The Heaven Dou Empire's commander followed with a grave voice. "Back when Evil Soul Masters brought disaster upon the continent, it all began with humans and beasts intermingling, their bloodlines twisted. Today, Tang Hao has set this vile precedent. If he is not severely punished, the continent will never know peace again!"
The elders of the other two Upper Three Sects also spoke up in turn.
An elder from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect stroked his beard, his tone solemn. "No matter how talented Tang Hao may be, he cannot place himself above human morality and righteousness. Coexisting with a Soul Beast is already a betrayal of humanity. The entire continent should take this as a warning."
The elder of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was even harsher. "As a family of Beast Martial Souls, we understand the limits of bloodlines better than anyone! This is not fusion—it is degeneration! From this day onward, Tang Hao is an outcast to the entire Soul Master world!"
The various factions spoke one after another, and public opinion completely turned against him.
Everyone regarded Tang Hao as a demon who had betrayed humanity. Not a trace remained of the former glory of the "Clear Sky prodigy."
Just as the crowd's outrage raged and the condemnations gradually subsided,
At that moment, everyone's gaze turned in unison toward the figure standing at the center of the battlefield.
The woman wore a black-and-crimson adjudication robe threaded with gold. Its hem was stained with rainwater and blood, yet it did nothing to diminish the chilling majesty surrounding her.
She stood tall and straight, her features striking. Her sharp phoenix eyes blazed like torches, while scorching glass-colored flames wreathed her body. Even standing silently there, she radiated an oppressive authority that needed no anger to command fear.
She was Bibi Dong, the head of Spirit Hall's Adjudication Department, a level ninety-one assault-type Titled Douluo, known as the Thousand-Hand Douluo.
She was Qian Chongguang's trusted right hand, personally groomed by him, and one of the core executors of the plan he had left behind.
In her arms was a swaddling cloth. Within it lay a newborn baby, sleeping soundly with his eyes closed. His features bore the exact same outline as Tang Hao and the infant Tang Hao had carried away.
This was one of Tang Hao's Twins, the child he had personally abandoned at the very beginning in order to survive the battle.
A deathly silence instantly descended upon the entire scene.
The way everyone looked at the infant changed.
There was wariness, disgust, and undisguised killing intent. There was not the slightest pity.
"Thousand-Hand Douluo, this child cannot be spared!"
The captain of the Star Luo Empire's royal Soul Master corps was the first to step forward, his tone grave. "His father, Tang Hao, is a Human Traitor, while his mother is a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast! He is nothing more than an aberration born from the union of human and Soul Beast! Keeping him alive means keeping a future calamity. If something happens later, who will bear the responsibility?"
"Exactly!"
The Heaven Dou Empire's Soul Master commander immediately echoed him, his voice full of viciousness. "The lessons of the Wolf Bandit chaos are still fresh! This kind of mongrel born with Soul Beast blood should be executed on the spot, to eliminate future trouble!"
"Perhaps he is the vessel heralding that demon's arrival! If we do not eliminate him today, he will surely become a terrible mistake in the future!"
Shouts demanding his death rose one after another. The experts present all stepped forward, Soul Power surging around them as they openly and covertly sealed off Bibi Dong's retreat. Clearly, they intended to force her to deal with the infant on the spot.
Yet Bibi Dong merely lowered her eyes and gently adjusted the swaddling cloth, holding the infant more protectively.
She raised her gaze and swept it over the crowd. Her phoenix eyes, burning with glass-colored flames, narrowed slightly, and a scorching pressure instantly spread outward. With just one look, the clamorous crowd fell silent.
"Everyone, I know what you fear."
Her voice was clear and carried the piercing force of burning flames. Every word struck the ground with force and reached the ears of everyone present. "But Heaven cherishes life, and the child is innocent. What does the monstrous crime committed by his father have to do with a newborn infant who cannot even open his eyes?"
"Just like the children under Spirit Hall's jurisdiction who awaken dark or evil-attributed Martial Souls every year. So long as they do not commit evil, harm civilians, or engage in acts against humanity, Spirit Hall has never condemned them in the slightest. Nor would we casually decide a person's life or death based on their Martial Soul's attributes or the bloodline they were born with."
She paused, raising a hand to brush over the adjudication badge engraved with angelic patterns on her chest. Her tone carried unquestionable conviction. "Over the past three years, since taking charge of the Adjudication Department, I have executed seventy-three internal deacons who oppressed civilians, embezzled Soul Rings, and harmed their fellow members. I have also purged sixteen Spirit Hall branches that colluded with Evil Soul Masters and preyed upon the local people. The entire continent has witnessed this. When has Spirit Hall ever tolerated even the slightest act that defied Heaven, harmed morality, or went against humanity?"
