Qian Renxue: I Will Make Spirit Hall Great Again

Notting Academy.

As Xiao Wu read the group's discussions about the Asura Scabbard and the dark secrets of the Divine Realm, the carrot in her hand suddenly lost its appeal.

She had thought becoming a god was something glorious and noble.

But after hearing the Group Leader peel back the layers...

Why did the Divine Realm seem even darker and more chaotic than the soul beast circles of their Star Dou Forest?

Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Ning Rongrong looked thoroughly depressed, tossing the sunflower seed kernel she had just shelled back onto the plate.

She had thought she was just enjoying some juicy beach gossip about "Two Men and a Woman."

But as she kept munching on that gossip...

How had it turned into an earth-shattering revelation about the Divine Realm Conspiracy, the Fall of the Angel God, and the Sea God's Misdeeds?

This melon of gossip was huge and heavy, reeking of blood and conspiracy.

Consuming it left her unsettled. She could not feel happy at all, and even felt a little frightened in hindsight.

If even Spirit Hall could be plotted against, wouldn't their Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect fare even worse?

[Viper-Hearted Big Sister: Tsk, I thought the Divine Realm was some wonderful place, but it's full of sanctimonious scum. It's even filthier than the noble circles down here.]

[Ice-Snow Smart: It feels... a little frightening.]

[Single Academy-Running Housewife: Hmph, hardly any of those lofty bastards are any good!]

[Li Yuan: That's why they say ignorance is bliss.]

[Li Yuan: But don't worry too much. If the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up.]

[Li Yuan: Besides, knowing is better than being kept in the dark. At least... if someone sells you out later, you'll know who did it, instead of dying without a clue, right?]

Everyone: "..." (They felt no comfort whatsoever. In fact, they were even more alarmed!)

Crown Prince's Mansion.

Qian Renxue's expression grew uglier and uglier.

All along, she had believed herself to be the one holding the chess pieces, the player secretly controlling the Heaven Dou Empire and plotting its future.

Yet never in her wildest dreams had she imagined that she, her mother Bibi Dong, and even the whole of Spirit Hall had been nothing more than a carefully manipulated chess piece from beginning to end!

"Damn the Asura God! Damn the Sea God! Spirit Hall and you cannot coexist!"

An unprecedented fury surged through her heart, and a cold gleam flashed through Qian Renxue's eyes.

"Even if heaven wants Spirit Hall dead, I, Qian Renxue, will outplay heaven by half a move!"

"I, Qian Renxue, will never be a chess piece for others to manipulate!"

"I will make Spirit Hall great again!"

Qian Renxue took a deep breath, forced herself to calm down, and returned her gaze to the Brick in her hand.

This mysterious mutual-aid chat group was her chance to break the deadlock!

If Group Leader Li Yuan could reveal so many secrets of the future, including the Divine Realm's filthy dealings, he must have a solution—or... at least know how to deal with them!

So she sent Li Yuan a private message.

Private chat interface.

[Child Without Parents: Li Yuan, can you teach me how to make Spirit Hall great again?]

A minute passed without a reply.

Qian Renxue was not impatient, but her heart sank to rock bottom.

[Li Yuan: In fact, the Asura God really did achieve it. Once Spirit Hall was gone, the entire Douluo Continent was plunged into darkness, with slaughter caused by fallen spirit masters everywhere...]

[Li Yuan: Can you imagine it? On the Douluo Continent ten thousand years from now, a genius with innate full soul power couldn't even save her own sick mother, and had to resort to selling her body.]

Those two statements were like a basin of ice water dumped straight over everyone's hearts.

Without Spirit Hall... the Douluo Continent was plunged into darkness, with slaughter everywhere?

On the Douluo Continent ten thousand years later, a genius soul master with innate full soul power couldn't even save her own sick mother?

And had to sell her body?

What... what kind of hell on earth was that?

