Before the rain in the desolate mountains had stopped, a storm that would sweep across the entire Douluo Continent had already exploded with lightning speed.

The day after the manhunt ended, the Spirit Hall, the Heaven Dou Empire, the Star Luo Empire, and the Clear Sky Sect almost simultaneously issued the highest-level arrest warrants to the entire continent.

The wanted posters featured Tang Hao's portrait plastered on the gates of every major city on the continent and on the bulletin boards of every Martial Soul Branch Hall.

His crimes were clearly written on it: colluding with a 100,000-year-old soul beast, violating human ethics, fusing with the soul beast's origin and falling into the demonic path, brutally killing human soul masters, and betraying the entire human race.

The bounty is terrifyingly high. Even just providing accurate information about the location can directly earn you a ten-thousand-year-old soul bone. If you can capture or kill the target, you can directly receive Title Douluo-level resources endorsed by the two great empires and the Spirit Hall.

Unlike previous wanted posters that only circulated among Soul Masters, this time, even the common people in the most remote villages on the continent knew that the Clear Sky Sect had produced a "demon named Tang Hao who colluded with Soul Beasts and betrayed the human race."

After all, for ordinary people, soul beasts are nightmares of burning, killing, looting, destroying homes and villages. Colluding with soul beasts is to cross the bottom line of everyone's survival.

Just as the wave of condemnation across the continent was intensifying, the Yan Will Dynasty, which had been hiding in the eastern border and rarely participated in continental conflicts, suddenly pushed this storm to its peak with a "Declaration of Humanity's Shared Protection".

Douluo Continent Humanity's Declaration of Shared Protection:

Admit it, you simply cannot tolerate those soul beasts disguised as humans! They are born different from us. No matter how much they look like humans, no matter how well they disguise themselves as humans, they are still just wolf bandits. Their bestial nature is deeply ingrained, and coexistence is pure fantasy!

From the moment our ancestors awakened their first martial spirit, broke through the encirclement of wild beasts, and earned a place for human survival on this continent, our destiny has been inextricably linked to the word "humanity".

Humanity's territory for survival, its path of cultivation, and the spark of its civilization must never be allowed to be encroached upon by other races!

Look, my fellow countrymen! Those ferocious beasts that should have been trapped in the Starry Sky Forest, the Arctic Ice Plains, and the Sunset Forest are beginning to shed their fur and scales, transforming into appearances indistinguishable from ours, and hiding in our sects, our academies, and our cities!

They began to hide their claws and fangs, walk as humans, cultivate with human techniques, steal the soul rings and soul bones that should belong to us, and even defile our bloodline. They used human kindness as a shield to disguise themselves and stole the glory of our civilization that we had earned over thousands of years with false warmth!

We once gave them a way to live, and we tacitly allowed them to multiply and thrive in their own territory. But what they repaid us with was lurking in the shadows, sneak attacks from behind, and treating human flesh and blood as nourishment for advancement!

We've talked about coexistence, but they've been grinding their teeth and sucking blood in the shadows. Under the disguise of ten thousand years of transformation, their man-eating beastly nature has never changed!

Tens of thousands of years ago, sects were overthrown from within by them, genius soul masters were assassinated by them, and the bones of countless compatriots became stepping stones for them to break through their realms!

But humans are not lambs to the slaughter, nor sacrifices for the advancement of soul beasts! We are the fire that burns through the wilderness, the hammer that shatters shackles, the only race on this continent worthy of the title of ruler!

Therefore, in the name of the highest will of humanity on the Douluo Continent, I declare: No more self-deceiving appeasement! No more indulgence of transformed beings! No more compromise with bestial disguises! Our Martial Souls have awakened, our Soul Skills are poised for action, and our Soul Hunting teams are ready to go! Every Soul Master is a walking boundary marker of humanity's territory, and every glimmer of a Martial Soul is a direct declaration of war against other races! Every Title Douluo is an iron wall guarding human civilization, and every set of Soul Bones is our supreme weapon to defend the future of our race!

Listen, my fellow human beings! The call of our ancestors has never ceased! From the first battle in the Soul Hunting Forest to the bloody war beneath the city walls, on every inch of this continent, the cries of all humankind have converged into that oath etched into our souls: Those who are not of our kind are sure to have different hearts!

