Watching Douluo Dalu in Holy Spirit Village
Chapter 43

Movements of the Three Ultimate Douluo

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Whether seven-year-old Lin Xianyu could become a level 50 Soul King was still unknown.

Six-year-old Lin Xianyu still had to live a boring daily life in Holy Spirit Village.

Even though she possessed the Sky Screen System and had changed the future of Douluo Continent, she did not dare expose it.

She could only hide by herself and secretly enjoy it.

"I want to grow up. I really want to grow up. At the very least, once I'm grown up, I can go out and explore."

Lin Xianyu wished she could wake up tomorrow as an adult.

However, that was unrealistic. Not only was there no chance of her growing up overnight, but even if there were... before becoming a Title Douluo, she had better not go wandering around.

Douluo Continent was not a peaceful modern society. This was a feudal society where strength was supreme.

Because Soul Masters existed, those at the bottom would never rise unless they became Soul Masters.

That was the only way to change one's fate.

Of course, Lin Xianyu was not foolish enough to go out and court death. She simply found Holy Spirit Village too boring and wanted to go out and have some fun.

But considering her current strength, she had only just broken through to level 20 as a Support System Soul Master. Even with the Tang Sect hidden weapons Tang San had made, it still was not very safe for a Soul Grandmaster like her to go out.

Even Suotuo City had lowlifes like Bu Le, E Kao, and Tianya, four-ring Soul Ancestors.

Other major cities would certainly not lack such lowlifes either.

Besides, they were not even the frightening ones. The truly terrifying ones were the fallen Soul Masters.

At present, Spirit Hall existed, along with faith in the Angel God, and it advocated the eternal existence of light and the judgment of evil.

As long as fallen Soul Masters remained hidden, it was one thing. But once they were exposed, Spirit Hall would send people to suppress them.

It depended on the severity of their crimes. Those whose crimes were too grave would be executed on the spot, while those whose crimes were less serious would be exiled to the City of Slaughter.

Spirit Hall had discovered the City of Slaughter long ago.

After researching it, they found that they could not destroy the City of Slaughter and could only use it as a prison for fallen Soul Masters.

As time passed, some fallen Soul Masters unwilling to submit to Spirit Hall's control, as well as some Soul Masters seeking refuge, fled to the City of Slaughter.

However, the City of Slaughter had always allowed entry but not exit.

Unless one passed the King of Slaughter's trial.

Decades later, Bibi Dong passed the King of Slaughter's trial, obtained Divine Slaughter's Domain, gained the favor of the Rakshasa God, and began the Rakshasa God's divine trial.

Tang Hao, the Clear Sky Douluo, likewise passed the King of Slaughter's trial and obtained Divine Slaughter's Domain.

That was how he later caught Pope Qian Xunji of Spirit Hall off guard when they fought.

The sacrifice of a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Transformation, the activation of Divine Slaughter's Domain, the eruption of the Clear Sky Sect's secret technique, Explode Ring...

With all three combined, Tang Hao's strength soared. A newly advanced Title Douluo, at most level 92, crossed several levels in succession and severely wounded a completely unprepared level 95 Title Douluo.

At the level of Title Douluo, every single rank differed by heaven and earth, separated by a gulf so vast it was unimaginable.

Tang Hao had only just become a Title Douluo. It was only by relying on all sorts of favorable conditions and his enemy's contempt that he achieved such an impressive battle record.

Qian Xunji, Spirit Hall's current Pope, was too weak. He had disgraced his father, Qian Daoliu, by failing to defeat even the grandson of Tang Chen, the Clear Sky Douluo...

Of course, that was the Qian Xunji shown on the Sky Screen decades in the future.

As for the current Qian Xunji, who had taken the position of Pope—

After seeing on the Sky Screen how he intercepted Tang Hao and his wife only to be hammered into severe injury by Tang Hao, he had cared quite a bit at first. Now... he had calmed down and realized that he had made many mistakes.

His greatest mistake had been underestimating his enemy.

He should have used all his strength from the start and preferably crushed them to death in a single move.

It was precisely because he had not gone all out from the beginning that he never got another chance to do so.

Having learned from the lessons displayed on the Sky Screen, Qian Xunji understood one principle—when facing enemies in the future, regardless of their identity, he had to go all out.

He absolutely could not think about proceeding step by step!

With that mindset, he might not even get a chance to strike.

The situation on Douluo Continent was now somewhat delicate.

Originally, Spirit Hall stood alone above all others. Whether it was the Clear Sky Sect, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, or even the two great empires of Star Luo and Heaven Dou, all could sense the terrifying might of Spirit Hall.

After all, it was a great power with a legacy spanning tens of thousands of years.

It was said that, at the very beginning, Spirit Hall had been the only power on Douluo Continent. All the large and small powers that came later had split off from Spirit Hall.

