Their commission was suspicious.

Those with prophetic talents are all a bunch of bastards!

Misleading the youth! Misleading the youth!

"Oh, you actually know someone with a prophetic talent? You have quite a wide network of connections." Chen Luo's heart stirred.

"Wait, can you hear what I'm thinking? Am I still in an illusion? I haven't become your puppet?" The girl's face lit up with joy when she realized this.

"This...you must have misunderstood. Do you know what a puppeteer is? Once you become my puppet, how could your every move possibly escape my notice?" Chen Luo sneered.

This girl is quite pretty, and her thoughts are beautiful too.

"Emmm... I don't believe it. I've never heard of such a terrifying talent before, and I don't feel anything wrong with my body, so this must be an illusion. Let me think of how to break the illusion..." As it turns out, the girl has now given up and doesn't even believe herself anymore.

Or rather... it's self-deception.

However, the other party's thinking was indeed correct. When facing an unknown illusionist, one should indeed be highly skeptical of everything. Moreover, one should not completely believe what the enemy says, otherwise, one might be sold out and still be counting money for the other party.

Chen Luo felt a sense of pity for his dolls, especially the girl, so he didn't intend to stop them.

This girl is really unlucky. Through her own crazy actions, she turned herself from an innocent bystander into someone Chen Luo had to deal with.

Going home to visit relatives is fine, but why do you have to take on a task on the side?

Greed is indeed the greatest original sin.

The girl's innocence is undeniable, but after joining the underworld, she has to endure this cruelty.

Even Chen Luo, who is new to the underworld, or rather, the inner world, has some understanding of this, so the other party naturally needs to know as well.

"Let me think. To break the illusion, one must first firmly believe that this is not reality, secondly, have extraordinary mental resilience, and thirdly, have the ability to awaken beyond human perception. If none of the above are available, then use pain to stimulate it, pain..." The girl muttered to herself, her eyes gradually brightening.

After the girl tore off all the silk threads from her body, she turned around and looked behind her. On the wooden table behind her, there was a sharp blade that had penetrated deep into the wood.

That was the sharp blade that the girl threw after she noticed Chen Luo's voice before she was completely trapped in the multi-layered illusion. Now, the girl quickly took two steps and snatched it from her hand.

The girl looked at the sharp blade in her hand, hardened her heart, and then plunged the blade into her own abdomen.

Just as the knife was about to pierce her abdomen, the girl suddenly felt that her body was completely unable to move.

The girl stiffly turned her head to look at Chen Luo, but this was not her will; it came from a forced command.

"I won't stop you from stabbing yourself, but don't stab your abdomen. If blood splatters out and stains your clothes, it'll be hard to explain. Stab your thigh instead," Chen Luo reminded him.

"Haha, I knew it! This must be an illusion. You got so nervous when you saw me trying to hurt myself to escape the illusion!" But the girl's thought process was clearly different from ordinary people.

"..." Chen Luo felt for a moment that he had controlled an idiot.

Chen Luo doesn't have complete control over the other person's soul yet. It's not that he can't, but Chen Luo just wants to know what the other person is capable of.

But now it seems this person really can't stay idle.

"Break!" The girl's heart gathered strength and conviction, and then she plunged the needle into her abdomen and leg.

"It hurts so much!!!" Tears instantly welled up in the girl's eyes.

It is clear that the girl had been in contact with the underworld for half a year, but had not received any rigorous training. She simply entered the Church as an A-level talent.

After all, with spiritual energy not yet fully recovered, A-level talents are a very important resource.

"How is this possible? You haven't even broken through the illusion technique yet! Your illusion technique is terrifying!" Seeing that her thigh was still bleeding, the girl looked at Chen Luo with surprise and shock.

"...It seems that giving dolls too much of their own personality isn't always a good thing," Chen Luo sighed.

However, Chen Luo did not intend to change his mind. After all, only when the puppet has self-awareness can it issue tasks, and Chen Luo did not intend to give up this opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

Simple dolls are so boring.

However, for this simpleton in front of me... I'll just use the power of the Thousand-Man Herrscher to make her believe that this is no longer an illusion and that she is now my puppet.

Otherwise, who knows what other trouble he might cause?

“…Master.” The moment Chen Luo’s thoughts changed, the girl’s thoughts also changed.

As a puppet that is 100% controlled, Chen Luo can make the girl believe that his every word and action is his own will without her knowing.

"Now you believe you're a puppet, right?" Chen Luo sighed.

