Douluo Continent II: The Peerless Tang Sect: I, Huo Yuhao, join the Sun Moon Sect

He muttered angrily, "Damn Xuanzi! Damn Zhongliwu! If it weren't for you, the faith power I gathered today should have allowed me to break through to the half-step God King level! How could Shrek Academy have such a foolish elder! How could the Holy Spirit Cult have such a soft-hearted leader!"

In Tang San's view, Xuanzi's stupidity was mainly reflected in his completely chaotic scheme. If it weren't for the other party's strange scheme, so many Shrek students' families wouldn't have died.

As for Zhongli Wu's leniency, it naturally refers to the fact that the other party chose to hunt down the families of Shrek students and some people who tried to stop them, rather than adopting a hunting strategy against everyone they encountered.

This means that Zhongli Wu and his men did not kill enough people or commit enough bloodshed, thus affecting the generation of murderous thoughts.

If Zhongli Wu were to wreak havoc in the Douluo Three Kingdoms, even if he were to lose more believers, he could still quickly acquire a large amount of faith power by accumulating short-term killing intent, and his breakthrough today would naturally not fail.

As for the problems caused by the opponent's rampage in Douluo Three Kingdoms, that's something I'll have to deal with later. In any case, if things develop as I envisioned, it's better than having my millennia of accumulation vanish in a single day and failing to break through.

"Right now, we must find a way to solve the problem of faith power and reverse Shrek Academy's reputation. We can only do that in the future," Tang San pondered.

In his view, the war sweeping across the entire Douluo Continent has not yet been launched by the Sun Moon Empire. When the war sweeps across the continent and the situation becomes so critical that he needs to display his divine power, he can find a reason to step in, help Shrek Academy defeat the Sun Moon Empire, improve Shrek Academy's reputation, and thus improve his own reputation.

And this is how they gather more believers and increase the power of faith they acquire.

Later, he can slowly revise the history books to erase the disgraceful history of the large number of Shrek students and their families dying at the hands of evil spirit masters.

But this is a future plan and cannot improve the current situation.

He needed to come up with a new plan to increase his faith power, but now, under the targeting and suppression of Destruction, he found it difficult to act recklessly against the Douluo people as he had before.

If the beings of Douluo Continent help me collect the power of faith, that would be a viable path.

First of all, those two scoundrels, Da Ming and Er Ming, who are loyal to Xiao Wu, are definitely not to be relied upon.

Secondly, the Sea God family is also out of the question, because they need to help collect the faith power from the Sea Soul Beasts. The ocean is too vast and there are too many Sea Soul Beasts, so the Sea God family is simply overwhelmed.

As for Shrek Academy, its reputation is terrible, and there's a foolish guy like Xuanzi who could easily do more harm than good.

After thinking it over, his eyes lit up: "That's it! I can restart the Asura God Trial. There's no need to select a true successor to the divine position, but I can select more people to do things for me. In the name of the Asura God Trial, I can give them some power and have them help me collect faith power."

Having experienced what happened today, he didn't want Shrek Academy's reputation to suffer again in the future, thus affecting his own reputation.

Therefore, he planned to try to sever ties with Shrek Academy, so that the Douluo people would realize that Shrek Academy had done something praiseworthy, which must have been because it had inherited his spirit.

If Shrek Academy does something that people find objectionable or despicable, it must be because it has strayed from its own spirit.

So how do we achieve this?

Naturally, the goal is to have those undergoing the Asura God Trial use their own name to severely crack down on the evil Soul Masters. After all, the evil Soul Masters have a terrible reputation, and any action to crack down on them will be welcomed by most Douluo people.

However, as the Holy Emperor of the Holy Spirit Cult, he naturally could not truly choose to launch a heavy attack on the Holy Spirit Cult. He still needed the Holy Spirit Cult to put pressure on the Douluo people. Therefore, he decided to select some strong individuals from the Holy Spirit Cult to act as "villains".

Chapter 560 The Asura God Test, Tang San's Conspiracy

The term "villainous actor" refers to having a select group of evil spirit masters do evil deeds according to one's own orders.

Then, at the critical moment, some people who were undergoing the Asura God Trial, under their own names, rescued people at the last minute, defeated the evil soul master, and publicly declared that their strength was all bestowed by the Asura God they believed in. They claimed that as long as one had “sufficiently devout” faith in the Asura God, one would have the opportunity to obtain great strength.

Those who were rescued will naturally spread the word about what happened during that time.

As long as this kind of thing is spread more widely, his reputation should recover considerably, and more people will believe in him.

He didn't expect to produce a large number of high-quality fanatical believers in a short period of time. Although fanatical believers would provide more faith power, they were simply too difficult to produce.

