733: A rule that defies tradition! Kneeling is forbidden!

Hum!

Waves on the Yonghe River surged outward, centered on Su Lie.

The water surface churned, whipping up waves seven or eight meters high.

Countless water monsters in the river knelt to pray, and the monsters on both banks watching Su Lie's promotion knelt and cheered in extreme excitement.

The Yonghe Upper Venerable ran over, even more excited, and said to Su Lie, "Master... uh!... Congratulations! Congratulations!"

Realizing this was not a place to speak casually, he immediately restrained the trace of worship and excitement in his heart and said solemnly to Su Lie.

He even forced himself to stand straight, resisting the urge to bow.

This made the Yonghe Upper Venerable feel a jolt, yet he was filled with endless guilt and worry.

Su Lie nodded. "We'll talk when we get back!"

Afterward, the two entered the waves and headed toward the Water Mansion grotto-heaven.

Soon, the moment Su Lie entered the Water Mansion.

Thump!

The Yonghe Upper Venerable knelt on the ground at once, kowtowing to Su Lie and saying, "This servant has offended you just now! Please forgive me, Master!"

"Hmm?"

Su Lie shook his head upon seeing this. Since he had decided to make this his base, he naturally didn't like seeing this kind of spineless behavior where people kowtowed the moment they saw someone.

Immediately, Su Lie said to the Yonghe Upper Venerable, "Pass on my order! Throughout the entire Yonghe River system, you may maintain existing etiquette when dealing with outsiders! But when dealing with our own, kneeling is strictly prohibited! Whoever kneels dies!"

This sentence left the Yonghe Upper Venerable trembling.

You must know, whenever lower-tier beings see upper-tier ones, or inferior lifeforms see superior lifeforms, they must kneel.

This had been the rules of this world since the birth of the Twelve Main Gods and the inception of the divine official seal system.

Every lifeform felt it was only natural.

But today, he was told not to kneel!

This made him unable to understand, and he felt that Su Lie was simply being heretical.

"Master! Is this really a good idea? Rules let lifeforms know what they should and shouldn't do, and which lifeforms can be offended and which cannot!"

The Yonghe Upper Venerable said solemnly, "As the saying goes, nothing can be accomplished without rules! Without etiquette, wouldn't we all become those savage ancient beasts in the wild? Etiquette is the hallmark of us being civilized lifeforms!"

"Wrong! I am not forbidding you from following rules by not letting you kneel! This has nothing to do with kneeling! It also has nothing to do with etiquette!"

Su Lie shook his head and said to the Yonghe Upper Venerable, "I advocate for equality among all races! There are hierarchies in the world, but there shouldn't be class distinctions! When you see a strong person, you can bow, offer a fist salute, and so on! Why must you kneel?"

"Are you all willing to be servants?"

He said this while walking.

The Yonghe Upper Venerable blabbered on a lot.

He had long been accustomed to this way of survival over the years. Now that Su Lie suddenly said their way of survival was wrong, the Yonghe Upper Venerable was unwilling to admit it.

Su Lie listened for a while, knowing this was the deep-seated nature of life in this world. He couldn't be bothered to argue and said to the Yonghe Upper Venerable, "Since that's the case, I don't care about other places, but throughout the Yonghe River system, you must follow my rules!"

"Here, I am the sky! I am the rules!"

"What? Do you want to rebel against your master?" He asked, glaring sideways at the Yonghe Upper Venerable.

Whoosh!

The Yonghe Upper Venerable was so scared he knelt on the ground and quickly kowtowed, saying, "This subordinate dares not! This subordinate dares not!"

"Hmph! If you don't dare, then why are you still kneeling?" Su Lie asked, feigning anger.

The Yonghe Upper Venerable was stunned, then his eyes darted around, and he felt Su Lie was right. He hurriedly stood up, "Then this subordinate will no longer call himself a servant. Whatever you tell me to do, I will do."

"Good! Tell the commoners below, and all lifeforms within the jurisdiction, that in the future, when meeting lifeforms within our territory, regardless of rank, position, or power..."

Su Lie smiled and stated his rules: "Subordinates shall refer to themselves as subordinates! Servants shall refer to themselves as 'me'! Any lifeform wishing to express politeness may bow, offer a fist salute, or kneel on one knee, but double-knee kneeling and calling oneself a servant is strictly prohibited!"

The Yonghe Upper Venerable's heart was shaken, but he agreed to Su Lie's command.

After Su Lie finished speaking, he immediately arranged for this matter to be carried out.

For a time, a discussion broke out throughout the Yonghe River system.

"What does the Upper Venerable want to do? This violates the ancestors' etiquette! This law cannot be broken!"

"Haha! I've wanted to stand straight for a long time! Is the Yonghe Upper Venerable trying to reform? He doesn't seem like the ambitious type?"

"Why think so much! Now that the new etiquette is here, we won't ever have to kowtow to that toad again!"

"Exactly! Being called a servant all day, I almost thought I really was a servant! In fact, I am free, and I am noble too!"

