Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 408 Agreement of War
The second year of the Tiandou New Calendar.

A beam of holy light descended from the sky and landed on the inner city palace of Soto, the capital of Barak Province.

Where the holy light shines, everything is purified into nothingness.

On the same day, an imperial edict was issued from the capital of the Heavenly Dou Empire:
The Kundera family is arrogant and ambitious, secretly colluding with the heretical religion Spirit Hall, providing a haven for the former Pope of Spirit Hall and other traitors, harboring evil intentions and wanting to overthrow the foundation of the empire.

They shall be punished for treason, and holy light shall descend to cleanse the Kundera family of their many evil deeds as a form of retribution.

Imperial law explicitly states that treason is punishable by the extermination of nine generations of one's family.

Because the Kundera family committed treason, their entire clan should be implicated. Those who surrender will be executed at noon on the first day of the following month. If anyone resists, they will be killed on the spot.

This imperial edict, delivered by the fastest courier, was posted at the entrances of all towns and cities within the Heavenly Dou Empire in just a few days.

……

The border fortress of the Star Luo Empire.

Deep within the military camp, inside the tent.

thump~
Bibi Dong's face turned ashen, and she slammed her hands on the table where the sand table was placed.

The immense force split the long table made of ironwood in two, with her palm as the dividing line.

"Heretical religion! What do you mean by heretical religion! And a former pope?!"

The former pope is a thing of the past. From the moment she inherited the position of Rakshasa God, the vacant pope position of the Spirit Hall was returned to her hands.

Therefore, Bibi Dong is not a former pope, but the current pope of the Spirit Hall.

On the other side of the long table, Golden Crocodile's expression was also unusually gloomy. However, due to his advanced age, he was much better at concealing his aura, which prevented him from making any outrageous moves.

"When the Spirit Hall was first established, there wasn't even a country like the Heaven Dou Empire on the continent. They were truly extremely arrogant!"

The two deities in the tent were enraged, which instilled fear in the five people standing there. All five of them were inheritors of divine power, and were also the only five inheritors of divine power currently held by the Spirit Hall.

The five people were divided into two factions.

The three inheritors of the Seven Deadly Sins Gods—Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Yan—along with Yu Xiaogang, the honorary elder of the Spirit Hall who seized Tang San's Greedy Inheritance, make a total of four, all belonging to the Pope's faction and Bibi Dong's camp.

The remaining inheritor of the space, Luo Minghua, belongs to the offering faction and is part of the offering hall camp.

Most of the current inheritors of the divine powers on the continent are in the Heavenly Dou Empire, with only a handful in the Star Luo Empire.

Dai Mubai, the third prince of Xingluo, and Tuoba Sheng, the young sect master of the Holy Dragon Sect.

Among them, Dai Mubai is a member of the Star Luo royal family and a strong contender for the position of Star Luo Crown Prince. It's impossible for him to join the Spirit Hall before the Spirit Hall completely breaks ties with the Star Luo royal family. The Holy Dragon Sect, however, doesn't have such concerns, as it has long secretly allied itself with the Spirit Hall. Tuoba Shenghe should join the Spirit Hall and become one of its divine inheritors.

However, divine inheritances can be plundered. Just as Lin Rong plundered the inheritance of the God of Light from Jixiang and the inheritance of the God of Darkness from Xu Keming, the inheritance of the God of Earth from Tuoba Sheng was also plundered by a mysterious person.

Plundering means that the inheritor did not voluntarily give up the divine position, so when the Holy Dragon Sect found Tuoba Sheng, he had already become a corpse that had been dead for a long time.

Regarding the mysterious Soul Master who attempted to assassinate Tuoba Sheng and plunder the inheritance of the Earth God, the Spirit Hall has three most suspicious candidates.

The first to be affected is the new emperor of the Heavenly Dou Sect, followed by Du Huang, the sect leader of the Body Sect, and finally Xu Chenhuan, the sect leader of the Star Crown Sect.

Lin Rong, the new emperor of Heaven Dou, has a history of this. With Luo Minghua in the Spirit Hall, they know that the current Heaven Dou Emperor's position as the God of Light was stolen from a person named Ji Xiang. In addition, considering the dark artifact used by the Emperor in his battle against Bibi Dong, they know that the Dark Inheritor Xu Keming also fell into Lin Rong's hands.

Finally, this person also stole the angel's divine position. With such a long list of evil deeds, it's hard not to believe that the person was also responsible for Tuoba Sheng's inheritance of the Earth God's position.

However, the fact that someone is the prime suspect does not mean that others are not suspects until there is conclusive evidence.

The last time the Sect Master of the Body Sect and the Sect Master of the Star Crown Sect appeared in front of everyone, their soul power level was at the peak of level ninety-eight.

To cultivate to this level in an era before the emergence of divine inheritance, one's talent goes without saying, and one's temperament is also of the highest caliber. Just like Jin E before he received the inheritance of the God of War, after obtaining a suitable divine inheritance, the probability of successfully inheriting the divine position is extremely high, and at most one or two years can complete the entire process of divine examination to inherit the divine position.

Tuoba Sheng was tragically killed by a mysterious soul master within half a month after the conclusion of the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament, and more than a year has passed since then.

Of the three suspects, the Sect Master of the Body Sect and the Sect Master of the Star Crown Sect have never appeared in public this year, leading people to suspect that they may be secretly in seclusion, conducting the God of Earth's divine position assessment.

Jin E had visited the Star Crown Sect's headquarters before, but when he used his divine sense to investigate, he found that the sect leader, Xu Chenhuan, was not at the sect's headquarters.

As for the Body Sect, its mountain gate is located in the mountains near Tiandou City. For Jin E, a god of an opposing force, to visit a hidden sect near the capital of the opposing force, isn't that slapping Tiandou in the face?
However, it was precisely because Xu Chenhuan, as the sect leader, chose to cultivate outside the sect's headquarters instead of at the sect's residence that Jin E became more suspicious of him.

Poisonous Blade is a Body Martial Soul, which is not highly compatible with the Earth God's position. Moreover, there is already a God Inheritor within the Body Sect, so it is unlikely that he is that mysterious Soul Master.

On the contrary, the Star Crown Sect's Star Crown Martial Soul, which is approximately the same as a Gemstone Martial Soul and an Earth Attribute Martial Soul, has a high compatibility with the Earth God's position, giving him a motive to make a move. His unusual behavior of going into seclusion also increased the suspicion surrounding him.

"If he really is the Star-Crowned Old Ghost, taking my own speed of inheriting the divine position as a reference, he should have completed the nine tests and qualified to inherit the divine position in about a year."

"We can't ignore the Body Sect either. If Poison Emperor were ruthless enough to forcibly demand the divine inheritance of that sect disciple, the progress would probably be similar to that of Star Crown Old Ghost."

As Jin E pondered this, a soldier entered from outside the tent, handing over a letter with both hands and respectfully saying:
"Your Holiness, Second High Priest, this is the war agreement sent by Tian Dou. Please sign it."

Upon hearing this, Jin E was about to reach out and take the letter from the soldier when Bibi Dong, quick as a flash, snatched it from him.

The first person the soldiers addressed was His Holiness the Pope, and the second was His Excellency the Second High Priest.

Moreover, since the Spirit Hall has always been ruled by the Pope, it should be Bibi Dong who reads this letter first, both logically and emotionally.

(End of this chapter)