fairy family

Chapter 314 Immortal Luck, Borrowing Luck for Cultivation
The Huangshan Taoist Palace's fleet was surrounded by banners and Taoist chants, giving it a rather otherworldly and ethereal appearance.

With a whoosh, a streak of light flew over and landed on the outer cloud ship.

The flowing light consisted of a young man and a young woman, two immortals who were discussing something among themselves:

"I've heard that the Master of the Huangshan Judicial Palace is about the same age as us, but he has already successfully refined his Qi and even created a Nascent Soul Dao Weapon. He is currently a highly sought-after immortal in the Central Plains!"

"In that case, isn't this person also an unparalleled genius, just like Marquis Tiance?"

"That's not all..."

The man and woman exchanged a few words in private before disciples from the Huangshan Taoist Palace came forward to inquire about their purpose.

The two men quickly bowed and greeted him, replying, "We have come to welcome the Palace Master of Justice of your esteemed palace and guide you to the Ancestral Temple of King Yama."

"The restrictions on the ancestral temple have now been lifted, and all of you immortals may enter."

Upon hearing this, the Huangshan disciple nodded and immediately replied, "Very well! I will inform the Palace Master immediately. You envoys, please wait a moment."

Before long, Yu Que learned from the Rakshasa boat that he had been allowed to enter the ancestral temple.

He had no intention of delaying or putting on airs. He opened his eyes, flicked his sleeve, and shrank the Rakshasa ship under his command, storing it in his sleeve before landing in front of the two imperial envoys.

The man and woman were caught off guard when Yu Que appeared before them alone and so quickly.

You should know that when they arrived, they had already prepared themselves to wait patiently for half a day on the boat of the Huangshan Taoist Palace.

After all, among the immortals who led the team, Yu Que was the most influential and the least willing to deal with outsiders.

And even though Yu Que wasn't the most prominent among the visitors, these envoys always had to be extremely courteous whenever they wanted to invite the leaders of the various Dao Palaces.

After all, these powerful immortals currently represent the face of the various Daoist palaces.

The interactions between local palaces and the imperial court were similar to those between ancient states, where the most important thing was to maintain appearances.

"I never expected the Master of the Huangshan Judicial Palace to be so casual."

"This great immortal is not as cold and unapproachable as the rumors suggest."

The man and woman looked at each other, exchanged glances, and both of them looked relaxed.

Yu Que didn't seem to mind the two men's somewhat impolite behavior and simply waited patiently.

Fortunately, the two people immediately reacted, turning to the side and bowing in invitation:
"Lord of the Palace of Justice, please follow us."

"Please lead the way."

With a whoosh, the three of them leaped and transformed into streaks of light, flying down from above the cloud ship.

The Huangshan Dao Palace disciples on the ship watched Yu Que leave with others. Some of them were worried that it was not appropriate. After all, this place was the territory of the imperial court. How could they allow Palace Master Yu to attend the meeting alone?

However, they immediately realized that with Yu Que's magical power and methods, even if they followed, they would only be a hindrance.

If Yu Que goes alone and encounters any trouble, he will most likely be able to escape more easily than if he brought his entourage.

On the other side, three streaks of light hovered above the vast imperial capital.

From their perspective, the vast imperial capital city was perfectly square, like a seal, with two straight roads running in all directions, where water and land intersected, and the width of which must have reached more than ten miles.

According to the decree of the dynasty, the airspace above the capital was restricted from flying. However, Yu Que represented the Huangshan Taoist Palace and was accompanied by two imperial envoys, so he could disregard this decree and act as if it were a military order, without having to worry too much.

Just as Yu Que was pondering where the legendary Five Ancestral Temples had been placed by the incense offerings,

The two guides hovered above the imperial capital city, then stopped moving and began to shout:
"Reporting to the Palace Master of Justice, we have arrived at our destination."

Yu Que glanced down at himself and found that all he saw below were houses, with pedestrians as numerous as ants, and no temples in sight.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he looked up at the sky. Instantly, a majestic mountain range appeared before him, its layers upon layers, so magnificent and imposing.

In the clouds above the capital, streaks of light descended, colliding with the clouds and transforming into illusory scenes, including cities, palaces, and pavilions, just like the scene of Yuque's fairy garden when it was revealed to the outside world.

