Just when Xu Jianguo finished bowing and looked towards the statue, an amazing scene appeared. The smoke from the three incense sticks inserted in the incense burner, which was originally misty, suddenly became straight and floated towards the statue.
But when the smoke approached the statues, it split into two streams and went into the nostrils of the two statues.
The old Taoist priest kneeling on the mat also saw this scene. He looked at Xu Jianguo in disbelief and said, "I don't know how lucky you are, kid. Even the Black and White Impermanence are willing to accept your incense."
Xu Jianguo stood up from his cushion and said with a smile, "Master, you don't know what it means to be sincere and have your wishes answered, do you?"
"Tsk, the Three Pure Ones have accepted the incense offerings from me. Aren't you envious?" said the old Taoist priest unconvinced.
Xu Jianguo looked at the old Taoist priest's smug look and couldn't help but curl his lips. He thought to himself, "If you knew that the Three Pure Ones had taught me three techniques, I wonder how you would respond?"
After burning incense to the statues of Black and White Impermanence, Xu Jianguo began to scan the entire hall with the Eye of Time and Space, hoping to find the magic weapon as soon as possible and leave.
But to his disappointment, he did not find anything that looked like a magic weapon in the hall, and most importantly, he did not know what the magic weapon hidden here was.
Xu Jianguo opened the map in his mind, looked at the overlapping red and green coordinates, and fell into deep thought.
The old Taoist priest walked around the entire hall but found nothing. He became anxious and asked, "Boy, did you find anything? I don't see any magic tools here!"
Xu Jianguo was interrupted while thinking by the old Taoist priest's voice. Just as he was about to speak, a white light suddenly flashed in the sky outside the hall.
Xu Jianguo was shocked and quickly walked to the door of the hall and looked up.
Just as he looked up, a bolt of lightning fell from the sky and struck the open space in the Wuchang Temple, raising clouds of white smoke.
Xu Jianguo's eardrums were concussed by the explosion sound when the lightning struck. His whole head became dizzy and he leaned against the door frame.
As the first lightning struck, bursts of roaring sounds suddenly rang out outside the Impermanence Palace. The entire sky was constantly flashing with white light, illuminating the Impermanence Palace like daylight.
The old Taoist priest also walked to the door of the hall. Just as he was about to stick his head out to look outside, a bolt of lightning struck less than two meters away from him. He was so frightened that he fell to the ground.
Click, click, click!
Countless lightning bolts fell in the yard one after another, shaking the entire hall. Xu Jianguo looked up with some worry, praying in his heart that the Hall of Impermanence could protect him and the old Taoist priest.
In fact, his worry was completely unnecessary. The Temple of Impermanence had stood in the Death Valley for who knows how many years, and it was still intact until now. This was enough to show that the lightning here could not do anything to it.
Xu Jianguo tried to use the space and found that he could take things normally, so he relaxed.
He walked to the old Taoist priest and sat down on the ground. Then he took out some cooked food from the space and a few cans of beer. The two of them started eating heartlessly.
Xu Jianguo held a pig's trotter in his left hand and took a big bite. Then he picked up the beer with his right hand, clinked it with the old Taoist priest's, and took a big gulp.
Looking at the lightning that kept falling outside the yard, Xu Jianguo sighed in his heart that this drinking atmosphere might not be unprecedented, but it was definitely unprecedented.
Xu Jianguo finished eating the pig's trotter in his hand, took out a piece of cleaning wipes to wipe his hands, then stood up and walked to the door, leaning against the door frame and drinking beer leisurely.
The old Taoist priest threw away the chicken bones in his hand, cleaned them with a wet wipe as he did, and then stood by the door frame on the other side and looked into the yard.
This time the lightning strike had lasted for more than half an hour and showed no sign of stopping. Xu Jianguo drank beer and watched the lightning, and gradually felt some visual fatigue. Just as he was about to turn around and go back to the hall to sit down and rest, he suddenly seemed to think of something, and his eyes were fixed on a black floor tile in the middle of the yard.
"15, 16...21...24..." Xu Jianguo counted silently in his mind while watching, and the more he counted, the more frightened he became.
The floor tile in the center of the yard was struck by lightning more than twenty times in just one minute. With the help of the Eye of Time and Space, Xu Jianguo discovered an even more incredible scene.
Whenever the lightning touched the floor tile, it gave him a feeling of drilling into it. Yes, the lightning drilled into the floor tile, and after hitting the floor tile, it did not emit white smoke like other floor tiles.
"Could this black floor tile be the Taoist magic weapon, the Thunder-Struck Wood?" Xu Jianguo couldn't help but think in his heart. The more he thought about it, the more possible it seemed, and the possibility seemed very high.
"Master, I seem to have found a magic weapon!" Xu Jianguo turned and said to the old Taoist priest.
"Huh? Where is it?" the old Taoist priest turned around and asked.
"Please pay attention to the floor tile in the middle of the yard!" Xu Jianguo raised his hand and pointed to the yard.
The old Taoist priest looked in the direction of Xu Jianguo's finger, and after a moment he said, "This floor tile is quite good. I don't know what sins I committed in my previous life to be struck by lightning dozens of times in such a short time."
Xu Jianguo didn't say anything, just stared at the old Taoist priest.
As the old Taoist priest was speaking, he seemed to sense something was amiss. After a moment, he exclaimed, "Oh my god! Lightning-struck wood!"
Xu Jianguo covered his head and thought to himself, this is how you call this great? How shameful!
The old Taoist priest felt a little embarrassed when he saw Xu Jianguo's actions. He said, "Don't look at me. I've been practicing Taoism for decades. I've only been with my master for eleven or twelve years. It's good enough that I know this much, right? And it's all thanks to my love of reading!"
Xu Jianguo rolled his eyes at him, wondering who was asking him to help his nephew.
The two of them argued back and forth, and after waiting for about ten minutes, the lightning in the sky stopped abruptly, and light gradually came from the clouds, but it was still dim.
Xu Jianguo looked at his watch. It was almost five o'clock in the afternoon. He was anxious. After stepping over the threshold, he quickly walked to the black floor tile and squatted down.
Just as he reached out to touch the floor tiles, he was stopped by the old Taoist priest who was following closely behind him.
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