Seeking to Recruit the Four Single-Attribute Clans

"We mean nothing by it. We merely wish to invite you all to Spirit City."

Facing Yang Wudi's questioning, Tuoba Xi, commander of the Holy Dragon Legion, answered with a voice full of amiability.

"You want us to submit to Spirit Hall?"

Hearing this, Yang Wudi immediately understood Tuoba Xi's meaning and declared resolutely:

"Impossible!"

"We are not those rats from the Clear Sky Sect. We would rather break than bend, rather die than surrender! If you want our lives, then come and take them!"

Before Tuoba Xi could speak, Titan, standing beside Yang Wudi, looked at him with displeasure and said:

"Old Goat, what are you saying? How can you call Clear Sky—"

"Old Orangutan, don't think I don't know how loyal you are to the Clear Sky Sect's main line. In my eyes, they're nothing but a pack of rats!"

Yang Wudi showed Titan no courtesy and cut him off directly.

"They abandoned us to save themselves. Are you still going to defend them?"

"I..."

Titan swallowed the words at his lips, though he still looked unhappy.

"I'm not trying to defend the Clear Sky Sect. It's just that the old sect master's mighty reputation—we shouldn't..."

"Good dog!"

At that moment, Tuoba Xi, standing some distance away, could not help clapping his hands as he interrupted Titan with "praise."

"What a good dog indeed!"

"What did you say?!"

Titan flew into a rage at once, glaring at Tuoba Xi with bloodshot eyes.

"You refuse to live freely and insist on serving a pack of rats as their slave. If that doesn't make you a good dog, what does?"

"Bastard!"

Almost instinctively, Titan underwent Martial Soul Possession, summoning his Mighty Ape Martial Soul as eight Soul Rings rose around him.

Seeing this, the patriarchs of the remaining two clans could only undergo Martial Soul Possession as well, taking their places beside Yang Wudi and Titan.

Four Soul Douluos did cut an imposing figure for a moment. But to Spirit Hall's army, who had just watched quite a spectacle, it was nothing much. Even your big brother, the Clear Sky Sect, had fled in utter panic. What waves could you little brothers possibly stir up?

Just then, a calm voice drifted over from afar:

"Defense, Speed, and Breaking Clans, do you wish to live?"

It was Ghost Douluo.

In a situation like this, there was naturally no need for those two Worshippers to appear.

"My Breaking Clan will never cling to life in disgrace!"

Yang Wudi was the first to step forward and state his position, though he did not speak for the other two clans.

In his view, the Breaking Clan could face death without fear, but the other clans had their own choices. It was not his place to decide for them.

"My Speed Clan is the same."

The next to step forward was Bai He, patriarch of the Speed Clan.

Their clan had intermarried with the Clear Sky Sect for generations. Their ties had long since become deeply rooted and inseparable, so joining Spirit Hall was simply impossible.

Only Niu Gao, patriarch of the Defense Clan, remained hesitant.

As the patriarch of a clan that could vaguely rival the Elephant Armored Sect, one of the Lower Four Sects in the Soul Master world, he did not want to condemn his entire clan to death like this. He hoped that the Plated Giant Rhinoceros Martial Soul could be passed down.

But join Spirit Hall?

His three old friends stood right beside him. Doing so now would undoubtedly be tantamount to betrayal.

At that moment, Ghost Douluo's voice sounded once more.

"Now that you have nothing to do with the Clear Sky Sect, you will need to find another major power to rely on in the future. That support could be either of the two empires, or the remaining two of the Upper Three Sects. Why can't it be Spirit Hall?"

Those words truly woke them from a dream.

Yang Wudi suddenly realized why he had to oppose Spirit Hall so fiercely.

Was it not because, until recently, they had stood in the same camp as the Clear Sky Sect and been enemies of Spirit Hall?

Now that the Clear Sky Sect had taken the lead in fleeing, why should he still die so generously?

Who would he be dying for?

For a moment, Yang Wudi fell into confusion once again.

But Titan could no longer stand it.

"Hmph! Who in the world does not know of Spirit Hall's wolfish ambitions? We Four Clans will never stand with Spirit Hall!"

"Hm?"

Ghost Douluo's gaze turned cold at those words.

From beginning to end, the Strength Clan had been doomed to die, to be exterminated, because that was the Saintess's order.

Thus, he had never cared much about them, focusing only on the other three clans. Yet Titan still kept jumping about before his eyes.

Did Titan think he had no temper?

"Holy Dragon Legion."

Ghost Douluo's voice was icy.

"Present!"

"By the Saintess's command, exterminate the Loyal Clan, those good dogs of the Clear Sky Sect. Kill without mercy anyone who interferes!"

"Yes!"

Tuoba Xi accepted the order, then flashed a savage grin.

He had long disliked that blindly loyal Loyal Clan.

At the same time, Ghost Douluo's strange figure, wholly concealed beneath a black robe, suddenly appeared above the Four Clans.

"Breaking, Speed, and Defense Clans, think carefully. Spirit Hall is so vast. Is there anything the Clear Sky Sect can give you that Spirit Hall cannot?"

He spoke calmly.

"You may refuse to bow for profit, and you may even disregard your clan's inheritance. But what is wrong with stepping toward a brighter future and broader horizons?"

"What you are worried about is undoubtedly the judgment of the world. You think it would look bad for you to have risked your lives for the Clear Sky Sect, only to join Spirit Hall so soon afterward, isn't that right?"

"Then why can't it be that the Clear Sky Sect is immoral and incompetent, while you are wise birds choosing the right tree to roost in? Besides, Spirit Hall embraces all and will not treat you as slaves!"

"Think it over carefully. As for the Strength Clan, Spirit Hall must destroy it. I hope you will not mislead yourselves and commit the foolish act of sacrificing your entire clans for so-called friendship."

"..."

After hearing Ghost Douluo's words, the Speed Clan aside, the other two clans had already begun to waver.

After all, unlike in the original story, Spirit Hall had not launched an endless pursuit against the Four Clans. Once the Four Clans formally broke away from the Clear Sky Sect, they no longer had any direct enmity with Spirit Hall.

Wise birds chose the right tree to roost in...

It was entirely reasonable.

What was more, Spirit Hall could offer them even more resources. For instance, the medicinal herbs the Breaking Clan needed for its research, and greater room for the Defense Clan to develop its talent for construction.

The two clans fell silent for a time.

At that moment, Bai He grew somewhat anxious.

But he did not show it. Instead, after thinking calmly for a moment, he asked:

"My Speed Clan has intermarried with the Clear Sky Sect for generations. I, Bai He, am even the maternal uncle of the current Clear Sky Sect master. My elder sister was the wife of Tang Chen, the Clear Sky Douluo, one of the two great mountains of the Soul Master world who once shook the world and was invincible on land. With such ties, can Spirit Hall truly accept my clan without concern and treat us equally?"

"It can."

Before Ghost Douluo could reply, Bibi Dong spoke calmly from afar, her tone firm.