Everyone was stunned by the miserable future Li Yuan had painted. A chill rose from the depths of their hearts and swiftly spread through their bodies.

[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: N-no... surely not? (Voice trembling)]

[Loves Eating Carrots: That's just too awful!]

[Big Cat in the Night: ...]

[Ice-Snow Smart: How could this happen... (Unable to accept it)]

[Single Academy-Running Housewife: Without Spirit Hall, the continent became that chaotic? (In disbelief)]

[Little Fox Who Loves Teacher Most: Didn't anyone try to recruit her? She had innate full soul power, after all!]

Saintess Palace.

Hu Liena found this utterly baffling.

After all, someone with innate full soul power was a peerless genius, one in ten thousand!

Even in Spirit Hall, such a person would be treasured and given priority in training.

As Spirit Hall's Saintess and the foremost member of the Golden Generation, she herself had only possessed innate rank-nine soul power.

Yet even that had been enough for her to become the Saintess and a candidate for the next Pope.

How, ten thousand years later, had someone with innate full soul power become a pitiful wretch who "couldn't even save her own sick mother," with no one trying to recruit her?

[Li Yuan: The Douluo Continent of later generations isn't like it is now. Right now, Spirit Hall looms over everyone, so those nobles and sects don't dare act too recklessly. At least there's someone maintaining order on the surface. But in later generations?]

[Li Yuan: Let me tell you a story, and you'll understand. You grew up poor and finally awakened a mutated martial soul, a scorpion tiger. Gifted as you were, you cultivated diligently and painstakingly reached the rank of Titled Douluo, only for the tiniest little incident to destroy your family and leave them dead! Even you were forced to flee to the ends of the earth.]

[Li Yuan: And that little incident was simply this: you had a small habit of drinking Soul Beast Blood to cultivate. After all, your martial soul's nature required it; you couldn't go without it. But you didn't slaughter innocents indiscriminately. And what happened? The World's Greatest Power declared you an Evil Soul Master, put you on a continent-wide wanted list, and hunted you down!]

[Li Yuan: You might not know what an Evil Soul Master is. It's really just another name for what we now call a fallen spirit master.]

[Li Yuan: If even a Titled Douluo could be humiliated like that, what do you think happened to ordinary soul masters?]

The group instantly fell silent.

Star Luo Empire.

Zhu Zhuqing swallowed instinctively.

A distinguished Titled Douluo had been declared an Evil Soul Master by the World's Greatest Power and hunted across the continent, simply because his martial soul required him to drink some Soul Beast Blood to cultivate?

Wasn't that just too... tyrannical?!

Weren't Titled Douluo supposed to be honored guests wherever they went?

Were even Titled Douluo that miserable in later generations?

[Viper-Hearted Big Sister: What... what kind of bullshit logic is that? Plenty of people now drink Soul Beast Blood to temper their bodies and cultivate, and nobody treats them as Evil Soul Masters!]

[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: Exactly! Isn't that completely unreasonable? He wasn't slaughtering innocents. He was just drinking a little Soul Beast Blood!]

[Big Cat in the Night: If that's true, then the major powers of later generations were far too... frightening.]

[Single Academy-Running Housewife: I told you hardly any of those so-called righteous sects are any good!]

Blue Tyrant Academy.

Liu Erlong, who hated evil with a vengeance, already had a poor impression of "major powers." Now she felt even more contemptuous of them.

If she were to learn...

That the future World's Greatest Power had actually been founded by Flender himself, who knew what she would think?

Pope Palace.

Bibi Dong read the story on the Screen, her eyes filled with astonishment.

As Spirit Hall's Pope, she naturally knew what defined an Evil Soul Master and the harm they caused.

But even she found the situation Li Yuan described, where someone was branded an Evil Soul Master merely for having an unusual cultivation method, somewhat... absurd!

"Would later generations... really descend into such chaos?"

She murmured to herself, gaining a more tangible sense of that chaotic "future" world.