After her anger subsided, Gu Yuena felt somewhat helpless, and her heart was ice-cold.
The human heart was unfathomable. Who in this world could she still trust?
Even Di Tian, who had followed her the longest and been the most loyal, had chosen betrayal. He would even stake his life on mutual destruction with Shrek Academy rather than carry out the task she had assigned him.
Clearly, the person behind the scenes had exceptionally powerful methods of bewitching hearts.
From this moment onward, she no longer dared trust a single soul beast.
The suspicion and distrust in her heart had reached their peak, and a sense of crisis at being isolated and without support clung tightly to her.
Di Tian, Xiong Jun, the Myriad Demon King, the Scarlet King, and the others had all betrayed her, so she absolutely could not let Bi Ji and Zi JI, her two top-tier sources of support, slip out of her control as well.
She did not need to worry about Demon Spirit. She had created him, and his soul bore her brand. Unless he died, that brand could never be removed. Demon Spirit was someone she could trust absolutely.
But Bi Ji and Zi JI were different. Both already had close ties to Di Tian. If Di Tian tried to win them over...
Perhaps Di Tian had already approached them long ago.
Now there was only one way to ensure they would never betray her.
Putting her world-shaking brain to work, she thought carefully and came up with the best solution:
Since soul beast bodies bred betrayal, she could simply turn them into humans.
As long as they both became human, they could stand firmly alongside her, and this sort of betrayal would never happen again. Perhaps this was the only way.
By rights, it was absolutely impossible for ferocious beasts to start cultivating anew as humans.
Only at the age of a hundred thousand years could soul beasts choose between becoming ferocious beasts and transforming into humans. Once that point had passed, there was no way to do so anymore.
But she was different. She could do it, and not only for herself. She could also help other ferocious beasts do the same, simply by drawing on her origin power.
What a pity. She had originally wanted to save that origin power, but this emergency called for bending the rules.
Her plan was too vast. She needed people she could trust under her command. She could not manage an undertaking of this size alone. Nothing could be allowed to happen to Bi Ji and Zi JI.
At that thought, she grew somewhat impatient and immediately urged Demon Spirit to bring them over quickly, afraid that the mysterious person behind the scenes would snatch them away first.
Star Dou Great Forest!
Lin Ming had no idea that Gu Yuena had imagined so much. He was busy right now.
With Long Yeyue dealt with, he still had Yun Ming here and did not know what to do with him!
This fellow was a key figure for what came next. He could not afford to be careless.
Besides, once he reincarnated Yun Ming into a wind baboon's body shortly, the Heavenly God Spear combined with Godslayer would stack all those incredible buffs. Wouldn't he be invincible?
He needed to find Yun Ming a good home, somewhere that could nurture him.
After all, he could barely feed himself, yet he was supposed to nurture Yun Ming and raise him into a top-tier soul beast?
Then he could only find a sucker to raise Yun Ming.
All of Yun Ming's relationships flashed through Lin Ming's mind. After thinking for a while, he realized the man really did have quite a few simps.
What a perfect life!
He had married the most beautiful wife and still had so many beautiful women simping for him. Lin Ming alone could think of three.
Cai Yue'er, that great sucker, was already dead, killed by Di Tian right at the start, so she was out of consideration.
Then there was Leng Yaozhu, from The Legend of the Dragon King's so-called Must-Eat List.
He had little interest in Leng Yaozhu, the woman at the top of that Must-Eat List, but he was quite interested in screwing her over.
Leng Yaozhu held a high position in the Spirit Pagoda, beneath one person and above ten thousand, standing on equal footing with the Qiangu Clan.
At the level of a rank 98 Super Douluo, she dared lead the Leng Family against the Qiangu Clan. It seemed the Leng Family had a top-tier powerhouse backing them too, but he could not quite remember. Had one appeared in the original story?
Otherwise, it made no sense.
In any case, he would assume Leng Yaozhu had a quasi-god behind her. She wielded tremendous power and was also Yun Ming's simp. Her buffs were fully stacked.
If she learned that Yun Ming had become a wind baboon and that the Yun Ming at Shrek was fake, things would get exciting.
And she would certainly spare no effort to nurture Yun Ming, piling vast resources into him to build him into a top-tier soul beast. Perhaps Lin Ming would soon get to see Yun Ming as a 100,000-year-old wind baboon, wielding the Heavenly God Spear.
As for why he would not let him transform into a human?
The reason was simple,
It was impossible.
A soul beast reincarnating as a soul beast shared the same origin, so there was no real impact. Upon resurrection, it would be in perfect condition.
But a human transformed into a soul beast had an innate sense of disconnect. Even after cultivating to a hundred thousand years, he could never undergo human transformation.
He had been human to begin with. How could he transform?
At that point, Yun Ming would be-a soul beast before, a soul beast for a day, and a soul beast for life.
Still, when it came time to fool him shortly, he could spin that tale. When painting a pie to promise someone, the bigger the better. The bigger it was, the tastier it looked, and the more filling it would be.
But if he handed Yun Ming to Leng Yaozhu, wouldn't Yun Ming be off to enjoy the good life?
He had already enjoyed half a lifetime of comfort. Did he still need more?
So all the suffering would fall to them, while Yun Ming alone enjoyed himself.
No. Leng Yaozhu could be used later, but he could not give Yun Ming to her.
That left only one person: Leng Yulai, one of the Holy Spirit Cult's Four Heavenly Kings, that madwoman.
If he gave Yun Ming to her, Yun Ming probably would not have an easy time. The wind baboon might well become a mad baboon.
Leng Yulai's love for Yun Ming had gone unfulfilled. She had even gone so far as to betray the Spirit Pagoda and defect to the Holy Spirit Cult, becoming an evil soul master through and through.
What would happen if she learned that Yun Ming-the strongest man on the continent, the person she had once admired most-had become a beast?
Abuse, bondage, whipping-while helping him grow stronger, she could thoroughly satisfy her own twisted desires. Yun Ming could grow amid both pain and pleasure. Wouldn't that feel great?
What was interesting about an ordinary wind baboon?
As the saying went, turning dark made you three parts stronger, and desperate straits forged the mighty.
A darkened wind baboon Yun Ming sounded powerful just thinking about it.
Moreover, the Holy Spirit Cult and Shrek were as incompatible as fire and water. A living Yun Ming was every evil soul master's nightmare.
Yun Ming did not proclaim himself righteous, but fighting evil soul masters and the Holy Spirit Cult was Shrek's ancestral teaching.
He was loyal to Shrek and steadfastly carried out that ancestral teaching. It was precisely this that had allowed Shrek to remain undefeated.
The entire continent hated them so much their teeth itched, wishing Shrek would be destroyed as soon as possible, yet Shrek held the moral high ground.
But was Shrek the only one in the world fighting evil soul masters?
Evil soul masters were everyone's common enemy. The entire continent stood united against them, yet all the credit went to Shrek.
Shrek wanted this and that, wanted everything: talent and reputation, status and a monopoly. They wanted the whole lot for themselves.
The entire continent had suffered under Shrek for far too long.
Lin Ming wanted to see what would happen after he threw Yun Ming, Shrek's so-called foremost champion of justice, into the Holy Spirit Cult and Yun Ming rose through its power.
Then, when Yun Ming used the Holy Spirit Cult to attack Shrek, just how spectacular would the expressions on Shrek's people's faces be?
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