Chapter 26: Lucky Divine Beast

  Li's attitude changed one hundred and eighty degrees, leaving Ai stunned for a moment before he was overjoyed. After all, he had completed the task entrusted by His Majesty! He then handed over the next address and preparations, bid farewell to Li Xie, and hurried back to report.

  Li Xie watched as El's carriage disappeared into the distance, a smile spreading across his face!

  Although he didn't know how to help with the promotion of the ritual, and was even half-ignorant about what a ritual was, he knew that he had an opportunity to get close to Duke Everia!

  Originally, Li Xie's appointment as deputy director of the sacrificial temple had already been issued, and Li Xie could use his work identity to benefit himself. Now it's even better, directly helping Aiwei Dagu advance in rank, who knows if it will be one-on-one contact, even if not, he has to make it seem like one-on-one!

  In short, there are many opportunities!

  With a gentle smile, Li's gaze fell on the little kitten on the apricot tree.

  That's not a beast of misfortune, but a beast of peach blossom luck. Look, as soon as we made contact, the peach blossom luck arrived!

  "That's not a beast of misfortune!" Li Xie said: "That is a lucky divine beast!"

  Kano, who knew that Li Xie had a crush on Duke Aiwier, stroked his chin thoughtfully and muttered: "Sir, I reckon this is the beginning of your bad luck. Today you'll meet Duke Aiwier, but he won't be interested in you at all, and will even keep his distance from you. The romance hasn't even started yet, but it's already been nipped in the bud! Then sir, you'll lose heart and despair, and take your own life! Sir, may you rest in peace!"

  "Bastard!" Li Xie jumped up and slapped a palm on Kano's forehead: "You dare to talk to me like that? Grandma! Get up and help me get the kitty down!"

  "Huh?"

  "What's going on?"

  "Adults are so tall, Kano can't climb up and... and... Kano doesn't dare touch the ominous beast!"

  "Wow, you're really ignorant! Look at that cat up there!" Li Xie pointed and said: "I told you, that's not a harbinger of doom! Don't you know? A real harbinger of doom has horns on its forehead, but this one doesn't! It's a lucky deity mistaken for a harbinger of doom! I told you to study hard, but you didn't. You can't even tell the difference between a lucky deity and a harbinger of doom! No wonder you're so unlucky!"

  Due to Avril's relationship, Li Xie has determined that this cat is not some kind of ominous beast, but rather an old generation deceiving a younger generation, and it was passed down as a rumor. It itself is a magical creature, just a certain type of magical creature!

  The reason why the unlucky beast has horns on its forehead is that Li Xie was afraid that this group of guards had a deep-rooted concept, so he came up with a lucky god-beast. Anyway, as long as there's a reason, let these guards not think that the cat in the tree is an unlucky beast!

  "Does it have horns?" Kano thought for a moment: "I think so, my grandmother also said it had horns. Diego, what do you say?"

  "It seems so, my mom also said that the unlucky beast has horns."

  "Right! I remember now, my grandfather said that the unlucky beast has a horn on its forehead, and it's a golden horn!"

  "Oh, I remember now! It has horns!"

  Li Xie shook his head, these guys were obviously deceived by the older generation when they were young, and grew up with only vague concepts and fearful psychology. Anyway, add a little detail to them, and their own imagination will help perfect this detail!

  Then all the guards including slaves woke up: The beast of misfortune has horns on its forehead!

  "Now that you know it's a lucky creature and not an unlucky beast, why don't you climb up and help me get it down!"

  "Sir, it's too high and the apricot tree trunk is smooth, there's no way to climb."

  This tree is over a hundred meters tall, almost as high as a fifty-story building. The branches on top are extremely thin and probably can't withstand the weight. If it falls, even a Seventh-Rank Sword Saint like Cano would likely be smashed to death.

  "Who has a way to get it down?"

  "Adult, it's just born, must be hungry, let's lure it with something!" Kano said after some thought.

  Li Xie looked at Kano in surprise: "Hey, you little scoundrel! Your wit is dull! Don't you have something to lure it with?"

  "Okay!" Kano bent down and pulled out a handful of grass, waving it at the tree: "Good baby, come eat some grass, fresh and fragrant new grass."

  Li Xie's face turned black with rage!

  Cats eat grass?

  Considering that these people had only heard of the Calamity Beast and knew nothing else, Li Xie felt relieved and said in a bad tone: "Lily, go get some fish, both live and cooked ones."

  "Yes, sir."

  "By the way, Kano, what rank is my cat monster?" After all, it's going to be my main beast, and if its rank is too low, Li Xie will have to reconsider.

  Kano replied: "The calamity beasts are all 9th-tier magical beasts, but this is just a lucky divine beast, I don't know yet, we'll have to wait for it to come down, and then I can sense its magic or aura fluctuations to determine."

  Nine levels?

  Li Xie's eyebrows twitched!

  Landorf's earth-shaking lion advanced to 9th-tier demonic pet, causing Duke Laine to be overjoyed to the point of tears. Who would have thought that this cat was a 9th-tier demonic beast from birth!

  This made Li Xie even more determined to make it his Benming Beast!

  Not afraid that this cat is currently in its juvenile phase, as long as it becomes the destined beast, the growth rate of the demonic pet will be greatly increased, and it will become an adult in a short period of time!

  Haha, I'm going to wield my 9th-tier demonic pet and show off my might!

  Li Xie smiled secretly and asked: "What time is it?"

  "Nine points. Adult."

  "Hmm, you guys get the cat down for me and keep an eye on it until I get back! Kano, come with me to the shrine, we need to prepare for something regarding Countess Eviel!"