"Haha! Let all those trash go to hell!"

At this time, Su Lie had arrived at the main hall of the Water Mansion.

He looked at his personal attribute panel.

Name: Su Lie

Age: 23

life: 18 Jing 8979 Zhao 9950 Yi 1562 Wan 7711 years

Divine Official: Second-Tier Divine Official (Water System)

life: Infinite; Spirit: 2000 Zheng 0 1 Gai 2203 Jing 2102 Zhao points; Endurance: Infinite; Speed: 2000 Zheng 0 100 Zhao points;

Charm: 2000 Zheng points; luck: 2000 Zheng 0 5000 Gou 0 2000 Zi 0 2000 Zhao 0 8 Wan points; Majesty: 2000 Zheng points; Command: 2000 Zheng points

Strength: 2000 Zheng 0 8003 Jing 1500 Zhao points; Intelligence: 2000 Zheng 0 100 Zhao points;

Thunder Affinity: 2000 Zheng; Thunder Control: 2000 Zheng (3.654 million times bonus applied)

Xuanhuang: 2000 Zhao extreme point 0 2000 Zhao points; Xuanhuang Affinity: 2000 Zhao extreme point; Xuanhuang Control: 2000 Zhao extreme point

Emotion: 1000 Zheng 0 4880 Gai points

Reason: 100 points; Purity Value: 100 points;

Unarmed Damage: 20 Zai 0 80 Gai 0315 Jing points

Divine Sense: 8 Jian 2010 Gou 8000 Rang 0010 Zi 2000 Gai 0 1 Wan 1306 units

Faith: 900 Rang 1200 Zi points

Skill: moonlight pearl (red), Enchantment · Holy Fire (red), Holy Gold Technique (red), Giant's Fury (red)... Shadow Flash (red), Water Escape (red), Wave Control (red), Extraction (red), Fire Devouring (red), Great Flood (red), Deadly Poisonous Mist (red), Chaos Gold (red), Filth Crystal, Soul Roasting, Water Control (other Skills are sealed)

Talent: Environmental Adaptation (red), Mist Language (red), Identification (red), God Thief (red), Immobilization Technique (red), Thunder (red), Thunder Control (red), Xuanhuang (red), Spider Sense (red), Void Six Roots (red), Contract Book (red), Auto-Pickup (red), Eternal Youth (red), Dark Vision (red), Gun God (red), Dark Harvest (red), Damage Tyrant (red), Purple Mansion (red)... life Stealing (red), Water Language (red), Wave Transformation (red), Control Immunity (red), Invulnerability (red), Shapeshifting (red), Authority (red), Decomposition (red), Plant Puppet (red), Senzu Bean (red), Card Containment (red) (other Talents are sealed)

Free Attribute Points: 118040

"Hiss? This promotion actually increased my life by 1 million years? And it doubled all my attributes!"

Su Lie looked closely at the information on the panel, his eyes filled with shock.

He discovered that his divine sense had also received a two-fold promotion.

This made Su Lie overjoyed. "I didn't expect the power of thunder to be so formidable? Could the purpose of the mist rule sending us in for trials be to make us divine officials and use the divine official status to double our own power?"

This point made Su Lie feel it was increasingly possible.

"I might be the first to discover this secret! No, perhaps other races have long discovered this secret but didn't make it public!"

Su Lie thought of a question, then shook his head again. "If this were really the case! Moon Thousand Blades would definitely have told me this information! Since she didn't say anything, it means the various races probably don't know! Even if there are some who know, they are in the minority!"

Afterward, Su Lie summoned the Honghe divine official seal.

[Hum!]

He looked at the panel of the divine official seal immediately.

Honghe divine official seal: Red God-level Quality rule authority; Second-Tier Divine Official seal; Rule divine official seal, water system, protection, unsealing, agency, judgment, dredging, appointment. Rule promotion: After 200 years in office, you can promote your divine official rank through tribulation. You can also promote your divine official rank by seizing other divine official seals and fusing them without dying. Rule water system bonus: All your water system Skills and Talents will temporarily receive a 200-fold overall data bonus when used. Rule opening water veins: You can open 2 waterways by consuming a certain amount of spiritual power. Rule region: You can issue 2 rules within your jurisdiction. If any lifeform violates the rules, it will attract heavenly punishment and be marked by the seal, allowing you to find the target through the mark. Rule resources: You can cultivate a type of water resource within your jurisdiction, and that water resource will receive the blessing of the rules. Blessing: Growth rate increased by 20 times, harvest effect increased by 20 times, immunity to diseases.

"Eh? After becoming a Second-Tier Divine Official, my tenure increased from 100 years to 200 years? Does this mean that if one follows the normal process, the further one goes, the longer one stays in the current divine official position?"

Su Lie's eyelids twitched. "This path really isn't suitable for a Trial Taker like me!"

Under his observation, he found that the water system rules, regional rules, and resource rules of the divine official seal had also increased by 2 times.

