Yun Chuan Holy Son!

Time passed quietly like this.

In the blink of an eye, six years had gone by.

Yun Chuan was twelve years old this year.

Over these six years, Yun Chuan's training had evolved from simple weighted running into something far more varied. Push-ups, sit-ups, jump squats, climbing cliffs while carrying weights... He had tried nearly every conceivable method of physical training.

Of course, during these six years, his daily life had not consisted solely of physical training. He had also kept up his exploration and development of his two martial souls. With the support of Spirit Hall's accumulated records and the guidance of numerous Titled Douluo-level experts, his active mind—shaped by the information explosion of modern society—had developed many offensive methods. In this world's terms, they were Self-Created Soul Skills.

He was no longer the child who possessed immense Soul Power and supreme martial souls yet had no idea how to use them.

A white robe embroidered with golden thread and bearing Spirit Hall's angel insignia draped over a teenage boy.

As Soul Masters cultivated, their development accelerated. Some could also develop more slowly due to their martial souls. Thus, most Soul Masters' exact ages could not be judged from their appearance; only bone testing could accurately determine a Soul Master's age.

Though Yun Chuan was twelve this year, he already looked like he was in his mid-teens. He stood around 1.7 meters tall, which was not particularly tall on the Douluo Continent. After all, due to martial souls, people over two meters tall—or even three meters tall—were everywhere. Unless their martial soul's traits dictated otherwise, Soul Masters generally grew very tall and could not possibly look short.

His current identity was Spirit Hall's—Saint Child!

Now, under the Pope's orders, he had come to this obscure village within the Heaven Dou Empire to rid its people of disaster and solve their troubles. While he was at it, he would also spread the greatness of Spirit Hall!

As a religious organization, Spirit Hall naturally needed to maintain its reputation. Yun Chuan's abilities happened to be tremendously useful in this regard. That was why, in recent years, he had often been sent out to handle similar matters.

This was a small village located within the Heaven Dou Empire.

Since every household bore the surname Niu, it was called Niu Family Village.

Its population was small, with only several hundred households.

Most of the villagers possessed martial souls such as sickles, hoes, and oxen. They made their living through farming, working at sunrise and resting at sunset.

But one day, an Evil Soul Master who had wandered here shattered the village's peace.

What was an Evil Soul Master?

Soul Masters had a long history on the Douluo Continent. They held lofty status and enjoyed honor across the continent. In contrast, there was another kind of person on the continent—Evil Soul Masters. They had committed every imaginable evil and were despised by everyone.

So how did Evil Soul Masters come about?

After the profession of Soul Master emerged, Soul Masters had earned lofty status on the Douluo Continent through hard work. But people could be good or evil, and not every Soul Master was kind. Many Soul Masters grew arrogant because of their strength, adopting the attitude that they were number one under heaven and even giving rise to wicked thoughts. Others lacked talent and cultivated slowly, so they took the crooked path and became Evil Soul Masters.

In short, Evil Soul Masters were Soul Masters who could not resist the various desires in their hearts and used all manner of evil methods to gain power, killing the innocent in the process.

The Evil Soul Master who had fled to the small Niu Family Village possessed a martial soul called the Bloodthirsty Bat. By consuming human blood, he could rapidly improve his Soul Power. As a result, the several hundred villagers suffered disaster. This Evil Soul Master used a special Soul Skill to plant life-threatening methods within them, then treated them as a long-term source of blood.

The human body could replenish its own blood. As long as one did not lose too much at once, losing some blood had little effect on a person. Therefore, when this Evil Soul Master first used his evil Soul Skill to control everyone in Niu Family Village, he did not kill anyone out of consideration for sustainability. Instead, he treated the entire village as stored provisions.

Each day, he drained ten people's blood for cultivation, taking roughly one-tenth of each person's blood. There were several hundred people in the village, so by the time he had drained them all, enough time had passed for those who had been drained first to recover and be drained again.

For this reason, the whereabouts of this Evil Soul Master who cultivated through blood-drinking had not been exposed at first. After all, the villagers only lost a little blood and faced no danger to their lives. However, deadly methods had been planted in their bodies. If anyone informed on him, the whole village would die. Anyone knew what choice they had to make.

But as time passed, the Evil Soul Master who cultivated through blood grew stronger by the day, and his appetite grew larger as well. From draining ten people a day, he moved on to twenty, then thirty... The amount of blood he took also rose from one-tenth to two-tenths, then three-tenths... Gradually, as they watched this Evil Soul Master's appetite grow ever greater and felt their bodies weaken from blood loss, everyone in the village became terrified!

Until one day, someone was found dead in his home from excessive blood loss. That death finally lit the fuse of the villagers' outrage and stirred their desire to resist.

