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Chapter 32 Purple Lotus Divine Decree
Nestled among the mountains and forests of Purple Lotus Island.

Su Xintang sat on a piece of gravel.

Meng Bai sat on her shoulder, looking up at the Zheng Shen Mansion above, and said, "Although Lu Qichang Le was chased away, he must have gone back to complain. Maybe a few more guardians will come to arrest you later."

Actually, I don't quite understand why the Lu family, a righteous god family, would target someone like you, a low-level celestial spirit. Don't they have anything better to do?

Hearing this, Su Xintang sighed deeply: "My parents, my ancestors, and even myself until I was ten years old were all servants of the Lu family..."

She began to tell Meng Bai about her relationship with the Lu family, including the True Lord's decree that "services should not exceed three generations, and those who pass through the fourth generation should be promoted to higher ranks," and the Lu family's unwillingness to accept this outcome.

However, things are not that simple.

"My mother was originally the mistress of the Lu family, who was also the personal maid of the goddess Xi Qing's stepmother. Given this special relationship, my mother could have voluntarily submitted a petition to the Department of Civil Affairs of the River Drum Heavenly Palace to retain my official status."

The matriarch of the Lu family also thought that my mother would take the initiative to present it. After all, when I was a child, the matriarch brought the goddess Xi Qing from the mortal world to heaven. She was the same age as me and we often played together.

The matriarch of the Lu family is thinking of having me become the maid of the goddess Xi Qing in the future..."

"So-called 'born into the family'?" Meng Bai suddenly thought of the master-servant relationship in "Dream of the Red Chamber".

“Yes, a servant born into the household, can you trust her?” Su Xintang smiled self-deprecatingly.

Then, she lowered her head, reached out and fiddled with the wormwood in front of her, lost in memories: "However, my mother and father did not want me to continue to be a slave, so they took the opportunity to release me from my lowly status."

This greatly angered the matriarch of the Lu family, who felt that my mother had betrayed her. My parents, misled by others, committed suicide to atone for their sins, saying that they would repay the matriarch's trust over the years with their deaths. I was ten years old that year.

"Who instigated this?" Upon hearing this, Meng Bai truly didn't know how to feel.

Su Xintang continued, "I don't know, but my parents oversimplified things. After all, the mistress and my mother had been mistress and servant for many years. Although she was furious, she never thought of taking their lives."

My parents committed suicide in public to atone for their sins, which only made things worse for her. The Purple Lotus Divine Island and even the surrounding divine islands were abuzz with gossip, all saying that the Mistress of the Continent was a heartless viper who had even driven her longtime personal maid to her death.

Just then, Lu Guangzheng's spirit fell, and Lu Daizheng's spirit returned to the manor severely injured. The Lu family underwent a dramatic change overnight, and various factions began to stir. This Purple Lotus Divine Island, which originally comprised half of the Lu family's training grounds, now only had one-third remaining..."

"So, seeing their family business being steadily eroded, the Lu family became anxious?"

"Yes, the Lu family is eager to regain the divine service and strengthen the family's fighting power, but after my parents' example, who would dare to send their descendants to the Lu family?"

However, I am also a cultivation prodigy. I entered the Purple Lotus Divine Palace at the age of ten to cultivate the inner furnace Qi-guiding path. By the age of eighteen, I had achieved the Jade Bone Great Perfection. At the age of nineteen, I overpowered my fellow disciples and won the championship in the Palace Grand Competition..."

"In that case, wouldn't you become a thorn in our side?" Meng Bai roughly understood that for the Lu family, such a prodigy should be suppressed as soon as possible.

Firstly, it is necessary to prevent Su Xintang from becoming powerful and seeking revenge on the Lu family for her parents' deaths;
Secondly, they were afraid that other divine servants would take Su Xintang as an example.

Just as Meng Bai was about to say a few words of comfort...

Su Xintang suddenly thought of something.

Leader?

Purple Lotus Divine Decree?

She, who had been playing with the wormwood with her head down, suddenly looked up at the sky and saw the "Spiritual God's Precious Proclamation" radiating golden light in front of the Purple Lotus Temple.

"Could it be?" Su Xintang murmured.

Then, the jade ribbon on her head floated out, and she leaped onto it.

Immediately afterwards, Meng Bai felt Su Xintang heading straight for the sky at twice the speed of before.

In just a few breaths, the two arrived at the airspace outside the main gate of the Purple Lotus Temple.

At this moment, many celestial spirits floated here.

"As expected of a temple, it is truly magnificent." Meng Bai sat on Su Xintang's shoulder, looking at the resplendent Purple Lotus Temple in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh.

