Chapter 31 The Old Mother

After Zhao Bao left, Zhao Xiong shook his head and then returned to his bedroom, activated a mechanism, and revealed a passageway. He went down the passage to find a secret chamber.

This secret chamber was the culmination of generations of the Zhao family's painstaking efforts and had now been converted into a small Buddhist shrine. He lit a pine-resin lamp, and in the center of the altar, there was a divine portrait enshrined.

The deity in the painting was the image of a kind and compassionate elderly mother. She held a lotus flower and a jewel, wore a fairy jade crown on her head, and was draped in a white robe, emanating an inexplicable mysterious power.

Zhao Xiong devoutly offered incense and prayed, whispering the eight characters "Wúshēng lǎomǔ, zhēnkōng jiāxiāng", feeling as if his body and mind were purified through them.

He had been a follower of the Old Mother for a year.

In the past, he had done many evil deeds, and as he grew older, he frequently had nightmares.