As Xian Lin'er gave Mu En a detailed account of the information revealed by the Heavenly Curtain Monologue over the past few days, the Heavenly Curtain hanging high in the sky continued to play the monologue concerning Ye Xishui.
Qian Duoduo also conscientiously watched the contents of the Heavenly Curtain, making it easier for him to recount them to his wife and teacher later.
[Mingdu's great explosion. After the competing team members had been captured, the continent entered a brief yet extremely strange period of peace.] [Yes, the war had not yet fully erupted.] [The reason was very simple. Xu Tianran's ascension to the throne had come too suddenly. He needed to first put his domestic affairs in order, expand the army, and carry out prewar mobilization. Only after those two aspects had been handled could he confidently wage formal war against the former Douluo Three Kingdoms.] [During this period, neither the Sun Moon Empire nor our Holy Church worried that the former Douluo Three Kingdoms could inflict much damage upon us. After all, we had captured the futures of those factions. Holding the rat taboo was an exceptionally useful tactic.] [Just when I thought no problems would arise, something I had not expected happened!] [Big Brother Mu's disciple, Shao Zhuang, who possessed the twin ultimate attributes of holiness and judgment, became the greatest variable in this matter.] [Shao Zhuang successfully found the water prison in Rising Sun City where the hostages were being held. Not only did he restore the brainwashed Fire Phoenix Saintess to her senses, but he also rescued all three hundred-plus hostages who had been captured.] [A martial soul with the twin ultimate attributes of holiness and judgment was naturally the great enemy of our Holy Spirit Cult. We had originally chosen to spare him out of consideration for Big Brother Mu, as well as because he was merely a junior who could not affect the overall situation.] [But Shao Zhuang's rate of growth still exceeded my expectations—everyone's expectations.] [Not yet twenty years old, yet his Soul Power had already surpassed rank seventy. He had shockingly condensed dual Soul Cores ahead of time and already possessed two Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings... His true combat strength could crush a Soul Douluo, and even some ordinary Titled Douluo might not be his match!] [If he was allowed to continue growing, he would absolutely become the Holy Spirit Cult's greatest enemy, especially since his martial soul's attributes naturally restrained Evil Soul Masters.] [Therefore, when his whereabouts were exposed in Rising Sun City, all the Holy Spirit Cult forces stationed there concentrated their fire on Shao Zhuang.] [Two Titled Douluo, one of whom was even a Level Nine Soul Tool Master, along with firepower support from the Sun Moon Empire's Beast King Level Soul Tool Master Legion of over a hundred men... They sought to eliminate Shao Zhuang completely!] [As long as Shao Zhuang could be successfully kept there, it would be worth it even if all the other hostages escaped.] [The talent and potential Shao Zhuang had displayed were simply too monstrous. He had accomplished far too many things that ordinary people could never achieve. If he was allowed to continue growing, even I, a Limit Douluo, could not help but feel alarmed!!] [If we missed this excellent opportunity to eliminate Shao Zhuang in advance, let him escape, and give him time to grow, he would absolutely deal a devastating blow to our Holy Spirit Cult.]
It was clearly Ye Xishui's monologue, yet it devoted such a large portion to Shao Zhuang.
However, no one found that inappropriate. Instead, they felt it was perfectly natural.
Judging by her reaction, Ye Xishui had regarded Shao Zhuang as the Holy Spirit Cult's greatest enemy. Naturally, she would pay incomparable attention to such an enemy.
Nor were the various factions across the continent unfamiliar with Shao Zhuang.
The previous monologues of Dragon God Douluo Mu En and Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao had already given them a thorough understanding of Shao Zhuang.
The disciple of the Dragon God Douluo, possessing the Divine Beast Bi An martial soul with the twin ultimate attributes of holiness and judgment, seemingly possessing a Second Martial Soul, and even having received a divine inheritance...
Any one of those traits alone would have been enough to create an extraordinary genius;
Yet all of them had appeared in a single person. Just how terrifying must that person's talent and potential be?!
"Shao Zhuang must be won over to my Star Luo Empire!!"
Within the Star Luo Imperial Palace, Emperor Xu Jiawei firmly formed this thought in his heart.
The key to resisting the Sun Moon Empire and the Holy Spirit Cult lay with Shao Zhuang.
As long as he cultivated to the Titled Douluo realm, relying on the advantages of his martial soul and his profound foundation, he would be able to annihilate countless Evil Soul Masters!
If the Holy Spirit Cult's high-level combat strength was cut off, the Sun Moon Empire could be made to extinguish its ambitions of launching a war.
After all, without high-level combatants to control the battlefield, the Sun Moon Empire would still find it difficult to defeat the former Douluo Three Kingdoms with its current Soul Tool Technology alone.
Moreover, once Shao Zhuang reached the Super Douluo realm, simply standing there and doing nothing would be a deterrent to all Evil Soul Masters in the world.
It was no exaggeration to say that if the former Douluo Three Kingdoms wished to preserve their current stability in the future, they would have to rely entirely on Shao Zhuang eventually reaching the Limit realm.
By then, the Sun Moon Empire would certainly fear reprisals and no longer dare reveal any ambitions toward the former Douluo Three Kingdoms.
Douluo Continent would once again enjoy a period of peace lasting more than two hundred years!!
On this matter, the emperors of the former Douluo Three Kingdoms all coincidentally arrived at similar thoughts.
More importantly, once Shao Zhuang becomes strong, he will also win more time for peaceful development for the former Douluo Three Kingdoms. Then we can narrow the gap with the Sun Moon Empire as much as possible. Xu Jiawei naturally also considered the time for future development.
However, unlike the Star Luo Empire, which still possessed a fairly strong drive to improve itself, the Heavenly Soul Empire and the Dou Ling Empire truly behaved as though they were merely waiting to eat and die.
They would rather look forward to Shao Zhuang becoming strong enough in the future to maintain continental peace and let them continue living securely for another two centuries or so.
They were unwilling to prepare for danger in times of peace, to develop vigorously during that future era of peace, and strive to narrow the gap between themselves and the Sun Moon Empire.
All one could say was that with such an attitude, it would be stranger if they were not destroyed by the Sun Moon Empire!
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