Doubts About the Holy Spirit Cult
Looking at the entry list for this Soul Master Tournament, all Xu Xingyu could say was that the number of teams was a bit excessive.
I won't even mention that the entire starting lineup consists of beautiful girls; it's not like there haven't been teams composed entirely of girls in the Douluo Continent before.
However, the average cultivation level of all the main team members is at the Soul Emperor level, and there are two Soul Saint as a safety net, which is already somewhat overpowered.
Normally, Soul Emperor are the ace in a team, while Soul Saint are found in less than a handful of teams.
In Xu Xingyu's memory, during this period in the original work, the only teams with Soul Saint were the Holy Spirit Cult and the Body Sect, which used the Snow Demon Sect's quota to appear.
By the way, was the Soul Saint in the Holy Spirit Cult's team in the original novel named Yan Feng? Xu Xingyu hadn't read it for a long time, so she was a little unsure.
If that's the case, then maybe I should reserve a spot on the reserve team just in case?
Although he doesn't have a habit of bullying the weak, that doesn't include Evil Soul Master.
As General Duanmu once said, "Once Evil Soul Master, always Evil Soul Master."
Xu Xingyu has no regard for martial ethics when dealing with these Evil Soul Master cultivate with the blood of countless people.
Only dead Evil Soul Master are good Evil Soul Master. No matter how innocent you were before you fell, as long as you shed the blood of innocent people for your own selfish desires.
Then you have already lost the right to claim your innocence and to feel angry about the injustices of life.
Since you made this choice, you should be prepared to face the consequences.
This further solidified Xu Xingyu's resolve to rectify the social situation in the Douluo Continent in the future, since the emergence of Evil Soul Master in society is fundamentally a societal problem.
In the future, we should strive to allow those with Evil Martial Soul to take on roles similar to criminal police officers, like in Douluo IV. This way, at least those who awaken Evil Martial Soul will not suffer too much persecution and ultimately fall into Evil Soul Master.
It's impossible to eliminate them all; it's a social and human issue, and no matter how you change it, there will never be a perfect solution.
"Let's talk about that later," Xu Xingyu sighed helplessly. "Let's finish what we need to do first."
"For the Soul Master Tournament, we'll still aim for a reserve team spot. We can ignore the other teams, but the Holy Spirit Cult is an absolute must-win. We'll just have to hold back a bit. Otherwise, things won't be fun."
Just as Xu Xingyu was talking to himself, a voice came from behind him, "Oh? You want to participate in this kind of playful thing too?"
The person speaking was Gu Yuena, the first wife of Xu Xingyu, who had punished him that day. At this moment, she was looking at her lover with a puzzled expression, while pressing her body against his back and embracing him with both arms.
In her view, even if the Holy Spirit Cult was an Evil Soul Master organization, Xu Xingyu didn't need to appear in the Soul Master Tournament to eliminate them.
If it were an attack targeting the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters, Gu Yuena could understand it, but the Soul Master Tournament is ultimately just a competition.
There was simply no one among her peers who could rival Xu Xingyu. After all, becoming Titled Douluo at the age of fifteen was something that most people wouldn't even dare to dream of.
And this is only his apparent combat strength. Considering his actual combat strength, Gu Yuena felt that if she fought Xu Xingyu, without taking any other external factors into account, she would lose more often than she would win.
To paraphrase Electrolux, he could become a god anytime he wanted.
Isn't it just about condensing a third Soul Core? With his peak Second-Level God physique, isn't that easy?
Therefore, Gu Yuena believed that Xu Xingyu's worries were completely unnecessary, and she didn't even quite understand why Xu Xingyu was so interested in the Holy Spirit Cult.
Even if it's for one's own ideals or sense of justice, is it really necessary to go to this extent?
Xu Xingyu simply turned to her lover and said, "Well, there's actually a deeper reason behind that."
Xu Xingyu explained to Gu Yuena about her battle with Yan Feng before the last Soul Master Tournament, and how she obtained the Stone of Space related to the Space Dragon King from him.
In addition, he produced a report that Spirit Contract Pagoda had given him before. This report was about the Sun Moon Empire's branch's attack on the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters.
According to the report above, the Holy Spirit Cult appears to have known all along that the Spirit Contract Pagoda was planning a Destruction attack on their headquarters.
The official explanation is that the Holy Spirit Cult was allowed to establish its headquarters in the Evil Demon Forest because it signed a pact with the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler after a battle.
Therefore, after the completion of the Spirit Contract Pagoda, the Holy Spirit Cult had long planned to relocate, since the entire Soul Beast Clan was already an ally of the Spirit Contract Pagoda.
Therefore, no one knows when the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler will betray them and expose their headquarters to the Spirit Contract Pagoda.
They moved their base early, leaving the Evil Demon Forest, and now no one knows where their new stronghold is.
And indeed, it was the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler proactively provided the address of the Holy Spirit Cult, which gave the Spirit Contract Pagoda the opportunity to launch an attack on the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters.
But it was precisely because there were so many reasonable explanations that Xu Xingyu felt something was amiss.
If the headquarters was indeed moved ahead of schedule for that reason, then when the Spirit Contract Pagoda attacked the Holy Spirit Cult, the headquarters should have been completely emptied out!
Instead of leaving some unmoved items behind, this gives the impression that the house was deliberately left untouched to mislead people into thinking they hadn't had time to move everything out.
Furthermore, judging from the time Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao caused a ruckus at the Shrek Academy, at least during that period, the Holy Spirit Cult didn't take the Spirit Contract Pagoda seriously at all.
This indicates that the Holy Spirit Cult Holy Spirit Cult only began to be wary of the Spirit Contract Pagoda after two of its Limit Douluo were injured and killed by Gu Yuena.
The attack on the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters by the Spirit Contract Pagoda occurred right after that incident, less than a week later.
If you just want to leave behind a little bit of supplies to fool people, less than a week is simply not enough time!
Moreover, even if Xu Xingyu and Gu Yuena didn't personally handle it, it was Di Tian who was in charge of it at the time!
Di Tian is the strongest person openly known on the Douluo Continent! How could things have turned out like this with him involved?
Di Tian's loyalty to Gu Yuena and Xu Xingyu is beyond doubt; it is deeply rooted in their blood.
Therefore, this can only represent one possibility: the Spirit Contract Pagoda of the Sun Moon Branch may have spies, and they may even be spies belonging to the Holy Spirit Cult!
This is why Xu Xingyu is so devoted to the Holy Spirit Cult!
Both publicly and privately, he has to cause trouble for the Holy Spirit Cult! Even if God came, he wouldn't change his mind!!!