"I believe you, I believe you." The girl nodded, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Master, can you help me heal my leg? It hurts so much," the girl said, her voice trembling with tears.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

"From now on, you can still call me Boss." Chen Luo said as he began to stitch up the girl's wound with silk thread.

"Understood, boss."

The girl's wound wasn't deep, which was because Chen Luo intentionally controlled the girl's strength. And since this was no longer an illusion, the girl was indeed bleeding.

Fortunately, Chen Luo's stitching skills were superb, and since the other party was his own puppet, he had a skill bonus. Therefore, in just a few seconds, the girl's thigh stopped bleeding. After wiping it with a tissue, he found that the original wound was almost invisible, and the skin had returned to its smooth state.

The higher the grade of suture, the faster the wound heals.

If it's a cellular-level suture, the body can even heal instantly.

This is the power of a puppeteer's stitching skills.

"Alright, I've finished stitching you up. I'll use my spiritual power to repair it, and you'll be fully recovered in about half an hour."

That's what they say, but the stitched wound won't reopen even if the other party fights again right now. It just goes to show that the higher the stitching skill, the more outrageous it becomes.

"Don't look so gloomy, young lady. I think your best friend is right. Becoming my puppet is your chance to rise to the top. And as long as I don't interfere with your mind, you'll still be you." Chen Luo comforted the girl, seeing her so distressed.

In Chen Luo's view, all his puppets are beneficial producers of raw stones. Chen Luo currently has 4 puppets, not counting the half puppets.

Yae Sakura gave Chen Luo a four-star mission, Walter gave him a three-star mission, and this idiot gave him a two-star mission.

As for the Abyss Mage, he hasn't issued any quests yet, but that's only a matter of time.

100 raw stones easily obtained.

This girl is even better than Wendy.

Therefore, it is still necessary to maintain relationships on a daily basis.

Rather than becoming Chen Luo's master, he would prefer to become friends with these puppets. After all, only after becoming friends would they feel comfortable asking Chen Luo for help, allowing Chen Luo to extract the raw stones.

Of course, before becoming friends, they must first be branded with an inviolable bond; this is the underlying logic of all dolls. Just as the underlying logic of the original Void Treasury was to eliminate Honkai.

"Want to give it a try? Boss, you haven't changed my way of thinking, have you?" The girl looked at Chen Luo expectantly.

"Don't worry, it's definitely been changed." Chen Luo nodded decisively.

"!!!" The girl's face turned pale instantly.

"Ah, but don't worry too much. It's just to prevent you from betraying me and to make you believe that you are already my puppet. That's all."

"Well, that's alright." The girl felt that this level of mandatory enforcement was still acceptable.

"So I've already told you, following me will guarantee you a meteoric rise to success."

"Really? Then do you have spirit stones, boss?"

"Huh?" Chen Luo was taken aback.

Ling Shi Chen Luo knew that spirit stones were a cultivation resource needed by spiritual power practitioners.

The world has now experienced a spiritual revival, filled with spiritual and magical energy. As long as one cultivates on their own, they can naturally achieve some success.

Even newly awakened talents, without cultivating, will receive beginner benefits, allowing their bodies to absorb a certain amount of spiritual energy on their own.

Spirit stones are like small batteries. Absorbing spiritual energy from a spirit stone is naturally faster than absorbing spiritual energy from the air, unless you are in some kind of blessed land.

To put it bluntly, it's just like the spirit stones in those fantasy and cultivation novels. Chen Luo now even suspects that those cultivation novels, fantasy novels, and Western fantasy novels that have become popular since the 21st century might have been prepared for the revival of spiritual energy.

Reading more novels will definitely increase one's acceptance of the revival of spiritual energy.

Thinking about it carefully, it's not entirely impossible.

"I don't have any spirit stones." Chen Luo shrugged and gave up.

Chen Luo indeed did not have any spirit stones, and he had never even seen one before.

You might not believe it, but Chen Luo, a dignified [EX-level talent], has never even seen a spirit stone.

Chen Luo was also puzzled. Given his relationship with Liu Wenxuan, it was impossible for the other party not to give him an initial gift pack. It wasn't that Chen Luo was taking advantage of the situation, but the discount was already 6%, so giving him spirit stones should be normal, right?

Moreover, the equipment Liu Wenxuan gave Chen Luo was worth far more than spirit stones.

Could it be that he forgot?

Or perhaps Yunxia thought Liu Wenxuan gave her spirit stones, Liu Wenxuan thought Yunxia gave her spirit stones, and Yun Lian'er thought Yunxia and Liu Wenxuan both gave her spirit stones...

As a result, no one received any spirit stones.

