Rather than saying Ye Zhen had learned why Meng Lixi had accumulated only a tiny amount of the Power of All Beings over so many years, it was more accurate to say that Ye Zhen had learned why High Priest Nahar had cooperated with him, and why he had noticed and taken an interest in Ye Zhen from the moment Ye Zhen began displaying Divine Miracles in the name of a divine envoy.
The reason was simple: the temples of every tribe enshrined a Divine Statue of High Priest Nahar.
That did not mean that, simply because every tribe enshrined a Divine Statue of High Priest Nahar, High Priest Nahar could monitor every tribe at any time and from any place.
That was impossible.
This, too, was related to the Power of All Beings.
Over the past few days, Ye Zhen had found time to speak with Mirage Dragon Primordial Spirit Ah Chou about the Power of All Beings.
Mirage Dragon Primordial Spirit Ah Chou did not know much about the Power of All Beings, but he had, after all, spent many years at the side of Master Lu Li.
The mortal kingdoms on the lands of the Mystic Gate Realm, where the Mystic Gate Sect was located, were much like the Great Zhou Empire, except there were several mortal kingdoms.
Yet in all those mortal kingdoms, the state-protecting religion—or rather, the only Daoist temples permitted to legally exist—belonged solely to the Mystic Gate Sect.
The Mystic Gate Sect's Daoist temples enshrined Divine Statues of Mystic Heavenly Venerable Lu Li and his eight direct disciples.
The Divine Statues in those Daoist temples were also meant to collect the Power of All Beings for the Mystic Gate Sect.
Although Lu Li had made the Grand Vow that there would never again