A Way to Heal

Part 20

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On the other hand, Lan SiZhui and the other disciples did not find anything in the area of the ancient tombs, and had moved on to search for clues in Goddess Temple.

In Dafan Mountain, aside from the tombs of the Buddha's Feet ancestors, there was also the Goddess Temple. The being of worship was neither Buddha nor Guan Yin, but the statue of a "dancing goddess."

"ohhh are we going to see the goddess statue ? I heard horrible stories about it", Nie HuiSang said looking at the group.

"Yes, even though there are no records of calamities by this goddess, the stories passed on by the locals were also favored. But Our juniors looked as if they are terrified of that creature while they reported to us", said Sect leader Lan

"Sect leader, what we said was nothing compared to the real experience." Lan JingYi informed about what to expect.

The inside of the cave was spacious, similar to the size of an erjin temple, with the statue of the goddess set in the center. At first sight, it did indeed look like a human—the maiden's waist could even be considered lithe and graceful. However, after taking a closer look at it, it would seem rougher. Then again, a naturally-formed statue being so similar to an actual human was enough to make most people gasp in awe .

Lan JingYi lifted and lowered the compass of evil, but its pointer still didn't move. A thick layer of incense ashes covered the table for offerings, and disordered candles lay on there as well. A sickly sweet scent came from the plates for holding fruits. Most of the people from the Gusu Lan Sect had some degree of minor mysophobia. He fanned at the air in front of his nose and spoke, "The locals said that it is quite effective to pray at Goddess Temple, but how can it be this ruined? They should at least come and clean once in awhile."

Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng looked at the Lans, they sneered watching them adjust themselves in a filthy atmosphere like this.

"you elegant masters can step down to our level, huh ?"

"do you remember the looks in their eyes when they first came here?"

"we didn't really gave them a choice now"

The same voices were echoing and WuXian couldn't agree more. Even though he is part of the clan now, still he couldn't adapt to their white and clean habits.

Lan SiZhui spoke, "There have already been seven people who lost their souls. Everyone is saying that lightning has let out a fierce creature from the ancient graves of Buddha's Feet, so would anybody dare to come up the mountain? There is no attendance at the temple and so, naturally, there is nobody to clean the place."

A disdainful voice came from outside of the cave, "It's only a stupid rock, given the title of a goddess by who-knows-who, and people dare to put it here, accepting incense and worship!"

Jin Ling came inside, with his hands crossed behind his back. The time limit for the silence spell was not long, so his mouth could already open.

However, nothing nice came out of that mouth of his, as he looked at the goddess statue and hmphed, "These rural villagers don't work hard when they face difficulties, but instead pray to the Buddha and other things every day. There are thousands and millions of people in the world, but gods and Buddhas are already hands-full with their own matters, so who would care about them? Let alone a powerless goddess without status, like this one. If it's really that effective, then I'm gonna pray for the soul-consuming creature in Dafan Mountain to appear in front of me right now. Can the statue do it?"