Incense smoke drifts far, reaching deep into the Divine Aspect!
Fengyang County Suburbs
Red Flower Lady Temple
Recently, the area surrounding the Red Flower Lady Temple has been bustling with activity, as many followers of the Red Lotus Dao gather here.
Because the birthday of Lady Honghua falls in the coming days, and annually during this time, prominent families in the city sponsor efforts, such as lion dances or prayer recitation gatherings, temporarily turning the area into a festive temple fair.
At this moment, the outside of Red Flower Lady Temple is bustling, while the inner depths are heavily guarded.
Throughout the Tower Forest, many ascetics are seated, but these ascetics sitting under the towers neither eat nor drink, nor do they allow outsiders to enter freely.
Within the main hall, there are numerous slender women dressed in red and yellow silk, holding weapons, guarding the area tightly.
In the center of the main hall, a most beautiful figure kneels on a meditation mat, before her is a small table with a small Divine Statue placed on it.
However, around this Divine Statue of Lady Honghua, numerous scriptures are scattered, and deep within the brow is an Imperial Talisman Decree.
Inside the temple, numerous twisted black and red scriptures are everywhere, and long streamers are scattered around the courtyard.
This makes the initially sacred atmosphere within the temple exceptionally eerie and sinister.
At this moment, the beautiful woman calmly spoke.
"You need not shout outside, your actions will not only fail to save yourself, but will harm the innocent."
"Do you believe me when I say he will perish soon?"
Upon hearing this, from deep within the Divine Statue, threads of magnificent Divine Power burst forth, attempting to radiate, but they activated the runes scattered around the statue, transforming into chains trapping it tightly. Above, the Sealing Sticker unfolds a pure and suppressive Dao rhythm.
The beautiful woman said calmly: "It's useless, after years of arrangement, your Divine Soul has been subdued by me, and even your Divine Aspect has been secretly replaced, your birth date and eight characters are now mine, how do you resist?"
"Next, you simply need to wait quietly, you and I will become one, I will spare your life by merging you into the Divine Master Tablet, by then you and I shall be almost one entity, and this is my repayment of your kindness!"
Upon hearing this, an angry voice echoed from within the Divine Aspect.
"Although I don't know where you acquired this Zuo Dao Dao Technique, you are merely a Spirit Communication Fate and not a Divine Fate, even if you steal my Divine Power, you cannot successfully establish the Foundation, if you force it, you will certainly face backlash!"
"That's none of your concern!"
The beautiful woman remained indifferent.
She looked deeply at the Divine Statue before her, she was undoubtedly a person of great perseverance, originally obtained only an ordinary Exorcism Secret Technique, gained the ability to communicate with the divine, yet she forcibly walked out a path by extracting Lady Honghua's Divine Power, to now gradually controlling Lady Honghua's Divine Power, integrating it into herself, akin to refining Lifebound Demon Gods, she was about to refine Lady Honghua into her Lifebound God.
Once refined successfully, using this for Divination Foundation Establishment, in a sense, it was a complete theft of Lady Honghua's essence, turning herself into a deity.
Even if immortality isn't achieved, she may still find a way to embark on the path of Ghost Gods in the future.
Currently, what she needed to do was continuously extract Lady Honghua's Origin Divine Power, integrate it within herself, allowing her Spirit Communication Fate to first transform into an Exorcism Fate, ultimately completing the refinement, once Lady Honghua was thoroughly refined, she could naturally succeed in Foundation Establishment.
She then focused her gaze on the three oil lamps on the table, lighting them one by one, then reciting a mantra with Spiritual Power, triggering the Anomalous Power on the surrounding streamers, under the Spiritual Power's support, she slowly levitated, an invisible spiritual mechanism blossoming around her, enveloping the small Divine Aspect, forcibly commencing the extraction of Divine Power from within.
The Sealing Sticker on the Divine Aspect was obtained by the Grand Host using a worldly identity from a high priest at the Capital City Dong Shen Temple, with the current Divine Power, it is impossible to break through.
Inside the Divine Aspect.
Unlike the scene of eight arms with a black gold flame wheel behind the head, within the Divine Aspect, Lady Honghua was just a beautiful woman in red, surrounded by intense flames.
This god's eyes showed some regret.
She couldn't have imagined that the little girl she saved years ago would turn out this way, eventually bringing about her own downfall.
The current situation was out of control, she had no better way to save herself.
She wasn't even an actual deity, just a Wild God born from incense offerings, entirely powerless against such anomalous power extraction.
Moreover, the Sealing Sticker above the head was owned by a deity with a stronger Divine Power than hers, with positional suppression, she couldn't resist.
Watching as the incense Divine Power surrounding her Divine Soul dissipated gradually, and the numerous Divine Dao Functions painstakingly nurtured were about to fall apart, her eyes darkened, but just then, her expression suddenly changed.
Not only her, even the Grand Host levitating in midair showed a changed expression.
Boom!!
From the depths of the void, a crimson golden rainbow seemed to break through the air, a magnificent and intense incense fire instantly ruptured the surrounding Divine Realm technique of the hall, directly entering Lady Honghua's body.
Lady Honghua had absorbed numerous incense fires, but had never encountered such pure and flawless incense before.
This seemed to be born of the Heavenly Dao.
Flawless incense entered the body, directly replenishing into Lady Honghua, her originally dwindling Divine Power rapidly expanded, moments later she returned to her peak state, even faintly breaking through a first layer, the Divine Body truly manifesting.
The blazing flames surrounding her transformed at this moment into a true fire wheel appearing behind her head.
Deep within her brow, a Fire God Mark emerged.
"The Divine Position truly formed?"
Watching this scene, Lady Honghua's face showed astonishment, but she reacted quickly, an intense flame from her body surged along the Spirit Communication channel, igniting the Sealing Sticker on the Divine Aspect's forehead.
Crack!!
The numerous densely crowded runes around the Divine Aspect were ignited completely, a vast red light of incense fire surged out, directly into the unsuspecting woman's brow.
The woman's expression drastically changed, eyes filled with terror.
"No..."
She was originally about to weaken Lady Honghua's Divine Power and foundation using the surrounding Grand Array to occupy the nest, now Lady Honghua's Divine Power suddenly fully restored, even elevated, the situation completely reversed, how could she maintain suppression over Lady Honghua's Divine Soul, instead she was controlled using the array.
In moments, numerous fiery lights flowed around the woman, streams of incense fire flowed from all directions, instantly entering deep into the woman's brow, forming a fiery red mark.
...
Meanwhile, outside Fengyang County, as numerous Fengyang officials awaited the arrival of the Imperial Envoy, several figures quietly disguised themselves and entered the city.
Changning Street
In front of the Qi Family Mansion, several figures gazed at Qi Mansion.
"Brother Xue, can you see clearly the Qi Mansion's destiny changes, is there any sign of rebellion?"
"Or signs of rising power?"
At this moment, one figure showed a stern face, while beside him stood a middle-aged man resembling a wealthy noble.