Xue Yue's gaze turned cold. "It was only then that I understood that Spirit Hall's ambitions were probably far greater than I had imagined. Shi Nian had been in our academy for over twenty years. In other words, they had begun laying their plans more than twenty years ago."
"To spend over twenty years setting this up, I'm afraid Canghui Academy alone isn't worthy of such attention from Spirit Hall. So I suspect they have also planted their people in other academies and forces, laying out an enormous scheme."
"Now, they are probably reaching the point of wrapping it up. Our Canghui Academy is merely the beginning."
"What?"
Wu Xiaodong, Wu Xiao'ai, and Xiao Tian were utterly dumbfounded upon hearing this.
Wu Xiaodong muttered, "That can't be possible! They spent more than twenty years planning this—their target... could it be..."
At that thought, Wu Xiaodong was truly frightened by his own guess.
He mumbled, "No, no... That would be far too terrifying."
Wu Xiao'ai and Xiao Tian looked at each other, unable to think of anything to say for a while. At their age, they simply could not think that far ahead.
Wang Sheng, however, was not surprised in the slightest.
After all, Spirit Hall had played a major role in the original story.
Spirit Hall was a massive Soul Master organization on Douluo Continent, comparable to the two great empires—the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire.
It also organized the Continental Advanced Spirit Master Elite Tournament in order to select talented Soul Masters for its own use.
After carefully laying its plans and establishing the Spirit Hall Empire, it was ultimately defeated by the joint forces of the two empires.
Still, the conflict between Spirit Hall and the two great empires accounted for nearly half the entire