Everyone felt a jolt at her words.
"Deity Invocation?"
That claim undoubtedly added another layer of mystery beyond prophecy.
Seeing their confusion, Bai Xiao of the Wolf Team added gravely:
"Su Li's guardian deity is the only higher being recorded in headquarters' archives to have formed a contract with a human. His code name is [True Lord]. It's entirely through this contract that she earned the title of 'Prophet.'"
A guardian deity? A contract? True Lord?
Together, those words carried an enormous amount of information.
So Su Li's ability wasn't innate-it came from a contract with some mysterious being!
That explained why her prophecies required specific conditions to activate, and it lent weight to her claim that she could perform a Deity Invocation.
But seeing her still empty-handed, with nothing but a nearly burnt-out cigarette between her fingers, only left them more confused.
Iron Buddha asked rather guilelessly from beside her:
"For a Deity Invocation... don't you need to prepare ritual supplies? Incense, candles, offerings, something like that?"
As he remembered it, the spirit mediums back home performed incredibly complicated rituals for Deity Invocation.
Su Li smiled faintly, indicating that she needed none of those things.
"Incense and fire?"
She raised the short cigarette butt in her hand, its ember flickering in the night.
"Isn't that what I'm holding?"
Before anyone could react, she stepped forward and planted the burning end of the cigarette butt in the center of the stone incense burner.
Everyone was stunned.
Wait, you're supposed to perform a Deity Invocation.
What are you sticking a cigarette in the incense burner for?!
Are you sure this won't anger the deity?
Completely unfazed by their strange looks, Su Li merely smiled casually.
"Incense and fire."
"Who says it has to be an incense stick?"
Her gaze swept across