730: The puppet priestess Yongjiang! The differences in the priestly system!

Creak!

The Water Turtle Messenger pushed the door open and walked out. It glanced at Su Lie at the door, nodded, and hurriedly went downstairs.

Su Lie walked in carrying the lotus seed soup with both hands and presented the porridge to the Yongjiang High Venerable: "My Lord! It's at the perfect temperature!"

"Mm."

Yongjiang High Venerable picked up the lotus seed soup. The bowl was made from the skull of a juvenile creature, polished extremely smooth on the inside, with a piece of Spiritual Jade embedded in the rim to test for poison.

A layer of extremely beautiful patterns was carved on the outside.

The aesthetic of these water monsters consisted of algae, spiral patterns, and elegant designs of blood dripping into water.

Su Lie wasn't interested in this at all.

He quietly took a step back and stood where the Water Turtle Messenger had been standing earlier.

After Yongjiang High Venerable finished the lotus seed soup in the bowl, he picked up a cup on the table that emitted a bloody scent.

Steam was still rising from the cup.

The liquid inside wasn't water, but the blood of some creature.

Although some spices had been added to the blood, it was still exceptionally fishy.

Clatter!

Yongjiang High Venerable then looked at Su Lie: "Gui Nian! You are an old monster who has followed me since this Water Manor was established! This time, I..."

Just as he was about to say something.

Su Lie already sensed the plant puppet seed taking root and sprouting within the Yongjiang High Venerable, completing the enslavement.

He walked straight to a seat next to the Yongjiang High Venerable and sat down nonchalantly.

Yongjiang High Venerable was stunned, his brows furrowing slightly. He felt that Gui Nian seemed a bit too bold today.

Just as he was about to lose his temper.

Su Lie said indifferently, "Kneel."

Yongjiang High Venerable was shaken, and the fire of rage instantly ignited in his chest: "How dare you! You shameless old turtle, to be so insolent! You are truly seeking death!"

With a thought.

He was about to strike and kill the turtle.

Who would have known.

Before he could even move, his legs buckled and he knelt down. A strong desire to obey actually rose in his heart.

Under this will.

With a thud, Yongjiang High Venerable knelt directly before Su Lie.

He looked at Su Lie with dull eyes, his heart pounding: "How is this possible?"

Su Lie smiled slightly and thought to himself, "Fortunately, I turned off the Life-Stealing Talent, otherwise this would have probably taken the dog life of this Yongjiang High Venerable!"

Under normal circumstances, a plant puppet seed couldn't possibly enslave a Divine Official like the Yongjiang High Venerable.

But the seed Su Lie gave to the Yongjiang High Venerable was different.

It was formed by condensing ten years of Su Lie's lifespan along with the Xuanhuang attribute.

The seed contained the the ruless of the Xuanhuang Talent.

Even though the Xuanhuang Talent was sealed, the Xuanhuang attribute could still invoke the the ruless of the Xuanhuang Talent.

This gave Su Lie more room for maneuver.

Even if the power of the plant puppet seed failed.

Su Lie could still use the the ruless of the Xuanhuang Power to turn the Yongjiang High Venerable into his puppet.

Su Lie sat with his legs crossed, looking at the other party with a mischievous grin.

He reached out and closed the window of the small building.

The light in the room instantly dimmed.

Su Lie informed the Yongjiang High Venerable of his current situation and took out the Divine Official Seals of the Changhe Venerable and Heihe Venerable.

Yongjiang High Venerable was shocked once more: "Hiss! You're not... Gui Nian?"

Only then did his thoughts undergo a Transformation.

No wonder Gui Nian would defy his master like this!

No wonder Gui Nian, who had been honest his whole life, would act so out of character at this time.

This was actually a Trial Taker in Disguise!

At this moment.

The shock in Yongjiang High Venerable's heart was like overturning seas and collapsing heavens.

He thought of the lotus seed soup he had just drunk.

Only then did he realize he had truly fallen into Su Lie's trap.

He really wanted to hate Su Lie, especially wanted to kill him.

But he couldn't bring himself to hate him, nor could he muster even a shred of killing intent.

Now, he couldn't even say a single bad word about Su Lie.

Buzz! Buzz!

At this moment, Su Lie fused the two Divine Seals one after another.

[Buzz!]

