Awakening Martial Souls for Commoners Was Really About Making Them Accept Their Fate

"Vis, what are your thoughts on the recent events in Falling Star City?"

After confirming Dai Mubai's cultivation progress, Dai Tianran asked Dai Weisi about Falling Star City.

However, this caused Dai Mubai, who was looking down, to tremble.

Because in his heart, the fact that Dai Tianran didn't ask him but instead asked Dai Weisi meant that Dai Tianran himself was more inclined towards Dai Weisi than Dai Mubai.

If you stay here, you will surely suffer great humiliation in the future!

Unconsciously, such an idea popped into Dai Mubai's mind.

Dai Weisi replied, "Falling Star City is located at the border of Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empire. It is a small city. I really can't understand how a mere Spirit Hall Branch Master could have such great power? He actually bewitched people, manipulated public opinion, and forced Dales to his death."

In fact, Dai Weisi also thought Dales was too stupid.

Colluding with the Fallen Ones is already a mistake, but then he even created a double for himself... Now, the fake has become real.

In this way, their Star Luo Empire really had no way to question the Spirit Hall, and even had to owe the Spirit Hall a favor.

But!

Dai Weisi felt that this couldn't possibly have been something the Spirit Hall came up with.

The Spirit Hall has been developing rapidly in recent years and has the potential to become a nation. This is a guess held by both the higher-ups of Heaven Dou and the Star Luo Empire faction.

However, in Dai Weisi's view, the Spirit Hall was still much the same as before, respecting Soul Master and knowing little about matters of establishing a nation.

Could the Spirit Hall have foreseen the events at Falling Star City?

There must have been other people giving guidance.

For some reason, Zhou Qing's image appeared in Dai Weisi's mind— Falling Star City is close to Nuoding City, could it be that he was helping the Spirit Hall devise a plan?

"Indeed, the Spirit Hall has the largest number of Soul Master, but precisely because it respects Soul Master and is good at suppressing others with force, it has not made much progress in planning."

Dai Tianran interrupted Dai Weisi's thoughts and talked about the advantages and disadvantages of the Spirit Hall. "If the Spirit Hall were to plot something, it would be the exact opposite of using force to suppress people. But even so, once the people carrying out the conspiracy are provoked, they will inevitably turn to violent suppression."

It must be said that Dai Tianran saw through the essence of the Soul Master's personality—pride and belligerence.

As the power with the most Soul Master on the entire continent, the Spirit Hall will abandon its original plans and resort to fighting to achieve its goals, no matter what schemes it devises, as long as they displease the executors.

Indeed.

Dai Tianran himself was also Soul Master, and his Soul Power had even reached the Soul Douluo level. However, he was also the emperor of the Star Luo Empire. After he took the throne and learned about the conflicts of interest among the various families, nobles, and officials within the empire, he understood how the Spirit Hall, a force mainly composed of Soul Master, was different from his Star Luo Empire and Xue Ye's Heaven Dou.

If the Spirit Hall were to establish a nation, it would inevitably face a long period of turmoil. To achieve unification, it would have no choice but to engage in militarism and divert attention from internal conflicts, which would mean immediately launching a war of unification against the Two Great Empires.

Moreover, only by winning can the Spirit Hall win over the officials who originally governed the cities within the Two Great Empires, thereby stabilizing the cities.

But what happens afterward?

The Spirit Hall would then discover that if promotions and titles were based on merit, most of the Spirit Hall's Soul Master would not know how to govern, which would lead to widespread war and misery on the unified continent.

However, if the Spirit Hall were to change its own system and learn from the Two Great Empires, then the Spirit Hall would have to find a way to suppress the dissatisfaction of the Soul Master who fought alongside them.

After all, most Soul Master joined the Spirit Hall for power and profit. However, after unification, the Spirit Hall's higher-ups told them that because they didn't understand anything about governance, they couldn't hold high positions. It's easy to imagine that internal chaos, large and small, or even rebellion would break out.

