" The Sea God Douluo is here... Welcome, welcome!" Bibi Dong Flash in front of Bo Saixi and said in a wicked tone.
Bo Saixi was startled. Logically speaking, with her Limit Douluo cultivation, she should be able to sense the actions of anyone except Tang Chen and Qian Daoliu! How come she was completely unprepared for this woman in front of her!
"Who are you? What is your relationship with the Spirit Hall?"
Bibi Dong paused for a moment, then gave an awkward smile.
"Uh... alright, the Douluo Continent is vast, and some people are still out of touch with reality. Let me introduce myself: Bibi Dong, the former first disciple of the Pope of the Spirit Hall and the current Holy Maiden of the Spirit Hall."
"Ha! Who did I think I was? Just a little saintess! I don't even care about your master's father, Qian Daoliu. Little brat, you know my name, so you must know my strength. I'll forgive your ignorance, so you'd better leave now!" Bo Saixi said arrogantly. Although she was a little doubtful about the strength of the person in front of her, she thought that since he was so young, his cultivation level couldn't be that high.
"It seems... Sea God Douluo is quite confident in his strength?" After saying that, Bibi Dong no longer concealed her full power, with the Soul-Eater Bead in her left hand, the Death God Scythe in her right, and eighteen red and gold Soul Ring appearing.
"Hiss... You're one of the Divine Trials?" Bo Saixi didn't know about Growth Soul Ring, but as a servant of the gods, she knew that participating in the Divine Trials could increase the age of Soul Ring, so she suspected that Bibi Dong was one of the Divine Trials takers.
However, she only guessed half right. Bibi Dong neither confirmed nor denied it, and went straight to the point, completely disregarding respect for elders and children, and swung her Sickle at Bo Saixi.
Bo Saixi hastily summoned a Sea God Scepter, manipulating the waves for defense, Death God Scythe attacked with extreme sharpness, easily cleaving the towering waves in front of him.
The white light continued its fierce attack on Bo Saixi.
Bo Saixi finally realized that she had underestimated the person in front of her, and hurriedly used a trace of the Sea God's Power. Golden light spread out from the scepter, Entanglement the white light, and tore it apart.
This is divine power. As a land-based Limit Douluo, Bo Saixi is naturally no match for Bibi Dong, but by working for the Lord Sea God, she is able to use some divine power.
"Divine power? Then I'll see how much divine power you can wield!" Bibi Dong brandished the sinister and cold Death God Scythe, and streaks of sword energy filled with the power of death and extreme darkness slashed through the air towards Bo Saixi.
Helpless, having gained the upper hand, Bo Saixi could only passively defend with her divine power. Bibi Dong's attacks were as swift and continuous as a tidal wave, giving Bo Saixi no chance to attack.
Bo Saixi's divine power was accumulated through years of offering sacrifices to the Lord Sea God, and every bit of it was incredibly precious. Now, it was all wasted in the battle against Bibi Dong.
It would be a lie for Bo Saixi to say she wasn't heartbroken.
The two fought for over an hour without a clear winner, until Qian Daoliu to break up the fight.
Bo Saixi thought to himself, "Old man, so you've been in that iron monster all along, just watching me fight Bibi Dong, haven't you!"
" Xi Xi, I never thought I'd see you on the continent in my lifetime!" Qian Daoliu with emotion. Seeing is believing, and his last shred of illusion was shattered. He never expected that Bo Saixi would actually ally with the Heaven Dou Empire!
In other words, they are now enemies.
Qian Daoliu asked, "How have you been all these years?"
"I am fine! I am the High Priest of my Sea God Temple! I have heard that your Spirit Hall has become increasingly arrogant and domineering in recent years, encroaching on other people's territories and oppressing their people. Have you forgotten the teachings of the Angel God?"
Bo Saixi wanted to occupy the moral high ground.
Qian Xunqian, who hadn't come, laughed: What do you mean by encroaching on someone else's territory? Whose territory is it? It belongs to the people of the Douluo Continent, or more precisely, to the public. But under the rule of the Heaven Dou Empire, these lands belong to the nobles. They have occupied land that should be shared by all the people, and they call it their own territory!
Qian Xunqian simply punished those who had invaded other people's territory and returned the land to its rightful owners! What kind of aggression is that?
Invasion means seizing other people's land and turning it into your own, turning free people into your own slaves. First, Qian Xunqian defined the Spirit Hall's public ownership system; second, when she attacked the Balak Kingdom and the Haagen-Dazs Kingdom, she only carried out decapitation strikes and never killed innocent civilians.
If this is what she calls aggression, then there is no such thing as a just war in the world!
Furthermore, what does it mean to oppress someone else's people? First of all, people are free, regardless of whether it's yours, mine, or someone else's. Secondly, the Spirit Hall understands the essence of liberation: after conquering land, they absolutely cannot take over the local people's affairs. They must let the local people participate in land distribution and decide on production themselves. They can only help, not force, even if their initial intentions are good.
They have given the local people a great deal of autonomy, in order to gradually cultivate their sense of self-reliance.
Qian Xunqian, having thoroughly studied history, knows that many just wars were destroyed because the process was too hasty, with the people being subjected to coercion and control. This resulted in the people not feeling a sense of belonging to the new regime, but instead developing a rebellious mentality. Without widespread popular support, the regime was eventually suppressed by the returning reactionary army, and the local people even had to shout "Good!" for the "masters"!
There's no other way. You can be anxious when fighting a war, but dealing with interpersonal relationships is a complex art. Qian Xunqian has been working on this for years, training officers on how to properly treat ordinary people.
Of course, war has both Evil God and justice; it requires specific analysis of each situation. It cannot be summarized by the simple, seemingly meaningless statement, "History is written by the victors."
In the original story, Bibi Dong of the Spirit Hall launched the Hunt Soul Operation, massacring almost all the disciples of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. This war was Evil God, and too many innocent people died.
It was a conflict between the upper echelons of the Spirit Hall and the upper echelons of Qibao and Landian, but the vast majority of the cost was borne by innocent disciples!
Tang San thwarted the Evil God Spirit Hall's plot to launch an invasion. The purpose of this war was naturally righteous, but the execution went wrong. In the process, the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire also killed many innocent civilians, which turned what should have been a righteous war of resistance against invasion into a neutral war for hegemony.
It was nothing more than a power struggle between three empires. The saying "When a dynasty prospers, the people suffer; when a dynasty falls, the people suffer" perfectly describes this situation.
After the war, Tang San did not restore order to the continent. Instead, due to the destruction of the Spirit Hall, the benefit of free Martial Soul awakening for ordinary people was lost, and ordinary people paid a certain price for the destruction of the Spirit Hall.
In the long run, Tang San's war against the Spirit Hall naturally went against history, but at the time, the war was considered just.
Later generations cannot criticize the decisions made by their predecessors. No one could have predicted how many innocent civilians would have died if Bibi Dong, that demon, had been allowed to launch a full-scale war!