At the Very Least, He Was a Patriarch
Third, Tang San destroyed the Spirit Hall, abolished the thousand-year-old control system for Evil Soul Master, and shattered the Angel God's Inheritance, thus eliminating the greatest natural nemesis of Evil Soul Master.
It's like he smashed the cage, killed the head constable, released all the prisoners, then dusted himself off and ascended to the Divine Realm, leaving behind a complete mess.
Without Tang San's three actions, the Holy Spirit Cult could not have developed into the behemoth that later swept across the continent.
Calling him the patriarch of Evil Soul Master doesn't mean he himself was Evil Soul Master, but rather that his series of actions objectively paved the way for the proliferation of Evil Soul Master.
He was the founder of the golden age of Evil Soul Master and the hidden leader of the Holy Spirit Cult.
He can bear this title, and he can't escape it.
In the Star Dou Forest, the waters of the Lake of Life remained as calm as ever.
Gu Yuena sat on a blue stone by the lake, the moonlight shining on her long silver hair, casting a cool halo around her figure.
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion lay quietly beside them, motionless, as if it were resting.
Gu Yuena was engrossed in her diary. Her silver eyes grew brighter and brighter as she read, almost radiating light.
Soul Beast have been hunted by humans for hundreds of thousands of years, and her hatred for humans is etched into her bones, only later restrained for certain reasons.
The name Tang San has always been a source of great contradiction in her memory.
On one hand, Tang San's wife, Xiao Wu, is Soul Beast Transformation, so in a sense, Tang San is the son-in-law of Soul Beast.
On the other hand, Tang San is also a representative of human Deity; his very existence is a symbol of humanity's suppression of Soul Beast.
However, she had absolutely no good feelings towards Tang San; on the contrary, she loathed him.
"Destroy the Spirit Hall, shatter the Angel God's Inheritance..."
Gu Yuena softly murmured these words: "The consequences of these two things are more serious than the destruction of the Slaughter City. The collapse of the Slaughter City only released a group of Evil Soul Master."
However, the destruction of the Spirit Hall uprooted the entire control system. Once the control system collapses, it's only a matter of time before Evil Soul Master emerge from the underground.
She naturally looked down on the Evil Soul Master as well. Although these people caused chaos and destruction in human society, seemingly sharing the same goal as the Soul Beast who wanted to exterminate humanity.
However, Evil Soul Master are essentially human. No matter how fiercely humans fight among themselves, the advantages or disadvantages of their race are absolutely insurmountable.
Moreover, Evil Soul Master don't care whether you're human or Soul Beast. Most Evil Soul Master cultivate by devouring the essence of flesh and blood, and the essence of flesh and blood of Soul Beast is actually more abundant than that of humans of the same level.
On the contrary, the Soul Beast Clan is not an ally of Evil Soul Master, nor do Evil Soul Master seek help from Soul Beast. Instead, they tend to target Soul Beast first.
She stood up, walked to the lakeside, and looked down at the moon reflected in the water.
The moon shimmered gently on the water's surface, like a shattered silver plate.
Her thoughts were also wandering. She was thinking about the fate of the Soul Beast Clan over the past ten thousand years, and how many Soul Beast were also implicated during the years when Evil Soul Master ravaged the continent.
Evil Soul Master devour not only humans, but also Soul Beast.
In order to refine evil soul artifacts, the Holy Spirit Cult has slaughtered countless Soul Beast, taking their Soul Bone and essence blood.
Ultimately, can this debt be attributed to Tang San?
"Tang San didn't think about the consequences when he did these things? What a joke!"
Gu Yuena murmured to herself as she looked at the lake, "The person sitting on the Godhood, the person who enjoys the adoration of all people, has the obligation to bear all the consequences of his actions."
"Ignorance absolves one of responsibility? That's an excuse mortals use to absolve themselves, not a reason a Deity should use."
She turned around, her silver hair tracing an arc in the moonlight.
The Diary Copy in my consciousness was still spread out on the last page, and Lin Ye's sentence, "He is the founder of the golden age of Evil Soul Master and the invisible leader of the Holy Spirit Cult," stood out particularly brightly in the moonlight.
[Of course, I know some people will defend Tang San, and I think they will definitely try to justify it from the following three aspects, using sophistry.]
First of all, the Eight-Spider Lance devour Soul Beast, not humans, which is fundamentally different from the Evil Soul Master devouring humans, and they cannot be equated morally.
Is this argument valid? Partly. Indeed, devouring Soul Beast and devouring humans are not morally equivalent.
But I'm talking about the underlying logic: evolving oneself by absorbing the power of others. This underlying logic is the same.
And don't forget, Tang San has devoured enemies on the battlefield, though not often, but he has indeed done so.
According to the definition of Evil Soul Master, such as "Soul Master who improves himself by absorbing the Soul Power of others."
When Tang San used the Eight-Spider Lance to devour enemies on the battlefield, he had already crossed the defined red line.
The only difference is that he devours "enemies," while the Evil Soul Master devours "anyone." The difference lies in the range of objects chosen, not in the method itself.
Then there's the second point: Tang San's destruction of the Slaughter City a requirement of the Asura God Trial, leaving him with no other choice. This explanation is also untenable.
The Asura God's test did require him to destroy the Slaughter City, but the test did not specify whether he had to evacuate the people inside before destroying it, or whether he should destroy it directly.
Tang San chose direct destruction, using the Blood Swan Kiss to wipe out the entire city in one breath, giving no one inside a chance to escape, nor giving anyone outside time to prepare a response.
As a result, some of the Evil Soul Master inside died, while others escaped, and those who escaped became a major threat in the future.
If he had put in more effort back then, and first sealed off the Slaughter City, or notified the Two Great Empires to send troops to besiege it, the outcome would have been completely different.
But he didn't. He chose the easiest solution: he destroyed it and left.
[Lastly, the argument that the Spirit Hall was inherently evil and that its destruction was an act of justice is the most absurd.]
The Spirit Hall has its good and bad aspects. Its grassroots staff are doing good things in various places, such as awakening spirits, distributing subsidies, and maintaining order among Soul Master.
Its higher-ups definitely have problems; there's no way to deny the Qian Xunji affair and the Soul Hunting Operation.
But when you destroy an organization, can you keep the good parts and eliminate the bad parts?
Could the existing system for controlling Evil Soul Master be retained and incorporated into the new management system?
Tang San didn't do any of that. He wiped out the entire Spirit Hall, smashing everything, good and bad, to pieces, and throwing the control system that had been running for thousands of years into the dustbin of history.
This is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater; the bathwater is already contaminated, so it can't be used and must be thrown away.
According to Tang San's logic, since the child was with the foot-washing water and bathwater, and the bathwater was dirty, then the child was also dirty.
So the water is poured out, and the child has to be poured out too.
This is the principle behind Tang San's laughable plan to destroy the Spirit Hall.