This can be resolved by a non- Titled Douluo.

After considering two scenarios of the Spirit Hall establishing a nation and unifying the continent, Dai Tianran suddenly realized that as long as the current Pope of the Spirit Hall wasn't mentally unstable, he wouldn't establish a nation. Even if he did, he could only learn from the Heaven Dou or his own Star Luo Empire.

Back then!

There will simply be another empire on the continent, and the three powers' confrontation and cooperation will actually delay the outbreak of war once again.

Suddenly, Dai Tianran realized that this was the Spirit Hall's true purpose: "Peace on the continent"...

But--

Absolutely impossible!

Dai Tianran didn't believe that anyone in the world would actually fight for peace.

Moreover, to put it practically, compared to these nobles, the Spirit Hall, which is mainly composed of Soul Master, is actually the force that cares the least about commoners.

Even the nobles and officials of the Two Great Empires, no matter how greedy or absurd, knew that more than 95% of the empire's value was created by the common people. Their expenses for food, clothing, and daily necessities mainly came from the taxes paid by the common people, so that most common people would not go hungry.

But the Spirit Hall is different. Its members are all Soul Master, most of whom pursue power and don't care about these things at all... However, there were capable people in the ancestors of the Spirit Hall who realized this and wanted to win the hearts of the people by awakening the Martial Soul for the common people for free.

Pity.

The lower-level staff of the Spirit Hall couldn't handle this matter well. Most of them were uneducated and only cared about whether the Martial Soul had offensive capabilities, causing the Spirit Hall to miss out on many geniuses.

For the vast majority of ordinary people with zero Innate Soul Power, living is their pursuit, rather than becoming Soul Master.

Only the Two Great Empires had the ability to ensure the survival of ordinary people.

Spirit Hall?

It only helps ordinary people awaken their Martial Soul, but it can't change their lives. Even if they are qualified to become Soul Master, how many of them still care about the lives of ordinary people?

Conversely, commoners who yearn to change their lives by awakening their Martial Soul and becoming Soul Master will feel even more desperate when they learn that their awakened Martial Soul have no Innate Soul Power and cannot be cultivated.

This is also the fundamental reason why the high-ranking officials of the Two Great Empires later compromised with the Spirit Hall to help the common children in their territories awaken their Martial Soul.

Initially, the high-ranking officials of Two Great Empires opposed the Spirit Hall's approach, believing that it was an attempt to win over the hearts and minds of the people.

But after a while, the Two Great Empires had no objections.

Because after the Spirit Hall began this action for some time, the people in the Two Great Empires became much more stable. You should know that before the Spirit Hall issued the order to awaken the Martial Soul of all the common children on the continent, there were many poor areas in the Two Great Empires where rebellions of all sizes frequently broke out.

And now?

In the past two hundred years, there have been many bandits, but none have dared to rebel.

If ordinary people haven't awakened their Martial Soul, they still hold onto the Martial Soul that if they did, they might be no worse than the disciples of major sects and families.

Therefore, a latent delusion in their hearts drove them to unite and dare to fight the nobles to the death.

However, after the Spirit Hall helped them awaken their Martial Soul, those Trash Martial Soul shattered all their arrogance and fantasies, making them realize that they could never compare to the disciples of their families and sects.

I accepted my fate.

And what about those geniuses who rose from humble beginnings?

Oh!

This is no longer the barbaric era of the past. Interests have already been distributed. If you want power, money, or status, even Titled Douluo has to compromise to some extent.

Moreover, these ordinary geniuses eventually ceased to be ordinary people themselves.

Therefore, in Dai Tianran's view, the Spirit Hall made an indispensable contribution to helping the Two Great Empires appease the people. If they hadn't shattered the hopes of the common people by helping them awaken their Martial Soul, the Two Great Empires would have had a hard time ruling such a vast territory.

It's important to understand that before the emergence of the Two Great Empires, there were countless kingdoms across the continent. Even a village with a hundred acres of land could call itself a kingdom...