Chapter 585: Chapter 585

After the ancestral worship ceremony tomorrow, we can go back.

Outside the hall, the voice of Gu, the senior brother, came.

Gu Chensha came striding over, bringing with him a set of sacrificial clothes for the ancestral worship ceremony. He was here to inform Ji Jingqiu about the details for tomorrow’s ceremony.

The Nine Palaces’ ancestral worship was a significant event, and it wouldn’t be good if anything went awry.

Ji Jingqiu was startled; he hadn’t realized that the Nine Palaces’ ancestral worship actually had some connection to him.

It turned out that it was the two Palace Masters who wanted him to complete the ceremony before returning to the Great Universe, hence the early summoning!

If being excellent were a sin, Ji Jingqiu felt he’d be condemned to the death penalty.

Soon, Ji Jingqiu received from his senior brother Gu the news about the so-called ancestral lands and Ancestor Skills, and then he understood that this so-called ancestral worship was not merely a ritual process...

This piqued his interest. Under the senior brother Gu’s explanation, he came to understand the ancestral worship ceremony.

With the arrival of the second day.

Ji Jingqiu, accompanied by senior brother Gu, arrived at the core location of the Nine Palaces’ ancestral worship, a Divine Temple.

The ancestral worship of the Nine Palaces was a grand affair that encompassed the entire Nine Palaces where all the main palaces, branch palaces, and civilizations within their jurisdictions had to participate.

And this Divine Temple was the core site of the ancestral worship.

The temple was not spacious, even somewhat cramped - a reflection of the first generation Ancestor Master of the Nine Palaces’ disdain for wasteful splendor, preferring simplicity in all things.

At this moment, the inside was filled with dozens of figures.

As Ji Jingqiu and Gu Chensha approached the entrance, all eyes turned to them.

Among those gazes were curiosity and goodwill, but decidedly no hostility.

At least not on the surface.

Ji Jingqiu had no time to pay attention to these people.

As he stepped into the Divine Temple, he immediately felt the existence of the "Nine Heavens" as described by senior brother Gu, the "Heavenly Will" of the cosmic dimension created by the Nine Palaces.

Grand, majestic, boundlessly vast, seeming omnipresent, it permeated every inch of space, exuding an air of eternal permanence, instilling awe in the hearts and discouraging any rash acts.

The expressions of everyone in the Divine Temple changed.

From above the temple, a daunting, intangible will descended, took its place at the head of the temple, and looked down majestically upon all below.

"The Ancestor Masters have truly descended..." someone muttered, their face showing pleasure.

It wasn’t always the case that the Ancestor Master’s spirit could be summoned during the grand worship ceremony, such as this time when the Ancestor Master took the "seat" on their own before it even started, which was quite rare!

Some people, with complicated expressions, looked towards Ji Jingqiu at the entrance of the temple, wondering if it was indeed because of him?

Is the title of being the first on the Ten Thousand Ancient Stele so esteemed as to be beyond words?

The ancestral worship ceremony proceeded smoothly, with no unexpected occurrences.

The only concern was that when it came time for Ji Jingqiu to offer incense, he suddenly felt an inexplicable panic, reminiscent of that time at the Four Gods Church when the statue had inexplicably shattered soon after his worship.

Surely the same mistake wouldn’t happen today?

Well, it couldn’t be those few; at the moment of offering incense, he was rather sincere.

In front of everyone.

Ji Jingqiu stood at the forefront, holding the first incense stick, and with the complex gazes of the Martial Artists behind him, he offered up the first incense.

Qi Yunfei, standing beside him, revealed a gratified smile.

From now on, Ji Jingqiu and their Nine Palaces would officially share a bond of incense offering.

Zuo Anxin, who stood in the second row, was in the process of giving respects to the Ancestor Masters when he suddenly noticed that the incense stick offered by Ji Jingqiu was burning at a rate ten times faster than the others!

Who would dare to tamper in the Divine Temple?

Even the Palace Masters of the Nine Palaces would not dare to act rashly; thus, the reason behind it hardly needed speculation.

But... was there such a rush?

Zuo Anxin opened his mouth.

For a moment, he was at a loss for words.

The grand image of the Ancestor Masters in his heart seemed to have... crumbled!

And as he saw that until the end, no "accident" had occurred with the statues in the Divine Temple, Ji Jingqiu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After the ancestral worship ceremony had ended, Ji Jingqiu distinctly felt a seal quietly imprint itself upon his embryonic form of the Holy Embryo.

Was this the ancestral legacy of the Nine Palaces’ Ancestor Skills and ancestral lands?