With the support of its Soul Guidance industrial system, the Sun Moon Empire could also improve the lives of ordinary people more effectively.
In the places occupied by the Sun Moon Empire, the living standards and material conditions of commoners were rapidly improving. Civilian Soul Tools were spreading quickly, bringing all sorts of conveniences.
The Sun Moon Empire's armies confiscated the property of nobles from the Original Three Empires, and some nobles were even killed in the fighting. To commoners, this was hardly a bad thing; some even quietly felt it was good news.
So, the Sun Moon Empire's unification of the continent did not face nearly as much resistance as Shrek Academy imagined.
Or rather, the fundamental reason people rejected the Sun Moon Empire's unification of Douluo Continent was simply that Shrek Academy feared it could no longer lord it over the entire continent, meddle in government at will, and wring every last drop of wealth from its people!
The irony was that just as Huo Yuhao's great enemy, Dai Hao, was about to be killed by a sword wielded by his "ex-girlfriend," Ju Zi, countless Sun Moon Empire citizens watched the scene with shining eyes, clapping and cheering—especially those who lived along the border.
There were countless border civilians in the Sun Moon Empire, like Ju Zi's father, who had died in Dai Hao's massacres. The people of the Sun Moon Continent hated this foreign "White Tiger War God" to the bone!
But at that very moment, Huo Yuhao suddenly charged in and ruined Ju Zi's chance! He saved Dai Hao, letting him escape the avenger's reckoning.
At that moment, countless people felt an absurd disbelief. Hadn't this boy once left at any cost, breaking into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a Soul Ring and become a Soul Master?
Wasn't it all so he could take revenge on this man, and on the White Tiger Duke Mansion that had driven his mother to her death and tormented him throughout his childhood?
Yet now Huo Yuhao had saved Dai Hao from a woman who shared a blood feud with him, shielding Dai Hao behind his own back! He was practically the very picture of a dutiful son!
Then, together with Tang Wutong, who had copied his power one-for-one, Huo Yuhao faced off against the Sun Moon Empire's most elite force, the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Legion. The two of them were Limit Douluo with three Soul Cores formed through Yin-Yang Complementarity, a feat without precedent in history!
"Look! This is the Limit Soldier our Shrek Academy raised!"
In the scene, Xuan Zi watched the battle in the sky—a godlike clash he couldn't even interfere in—and spoke with boundless pride.
At that moment, everyone across the continent watching the Sky Screen nearly spat out their food at once!
What the hell, old geezer? Could you at least have a little shame? What does their Limit Douluo power, nearly on par with a god's, have to do with your Shrek Academy's idiotic "Limit Douluo" plan?
They didn't need the outdated Soul Tools from the "Limit Soldier" plan. Yan Shaozhe's promised Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Soul Bone didn't exist. Nor did any of the other vital cultivation resources.
Old geezer, could you have even the tiniest shred of shame?
In the end, the outcome was never in doubt. No matter how powerful the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Legion was, and even though Kong Deming had broken through to become a Level 10 Soul Engineer, they were still just a mortal army. How could they possibly stand against two monsters on the verge of godhood?
Even a true god might have been beaten to death by them!
The Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Legion was wiped out, but Ju Zi was so consumed by vengeance that she demanded Dai Hao be killed. Otherwise, she refused to withdraw her troops under any circumstances—even if it meant laying waste to all life across Douluo Continent!
Faced with this crisis, Huo Yuhao snatched Ju Zi's son right out of the Sun Moon army. Just as Ju Zi, terrified, was about to shout something, time abruptly stopped.
That sea-blue figure appeared at last, bearing the same face as the Sea God statue on the continent!
At that moment, everyone across the continent held their breath. Why had Sea God Tang San appeared at a time like this?
Then Ju Zi revealed the truth: the child wasn't Xu Tianran's son at all. He was Huo Yuhao's!
The people across the continent fell silent. In the Sun Moon Imperial Palace, Xu Tianran brought his palm down with a crack, smashing the table to pieces.
"Very good, Ju Zi. You're very good!"
Ju Zi: "..."
Was there anything handy nearby that could give me a fresh start?
After Tang San appeared, he used his divine power to snatch the child away. He threatened Ju Zi, ordering her not only to keep the matter completely secret, but also to withdraw her troops immediately and unconditionally from the entire Star Luo Empire.
"After withdrawing, the Sun Moon Empire must change its name to the Heaven Dou Empire! From now on, you must never start another war of aggression!"
"If you disobey, hmph. Just watch your son!"
For a time, as the people across the continent looked upon that towering, awe-inspiring statue, they felt something indescribable in their hearts.
You're a mighty god, someone who ascended to godhood ten thousand years ago, yet you descended into the mortal world to personally snatch someone's son and bully a widowed mother and her child?
So this is the Sea God? Why does he seem more like some shameless thug?
For Tang Ya, it was as if a Level 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell had exploded inside her spiritual world.
As an orphan, she had always hated and despised people who bullied widowed mothers and their children, using little kids to threaten their mothers.
And now, the one who had done something so despicable was her own faith, her ancestor, Sea God Tang San!
She wished she could wake up and find that it had all been a dream! It couldn't be real!
The people of the Sun Moon Empire were even more furious. They could accept being forced to withdraw from the Star Luo Empire, which they had fought so hard to conquer—but now they were being told to change the Sun Moon Empire's name to some damn zombie Heaven Dou Empire?
Why? Who the hell were you? Why should the territory conquered by the Sun Moon Empire be handed over to someone else for nothing?
At that moment, Sea God Tang San became an enemy in the hearts of every Sun Moon Empire citizen! Their Soul Guidance Technology might still be too weak to harm a god.
But one day, they would make this despicable, arrogant blue-haired broken god pay! After all, Shrek Academy, with which they had a deep-seated feud, and even the Tang Sect of old, had both been backed by this Sea God.
Fine. Once the time came, they would settle old and new scores together!
But the scene on the Sky Screen wasn't over yet. When Tang San left, he took Tang Wutong with him.
As soon as Tang Wutong was gone, Huo Yuhao on the Sky Screen was naturally distraught again. He had lost all sense of purpose and wanted nothing more than to get to the Divine Realm as quickly as possible and make his father-in-law give his Goddess Wutong back.
After the Sun Moon Empire withdrew its troops, Huo Yuhao went to the Star Dou Great Forest and fought Di Tian. He defeated him with the unmatched might of the mortal world, then soared through the sky and ascended.