Follow-up Plans

The intelligence the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Sect gave Jiang Yue mentioned that the Evil Soul Master group consisted of only four people. All four now lay dead at Jiang Yue's hands.

He was uncertain whether the Evil Soul Master had been telling the truth before dying, but those remains were probably impossible to recover. The villagers' souls had already been sent to the Holy Spirit Cult.

The Holy Spirit Cult. Did anyone really need to explain what would happen to souls that fell into those bastards' hands?

Jiang Yue knew that anger could not solve anything or change what had already happened. What he had to do now was recover those souls before the Holy Spirit Cult could use the resentful spirits as fuel to activate the Death God Tower.

Everything else could wait until he had recovered those souls. If anyone tried to stop or change him during that process, they could forget about it—even Long Xiaoyao.

Recalling the old man who had taken him out of the village, taught him meditation and basic swordsmanship, helped improve his physique, and assisted him in hunting his first Soul Ring, Jiang Yue felt a complex mix of emotions.

The fact that the old man could use spatial power, something only Limit Douluo could control, was enough for Jiang Yue to guess his true identity.

Jiang Yue had understood all of this long ago. He had nearly identified the old man through various clues, practically stripped away every mystery surrounding his identity. Only the final conclusion remained.

Long Xiaoyao. Strictly speaking, he was not an Evil Soul Master, but his existence was the greatest source of confidence for Evil Soul Masters to act recklessly. As long as he remained alive, he deserved at least the label of "accomplice to Evil Soul