The Sun Moon Empire's Ideology

"Alright, I should go. Take good care of yourself, and find another security guard.

"I have things I must do."

"I hope you live happily. Don't deceive yourself. Live well."

That was what the restaurant owner said.

Xiao Changge glanced at the restaurant owner, then said nothing and left.

This was someone who had treated him well.

"That restaurant owner treated you quite well too. I don't think he's a bad person. Although he's only an ordinary person, ordinary people have their own virtues and kindness. But in the end, he's still just an ordinary man in a cruel world. There's only so much he can do for you.

"All he can do is try his best to do what he can." That was how Electrolux assessed the restaurant owner.

"That is indeed true. At Shrek, I encountered far too many disgusting people, but I also met people like the restaurant owner and that unnamed Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineer who once helped me. I'm grateful to both of them. They helped me far too much. One helped awaken my Martial Soul and wanted to take me to the Sun Moon Empire. The other gave me connections and work, allowing me to earn cultivation resources. I saw all the kindness they showed me.

"But before I could repay one of them, Shrek killed him.

"The restaurant owner doesn't know what I intend to do. I want revenge against Shrek, but if Shrek is destroyed, then the Sun Moon Empire will definitely attack the Douluo Three Kingdoms.

"I don't know whether the restaurant owner will hate me then, whether he'll regret it.

"All I can do is protect them during the Sun Moon Empire's invasion of the Douluo Three Kingdoms.

"I'm no longer who I used to be.

"Douluo Continent is rotten. The people in those factions are basically not good people.

"All I can do is help those I can help, help those who have treated me well. At the very least, while I still have the ability, I can let them survive."

This was also Xiao Changge's helplessness.

"I can only hope that after joining the Sun Moon Empire and becoming a genius, after bringing benefits to the Sun Moon Empire, its people will be willing to help me, stand with me, and help those who once helped me."

Xiao Changge did not oppose the Sun Moon Empire, because the Sun Moon Empire valued ability above all else.

If a transmigrator arrived in Douluo Continent during the era of The Unrivaled Tang Clan, awakened a top-tier Martial Soul, possessed Innate Full Soul Power, and joined the Sun Moon Empire, would the Sun Moon Empire accept them?

It would. There was even a high chance they would fight to claim them as a "strategic-level prospect." But accepting them was one thing; they would not hand over military authority from the start—the Sun Moon Empire's attitude toward geniuses was, "Bring them in first, then slowly bind them down."

Why would the Sun Moon Empire definitely accept them?

During the era of The Unrivaled Tang Clan, the Sun Moon Empire's underlying logic was the complete opposite of Shrek's:

Shrek preached "only accepting monsters," while also carrying the original three kingdoms' wariness toward the Sun Moon Empire as outsiders. The Sun Moon Empire valued ability above all else. The Royal Soul Engineer Academy explicitly stated, "We don't look at Martial Souls or Soul Power, only effort." Even those with useless Martial Souls and a little Soul Power would be raised with medicine and used as laborers to charge Soul Tools.

Xuan Ziwen was an immigrant from the Heavenly Soul Empire, yet Kong Deming still took him as a disciple and brought him into Mingde Hall. Huo Yuhao bore the identity of the White Tiger's illegitimate son from the Star Luo Empire and had merely Rank One Innate Soul Power, yet Jing Hongchen, Xuan Ziwen, and Ju Zi all competed to recruit him, while Xu Tianran directly offered the price of a royal title and a legion.

Jing Hongchen had once said that for a genius like that, they should "exhaust every effort and even cast aside their dignity to ask him to stay." The last faction that sent an exceptionally gifted genius with Innate Soul Power to become a spy had "already been exterminated so thoroughly that even its inheritance was cut off."

Your conditions were even more absurd than Huo Yuhao's starting point—top-tier Martial Soul plus Innate Full Soul Power. At Shrek, you would be an Inner Court seed. In the Sun Moon Empire, you would be this:

If your Martial Soul leaned toward mental power, elements, support, or observation, Xuan Ziwen and Mingde Hall would have their eyes glowing green. Soul Tool micro-carving, core formations, and fixed-installation Soul Cannon research all desperately lacked talents like that.

