Sun Moon Empire Overrun with Evil Soul Masters

Xinglan City,

a border city of the Sun Moon Empire.

Shrek City, formerly Spirit City, lay between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire.

The Star Luo Empire was actually closer to the Sun Moon Empire... which was enough to show just how pathetic the Heaven Dou Empire was. With an entire empire between them,

it had still been beaten into the Heaven Dou Empire and the Dou Ling Empire. Mu Baobao presented the fake visa Shrek Academy had prepared for him. It was not even under his own name; the document bore three words: Mu Fengchun.

After all, he had wiped out the Sun Moon Empire's seven competitors with a wave of his hand during the Soul Master Tournament. Though he had likewise exhausted his spiritual power and Soul Power, it had undeniably been a slap in their faces.

If they let a monster like him enter the Sun Moon Empire, he probably would not be allowed to return alive.

That reminded him of Ma Xiaotao's madness before he left. Since neither of them knew when he would return, she had directly turned him into a man who did it a hundred times in one night.

That crazy girl had even sought excitement by finding a mountain outside Star Luo City and starting a battle there.

His kidneys had practically turned into walnut livers. He could already rival Tang Wulin, the Golden Dragon King, and Gu Yuena, the Silver Dragon King. He would not be surprised at all if Ma Xiaotao returned with a child a few years old and claimed it was his. That scene would be absolutely spectacular.

Still, there might be nothing at all. Powerful Soul Masters were naturally infertile. Tang Buddha Ancestor only had Tang Wutong after twenty years, then Tang Wulin another twenty years later. Huo Yuhao only had Huo Zhanji and Dai Ying after forty years.

Oscar and Ning Rongrong had no descendants at all. Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ma Hongjun... none of them had left offspring before becoming gods. Tang Hao had Tang Buddha Ancestor when he was already in his sixties. And yet they were fucking at it every night.

You could practically call it farming for descendants. After all, it was truly difficult for powerful Soul Masters to have children.

The Sun Moon Empire truly deserved its title as a great Soul Tool technology nation. Xinglan City's civilization was in no way inferior to the famous cities of the other three great empires. This was a border city, yet it was already so advanced.

Between cold weapons and hot weapons, there had technically been a steam age. Gengxin City, the Metal Capital ten thousand years ago, had been a steam-powered city.

Back then, the entire Sun Moon Empire had probably been like this. Nowadays, only half the cities in the other three great empires had entered the age of hot weapons, while the Sun Moon Empire had likely reached that era across the entire nation.

After all, they had already begun researching prototypes of Battle Armor—or rather, mechas... humanoid Soul Tools. They simply lacked capable Blacksmiths.

Their bodies were larger, and their Soul Tool formations were not miniature... while Shrek's Battle Armor had already emerged.

Mu Baobao did not linger long in Xinglan City. In terms of Soul Tool technology, it was ultimately still inferior to Shrek City. His destination was the Evil Demon Forest.

The Star Dou Forest had originally also stood between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire. However, both empires had their own smaller forests as well: Heaven Dou's Sunset Forest and Star Luo's Death Forest. One was a paradise for plant soul beasts, while the other was a paradise for insects.

Death Forest had only been mentioned once by Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluo in Douluo Continent. Mu Baobao had looked into it himself. It was a region of ravines and swamps.

The air was filled with poisonous miasma, and the soil carried corrosive properties. Without sufficient strength, one could not even reach its depths. No wonder the three members of the Golden Generation had called it hell. For Bibi Dong, though, it should have been heaven. Her two martial souls, the Soul-Eater Spider Emperor and the Death Spider Emperor, had been born for such a place.

Sunset Forest was outside Heaven Dou City, Death Forest was outside Star Luo City, and Mingdou Forest was outside Sun Moon City... that was fucking fitting. The author had probably just been lazy, right?

Even the Sun Moon Empire kept its distance from the Evil Demon Forest. Half its soul beasts possessed Evil attributes, and the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign ranked second among the Ten Great Beast Kings. That was precisely why Evil Soul Masters had become so rampant. Mu Baobao thought carefully.

