Li Cunxu fetched the comb he often used to brush his sister's hair.
He wasn't worried at all that his sister's position would be divined. She possessed the power of the Four Gods, involving four Evil Gods, and it would take a King-level divination to locate her; this doesn't even touch on Li Cunxu's own uniqueness, his sole natural high-rank gift, which can increase the difficulty of the divination several times over.
Unless someone with the King-level strength and a unique legendary fate divination talent were to divine, no one else could locate her.
Once Officer Lin left, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon. Li Cunxu wasn't in the mood to check the pasture and instead meditated at home.
As night fell, Li Cunxu finished his instant noodles, opened the secret door, entered the basement, and summoned Xiaoruan.
As soon as Xiaoruan appeared, it wanted to snuggle, its enthusiasm overwhelming.
Li Cunxu unconsciously played with it for a while.
"Alright, playing with you made me forget serious matters."
"Stand still, don't move."
"Plop~ Plop~"
Li Cunxu activated his talent [Gift of the Gods], extending a finger to lightly touch Xiaoruan's head.
At the moment of contact, Xiaoruan's light blue body burst into dazzling golden light.
Li Cunxu instinctively closed his eyes; the light was too bright, yet even through his eyelids, all he saw was a field of gold.
"Fortunately, I had the foresight to activate this in the basement, otherwise it would've attracted the neighbors' attention."
As the golden light faded, Li Cunxu immediately examined Xiaoruan's panel.
[Pet Beast]: Water Slime (Xiaoruan)
[Element]: Water
[Level]: Black Iron Level 0
[Status]: Healthy
[Gift]: Growth Aura (Blue)
[Divine Gift]: Slime's Soul Kingdom
[Skill]: Water Ball
[Potential]: Low Black Iron
[Description]: A Slime born under the heavy rain of the Muye Plain.
[Slime's Soul Kingdom: A soul homeland free from disturbance.
Trait One: Citizen's Mark, with a citizen's mark imprinted, the Slime is ruled by the King (Xiaoruan), never betraying.
Trait Two: Soul's Resting Place, a marked Slime's soul returns to the kingdom upon death, neither falling to Hell nor ascending to Heaven.
Trait Three: Expansion of Kingdom's Territory, the more Slime souls within, the larger the kingdom's territory grows.
Trait Four: Citizen's Rebirth, the King can designate a location in reality as the rebirth site, where Slime souls in the kingdom are reborn.
Trait Five: Kingdom's Levy, a 1% attribute tax is collected from all Slime citizens monthly.]
Li Cunxu was ecstatic; this is not merely a growth talent, but a prototype Divine Kingdom.
With this talent, Xiaoruan's potential is no less than that of the pure-blooded Dragon Race, and perhaps even far surpasses them.
Especially Trait Five, the Kingdom's Levy, Xiaoruan can collect attribute taxes from all Slimes, continuously strengthening itself.
Li Cunxu suddenly understood, why in the future the prophet would go to great lengths to seal the Black Prisoner with the Gift of the Gods?
If he were also the future prophet, he would do the same; the potential of the Gift of the Gods is truly terrifying.
Suddenly, Li Cunxu realized a serious problem. The Black Prisoner with the Gift of the Gods would be sealed, so would he, having the same gift, also be feared and sealed?
Li Cunxu seriously considered the problem and found he didn't need to worry about it.
The future prophet could detect the Black Prisoner because he also possessed the unique legendary talent [Future Simulation], but in Li Cunxu's era, no unique divination-type legendary talent could arise.
This era belongs to the Four Gods.
The Four Gods would not allow a human prophet to foresee their schemes. If a human prophet did appear, the Four Gods would descend in person to kill him, otherwise, the prophet would consistently disrupt their plans, making it impossible for them to conquer this world.
The human camp won't produce a prophet, and neither will the Four Gods Camp, as the gods are not of one heart. If a prophet emerged under one Evil God, the other three gods would surely kill him to prevent the rise of a single lordship. Even if the four gods agreed to keep a prophet.
The human camp would not allow a prophet of the Evil God Camp to survive.
Although humanity is plagued, they remain the overlords of this world, not easily subdued.
The next day, upon going to school, Li Cunxu received bad news.
Everyone in the class who applied for home study had it approved, except him.
The teacher said, "It was Vice Principal Shi who didn't approve it. He said if you have any issues, you can take it up with him."
Li Cunxu, slightly angered, went to find Stone Golden Soup.
"Excuse me, Principal Shi, why wasn't my home study approved?"
Stone Golden Soup smugly replied, "You have no respect for teachers; how could someone like you learn anything at home? You can only correct your ugly character at school."
Li Cunxu understood. He refused Stone Golden Soup's request for free use of the Fertile Pasture talent, offending him, and now he was targeting him deliberately.
Today, for the 'home study' application to go through, it seems he would need to let him use his talent for free.
But...why should he.
In the face of injustice, why should he silently endure it?
Li Cunxu didn't bother arguing and silently left Vice Principal Shi's office.
Arguing? Arguing with him was pointless, a waste of time, seeing his smug face showed he thought he had everything locked up.
Li Cunxu couldn't be bothered to waste his breath; he wasn't worth listening to.
Li Cunxu approached the notice board, specifically the school's staff section.
Listed there were last year's staff; this year's updates were not yet posted.
Last year's school staff didn't list Vice Principal Stone Golden Soup.
"Stone Golden Soup is new here, no experience being principal," Li Cunxu murmured.
An experienced principal wouldn't offend a student for no reason, given how the world can change every thirty years.
If offended through education, and a student achieved success and sought revenge, the Education Bureau and the Alliance would intervene, marking the student as ungrateful and untrustworthy.
If oppressed, and a successful student sought revenge, the Education Bureau and the Alliance would turn a blind eye.
In extreme situations, the principal could even be dismissed.
After all, he is reasonable, not you.
Moreover, a principal oppressing students would often face a group of accomplished students seeking revenge, not just one.
"A newcomer, but parachuted into the Vice Principal position, seems to have backing from a powerful family,"
Stone Golden Soup, backed by a powerful family, but Li Cunxu wasn't daunted, for he, too, had backing from the Alliance.
"Stone Golden Soup, stone surname, could he be from the Stone-Eye Stone family?"
The Stone-Eye Stone family, a third-class bloodline family, with the bloodline talent of Stone Eye (Green), Stone Eye can petrify those it meets but is less potent than the Eye of Medusa; the petrification ends once eye contact ceases.