Chapter 12 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

“Wait a minute. This power of incense is different from a blessed magical artifact!”

Enjoying the catharsis brought to him by his blessed bracelet, Chen Hao acutely sensed its unusualness.

Because as he was undergoing the catharsis, he could visibly feel that the power of incense on the Buddha beads was weakening.

Chen Hao was perplexed. He hurriedly observed, then found that it was indeed different, making him feel speechless.

Because the Buddha beads had absorbed the power of incense, it was still dissipating, but the rate at which it was dissipating was much slower than compared to when it was within the Buddha statue. Moreover, the power of incense that dissipated from the Buddha beads he was wearing was partially absorbed into his own body, while most of it dissipated in the air.

Could he have had the wrong idea? Even if it absorbed this power of incense, in the end, the power of incense merely changed vessels. Weren’t his powers enhanced by even a bit?

After a long pause, Chen Hao sighed out loud.

Indeed, there wasn’t a shortcut to becoming stronger. He overthought things.

If he wanted to improve the grade of the magical artifacts, he still had to work hard in his missions and obtain Dao Attainments, then bless the artifacts himself. If it was an external power, it would at most merely be stored and wouldn’t increase his powers at all.

But this power of incense had excellent use. The energy that he expended after blessing the magical artifacts was replenished in an instant. It was quite a good mana bug1.

It seemed like the power of incense that he borrowed was able to replenish his energy instead.

Chen Hao’s eyes glinted unsteadily, thoughts churning wildly in his head.

After coming out of Spring Temple, Chen Hao returned to the downtown area and went into the street selling small goods once more and began sweeping goods.

This time, with the power of incense as his backing, Chen Hao spent several thousand yuan to purchase tens of items.

After getting back to his rented apartment, Chen Hao locked his door and excitedly began blessing the items he just purchased.

He blessed more than ten items in one go.

By the end of it, Chen Hao found out, to his surprise, that the power of incense on the blessed bracelet was depleted.

The blessed bracelet went back to its original appearance, and the warm power of incense disappeared completely.

Chen Hao was exasperated.

He had only finished blessing one-third of the items he purchased! How did it disappear just like this? The power of incense was way too weak!

Come to think of it, every time he regained his energy, a large part of the power of incense seemed to dissipate. This was too wasteful. Chen Hao felt heartache.

But he didn’t dare to continue blessing the artifacts anymore. Without the power of incense to replenish his energy, he didn’t wish to relive that experience of having his energy completely depleted.

Anyway, now that he found out about the mana bug effect of the power of incense, he could simply go back and do it again.

He had blessed more than ten magical artifacts and that should be sufficient for himself. Even if he was unlucky and ran into a ferocious ghost, even if he didn’t manage to defeat it, he could at least run away.

Simply relying on the power of incense wasn’t a viable solution, either. After all, there were different grades to a blessed magical artifact.

Dharmic Aura, Spirit Aura, Treasure Aura—these were the three different grades of magical artifacts.