Two days had passed since the Soul Master Competition ended.
News that the contestant teams leaving Mingdu had been intercepted and killed by the Evil Soul Masters of the Holy Spirit Cult began spreading and fermenting through various channels across the other three nations.
All the forces who heard the news turned pale with shock. They could not believe it, nor were they willing to.
Many sects and clans still clung to a fluke hope.
Only when the surviving soul master teams from the other three nations returned to their respective empires did they bring back the truth, finally making the Three Great Empires realize the severity of the problem.
At the same time, Shrek Academy stepped forward. Xuan Zi, acting master of the Sea God Pavilion and Taotie Douluo, personally spoke out, demanding that the Sun Moon Empire eradicate the Holy Spirit Cult and give the entire continent an explanation.
After all, Shrek Academy had also lost some people, mainly those Soul Tool Department students who had been brought to the Sun Moon Empire. Even the vice dean of the Soul Tool Department had died, and a miserable death at that.
If not for his misgivings over the Sun Moon Emperor's strength, Xuan Zi would have long since personally charged into the imperial palace of the Sun Moon Empire to force an abdication.
However, the Sun Moon Empire immediately declared that the Holy Spirit Cult was a legal sect within the Sun Moon Empire's borders. Slaughter between soul master forces had nothing to do with the Sun Moon Empire, and as long as it did not affect the empire, the Sun Moon Empire would not interfere.
This move of washing their hands clean enraged every force. Everyone knew that if the Holy Spirit Cult had not had the Sun