After killing the abbot, the special attribute Calamitous Fallen Karmic Fire did not increase, but the progress bar of the Child of Evil’s Extreme Evil Power Fountain visibly rose another tiny bit.

“At this rate, it won’t take long for the Child of Evil to advance, and it may even rise several grades in a row. It looks like this world is the best leveling ground for the Child of Evil.”

[At this moment, your Wheel of All Evil Karma behind your back displays a strange phenomenon. The abbot’s entire body of malice and its yin spirit are together drawn into the treasured wheel, entering the Beast Path among the six-path images, transforming into an ugly and filthy pig-creature, squeezed together with the other beasts at a trough grunting as they fight for food.]

[You say to the monk, those who believe in you shall naturally receive good retribution and ascend to the heavenly-human realm, while those who do not believe in you shall reap evil fruit and fall into the Beast Path!]

[So it is with cause and effect, nothing more than this!]

[So, does it believe, or does it not?]

[Carrying the Scarlet King’s Sword on your shoulder, you question the monk expressionlessly.]

[If it dares utter even half a word of refusal, you will split it in two with one slash just as you did the abbot, and send it to the Beast Path.]

[The monk is terrified beyond measure, trembling so hard it cannot utter a single word, and can only nod repeatedly while kowtowing and worshipping you…]

The monk of Pure Goodness Temple kowtowed and worshipped Lin Xun, yet he still did not receive any game prompt.

According to the description of Wheel of All Evil Karma, this skill could draw in the incense malice of worshippers and attendants to improve itself.

Now that he had not received any game prompt, it was obvious that the monk’s method of worship was not quite correct.

After giving it a round of training, Lin Xun finally discovered the correct method of drawing in incense power.

[…]

[The Extreme Evil Monk of Pure Goodness Temple devoutly worships the clay idol of the Child of Evil on the altar, holding aloft purple sandalwood incense, as the power of incense wishes and evil malice slowly flow toward the divine image…]

[You have drawn in incense malice. The Shell Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil has gained a certain amount of EXP!]

[The power within the Shell begins to boil. The Shell Level of Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil has risen. Current Shell Level: 61 (182)]

“Incense wish power can raise Shell Level?”

The Child of Evil was a Shell drawn from a Shell item, so its original level was only 60. Under the bonus of Visage of the Leader, its level temporarily followed the current leader, the Executor, to 182.

Now, due to the monk’s incense service, the Child of Evil gained EXP and raised its true Shell Level by one.

The game not only prompted that because Wheel of All Evil Karma had drawn in incense malice, it had brought EXP and a level increase.

It also prompted that the Child of Evil’s Extreme Evil Power Fountain had likewise gained more skill progress due to absorbing malice.

“This really is killing two birds with one stone. Not only can it raise Shell Level, it can also raise Shell Quality.”

“No wonder all these gods need to maintain flourishing incense in the mortal world. So it turns out incense can strengthen them…”

[Thinking this, you kick the still-feigning-death village head and order it to gather the still-living villagers, women, and children in the village and bring them to the temple to worship and make offerings to the new god.]

[The village head hurriedly scrambles up. It dares not defy you, an existence even more evil than an evil god, and following your order, it stumbles toward the village to gather the villagers…]

Lin Xun kept a watchful eye and summoned Valkyrie, having her secretly follow the village head to see whether this fellow would make any little moves.

[You turn your head and look at the monk still devoutly worshipping your divine image, feeling very satisfied with its behavior. You instruct it that from this day on, it is the abbot of this temple, responsible for leading the villagers in daily offerings and worship to the divine image.]

[Suddenly promoted from monk to abbot, all its resentment transforms into joy, and it kowtows to you repeatedly.]

[The New Abbot seems to think of something and suddenly lifts its head to ask, this guardian god, what is your honored name and Buddha title? How should all the faithful chant your Buddha title?]

A Buddha title?

Lin Xun frowned, feeling a little troubled.

He had only been thinking of seizing incense. If he could drag out the cowardly turtle that was the Mother Buddha of All Evils, all the better. Even if he could not, it still would not hinder the Child of Evil from strengthening itself through this.

