Benefiting?

Helping Leng Yaozhu break through from demigod to quasi-god.

Helping Emperor Sword Douluo and Divine Sword Douluo break through from Level 98 to Level 99.

And even allowing two Limit Douluos to unleash a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

This discovery immediately convinced the major powers that Mu Han had made a huge breakthrough in Beast Soul Weaponization technology.

Artificial Soul Saints were only the beginning.

He was planning to manufacture gods!

After all, one quasi-god and two demigods—together, nearly two and a half quasi-gods' worth of strength—were already terrifying.

But precisely because Mu Han had now grown powerful enough to spread his wings, he no longer needed to care about those factions.

Still, those factions refused to accept it.

Only now did Qiangu Dongfeng realize that Mu Han had played him for a fool.

Mu Han had promised to help him kick Leng Yaozhu out of the Spirit Pagoda's upper ranks.

He had even sworn on his Martial Soul, and that was what convinced Qiangu Dongfeng to cooperate with him.

At first, Qiangu Dongfeng had merely been curious.

Or rather, when he learned that Leng Yaozhu's disciple Gu Yue was close to Mu Han, he thought Mu Han might be useful to him someday.

Who could have guessed that he would simply poach Leng Yaozhu outright!

Though Leng Yaozhu had been Qiangu Dongfeng's rival within the Spirit Pagoda,

she had also been one of the Spirit Pagoda's pillars!

And now she had been poached just like that.

Not only had she been poached, she had even grown tremendously stronger?

Originally, he and Leng Yaozhu had been evenly matched. He had become Pagoda Master thanks to the Qiangu Family's deep foundations.

But now Leng Yaozhu's strength had far surpassed his.

She had even surpassed his father!

And though Leng Yaozhu had indeed left the Spirit Pagoda,

the Leng Family still belonged to the Spirit Pagoda's great families.

The Leng Family still held Leng Yaozhu's position as Vice Pagoda Master, too.

Besides, after Leng Yaozhu had beaten Qiangu Dieting in front of everyone this time,

who would dare reach for the Leng Family's power from now on?

He had taken a terrible loss.

The Tang Sect also wanted this technology.

If Mu Han could let Long Tianwu and Su Mengjun, two Limit Douluos, unleash a Martial Soul Fusion Skill,

then surely the Tang Sect's two Hall Masters could do the same?

Heartless Douluo Cao Dezhi and Affectionate Douluo Zang Xin were also Limit Douluos with a Martial Soul Fusion Skill!

Could he make a medium for the Affectionate Sword and the Heartless Sword, too, and create a trinity Martial Soul Fusion?

But what could they do?

The Federation's most difficult target—and the one it most wanted to deal with—was Shrek Academy.

That was because Shrek Academy would never leave Shrek City.

But, conversely, it could shut its doors and ignore everyone.

Mu Han was even harder to deal with than Shrek Academy.

Although he claimed he was going to establish the Fatui, in reality, he didn't even have a headquarters.

At least Shrek Academy had Shrek City.

And though Shrek Academy had no seats in the council, many council members were Shrek alumni.

Mu Han didn't even have a foothold.

He hadn't joined the council at all.

The Federal Council had invited him, but he hadn't even bothered to go.

They had offered him a vice-chairman position, but he had no interest.

At that moment, Mu Han was absorbing a hundred-thousand-year-old Bloodthirsty Demon Bear's Right Arm Soul Bone.

The War God Temple had provided the Soul Bone.

Emperor Sword Douluo and Divine Sword Douluo had agreed to join his cause.

Haori Douluo and Demon Harp Douluo had refused, but had still agreed to let him choose one Soul Bone from the War God Temple's reserves.

The Soul Bone itself was easy enough to absorb, but he intended to fuse it with his External Soul Bone, the Darkgolden Terrorclaw.

He had already taken over Eastsea City's Spirit Ascension Platform for two years.

How could he let this opportunity—which had belonged to the protagonist, Tang Wulin, in the original story—slip through his fingers?

Three purple Soul Rings silently appeared, followed by a fourth purple Soul Ring.

