Xu Jianguo stared at the dark building in front of him, a little surprised. After thinking for a while, he quietly closed the Eye of Time and Space.
When he closed the Eye of Time and Space and looked at the building again, his eyes widened involuntarily. There was no building in front of him, only endless black land.
Xu Jianguo said to the old Taoist priest beside him, "Master, let's go! We've found the Impermanence Temple!"
"What? Found it? Where is it? Why can't I see it?" the old Taoist asked suspiciously.
"You definitely can't see it, because the Temple of Impermanence is... transparent!" said Xu Jianguo.
"Transparent? Are you kidding?" The old Taoist priest looked at Xu Jianguo as if he was a fool and asked.
"Don't waste time, come with me!" After Xu Jianguo said that, he got into the car, and the old Taoist priest hurriedly followed.
Xu Jianguo opened the Eye of Time and Space, parked the car in front of the gate of Wuchang Temple, turned off the engine and got out.
The moment he pushed open the car door, the system prompt sounded in his mind.
[Ding, energy fluctuations detected between the two boundary stones, should we begin fusion?]
Xu Jianguo was delighted, thinking that this guy really wanted to eat ice and hail, and immediately replied: "Fusion!"
[Ding, fusion begins. The energy of the two world stones is sufficient this time. The host can choose to upgrade the system or upgrade the space.]
Xu Jianguo thought about it and said in his mind: "Upgrade the system!"
[Ding, the energy of the two world stones is fusing. Current progress is 29/100. The system upgrade will take 24 hours. The system will be unavailable during the upgrade, but space usage will not be affected.]
"receive!"
Xu Jianguo agreed, and the old Taoist priest came to his side and asked, "Boy, where is the Impermanence Temple?"
"In front of you!" Xu Jianguo said, and with a thought he put the G63 into the space, and then walked forward with the old Taoist priest.
The old Taoist priest Xuanjue followed Xu Jianguo and watched him blankly as he raised his right hand and pushed forward, and then the whole person disappeared before his sight.
"Fuck! Jianguo!" The old Taoist cursed, and then heard Xu Jianguo's voice coming from the front: "Here!"
As the voice fell, the old Taoist saw a hand suddenly stretched out from the space in front of him and waved towards him.
Swallowing involuntarily, the old Taoist priest walked forward and was about to ask something when he saw a hand suddenly grab his clothes and pull him forward.
The old Taoist priest only felt a flash before his eyes, and found himself in a courtyard. The courtyard was not big, only about seventy or eighty square meters, and everything in sight was black. Xu Jianguo was standing beside him, holding his clothes with one hand.
"Boy, what's going on?" asked the old Taoist priest.
"Master, you will know if you look back." Xu Jianguo said.
The old Taoist priest looked back and found two wooden doors behind him, and outside the doors was the familiar dark land. Then he understood why Xu Jianguo asked him to look back.
"Boy, is this really the Temple of Impermanence? Or is it transparent?" asked the old Taoist priest.
"Well! Look over there!" Xu Jianguo said, pointing forward.
The old Taoist looked in the direction of his finger and found a black plaque hanging on the lintel of the house opposite. On the plaque were three large characters "Impermanence Hall" written in bright red paint.
I don’t know if it was a psychological effect, but when the old Taoist priest looked at the bright red font, he felt that the temperature in the Temple of Impermanence seemed to become a little cold.
"Boy, do you find it a bit cold here?" asked the old Taoist priest.
"Master Taoist, you are a Taoist after all, why are you so timid?" Xu Jianguo said with a smile.
"Who said I was scared? I'm just discussing something with you," the old Taoist said stubbornly.
Xu Jianguo didn't say anything else. He walked towards the Hall of Impermanence on the inky black floor tiles, and the old Taoist priest hurriedly followed.
The two entered the hall and looked up, only to see two life-size statues, one black and one white, enshrined in the hall. They were the legendary soul-collecting messengers from the underworld, the Black and White Impermanence.
Heibai Wuchang are two soul messengers in the traditional culture of Longxia Kingdom. According to legend, they come from the underworld and are responsible for guiding the reincarnation of people in the world.
Xu Jianguo carefully looked at the two statues in front of him, and his heart trembled slightly, only because the statues in front of him were made extremely beautifully, just like real people.
The old Taoist priest next to them was also looking at the two statues, but he only took a glance, then reached out and tugged at Xu Jianguo's clothes, saying, "Boy, how come these statues look like real people?"
Xu Jianguo didn't know how to answer him, so he said, "They really do look like real people. I can only say that the craftsmen who created this pair of statues are truly amazing."
The old Taoist nodded in agreement and said, "I don't know who built it."
Xu Jianguo didn't say anything. He opened the Eye of Time and Space and looked at the statue in front of him. However, he was so frightened that he stepped back repeatedly.
The old Taoist priest was confused and asked, "Boy, what's wrong?"
"No, it's okay, I didn't stand firmly!" Xu Jianguo said palely, without telling the old Taoist what he saw.
In Xu Jianguo's eyes, Hei Wuchang had a fierce face, a fat body, a small dark face, held an iron soul-catching chain in his hand, and had the words "Peace in the World" written on his official hat.
Bai Wuchang, on the other hand, had a smiling face, was tall and thin, had a pale complexion, a long tongue hanging out of his mouth, held a mourning stick in his hand, and had the words "One sight brings wealth" written on his official hat.
But what frightened Xu Jianguo was not the faces and attire of the two statues, but the fact that he saw the shriveled human organs inside the bodies of the two statues through the Eye of Time and Space.
"This... there are actually two real corpses inside this statue. Could they really be the Black and White Impermanence?" Xu Jianguo thought to himself.
The old Taoist priest did not notice the fear in Xu Jianguo's eyes. He thought that he was as scared as himself, so he ignored him and looked around in the small Wuchang Hall.
Xu Jianguo calmed himself down and walked back to the statue. He stacked the plates on the altar together and moved them to the corner of the hall. The offerings in the plates were no longer recognizable, and no one knew what was in them.
Taking out a clean wet towel from the space, Xu Jianguo wiped the altar and incense burner clean, then replaced six brand new plates, and then put new offerings on the plates, including roast chicken, pig's head, fish, tofu, snacks and fruits. Finally, he took out two pairs of chopsticks and two bottles of white wine and placed them neatly in front of the two statues.
After placing the offerings, Xu Jianguo took out three incense sticks from the space, lit them and inserted them into the incense burner. Then he knelt on the dusty cushion and kowtowed three times respectfully to the statue.
The old Taoist priest stood aside and wanted to ask something, but after thinking about it, he did not speak. Instead, he knelt on the cushion like Xu Jianguo and kowtowed to the statue.
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