"Spirit Hall will protect this child. I will personally watch him grow, teach him to distinguish right from wrong, teach him to uphold the righteous path, and teach him what it means to protect humanity. If he truly loses his way in the future and Falls into the Demonic Path, there will be no need for any of you to act. I, Bibi Dong, will be the first to execute him with my own hands. There will be no mercy."
Her words were flawless. They made Spirit Hall's bottom line clear, upheld its positive image as a defender of righteousness and a fair, benevolent organization, and left everyone speechless.
The crowd looked at one another, unable to offer a single rebuttal.
The present-day Spirit Hall was no longer the ambitious sect rife with filth and corruption from the original storyline.
Having become the leader of a major organization, how could he possibly retain its deeply flawed old structure instead of reforming it to achieve what he wanted?
With the iron laws established by Qian Chongguang, discipline within Spirit Hall was strict. Its protection of civilians and purges of Evil Soul Masters were praised throughout the continent.
No matter how wary they were of this child, they could not force Spirit Hall to kill an innocent infant before the continent's experts, only to earn themselves the condemnation of "mistreating an orphan" and "being narrow-minded."
"Since Spirit Hall's Adjudicator Elder has spoken, we will say no more. We only hope Spirit Hall does not lose control of the situation and can properly educate this child," the Flame Will Dynasty's representative reminded them.
The captain of the Star Luo Empire's Soul Master corps was silent for a moment before finally nodding slowly in acknowledgment.
Though the Heaven Dou Empire's Soul Master commander remained grim-faced, he could only helplessly take a step back and stop insisting on his position.
"Then this matter is settled."
Bibi Dong's voice rang out again, carrying unquestionable authority.
Though the experts present still harbored doubts, faced with Bibi Dong's firm stance, they could only accept it.
After all, Spirit Hall's Adjudicator Elder was a renowned young powerhouse across the entire continent. No one dared question her words lightly.
The infant slept quietly in Bibi Dong's arms, as though utterly unaware of everything happening around him.
In the end, the crowd gradually dispersed. The elders of the Clear Sky Sect also fled in disgrace. Their own family had produced such a massive scandal that they truly had no face left to show the continent's factions.
The representatives of the two empires left with their people as well. Before long, only Spirit Hall's people remained in the desolate ridge.
The rain continued to fall. Qian Daoliu, concealing his identity, came to Bibi Dong's side. Looking at the infant in her arms, his eyes were filled with unconcealable grief and complexity. He had just lost his grandfather. Even though he vaguely guessed that this was part of his grandfather's plan, he could not suppress his emotions. In a hoarse voice, he asked, "Adjudicator Elder, Grandfather... has he truly left just like that? What arrangements did Grandfather leave for this child?"
Bibi Dong lowered her head, lightly brushing her fingertips over the infant's chest, then raised her eyes toward the depths of the sky above Douluo Continent.
She did not know what this old ancestor's scheme was ultimately meant to accomplish. In any case, it was far more far-reaching than anyone could imagine.
"Grand Pontiff, rest assured."
Bibi Dong gently adjusted the swaddling cloth, her tone calm yet unshakably firm. "Not a single step of the old ancestor's arrangements will go wrong. We need only follow the plan he left behind."
No one noticed—and with their strength, no one could have noticed—that the heavens above Douluo Continent had changed. Over a hundred Life lights, each carrying a different aura and talent, fell like silent meteors. They passed through the planar blockade Qian Chongguang had just established and landed precisely in every corner of the continent.
As for exactly what they were, whether they were good or evil, human or another race, even Qian Chongguang himself did not know.
Some landed in villages beside Holy Soul Village, some in the slums of Spirit City, some fell into the Star Dou Forest, some landed upon the icy plains of the Extreme North, and some fell into the abyss of Slaughter City...
The child in Bibi Dong's arms was one of them as well.
Or perhaps he was not.
Unlike those he had brought over, this child had been created by cloning and replicating Tang San.
It was equivalent to copying and pasting a new Tang San.
When Tang San was born, Qian Chongguang had gone to great lengths.
Still, it was far better than that God King Tang San from Douluo 2, who split his own daughter into three and stuffed her into several different bodies.
Thus, everyone—including Tang Hao himself—believed that the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Blue Silver Emperor had given birth to a pair of Twins.
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