Zhongli Wu's Wild Joy
As Ye Xishui listened to Zhongli Wu recount Huo Yuhao's experiences over the past period, she revealed a rather satisfied expression. It seemed that Huo Yuhao had completely sided with their Holy Spirit Cult.
Just then, Ye Xishui noticed that Zhongli Wu seemed hesitant to speak, and immediately said unhappily, "Say what you want to say! Don't be so long-winded!"
Seeing his mother's expression, Zhongli Wu knew that if he didn't speak up, he might be beaten to a pulp. So he immediately voiced his concerns about Huo Yuhao.
Zhongli Wu originally thought that after this round of deception, as long as Huo Yuhao underwent the Holy Spirit Ritual (the kind where the brainwashing procedure was removed) to fully unleash the Evil Attribute within him, and then let the Evil Attribute dominate his mind, his personality would become paranoid and he would no longer doubt what they said.
However, the Holy Spirit Ritual did not go as smoothly as Zhongli Wu had imagined. First of all, during the Holy Spirit Ritual, Zhongli Wu discovered that the Holy Spirit Ritual could not fully activate the evil energy in Huo Yuhao's body.
At first, Zhongli Wu thought it was because the Evil Attribute in Huo Yuhao's body had become so concentrated that it was at the level of Ultimate Attribute, so the requirements for awakening it were very high.
But after a moment's thought, Zhongli Wu realized that Wen Ting wasn't the one, but rather that Huo Yuhao was missing something—something that most of the saints already possessed.
Those were hands stained with blood! That's right, Huo Yuhao had never taken a life in his life! This was the situation of lacking the sacrifice needed for awakening!
After learning of this, Zhongli Wu took Huo Yuhao to the dungeon and ordered him to kill one of the prisoners there in order to complete his Holy Spirit Awakening.
Of course, the prisoners here are those who have not yet submitted, because the more excited the user's emotions are when awakening evil energy, the better.
Those prisoners who had not yet surrendered were the best people to provoke Huo Yuhao's emotions, since every Evil Soul Master who entered here had to listen to the insults hurled at them by the prisoners.
As for the concern that Huo Yuhao might be too soft-hearted to carry out the sentence, Zhongli Wu was not worried at all. Most of these prisoners were scum who had been captured by other Evil Soul Master to vent their anger. It could be said that apart from those from the opposing forces of their Holy Spirit Cult, the prisoners in this dungeon were all social ills.
After all, those so-called innocent people were usually eliminated long ago when they were wreaking havoc, so the people in this dungeon are mainly the punching bags for saints, elders and the like.
Furthermore, since the Holy Spirit Cult is a sect of Evil Soul Master, the entire sect is enveloped in a strong evil aura, which helps them cultivate.
The dungeon where the prisoners were located was the most evil place. So when Huo Yuhao was enduring the insults from those prisoners, he was also stimulated by the evil energy, and finally made the right choice under the guidance of the evil energy.
However, to Zhongli Wu's surprise, Huo Yuhao did indeed get his wish and the evil energy entered his body, causing him to go berserk and even attacking a large number of prisoners, resulting in the deaths of many of them.
Among them, one girl was given special care by Huo Yuhao. Although she did not die, she suffered pain that she should not have had to endure in her life.
After some investigation, Zhongli Wu discovered that the two of them did indeed have a grudge, or rather, Huo Yuhao had a one-sided grudge against her.
The girl's name is Yu Mengdi. She was the vice-captain of the Zhengtian Team that Huo Yuhao faced in the Soul Master Tournament. It was the match against her that made Huo Yuhao embarrass himself and dragged down the team, causing him to lose the trust of the Shrek Team members.
As for why Yu Mengdi was here, it was mainly because some of the people from the Holy Spirit Pride group were also watching the Soul Master Tournament. When they discovered that Yu Mengdi was the holder of the Angel Martial Soul, their first reaction was to imprison her after the Soul Master Tournament and then interrogate her about the whereabouts of the other members of the Angel Clan.
The Holy Spirit Cult's greatest enemy may be Shrek Academy, but what they fear most are those born into the Angel Clan. This is not only because their Sacred Attribute are somewhat effective against their Evil Martial Soul, but also because of the psychological trauma of being overwhelmingly crushed by the Spirit Hall ten thousand years ago.
To be honest, if it were just that, Zhongli Wu wouldn't have any particular feelings, since revenge is a characteristic of Evil Soul Master.
However, to Zhongli Wu's surprise, after this incident, Yu Mengdi's Martial Soul changed from Angel Martial Soul to the legendary Fallen Angel Martial Soul! And for some reason, she became an existence like Huo Yuhao's servant!
This discovery made Zhongli Wu instantly feel that their Holy Spirit Cult had struck gold! A person who could transform such a noble and sacred Martial Soul as an angel into Evil Martial Soul must be the most important holy son of their Holy Spirit Cult, and he might even be qualified to be elected Holy Emperor!
Others may not know what the Holy Emperor means to the Holy Spirit Cult, but Zhongli Wu, as the cult leader, certainly does.
The so-called Holy Emperor was the great man who founded the Holy Spirit Cult, and also a deity born in the same year as the Angel God. However, because he was defeated by the Angel God, the era later became dominated by the Angel God, and the remaining Holy Spirits could only escape by ship.
Therefore, once Zhongli Wu learned of Huo Yuhao's existence, he had to ensure that there were no destabilizing factors that could turn him against his own side.
So Zhongli Wu investigated Huo Yuhao again and discovered that during Huo Yuhao's rampage, he had never attacked a prisoner, a student from Shrek Inner Court.
Previously, when their Holy Spirit Cult attacked the Sea God Pavilion, they also captured some students, hoping to extract information about Shrek from their minds.
What they valued most was her status as Inner Court student, since she had been one of the Shrek Seven Monsters in this generation during the Soul Master Tournament. As a key figure cultivated by Shrek, she must know a lot about Shrek's secrets.
That's right, the girl was Ling Luochen, who was captured along with Huo Yuhao!
At first, Zhongli Wu thought that Huo Yuhao was still somewhat rational and didn't want to hurt the Shrek members. However, after seeing that Huo Yuhao had killed some Shrek members after his rampage, he realized that the girl might have some unclear relationship with Huo Yuhao.
That won't do. If we just keep this girl around, Huo Yuhao might eventually be persuaded to leave the Holy Spirit Cult, which would make Huo Yuhao an unstable factor.
Therefore, Zhongli Wu planned to extract the information from the girl's mind and then kill her. If possible, it would be best to have Huo Yuhao kill her personally, so as to demonstrate her determination to join the Holy Spirit Cult, since Shrek was their eternal enemy.