I am the villain in the book

As Wei Changtian had guessed, there was indeed a tomb hidden beneath Yun'an Temple.

Because the person lying in the very center of several ebony woods, surrounded by hundreds of golden lotuses, was clearly a dead man.

But unlike what he had guessed, besides being a tomb, this place also looked very much like a sacrificial site.

The walls of the hundred-zhang-wide cave were covered with golden Buddhist scriptures, making people dizzy after a few glances.

Countless luminous pearls were scattered high and low in all directions, illuminating the entire cave as if it were daytime.

In the center of the cave, there was a "lotus pond" the size of a basketball court, filled with mercury, and the lotuses were made of gold leaves.

Amidst the many golden lotuses, an old monk wearing a bright red kasaya, with white hair and beard, and twelve precept scars on his head, was lying quietly on a golden lotus platform, his eyes lightly closed, without a trace of breath.

In fact, this scene alone, although a bit strange, was not very related to sacrifice.

However...

Taking a deep breath, Wei Changtian cautiously drew out the Longquan Sword, then slowly walked to the lotus pond.

He squatted down, used the sword to cut off a lotus petal, held it in his hand, and examined it for a while.

The petals were made of gold, with very fine workmanship, even with delicate veins, and the feel was very much like a real lotus.

But that wasn't the key.

The key was that Wei Changtian actually felt a very powerful and slowly flowing inner force from this golden petal.

There were three thousand avenues, and although breathing the same heaven and earth's true energy, the inner force condensed by each sect was different.

Therefore, Wei Changtian immediately distinguished that this was the inner force of Buddhism.

But why was there inner force on this golden lotus?

Frowning, Wei Changtian's brain was running fast.

He was already very clear about the "rules of cultivation" in this world.

Simply put, it was that there was "true energy" in the world, like air, and the existence of true energy gave everything in this world characteristics different from his previous life.

For example, this world could breed real "spiritual medicines" with various magical effects, could give birth to all kinds of strange monsters, and even ordinary crops were not inferior to those "superior varieties" carefully selected in his previous life.

But if there was only true energy, this place would undoubtedly not be considered a world of cultivation.

Because true energy came from heaven and earth and could not be directly used.

Only cultivators could use the techniques of various sects to transform true energy into their own inner force before they could perform various wonderful supernatural powers.

In other words, the process of cultivation was actually the process of converting true energy into inner force and storing it in the dantian.

The higher the purity, the stronger the supernatural powers and martial arts you could perform.

It's a bit off topic.

In a word, inner force must be produced by cultivators.

Except for humans and monsters, nothing else could convert true energy into inner force, and even long-term storage of inner force was impossible.

This was why there were no "blue bottles and blood bottles" in this world.

Apart from the "Tianyuan Pill" sold in the system, Wei Changtian had never seen any pills or treasures that could directly replenish inner force.

Even top experts could only honestly meditate to recover their inner force when it was exhausted, at most using monster spirit pills, treasures that could store true energy, to speed up the process.

Inner force could not be stored through objects, this was almost a truth-like rule in this world.

But now, the golden petals in Wei Changtian's hand actually contained a very large amount of inner force.

Let's not talk about why these golden lotuses could store inner force.

Because there was an even stranger thing at hand.

Where the hell did this inner force come from??

"Husband..."

After a while, Yang Liushi, who had also picked a golden petal, also noticed something was wrong.

She stared wide-eyed blankly, her face full of disbelief.

"Why, why is this happening?"

"I don't know, but..."

Compared to Yang Liushi, Wei Changtian was, after all, a transmigrator, and the "worldview" he had just constructed was not too deeply rooted, so he had now regained his composure.

He frowned and thought for a moment, then analyzed softly:

"But this inner force can't be faked."

"So either someone in Buddhism has found a way to store inner force in inanimate objects."

"Or... there is a living thing in this cave."

"Living thing?"

Yang Liushi suddenly looked up at the corpse lying in the center of the lotus pond, her mouth instantly widened.

Obviously, if there was a living thing here, it seemed that it could only be this corpse.

"Husband, but I can't feel any breath..."

She gasped a few times and asked Wei Changtian in a low voice: "Do you want to go take a look?"

"Don't rush."

Wei Changtian shook his head, squinted his eyes, and played with the golden leaf in his hand, without acting rashly.

This tomb hidden under the illusion array revealed strangeness everywhere, and he didn't have the halo of the protagonist, so it wouldn't be worth it if he capsized in the gutter.

Moreover, even if he really wanted to take this risk, he would have to get the benefits that were already at his mouth first.

"Liushi, how much inner force is in this lotus petal?"

"It's probably equivalent to all the inner force of a Fourth-Rank martial artist."

"How many petals are there in a golden lotus?"

"More than a dozen."

"Then how many golden lotuses are there here?"

"Hundreds!"

Suddenly, Yang Liushi exclaimed.

Only then did she realize that she had just been thinking about why there was inner force in these golden petals, and had forgotten about this!

The inner force stored in a lotus petal was basically equal to all that a Fourth-Rank martial artist's dantian could accommodate.

And there were so many golden lotuses here, nearly two thousand petals... This, this wasn't equivalent to the storage of two thousand Fourth-Rank martial artists?

Two thousand Fourth-Rank martial artists!

Even if converted to Second-Rank, it could fill up an empty dantian dozens of times!

You must know that in a battle between experts, the rational distribution of inner force is very important.

Imagine, when two people are fighting to the point of exhaustion, one of them suddenly takes out a golden petal, and their inner force is instantly full...

"This, this..."

Staring wide-eyed in astonishment, Yang Liushi's small face turned red.

Now she didn't bother to think about where this inner force came from, she just looked at Wei Changtian and said in a trembling voice:

"Husband, then we..."

"Yes, let's do it."

Wei Changtian smiled, got up, and looked at the entire lotus pond, his eyes as if he were looking at the bank vault in his previous life.

"We'll talk about the rest later, let's get all of these first!"

"But remember to be careful, run immediately if something is wrong."

"Okay, okay! I remember!"

Yang Liushi also stood up at this time, nodding repeatedly, her eyes only filled with excitement.

The two looked at each other, and then they didn't hesitate any longer. The next moment, they turned into two black shadows and rushed towards the golden lotuses in the pond from the east and west sides.

"..."

"Husband! Hurry up and take off your clothes!"

"Ah? Take off my clothes?"

"Yes! There are too many! I can't hold them!"

"Okay! Here!"

"Mmm, husband!"

"What's wrong again?"

"It's so cool!!!"