Sea Soul Masters who could obtain a Black Level Assessment all had the potential to become Title Douluo. If these Sea Soul Masters did not undergo the Sea God Assessment and were simply nurtured properly with enough resources, they could all break through to Title Douluo by their seventies or eighties.
Cultivating for a hundred years and producing thirty-one Title Douluo—this number would have no trouble surpassing the number of Title Douluo in Spirit Hall.
The scarcity of Title Douluo on Sea God Island ultimately came down to the Black Level Assessment's excessively high mortality rate.
What shocked Bo Saixi most was that, aside from Qian Daoliu, Spirit Hall had another five Title Douluo whose cultivation exceeded level 95.
Why five? Because one Pontiff had been dispatched by Qian Daoliu to guard the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
The Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well possessed extraordinarily dense natural spiritual energy and was an excellent place for cultivation. Soul Masters cultivating there accumulated Soul Power several times faster than they did outside.
Once the Pontiff had accumulated enough Soul Power through cultivation there, he would return to the Worship Hall, remain near the Angel God Statue, calm his mind, meditate quietly, and attempt a breakthrough.
The Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well's environment of extreme fire and extreme cold Soul Power was unbearable for ordinary Soul Masters after prolonged exposure, unless they had consumed the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass or possessed an exceptionally top-tier Martial Soul. Let alone calmly cultivating and seeking a breakthrough.
Using her spiritual power to observe Douluo Hall, Bo Saixi quickly discovered the five Title Douluo whose strength exceeded level 95: three level 96 Title Douluo, one level 97 Title Douluo, and one level 98 Title Douluo!!
Bo Saixi was not surprised that the continent could produce a Title Douluo who had cultivated to level 97, but how had a level 98 Title Douluo appeared?
According to the Soul Master cultivation system she knew, once a Soul Master reached level 95, every further level required time measured in centuries. Going from level 95 to level 96 required a hundred years, and going from level 96 to level 97 required another hundred years. Unless one encountered a special opportunity, reaching level 97 would take at least two hundred years.
That was because advancing from level 97 to level 98 alone required a full three hundred years, while advancing from level 98 to level 99 required a full six hundred years of tireless, unceasing cultivation.
That level 98 Title Douluo appeared to be under two hundred years old. How could someone at that age possibly break through to such a realm? Even cultivating day and night from the womb would make it impossible. Could that person, like the Sea Soul Masters undergoing the Sea God Assessment, have received rewards from the Angel God?
Probably, perhaps, maybe, possibly... that was the only explanation.
It was precisely because she had observed so many high-level combatants in Spirit Hall besides Qian Daoliu that Bo Saixi chose courtesy first...
"Thank you for the compliment." Qian Daoliu said, "A guest has arrived. Would you like a cup of tea?"
"No."
The smile at the corner of Bo Saixi's lips vanished. Her eyes narrowed slightly, and her expression became more solemn as she demanded, "Qian Daoliu, you destroyed the Clear Sky Sect, didn't you?"
Qian Daoliu was not surprised by Bo Saixi's question. He knew that she liked Tang Chen.
"Yue Guan really is careless when handling matters. It was a certain kill, a complete advantage in strength, and Speed Clan members were tracking them, yet he still let a rat escape."
Seeing that Qian Daoliu showed not the slightest shame, Bo Saixi's tone grew even angrier. "Qian Daoliu, you have committed such wanton slaughter without the slightest remorse. You are unworthy of being the Angel God's Grand Pontiff!"
"Aren't you afraid Tang Chen will return and destroy your Spirit Hall? You should be able to sense Tang Chen's Soul Power. He is still somewhere on the continent."
Inside Douluo Hall, Golden Crocodile Douluo and Dugu Bo stepped aside and silently watched Qian Daoliu argue with the unfamiliar woman. Judging from the fluctuations of her Soul Power, this unfamiliar woman was undoubtedly an expert on the same level as Qian Daoliu.
Qian Daoliu sneered. "A sect like the Clear Sky Sect, which slaughtered Soul Beasts indiscriminately for Soul Bones, depleted the Spirit Master World's living resources, and gave no thought to future generations, is comparable to the Evil Orca King and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King in your Sea God Island's eyes—the scourges of the sea you speak of."
"And they even had the nerve to fall in love with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast. If Spirit Hall did not eliminate such a scourge of the continent, then I would truly be unworthy of being the Angel God's Grand Pontiff. If Tang Chen returns, I will still erase him even if it costs me my life."
"How could that be?!"
Bo Saixi immediately refuted him. She had met Tang Chen and spent time with him, and she had also heard Tang Hao spoken of by Tang Xiao. Tang Hao had even been willing to leave his sect and fight Spirit Hall alone for the sake of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast. In her heart, the men of the Clear Sky Sect were all masculine, filial, upright men of integrity, each one devoted in love. How could they possibly commit such harmful deeds?
"Qian Daoliu, don't think you can deceive me. Your son defiled Tang Chen's granddaughter. Your family committed an act worse than beasts, and you think I would believe you?"
"If Tang Chen and the others truly killed, then the ones they killed must have been Soul Beasts that harmed the continent, like the Evil Orca King and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King."
Before her words had even faded, the Pontiffs of the Worship Hall, all the elders of the Elder Hall, as well as Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, all turned to look at Qian Xunji, who had risen from the Pope's throne with his face twitching.
Damn, was His Holiness the Pope's mind really that filthy? Tang Yuehua was Tang Chen's granddaughter, and Tang Chen was from the same generation as the Grand Pontiff. In terms of seniority, His Holiness the Pope was Tang Yuehua's uncle.
And Tang Yuehua had been the Grand Pontiff's personal maidservant, yet His Holiness the Pope had actually dared to make a move on her. This was too... too, too, too, too shameless... too utterly without limits.
No wonder the Grand Pontiff had suddenly made Tang Yuehua leave Douluo Hall to establish Moonlight Pavilion. So that was what it had been about? After all, what would it mean to keep the woman his son had played with by his side as a maidservant? Qian Xunji might have no shame, but Qian Daoliu still did.
"Who the hell fabricated rumors to smear my reputation?!!"
Qian Xunji flew into a rage, so furious that he nearly stomped his feet. How could he possibly do such a thing? Although he had kept himself clean for nearly ten years, he was not someone so desperate that he would take anything.
Tang Yuehua was a woman in her thirties, and a worthless level 9 Soul Power user. A Title Douluo could shatter her with the slightest touch. How blind would he have to be to touch a woman like that?
Even the maidservants who attended to his daily needs had higher Soul Power than Tang Yuehua, and their looks were not much inferior to hers.
"That was merely a lie I made up while eliminating the Clear Sky Sect to deceive them. Tang Yuehua is perfectly fine and still an untouched maiden."
Qian Daoliu felt that he still had to defend Qian Xunji. After all, it had been an entirely groundless accusation. Otherwise, Qian Xunji's reputation would truly be utterly ruined, blackened beyond any hope of recovery.
Ah, a tiger father had produced a dog son. There was nothing to be done about the Grand Pontiff having such a perverted son as His Holiness the Pope. He could only keep finding excuses to patch things up for his son.
Qian Xunji sighed in relief, but most of the Pontiffs and elders secretly thought that they did not entirely believe Qian Daoliu's words. Why? Because Qian Xunji had a prior record.
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