During the era of Peerless Tang Sect, Tang San had threatened the Sun Moon Empire into changing its name to the Heaven Dou Empire. Yet during the era of Legend of the Dragon King, the forest had directly occupied Douluo Continent, and it was renamed the Sun Moon Federation. The Star Luo Empire and the Heaven Dou Empire had found two other continents to develop their civilizations.

There was nothing strange about Spirit Pagoda colluding with the Holy Spirit Cult during the era of Legend of the Dragon King. After all, in the era of Peerless Tang Sect, the Holy Spirit Cult had been the Sun Moon Empire's state-protecting sect.

"Ah! Save me!"

It had been half a month since Mu Baobao entered the Sun Moon Empire, and he had encountered Evil Soul Masters in remote places.

It happened extremely often. Another group stood before him now. One girl had already had her clothes torn apart and was about to be forced onto the ground for... pleasure. Some of the others were staring at her as though she were food.

After they had their fun, not even scraps of her would remain. At first, he had not wanted to save her.

Because the Sun Moon Empire's prototype was Blue Star's Sun Country, with cherry blossoms everywhere... and the sun was also a symbol of its imperial family. When he first arrived,

that accent had been far too authentic. He disliked neither the major empires of Douluo Continent nor Shrek.

That was because Tang Buddha Ancestor had been the protagonist, and everything he did had been full of selfish motives... so people bore grudges against him. He was much like those upper-class figures in Hua Xia. Thus, as someone from Blue Star's lower class, he was not particularly patriotic either.

He did not have the spare time for that. He had to struggle every day just to earn enough to eat, and sometimes he would curse as well.

When he had first learned the Sun Moon Empire's language, he had also been dumbfounded and thought he had entered the wrong world. But thanks to his countless experiences watching films... and anime in his previous life, he had learned it quite quickly!

At that moment, Mu Baobao wore a ragged burlap sack. His lower body and head were covered, and he had a cloak too... As for why he was not wearing a black robe, Evil Soul Masters were rampant in the Sun Moon Empire. Not only would it fail to look cool, it could easily get him treated as a dangerous individual.

He raised his right hand. He suppressed his Ultimate Evil as much as possible, and Ultimate Lightning erupted forth.

The scent of roast chicken drifted over. His control was simply unmatched. Since Zekrom had not yet hatched, the phantom behind him was the Thunder Prison Vine.

A ten-thousand-year Soul Ring instantly stunned that group of Evil Soul Masters. The Evil Soul Master attempting his crime was exceedingly seductive-looking, likely someone who grew stronger by harvesting yin and replenishing yang. After Mu Baobao confiscated his tool for committing crimes, he clutched his crotch and screamed wildly for a long time.

In rage, he unleashed his martial soul. It was a Black Lotus that grew in swamps, feeding on the death energy of various animal corpses and growing continuously.

"Brat, I'll corrode your flesh and blood inch by inch!" The Black Lotus Evil Soul Master had gone completely mad. His tool for becoming stronger had been confiscated... how was he supposed to grow from now on? Moreover, Evil Soul Masters were like addicts—if they went a day without doing it, their entire bodies felt unbearable.

That was more painful than killing him. Seeing this, the others also unleashed their martial souls, yellow, purple, and black Soul Rings appearing around them.

Most had three or four rings, but their configurations were absurdly powerful. It was not because their physical constitutions were so strong, but because they had risen through devouring and Spirit Ascension. After Tang Ya and Ma Xiaotao had been captured and made saintesses, Shrek found them.

Their Soul Rings had all turned black, with several red ones mixed in... Back in the era of Douluo Continent, only Bo Saixi and Qian Daoliu had received such treatment, through the Sea God's Eight Trials and the Angel's Eight Trials. Not even Ning Rongrong had.

By the era of Legend of the Dragon King, it had become all too common, because of Spirit Ascension Systems similar to those of Evil Soul Masters...

"A bunch of trash!" Mu Baobao snorted angrily.