Therefore, he only sought to increase the number of Douluo who believed in him as much as possible. Even if the newly added believers only had a shallow faith in him, as long as there were enough people, the total amount of faith power provided would still be considerable.

Those evil spirit masters chosen as "villain actors," even if they are extremely powerful, will deliberately be defeated according to their orders, then disguise themselves and go to the next place to do bad things at the right time, and then be defeated again.

This cycle can be repeated to fully utilize the role of these "villainous actors".

However, there is currently a problem preventing him from implementing this plan.

To be honest, the way he passed the Asura God's test back then was actually through a trick, which was completely different from the normal way of passing the Asura God's test.

According to Tang San's thinking, the reason why the first generation of Asura God passed on the Asura God position to him was partly because he was so outstanding that the first generation of Asura God was very tempted.

On the other hand, the first Asura God really wanted to leave the God Realm, so he opened all sorts of back doors, which resulted in him inheriting the position of Asura God but lacking a gradual process of integration.

Compared to wielding the Sea God's position, he felt that wielding the Asura God's position was not as effortless. Even the Asura Sword was not as smooth to use as the Sea God's Trident. This was one of the reasons why he preferred to use the Sea God's position.

Given his current level of control over the Asura God position, he simply cannot provide various preferential treatments for those participating in the Asura God examination, unlike the first Asura God.

He could only follow the Asura God's Nine Trials model, which he had redesigned and left behind before leaving the God Realm, and test those who participated in the Asura God's Trials step by step.

If we consider the Nine Trials of Asura as an exam paper, then he, the so-called chief examiner, wouldn't even be able to change the exam questions.

He can only grade papers according to the answers, not according to his subjective opinions.

For example, if someone does something that displeases him, but passes one of the Nine Trials of Asura, he must issue a reward according to the rules and cannot violate the rules to refuse to issue the reward.

Compared to the first generation of Asura God, he was far inferior to the other party in terms of control over the Asura God Trials. Therefore, in the short term, he simply had no way to quickly cultivate a human who had passed the eight trials of Asura to serve as the so-called High Priest of Asura God and do things for him.

Therefore, he could only conduct a gradual assessment of the Douluo people according to the Nine Trials of Asura.

After all, since there is no solution to this problem for the time being, it can only be put on hold.

"Next, we should select suitable candidates for the Divine Trial from the Douluo Continent. First of all, we cannot choose evil soul masters. Although evil soul masters are not lacking in the desire to kill, they are too evil and would damage my reputation."

Regardless of what kind of person Tang San is in private, on the surface he will still maintain his pure and innocent image and claim to be the embodiment of justice.

Thinking of this, the Sea God Armor on his body instantly transformed into the blood-red Asura Armor, and an even more powerful aura emanated from his body.

He used the power of the God-King to begin searching for a suitable divine examiner. He did not hide anything while doing this, and even the God of Destruction could not use the rules of the divine realm to restrict him in this matter.

After all, whether or not a deity passes on their divine position, and when that position is passed on, is the deity's prerogative.

His face quickly turned gloomy.

Because fewer people met the criteria for divine testing than he had anticipated.

Because he lacked sufficient control over the Asura God Trial, he couldn't even lower the assessment standards. Thinking about this, he regretted it somewhat; he should have asked the first Asura God to lower the assessment standards back then.

But regret was useless, and he could only accept reality with a gloomy face. After all, he couldn't call back the first Asura God and ask him to help lower the standards for the divine examination.

Of course, even if he could summon the first Asura God back, he wouldn't do such a thing. After all, he had inherited the Asura God position for tens of thousands of years, yet he still couldn't modify the content of the Asura God test.

If the first Asura God were to find out about this, he would undoubtedly lose face.

"Fine, let these people all participate in the divine examination. It's your honor to be able to do something for me."

Thinking of this, he casually waved his hand, and several beams of red light fell towards Douluo Continent.

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Spirit world.

Dark clouds gathered above the pitch-black castle, and purple lightning surged incessantly.

The God of Destruction exclaimed "Huh?" and then looked in the direction of the Sea God's Temple with some surprise: "Tang San has actually started choosing a successor for the Asura God's position?"

The God of Lust said with a smile, "My lord, if Tang San really passes on the position of the God of Asura to someone else, then Tang San will most likely leave the God Realm with his wife and daughter. At that time, the constraints on you in the God Realm will be greatly reduced. After all, a newly ascended God of Asura is much easier to deal with than Tang San."

The God of Destruction shook his head: "No, given Tang San's personality, he would never easily admit defeat. Even if he does choose a successor, it's probably just to have one more God King on his side. Perhaps the newly ascended Asura God will only get the Godhood and won't get the Asura Sword at all."

Even so, a new god-king without a super artifact, in terms of strength alone, would surpass a first-level god who wields a super artifact.

