Qian Duoduo had more or less guessed what Lu Yi was thinking. Or rather, Lu Yi had never intended to hide it.
Lu Yi could clearly foresee that once the Spirit Pagoda was built and the entire continent learned of the Soul Spirit Contract, it would cause far more than a mere sensation.
Some factions would do everything they could to establish friendly relations with the Spirit Pagoda. Many more would inevitably covet the technology.
Or perhaps there was no essential difference between the two; only their methods differed.
When that time came, the Ministry of Magic, the only organization capable of training Spirit Transmitters, would become the focus of everyone's attention.
In their eyes, the Ministry of Magic and the Spirit Pagoda were bound to leap into the ranks of the continent's top powers before long. That was not necessarily good news for the other factions.
The Ferocious Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest might make those factions wary of the Spirit Pagoda, but the Ministry of Magic had yet to fully rise.
Xiao Xiao and Ye Guyi were prodigies destined to reach at least Super Douluo. Zhou Sichen and Cao Jinxuan both had the makings of Title Douluo, while plenty of others in the Ministry of Magic could become Soul Saints or Soul Douluo someday.
But that was still the future. It might come soon, but it was not now.
So for the moment, he really was a fox borrowing the tiger's might.
At the very least, Shrek had to shoulder the pressure from outside until the Ministry of Magic had fully risen.
He had already made his position clear. If they could not—or would not—do even that, then the seat of an Elder was truly of little use to him.
Of course, he could not put