And beyond what the Spirit Pagoda had done to soul beasts, its own practices were also something Huo Yuhao could not let slide.
In truth, Huo Yuhao was not all that averse to the Spirit Pagoda's current way of doing things, or its ambitions and aims.
Because Huo Yuhao also knew that an organization needed to develop to survive, not to mention that when he had founded the Spirit Pagoda, he had adopted a parliamentary structure that brought all the major powers into it.
And those who participated were bound to want benefits from it, so the Spirit Pagoda had to develop. Whether money, scale, influence, a voice in affairs, or power, these were all things its participants wanted to gain from it to benefit the families or factions behind them.
When he founded the Spirit Pagoda and chose to have council members manage it and make decisions, this outcome had already been inevitable.
After all, the other countries and organizations at the time either monopolized power like an emperor or used a similar approach, managing affairs through family units.
At best, they were like the Sea God Pavilion back then, placing less importance on families and avoiding an emperor's arbitrary rule, allowing people with different martial souls to deliberate together.
But the Sea God Pavilion's standards still depended on strength, and an outstanding martial soul was bound to come with an innate head start in conditions and resources.
Because soul masters with outstanding martial souls all had the heritage of great families behind them, their advantages in resources and other areas were plainly greater than those of soul masters from ordinary backgrounds.
Of course, ordinary soul masters could rely on martial soul mutation, certain opportunities, or consuming treasures of heaven and earth and immortal herbs to bridge that gap.