Bringing a Little Red Shock to Douluo Continent

Early the next morning, Ye Kai began making preparations to meet Little Angel.

First, he activated Little Angel's mark. This was the signal they had agreed upon afterward: if it was inconvenient for her to teleport, she was not to respond; if it was convenient, she was to send a strand of soul power into the mark and activate it as well.

Before long, Ye Kai sensed Little Angel activating the mark, indicating that he could teleport over now. After storing Ah Yin inside his Soul Tool, Ye Kai immediately began guiding the teleportation.

After a flash of light, Ye Kai found himself in a Secret Chamber. Standing across from him was a handsome young man of seventeen or eighteen, dressed in white robes. His features were refined, his eyes deep, and his entire body exuded an aristocratic air. At his waist hung the sachet Ye Kai had given Qian Renxue.

It was none other than Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe.

Seeing that Qian Renxue was still maintaining her disguise even after he had appeared, Ye Kai felt his teeth ache. "So, should I call you Xue'er Jie now, or should I call you Xue Qinghe?"

"How presumptuous!"

'Xue Qinghe' shouted, "How dare you address me by name? What crime do you deserve?"

Though she was scolding him, she still gave off an unhurried, composed air.

Alright, alright. You're addicted to cosplay now, are you? Let's see how I deal with you. Ye Kai narrowed his eyes, his body coiling in readiness.

"You insolent madman, what are you trying to do? How dare you behave so recklessly in this prince's residence?" Seeing the dangerous look in Ye Kai's eyes, 'Xue Qinghe' took two fearful steps back.

Ye Kai ignored her and pounced directly at her, slipping both hands beneath 'Xue Qinghe's' arms and tickling her sides.

"Hahaha... stop... I was wrong... haha, Xiao Kai, I was wrong! Spare me..." Laughing so hard she could barely catch her breath, Qian Renxue dropped her disguise and returned to her original appearance. She tried to evade Ye Kai's hands while begging for mercy.

Seeing that Qian Renxue was no longer putting on an act with him, Ye Kai stopped teasing her. Unexpectedly, she took the opportunity to grab his hands and pull him over.

"Hmm? Why are you still Level 10? Didn't that woman help you hunt a soul beast?" Qian Renxue was already Level 30 and was even close to Level 40, so she could naturally tell Ye Kai's Soul Power Level.

(This is speculation. In the original work, she was only in her seventies when she fought Tang San fifteen years later. It could only be said that the Kingdom Usurpation Plan held her back. It would have been fine if it had succeeded, but the damn thing didn't even succeed.)

"Oh, it's fine. I just didn't want to add one myself. I have other plans." Ye Kai told Qian Renxue about the plan he had come up with before.

It was not merely to raise the age of his soul rings. Ye Kai also did not intend to add soul rings at all—wouldn't using Soul Spirits be better?

After becoming a god, he would definitely take the wings with him to other worlds. But he did not intend to be like the future Tang God King, who would devour all the fate and then pat his ass and leave, without even looking after his Seagod believers.

Ye Kai's current plan was that, if he formed contracts with Soul Spirits, he would bring them to the God Realm after ascending and then send them back down, just like the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape in Douluo II.

At the same time, he would select some trustworthy people on the continent, such as Xie Yue and Yan.

Following Tang San's future methods, he would turn these people into a Realm Lord Council that would not interfere in wars within the planet, such as the Sun Moon Empire's invasion that would eventually come several thousand years later when the two continents collided.

The Realm Lord Council would have only two purposes. The first was to act when all of Douluo Star faced a massive crisis, such as an Abyssal Invasion. The second was to serve as a contingency left behind for the Spirit Hall Empire and the future Spirit Pagoda.

Actually, Ye Kai believed that Qian Daoliu was the best candidate to be a realm lord. After all, the old man truly possessed a knight's spirit. He could remain fair and impartial to the greatest extent possible, allowing him to make absolutely just and decisive rulings.

He had gone off on a tangent. Coming back to himself, Ye Kai looked at Qian Renxue and asked, "Xue'er Jie, why did you come here to carry out this so-called Kingdom Usurpation Plan?"

Qian Renxue froze when she heard that. "Wasn't it to make it easier for Spirit Hall to unify the continent in the future?"

Ye Kai said, "...But have you considered that if you focused wholeheartedly on cultivation, accepted the God Test, and became a god as early as possible, would there still be anyone on this continent capable of defeating you?"

"Even if the God Realm's rules required you to ascend to the God Realm within a short time, as long as you killed all the Titled Douluo and Soul Douluo among the opposing forces, who would be able to stop Spirit Hall's many Titled Douluo?"

"This..." Qian Renxue fell silent. What Ye Kai said was indeed highly feasible.

However, there was a major hidden danger, much like when the First Emperor unified the six states.

Because unification happened too quickly, the common people would not be able to completely shift their sense of national allegiance. With only a little incitement from those with ulterior motives, rebellions could break out.

Yet in this otherworld of "humanoid nuclear bombs," it would still be rather difficult to overthrow an empire simply by stirring up the common people.