Su Xintang's attention, however, was entirely focused on the scroll-shaped "Ling Shen Bao Gao".

"The Precious Edict of Yuan Zhong, the Wondrous Response Spirit God?" "Yuan Zhong, is he really my master?" Su Xintang's face lit up with joy, and she immediately said to Meng Bai in her mind, "Meng Bai, this precious edict belongs to my master. He has attained the position of Wondrous Response Spirit God."

"Your master?" Meng Bai was taken aback. Where did this master come from?

"My mentor during my cultivation at the Purple Lotus Temple was a preacher. The Purple Lotus Temple had one preacher and different instructors to guide cultivation."

"The homeroom teacher?" Meng Bai understood the identity and then said, "So, you can ask him to plead for you at the Zheng Shen Mansion?"

"Yes! When I won the championship, my master gave me a Purple Lotus Divine Token, saying it could grant me one wish. This Purple Lotus Divine Token was sometimes useful and sometimes useless to me."

My master was merely a servant to the Purple Lotus Palace Master back then; I didn't know what I could ask him for, and he couldn't change my situation anyway. Now that he has attained the status of a Spirit God, it shouldn't be a problem for him to plead for me."

Having said that, Su Xintang was about to fly into the palace.

But Meng Bai immediately shouted, "No! Stop, stop for a moment."

"What's wrong?" Su Xintang stopped.

"If that's the case, I reckon Lu Yunluo's goal is this Purple Lotus Divine Token in your hand. Think about it, your master is now a spirit god, and he's about to choose nine companions to debut... uh, descend to the mortal realm."

Lu Yunluo might want this position as a secondary priestess, which is why she plotted against your sister, hoping to blackmail you into giving her the Purple Lotus Divine Token.

Meng Bai paused for a moment, then continued, "If that's really the case, if you take the Purple Lotus Divine Token to your master to plead for mercy, it might backfire."

There is only one Purple Lotus Divine Token. If you use it to plead for mercy, you will not be able to get the position of attendant priest. This means that Lu Yunluo's wish will be in vain. Can she be willing to accept that?

The Lu family still has a righteous god. If he gets unreasonable and doesn't respect your master, what can your master, a spirit god two levels lower, do? Don't end up pleasing neither side.

This is similar to how, if a true god is like a Nascent Soul cultivator in a cultivation novel, then a spiritual god is like a Foundation Establishment cultivator, with a Core Formation stage in between.

If a disciple from a Nascent Soul cultivator's family doesn't give you the respect due to a Foundation Establishment cultivator, what can you do?
Of course, there are differences between the way of gods and the way of immortals, and they cannot be completely equated, but that is the general idea.

Su Xintang gradually realized the crux of the problem. After thinking for a while, she asked, "Then what should we do?"

“Go directly to the Lu family and find Lu Yun… no, I mean, talk to Lu Xiqing.” Meng Bai said, turning his head to look at the Zheng Shen Mansion in the clouds.

"Then you should go back to Earth first," Su Xintang suddenly said.

"?" Meng Bai asked, puzzled.

“Besides the righteous gods, the current patriarch, Lu Xiqing’s father is a talisman god, and there are several other spirit gods in the Lu family. If you, a dead soul, go there, I’m afraid the invisibility of [Stacked Armor] won’t be effective.”

"Bu Diejia, put me in a box and send me over openly. Aren't they asking you to return their lost souls? Just give me back to them. I don't think they'll really accept me as a free gift; the Purple Lotus Divine Token is their real purpose."

"Moreover, I can sense that the precious tree trunk you said could make me live for one or two thousand years is planted in the Lu family. Let's take this opportunity to go and have a look," Meng Bai explained.

"Your tree trunk is in the Lu family's possession?" Su Xintang asked in surprise.

"Yes, I sensed it very strongly; it was by a lake near the Lu family's residence."

As they spoke, some of the clouds above the Divine Palace dispersed.

A huge statue came into Meng Bai's view.

The statue depicts a middle-aged man, one hand forming a hand seal, the other holding a drum with lightning flashing on it.

"That's the statue of the true deity?"

“Yes, legend has it that the remains of the Righteous God are inside the statue.” Su Xintang’s eyes were tense; the power of the Righteous God remained even after death.

"Why do I feel like my tree trunk is inside the statue of the deity? Is there a lake inside the statue of the deity?"

"Huh?" Su Xintang was a little taken aback.

"Not necessarily, maybe it's just my imagination. Leave a [coordinate] at the temple entrance just in case. Come on, let's hurry, we need to get to the Lu family before Lu Qichang finishes his complaint. Being caught and taken back is very different from voluntarily going to their door to ask for an audience."

(End of this chapter)