Where the people's hearts turn, the tide follows; a single spark can set the prairie ablaze

On the way to the mall, Leng Yaozhu sat in the front passenger seat, looking out the window as she took the initiative to ask a question.

"Are there any Evil Soul Master organizations like the Holy Spirit Cult in your era?"

"Yes." Jiang Yan nodded.

"Then aren't you worried? What if they come to cause destruction or something?" Leng Yaozhu asked.

"They can't get in. Terrorist organizations and the like are all kept outside," Jiang Yan said with a smile.

"Is that because you also have a powerful organization like Spirit Hall?" Qian Renxue asked.

In their era, Evil Soul Masters were rarely seen on the continent precisely because Spirit Hall kept them suppressed, because their angel lineage kept them suppressed, and because her grandfather, Qian Daoliu, kept them suppressed.

Hearing this, Jiang Yan replied, "The credit for this peaceful, safe era belongs to those who struggle on the front lines. Without them, we wouldn't have the wonderful lives we have today."

"Does that mean every one of them is equivalent to a Limit Douluo in our world?" Leng Yaozhu asked.

To Leng Yaozhu, that was the only explanation that made sense. Without tremendous strength, how could they possibly achieve something like this?

"No. They're just ordinary people, like me." Jiang Yan shook his head.

"Then how do they do it?" Qian Renxue asked.

"Because they have faith in their hearts!" Jiang Yan said, stressing every word. "Some things have to be done by someone."

At this point, Jiang Yan felt it was very necessary to let Qian Renxue and the others read the novel Mystery Revival later.

In the world of Mystery Revival, ordinary people faced true despair, yet even then, people like Yang Jian still stepped forward to bring the entire supernatural era to an end!

Meanwhile, beyond the Sky Screen, whether in the Star Luo Empire and Heaven Dou Empire of the Spirit Hall era,

Or Sun Moon, Dou Ling, Heavenly Soul, and the Star Luo Empire of the Peerless Tang Sect era,

Or Dou Ling and the Star Luo Empire of The Legend of the Dragon King era,

The nobles among them all scoffed at Jiang Yan's words.

"People actually sacrifice themselves to protect others? Just how stupid are they?"

Within the Sky Screen, having reached this point, Jiang Yan thought of another reason Spirit Hall would fail.

"Actually, there's another very important reason your Spirit Hall would lose," Jiang Yan said.

"What reason?" Qian Renxue grew a little flustered when she heard this.

Surely it couldn't be my fault again?

"Another very important reason your Spirit Hall failed is that you forgot the original purpose behind its founding," Jiang Yan said.

"The original purpose behind Spirit Hall's founding?" Qian Renxue froze for a moment.

It wasn't just Qian Renxue. Even Qian Daoliu, outside the Sky Screen, was slightly taken aback.

"The original purpose... behind Spirit Hall's founding?" Qian Daoliu repeated these words, then turned to look at the statue of the first Angel God.

Within the Sky Screen, Jiang Yan asked, "Do you know who founded Spirit Hall? Why did she found it? Or rather, why does your Spirit Hall exist?"

"I only know that Spirit Hall's emergence was connected to the first Angel God... as for why it exists..." At this point, Qian Renxue wasn't quite sure how to describe it.

Because neither Bibi Dong nor Qian Daoliu had ever told Qian Renxue the answer to that question.

Seeing that Qian Renxue couldn't answer, Jiang Yan switched to another question.

"Do you know why the first Angel God became a god?"

"Wasn't it to become stronger?" Qian Renxue asked.

"It seems the successors of your angel lineage really have strayed further and further." Jiang Yan shook his head helplessly. "The first Angel God's original intention in becoming a god was to shelter the people of the world and cleanse all evil! It was this reason alone that gave her enough power of faith to become a god."

"And that power of faith came almost entirely from the common people! The tenets of the church she left behind were also in keeping with that."

"Nowadays, many readers, including many fanfiction authors, like to side with Spirit Hall rather than Tang San. A major reason is that Spirit Hall genuinely considered the interests of commoners, including awakening their Martial Souls for free."

"But later on, Spirit Hall strayed further and further off course. It only knew to value commoner Soul Masters, paying less and less attention to ordinary commoners."

"So do you understand now why Spirit Hall would lose?" Jiang Yan asked.

"Because Spirit Hall lost the people's support?" Ye Guyi said with some uncertainty.

"Exactly." Jiang Yan glanced back at Ye Guyi with some approval. He hadn't expected Ye Guyi, rather than Qian Renxue, to be the first to think of this.

"Where the people's hearts turn, the tide follows," Jiang Yan said. "Spirit Hall could lose precisely because it had lost the people's support."

"As I said earlier, after Huo Yuhao founded the Spirit Pagoda, the world knew only Huo Yuhao and the Spirit Pagoda, but not Electrolux."

"The same applies to your Spirit Hall. The world knows only Spirit Hall, not the Angel God. Even the first Angel God's name has long since been forgotten," Jiang Yan said earnestly.

Perhaps this was why the Sea God, Bo Saixi, repeatedly helped Tang San, while the first Angel God barely helped Qian Renxue at all.

"The people's support..." Qian Renxue fell into deep thought. It seemed she hadn't heard that phrase in a very, very long time.

Or perhaps she had never considered this question at all.

Meanwhile, outside the Sky Screen, Qian Daoliu looked at the statue of the first Angel God and murmured to himself, "Could we really have abandoned the Angel God's original intention long ago?"

Elsewhere, inside the Pope's Palace, Bibi Dong scoffed at Jiang Yan's words.

"The people's support? My Spirit Hall doesn't need any such thing. As long as we're strong enough, we can win without it!"

Now that she knew she would die at Tang San's hands, she believed that as long as she killed Tang San in advance, she could change the outcome!

Meanwhile, within the Sky Screen, at the mention of the people's support, Leng Yaozhu somehow found herself thinking of an old acquaintance.

"Winning people's hearts-she's the best at that," Leng Yaozhu murmured to herself.

Jiang Yan happened to hear this. "You aren't talking about Ya Li, are you?" he asked.

Leng Yaozhu nodded. "If the Divine Realm were still around, could that woman become a god through faith?" she asked.

"According to readers' speculation, quite a few people in your era have the qualifications to become gods," Jiang Yan said.

"Yun Ming, who created his own demigod position; Guan Yue, who could sacrifice himself to break through to god level for an instant; Ha Luosa, a special child of the plane; Xu Xiaoyan, the number one controller beneath the stars; and so on."

"But the one with the highest ceiling is still Ya Li."

"If even Guan Yue qualifies, doesn't Chen Xinjie qualify?" Leng Yaozhu asked.

"No," Jiang Yan said with certainty. "He is the Sea God Douluo of your generation. If the Divine Realm were still around, he would have to be responsible for the Sea God's divinity in the mortal world."

At this moment, in the Sky Screen Livestream Room, hearing that there was still a Sea God Douluo twenty thousand years later greatly piqued Bo Saixi's curiosity, and she asked in the Sky Screen Livestream Room.

[Bo Saixi: The Sea God Douluo twenty thousand years later? Then our Sea Soul Masters must have carried on their legacy for twenty thousand years too!]

[Chen Xinjie: Well... I command the Sea God Legion.]

[Bo Saixi: The Sea God Legion? How many Sea Soul Masters are in it?]

[Qiangu Dongfeng: What are Sea Soul Masters? How come I've never heard of them?]

[Bo Saixi: ? What do you mean?]