But the divine official seal did not obtain new rules.

Su Lie looked up at the Yonghe Upper Venerable who had just returned. "Did you steal this Yonghe Upper Venerable position? Is the ruling territory of a Second-Tier Divine Official two river systems?"

"Reporting to Master! You saw this information on the divine official seal, right? Actually, this is just the foundation for becoming a Second-Tier Divine Official!"

The Yonghe Upper Venerable explained to Su Lie: "This path is suitable for divine officials who have no background and whose area has no master! For a divine official like me who relies on a family, the number is illegitimate, but I can still receive the family's care!"

"So, as soon as I became a Second-Tier Divine Official, I could own the Yonghe water vein, which controls twelve water system tributaries!"

"Of course!"

"Some Third-Tier Divine Officials with smaller backgrounds don't even have four river tributaries! Of course, they are also the poorest divine officials!"

"Of course, there are also some divine officials whose home territories were destroyed due to the Main God War, turning them into wandering divine officials!"

"Some have taken refuge with families, while others have been grazing in the wild and living freely!"

"In addition, as far as I know, some Fourth-Tier Divine Officials, for various reasons, have always held their original territory. They don't expand, nor do they take over other areas, just living happily on their own little plot of land!"

"To be honest!"

"Being a divine official is a tier, but it doesn't seem to have much to do with how much territory a divine official actually controls!"

"Otherwise, the divine officials under the Main Gods would have already spread their tentacles all over the world, instead of just staying active within the Main God Circle!"

Under his explanation, Su Lie understood that the divine official rank and how many rivers a divine official can control have no great correlation.

This also put Su Lie at ease.

What he worried about most was that if he promoted to a Second-Tier Divine Official, he would have to control more territory, which would be troublesome.

Afterward, Su Lie moved his thoughts and directly issued a rule: "Within the Yonghe region, all lifeforms are prohibited from calling themselves servants!"

[Hum!]

[Your current ruling territory is the Honghe River system; you cannot issue rules within the Yonghe River system!]

[Do you want to issue this rule within the Honghe River system?]

[Note: If you want to enter the Yonghe River and possess a larger territory, you only need to imprint your divine official seal onto the hub of the Yonghe River vein!]

After reading this, Su Lie shook his head slightly. "Yes! Issue it within the Honghe River system!"

In that instant, all living beings within the Honghe River system heard a voice from the rules in their hearts.

[The Honghe Upper Venerable has issued a regional rule: All lifeforms within the Honghe River system are prohibited from calling themselves servants!]

After such a rule was issued, the Carp Monster who was acting on Su Lie's behalf in the Honghe Water Mansion was shocked. He suddenly stood up and, facing the direction of the Yonghe Water Mansion where Su Lie was, knelt and kowtowed, "Master! I have received the rule you issued! This subordinate will ensure that all lifeforms in our Honghe region strictly follow your rules!"

After speaking, it stood up.

At this time, a dozen old turtles ran in.

They were some of the instructors of the Honghe River basin, mainly teaching the water tribe of Honghe about military formations and the use of weapons.

As soon as the old turtles arrived, they shouted, "Commander Carp! Where is the Master? Please let us see the Master?"

"Hmm? Are you here to congratulate the Master for becoming a Second-Tier Divine Official?"

The Carp Monster asked suspiciously.

The old turtles said with grief and indignation, "No! We request the Master to revoke the rule he issued! We cannot be heretical here, and we cannot let lowly people abandon their status as servants! Why should those lowly lifeforms be on an equal footing with us!"

"If the Master does this, wouldn't he be lowering his own status and tarnishing his own bloodline!"

"We do not agree!"

"We want to remonstrate!"

A group of old turtles shouted in extreme excitement.

Commander Carp smiled slightly and looked at them, asking, "Are you all like this?"

"Yes! We are all like this!"

The old turtles shouted loudly.

Commander Carp laughed loudly and shouted, "Troops! Generals! Fork these old things into the oil pan and fry them! Daring to violate the Master's rules is simply asking for death!"

Whoosh!

At its command, a large number of troops emerged from the surroundings.

Seeing this, the old turtles held their heads high and shouted, "Kill us! Kill us! We will not submit!"

On the other side, after Su Lie had fully familiarized himself with his power, he suddenly thought of a question: "Yonghe..."

The Yonghe Upper Venerable subconsciously wanted to kneel, but when he saw Su Lie's stern gaze, his bent knees slowly straightened, and he stiffly said his name: "Master! Please call me AKu! This is my real name!"

Su Lie nodded. "Does our Yonghe River system have any enemies?"

"Master, what are you planning to do?" The Yonghe Upper Venerable immediately became excited. He continued, "I am willing to lead the troops personally to sweep away all enemies in the surrounding waters for you!"

Su Lie shook his head and said something that shocked the Yonghe Upper Venerable to the core: "No! I want a few First-Tier divine official seals and Second-Tier Divine Official seals to use!"