This included the Clear Sky Sect, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan...

The Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire had also once been under Spirit Hall's rule.

The sole faith of Douluo Continent was the Angel God of Spirit Hall.

Monopolizing the faith of an entire continent had allowed the Angel God in the God Realm to become a first-class god, perhaps even giving it the possibility of becoming a God King.

Later, the Angel God fell.

Spirit Hall gradually declined as well.

One power after another split away, making Douluo Continent increasingly lively.

After an unknown number of years passed, roughly more than a thousand years before the present, a sea Soul Master imitated Spirit Hall, gathered faith related to the ocean, and became a god in one stroke.

This was the Sea God who ascended from Douluo Continent to the God Realm more than a thousand years ago.

He monopolized the faith of the ocean and became a first-class god upon ascending to the God Realm.

Unfortunately, surviving in the God Realm was not so easy.

After staying in the God Realm for more than a thousand years by Douluo Continent's reckoning, the Sea God no longer wished to remain there. He could only choose a reliable successor, hand the Sea God's divine position to that successor, and then leave.

The Sea God had taken a liking to Tang San and wanted to pass his divine position to him.

But the Asura God interfered and nearly stole away the successor the Sea God had chosen.

In the end, they came up with dual divine positions, allowing the divine positions of the Asura God and Sea God to be inherited by the same person.

That was truly something.

Overall, the Sea God had not suffered a loss. He had handed over his divine position and made his escape.

The successor had even gained the Asura God's divine position, becoming a God King instead of a first-class god.

A good thing!

Absolutely a good thing worth celebrating.

But this was not very friendly to the Angel God of Douluo Continent.

In the future decades later, Spirit Hall had two gods—the Angel God and the Rakshasa God.

The two gods who were originally opposed to each other joined forces.

Yet they still lost to Tang San, who possessed both the Asura God and Sea God in one body.

They had clearly killed him.

But the Asura God cheated and revived Tang San.

Well then, they killed him, and he revived him. How were they supposed to fight that?

Later, Bibi Dong, who inherited the Rakshasa God, was unsurprisingly killed.

As for Qian Renxue, who inherited the Angel God, her divine position was shattered. She was trapped at level 89 for the rest of her life, unable even to break through to Title Douluo.

Spirit Hall was gone just like that.

In its place rose Shrek Academy, the Tang Sect, the Clear Sky Sect...

In any case, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect suffered a huge loss. Both of its Title Douluo died, and all it gained was the name Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, without the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

After Ning Rongrong ascended to the God Realm, the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect became the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect again.

Even with the name Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, its martial soul was still the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. What right did it have to call itself the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect?

Was it because it had a god?

The other side had gods too—not one god, but seven.

The Shrek Seven Devils had all become gods.

This brought Shrek Academy enormous prestige.

The little monsters cultivated by their academy had become gods—not one, but seven.

Shrek Academy, which had cultivated seven gods, became famous in one stroke and became the most powerful academy on Douluo Continent.

Over the ten thousand years that followed, Shrek Academy's status rose ever higher, gradually surpassing all the major powers of the continent.

But Shrek Academy was merely an academy. Though renowned, it did not involve itself in governing affairs.

Therefore, despite ten thousand years passing, Douluo Continent did not change much. It even regressed.

Spirit Hall was gone, and no one went to awaken martial souls for commoners anymore.

Those who wanted to awaken their martial souls had to pay nobles.

The City of Slaughter was destroyed, and no one controlled the fallen Soul Masters anymore.

Gradually, fallen Soul Masters gathered together and openly formed evil Soul Master forces.

The Holy Spirit Cult was not the first, but it was the most famous.

Of course, all of that belonged to the future after the original timeline, before the Sky Screen System appeared.

Now that the Sky Screen System had revealed so much, the original timeline could no longer remain fixed. A new timeline had appeared the moment the Sky Screen System descended.

The major powers on Douluo Continent had all changed because of the Sky Screen System's appearance.

Tang Chen, the Old Sect Master of the Clear Sky Sect and the man known as the "Clear Sky Douluo," was no longer searching all across the continent for the ruins of gods.

He had wanted to find a god whose divine position he could inherit, thereby becoming a god himself, transcending Douluo Continent, and ascending to the God Realm.

In the original timeline, after the battle at Sea God Island, Tang Chen found the City of Slaughter and obtained the inheritance of the Asura God.

But the Asura God and Rakshasa God were at odds. The Rakshasa God had laid a trap within the Asura God's inheritance site, causing Tang Chen's divine examination to fail. He was then ambushed by the Blood Red Nine-headed Bat King, which controlled Tang Chen's body and became the King of Slaughter in the City of Slaughter.

Now, after seeing the Sky Screen, Tang Chen gave up continuing his search for a divine position to inherit and instead placed his hopes on the Sky Screen.