Evil Soul Masters were also part of the Sun Moon Empire's power, so he felt no pressure at all killing them.

Besides, commoners could never escalate matters into war. Saving them would change nothing. Though he only had one ten-thousand-year Soul Ring,

its age alone gave it power comparable to a six- or seven-ringed Soul Master's attack, not to mention that his was Ultimate Lightning.

It represented destruction, judgment... and many other meanings. Countless bolts of lightning ravaged the surroundings... The Thunder Prison Vine swung its arms, and those Evil Soul Masters were roasted into meat skewers in mere moments. He did not speak with the girl and simply walked away without realizing it.

He had encountered such things several times over the past half month. It had become entirely commonplace. He intended to travel through the Sun Moon Empire under the identities of Zekrom and Mu Fengchun.

Mu Baobao had thought he could reach the Evil Demon Forest in peace, but he had still underestimated just how rampant Evil Soul Masters were in the Sun Moon Empire.

On the surface, the Sun Moon Empire was also suppressing Evil Soul Masters. Yet one of the three major underground powers beneath Mingdu Sun Moon City belonged exclusively to Evil Soul Masters. It was obvious that there were dealings behind the scenes. After all, both the Holy Spirit Cult and Mingde Hall had the same enemy: Shrek Academy.

The Xishui Alliance. Huo Yuhao had even won the Soul Engineer Tournament championship there.

"Forest of Lightning!"

The Thunder Prison Vine unleashed countless bolts of lightning, roasting a Soul King with an absurd Soul Ring configuration—

purple, purple, purple, black, black—into barbecue. Countless strands of Evil aura flowed into the Dark Stone before him, making its glow increasingly brilliant...

It seemed a Soul Ring was not the only thing it needed. Evil attributes could also accelerate hatching. He did not need to worry about becoming addicted like a junkie, because it was the Dark Stone absorbing the Evil attribute, not him devouring Soul Power and flesh. Huo Yuhao's Holy Necromancer

also devoured those corpses, turning them into Undead Soldiers in the Spirit Oblivion Plane. It strengthened the martial soul itself rather than the Soul Master, so there was no need to worry.

Swoosh! A piercing sound rang out.

His spiritual power was extremely strong, and he had never relaxed his vigilance while scanning the surroundings. Mu Baobao clearly dodged to the side. It was actually a massive tongue.

Yellow, purple, purple, purple, black, black, black. Seven Soul Rings surrounded a Soul Master lying on the ground, whose martial soul was a snow-white lizard covered in poisonous black patterns.

A Bone-Eating Lizard, which grew specifically by consuming the bone marrow of animals and humans. Bone marrow occupied an extremely important place in the body, so it was not strange for it to possess such cultivation.

"Are you Mu Fengchun, the one who's recently killed so many of our companions?" the Bone-Eating Lizard Soul Master asked. Mu Baobao stared at him. "What's so surprising about killing Evil Soul Masters? And from that expression, I don't see any regret over your companions' deaths."

The Bone-Eating Lizard Soul Master looked at him with a smile. "Naturally. We're all insane lunatics inside. If we're not careful, we'll be devoured by our own companions. Evil attributes are actually more nourishing than those of ordinary Soul Masters like you."

This did not surprise Mu Baobao. He had long since understood the relevant knowledge completely. Soul Masters of the same attribute could absorb same-attribute elements to speed up their cultivation.

What surprised him more was that even his fabricated identity had been exposed. The Sun Moon Empire and the Holy Spirit Cult were in contact... that was practically certain now.

"But you look like one of us. You were absorbing Evil attributes just now, weren't you? How about joining our Holy Spirit Cult? Your first martial soul doesn't matter. Your second martial soul will definitely be powerful. In the future, you'll surely become an elder."

He gave a sinister laugh. With a first Soul Ring of ten thousand years and the ability to instantly kill a group of three- and four-ringed Evil Soul Masters, even an idiot would know he had Twin Martial Souls.

Mu Baobao smiled. "Sure, but my Evil martial soul can only absorb Evil attributes to improve itself. It can't absorb any other attribute!"