As for things like Buddha titles and honored names, as someone hopeless at naming, he had not considered them at all.

“How about… Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon?”

“That does not seem quite right. In this world, the dragon race and yokai race are all remnants of evil demons. Especially in the Vermilion Empire, where everyone worships Ancient Heavenly Enma, having anything to do with dragons is far too eye-catching. If it draws a whole bunch of evil gods into besieging me, that would be a terrible deal.”

“Victorious Fighting Buddha seems pretty good, but that title is too overused and does not match my style.”

With a turn of thought, Lin Xun quickly came up with a suitable title.

[You tell the New Abbot that your name is Namo Great Sage Relic Honored King Buddha. Whenever believers chant your Buddha title, they may uproot the three poisons of greed, hatred, and delusion, and dispel the three karmas of body, speech, and mind!]

[The New Abbot is stunned and repeatedly mutters Namo Great Sage Relic Honored King Buddha…]

Afterward, Lin Xun gave it a lecture that this Namo Great Sage Relic Honored King Buddha was the newly appointed Ancestor of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and that now, seeing the world’s living beings suffer in misery, he had compassionately incarnated and walked the mortal world to eliminate certain evil heterodox wild gods and restore clarity to the mortal realm, and so on…

From the New Abbot, he also obtained quite a bit of key information and intelligence.

[…]

[…The land of Vermilion has, since ancient times until now, always believed in Ancient Heavenly Enma. It is only that small temples in mountain villages like Li Family Village cannot worship a true main god.]

[The god previously worshipped in this temple was Pure Goodness Bodhisattva, a subordinate god of Great Wisdom Endless Intent Bodhisattva, the left attendant of Ancient Heavenly Enma, namely the current Mother Buddha of All Evils.]

[Several decades ago, Pure Goodness Bodhisattva manifested a miracle in the eastern city of Wusi, changed her Buddha title to Mother Buddha of All Evils, and taught the people to carry out killing sacrifices, adding all manner of evil karma onto themselves so that they might cultivate blessings after reincarnation in the next life.]

[The Fire-Worship Church controls the sacrificial rites of Vermilion. A Fire-Worship Roving Enforcer came to Li Family Village, changed the clay idol of Pure Goodness Bodhisattva into the new divine image of the Mother Buddha of All Evils, replaced the abbot, and taught the villagers the method of killing sacrifice…]

[As time passed, with the day after day of killing sacrifices, the villagers have almost forgotten that the original Buddha title of the Mother Buddha of All Evils was Pure Goodness Bodhisattva…]

[At this point, the New Abbot hesitates somewhat, but in the end still gathers courage and says to you, Supreme Buddha Ancestor, it knows that you are the newly appointed Ancestor of Ten Thousand Buddhas under Enma, but this is only a mountain village. A small temple cannot house a great Buddha.] 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

[In less than half a month, a Fire-Worship Roving Enforcer will come from Wusi City to carry out the once-a-year sacrificial inspection.]

[The temples in Wusi City also mainly worship the Mother Buddha of All Evils. Now that this temple has erected the divine image of the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Buddhas, this does not conform to sacrificial rites. If the roving enforcer discovers it, I fear the villagers will all be taken to the city and offered alive to the Mother Buddha, while your Dharma image will also be destroyed…]

Hearing this, Lin Xun already understood the general situation in his heart.

The Extreme Delusion Fruit had remained hidden in the shadows all along. Even if it had devoured every god upon the lands of Vermilion, it had still never twisted the people’s faith in Ancient Heavenly Enma…

Because as long as the Extreme Delusion Fruit corrupted all gods, it could redirect the people’s incense power toward Itself and those gods already corrupted, and could make the people unknowingly fall into extreme evil.

“The Fire-Worship Church… now it would be more accurate to call it the Extreme Evil Church.”

“So Wusi City is the lair of the Mother Buddha of All Evils?”

Lin Xun narrowed his eyes, and a fierce gleam flashed within them.