yet? Doesn't he know that the Holy Infant has been waiting for a long time?"

"Kong Xin, that waste. This incense master made him the abbot of Lotus Birth Temple because I had high hopes for him."

"I didn't expect that when it came to a matter of urgency, he would actually disappoint this incense master."

"You two, go out and take a look!"

"Yes, Incense Master!"

Just as the two monks who had been scolded by the middle-aged man were about to walk towards the steps leading to the upper level of the underground palace, a faint sound of footsteps came from the long steps leading to the underground palace.

The middle-aged man immediately looked up, the angry expression disappearing instantly, and then looked at the stone steps not far away.

"Huh?"

"Is that Kong Xin, that waste?"

However, when the middle-aged man saw clearly that the person who came was a young man he had never seen before, a trace of astonishment appeared on his face. He was stunned for a while, and then said with a surprised tone.

"Who are you?"

"Why did you come down to the underground palace? Where is Kong Xin, that waste?"

The person who came was Lu Xuan, who had come down from Lotus Birth Temple.

Lu Xuan scanned the underground palace and found that there were only three people in the entire underground palace plaza.

"Huh?"

Lu Xuan raised his eyebrows slightly, discovering that among these three people, there was actually a Blood Refinement realm martial artist.

However, Lu Xuan did not waste too much time on these three people.

Instead, he looked up behind the three people, looking at the huge lotus platform.

"This is!"

Lu Xuan's gaze instantly fell on the very center of the lotus platform, falling on the pure white lotus flower that emitted an eerie white light.

"White Lotus Blood Infant!"

Lu Xuan's eyes gradually became fiery, and he had already sensed the blood-red thing wrapped in the pure white lotus flower.

That's right!

It was the aura of the White Lotus Blood Infant that he had encountered in the Junling Mountains last time.

However, the aura of this White Lotus Blood Infant seemed to be even stronger than the White Lotus Blood Infant back then.

This aura was already infinitely close to the Inner Energy realm, only one step away from breaking through to the Inner Energy realm.

"Bastard!"

A furious shout rang out!

The middle-aged man, seeing that Lu Xuan was ignoring him, stood up and roared at the two monks next to him.

"You two, go and capture him for this incense master!"