  "Yes, sir!"

  Li Xie changed into a new set of clothes, combed his eyebrows, and had Kano act as the coachman, riding in the carriage towards the ancestral temple.

  The little kitten on the apricot tree still hasn't come down, despite being lured with fish. This palm-sized little kitten doesn't even give a glance, sitting on the branches at the top of the tree, facing the strong wind from above. The kitten narrows its eyes, looking at the black shadow of a tall tower in the distance, completely ignoring the poor guards below who are trying to lure it down.

  Wang Chao Academy

  This is the cradle for cultivating new talents of the Tudor dynasty, and it is also the most intense place for political struggle outside the imperial court in the Tudor dynasty! There are Sword Saint Institute, Law Institute, Sacrifice Institute, Military Institute, Engineering Institute and so on. The students who come out of the Imperial College will inevitably become the pillars of the dynasty.

  The College of Sacrifice is a department of the Imperial Academy, but it is not located within the campus of the Imperial Academy. Instead, it stands independently outside, facing the Imperial Academy at a right angle. This arrangement is made because 99% of the students in the College of Sacrifice are female!

  As mentioned earlier, to become a priest, the threshold is strict. One of them is that you must dedicate your body and mind to the gods - the Goddess of Life - the common faith of all priests on the mainland of Gods!

  Male ritual practitioners must avoid women throughout their lives, while female ritual practitioners remain chaste from beginning to end!

  Under such circumstances, it's probably only women who can endure loneliness, and that's why the mainland of the gods has almost no male priests! It's also precisely because of this that Kano can be certain that Duke Evier is a virgin!

  For all the priestesses know that once they are no longer virgins, their bodies will be impure and can never again approach the Goddess of Life to pray for divine light!

  On the way to the ancestral temple, Kano told Li Xie about these things, and Li Xie was so happy that his face turned into a chrysanthemum flower!

  He is now the deputy director of the Sacrificial Institute, and since there are no male sacrificial officials in the Tudor dynasty, he is the only man in the Sacrificial Institute!

  "In Li Xie's words: 'We've already fired a cannon into the Forbidden City; closing off and isolating the country is useless now!'"

  The ancestral temple is nestled in the mountains and accompanied by water, with beautiful mountains and rivers. The temple has pavilions, towers, and gardens with flowing water, making it a paradise on earth. In the ancestral temple, there is a high tower that stands at 149 meters tall. The exterior of the tower is painted snow white, and at the top, there is an altar with a pool of life. Inside the pool, there is a sculpture of the goddess of life.

  This tower is called "Eternal Tower", and every sacred gathering place on the mainland of gods has such a tall tower.

  According to Yikano, when advancing to the next rank, they must all go to the Tower of Eternity, be baptized in the Pool of Life, wash away the impurities on their bodies, and then welcome the divine light of the Goddess of Life. Just like demonic pets, the advancement of the cultists also relies on the divine light.

  This is probably the reason why Mercedes VII called Li Xie to help Duke Avier advance, Mercedes VII always thought that Li Xie was a divine being!

  Li Xie is not a divine being, Li Xie himself is very clear about this, he is absolutely not a divine being, because he does not have any faith in this world, and he is not even a person of this world! As for why he would be considered a divine being, Li Xie just thinks it's others being self-righteously clever!

  But it's also good this way, Li Xie is happy to enjoy the backstage care, and even happier to help Avril promote!

  "Sir, if there's nothing else, outsiders aren't allowed to enter the ancestral temple. How can they be allowed in now that Duke Everia is about to be promoted? Sir, Cano is waiting outside."

  Li Xie nodded and got off the carriage, looking at the marble arch of the sacrificial temple. A woman in her 40s, wearing a white robe with a silk scarf on her head, walked out from inside. However, people on the Continent of Gods often didn't show their age, so it was clear that she was actually around 70 or 80 years old.

  The woman came up to Li Xie and asked: "Who is this?"

  "Evil Marquis Li." Li Xie said.

  "It's actually Vice President. I am Laina, the head of the Imperial Shrine's Discipline Inspection Department. His Majesty ordered me to wait for you here."

  "Oh, thank you." Li Xie smiled and said. Although this person would be under Li Xie later on, being kind to subordinates was always a good thing, and it would make things easier for him in the future.

  Lena had been a priestess for many years, her heart as still water, her expression very calm, with only polite smiles, it was impossible to tell what impression she had of Li Xie. She merely said: "The promotion ceremony of Headmistress Aiwier will begin at noon, sir has arrived an hour early, it can be seen that you have put your heart into this. Lena thanks you on behalf of Headmistress Aiwier, may the Goddess of Life bless you from above, and hopes that the promotion ceremony presided over by sir will go smoothly."

  Host?

  Whoa!

  Li's eyebrows twitched!

  Mercedes' seventh command is to assist, not to preside! The meaning of assistance is to help from the side! Everything else is still decided by others! But this presidency is different! Everything is decided by the president!

  Li Xie doesn't understand the promotion ceremony?

  Come on, let's fight!

  Li Xie didn't want to say that he didn't understand the ceremony and waste an opportunity to get in touch with Grand Duke Avier!

  "The Goddess of Life is above! Everything will go smoothly, this Earl will spare no effort to help our Evelyn Grand Duke's promotion!"

  "The Goddess of Life is above! Sir, this way, please."

  "Right, my Dean Lina, the promotion ceremony for Princess Evie is a grand affair, and I, the Earl, dare not be careless in the slightest. Tell me, what's the procedure for hosting the ceremony? Let's go over it together to ensure everything is perfect."

  "Yes, sir."