Two imperial envoys bowed to him:
"Rencai's grand undertaking has not yet begun, and the Five Ancestral Temples are all hidden in the void. Only when the grand undertaking is completed and the immortals of the world respond, will the Five Ancestral Temples take shape and accept everyone."

"The ancestral temple is now visible in the clouds. We request that the Palace Master of Justice enter on his own."

Yu Que nodded upon hearing this.

He scanned the clouds with his divine sense and indeed detected a strange change in the energy within them. He only needed to use his magic power to activate the key within, and he could step inside as if opening a secret realm, turning the mirage into reality.

However, what stirred Yu Que's heart was that, through the cloud formations, he not only saw the image of the Yama King's lineage, but also the images of the other four ancestral temples recorded in the book.

Their figures were graceful and elegant, arranged in the order of the five elements, forming a ring that rotated and took turns, endlessly regenerating.

The place where Yu Que and the two envoys stood was the gap in the middle of the Five Ancestral Temples.

"I wonder if I'll have the chance to visit the other four ancestral temples during this trip inside," he thought to himself.

Although thoughts were swirling in his mind, Yu Que maintained a calm and composed demeanor on the surface.

He gestured to the two messengers: "Open your faces and lead the way."

Upon hearing this, one of the messengers immediately took out a scroll of gold and silk from his sleeve, unrolled it, and began to read:

"Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the imperial edict said:

"There is a venerable immortal from the Huangshan Taoist Temple who has attained perfect merit and virtue, and is hereby granted entry into the ancestral temple's Yama realm, to remain serene and protect the temple's incense offerings. So be it."

Yu Que stood aside, listening to the two read the imperial edict.

After the two finished reading, he merely nodded and did not utter a word to "receive the decree," nor did he even bother to reach for the edict.

Upon seeing this, the two envoys couldn't help but exchange a glance, but they didn't dare to urge Yu Que. Instead, they simply had another person receive the imperial edict and then threw it into the clouds above their heads.

Whoosh! The imperial edict immediately burst into flames without fire, creating a flurry of smoke and clouds in mid-air.

The mirage in the clouds immediately began to spread out layer by layer, transforming from illusory to real, revealing a corner of the entrance.

"Thank you both."

Upon seeing this, Yu Que said something to the two envoys and then stepped forward.

The two messengers quickly returned the greeting and waited respectfully in mid-air.

Yu Que walked closer and indeed found that the opened ancestral temple gate was just like the gate when he first entered the Nine Dragons Waterfall Secret Realm in Huangshan, a passage to enter the secret realm.

However, the aura emanating from the ancestral temple gate here was even stronger than that of the Nine Dragon Waterfall Secret Realm. Abundant spiritual energy, especially the aura of immortals, was permeating the gate. When Yu Que's divine sense detected it, he couldn't help but feel a stirring of desire in his heart.

But he still didn't rush in.

Yu Que observed carefully at the door for a while, then his body swayed, and the Yuan Shen Dao Bing immediately blessed him, with purple energy flowing around his body.

Only then did he stride inside, his body twisting and contorting before he vanished from the spot.

Outside, the two envoys breathed a sigh of relief when Yu Que's figure disappeared.

"Now that this matter is settled, we can return to the palace."

"Huh, why aren't any other deities coming? It's just us escorting this man from Huangshan to the temple?"

As they talked, the two descended into the immortal city below, not daring to linger over the capital for too long.

"You don't know this, but not only do these great deities not meet when entering the temple, but they also do not meet in the ancestral temple. Otherwise, if these deities gathered together, it would be bad if someone had bad intentions."

"No wonder the Ministry of Rites has been trying to arrange different itineraries for various immortals lately. So that's why."

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the other side.

Yu Que slipped through the doorway, and the surrounding scenery changed rapidly, the distance between him and the two people behind him increasing dramatically.

When he came to his senses, he found himself in a magnificent and enormous temple.

The terrain here is ancient and simple, similar to the style of an ancestral hall, and there are also unnamed memorial tablets standing in the temple.

Yu Que looked around the huge temple and found that apart from the empty threshold at the entrance, the three walls inside the temple were full of memorial tablets.

In particular, there is a shrine in front of the wall opposite the main gate, and a memorial tablet stands inside the shrine.

