"Those in Spirit Hall are a mixed lot. Ma Xiunuo of Nuoding City and Norman of Falling Star City are both decent people, but Miles is so arrogant and unruly."
Seeing Miles's disposition, Tang San could fully understand why Spirit Hall helped the common people awaken their martial souls, yet most soul masters who had achieved some success in cultivation, with at least the strength of a Soul Elder, remained free agents—they would rather join a guild as Adventurers, form their own Soul Hunting Teams, or even sail the seas as pirates than join Spirit Hall.
Besides their desire for freedom, Spirit Hall itself had plenty of internal problems. Its lax control over those below allowed Hall Masters as overbearing as Miles to exist.
Judging from the current situation of soul masters across the continent joining Spirit Hall, there seemed to be quite a few masters of Spirit Hall Main Halls like Miles.
This gave Tang San a question:
A continent-wide currency exchange inflation crisis had once erupted, and Spirit Hall's intervention had settled it... How had Spirit Hall managed that?
Were the previous Popes more capable than the current Bibi Dong?
Or had they merely stumbled upon the solution by sheer luck?
For example, Spirit Hall might have sent several Titled Douluo to negotiate with the Two Great Empires, while the upper echelons of those two empires had already understood the severity of the inflation problem and had long begun devising, perhaps even implementing, corresponding solutions?
He suddenly felt the latter possibility was more likely.
"Exactly, isn't that so?"
Lou Gao echoed Tang San, his eyes full of worry. "Miles won't let me or the Blacksmith Association relocate so easily. Although the city lord of Gengxin City is at odds with the Hall Master of the Spirit Hall Main