The four rings seemed to be stained with ink, silently turning a deep black.

The Bloodthirsty Demon Bear was an earth-attributed Soul Beast.

The Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear, on the other hand, was metal-attributed.

In the four-element system, the metal element was derived from the earth element. Earth giving birth to metal was a recognized principle.

And as he fused the earth- and metal-attributed Soul Bones,

his Soul Spirit, the Dragon Phoenix Golden Toad, also successfully absorbed the Three-Legged Golden Toad's blood essence.

His Soul Spirit completed its evolution.

Mu Han officially entered the fourth-ring realm.

Compared to his own strength, he couldn't care less about the outside world's petty schemes.

If they really got on his nerves, he could simply take a train and travel around the entire continent.

He could even visit the two continents overseas.

In the end, all those people could do was use moral pressure, demanding that Mu Han share his technology for the benefit of the Soul Master World.

Mu Han shot back, "If we're going to benefit the Soul Master World, then let's all do it together!"

"The Spirit Pagoda can contribute its Soul Spirit cultivation technology and Spirit Ascension Platform technology."

"The Tang Sect can bring out the secret method that our ancestor Tang San used to help people without Innate Soul Power reach the Titled Douluo level!"

Soul Spirit cultivation technology and Spirit Ascension Platform technology were the Spirit Pagoda's very foundations.

If they agreed, Qiangu Dongfeng would wring their heads right off.

As for the Tang Sect, that was even less worth mentioning.

The records did say that Ancestor Tang San had helped someone who lacked Innate Soul Power advance,

but the Tang Sect had never passed that technique down.

Even if it really had been passed down, its lineage had been broken ten thousand years ago.

If the Tang Sect really had such a technique, it wouldn't have nearly been wiped out when Soul Tools appeared ten thousand years ago.

But what could the Tang Sect say?

That Ancestor Tang San hadn't left behind this technique?

If even Tang San hadn't left behind a technique that could benefit the Soul Master World, why should Mu Han be expected to do so?

Did the Tang Sect think Mu Han was greater than Tang San?

Or would it play the victim and say the Tang Sect had nearly lost its legacy ten thousand years ago?

That would be cutting off one of its own arms. The history of a legacy was part of a sect's spirit.

The Tang Sect had always claimed, like Shrek Academy, to have a two-thousand-year legacy.

That was something even the Spirit Pagoda and the War God Temple couldn't match.

At least the Spirit Pagoda had a ten-thousand-year legacy, while the War God Temple had only been established after the Federation was founded.

If the Tang Sect admitted its legacy had been broken, its two-thousand-year history would be cut in half.

Which senior member would dare say that? They'd be nailed to the sect's pillar of shame!

After dealing with the pressure from the various factions, Mu Han headed to Shrek City.

He didn't plan to establish the Fatui's headquarters in Shrek City.

But Shrek Academy's entrance exams were beginning, so he had to go take part.

He had promised the Sea God Pavilion, after all.

Besides, a large part of the pressure from the outside world was being shouldered by Shrek Academy.

Or rather, Shrek Academy was already helping him simply by staying out of it.

The Tang Sect definitely wanted his technology.

After all, it could let the Tang Sect's two Hall Masters unleash a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

And he had poached the Spirit Pagoda's and War God Temple's pillars, so they were surely hostile toward him as well.

If he still didn't go to Shrek Academy,

what if they turned against him outright?

Though he had Leng Yaozhu, a quasi-god-level Four-Word Battle Armor Master, by his side,

as well as Long Tianwu and Su Mengjun, a demigod couple whose combined strength surpassed that of an ordinary quasi-god,

he still wasn't confident that this handful of people could stand against the Federation's four major powers.

Besides, the pressure from the outside world was still intense.

Going to Shrek Academy would also give him a chance to enjoy some peace and quiet.

As for studying,

he didn't expect to learn much.

Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent were actually quite simple.

Aside from oddballs like Xu Xiaoyan, who had all kinds of special mechanics, the rest just stacked their stats.