Spirit Hall Resentment Boiling, Must Restore Dignity! Wipe Them Out!

Leaving the Consecration Hall and returning to the Papal Palace, Qian Xunji arranged living quarters for A Yin and the two children, then returned to the office area.

Right now at the desk, Qian Xunji had already had people organize the details of everything that had happened in Spirit Hall during the year he was away.

Qian Xunji read through it very carefully, and upon finishing, he felt a chill run down his spine.

"I didn't expect that in just the single month I was gone, so many things had already happened?"

"Bibi Dong actually ended up being verbally abused by the entire population of Spirit City? The severe ones even wanted to kill Bibi Dong?"

"Because of Bibi Dong alone, the security issues in Spirit City became increasingly grave, leaving old man and the others with no choice but to transfer Bibi Dong away to another place?"

Qian Xunji supported his forehead with one hand. "Sure enough... the higher-ups give an order and the lower-downs run themselves to death; I really didn't think that much back then."

"No wonder when I brought A Yin back, I didn't see a trace of Bibi Dong..."

Qian Xunji continued to peruse the dossiers from the past year. Currently, everyone in Spirit Hall was boiling with resentment; the truth was that Spirit City had been too stifled over this past year.

The holy maiden of Spirit Hall—because people from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect had betrayed Spirit Hall—resulted in Spirit Hall taking no action whatsoever?

People outside were mocking Spirit Hall, and the soul masters of Spirit Hall had reached the absolute peak of anger, yet they were being suppressed by the higher-ups.

In the very beginning, people all over the continent had been waiting for Spirit Hall's retaliation, but as time passed, they saw no retaliation from Spirit Hall.

Believing that Spirit Hall intended to swallow this bitter pill, they even gave the soul masters of Spirit Hall a nickname.

Soul masters of Coward Hall.

For a full year, Spirit Hall took no action. If this wasn't cowardice, what was it? Therefore, up and down Spirit Hall—base-level soul masters, mid-level soul masters, and even some high-level soul masters—were harboring fiery anger in their hearts.

It had now reached a severe juncture, and the reputation of Spirit Hall had plummeted to freezing point. If they didn't do something and instead continued to suppress internal voices,

the soul masters of Spirit Hall would inevitably become utterly disappointed in Spirit Hall!

"Right now, everyone up and down Spirit Hall and Spirit City has a surge of breath pent up in their hearts, and it needs to be released!"

"If it isn't released, it will explode inside Spirit Hall, and that is something old man and the others are unwilling to see."

"No wonder when I returned, old man and the others said that."

"My departure was quite the scheme, reaching the point where old man had no choice but to make a move."

"Everything is because I didn't deliberately conceal the matter of Bibi Dong betraying Spirit Hall, but instead made it public and placed her in the central square of Spirit City, the place with the highest foot traffic!"

"If it had been handled internally at the start, it absolutely wouldn't have caused such a massive backlash and made it known to the entire world!"

"Now Spirit Hall needs retaliation, and it must be retaliation with thunderous momentum, to once again rally the popular support that has begun to scatter!"

"So that's how it is..." Qian Xunji leaned weakly against his chair. "My beating really wasn't undeserved."

"Although I didn't think that much at the time, the situation had already developed to this extent, making it seem as though everything was part of my scheme?"

"After reading what happened in Spirit Hall over the past year, even I was almost starting to think that I had planned it that way from the start."

"I was really just purely punishing Bibi Dong, sigh... since things have already come to this."

"Then the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect must be wiped out! Otherwise, the morale of Spirit Hall will scatter, and once morale scatters, the troops become hard to lead."

Qian Xunji thought to himself, "Moreover, for a whole year, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect has been playing dead."

"If anyone from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect had come to Spirit City to apologize or even offer compensation, perhaps things wouldn't have developed to this state. With various reasons intertwining..."

Qian Xunji didn't know what to say, and could only attribute it to the work of fate. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect had played dead for a whole year, letting public opinion ferment, so they richly deserved the destruction of their Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect!

Even without giving compensation, just handing over Yu Xiaogang and letting Spirit Hall dispose of him would have prevented things from reaching today's step.

No matter how they chose, it shouldn't have reached this point, yet the people of Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect stubbornly chose a path to death from a pile of choices.

"Hehe! A full year of opportunities, and yet you did nothing? You even caused me to come back and get a beating, you deserve annihilation!"

"Did you really think that Spirit Hall doing nothing meant they truly didn't care about this matter? Utterly ridiculous!"

"That was only because I wasn't around, and old man and the others didn't intend to make a move either. Since it has blown up to this degree, old man has to make a move. Oh, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect!"

"So exhausting..." Qian Xunji laughed bitterly. "There are so many things to handle the moment I get back."

"Furthermore, the matter of wiping out the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect must be carried out as soon as possible. Things have reached this stage, and there is not much time left for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect to live."

Qian Xunji finished reading the remaining dossiers, tiredly rubbed the bridge of his nose, and pushed the files to the side.

"No... being the pope is too exhausting. I must find some people to help me. They can review and give suggestions, and then I'll just stamp the final seal! Hmm... let's call this department the Cabinet."

Even though a soul master's stamina was extraordinary compared to ordinary people, processing so many matters would still make one feel exhausted.

"Someone come..." Qian Xunji called out with a stern gaze.

Soon the door was pushed open, and a soul master walked in, dropped to one knee, and respectfully asked, "Does His Holiness the Pope have instructions?"

"Summon Elder Ju and Elder Gui here!" Qian Xunji waved his hand after speaking. "Go quickly."

"Yes..." The soul master left.

In a short while, Yue Guan and Gui Mei had already arrived here. "His Holiness the Pope, do you have instructions?!"

"Yue Guan, Gui Mei, the two of you are my right-hand men, and I have witnessed the loyalty of both of you."

"In the short term, how many combat-ready soul masters can Spirit Hall mobilize?" After the pleasantries, Qian Xunji cut straight to the point.

"Reporting to His Holiness the Pope, the soul masters that Spirit Hall can mobilize in the short term number around five thousand or so."

"Most of Spirit Hall's soul masters are dispersed throughout the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire, and at most only this many can be mustered on short notice."

"His Holiness, do you have an arrangement?" Yue Guan probed tentatively after reporting. Too many things had happened this year, and with His Holiness the Pope returning, there would definitely be a major move!

"Wipe out the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect!" Qian Xunji said flatly.

"Wipe out the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect?" Hearing this, Yue Guan and Gui Mei both saw expressions of astonishment in each other's eyes.

"Correct!" Qian Xunji slowly stood up, speaking with an overwhelming, majestic aura. "Spirit Hall gave the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect a year, but what did they do? Nothing at all!"

"You are also well aware of the current public opinion within Spirit Hall; up and down, it can only be described as resentment filling the air!"

"The morale of Spirit Hall cannot scatter. Once morale scatters, this troop of Spirit Hall becomes hard to lead. Spirit Hall needs to do something, needs revenge! Needs to boost morale!"