However, the problem wasn't really a big one for Chen Luo, because he didn't rely on spirit stones to cultivate at all; he cultivated using the Eye of God.

You might not believe it, but the cultivation speed using the Eye of God is much faster than cultivating with spirit stones.

Therefore, spirit stones were completely useless to Chen Luo, and he never even considered getting one for cultivation.

"Boss, you don't even have spirit stones, what are you talking about?" The girl gave Chen Luo a disdainful look.

"...I can make you run naked around the villa area three times, do you believe me?" Chen Luo said calmly, arms crossed.

"I'm sorry, I was wrong." The girl admitted her mistake instantly, with a speed that was astonishing.

"No spirit stones, yet you promise to make someone rich and powerful... Liar." Although she admitted defeat, the girl remained stubborn.

"...Fine, just reintroduce yourself." Chen Luo was too lazy to get angry with this unlucky kid.

After all, the other party was indeed unlucky.

"My name is Xiao Ke'er, female, 18 years old, an A-level talent, my ability is to manipulate presence, and my spiritual power cultivation progress is relatively fast. I am currently recruited into the church as an unofficial member. I came back this time for summer vacation and took on a mission. By the way, I have a terrible friend with a prophetic talent."

As she finished speaking, the girl… no, Xiao Ke'er’s resentment was almost overflowing.

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Chapter 188 A Prophecy Talent? A Water-Based Divine Eye? Water Divination Technique?

"Xiao Ke'er? Little cutie? That's a nice name."

"How did you know my nickname?" Xiao Ke'er asked in surprise.

"Well, back to the main topic, prophetic talents... Yvette mentioned this term before I killed her, let me elaborate." Chen Luo recalled what Yvette had said to him before she died.

Yvette's original plan was to kill Chen Luo first without revealing it, then wait a few days until Yun Xia and the others got anxious, before throwing Chen Luo's head at them, making them instantly furious, and then naturally leading to a fight.

Moreover, given the opponent's War Angel talent, Chen Luo had reason to suspect that this guy intended to start a war. After all, for S-level talents to fight each other, at a time when spiritual energy had only recently begun to recover, it was already a kind of declaration of war.

At the time, Yvette said that the War Domain could isolate the detection of S-level prophetic talents, ensuring that no one else would know in advance that Chen Luo had been killed by the other party.

Then... Yvette was killed by Chen Luo.

Sigh, what can you do when the other person is an angel?

"Gifted individuals rarely reveal their talents to the public, but during church audits, they are required to report most of their talent information, which is practically the same as announcing their talents. My friend was the one who brought me into the church, so I know a bit about her talents."

"Prophecy talents are definitely a minority among all talents, and they are the kind of people that each faction protects. But in reality, the talents of prophecy talents are not as powerful as imagined. They may only play a role at critical moments. So for the talents themselves, it is not so friendly if they are lone wolves, but if they have a powerful force behind them, they can live a good life."

"The abilities of those with prophetic talents are mostly related to prophecy, estimation, astrology, and foresight, and my friend's talent is astrology, specifically the extremely rare water astrology."

"Hmm? Water divination?" Chen Luo suddenly became alert.

"Ah, water divination is actually a rather mysterious branch of astrology. It has been passed down since ancient times. It sounds a bit unreliable, but in reality, my friend's divination is quite accurate. However, she can't divine everything, especially not just for profit. This is something that bothers her a lot."

"Just like every gifted person has their own constraints, a prophetic gifted person like her, whose abilities seem to touch upon the taboos of the world, naturally has even greater constraints. One of her constraints is that she cannot use astrology for profit."

"Because of the characteristics of her original talent, her life cannot be too luxurious, otherwise the accuracy of astrology will decrease. Therefore, she needs a good friend to help her out regularly, and I am that good friend."

Despite saying that, the girl always felt like she was being taken advantage of.

There is no doubt that the other party's family background is not poor, but because of their innate characteristics, they cannot be too rich. Therefore, guided by astrology, they chose a good friend, namely Xiao Ke'er.

Before Xiao Ke'er knew that the other party was a gifted individual, their relationship gradually improved after the other party helped her a few times and she helped the other party a few times in return. Later, after she became a gifted individual, the other party invited her into the church.

After learning about the other person's talent, Xiao Ke'er did not ask him to do a divination for her because of her previous help and treats. It wasn't until she was about to go home after graduation that the other person finally gave her a divination slip.

That means if you accept the Yvette series of quests, you will rise to great heights.

I'll give you a piece of my mind.

MMP

You won't be able to treat us anymore!