He went about his own business while watching the images projected on the Heavenly Screen.
To Lin Yi, the Heavenly Screen's projection was like a third-person view from a god's-eye perspective.
Even Lin Yi found it somewhat wondrous.
But he knew perfectly well what he himself was doing, so he didn't need to monitor himself through the images on the Heavenly Screen. He only needed to notice anything unusual, such as the Heavenly Screen suddenly marking someone with large golden characters for him.
That was what mattered to Lin Yi, so he kept part of his attention on the images projected by the Heavenly Screen at all times.
After leaving the southwest and continuing onward, Lin Yi came to the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
Standing in the sky above the Ming Dou Mountain Range, Lin Yi gazed down pensively.
He had visited this mountain range more than once. Who knew how many sets of bleached bones lay buried here?
Yet he had not sensed any resentment or baleful Qi here at all.
What did that mean? Lin Yi knew perfectly well.
"Evil Soul Masters really hide themselves well."
Born in the Sun Moon Empire, where he had cultivated and grown up, Lin Yi had thought about the problem of Evil Soul Masters more than once.
He had also worried that the Holy Spirit Cult's Evil Soul Masters might suddenly massacre an entire region and catch him up in it.
But the truth was that the Holy Spirit Cult's actions were very restrained.
In fact, if Lin Yi focused solely on his own cultivation and didn't deliberately connect the information he had to this subject, he couldn't detect the existence of Evil Soul Masters at all.
Lin Yi knew that this wasn't because there were no Evil Soul Masters in the Sun Moon Empire. On the contrary, it was because the Sun Moon Empire's Evil Soul Masters were too disciplined.
Even when they committed crimes, they disguised themselves as criminals or members of criminal gangs, never doing evil openly.
Besides that, Lin Yi felt that the Ming Dou Mountain Range was the most crucial reason the Holy Spirit Cult could lie low.
This was the border between two empires, where clashes never ceased and countless soldiers were killed or wounded every year.
After reflecting on this, Lin Yi spread out his spiritual power and searched the front lines for suitable chess pieces.
In the end, he fixed his sights on three people.
They were three Soul Engineers from the Sun Moon Empire. The three seemed to be brothers, with faces that looked seventy to eighty percent alike. Outsiders called them the Three Ghosts of the Huang Family because their Martial Soul was called Ghost Shadow.
The Three Ghosts of the Huang Family were all Level 4 Soul Engineers. They had become Soul Engineers thanks to their family's inherited soul tool teachings, but those teachings were limited, so none of them had been able to become a Level 5 Soul Engineer. Their Soul Power cultivation, on the other hand, had gone smoothly, and they were now Six-Ring Soul Emperors.
Three Six-Ring Soul Emperors wielded considerable influence on these front lines.
But for Lin Yi, that still wasn't enough.
Lin Yi did not show himself or have any contact with the Three Ghosts of the Huang Family. From a great distance away, he merely locked onto the three with his spiritual power. Then Black and White Energies flowed around him, split into three portions, and traveled across the distance into their bodies.
Without showing himself, Lin Yi strode away, heading in the direction of the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
At the same time, he kept an eye on the images projected by the Heavenly Screen and, sure enough, saw the large golden characters.
Even though the three of them didn't know they had become part of Lin Yi's side, they were still marked.
"All three brothers have considerable talent. The Ghost Shadow Martial Soul has great potential, and they have what it takes to become Titled Douluo in their Soul Master cultivation. Now that they've received my Black and White Energies, they can make up for any damage even if they took drugs before. With the three brothers supporting one another as well, I hope they can accomplish something in the future."
After entering the Star Luo Empire, Lin Yi grew somewhat troubled.
"Although the Sun Moon Empire hasn't made free Martial Soul Awakening universally available, it provides nearly everyone with the chance to awaken one, and the fees are within the means of ordinary people."
"That makes finding chess pieces very convenient. But here in the Star Luo Empire, most of the soldiers on the front lines haven't even awakened their Martial Souls."
Lin Yi swept the area with his spiritual power, taking in almost the entire structure of the Star Luo army.
"Good heavens, apart from a few high-ranking officers and the trusted guards at their sides, almost none of them have Soul Power."
Lin Yi felt a slight headache coming on.
Forget it. I won't look for chess pieces on the front lines.
I'll go take a look in the rear.
Nationalist sentiment ran quite strong in the Star Luo Empire. At the very least, the Xu imperial family was quite adept at exploiting the people's feelings.
Even though they lived worse lives than others and didn't even have the chance to awaken their Martial Souls, most people in the Star Luo Empire still supported the current imperial family and harbored an incomparably fierce hatred for the Sun Moon Empire.
This was especially true of the soldiers in the Star Luo army on the front lines. There was almost no chance of turning them.
If he wanted to find chess pieces, he could only go to the Star Luo Empire's rear.
Douluo I.
[No way! In Lin Yi's era, there are actually adults who haven't awakened their Martial Souls?]
At that moment, the people still watching the Heavenly Screen couldn't help crying out in surprise.
They couldn't understand why there were adults without Martial Souls.
Didn't they have the Spirit Hall to help them awaken their Martial Souls for free?
[More than that! Look closely. The people in the image aren't ordinary people. They're soldiers, and they're fighting on the front lines!]
Although the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire still had many armies made up of ordinary people in the present era, the soldiers in those armies all had Martial Souls.
They simply hadn't awakened any Soul Power.
Not awakening Soul Power was different from not having a Martial Soul.
If two adults both lacked Soul Power, but one had a Martial Soul and the other didn't, the one with a Martial Soul would certainly have the advantage.
[Has anyone noticed that there doesn't seem to be a Spirit Hall in the era shown in the image?]
No Spirit Hall!
Even Qian Daoliu was drawn by the clamor outside. He emerged from the Worship Hall once more and looked up at the Heavenly Screen outside.
He took a deep breath, his thoughts somewhat unsettled.
"The Spirit Hall will actually disappear? How is that possible?"
"Could it be because of the plan for the Spirit Hall Empire?"
Qian Daoliu's expression kept changing.
He felt that if the Spirit Hall really did disappear in the future, the point most likely to bring about that outcome would be the establishment of the Spirit Hall Empire.
That was the Spirit Hall's greatest current objective.
If nothing unexpected happened, it would be put into action within the next twenty years.
But now that he had seen there was no Spirit Hall in the future era, Qian Daoliu was beginning to waver.
Should we still establish the Spirit Hall Empire and attempt to unite the continent?
After wavering for a moment, Qian Daoliu made his decision.
Continue with its establishment!
"No matter what, until we see the exact reason the Spirit Hall Empire fell, the Spirit Hall will not stop taking this step."
After entering the Star Luo Empire's rear, Lin Yi finally found a few targets, though it took the strength of nine oxen and two tigers.
Here, he did not turn Soul Masters who had already achieved success in cultivation or those who had already benefited from the existing order.
He traveled through a number of mountains, awakening the Martial Souls of many ordinary people in mountain villages.
His efforts paid off. He found a genius with Innate Full Soul Power.
Fortunately, this genius had awakened a Martial Soul.
Unfortunately, this genius was already nine years old.
A full three years behind everyone else!
Even so, Lin Yi sent a strand of Black and White Energies into his body.
Perhaps this boy named Xiao Huo was already too late to play a role in a war on the scale of the whole continent, but he still had a chance to make an impact among the new generation.