Qian Gu Dong Feng and the Radical Federal Councilors

Qian Gu Dong Feng and the Radical Federal Councilors

"If not for the time he was killed and needed a long recovery, Nether Emperor Ha Luosa could have entered the Quasi-God realm of a Limit Douluo at least fifty years earlier."

"With the two of them taking the lead, my orders passed through the Holy Spirit Cult with remarkable ease."

"That was also why I was able to return so quickly."

"However, what surprised me was that when the Spirit Pagoda and some Federal Councilors heard about destroying Shrek Academy, they were even more eager than most of the Evil Soul Masters in the cult. They wished they could put it into action immediately."

"I really am a little confused about that." As she spoke, the eyes beneath the black bamboo hat turned toward Di Tian. She felt that Di Tian could surely clear up her confusion.

"The Spirit Pagoda is easy enough to explain. The person leading its cooperation with the Holy Spirit Cult is the current Pagoda Master, Qian Gu Dong Feng."

"This man may seem calculating and profit-driven, but he is actually a human extremely susceptible to his emotions."

"He and Yun Ming, the current Sea God Pavilion Master of Shrek Academy, were from the same generation, yet he had always been suppressed by Yun Ming in cultivation."

"Ever since his youth, Qian Gu Dong Feng had loved a woman named Leng Yaozhu, the current Vice Pagoda Master of the Spirit Pagoda."

"Unfortunately, the flowers fell in love, but the flowing water had no feeling."

"The one Leng Yaozhu loved was Yun Ming, not Qian Gu Dong Feng."

"You can probably guess what happened afterward. It was no different from the melodramatic plot of some trashy novel."

"Yun Ming and Ya Li of Shrek Academy were a renowned immortal couple on the continent, the envy of all."

"Leng Yaozhu naturally became one of the female admirers Yun Ming rejected. Yet even after spending more than a century alone, pining for him, she was still unwilling to give Qian Gu Dong Feng a chance to be the rebound."

"Tsk, tsk. What terrible luck."

"Haha~"

"Besides that, Pagoda Master Qian Gu was once slapped by Long Yeyue, the Vice Pavilion Master of Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion. In the end, though, nothing came of it. I suppose he never got to slap her back."

"For a person so easily swayed by emotion, it was understandable that his love for Leng Yaozhu bred hatred toward Yun Ming, and that Long Yeyue's slap left him harboring resentment toward Shrek Academy."

"As for why some members of the Sun Moon Federation hate Shrek Academy so much?"

"Well, that question can be put more accurately this way: apart from the Dove Faction among the Federal Councilors, which leaned toward Shrek Academy, most of them wished they could raze Shrek Academy to the ground."

"Rather than calling Shrek Academy an academy, it would be more accurate to call it a small kingdom."

"It held absolute authority over the district containing Shrek City, including but not limited to taxation rights, legislative rights, and command over the city's defensive forces. It acknowledged itself as part of the Sun Moon Federation only on the surface, yet the Federation could not interfere in it at all."

"In truth, no unified regime would permit a state within a state to exist, especially one with power strong enough to overthrow the entire Sun Moon Federation."

"And the reason those Federal Councilors you mentioned were even more radical than the Evil Soul Masters of the Holy Spirit Cult should stem from another incident."

"Yun Ming, the continent's current number one, had once flown into a rage for the woman he loved. Alone, he defeated three God-Level Mecha Masters and snatched his current partner, Ya Li, from a mysterious organization within the Sun Moon Federation."

"Ya Li had been raised by that mysterious organization of the Sun Moon Federation as its successor."

"Her story of saving countless people during the great plague that swept across the entire continent was known throughout the world."

"But would the Federation's mysterious organization be an organization that saved lives and healed the wounded? If it truly were, it would not be known for its secrecy."

"Would such an organization train Ya Li as its successor simply because she was a great benevolent person who saved lives and healed the wounded?"

"The answer was naturally no."

"Ya Li had a trait hidden beneath her radiance as a healer, one that could be called unique: her martial soul, the Praying Angel, could cultivate only by absorbing the Power of Faith."

"Since ancient times, legends had circulated across the continent that humans could ascend to godhood through faith. Those legends were real, just as they had been for the First Generation Sea God Poseidon tens of thousands of years ago, and the First Generation Angel God."

"Not long after Yun Ming and Ya Li came together, he faded from public view. The continent's number one, who had once battled the world's strongest experts with the Sky Piercing Spear, entered a state of semi-retirement."

"Abandoning his usual idea of breaking through the plane's suppression and becoming a god through battle, he suddenly went into hiding. Yet decades later, he condensed a Demigod Position."

"And after losing Ya Li, that mysterious organization of the Sun Moon Federation vanished without a trace. It never again accomplished anything that shook the world. The reason was easy enough to imagine."

"Forget ordinary humans. If I were the leader of that mysterious organization, I too would want to skin Yun Ming and Shrek Academy alive."

After listening to Di Tian's explanation, her expression was extremely strange most of the time, aside from her shock upon learning that Yun Ming possessed a Demigod Position.

How did Di Tian know so much about the private romantic affairs of humans? He was practically a worm in their stomachs.

Of course, she did not ask.

If Di Tian had wanted to tell her, he would have done so long ago. If he did not want to say it, asking would be useless.

Just as she was about to ask about Yun Ming's Demigod Position, Di Tian spoke first.

"Yun Ming's Demigod Position cannot succeed. In a short period of time, he cannot condense a perfect embryonic divine position on his own, and the Power of Faith Ya Li gathered through saving lives and healing the wounded is not enough to forcibly catalyze the divine position into taking shape."

"The two of them are still very far from a true divine position. They may not be able to complete it even if they spend their entire lives trying."

After a pause, Di Tian added, "Of course, they will not have their entire lives to spend on it."

With that, the Demon Empress asked no further questions.

She knew herself best. She was fully aware that she had no possibility of forging a divine position through the Power of Faith and ascending to godhood.

She was naturally at odds with the Evil Soul Masters of the Holy Spirit Cult, and in the depths of the endless sea, she was also synonymous with slaughter.

Therefore, no one would offer her faith born of either goodwill or malice.

As silence fell on her side, Di Tian finished thoroughly examining Xue Ling's Four-Word Battle Armor and God-level Mecha, confirming that there was nothing unusual within them.

Then he said to the Demon Empress, "After your Four-Word Battle Armor and God-level Mecha are forged, you must inspect them carefully."

"You can even shatter one part of the battle armor to check whether there are any hidden tricks inside. Afterward, have Zhen Hua and Mu Ye repair it."

"Furthermore, both Four-Word Battle Armor and God-level Mechas have the potential to advance further and evolve into divine artifacts. Once you confirm that the completed battle armor and mecha are free of problems, you can slowly nurture them. When the Blood River God-Slaying Array takes shape and you ascend to godhood, they should be able to advance directly into divine artifacts."

As he spoke, Di Tian condensed battle armor from thin air, its black-gold radiance dazzling.

The Demon Empress's crimson eyes widened in astonishment. She could sense that Di Tian's battle armor far surpassed every Four-Word Battle Armor she had ever seen!