Chapter 323: The Ancestral Temple (1/2)

Lin Mu couldn't handle it anymore and the embarrassment was threatening to drown him, if not his mother's voice that would nag him at the back of his head that would kill him as well. Unable to hold on anymore and unable to speak, Lin Mu ended up using blink to get away from the woman that was dragging him into the Alluring Wisteria pavilion.

The entire thing had happened in such a short amount of time that the woman had not seen anything happen and to her, it was as if Lin Mu had disappeared into thin air… which he kind of did.

~Phew~

Lin Mu took a breath of relief as he looked back at the Alluring Wisteria pavilion.

”Hooh! Almost got trapped…” Lin Mu muttered.

”Hahaha! Seems like you still have time to grow up.” Xukong laughed again.

Lin Mu ignored senior Xukong's teasing and just focused on walking. Eventually, he reached the place that he so wanted to go to, The ancestral temple.

The ancestral temple was located in a wide open square and there were a lot of people that came here to pray to their ancestors. The entry to the inside of the temple was not allowed to most of the people and all they could do was pray from the outside.

The temple would only be opened to the commoners on the day of the annual temple festival. Currently, only a few influential people could enter the temple and pray there. Lin Mu didn't have to wait in the crow for long before he was able to get close to the temple.

”Hmm, some of the runes carved on this temple are indeed from the Dao script,” Xukong spoke.

Lin Mu looked and read all the characters that he could and realized that some of them were from the Dao script, while the rest were just common runes. There were ancestral couplets written in the form of runes on the temple.

But when Lin Mu tried to read the Dao script characters, he realized that he could barely understand their meaning. He had not learned these ones yet and thus could not understand the entire meaning of them.

”Senior, what do the characters mean?” Lin Mu questioned, feeling curious.

”Hmm, they are the characters pertaining to reincarnation, worship, family, virtue and… fate.” Xukong answered.

Lin Mu could hear the strangeness in senior Xukong's voice and wondered if there was a problem.

”Senior, is there… something wrong with the temple?” Lin Mu asked.

”Hmm, it's hard to tell but it does not seem to be as old as it's looking,” Xukong replied.

”Not as old as it looks? Do you mean is newer than it looks?” Lin Mu asked.

”No, rather the opposite. Even if its materials look like they were made around a few hundred years ago, the aura that is felt from the characters is different. It's far more older…” Xukong answered.