"These Soul Tools were supposedly made for me by Kai. His Excellency the Titled Douluo must have taught him. From the looks of it, that Titled Douluo must have very deep connections."
"Kai really has found himself a powerful backer. As his uncle, I'm happy for him too, but the problem is, he gave me so many of them. As someone from Spirit Hall, I don't know what I should do..." Su Yuntao said, confusion written all over his face.
He did not know what to do either. As someone from Spirit Hall, he knew that Soul Tools had been passed down since ancient times and were highly unusual. All the Soul Tools that had survived to the present were storage-type Soul Tools, but according to legend, there had once been many types of Soul Tools. It was just that all of them had now been lost.
He knew full well how terrifying it would be if a faction mastered the ability to manufacture Soul Tools!
He knew full well that if Spirit Hall obtained this ability, it would be very good for Spirit Hall's development. Moreover, he was a member of Spirit Hall's staff, although not a particularly high-ranking one, merely an Outer Sect Deacon responsible for helping children awaken their Martial Souls.
But he was still a member of Spirit Hall's staff. The reason he had been able to become a Soul Elder was also because of Spirit Hall's help. Spirit Hall knew that he did not have much potential, yet it was willing to give him resources to cultivate.
So, by rights, he ought to disclose the fact that his friend's son possessed the ability to manufacture Soul Tools and report it to his superiors.
That was his duty as a member of Spirit Hall. The problem was that he really could not bring himself to say it, first of all because Kai harbored an aversion to Spirit Hall.
Kai knew that Spirit Hall had done good deeds, that it had rendered service to the continent and truly was the Soul Master Holy Land. The problem was that his parents had died because of Spirit Hall's higher-ups.
Anyone in his place would have felt some aversion to it, more or less. These things were why Kai had not joined Spirit Hall, and Su Yuntao could understand that.
Moreover, although Spirit Hall could not be said to bear all the responsibility, it did bear some. At the very least, it should have taken responsibility for what had caused Kai's parents' deaths.
Instead, it had only given him some Gold Soul Coins. Such conduct was rather ugly.
Anyone whose parents had died, only to receive some Gold Soul Coins afterward-who could accept that?
If your parents died, and the people who caused their deaths only gave you some Gold Soul Coins as compensation, without so much as a word of condolence or apology, could you accept it?
That was why he felt that Spirit Hall had handled this matter so disgracefully.
Moreover, if it had only been some ordinary Soul Master sect or family doing something like this, it probably would not have provoked such a strong reaction. After all, those Soul Master families could not compare with Spirit Hall. Spirit Hall was the continent's Soul Master Holy Land.
Spirit Hall also held a very high standing and served as a moral benchmark, so many people watched much of what it did. To lead a group well, it had to set a good example itself.
So, if Spirit Hall wanted to lead its followers well, it at least needed to take responsibility and set a good example. Only then would everyone follow it. Instead, it had merely given some Gold Soul Coins, failing to set that example.
That was also why Su Yuntao had some grievances with Spirit Hall. As the continent's Soul Master Holy Land, it really had handled this matter rather disgracefully, leaving him unsure whether he should report this.
He was a sworn brother of Kai's father and a friend of Kai's parents. As their friend, faced with the orphan his brother had left behind, and living together with this child, he ought to fulfill his responsibilities as an uncle and protect him. At the very least, he should provide whatever help he could before Kai made something of himself.
But on the other hand, he understood that Spirit Hall had given him the resources that allowed him to grow. So he truly did not know what to do in his heart. He was in pain and confused. On one side was Spirit Hall, which had helped him since childhood; on the other was his friend's orphan. And the reason the boy had become an orphan in the first place was Spirit Hall's higher-ups.
So he truly was confused.
This choice was simply too painful for him.
If he reported this, then given the current Pope Bibi Dong's personality, she would certainly choose to take Kai away by force. Moreover, Kai also had Titled Douluos by his side. If a fight broke out, the consequences would be even more serious.
It would certainly turn into a major incident. He knew full well that the current Pope was no good person. Bibi Dong's reputation within Spirit Hall really was not good. Although she was the previous Pope's student, she was very overbearing.
She would not allow anyone to defy her. In the eyes of many of Spirit Hall's higher-ups, such behavior did not meet the standards expected of a Pope.
A Pope who would not allow anyone to defy her and would not listen to others' advice-such conduct really was overbearing.
So Su Yuntao did not know what to do either.
"This really is a difficult problem. If I speak up, something will definitely happen to Kai. Although His Excellency the Titled Douluo is helping protect him, the problem is that once I say anything, a huge fight will certainly break out. The Pope is no pushover. Three Titled Douluos..."
Bibi Dong currently had two Titled Douluos by her side, Chrysanthemum Ghost Douluo. They were both essentially level-95 Super Douluos, only a tiny step away from level 96, and were extremely powerful. He was not quite sure how powerful the two Leng Family sisters, both Titled Douluos, were, but they should not be weak either. Still, with three Titled Douluos facing two, the three clearly had a better chance of winning.
So if he spoke up, it would certainly be very difficult to keep Kai safe. Moreover, although he was a lower-ranking member,
he also knew very well that Spirit Hall's overall strength surely ran deeper than he imagined. He was only a low-ranking member and did not know much about Spirit Hall's overall strength, but he had heard that Spirit Hall had at least a double-digit number of Titled Douluos.
Although his background and position were not high enough, he still knew that Spirit Hall had more than a double-digit number of Titled Douluos. If a fight really broke out and Spirit Hall truly got serious, the trouble would be even greater if those Worship Douluos said to be hidden within the Worship Hall took action.
For the technology to manufacture Soul Tools, Spirit Hall's higher-ups really might do something like that.
"This really is giving me a headache... Angel God of legend, tell me, what should I do? I'm truly so lost right now. Could you show me a way out of this maze? What exactly should I do for it to be right, for neither side to be hurt? One is the faction that helped me and allowed me to grow, the Soul Master Holy Land I love. The other is my friend's son, the orphan my good brother left behind. What exactly should I do? Who can tell me what to do?"
Sometimes, the people caught in the middle were the ones who suffered most. They truly did not know what to do.
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