Douluo Continent: Long Live the Spirit Hall

"Those people from the Clear Sky Sect are a minor matter. Even if they really come out of seclusion, so what? The Spirit Hall's power is now firmly established. Let alone the Clear Sky Sect, even if Tang Chen reappears, and the seven major sects of the two empires rebel together, they can still be wiped out with a flick of the wrist." Yan didn't show much worry, and said in an extremely calm tone, "However, if that really happens, it will inevitably trigger a great war. For at least the next ten years, it will be extremely difficult for the Spirit Hall to collect a large amount of faith. So, unless absolutely necessary, don't do that." Bibi Dong looked down at the hand that had unconsciously caressed her jade-like hand as she spoke, feeling the warmth emanating from it. She didn't choose to resist, but silently enjoyed it. After calming her emotions a bit, she said, "So, you showed mercy to Titan and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan."

“Forced killing can indeed deter the world and maintain rule, but the Spirit Hall is already powerful enough that it no longer needs such deterrence.” Yan thought for a moment before replying, “Iron-blooded suppression can indeed maintain rule, but it is not easy to win people’s hearts and minds. Moreover, for at least several decades, fear will outweigh faith, which is not conducive to our plan.” Yan had actually considered establishing authority through killing, killing one group and then bringing in another, but this approach was like the Manchu conquest of China. While killing countless people could effectively rule a group of people, history showed that until the fall of the Manchus, the country was in turmoil and rebellions occurred every year.

He was not a bloodthirsty person. Since decisive killing could not achieve his goal, he would change his approach. He would feign appeasement to make those people temporarily submit. After ten or twenty years, when everything was stable, it would be time to deal with them.

Of course, he wouldn't forgive those who provoked and betrayed him without reservation. Titan said it was a twenty-year sentence, but he would never be able to leave Wuhun City in his lifetime. Moreover, because of his mistakes, a generation of the Power Clan had to pay the price for his actions.

In future events organized by the Spirit Hall, members of the Power Clan will definitely need to take the initiative to compete and perform well; this is a necessary action to atone for the sins of Titan.

The same applies to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan, including Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian, among its high-ranking members. After Yu Yuanzhen dies, he will be buried in the Douluo Hall. The Spirit Hall will help collect the bones left behind after cremation. Obtaining the soul bone doesn't need to be so bloody.

All the people from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan have arrived at the Spirit Hall. When he dies of old age is entirely up to Yan.

As for the younger generation like Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin, although they were given freedom to stay outside, their safety also tied down the older generation of powerful figures. It wouldn't be too easy for the Spirit Hall to kill these youngsters.

“You let him go…” Bibi Dong hesitated for a moment before speaking. Yan could feel that when a certain person was mentioned, the skin of the small hand that she was holding tightened up.

“Yu Xiaogang is just a Great Soul Master, and he was expelled from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan long ago, so he is no longer considered a member of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan. Although Liu Erlong is Yu Luomian’s illegitimate daughter, she has never joined the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan, and Fred is even less of a member, he never was.” Yan said calmly. When he mentioned these three names, Bibi Dong’s emotions changed drastically, and the pulse in her small hand changed significantly.

"I'm keeping them here, and I'm keeping Tang San here too. I also plan to keep Tang Hao here for a while longer. I'm even thinking of sending Tang San to the City of Slaughter." Yan narrowed his eyes slightly and spoke again. He didn't continue to steer the topic towards Yu Xiaogang, but instead mentioned the arrangements for his disciple.

“The City of Slaughter, you said he has twin martial souls and extremely high talent, so he might be able to pass that test. What if he really gets the Slaughter Domain? Moreover, the City of Slaughter is related to the gods. If he gains the favor of the gods, wouldn't that be even more troublesome?” Bibi Dong looked at Yan with great confusion. In her memory, her disciple had always been cautious and careful. What was he doing taking such a risk?

"Tang San's current strength is average. Even if we let him obtain the God of Slaughter Domain, we could still easily destroy him. What I want to ascertain now is the thoughts of a certain god." A strange light flashed in Yan's eyes.

"With the Spirit Hall's current strength, if we truly wanted to resolve all problems by force, we could do so within a year at most. Sister Xue'er is about to break through to Soul Douluo, and will become a god in a few more years at most. You might even be faster." Yan said, glancing at Bibi Dong, then paused before continuing, "Right now, the only potential obstacles for us are the gods of the God Realm. Douluo Continent is a very special place; many gods have cast their gazes here, including the Angel God of the Spirit Hall. For our plan to ultimately succeed, we must consider the factors related to the gods, and I want to test those who might pose a threat. I've already made a deal with the Sea God, and the result wasn't too bad. The remaining one is the one in the Slaughter City." Yan paused here; of all the gods watching Douluo Continent, the one he was least certain about was the Asura God of the Slaughter City.