Searching everywhere for a divine position that could be inherited was far too unreliable.

Tang Chen had searched for so many years and had ultimately found an inheritable divine position—the God King position of the Asura God—yet his divine examination had failed.

Rather than seek a divine position that he did not know whether he could inherit, he might as well keep a close eye on the Sky Screen System. The rewards for clearing the Arena were becoming more and more generous. Perhaps one day, a divine position would appear.

There was also the Prize Quiz. Whether solo or multiplayer, it also had the possibility of offering divine positions.

There might even be a method that would let someone become a god without inheriting a divine position.

After the Sky Screen System appeared, Tang Chen watched the Sky Screen for several days. Once he confirmed the Sky Screen System's reliability, he returned to the Clear Sky Sect.

His return did not cause any great commotion.

Because he returned in secret.

Tang Chen did not want unrest to break out within the Clear Sky Sect.

While Tang Chen returned to the Clear Sky Sect, Qian Daoliu on the other side could no longer remain calm.

He saw on the Sky Screen how his precious eldest son had been hammered into severe injury by Tang Chen's grandson.

Well then, his precious eldest son was actually inferior even to Tang Chen's grandson.

It was utterly humiliating.

Qian Daoliu had not yet seen on the Sky Screen that Qian Xunji would be killed by Bibi Dong.

Now, for the sake of his pride, he decided to give Qian Xunji special training.

The poor current Pope had to handle Spirit Hall's affairs on one hand while receiving his old father's loving attention on the other.

He was having an awful time.

Qian Daoliu and Tang Hao had both made new moves.

Bo Saixi did not fall behind either.

After receiving benefits from the Sky Screen System, her once-dead heart began to beat again.

As the Sea God's high priestess, once the Sea God's successor appeared and passed the nine trials, she had to sacrifice herself to the divine examinee...

What kind of outdated god-making ritual was that?

It actually required a god's high priestess to sacrifice herself. Was the Sea God some evil god?

In the original timeline, Bo Saixi had not willingly sacrificed herself to Tang San. She had only been willing to do so out of consideration for Tang Chen.

Now, she had even less desire to sacrifice herself.

With the Sky Screen System, perhaps she could escape the fate of becoming a sacrifice.

After the Sky Screen System appeared, Bo Saixi tried to contact the Sea God, but their connection was severed.

Originally, she had been able to contact the Sea God in the God Realm.

Now she could not reach him, as though the God Realm did not exist.

Bo Saixi felt that her chance had come.

She did not want to betray the Sea God. After all, she had been raised as the Sea God's high priestess.

She simply did not want to die.

To avoid sacrificing herself to the Sea God's successor, Bo Saixi had thought of many methods. Now they were no longer needed. She could not even contact the Sea God, so the matter of inheriting the Sea God's divine position was temporarily put on hold.

As long as she found a way to free herself through the Sky Screen, she would naturally no longer have to worry about being sacrificed.

Bo Saixi was confident that she could obtain what she wanted from the Sky Screen.

She was not worried that the Sky Screen would not have it.

The main point was that the Sky Screen was even more mysterious than the Sea God. After it appeared, she had lost contact with Lord Sea God.

Did that not prove how mysterious the Sky Screen was?

In any case, Bo Saixi now believed in the Sky Screen more than anyone else.

She believed that the Sky Screen could help her escape the fate of sacrifice.

With Bo Saixi like this, one wondered whether she would still fall for Tang Chen when she met Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen in the future.

Come to think of it, her affection for Tang Chen had also been rather inexplicable.

Perhaps it was not genuine affection at all. Perhaps it was simply because Tang Chen had the possibility of defeating her.

Qian Daoliu had never defeated Bo Saixi.

That was why Bo Saixi had not taken a liking to Qian Daoliu.

Of course, the greater reason was that Qian Daoliu was the Angel God's high priest.

She, Bo Saixi, the Sea God's high priestess—how could she possibly take a liking to the Angel God's high priest?

One had to be loyal to one's god.

That was why she was destined not to think highly of Qian Daoliu.

Now that the Sky Screen had appeared and future fate had changed, Bo Saixi likely still would not think highly of Qian Daoliu.

"Another four days had passed. Tonight was the official viewing, so the Prize Quiz and all that should resume too."

Lin Xianyu had spent four days bored out of her mind. When night fell, she left her room on time and felt the Sky Screen System within her fly up into the sky.

Quite a few Holy Spirit Village villagers behaved the same way.

After the Sky Screen System flew into the sky, the villagers all raised their heads to look at it.

Lin Xianyu was no exception.

At the same time, people throughout Douluo Continent looked up at the Sky Screen.

Amid everyone's eager anticipation, the Sky Screen began that day's official viewing.

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