Early the next morning, Lěng Yè managed to shake off Liáng Xīn's persistence. After asking Liang Feng for the exact location of the Mountain God Temple, he set off alone toward the outskirts of Jingdu.
He boarded a suburban bus, and along the way, he overheard passengers enthusiastically discussing the miraculous efficacy of the Mountain God at the temple. Most people on the bus were heading there with pious wishes in their hearts. Listening to the discussions around him, Lěng Yè developed a strong curiosity about this legendary and exceptionally responsive "Mountain God."
Based on his deductions, this so-called Mountain God was most likely a high-level Nascent Soul expert whose physical body had been destroyed, but who managed to survive in the world by absorbing the incense power of believers. If this hypothesis proved correct, it meant that this entity was essentially a mobile source of divine soul energy—precisely the key resource Lěng Yè needed to break through his own limitations. Therefore, he decided to investigate this potential opportunity in person. Even if he ultimately discovered that the entity was not of good intent, he was mentally prepared to refine it for his own use.
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