The memorial tablet bore the three distorted characters "King Yama".

"Is this the Temple of the King of Hell?" Yu Que thought to himself.

But just as he was about to walk around and take a good look at the layout of the Yama Temple, he found that he could not move his body. Or rather, he had a sense of danger that if he tried to break free, he might escape from this place and encounter something unforeseen.

Yu Que recalled the instructions from the imperial court and remembered that his companion had reminded him not to move around after entering the ancestral temple.

Only when one is truly anxious and wants to leave the ancestral temple should one shout loudly.

At that time, they would naturally be kicked out of the ancestral temple.

However, those who entered the temple early should wait until the grand examination was over and many examinees came to offer incense to the temple before leaving with them.

Otherwise, because of making noise and being disrespectful in the ancestral temple, there is a possibility that you might anger the temple deities and incur punishment.

So Yu Que suppressed the thought in his mind and instead tried to release his divine sense to scan his surroundings.

With his divine sense spanning over a hundred miles, he should be able to scan this entire area with ease.

However, before his divine sense could penetrate his body, he discovered that the ancestral temple's aura was extremely tight, forming a diaphragm that blocked his divine sense within a radius of about three inches.

After three inches, every time his divine sense extended an inch outward, it consumed his excited mental energy, and the feeling of about to leave this place became even more pronounced.

It seems that even divine sense cannot be used in the ancestral temple.

Yu Que immediately dismissed the idea. He then simply used his naked eyes to survey his surroundings.

Upon closer inspection, he made a surprising discovery.

He discovered that he had not entered this place in his physical body, but had transformed into a memorial tablet!
Or to be more precise, he has now become an image branded on a memorial tablet in the temple, not his real body here.

This experience was quite novel to Yu Que.

He quickly used his divine sense to check himself and found that his physical body had not been flattened into a piece of paper; he simply could not appear in the Yama Temple in his physical form.

Noticing this, he looked around again and began to observe carefully.

After some effort, Yu Que noticed that there were quite a few blank memorial tablets in the temple, and only a handful of them were not blank, including his own.

However, the number of non-blank memorial tablets is increasing.

Yu Que personally witnessed a memorial tablet that had changed from a blank design to one with the image of a Taoist priest branded on it.

Yu Que observed the lifelike figure on the memorial tablet. After racking his brains, he also discovered that although the materials on the tablet were extremely simple, the general appearance could still be vaguely discerned.

The appearance in the picture was exactly the same as one he had seen in the capital, belonging to the leader of another Dao Palace.

He suddenly realized: "In this way, when we enter this ancestral temple, we are transformed into a memorial tablet in the temple, or rather, we occupy a blank memorial tablet as a place to live."

No wonder it's so quiet here.

Having confirmed this, and knowing that he wasn't the only one experiencing this, Yu Que's spirits instantly eased considerably.

Because his divine sense could not spread out, and because it was forbidden to make noise in this place, he immediately lost interest in the other immortals in the same temple.

Yu Que chose to begin introspection, using his three-inch-long divine sense to carefully capture and perceive the environment of this place.

Before long, the result delighted him.

This place not only possesses spiritual energy, but also the fragrance of incense, which permeates the ancestral temple, as if waiting for outsiders to come and gather and refine it.

This rich aroma of incense seems to be connected to something even more mysterious—a kind of destiny.

Yu Que was here, and all he had to do was take a deep breath, which caused a change in the fortune of the place, with incense burning and rushing towards him, making him extremely happy.

Cultivating here allows one to travel a thousand miles a day!
The abundant incense and auspicious energy here must have been accumulated here by countless people of Yama's lineage in the Central Plains through burning incense, praying, and expressing their gratitude.

Moreover, the oppressive aura that Yu Que felt from just one wall in the Yama Temple was several times greater than that in the Huangshan Taoist Palace.

The power of Qi Luck is far greater; it is a higher level than incense offerings and spiritual energy, and should not be overlooked!

Without the slightest hesitation, Yu Que immediately extended his divine sense to seize the incense and fortune surrounding him.

Whenever he seized the incense offerings and their associated fortune, he would immediately choose to refine them, focusing on absorbing their essence.

For a moment, he was completely immersed in this process of cultivation...

(End of this chapter)