A notification appeared in Su Lie's vision.

[You have two opportunities to randomly unseal a Talent. Do you wish to use them?]

[Note: This opportunity comes from the fusion of Divine Seals!]

[Note: Unsealing Talents must comply with the secret realm the ruless! Therefore, the Talents you randomly unseal will not include Undying, Invincibility, Transformation, Immunity, or Class-type Talents.]

"Oh? I can even get such benefits?"

Su Lie's eyes lit up upon seeing this, and he immediately responded excitedly, "Yes!"

Buzz!

In the blink of an eye, a light burst forth from Su Lie's body.

[Congratulations! Your Xuanhuang Talent has been unsealed!]

[Congratulations! Your Spider Sense Talent has been unsealed!]

"Hmm? After the Xuanhuang Talent is unsealed, I can directly activate its devouring ability to swallow the the ruless of this world, adding the rules power to the Xuanhuang Talent. I can even directly use the the ruless of the Xuanhuang Talent to control targets!"

Su Lie's eyes lit up: "However, its use after awakening doesn't seem that great! On the other hand, the Spider Sense Talent is indeed suitable for me! Now my life has a safety guarantee!"

He raised his hand and directly summoned his Divine Official Seal.

The name of the seal was still the Honghe River Divine Seal.

But the the rules water system had changed. An additional piece of information appeared in its description: You can completely manipulate the water system power of the Honghe River, Changhe River, and Heihe River.

As the the ruless upgraded, another piece of information appeared: 2 Divine Seals fused.

Additionally, two more the ruless appeared.

One the rules was the Unsealing the rules, explained as: For every Divine Seal fused, one Talent will be unsealed.

One the rules was the Proxy the rules, explained as: You can designate a member of the aquatic tribe to manage the waters on your behalf. They will temporarily gain the power to control the waters and additionally awaken the Great Flood Talent.

In the notes, a new condition regarding the fusion of Divine Official Seals appeared.

[Note: You still need to fuse eight Rank 1 Divine Official Seals to trigger the power of the Lightning Tribulation. If you survive the tribulation, you can become a Rank 2 Divine Official.]

"Eight more? To go from Rank 1 to 2, I need to fuse 10 Rank 1 Divine Official Seals. So what about Rank 2 to 3? Does it require even more Divine Official Seals? Must this path be carved out through killing?"

Seeing this, Su Lie realized a problem.

He then looked at the Yongjiang High Venerable: "How did you advance to a Rank 2 Divine Official?"

"Replying to Mas..."

Yongjiang High Venerable immediately kowtowed to respond, but before he could finish, he froze on the spot: "Holy sh*t! How the hell could this be me? No! No! No! No! Has my consciousness been manipulated?"

"Hurry up! I don't like waiting!"

Su Lie glared at the Yongjiang High Venerable.

Yongjiang High Venerable trembled and prostrated himself on the ground, saying humbly, "Replying to Master! This humble one is a concubine-born descendant of the main branch of a Rank 4 Divine Official family from the Earth Sea. After passing the family trials, I was granted a Divine Official Seal and thus became a Rank 1 Divine Official!"

"Later, under the family's arrangement, I served as a Venerable in a small river for ten years! After passing the assessment, I used the family's Time Wheel to instantly fulfill the requirement of governing a river for a hundred years needed for Divine Official promotion!"

"With the family's help, I survived a Lightning Tribulation and successfully advanced to a Rank 2 Divine Official!"

"I have been here for 90 years now!"

He spoke tremulously.

At this moment.

There were no other thoughts in his head, only two remaining ideas.

Su Lie is the master!

Fulfill all of the master's requirements!

Su Lie's eyes lit up upon hearing this: "Time items?" Thinking of this, he asked the Yongjiang High Venerable, "Where do the differences in power in this world lie? Is it the Divine Official rank?"

"Indeed!"

Yongjiang High Venerable replied while lying on the ground, "The bottom layer consists of the Pig People, who are mutated from humans! I heard that when the Heavenly Emperor was still alive, this world was dominated by humans!"

"Later, the Heavenly Emperor died and the Twelve Main Gods were born. Afterward, the the ruless dropped the Divine Official system, and only then did this world have a ladder to climb upwards!"

"And the former rulers, the people who mutated into monster forms, can never become Divine Officials! This is a the rules set by the Twelve Main Gods!"