If your Martial Soul leaned toward combat, you would receive treatment on par with Xiao Hongchen. The Hongchen Family would be willing to pour Heavenly Profound Gold, Class Nine Soul Tools, and Soul Bones into raising your combat power.

Even if your Martial Soul was strange, as long as you had Innate Full Soul Power and could learn Soul Tools, the Royal Soul Engineer Academy would make an exception and place you directly into its Outer Court. Jing Hongchen would personally prescribe conditioning medicine, and even Kong Deming might take you as a disciple upon seeing you.

But being "accepted" did not mean being trusted unconditionally.

The Sun Moon Empire's process would roughly be:

At the border or academy entrance, you would recommend yourself or be introduced by someone else. Display your Martial Soul and Soul Power, and you would be admitted without examination into the Royal Soul Engineer Academy's Outer Court, where resources would be provided to test your talent for Soul Tools.

During the short-term observation period, lasting several months to one or two years, they would investigate your background to make sure you were not a deep-cover agent sent by Shrek or the Tang Sect. They would observe your character and stance and pressure you a little to see whether you truly wished to integrate. During that time, someone at Xuan Ziwen's level would guide you through experiments, while Jing Hongchen would personally examine your bones.

Their methods of binding you would include giving you defensive Soul Tools like Red Dust Protection, assigning mentors, and promising you a place in Mingde Hall. At the same time, they would use Xu Tianran's methods—granting titles and fiefs while having legions secretly swear loyalty to the imperial family, using the system to restrain uncontrollable variables.

After true trust was established, you could receive a seat in Mingde Hall or the Hall of Worship, follow the path toward becoming a Class Nine Soul Engineer, and perhaps even participate in the "Class Ten Soul Engineer Project." But they would not let you take control of the imperial cabinet or the Royal Soul Engineer Legion the moment you entered the country. That legion answered only to the emperor and required Rank Fifty as its threshold.

A transmigrator's identity might instead become an advantage.

As long as you did not commit these foolish mistakes:

Don't let it slip that "I came from another world" or "I know the plot." You would be treated as an Evil Soul Master or someone possessed by a spiritual entity.

Don't immediately choose Xu Tianran's side against Jing Hongchen, or Jing Hongchen's side against Xu Tianran.

Don't act as though you fully embraced Shrek's values—"Martial Souls above all, Soul Tools are merely tricks." The Sun Moon Empire hated that the most.

The correct approach would be to use a plausible identity as a local orphan or an illegitimate child of a minor noble, package "modern engineering thinking and an understanding of Soul Tools" as "deductive intuition brought by your Martial Soul," then display a top-tier Martial Soul with Innate Full Soul Power and casually make a Class Two Soul Tool. Jing Hongchen would be even more excited than he was with Huo Yuhao—Huo Yuhao had only Rank One Soul Power and still received that treatment. With your configuration, Jing Hongchen could decide on the spot: "Make an exception and admit him as a Mingde Hall reserve."

Ultimately, the conclusion for a transmigrator joining the Sun Moon Empire was this: the Sun Moon Empire would not only accept you, it would accept you more eagerly and generously than you imagined. The price was accepting a period of observation and the fate of being bound on two levels, through both resources and institutions, by the Hongchen Family and the imperial family. If you truly completed the process, your upper limit would not be merely "joining the Sun Moon Empire," but becoming the next Huo Yuhao-level variable that both Kong Deming and Xu Tianran would heavily invest in.

So, if Xiao Changge, who possessed Innate Full Soul Power at Rank Thirty and a divine beast Martial Soul, had been taken to the Sun Moon Empire by that Soul Engineer—

Then Xiao Changge would have become a national treasure-level figure. The emperor of the Sun Moon Empire would personally cultivate him into a Limit Douluo, and he would become the final disciple of Kong Deming, the foremost figure of the Sun Moon Empire's Hall of Worship.

The Hongchen Family would also have to build good relations with him, while Xu Tianran would have to devote every resource to nurturing him.

They would even let him build a vast harem, and Meng Hongchen would be sent to his bed.

It could be said that if Xiao Changge had gone to the Sun Moon Empire, he would have long since died of happiness.

But the problem was that before he could join the Sun Moon Empire, Shrek abducted him and forced him to help Ma Xiaotao resolve her Martial Soul problem.