Only the Holy Spirit Cult, of all the powers on the continent, would take in someone with such an Evil Martial Soul.
A Holy Spirit Cult spy had infiltrated Shrek Academy—an intolerable stain on the academy's reputation. The pursuit team it dispatched was formidable: a Titled Douluo as captain, Inner Court senior sister Zhang Lexuan as vice-captain, and four Soul Sages.
This was the highest-level team the Shrek Inspection Corps could field. Sending it after a mere Soul Emperor was like using a butcher's cleaver to kill a chicken, but Mu Feng had already fled deep into the deserted Far North.
Profound Frost City was the last fortress at the northernmost edge of the Heaven Dou Empire, yet it still lay three hundred li from the heart of the Far North.
With the bitter cold and no other empire bordering the area, the Heaven Dou Empire deemed the cost of maintaining an army in such a remote, frozen place too high. It handed control of the city to the largest sect in the Far North—the Ice Soul Sect.
The sect's headquarters, however, lay not in Profound Frost City but in Aurora Valley, fifty li to the north. Sheer walls of ice surrounded this vast valley. Its entrance had once been a thick wall of ice, until the sect's founding ancestor, Hanyuan, carved it into a massive archway with the power of a Super Douluo thousands of years ago.
Aurora Valley was also the only route by which Soul Beasts from the Far North could reach Profound Frost City. By holding the valley in an iron grip, the sect had cut off any chance of a beast tide overrunning the city.
Today, the archway at the valley entrance was decked with lanterns and colored banners, and a bright, festive air filled