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The villagers secretly reported what was happening to Spirit Hall. After all, among all the forces that fought Evil Soul Masters, Spirit Hall was the most famous, contributed the most, and was the most trusted.

The reason Evil Soul Masters had become rats everyone wanted to kill, forced to huddle in dark corners and struggle for survival, was also inseparable from Spirit Hall.

Spirit Hall worshipped the Angel God, a deity of sacred attributes. As such, they deeply detested Evil Soul Masters, who possessed evil attributes. Spirit Hall often dispatched groups of Soul Douluo-level experts to hunt Evil Soul Masters. Once a high-level Evil Soul Master was discovered, they would face punishment from several Soul Douluo, or even Titled Douluo.

Moreover, during this period, due to Bibi Dong's rise to power and reforms, Spirit Hall branches were spread across nearly the entire Douluo Continent, helping six-year-old children awaken their martial souls everywhere. It could be said that their eyes and ears were everywhere. As long as an Evil Soul Master dared to commit evil, someone would immediately report it, and Spirit Hall experts from the nearest city would come to pursue them.

Under such circumstances, Evil Soul Masters had no ground in which to grow. Take the Bloodthirsty Bat Evil Soul Master who had fled to Niu Family Village. When his strength had been low, he needed little blood and thus went unnoticed. But as he grew stronger, his demand for blood increased. To become even stronger, he could only consume more blood. In the end, it was precisely this growing demand that exposed him.

But if he restricted his demand for blood, his strength could not improve. If he increased the amount of blood he drained, he would attract pursuit from Spirit Hall experts. This created a vicious cycle, which was why there were no powerful Evil Soul Masters during the era of Douluo One!

For this reason, so long as Spirit Hall existed, Evil Soul Masters would find it difficult to operate openly or have any chance to develop and grow. Unless Spirit Hall was destroyed.

In the original story, Spirit Hall was ultimately destroyed by Tang San. Its enormous power was then directly dismantled and divided between the two great empires, but those two empires were hardly concerned with Evil Soul Masters. They did not hate evil as deeply as Spirit Hall did. Thus, once Evil Soul Masters lost Spirit Hall's suppression, they gradually began to run rampant.

Once Evil Soul Masters gained cultivation resources, their strength entered an explosive period. Soul Masters of the same level were simply no match for them. They gradually developed and expanded, even forming organizations.

Over the following ten thousand years, they eventually developed the greatest Evil Soul Master organization in history—the Holy Spirit Cult! Countless Evil Soul Masters joined the organization, and the Holy Spirit Cult's influence continuously expanded. There were even experts at the level of Level 99 Limit Douluo.

Evil Soul Masters truly began to ravage the world!

And all of this was simply because, after Tang San destroyed Spirit Hall, he only concerned himself with killing and ignored the aftermath, allowing Evil Soul Masters to rise. As for the Tang Sect he left behind, it served no purpose whatsoever. The Tang Sect was merely an organization that sold hidden weapons. Its selfishness and focus on its own development alone could be seen from its sect rules. It brought no benefit at all to the world or its people.

On the contrary, if the world was not at war, the Tang Sect would have nowhere to sell its hidden weapons. That was why, in his previous life, everyone who had read Douluo held such mixed opinions about this character...

"Saint Child, we have arrived at Niu Family Village." The attendant's voice jolted Yun Chuan from his thoughts about the original story. He slowly rose and stepped down from the carriage.

Outside the carriage, a dense crowd of people knelt on the ground. A rough estimate put their number at several hundred, old and young, men and women alike.

Every one of them was sallow and emaciated, their faces pale, looking as though they did not have long to live. In particular, their necks bore the marks of numerous bloody puncture wounds. They had clearly been drained of blood for a long time, and their bodies had suffered tremendously. If no one helped them, these people would not live much longer. Even if they survived, they would likely be plagued by illness, living a fate worse than death.

After all, the importance of blood to the human body went without saying. One could well imagine the enormous impact that losing large amounts of blood year after year would have on a person's health.

When these kneeling villagers saw the youth descend from the luxurious carriage, his entire body seeming to radiate light, they immediately felt as though they had been granted salvation and began cheering in excitement.

"It's the Holy Son! We're saved!"

"It really is the Holy Son!"

"Greetings, Holy Son!"

"Holy Son, you must save us!"

"Holy Son..."

The villagers kneeling on the ground, men and women, young and old alike, wept with joy. As they watched the youth step down from the carriage, it was as though they had seen their savior!

All of this was thanks to what Yun Chuan had done over the past few years. Coupled with Spirit Hall's vigorous promotion, the reputation of Yun Chuan Holy Son as the savior of the people had spread across nearly the entire Douluo Continent. He had become Spirit Hall's most representative figure.

As for his portrait, although it could only barely capture a fraction of his bearing, it was still enough for anyone who had seen it to recognize his identity upon seeing him in person.