Nana's actions did not surprise Lin Feng. After all, in the original story, once Huo Yuhao released the souls of those Holy Spirit Cult servants' parents, a group of people wanted to acknowledge him as their master. During this time, Lin Feng had destroyed quite a few Holy Spirit Cult branch halls; this was not even the first one. Thus, this was not the first time he had encountered something like this, though he had never taken anyone in.
For someone like him, who had no need to revive any faction, having so many low-level soul masters under his command seemed rather pointless.
He was not Huo Yuhao, who needed to revive the Tang Sect and lacked ordinary soul masters. Moreover, Lin Feng was not entirely certain of those people's loyalty. Thus, although he had destroyed many Holy Spirit Cult branch halls along the way and many people had wanted to acknowledge him as their master, Lin Feng had never accepted any of them.
But Nana was different. As a subordinate originally meant for the protagonist, it was hard to say anything else, but at the very least, her loyalty should not be an issue.
Furthermore, Nana's talent was actually greater than that of many others. Even with her Ghost Martial Soul still unawakened, she had already reached the five-ring Soul King level at seventeen. This was despite her deliberately slowing her cultivation because she feared that, upon reaching level sixty, the Holy Spirit Cult would erase her sense of self. Otherwise, she could have reached level sixty before turning twenty.
Reaching six-ring Soul Emperor before twenty without even undergoing a second awakening of her Body Martial Soul marked her as potential Super Douluo material. Her loyalty also came with a certain degree of assurance, so giving her some resources and helping her along would not be a bad idea. However...
"What Martial Soul do you have?" Nana's name was correct, but considering the possibility of someone sharing that name, Lin Feng still needed to confirm it.
"Ghost, Master. My Martial Soul is Ghost."
"Release it and let me see."
"Yes." As Nana spoke, she released the Ghost Martial Soul based on her own soul before Lin Feng.
As the Ghost Martial Soul emerged, Nana's entire body became ethereal, as though she no longer possessed a physical form.
Lin Feng examined Nana's Ghost Martial Soul. Unlike his own, which was a Soul Martial Soul because his soul had crossed over from another world to the Douluo Continent, Nana's Ghost was also based on her own soul, but it was not such an extreme, pure Body Martial Soul. It was more like a mutation of some kind of Body Martial Soul.
It was still difficult to say whether this mutation was strong or weak, but judging by Nana's talent and Ghost Douluo from Dou Yi, it was undoubtedly a top-tier Martial Soul.
Once Nana completed the second awakening of her Body Martial Soul, a future with Super Douluo as the bare minimum was practically guaranteed.
Moreover, considering that this was Dou Er, even with merely two yellow, two purple, and five black soul rings, Nana's cultivation in the future would most likely not fall below level ninety-seven after completing the second awakening of her Body Martial Soul.
It was only because the plot demanded it; otherwise, with a Martial Soul nearly identical to Ghost Douluo's from ten thousand years ago and Nana's own talent, she should not have failed to even become a Saintess.
"That will do. Your Martial Soul is quite good, but I do not need you to work yourself to the bone for me. I currently have two wives, and they are short a little maid to serve them tea, wash their feet, and massage their shoulders. Would you be willing to serve them if I asked you to?" Lin Feng asked after inspecting Nana's Martial Soul.
Nana needed resources if she wanted to grow. Even the second awakening of a Body Martial Soul could be considered an immense favor to a soul master, let alone helping her grow quickly, which required other resources as well.
But if he first released Nana's parents' souls, then helped her undergo her second awakening, and afterward gave her resources to help her absorb soul rings beyond her level...
Such tremendous kindness would, no matter how one looked at it, turn them into enemies who could not live under the same sky.
Although Nana had originally been prepared for Huo Yuhao, so her loyalty should not have been a problem, Lin Feng had no intention of testing human nature.
He would give her resources; otherwise, Nana would be of little use in the future. But he could not give them to her directly, or the two sides might end up as enemies who could not live under the same sky.
"Yes, Nana is willing to serve the two mistresses." Without the slightest hesitation, Nana agreed to serve Zhang Lexuan and Han Ruoruo.
"Fine, then come with me." Lin Feng waved a hand, and the Soul Tool in his hand, capable of storing living beings, took Nana inside. Afterward, Lin Feng casually destroyed several more Holy Spirit Cult branch halls in the imperial capital, but he did not continue taking in subordinates from the other branch halls.
Nana was a bargain left for Huo Yuhao to pick up. The others were no such bargain.
Just like that, after smashing almost every Holy Spirit Cult branch hall in the imperial capital, Lin Feng recalled the original story of Douluo Continent II and headed toward the location of the one-hundred-ninety-thousand-year Blue Silver Grass within the Sun Moon Empire.
After Lin Feng left the imperial capital, at a Holy Spirit Cult branch hall he had destroyed.
An elderly man entirely concealed beneath a black robe stared gloomily at the Holy Spirit Cult expert who had been frozen into an ice sculpture and split into two halves. Under his intense rage, the space around him seemed to twist.
"Bastard! In total, seventeen branch halls of my Holy Cult have been destroyed, yet in the end, we have not even caught a glimpse of the culprit! Who was it? Who the hell was it?!"
Sensing Zhongli Wu's fury, the elders who had accompanied him all shrank their necks, afraid that Zhongli Wu would take out his anger on them.
"Please calm your anger, Cult Master. Though we do not know who did this, since he only dared to wreak havoc within our Holy Spirit Cult branch halls, his strength is presumably no more than that of an ordinary Titled Douluo. He is not worth your anger."
A mature beauty with coldly pale skin, short light-blue hair, dark-red eyes, black smoky makeup, a black form-fitting breastplate, and a dark-blue phoenix-tail long skirt stepped forward to comfort Zhongli Wu.
She was none other than Feng Ling, the vice cult master of the Holy Spirit Cult. She was the one who had turned Yan Shaozhe and Zhongli Wu, uncle and nephew, into men of the same path. She would later possess level ninety-seven cultivation, though this point in the timeline was still too early, so she only had level ninety-six cultivation.
"Hmph, precisely because he is merely an ordinary Titled Douluo!"
Zhongli Wu slapped the body of the Holy Spirit Cult branch hall elder, which had already been severed at the waist, into pieces. Somehow, by an unfortunate coincidence, every other part was pulverized, while only the buttocks remained intact beneath that casual strike.
Staring at the Holy Spirit Cult branch hall elder's buttocks, Zhongli Wu's brow twitched wildly. At this moment, he found that pair of buttocks exceedingly unpleasant to look at. They seemed to be the face of his Holy Spirit Cult.
"Good! An ordinary Titled Douluo dares to come cause trouble in my Holy Spirit Cult. He is not merely striking at my Holy Cult's branch halls! He is clearly slapping the face of my Holy Cult!"
"Feng Ling!"
Hearing Zhongli Wu call her by her full name, Feng Ling knew that he was truly enraged and immediately dropped to one knee.
"Cult Master."
"Go! Find the person who dared to cause trouble in my Holy Spirit Cult, then..." Zhongli Wu crushed the Holy Spirit Cult branch hall elder's buttocks beneath his foot. "Kill him!"
"Yes."
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