Created by a God

The only difference might be that Evil Soul Master devour their own kind of humans, while Tang San mostly devours Soul Beast.

From a life perspective, isn't Soul Beast's life also a life? Isn't Soul Beast's Soul Power also Soul Power?

The devouring ability of the Eight-Spider Lance and the methods of the Evil Soul Master are essentially the same thing: plundering the power of others and turning it into their own nourishment.

However, Tang San stood on the side of justice; he was the protagonist, so his absorption was called "evolution," while the absorption of Evil Soul Master was called "fall."

From another perspective, if Tang San didn't have the Protagonist Halo, would his Eight-Spider Lance training method really be that different from that of Evil Soul Master?

Later, in order to seek revenge, Tang Ya deliberately fell into the trap of becoming Evil Soul Master, and many people said that she had let down the ancestors of the Tang Sect.

But to put it bluntly, the path she's on now was already trodden by her Tang San.

She used the Dark Blue Silver Grass to absorb Soul Power, and Tang San's Eight-Spider Lance also absorbed soul power; the tools were different, but the principles were the same.

Who taught Tang Ya? No one taught her, but Tang San's blood flowed in her veins, and that instinct to grow stronger by devouring others was probably also brought from that bloodline.

Of course, that's a bit harsh of a statement.

Tang San's Eight-Spider Lance primarily devoured Soul Beast, while Tang Ya devoured humans; there is indeed a moral difference between the two.

But I'm talking about the underlying logic, not a moral judgment.

At its core, devouring is devouring; regardless of who the object is, the essence of the means remains unchanged.

This instinct to devour was etched into the bloodline of the Tang Sect starting with Tang San, passed down from generation to generation, and finally erupted in Tang Ya's generation.

So when you say Tang Ya learned it from her ancestors, you're not entirely wronging Tang San.

Shrek Academy, Inner Court Training Room.

Ma Xiaotao had just finished a set of punches in the training room, her whole body steaming with heat, her training clothes soaked through with sweat.

As soon as I stopped, a new diary entry entered into my mind.

She was drinking water while reading, and when she saw Lin Ye say that Tang San's Eight-Spider Lance and the Evil Soul Master had "the same methods and the same underlying logic," she almost spat out the water in her mouth.

"Good heavens!"

Ma Xiaotao put down the kettle, her eyes wide with disbelief. She almost laughed. "Lin Ye is really fixated on Tang San and Huo Yuhao. He just finished writing so many bad things about Huo Yuhao, and now he's looking for something to talk about with Tang San."

She was very familiar with the techniques of Evil Soul Master. Many times before, when she was controlled by Evil Fire, she almost slipped into that abyss. The urge to devour everything to fill her own emptiness was just too strong.

If it weren't for her noble status and the various protectors and teachers in the academy who could control her when she unleashed her Evil Fire, she would have fallen long ago.

Moreover, she had personally witnessed the villages slaughtered by Evil Soul Master, with desiccated corpses scattered everywhere, not even sparing children.

But Lin Ye's words put her in a strange dilemma.

Rationally, she wanted to refute this: how could Tang San possibly be associated with Evil Soul Master?

Upon closer examination, the evolutionary logic of the Eight-Spider Lance is indeed devouring, a fact written in the history of the Douluo Continent that no one can deny.

The process of devouring the Soul Power and flesh of Soul Beast to complete one's own evolution—what is the essential difference between this process and the Evil Soul Master devouring humans to become stronger?

The only difference is the object; the method is the same.

Ma Xiaotao tossed the towel over her shoulder and sat down cross-legged again. "Lin Ye's words do make sense. Devouring is devouring. Whether it's a person or Soul Beast, it's essentially plunder."

One was condemned as a heretic, while the other was hailed as Sea God and savior. This world truly is a place where the victor is king and the loser is condemned.

She shook her head and continued reading.

Now that we've covered the first point, let's move on to the second.

This one is even more ruthless: Tang San uses the Blood Swan Kiss to destroy the Slaughter City.

What kind of place Slaughter City?

It was a city of sin where one could only enter and not leave, a prison for Evil Soul Master and Fallen Soul Master from all over the continent.

In the Slaughter City, villains kill each other, and no one can get out. It's like locking the most dangerous people on the entire continent in a sealed cage, leaving them to fend for themselves.

The origin of this system is unknown. Some say it was built by the predecessors of the Spirit Hall, some say it was created by the Angel God, and others say it was created by other gods.

Regardless, it objectively played an extremely important role in control.

Locking up Evil Soul Master, preventing them from roaming the continent, establishing power, and propagating their lineage—this is the most primitive yet most effective means of control.

But what did Tang San do? In order to pass the test of the Asura God, he used the Blood Swan Kiss to directly destroy the entire Slaughter City.

On the day the Slaughter City collapsed, all the Evil Soul Master and Fallen Soul Master imprisoned within were freed and scattered like a flood, pouring into the territories of the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire Two Great Empires.

Who are these people who escaped?

They were all outlaws who had survived the Slaughter City, each with blood on their hands, and each accustomed to growing stronger through killing and devouring.

After this group of people scattered across the continent, what were the courts of the Two Great Empires doing?

They were too busy with power struggles, dividing up territory, and internal strife to have the financial resources and energy to hunt down these roaming Evil Soul Master.

The local Soul Master sects wanted to intervene, but they were disorganized and lacked a unified plan. Faced with these vicious and desperate criminals, there was very little they could do.

[Thus, this group of people began to take root and grow in the shadows of the mainland.]

One person can devour a village, two people can merge a stronghold, and three people can form a small team.

They gradually built their own small force, hiding in deep mountains and forests, and in remote deserts, where they multiplied and passed down their legacy from generation to generation.

The number of Evil Soul Master has changed from a manageable number during the era of the Slaughter City to an exponential, rampant proliferation.

If the City of Slaughter City were still there, all these people would be imprisoned inside, and there would never have been so many Evil Soul Master on the continent later.

But Tang San destroyed the Slaughter City with his own hands, which was like kicking open the door of a huge cage and releasing all the poisonous snakes inside.

Who was the first person bitten by these venomous snakes? An innocent civilian.

And some of the bloodshed of those ordinary people was attributed to Tang San.

He may never have considered the consequences, but cause and effect don't cease to exist just because he didn't think about them.

Shrek City, a private room on the second floor of a teahouse.

Ning Tian and Wu Feng sat facing each other.

A pot of clear tea sat before Ning Tian, the tea in the cup a bright green. She held the cup but didn't take a sip for a long time, her attention entirely focused on the Diary Copy in her mind.

Wu Feng sat opposite her, drinking one cup of tea after another, slamming the cup down with a loud "thud" after finishing it.