And those who chose to hand over compromising information, who chose compromise over resistance, naturally showed that they had recognized the situation and aligned themselves with Xu Tianran.
This way, regardless of the final outcome, Xu Tianran could use this opportunity to further consolidate power among the empire's upper echelons and stabilize the central and local political order after the palace coup.
In truth, within the entire Ordinary Alliance, rather than its president, Shangguan Wei'er, the one who truly occupied Long Wushang's thoughts was the girl with the Angel Martial Soul.
There was no other reason for it, only her martial soul. In principle, as a member of the Holy Spirit Cult, he should have been mortal enemies with anyone possessing the Angel Martial Soul.
If he had no godhood inheritance, if his plan had not been to unify the continent, perhaps that really would have been the case.
But as his horizons broadened and his status changed, some stances that had once seemed immutable could also change at any moment as he considered the future.
Once he truly conquered the entire continent and established his own rule, would the Holy Spirit Cult still need to exist?
This was a question Long Wushang often pondered.
In a certain sense, he did not reject the existence of Evil Soul Masters.
He had once told Mu En that the world had always been fair. Where there was yin, there was yang; where there was good, there was evil. If ordinary Soul Masters existed, their opposites, Evil Soul Masters, would naturally emerge as well.
Just as darkness inevitably existed behind the light, Evil Soul Masters had already become a distinct branch of their own as the Soul Master system developed.
Setting aside the fact that martial souls were determined by heaven, even someone