Chapter 349: (1): Official Recognition for Burial River, Borrowing a Saber from the Martial Sage Temple, Sword-Carrying White Ape
A short woman dressed in beautiful garb suddenly materialized on the bank of Burial River and started to slowly walk forward.
Following the rapid rise of her cultivation base, the water goddess of Burial River was now increasingly adept at manipulating the flow of the river from the two banks. This was similar to how generals could conquer the land underfoot when they set off on expeditions on horseback.
Burial River was a large river that cut across more than half of the Great Quan Empire from the east to the west, yet the water goddess had still struggled to contain the troublemaking river demon that was yet to reach the Golden Core Tier. This was the case even with her multitude of refined weapons, and part of the reason was that she could barely manage to control the might of Burial River.
If she recklessly accepted the promotion of her Green Roving Residence to Green Roving Palace, yet the imperial court of the Great Quan Empire was unwilling to offer a portion of the nation's fortune and have a cultivator from the Ministry of Astronomy place it inside the water god temple, what would she do then?
This was one of the main reasons the water goddess hadn't accepted the proposal to have her residence promoted to a palace. Once she swapped the old plaque out for one that read Green Roving Palace, it was suffice to say that individuals from all over the empire would become jealous and covet her position. That being the case, there might come a day when both of the plaques were ripped down and used as firewood.
The water goddess was a naturally bold and short-tempered person, and there was no need to deny any of this. However, her ability to rule over Burial River for several hundred years and grab all of the fated opportunities with both hands proved that she was definitely no foolish person.
She squatted down and scooped up a handful of water from the river. The water in her hands rippled under the soft glow of the moonlight, and it also appeared to contain far more spiritual energy compared to the past.
Before hurrying over to the relay station, much of the incense essence that had overflowed from the water god temple had flowed into a certain hall in the temple. Initially silver-white in color, the wisps of incense essence had surprisingly become pale gold as they had flowed toward that gold-gilded clay statue in the main hall.
The term "gold statue" was commonly thrown around, but this didn't refer to the fact that craftsmen gilded the clay statues of deities in gold. Rather, this term was synonymous with godly body, and it pertained to the foundation of a deity's Divine Dao. This was a manifestation of the Great Dao, and those wisps of pale gold and concentrated incense essence that slowly seeped into the gold statue on the divine altar were referred to as "gold decoration" in the Divine Dao.