Everyone Has Their Own Little Schemes

Without exception, every single one of these people was a frenzied Evil Soul Master, from their martial soul to their cultivation method and way of life, all serving as benchmark figures among Evil Soul Masters. It could be said that the Zhongli Family was the orthodoxy of Evil Soul Masters in this era, possessing a unique significance just like the Qian Family in the era of Spirit Hall. Outside the lair of the Evil Soul Masters, wiping out the main family of the Evil Soul Masters... Chen Ming's first reaction was that this was simply a miracle, but after calculating the time, he found that the matter mentioned by the sect master had happened ninety years ago. At that time within the Holy Spirit Cult, Zhongli Wu should have been only around twenty years old, and the one truly holding the power of the Holy Spirit Cult internally should have been that old hag Ye Xishui. Although she did not have too many opinions or emotions regarding her biological flesh and blood Zhongli Wu, and did not try to kill Zhongli Wu like Bibi Dong hated Qian Renxue, Ye Xishui likewise held no good feelings toward Zhongli Wu, treating him merely as a tool. Naturally, she was even less likely to harbor any goodwill toward this bunch of fellows surnamed Zhongli. Calculating it this way, it did not seem impossible to eliminate an Evil Soul Douluo surnamed Zhongli in the Demonic Forest without being attacked by the Holy Spirit Cult. Perhaps Ye Xishui was watching this scene happen from the sidelines at the time, inwardly wishing that all the ones surnamed Zhongli would just drop dead. After hearing this, Jing Chenli also hesitated for a moment before reluctantly nodding, accepting Chen Li's explanation. Although it sounded a bit strange, Jing Chenli was still willing to believe the reputation the Dragon Elephant Sect had maintained for thousands of years. After all, the Angel God targeted Evil Soul Masters, and the believers of the Angel God also targeted Evil Soul Masters. Therefore, having fought against Evil Soul Masters for a long time, it was quite normal to have a little bit of information regarding them in hand. Jing Chenli looked at Qian Hongchen, who was still in a state of disordered consciousness and continuously spouting various incoherent sentences, and took out a soul tool that resembled a translucent coffin from his storage soul tool, enclosing Qian Hongchen—whose limbs had been broken—within it. With the activation of the soul formation, a pale blue energy enveloped the interior of the soul tool, Qian Hongchen's consciousness quickly stagnating, and his entire person plunging into silence while completely maintaining his rage. Looking at him as a whole, he resembled an exceptionally clear piece of amber. Only, what was sealed inside this amber was not an insect, nor old master Yu's giraffe, but a soul master. This soul tool was originally a special soul tool used to stagnate seriously injured casualties, maintain their condition, and then bring them back to the rear for emergency rescue. I just didn't expect it to come in handy today. Jing Chenli rubbed the space between his eyebrows, and then patted the shoulders of his grandson and granddaughter. For Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, the things they experienced today simply shattered their worldview. First, an imperial prince flirted with an innocent young man on the main street, then their grand-uncle was exposed as a traitor turning on his own, followed by the plot of the Evil Soul Masters targeting the Hongchen Family, and finally even evolving into Evil Soul Masters controlling the Sun Moon Empire... If not for the fact that this matter was acknowledged by their grandfather, and grandfather would absolutely never harm the two of them, Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen would truly have had the impulse to go report this to the authorities. Because to them, such matters and topics were simply too rebellious and outrageous. In this dim basement, Jing Chenli and Chen Li began to discuss in detail what the future of the two families should actually be. Jing Chenli was certain that the force behind this Fourth Prince had indeed targeted his family, himself, and his grandson and granddaughter right from the very beginning. Judging by the evil style of the Evil Soul Masters, these people probably did not just harbor some idea of winning him over, but rather wanted even more to evilize himself or his grandson and granddaughter, pulling them in to become one of their members. The Dragon Elephant Sect was merely accidentally dragged into it, having just happened to catch up to it. Without today's unconventional actions by Chen Ming and Chen Li's knowledge of blood medicine, Jing Chenli could not say for sure what would have happened either. Even in the absolute best-case scenario where he, his grandson, and his granddaughter were all fine, his household probably would have gained an inner-agent Evil Soul Master at the eighty-ninth rank Soul Douluo level, or even the Titled Douluo level. Tch, an Evil Soul Master at the Soul Douluo or Titled Douluo level... In Jing Chenli's cognition, the emergence of an Evil Soul Master of such a level often meant the deaths of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people, or even the complete destruction of a city. Compared to such Evil Soul Masters, Jing Chenli felt that even a Level 9 Soul Cannon Shell about to detonate was far more stable than them. After all, even if a Level 9 Soul Cannon Shell was pushed to its limit, it could at most kill or injure ten thousand people. Furthermore, even being blown to smithereens by a soul cannon shell without a corpse remaining was far better than being tortured to death before one's breath ceased, only to be driven by one's enemies after death. If one were to ask whether Jing Chenli was loyal to the Sun Moon Empire, Jing Chenli would certainly answer that he was loyal. However, Jing Chenli's loyalty was more toward the Sun Moon Empire itself, rather than any specific individual or emperor. If he were loyal to the emperor, he should have long since raised banners to oppose the one currently on the dragon throne. If he were loyal to the one currently on the dragon throne, he should have followed along to rebel back then. What Jing Chenli wanted to see was a strong, healthy, perfect Sun Moon Empire capable of continuous development. As for who the emperor was, it did not matter to him at all; as long as it made the Sun Moon Empire better and better, it did not matter who the emperor was. Or to take it a step further, whether there was even an emperor on the throne did not matter to Jing Chenli, as long as the Sun Moon Empire grew better and better. However, since the current emperor was likely connected to Evil Soul Masters behind the scenes, and these Evil Soul Masters had even reached out their black hands toward his own family, Jing Chenli would not simply pretend that nothing had happened. It was true that Jing Chenli was a fence-sitter who never revealed his political inclinations in the imperial court, but as the Hall Master of Mingde Hall, he himself embodied a faction. Regardless of whether the current emperor had managed to control the Evil Soul Masters to become his own power and was now using the methods of Evil Soul Masters to try and control the major noble families, or whether the Evil Soul Masters had already gotten out of hand and were trying to infiltrate the Sun Moon Empire through various means. Starting from today, Jing Chenli would no longer trust the imperial family, nor would he trust anyone currently by the emperor's side, especially those princes. After all, the Fourth Prince's maternal clan originated from Evil Soul Masters; who knew whether there were actually Evil Soul Masters or pawns of Evil Soul Masters among these princes? At any rate, in Jing Chenli's view, that Fourth Prince was bound to be a puppet of the Evil Soul Masters. Jing Chenli and Chen Li discussed in front of the juniors how to proceed over the next period and how to guard against the intrusion and attacks of the Evil Soul Masters. Regarding the methods of the Evil Soul Masters, the Dragon Elephant Sect possessed quite a bit of understanding and countermeasures.