Knowing Su Lie was an outsider who didn't understand this world, he answered Su Lie's questions in detail.

"Humans have only one attribute, and that is stamina, with a maximum of 10 billion points. They have no Talents, no Skills, and their lifespan is suppressed by the ruless to 50 years. They must sacrifice their offspring and clansmen to survive! Otherwise, their clan will be exterminated!"

"The next rank up are the various wild monsters. Their power is higher than humans, with average attribute points between 100 billion and 100 trillion. These monsters are seeds screened by land Divine Officials for parts, spread all over the world!"

"The next rank up are the soldiers under each Divine Official. Their attribute points are between 100 trillion and 1,000 trillion!"

"The generals and messengers under the Divine Officials have a higher status than soldiers, belonging to the highest status in the mortal realm, with attribute points between 100 trillion and 1,000 trillion!"

"After that are the Divine Officials. Rank 1 Divine Officials generally have attribute points between 1,000 trillion and 1,000 quadrillion. Of course, some Divine Officials are stripped of many attribute points when undergoing the Lightning Tribulation, resulting in their attribute power sometimes being even less than that of generals and soldiers!"

"But Divine Officials are beings who wield the ruless. Even if their attribute power is weak, they can directly use the power of the ruless to insta-kill generals and soldiers!"

"Rank 2 Divine Officials have attribute points between 1,000 quadrillion and 1,000 quintillion! Rank 3 Divine Officials have attribute points between 1,000 quintillion and 1,000 sextillion, and Rank 4 Divine Officials have attribute points between 1,000 sextillion and 1,000 septillion!"

"Starting from Rank 5, they are no longer deities governing a single region or place, but Clerics under a Main God. To become a Cleric, one must believe in a Main God and receive their guidance and protection to successfully advance to a Rank 5 Divine Official!"

"According to my family records, since the inception of the Divine Official system, there has never been a Divine Official who advanced to Rank 5 without the protection of a Main God!"

"Speaking up to this point."

Yongjiang High Venerable swallowed and said in a low voice, "To say something treasonous! My friends and I all believe this is because the Main Gods control the path to advancing to high-rank Divine Officials!"

"That is indeed a possibility."

Su Lie nodded.

Yongjiang High Venerable hurriedly continued, "I don't know the specific attribute power of Rank 5 Divine Officials and those above!"

"But I heard from my family elders that a Rank 5 Divine Official can crush a group of Rank 4 Divine Officials with a single finger!"

"As for the the ruless and Talent powers mastered by Divine Officials, they are determined by their Divine Official rank. High-rank Divine Officials can easily crush low-rank ones, and even insta-kills are possible! Even if that high-rank Divine Official has only one Talent and one Skill!"

"This is the power granted by the the ruless!"

"In any case, the higher the rank of a Divine Official, the more resources and wealth they control, and the more information and knowledge they obtain!"

"A Rank 4 Divine Official family like ours doesn't even have the right to learn knowledge, let alone even lower-rank lives!"

After he finished, he whispered, "Master! This is all I know!"

Afterward.

Yongjiang High Venerable lay on the ground, stunned for a long time.

All the struggle, unwillingness, and other thoughts in his heart completely vanished with this prostration: "Forget it! If I'm to be a slave, then so be it!"

Su Lie became thoughtful after hearing this: "If calculated according to the the ruless for ranks below Rank 5, my current 100 Zheng attribute points are equivalent to a Rank 7 Divine Official in this world... but things are very different after Rank 5, so..."

"Without the Undying Talent and Invincibility Talent, there are still lives in this world that can easily kill me!"

Thinking of this.

He felt fortunate about the plan he had formulated earlier.

"Then do you know of a way to advance to a high-rank Divine Official through Divine Seal fusion?"

Su Lie asked again.

This was the path he was currently taking in this world.

Yongjiang High Venerable was shocked again. He looked up at Su Lie in disbelief, then pressed his head heavily against the ground, exclaiming, "You... you actually became a Divine Official?"

Clearly.

He knew nothing about it!

Su Lie sighed: "Forget it! Just tell me the detailed information about Eternal River! Also, arrange for people to go to various water systems to summon Rank 1 Divine Officials here for a meeting! Say it's to arrange a plan for the Eternal River water system branch to jointly defend against outsiders!..."