Suspicion and Escape
Ye Xishui agreed with Zhongli Wu's opinion. After all, if Huo Yuhao still had any reservations about Shrek, he might eventually part ways with their Holy Spirit Cult.
Looking at it from another perspective, Ye Xishui can understand Huo Yuhao's feelings. After all, she has also dated people from opposing sides, and she is still deeply involved in it now.
However, it was precisely because of this that Ye Xishui supported Zhongli Wu's choice even more. After all, she knew that she was not a very qualified leader, otherwise she would not have given the position of sect leader to her son and become a Supreme Elder who was mostly just a henchman.
Zhongli Wu breathed a sigh of relief upon receiving Ye Xishui's consent. Although he did not know the specific details, he did know that Huo Yuhao and Ye Xishui seemed to be the key to inheriting the Rakshasa Godhood.
To ensure that his Holy Spirit Cult could once again have a God Level powerhouse protecting it, just as it did at its creation, it was essential to eliminate any possibility that Huo Yuhao might leave the Holy Spirit Cult.
However, given Huo Yuhao's importance to his mother, he had better try to get her opinion. Otherwise, if he messed things up and drove Huo Yuhao away, his mother would probably be the first person to kill him.
As for how to kill Ling Luochen without arousing Huo Yuhao's suspicion, he had already figured it out. He would then control the Shrek Academy students who were still alive and use the relationship between Ling Luochen and Huo Yuhao to slander them for having defected to the Holy Spirit Cult.
This led to a riot among the Shrek Academy students who were showing off in the dungeon, which in turn caused the dungeon inhabitants to riot and kill Ling Luochen. In this way, Huo Yuhao's hatred would not spread to the Holy Spirit Cult, but would only be concentrated on the Shrek Academy.
However, just as Zhongli Wu was about to take his leave to carry out his plan, an elder of the Holy Spirit Cult suddenly burst in, shouting, "Master, something terrible has happened!!!"
As soon as these words were spoken, a black light appeared, and the elder, whose neck was being gripped by Zhongli Wu, said, "Didn't I tell you not to disturb my conversation with the Supreme Elder, no matter how urgent the matter is?!"
To this, the elder could only say, trembling, "I know, but you also said that if there is any truly urgent intelligence, it must be reported immediately."
At this moment, Ye Xishui interjected, "If it's truly an emergency, let him speak first. But if what he says is just trivial matters, then deal with it according to criminal law."
Upon hearing this, Zhongli Wu calmed down slightly, then put down the elder he was holding and said with a cold expression, "I'll forgive you for now, as requested by the elder on the platform. However, if it's just some trivial matter, I'll turn you into a vengeful spirit under my Death God Demon Puppet!"
After receiving permission, the elder of the Holy Spirit Cult immediately clasped his hands in explanation, knowing that if he didn't speak up, the cult leader might kill him in a fit of anger.
"I apologize for interrupting the conversation between the leader and Elder Taisang, but the Shrek students who were previously imprisoned have all escaped!"
"What?! They all escaped!!!! How could they possibly get away?!"
You should know that the Holy Spirit Cult that every prisoner is bound with a special collar made of Soul Suppressing Stone! Under the effect of the Soul Suppressing Stone, no matter how high a person's cultivation level is, their Soul Power will be suppressed to the same level as that of an ordinary person!
Moreover, this was especially true for the Shrek students, whose strongest cultivators were only Soul King! Could it be that there was a traitor within their Holy Spirit Cult who released them?
Just then, Zhongli Wu suddenly thought of someone and asked, "Where did Huo Yuhao go during this time?"
The only person from Shrek Holy Spirit Cult is Huo Yuhao, who has just submitted to their Holy Spirit Cult. If Huo Yuhao really lets his former compatriots go, then no matter how good his talent Evil Soul Master is, he cannot be allowed to stay.
The elder quickly replied, "His Holiness has been cultivating in his room with the Fallen Angel girl who follows him throughout this time. The two guards who have been watching over him can guarantee that he has not left the room. An elder was also specifically assigned to confirm this."
"Is that so? If that's the case, then forget it."
This doesn't Zhongli Wu has completely dispelled his doubts about Huo Yuhao; it's just that Huo Yuhao's own strength is only close to that of Soul Ancestor, so letting Ling Luochen and his group go would still be somewhat difficult.
Moreover, Huo Yuhao's room did not have windows or anything like that; at most, there were a few ventilation openings, but those openings were not large enough for a person to enter.
As for Huo Yuhao's Simulation Soul Skill, his disguise function is indeed very powerful, but the Martial Soul of the guards that Zhongli Wu chose for Huo Yuhao are all mental type, so they are much stronger than Huo Yuhao in terms of Spiritual Power.
One of the guards also possesses a Soul Skill called "See Through," which can See Through any illusion or disguise created by Spiritual Power. Unless Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Power is no different from that of Titled Douluo, he would have no way of escaping by Simulation a soul-level illusion and then releasing those Shrek students.
But if it wasn't Huo Yuhao, then who released those Shrek Academy students? Could it be that their Holy Spirit Cult really had a mole from the Shrek Academy? But if so, wouldn't the location of their Holy Spirit Cult headquarters have been exposed to Shrek long ago?
If Shrek were to find out the location of their Holy Spirit Cult, he would surely gather a large number of sects in the name of Holy Spirit Cult to attack them.
On the surface, it was to eliminate evil and eradicate these Evil Soul Master, but in reality, it was just to give Shrek Academy a good reputation.
This way, they can extract more benefits from the various empires. After all, the Shrek Inspection Corps only doesn't officially accept money; they secretly force villages invaded by Evil Soul Master to pay protection money. This can be considered a fairly common tactic of the Shrek Academy.
Of course, to be honest, it's quite normal to ask them to pay protection money in theory. It's just that it's easy to give people a hypocritical feeling when they say that the mission of the Inspection Corps is not profitable while demanding protection money.
You want money, so just give it to us! But you insist on making it seem like you're forcing us to give it to you instead of us asking for it voluntarily. This kind of behavior is really infuriating.
It's important to know that many of their Evil Soul Master come from these villages where they are forced to pay protection money. They are all people who are dissatisfied with the Shrek Academy's condescending attitude.
After grumbling to himself, Zhongli Wu could only order his men to intensify their surveillance of Huo Yuhao, while simultaneously sending men to bring back the Shrek Academy students who had escaped.