The Asura God holds a special position in the God Realm. He is the only single person among the five God Kings. He is associated with good, evil, and the destruction of life. He did not interfere with the Douluo Continent during the first Douluo era, and it is highly likely that he will not do so in this era either.

The remaining main gods, such as the God of Original Sin, have nothing to do with Douluo Continent, while the elemental gods should have a favorable impression of me.

According to Poseidon, after that exchange, this guy gave me full access to the Heart of Poseidon, which means that the deal was genuine.

Therefore, what Yan needs to consider now is the God of Asura. As for why he used Tang San to test the God of Asura's attitude, Yan had some other considerations.

In his previous life, he had heard people discuss the plot of Douluo Continent. One theory was that Tang San's transmigration was orchestrated by the God of Asura.

Yan didn't quite believe this claim, but it was a fact that the God of Asura treated Tang San differently in the original work. And Tang San's transmigration should not be hidden from the gods, so he wanted to find out the God of Asura's specific attitude towards Tang San so as to make a targeted next move.

If the God of Asura truly valued Tang San, he would definitely protect and help him to the death. Without saying a word, Yan directly overturned the chessboard.

He will arrange for Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue to quickly become gods. At the same time, he will use the Vast Ocean Universe Cover to activate all his power and wipe out the two great empires and the Haotian Sect and other unruly forces within a year, not giving Tang San a chance to turn the tables. So what if the latter becomes a god? Everyone can play around slowly after entering the God Realm.

If the Asura God only pays normal attention to Tang San, then Yan doesn't need to be in such a hurry. He can proceed slowly according to the original plan, and everything can proceed more steadily. Qian Daoliu also doesn't need to sacrifice himself for Qian Renxue's ascension to godhood.

Therefore, the move to establish the City of Slaughter is very important. It was only in the last few days that he made up his mind to take such a risky step, because he really couldn't figure out the true thoughts of the God of Asura.

If he had paid special attention to Tang San earlier, then no matter how much Yan did, it would only have delayed Tang San's rise and wouldn't have killed that person at all.

If he hadn't paid attention to Tang San before, even if he did later, his concern would be limited, and Yan could still easily kill him.

Chapter 331 The Trail of the Soul-Devouring Spider King

"Your cultivation level has reached level ninety-nine, hasn't it?"

Inside the council hall, Yan discussed with Bibi Dong the arrangements for eliminating Tang San and the Clear Sky Sect, among other forces. Then, he inquired about Bibi Dong's cultivation progress.

Bibi Dong's divine test was somewhat different from Qian Renxue's. Rakshasa God, an evil god, was difficult to gain a foundation of faith in Douluo Continent, so the conditions for his successor to become a god were more stringent.

For example, the Sea God and the Angel God each have Sea God Island and the Spirit Hall to collect faith power, and they have also cultivated two living sacrifices, Qian Daoliu and Poseidon. As long as the successor reaches the title of Douluo, he can sacrifice these two Limit Douluo to become a god.

The inheritance of the Rakshasa God does not have such conditions. The inheritor needs to reach level 99 and collect enough faith power to start the final divine test that allows him to cross level 100.

Bibi Dong was also exceptionally talented. For anyone else, it would be extremely difficult to make rapid progress in cultivation after becoming a Title Douluo. However, she possessed twin martial souls and accidentally embarked on the correct path of dual martial soul cultivation.

Therefore, after breaking through to the Title Douluo level, she rapidly improved her cultivation by continuously refining high-level, high-quality soul beast soul rings. A soul beast that is compatible with her and is over 50,000 years old can basically help her increase her soul power by at least one level.

Not to mention that under Yan's planning, Bibi Dong also refined two supreme soul beasts: the 60,000-year-old Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and the 100,000-year-old Demon Tiger Whale King. The former's evil god origin and the latter's 100,000-year soul beast creation gave Bibi Dong a stronger foundation than in the original work.

After refining the two soul beasts, and through years of arduous cultivation and trials in other dimensions, she finally broke through to level ninety-nine earlier than before.

Now she only needs to absorb another high-level soul beast that is compatible with her to transform and surpass her limits again, and she will be able to directly inherit the divine position and become a god at level 100.

Therefore, Bibi Dong's most important task now is to find a suitable soul beast as the ninth soul ring for her second martial soul. However, after level 99, the help that a soul beast older than 50,000 years can provide is not so significant, so a 100,000-year soul beast would be best.

"I heard from your message that you captured a 100,000-year-old soul beast on your trip to the new continent. Are there any other suitable targets there?"

When Bibi Dong heard Yan mention this issue, she immediately became interested and even asked Yan about the 100,000-year-old soul beasts of the New World.

