Senior sister, stop working and go home for dinner.

"That's what's causing this!" Lin Xiaoman pointed at the Buddha statue.

Around the Buddha statue, which exuded an ominous and resentful aura, came a surging tide of resentment and the wailing of the dead.

After a moment of silence, Chen Anran reached out his hand to the Buddha statue.

"Anran! Don't touch it!" Wei Qingyi was terrified when she saw him reach out his hand and hurriedly stopped him. The eerie aura emanating from the Buddha statue made even a Qi Refining cultivator like herself feel uneasy; touching it rashly would have unimaginable consequences.

Lin Xiaoman said anxiously, "Master Chen! This thing harbors too much resentment; there's a risk of it backfiring!"

However, Chen Anran's hands did not stop for the first time. Because he knew that with risk often came huge profits.

The next moment, his palm landed firmly on the Buddha statue that was bleeding from its seven orifices!

Upon touching it, he felt an icy chill, as if he were holding a block of ancient ice. Countless resentful and painful thoughts, like steel needles, pierced through his arm and into Chen Anran's mind, attempting to erode his sanity.

Before Chen Anran could even use his spiritual power to fight back, a powerful force suddenly erupted from the museum within his divine sea, dispelling the invading evil force.

Item: Vengeful Ghost Buddha (Core Aggregate of Resentment)

Status: Evolvable

"Evolutionary Path: Angry Arhat Statue (Estimated Time: 2480 hours)"

"Effect: Summons an Arhat clone to possess you (the clone's strength and duration are linked to the user's strength), slightly increasing your comprehension."

It can evolve! It really can! And it can even summon Arhat clones!

Chen Anran took a deep breath, turned around, and took down another Buddha amulet hanging at the top.

Item: Resentment Buddha Amulet

Status: Evolvable

"Evolution Path: Guardian Vajra Plaque (Estimated Time: 720 hours)"

"Effect: Passively defends against one attack from a cultivator below the Foundation Establishment stage. (Requires recharging after the effect is triggered)"

These amulets can also evolve!

Chen Anran was overjoyed; this was an unexpected windfall! Although the Buddha statue was powerful, its evolution time was over two thousand hours, while these Buddha amulets were numerous and evolved in a short time. If they could be mass-produced, they would be of immense value, whether for the senior sisters' self-defense or as a future resource for the sect.

In a flash, Chen Anran no longer hesitated. Like a farmer at the height of a bountiful harvest, he quickly removed all the Buddha amulets and, ignoring Wei Qingyi and the others' gazes, directly put the Buddha statues and amulets into the museum.

In their eyes, these things simply vanished into thin air once they passed through Chen Anran's hands.

"Gone...gone?!" Fatty Li's mouth gaped open, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets. He pointed at the empty instrument panel and the cabin ceiling, "Young Master Chen...you...you're...possibly a celestial being's hidden universe?! Or is it some kind of ethereal manipulation?!"

Wei Qingyi and Lin Xiaoman were completely stunned.

Wei Qingyi suddenly looked at Chen Anran, her eyes filled with disbelief. "Junior brother, how did you do that? Where are those things?"

Lin Xiaoman looked at Chen Anran with even greater awe, and subconsciously shrank back. In Lin Xiaoman's eyes, Wei Qingyi's junior brother, who was also in the early stage of Qi Refining, always gave her a feeling of being unable to see through him.

Chen Anran shrugged innocently and said, "I don't know either! As soon as I touched the Buddha statue, I felt a heat in my palm, and then it and the plaques disappeared!"

Just then, the cabin lights flickered a few times before coming back on steadily.

A slight vibration came from beneath my feet, and the familiar, reassuring roar of the airplane engine filled my ears again! Outside the porthole, the pitch-black void faded away, replaced by the city lights on the distant ground below, as bright as stars, and the cool moonlight above the clouds.

The plane is back to normal!

Almost simultaneously, in the cockpit, where the pilot and co-pilot seats had been empty, two captains in uniform and wearing headsets reappeared out of nowhere, fast asleep with their eyes closed.

Seeing this, Chen Anran said, "Let's hurry back to our seats before they wake up, or we won't be able to explain why we're here later."

Wei Qingyi immediately understood and put away her peach wood sword. Fatty Li also realized what was happening and scrambled to his feet.

The four men quietly exited the cockpit, passed through the business class, went through the curtain, and returned to their own seats in economy class, quickly fastening their seatbelts.

Fatty Li, clutching his still-pounding heart, leaned close to Chen Anran's ear and whispered, "Young Master Chen... just now... I wasn't dreaming, was I?"

Li Pangzi's values ​​have been completely changed at this moment. If he were to watch those short videos of strange events now, he would probably believe that they are all true.

Chen Anran smiled. He was in a good mood and didn't mind chatting with Fatty Li for a bit.

"When everyone firmly believes in an illusion, the illusion becomes an unbreakable 'reality.' Boss Li, now that you've seen through the illusion, you should do good in your future actions and dealings, otherwise you'll easily get tainted by these 'dirty things.'"

Fatty Li shuddered; in his eyes, Chen Anran and the other two were now like "living gods."

"Don't worry, Mr. Chen, I will definitely do good!" Fatty Li's eyes darted around, his mind racing with calculations.

Tonight, living, breathing gods are sitting right next to him! And not just one, but three! No, counting the white figure that came out of the jar, there are four!

Recalling Chen Anran's unusual composure when he took over his shop, and his casually generous hand over two million, Fatty Li became even more certain of his judgment.

"An opportunity! A golden opportunity!" Fatty Li roared inwardly. "I've wandered half my life, mingling in the streets, and I've seen plenty of rich and powerful people, but I never thought I'd actually run into some real geniuses! And these geniuses don't seem very old, and they don't seem like bad people either, especially Young Master Chen, who was quite polite to me, a mere mortal I just met..."

He stole a glance at Chen Anran beside him, who was resting with her eyes closed as if nothing had happened, and then looked at Wei Qingyi and Lin Xiaoman across the aisle, whose expressions had also returned to calm. A thought grew wildly in his mind like weeds:

"Anyway, I, Fatty Li, am a bachelor. My parents are long gone, and my so-called 'roots' back home are just a vague memory. The money from selling the shop would be enough for me to be a rich old man back home, but what's the point? Fishing, sunbathing, and then what? Waiting for birth, aging, sickness, and death? Compared to this path to immortality and divine methods, it's nothing!"

"If I could follow these immortals... even if it's just doing odd jobs or running errands, I'd experience a whole new world! Maybe... maybe I could even get some immortal luck, prolong my life, or even... learn a move or two?"

Fatty Li grew increasingly agitated, his breathing quickening. He tried to calm himself, forcing a sincere and humble smile onto his face, and carefully, with a trembling yet incredibly firm voice, spoke to Chen Anran beside him:

"Young...Young Master Chen...No, Master Chen...Master Chen!"