The nearby God of Greed asked with some concern, "My lord, should we use some means to influence Tang San's Asura God Trial inheritance?"

The other Sin Gods who came to this meeting also focused their attention on the God of Destruction, hoping that he would give them an answer.

"No need." The God of Destruction waved his hand. "The Asura God Test is, after all, a test for God-Kings. How could someone pass the test so easily and inherit the godhood?"

The first Asura God could give Tang San a backdoor, lowering the difficulty, because his control over the Asura Godhood was extremely strong. However, given Tang San's control over the Asura Godhood, he simply couldn't do such a thing during the God Trial.

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Starry Sky Forest.

A girl dressed in a black robe and with black hair was walking slowly forward.

Chapter 561 The Divine Examiner

She has a delicate face, fair skin, and a slender figure, but her eyes and brows contain a fierceness that is beyond her years, and she walks with an air of lightness and grace.

"Lulu, I was so stupid, really. I should have dropped out of Shrek Academy like you did back then. Now my family has all died at the hands of those damned evil spirit masters, and I'm all alone. It's all because I trusted Xuanzi too much, and trusted the academy too much." The pink-haired girl, with her long legs, followed behind the black-haired girl Zhu Lu, and said with red eyes.

She deeply regretted agreeing to let the academy gather her family and the families of other students together for protection. If she had rejected the academy's request and instead immediately brought her family to Shrek City to settle down, perhaps she wouldn't have experienced the devastating loss of all her family members.

Some time ago, Xuanzi gave a half-hearted apology speech and disciplined the students in front of them.

Unable to bear it any longer, she chose to withdraw from Shrek Academy and immediately left the academy to find her best friend Zhu Lu, who had already withdrawn from Shrek Academy, to discuss their plans.

Zhu Lu stopped and sighed, then slowly said, "Ya Jie, I've said it before, Shrek Academy is unreliable, and so is Xuan Zi."

I realized this after Hua Bin died at the hands of the Death God's messenger. Although the evil soul master Death God's messenger was quite powerful, Xuan Zi, as a level 98 Super Douluo, should have been able to easily kill him in terms of strength alone. However, in reality, Xuan Zi made a huge mistake when facing the Death God's messenger, and even made a fool of himself by letting the messenger escape.

Moreover, as far as I know, after this incident, the Sea God Pavilion only gave Xuanzi a mild punishment. I know that this was done for the sake of the bigger picture, as the value of a level 98 Super Douluo is simply too great.

But I just can't swallow this anger. Doesn't Hua Bin's life matter?

"One day, I will destroy Shrek Academy, which disregarded Hua Bin's life, and kill Xuan Zi. Moreover, I will hunt down as many evil soul masters as possible in my lifetime!"

As she spoke, her eyes gradually reddened, her fists clenched, and her face was filled with a mixture of pain and anger.

As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together.

Cui Yajie, who had teamed up with Zhu Lu and Dai Huabin for the freshman assessment, had a very good relationship with both Zhu Lu and Dai Huabin. Given her own experience, she naturally agreed with Zhu Lu's words.

At that moment, Cui Yajie wrapped her arms around Zhu Lu's slender waist from behind, rested her head on Zhu Lu's shoulder, and whispered, "Lulu, you're right. One day, Shrek Academy, Xuanzi, and the evil soul masters will all pay a heavy price. Whatever you want to do, I will fully support you!"

In her view, the main enemies who caused the deaths of her family members were Zhongli Wu and other evil soul masters, but Xuanzi and the academy also bore a great responsibility for the deaths of her family members.

As the owner of the Nine-Tailed Fox Martial Soul, Cui Yajie has excellent talent and is naturally not afraid that she cannot keep up with Zhu Lu's pace.

Filled with overwhelming hatred, Zhu Lu and Cui Yajie's bloodlust has intensified, a rarity even among Shrek Academy students who have already dropped out.

After all, the Shrek students generally harbored murderous intent towards evil spirit masters and wanted Xuanzi to pay a bloody price. They were only extremely dissatisfied with the academy, and had not yet risen to the point of leaving no room for compromise like they had.

Suddenly, a male voice devoid of any emotion rang in their ears at the same time.

"Do you accept the Asura God Trial? Those who accept will receive the second Martial Soul, the Clear Sky Hammer."

The two, who were quite vigilant, tensed up in fright at the sudden sound. They both activated their martial spirits and quickly surveyed their surroundings.

After all, the two were in the Star Dou Great Forest.

This is not a safe place for human soul masters.

After searching around, they found nothing unusual. Instead, the emotionless male voice kept ringing in their ears, making them suspicious.

For Tang San, although he, as the "chief examiner" of the Divine Examination, couldn't interfere with the content of the examination, he could still give the examinees some benefits before the examination to enhance their talents and strength, thus making it easier for them to do things for him in the future.