"In the New World, the human race is in a relatively difficult situation, so there are many powerful soul beasts, including quite a few 100,000-year-old soul beasts. The strongest one is a peerless ferocious beast that is over 700,000 years old. Although it cannot compare to the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, its quality is definitely extremely high."

Upon hearing Yan's words, Bibi Dong's eyes lit up instantly. The ninth spirit ring of her second spirit should be the last spirit ring she could absorb, and of course she hoped that the quality would be as high as possible.

Her second spirit's eighth spirit ring was already a 100,000-year-old spirit beast, so she must have hoped for an even better ninth spirit ring.

However, the Demon Orca King is already an extremely ferocious existence among the 100,000-year-old soul beasts. In a one-on-one fight, the Titan Giant Ape and the Azure Bull Python might not be its match. The only one stronger than it is the Deep Sea Demon Whale King.

The Deep Sea Demon Whale King is the leader of the three major overlords of the near sea. Bibi Dong had her eye on it after reaching level 99, but as soon as she got close to that sea area, she realized that its strength was too terrifying, almost equivalent to the Sea God in the world. Even Poseidon, the high priest of Sea God Island, was no match for it.

Over the years, Bibi Dong had been cultivating while also keeping an eye on the whereabouts of various powerful soul beasts, but there had been no good news. Now, hearing Yan mention a peerless ferocious beast over 700,000 years old in the New World, how could she not be excited?

She couldn't defeat the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, which was nearly a million years old and had been living in the sea, but she felt that she could handle a Soul Beast that was seven hundred thousand years old with her level ninety-nine cultivation.

"No."

Yan guessed Bibi Dong's idea, but he didn't support it. "The Evil Eye Tyrant Overlord in the New World is a powerful spirit beast, and it has also developed its own spacetime attribute spirit beast. In some ways, it is even more difficult to deal with than a million-year spirit beast."

Yan disagreed with Bibi Dong's idea of ​​attacking the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler, because the woman in front of him was actually in a very unstable mental state.

Perhaps due to the shadow cast by a bad experience in the past, Bibi Dong has significant problems with mental resistance. In the original novel, Tang San wasn't exactly a spirit master with a mental attribute, but he managed to defeat Bibi Dong, a level above him, using his mental spirit skills, which speaks volumes.

“Let’s change our target. I remember that Da Ming and Er Ming provided a clue about a Soul-Devouring Spider King. This kind of soul beast is the source of your second martial soul and has the highest compatibility with you. Have you found it?”

Before Bibi Dong could continue, Yan changed the subject, trying to guide her to focus on other soul beasts.

"I have found the Soul-Devouring Spider King in the southwestern miasma forest of Xingluo territory, but the cultivation level of that soul beast is only barely 90,000 years. I am not particularly satisfied with it, and I am also lacking a main soul bone, which it may not be able to provide."

Bibi Dong frowned and shook her head. Before refining the 100,000-year-old Demonic Tiger Whale King, she thought the 90,000-year-old Soul-Devouring Spider King would be a good target. But having already tasted the flavor of a 100,000-year-old soul beast, she always had to have higher expectations for her last soul beast.

When Yan heard this news, he seemed thoughtful. After thinking for a moment, he said softly, "The Soul-Devouring Spider King is 90,000 years old, which is very close to 100,000 years old. If handled properly, it doesn't seem impossible for it to successfully advance."

Bibi Dong frowned slightly and said, "You mean, feed it several soul beasts that are over 50,000 years old to force it to advance. Someone has tried this method, but that Human-Faced Spider King exploded during its advancement. This kind of method of forcing growth has too high a failure rate."

The method Bibi Dong mentioned was actually aimed at some soul beasts that relied on devouring to advance. In the soul beast world, 100,000-year-old soul beasts are rare, but some soul beasts can advance to that level without 100,000 years. Most of these soul beasts advance by hunting and devouring other soul beasts, and the best among them is the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

In the world of Soul Masters, there was a method used by some Soul Masters to obtain high-quality Soul Rings. This involved capturing a bunch of Soul Beasts that advanced by devouring others and making them fight and devour each other. The final winner would devour multiple Soul Beasts that were over 50,000 years old, and should theoretically be able to advance to 100,000 years old.

In that experiment, the ultimate victor was the Head-Man-Faced Spider King. After devouring multiple soul beasts, its cultivation level did indeed surge to that level, but in the end, it exploded and died, and the plan failed.

“Generally speaking, soul beasts that rely on devouring to advance do not have the foundation to advance as quickly, but I think it is worth a try for those that are over 90,000 years old.”

After thinking for a moment, Yan took out a box from his soul tool. The moment the box appeared, the temperature in the huge hall dropped instantly. "Moreover, I brought back a special soul beast from the New World. I have made some progress in researching this thing, and perhaps we can make use of it."

"This is the bead we got from the Dark Demon God Tiger. What exactly is it?"