"To be honest, this matter is one of the main reasons I came to see you this time, Xue'er Jie. Of course, your time undercover in Heaven Dou hasn't been completely without benefits."

Qian Renxue, who had been feeling frustrated that her years of undercover work had apparently been a waste of time, suddenly raised her head and looked at Ye Kai.

"Given Spirit Hall's current scale, it has a great advantage in Soul Masters, but it lacks vast territory and conventional armies. Soul Masters are ultimately a minority, and Spirit Hall also lacks administrative personnel capable of covering the entire continent."

"Xue'er Jie, you can make full use of your identity in the Heaven Dou Empire to secretly cultivate a group of administrative personnel who are preferably commoners and loyal to Spirit Hall. They don't need to possess powerful cultivation; they only need to understand people's livelihoods and government affairs. Oh, and military personnel too—especially people capable of commanding battles."

"Spirit Hall has always been watched closely by every faction. Since it is not yet ready to launch a war of unification, Spirit Hall cannot openly train such people on a large scale. That would only make the already tense situation on the continent even more tense."

In truth, Spirit Hall had already begun preparing administrative personnel.

As everyone knew, Spirit Hall had spent enormous effort and expense constructing branch halls in every city across the continent. No matter how small a city was, as long as it could be called a city, it would definitely have one. Only towns and villages below that level lacked them.

At the same time, based on the rank of each city, Spirit Hall had modeled itself after the empire's provinces and cities to form its own administrative system.

It was fine for these Bishops to handle the routine affairs of their local branch halls, but once matters rose to the level of governing an entire city, they were still somewhat lacking.

Simply absorbing a few duchies and kingdoms as in the original work would not be enough. Moreover, the ruling classes of those duchies and kingdoms were fundamentally no different from those of the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire. The only difference was that top nobles and great nobles had become lesser nobles.

But perhaps that was because the so-called war of unification in the original work had only been launched by Bibi Dong to destroy Spirit Hall, which was why it seemed somewhat laughable.

There was no postwar governance and no related policies—only fight, fight, fight, followed in the end by some "justice will surely triumph over evil."

Then, ten thousand years later, commoners no longer even had a path to awaken their martial souls. Soul Master subsidies, which had once been issued to anyone registered with Spirit Hall regardless of whether they joined it, became benefits granted only to those who joined sects and academies.

And behind nearly every sect and academy stood a noble family of greater or lesser standing, which was equivalent to completely cutting off the commoners' path to advancement.

Generation after generation on the Douluo Continent was wasted in meaningless internal strife. Otherwise, they would not have been beaten into such a rout by the Sun Moon Empire.

If Tang God King had not shamelessly used a newborn child as a threat, the Sun Moon Empire would have long since achieved complete unification of Douluo Star under Ju Zi's leadership.

And this was unacceptable to Ye Kai, who had grown accustomed to a unified nation in his previous life and received an education in equality.

Ye Kai intended to give the Douluo Continent a little Red Shock. He did not intend to do anything else—he simply intended to break the barriers to knowledge and give commoners a way forward.

Even if he could not reach the pinnacle of his previous life, getting halfway there could still be considered a successful transformation of this deformed world.

Spirit Hall already enjoyed considerable prestige and popular support among the commoners. Therefore, Ye Kai intended to set off a Red Revolution across Douluo Continent, letting these ignorant people of Douluo Continent see what Red Power truly was.

Ancient, rotten systems did not deserve to board the great ship sailing toward a new era. Parasites that only knew how to cling to commoners and suck their blood should be drowned in the vast ocean of the people!

However, before carrying out reforms across the entire continent, Ye Kai first needed to try changing Spirit Hall's ideology. After all, this was a world where "individual martial strength" reigned supreme.

If his previous life had valued nothing above studying, then this world valued nothing above Soul Masters.

Even Spirit Hall, despite having more commoners among its ranks, could not entirely prevent high-level Soul Masters from developing contempt for commoners. It could only be said that launching a Red Storm would be a long and arduous task.

But when it came to matters within Spirit Hall, there had never been a time when the words of two level-99 Titled Douluo did not carry weight. What Ye Kai needed to consider now was how to persuade Pope Teacher, the current top dog; Qian Daoliu, the former top dog; and Qian Renxue, the possible next top dog, to accept the New Thought.

"So, Xue'er Jie, there are now two paths before you. First, return and cultivate seriously. Strive to become a god as soon as possible, then use the might of your godhood to let Spirit Hall sweep across the entire continent. After that, you can slowly govern it all and rebuild everything from scratch."

"Second, continue your undercover work, but start learning how to handle state affairs and balance the various factions, preparing in advance for the day you take over the empire. At the same time, use your identity as the Grand Prince to secretly cultivate talented commoners. You can first have them serve as officials in a certain village or town within the Heaven Dou Empire, then promote them after unification in the future."

If he were simply assimilated by this world into a cultivation-obsessed martial fool, the author would feel that nine years of compulsory education had been fed to the dogs. The collision of ideas from two different worlds ought to spark the flames of a new era. But for certain reasons that those in the know would understand, the author would not go too deeply into how it should be done, for fear of 404.