Dai Hao rubbed his brow irritably.
What the hell was all this?
Ever since Xu Jiawei had used Shrek's pressure to strip him of his military authority, he had been constrained at every turn. To preserve the family, he had been forced to endure in silence, constantly exhausting himself. In just a few short years, he felt as though he had aged several decades.
Meanwhile, in stark contrast to the deserted White Tiger Family, the Star Crown Sect, which represented the Star Luo Imperial Family, was flourishing.
The Star Crown Sect had formed an important partnership with the Spirit Pagoda, allowing the Spirit Pagoda's influence to spread into every corner of Star Luo City. It truly felt like a thorn in his back.
In truth, Dai Hao did not support the Spirit Pagoda.
He could see that the Spirit Pagoda was plotting something enormous. That Soul Spirit Contract technology in particular was practically digging up the foundations of the White Tiger Family!
It was destroying the long-standing unspoken rules of the soul master world!
What did it mean that soul spirits could help soul masters choose their own Soul Skills!?
Wouldn't that mean the White Tiger Family's Soul Skill combinations, passed down for tens of thousands of years, would lose every advantage they had? They might even face elimination!
Yet no matter how wary Dai Hao was, it did not help.
Forget him after losing his power—even the spirited imperial hero he had once been would have found it difficult to resist the Spirit Pagoda in the face of the prevailing tide.
Moreover, the Spirit Pagoda had aggressively promoted free awakenings.
The common people were enjoying themselves, but another small group was suffering because of it.
Free awakenings were inherently opposed to the nobility and the empire, just like Spirit