War! War! War! Even if it means traversing countless mountains and rivers, even if it means burning away our soul power and blood, we will not act out of prejudice or for conquest, but only for the survival of humanity! We will use the brilliance of our martial spirits to make the entire continent remember: Humans are not prey! We will use the victory of our soul-hunting to define for future generations: Humans are the masters!

Listen, all soul beasts who have taken human form! War has begun. And we will bring you—the end!

This declaration was like pouring a ladle of cold water into a boiling oil pan, instantly causing an uproar throughout the entire Douluo Continent.

If the previous arrest warrants were merely the various forces holding Tang Hao accountable personally, then this "Declaration of Humanity's Shared Responsibility" directly elevated the incident to the level of "the survival conflict between humans and soul beasts," turning "hostility towards transformed soul beasts" into the politically correct stance for the entire human race.

In an instant, responses poured in from all over the continent.

Numerous forces, large and small, including minor sects, immediately spoke out again.

"Humans and spirit beasts have been enemies for survival for millennia. Spirit beasts feed on humans, while humans cultivate through spirit rings; this is the law of heaven and earth, inviolable. Yet now, Tang Hao of the Clear Sky Sect, for his own selfish desires, has consummated his relationship with a 100,000-year-old transformed spirit beast, fathering a child and merging it with the spirit beast's essence. He has willingly fallen into depravity, using a human body to commit demonic acts. This is a disgrace to the entire human race, a great enemy to human survival!"

"Transformed soul beasts, disguised as humans in their beastly forms, lurk in the marketplace, sects, and imperial court, bewitching human prodigies, distorting human bloodlines, and stealing human cultivation resources. Today, Tang Hao was bewitched and betrayed his race; tomorrow, many more prodigies will follow suit. If this continues, the foundation of humanity will be destroyed, and the chaos of evil soul masters, the calamities of beast tides destroying cities, and the disasters of wolf bandits will inevitably be repeated!"

"Previously, there were wolf-headed, human-bodied monsters born from the forced birth of humans by the Gale Demon Wolves. Now, the methods of the Soul Beasts are even more sophisticated, making them even harder to distinguish. They disguise themselves as humans and mingle among us, intending to defile our bloodline and bewitch our minds. We must strictly uphold the bottom line of our bloodline, eradicate all lurking transformed Soul Beasts, and absolutely not tolerate any act of betraying humanity or colluding with Soul Beasts! The fate of Tang Hao of the Clear Sky Sect is our greatest warning. Anyone who harbors transformed Soul Beasts is an enemy of the entire human race. Let us all condemn them!"

They expressed their full support for the Yan Will Dynasty's initiative and launched investigations within their sects. The common people in the major cities spontaneously organized themselves to keep an eye on outsiders with unknown whereabouts, who lived alone for many years and had strange auras. They would report any suspicious information to the local Martial Soul Branch Hall. Some radical Soul Master teams even formed groups to go deep into the mountains and forests, hunting Soul Beasts under the banner of "eliminating transformed Soul Beasts". Many low-level Soul Beasts that were originally well-behaved suffered undeserved disasters.

The two great empires were the first to become restless.

The Star Luo Empire, being a martial nation, has always taken a hard line against spirit beasts. It issued a decree to thoroughly investigate transformed spirit beasts throughout its territory, and anyone found to be harboring them would be punished the same as the transformed spirit beast, with their entire clan being executed. Although the Heaven Dou Empire hesitated slightly, it could not withstand the fervent calls from its common people and sects, and could only follow suit by issuing a proclamation expressing its support for the Human Alliance. At the same time, it strictly ordered the Spirit Halls in various regions to intensify their investigations into transformed spirit beasts.

Even the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, two of the three upper sects, had to speak out publicly. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School was cautious in its words, only saying that they would "adhere to the bottom line of human ethics and not associate with soul beasts," but they implicitly agreed to investigate transformed soul beasts. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, being a family of beast martial souls, valued the purity of bloodlines the most, and directly and vehemently stated that they would fully cooperate in eradicating the hidden transformed soul beasts and would never allow the occurrence of mixed bloodlines.

But where did all these transformed soul beasts come from? The facts and public opinion are already there, so you have to speak up whether you want to or not.

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