Holy Spirit Cult Strikes

Di Tian's task for him was to teach the Fierce Beasts the basics of Soul Tools.

Even with the books he had brought back, most of the Fierce Beasts still found it difficult to get started.

Xiong Jun, Scarlet King, and Zi Ji in particular were practically models of bad students.

After painstakingly teaching them for a month, Jiang Heng ultimately gave up on teaching those three. They only needed to learn how to use them.

They truly were ignorant and incompetent!

Rotten wood could not be carved!

Of course, that did not mean the three of them were useless when it came to making Soul Tools.

Xiong Jun and Scarlet King were excellent at forging. Xiong Jun's talent was maxed out when it came to researching Spirit Forging and Soul Forging, while Scarlet King was the best assistant. Zi Ji could also help enchant Soul Tools.

The most talented at learning Soul Tools were King of Ten Thousand Monsters and Snow Empress.

Yao Ling was not far behind, followed by Bi Ji.

As for the Auspicious Beast, her talent for Soul Tools was also outstanding. Unfortunately, her restless nature kept her from sitting still and studying.

Jiang Heng had worried about this for a while, but after learning that Di Tian had sought out the Silver Dragon King to examine the Auspicious Beast and help conceal her, he felt much more at ease.

After all, in this era, the Auspicious Beast was the foundation of their Soul Beast race.

If circumstances had allowed it, Jiang Heng would have personally formed a connection with the Auspicious Beast long ago and transferred the Star Dou Great Forest's fortune from her body to his own.

However, he truly had his own plans regarding this matter. He still needed time, as well as proper research and accumulation, before he could put them into practice.

Besides that, he also asked Di Tian about the Dragon Girls. He had not brought those three Dragon Girls to his side merely to serve as decorative vases. Their peculiar nature and strange rules were worth studying, and they might even allow him to take another step forward.

As for the price, it was nothing more than the lives of the three of them.

After being run ragged for a full two months, Di Tian finally let him go. For this, he even dragged over a clansman skilled in Soul Tools to serve as a teacher.

As for the clansman who had successfully passed the tribulation, Jiang Heng bestowed upon him the name Jiang Lin!

Before leaving, he swept away the treasured collections of all the Fierce Beasts, then departed in high spirits.

"Sheng Long, when you come back next time, you have to bring me delicious food from the human world!"

Protected by Scarlet King, the Auspicious Beast escorted Jiang Heng all the way to the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, still reluctant to part with him.

With Sheng Long around, he had heard so many stories he had never heard before.

"I won't forget!"

Seeing the Auspicious Beast's eager expression, Jiang Heng rarely found himself without any schemes against him for a fleeting moment.

But he quickly strangled that thought.

He had already taken every precaution. If the Auspicious Beast still formed an attribute connection with Huo Yuhao because of this and divided away the Star Dou Great Forest's fortune, then he would find an opportunity to use someone else's hand to eliminate those two.

Even if part of that fortune scattered away, it would remain on the Douluo Continent. The meat might rot, but it would still rot in the pot.

With a bountiful harvest, he returned to Sun Moon Royal Academy.

The moment he arrived outside Ming Capital, he sensed a gloomy killing intent sweeping toward him.

His powerful spiritual power instantly locked onto its source.

A Rank 96 Super Douluo! A Rank 95 Super Douluo!

Sensing the auras of the two people hiding in the shadows, Jiang Heng roughly identified them.

Up to this point, the Sun Moon Empire did not have any Super Douluo above Rank 95.

They had clearly come from the Holy Spirit Cult.

These two possessed dark attributes, yet lacked the sinister aura of Evil Soul Masters. Their identities were already obvious.

Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng, a Rank 96 Super Douluo, and Dark Cloud Douluo Wu Yun, a Rank 95 Super Douluo.

In a sense, these two had not originally belonged among Evil Soul Masters. Strictly speaking, they had not started out as fallen ones; this era had simply created their tragedy.

Jiang Heng did not understand why they were lying in wait here, attempting to assassinate him.

But after a moment's thought, he understood the reason.

His appearance had invisibly disrupted the Holy Spirit Cult's arrangements and its conspiracy with Crown Prince Xu Tianran.

Because of Di Tian's Black Dragon Reverse Scale, even Limit Douluo would find it difficult to uncover his true background.

The support of an unfathomably powerful existence, one suspected to be a Limit Douluo, had allowed Xu Tianran to stand again. It had also severely delayed the Holy Spirit Cult's plans to step into the open.

Naturally, the Holy Spirit Cult had to make a move.

According to the intelligence they had gathered, this mysterious Title Douluo could kill another Title Douluo with one hand. His strength was undoubtedly among the ranks of Super Douluo.

What they needed to do was determine his true strength.

Within the Holy Spirit Cult, the Supreme Cult Master was in seclusion, while the Chief Venerable was nowhere to be found. Apart from those two, the other venerables were all occupied.

Other than the two of them, the only idle Super Douluo in the Holy Spirit Cult were two people: Cult Master Zhongli Wu and his wife, Feng Ling!

Could they really have the cult master and the cult master's wife personally act just to gauge one man's strength?

Thus, this miserable task fell upon Zhang Peng and Wu Yun.

"Can't see through him!"

Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng hid in the darkness, his mind heavy. If the Supreme Cult Master had not personally issued the order, he would never have stepped into this muddy water.

"I think he isn't that strong. The reason even you can't see through him might be that he's wearing a Soul Tool that conceals perception. If he were a Limit Douluo, he would have discovered the two of us long ago."

"Besides, where would there be so many Limit Douluo!"

Wu Yun, beside him, was somewhat dismissive.

Evil Soul Masters who had reached their level could control themselves so long as they did not have personality flaws.

They had also crawled out from mountains of corpses, so they naturally possessed the caution they should have.

The problem was that this mission had been personally assigned by the Supreme Cult Master. Could they refuse? Did they dare refuse?

Those words were merely a form of psychological comfort for themselves.

Had Jiang Heng really failed to notice them?

Naturally, that was impossible.

Although his strength had not reached the level of a Limit Douluo, his spiritual power had already reached Rank 99.

The reason he had not immediately expose them and attack was that he was considering how to respond.

For now, he still needed to remain at Sun Moon Royal Academy. Whether it was for Ye Guyi, whom he had nurtured and cultivated, for obtaining the research techniques behind Life Soul Tools, or for taking the opportunity to provoke a war and greatly weaken the top human Soul Masters, leaving now was not a wise choice.

Therefore, faced with the Holy Spirit Cult's probing, he had no choice but to consider how to deal with it.

With his current strength, if he revealed his true form, he would dare contend even with a Rank 98 Title Douluo.

But if he fought in human form, there would be considerable restrictions.

"Two strokes across and one stroke down—just do it!"

After a brief moment of thought, Jiang Heng instantly made his decision.

Since a clash could not be avoided, he would bare his fangs and leave them unable to gauge him, unwilling to make a move against him lightly.

Even if his identity was exposed, with Di Tian's Black Dragon Reverse Scale protecting him and his current strength, he could still escape back to the Star Dou Great Forest.