Bibi Dong watched as Yan opened the box, inside which was a strange black bead, as deep, dark, and evil as a black hole, seemingly capable of devouring everything around it, including light.

"This is the soul bead of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. The soul bead is a kind of materialized soul core, and the soul core is the key to the formation of soul bones and is the true essence of a soul beast."

Yan carefully lifted the box and explained to Bibi Dong, "This Soul Bead contains a large amount of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's essence. Directly absorbing and refining it can easily lead to being transformed into an evil god by the evil god's essence."

But if we use a different method, using other individuals to filter out some of the crazy ideas, the essential energy within could still be of great use…

Bibi Dong looked at the Soul Bead in Yan's hand and said with some confusion, "You want to use it as material for the Soul Devouring Spider King's advancement? If what you said is true, then it's too wasteful."

After closing the box, Yan said calmly, "A 100,000-year-old Soul-Devouring Spider King and a 90,000-year-old Soul-Devouring Spider King are completely different concepts. It was obtained by you from hunting soul beasts, so it's good that it can be useful to you. Moreover, I also want to conduct an experiment."

"Okay, then I'll leave everything to you."

Since Yan had said that, what could Bibi Dong say? She could only obediently listen like a submissive wife. After chatting for a while, His Holiness the Pope regained his dignified demeanor and went out to handle the affairs of the Spirit Hall, while the free Holy Son wandered into the Elder Hall.

The Elder Hall of Wuhun City is located behind the Papal Palace. It is not very large, but the angel statue shining with holy light is very conspicuous in the huge Elder Hall.

Beneath the angel statue, Qian Daoliu, the Grand Elder of the Spirit Hall, sat cross-legged in meditation. Although his cultivation had stagnated for many years, he had maintained the habit of meditating and circulating his soul power every day.

When Yan arrived at the Elder Hall, the strongest member of the Spirit Hall slowly opened his eyes, glanced at him indifferently, and then closed his eyelids again.

"The Grand Offering".

Yan stepped forward and bowed slightly to the old man.

"Xue'er is inside, go and see him."

Qian Daoliu did not open his eyes again, but simply said a sentence. He seemed to hesitate for a moment, then said, "There are some things that I shouldn't be saying, but I hope you can handle them well."

I don't want the tragedy that Xue'er's father caused to happen again. That child has never truly been happy from childhood to adulthood.

"I understand, Your Excellency, please rest assured."

Yan understood Qian Daoliu's warning, nodded slightly, and passed by the Grand Elder. His figure slowly disappeared in front of the angel statue and came to the interior of the statue, a strange space where a beautiful girl was cultivating in peace.

Chapter 332 Qian Renxue's Heart Knot

Inside the Elder Hall of Wuhun City, inside the Angel Statue.

Yan slowly arrived at this extremely important secret place of the Spirit Hall and finally saw the girl he had not seen for a long time.

Qian Renxue knelt on the ground, her long, wavy golden hair cascading down her back to the ground. Her hands were clasped in front of her chest in a strange pose, with her thumbs interlocked, her index fingers touching, and the other six fingers spread out to the sides, making her look like a six-winged angel spreading her wings.

Her delicate face was filled with reverence, her eyes were closed, and she was always enveloped in a faint halo of holiness.

"I've come to see you, Sister Xue'er."

Yan's soft voice echoed in the space. Qian Renxue, who seemed to have turned into a statue, did not move or speak. She remained kneeling there quietly, maintaining her original posture.

However, as he approached, the golden light became noticeably stronger, and the enormous six-winged angel phantom in front of Qian Renxue continuously emitted dazzling light, filling the area with an indescribable sacred aura.

A sacred golden light flowed, and as Yan approached her, Qian Renxue's body was drawn to her feet under its glow. The golden light remained unchanged, but nine golden screens gradually appeared before Qian Renxue.

"The Nine Trials of the Angels are more than halfway complete. Congratulations, Sister Xue'er. You are one step closer to becoming a god at level 100."

Yan's gaze swept over the nine light screens, and he could see that seven of them had already displayed different colors, indicating that they had been completed by Qian Renxue. As for the remaining two, they should not be a problem.

"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

Yan noticed that although Qian Renxue's eyes were bright, she didn't seem to want to reply. He leaned closer and looked up at her. At that moment, Qian Renxue looked up at him with a strange expression. Yan instinctively asked her a question.

"When did you get back?"

Qian Renxue looked at Yan with unusually complicated emotions. Recalling the scene deep in her soul, she couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

Over the years, she has been undergoing the nine tests of the angels and has lived a secluded life, constantly cultivating, being tested, and cultivating again...

Perhaps due to insufficient experience and rapid growth in cultivation, her emotions fluctuated violently from time to time. At this time, she could mostly rely on herself, and there were not many people who could offer her help; those who could be found were the kind of people she would remember and become obsessed with.