108: Chapter 108 Improving Cultivation

Qin Yin and Qin Mo immediately led the villagers of Liuhe Village back to Qin Family Village.

The deity-inviting ceremony took place inside the temple.

Qin Yin knelt at the very front, recounting the situation in Liuhe Village in detail to Lord Qinling.

She spoke of those parasitic creatures, the murdered villagers, and the survivors who made it out alive.

The villagers of Liuhe Village who had come to invite the deity knelt down as well, filling the entire temple hall with kneeling people.

Lü Jing, the village chief of Liuhe Village, knelt at the very front.

"Lord Qinling, the people of Liuhe Village are willing to worship you, to worship you for generations upon generations. We beg you to protect Liuhe Village."

Qin Ling already needed Liuhe Village to worship him, so he naturally agreed to the request to invite the deity.

The golden light between the deity statue's brows began to flicker.

As the ceremony concluded, Qin Yin lifted the deity statue wrapped in red cloth from the offering table and strapped it onto her back.

Qin Mo stood beside her, pulled two Divine Mobility Talismans from his bosom, and pasted one on his elder sister's legs and the other on his own.

Golden light seeped out from the talisman papers, crawling up their calves, and the two instantly felt as light as swallows.

With Qin Yin carrying the deity statue on her back and Qin Mo shouldering his long spear, the two walked out of the temple doors side by side.

Village Chief Qin Zongliang stood at the doorway without trying to keep them, simply uttering a single sentence.

"Be careful on the road."

Qin Yin nodded, a flash of golden light flickered under her feet, and she was already ten zhang away.

As for Qin Mo, he carried several villagers of Liuhe Village on his shoulder and followed closely behind.

The two figures dragged out two long afterimages in the dark red daylight, resembling two golden arrows shooting from Qin Family Village toward Liuhe Village.

The journey of dozens of li was quickly finished.

Qin Yin and Qin Mo arrived inside the temple of Liuhe Village.

Qin Yin lowered the deity statue from her back and untied the red cloth, revealing the elm-wood deity statue with its brows lowered and eyes cast down.

The remaining villagers of Liuhe Village had been waiting here for a long time.

Qin Yin respectfully placed the deity statue into the shrine behind the offering table, and the villagers of Liuhe Village inside the temple began to offer incense.

A villager lit three sticks of incense, inserted them into the censer, stepped back two steps, and knelt down.

[incense points + 1]

Meanwhile,

Qin Ling in Qin Family Village opened his eyes, feeling that he had activated a new anchor point.

Immediately following that, his consciousness stirred.

A divine split stood up. He raised his hand, and a speck of golden light lit up at his fingertips. The golden light spread out from his fingertips, enwrapping his body.

Divine art, Teleportation.

The next second, the divine split appeared within the temple hall of Liuhe Village, standing beside the newly offered deity statue.

However, at this moment, he had concealed his form, so the villagers who were offering incense did not see him.

Qin Ling's divine split passed through the temple door that had yet to be repaired, walked into the courtyard, and stood beneath the courtyard wall.

He raised his head and looked at the northern sky.

That Evil Tree appeared closer and much larger than when it was seen from Qin Family Village.

The trunk was ridiculously thick, bursting out of the earth from the very center of the county city, and its canopy covered the entire county city.

Qin Ling rose into the air, suspended above Liuhe Village with his hands clasped behind his back, gazing at that Evil Tree.

At the current distance, it was already enough for him to directly descend upon Guanhai County City.

He could no longer allow this Evil Tree to devour the common people of Guanhai County; he had to go meet the Evil Tree.

Of course, before going to battle this Evil Tree, Qin Ling had to boost his combat power by a wave.

In other words, he was about to start consuming incense points.

Qin Ling checked his status panel.

[Host: Qin Ling]

[Rank: wild god]

[Jurisdiction: Qin Family Village, Zhou Family Village, Pearl Reef on the East China Sea Seabed]

[Cultivation: Xiansheng Realm 10%]

[incense points: 5850]

[Divine Arts: 8]

[Teleportation], [Exorcism], [Primary Talisman Art], [Divine Split Art], [Dream-Entering Technique], [Seven-Kill Demon-Slaying Sword], [Divine Travel Across the World], [Summoning Lightning]

During this period, Qin Ling had accumulated quite a bit of incense points.

These incense points were primarily provided by his three jurisdictions: Qin Family Village, Zhou Family Village, and Pearl Reef on the East China Sea Seabed.

Although besides those, he was also worshipped by Wangjia Village, Zhou Family Village, and Liuhe Village.

But after all, the time was short, coupled with the heavy casualties among the villagers, the incense points received were still limited.

Otherwise, eradicating the black flowers had also brought him some incense points.

Since he had decided to meet this Evil Tree, Qin Ling did not hesitate in the slightest, directly using 5000 of those incense points to enhance his cultivation.

As the incense points were consumed, Qin Ling could feel the divine power pool within his body continuously expanding, clearly perceiving the process of himself growing stronger.

Soon, the 5000 incense points were completely exhausted, and Qin Ling looked toward his cultivation.

[Cultivation: Xiansheng Realm 30%]

Based on his current understanding, he could roughly figure out that this cultivation at 30% of the Xiansheng Realm was equivalent to a late Fourth-Turn martial artist of Qi and Blood Martial Arts.

However, this time Qin Ling was not heading to Guanhai County City with his main body, but instead sending his strongest divine split, which possessed eighty percent of his strength.

Therefore, the actual strength of a late Fourth-Turn would still have to be discounted somewhat.

Thinking of this, Qin Ling rested his fingers on his knees and tapped them gently.

He took a deep breath and opened the system mall.

A light screen unfolded before him, and densely packed commodities flashed past his eyes.

Since he was going to the county city to fight the Evil Tree, he was still lacking one thing right now.

That was a defensive divine art.

When it came to offensive divine arts, he had the Seven-Kill Demon-Slaying Sword and Summoning Lightning.

When it came to movement divine arts, he had Divine Travel Across the World.

But there was a flaw in the department of defense.

Facing an opponent of the Evil Tree's caliber, he had to make foolproof preparations.

Soon, Qin Ling's gaze swept across the light screen and stopped at an entry.

[Undying Divine Light: A defensive divine art that consumes divine power to form a pale golden divine light barrier around the body. The duration is proportional to the consumed divine power. After the divine light shatters, it takes time to repair itself.]

[Price: 800 incense points]

Seeing this price made the corners of Qin Ling's eyes twitch once again.

But he did not hesitate. With a thought in his mind, he purchased this defensive divine art named Undying Divine Light.

A warm stream of information poured deep into his consciousness.

He raised his hand, and with a thought, pale golden light gushed out from his palm.

That layer of light spread from his palm to his arm, from his arm to his shoulder, and from his shoulder to his entire body, plating a pale golden film of light over the surface of his body.

In this way, he had gained yet another divine art.

[Divine Arts: 9]

[Teleportation], [Exorcism], [Primary Talisman Art], [Divine Split Art], [Dream-Entering Technique], [Seven-Kill Demon-Slaying Sword], [Divine Travel Across the World], [Summoning Lightning], [Undying Divine Light]

The price paid was that his current incense points were pitifully few.

[incense points: 50]

But regardless, he had ultimately converted all his incense points into his own combat power.

Then, next, it was time for battle!

Qin Ling's divine split no longer concealed its form, revealing a golden figure.

Following the agitation of the newly enhanced divine power, golden light blossomed in mid-air like a great sun hanging in the sky.

The magnificent divine power even caused the villagers of Liuhe Village to feel the ground slightly trembling.