The Bone-Eating Lizard Soul Master's face immediately darkened. In other words, this fellow would only bring destruction to the Holy Spirit Cult. He had thought he was someone formidable...

He had wanted to guide him into joining so he could be highly valued, but he turned out to be a disaster. If he brought him back, not even ashes would remain.

Lightning represented destruction and judgment...

No matter how one thought about it, someone who possessed both lightning and Evil could not be ordinary. He immediately flew into a rage and used a soul skill.

A mass of purple mist spewed from the Bone-Eating Lizard Soul Master's mouth. Grass, flowers, and trees withered at a visible rate. Mu Baobao did not dare to be careless.

Ultimate Lightning covered his entire body in an instant. This was one method of using Soul Power, increasing one's strength, speed, defense... attack, and other attributes. The poisonous mist was immediately blocked outside.

It even continued to dissolve. The Bone-Eating Lizard Soul Master was stunned. His poison could even corrode lightning and fire, yet Mu Baobao slowly walked toward him.

"The power of this poison is indeed impressive, but my lightning isn't ordinary lightning. It's Ultimate Lightning, and that Evil is also Ultimate Evil."

"If you want to deal with me, you'll need at least a Title Douluo!" He raised his hand. As if he had predicted it long ago, he directly caught the Bone-Eating Lizard Soul Master's massive tongue. Ultimate Lightning instantly spread across it.

It electrocuted him thoroughly from the inside out. Having his tongue caught was far more terrifying than having his poison rendered useless. Its speed was difficult even for the naked eye to see, yet Mu Baobao had caught it directly.

Another Evil attribute was absorbed. Mu Baobao even suspected that Zekrom might hatch before he reached the Evil Demon Forest.

The frequency with which he encountered Evil Soul Masters was simply too high... and he had only covered two-thirds of the journey.

But half a month later, he regretted saying that a Title Douluo would be needed, because one fucking came—the Holy Spirit Cult's Ninth Elder.

Poison Scorpion Douluo, Rank 91!

He had no role in the original work. Let alone the Holy Spirit Cult, even in Spirit Hall, elders ranked eighth or ninth

could be replaced at any time because they were too weak. No one would deliberately remember the weak.

Mu Baobao was running for his life. Fortunately, lightning granted him terrifying speed; otherwise, he would have long been caught by that shameless old bastard behind him. Once he put on Three-Word Battle Armor, he could rival the peak of a Soul Douluo.

Combined with the restraint of his Ultimate attribute, it was not as though he had no chance of fighting. But there were several Soul Douluos and Soul Saints behind that bastard... He was truly dumbfounded.

How long had it been, and he had already become the Holy Spirit Cult's public enemy? Still... they clearly valued talent very highly.

"Brat, I'll give you a chance. Join our Holy Spirit Cult. Although your Evil martial soul can only devour Evil attributes, that is perfectly acceptable in our Holy Spirit Cult. You can absolutely hold an important position. Elder or Holy Son—both are possible."

Poison Scorpion Douluo was an extremely old man, covered in pustules with barely any hair left on his head.

Tang Ya and Ma Xiaotao were saintesses. Huo Yuhao had also gotten himself a Holy Son position through the Holy Necromancer...

He had stopped Ma Xiaotao from falling into darkness, yet now he himself could not avoid it. They had sent a Title Douluo to threaten him into joining. Was this fucking karma finally coming around?

"Get lost, you old bastard! If you hadn't violated martial ethics and brought a group of people to ambush a young man like me, I'd fucking give you a few good whacks."

Mu Baobao cursed loudly. Before him was a black forest overflowing with Evil and dark attributes. Anyone could sense that unrestrained aura.

The Evil Demon Forest. It was precisely the destination of his journey. Once he entered, he could escape this predicament. Soul beasts did not care who you were—so long as you were human, you were an enemy. At least that would be easier than dealing with things out in the open.

Then he could deal with them one by one. Yet to his surprise, they actually turned and ran.

As though they had seen a ghost. What was going on?