Chapter 28: Walk the Path of the Holy Spirit Sect, Leave It No Road to Walk!
So that's how it was.
But Ancestor, you've lived for tens of thousands of years—why are you still acting like an impulsive teenager!
Originally, the Federation's plan was to have the Qian Gu family of the Spirit Transmission Tower collude with the Holy Spirit Sect to take the blame—"steal" the Level 12 Fixed-Mount Soul Guidance Cannon, and then bomb Shrek Academy.
However, ever since the Spirit Transmission system emerged, the tradition of Evil Soul Masters had nearly gone extinct. No soul spirit in its right mind would risk everything to board the "evil ship" of the Holy Spirit Sect.
As a result, the Holy Spirit Sect itself had vanished without a trace. Even the Qian Gu family could no longer make contact with it.
For instance, Leng Yulai, once destined to fall to darkness through love and become the Dark Phoenix, had been subdued and awakened by the Spirit Transmission Tower. She never even had a chance to join the Holy Spirit Sect.
Likewise, the Dark Blood Demon—one of the former Four Heavenly Kings of the Holy Spirit Sect—had also been discovered early and recruited by the Tower.
Just like Douluo's Dark Department once did, the Spirit Transmission Tower preemptively identified children with Evil Soul Master potential and secretly trained them as loyal assets.
They walked the Holy Spirit Sect's path—so that the Holy Spirit Sect itself could walk no further.
After all, there were only a few modes of Evil Soul Master cultivation—blood, souls, and other forces of corruption.
Techniques morally questionable, fast-advancing, and full of backlash risk—but all resolvable by the Spirit Transmission Tower.
Even Long Bing, the lover of Wu Zhangkong, now served in the Federation's Dark Department.
The Tower had saved her from the Dark Hummingbird. But believing her origins impure, and knowing Wu Zhangkong was being groomed as a future member of the Sea God Pavilion, she had chosen to disappear, assume a new identity, and devote herself to duty.
In short, the Holy Spirit Sect was half-dead. There was no one left to take the blame.
So the plan to destroy Shrek Academy had stalled indefinitely.
Without the Federation pulling the strings, even if the Holy Spirit Sect had a god, they couldn't possibly steal a Level 12 Fixed-Mount Soul Guidance Cannon.
"Ancestor, isn't that reasoning a bit forced?"
Huo Tianluo's mouth twitched. Someone stole a person from him, and now he wanted to bomb Shrek Academy? That was looking for trouble.
"Just say she's my fiancée. Yun Ming, that villain, stole my woman. A stolen wife is an unforgivable hatred!"
Now even the calm faces of the gathered Titled Douluo went blank.
They studied their "ancestor"—currently in the form of a nine-year-old boy—and inwardly sighed.
A fiancée? At your age and appearance?
Fine, let's say it was some kind of childhood betrothal. But claiming the continent's top expert snatched your wife? Who would believe that?
Yun Ming already had a beloved—Ya Li, the only Healing-type Extreme Douluo and Level 99 powerhouse on the continent.
To claim that the continent's strongest man had abducted a nine-year-old girl? A brazen lie even for their ancestor!
Everyone looked at one another, uncertain how to reason with him. After all, he wasn't human. A soul beast who had lived a million years surely didn't think the same way as people.
Everything must have a justifiable cause! Especially when targeting Shrek Academy.
Jiang Chen reclined in his chair, speaking evenly. "Even if the Holy Spirit Sect no longer exists, we must move against Shrek Academy soon."
"We cannot allow Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect to continue growing."
Especially now, in the era of Dragon King's Legend.
The protagonist had appeared.
Although he could influence Tang Wulin, he could not control him completely. If the Tang God King took action—just as Huo Yuhao had done during the Peerless Tang Sect era—and forcibly altered consciousness, Jiang Chen's entire plan could collapse.
Thus, the Tang God King's remaining influence had to be broken.
The first to be eliminated: the divine presence within Shrek Academy's Golden Ancient Tree.
As for the two soul beast traitors, they could be handled by Gu Yue. Despite the Silver Dragon King being somewhat scatterbrained, her bloodline was still noble. Were it not for the taint of the Evil God's blood running through his veins, even divine beasts would kneel before her.
Among soul beasts, bloodline hierarchy was absolute—a common hundred-thousand-year beast would bow even to a newborn of royal blood.
Then there was still the Plane Ruler, currently locked in struggle with the Abyssal Plane. Now was the perfect opportunity to strike hard at Shrek.
And regarding the Abyssal Plane, that was easier to handle.
Thinking of it, Jiang Chen nearly cursed aloud.
The Tang God King had deliberately drawn the Abyssal Plane in just to "temper" his son—utter madness!
Did he think this was still the Tang Family's private continent?
Either way, the Tang God King's four remaining divine-level subordinates must die—or be crippled beyond recovery.
Everyone present supported destroying Shrek Academy—just not now, and certainly not using such absurd excuses.
The Federation relied on credibility. If it collapsed, so would the nation itself.
"I, by the authority of the ancestral law, declare this operation—Codename: Divine Punishment!"
"No matter the pretext, it must be executed!"
"The day after tomorrow—I want to see the Eternal Kingdom blast Shrek Academy to the heavens!"
Though Jiang Chen had once been human and never treated the Huo Family like servants, he had no need to demand obedience—they gave it willingly.
For countless generations, every dying Titled Douluo had offered their soul core to him for consumption.
Thus, over the millennia, he had devoured not only thirty-three Extreme Douluo cores but the cores of more than a hundred Titled Douluo besides.
The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger—to which he belonged—was truly a race worthy of divine lineage.
Who knew what the first Evil God had done to create such a creature?
Cheated on the Goddess of Goodness, perhaps?
Either way, the ancestral agreement stood: the Huo Family was to grant three unconditional favors to Jiang Chen. After he used those three, he would no longer interfere in their affairs.
Of course, the Huo Family hoped those three favors would never be called upon.
For this was a million-year-old soul beast—an existence to be worshipped, not expended!
Even now, though he had taken human form, what if he could one day overcome the million-year tribulation—and ascend to godhood? Wouldn't that make him an even greater pillar for them to cling to?
Without hesitation, Huo Tianluo spoke for the entire clan. "You are our ancestor, and we naturally obey your command!"
"This doesn't count toward the ancestral pact!"
"I'll prepare everything at once! Ancestor, please, be patient—don't act rashly!"
He feared Jiang Chen might speak a final, irreversible word—wasting one of their precious three promises on mere impulse.
For within the Huo Family, those three favors weren't obligations—they were lifelines. As long as they remained unused, the Ancestor would always be theirs.
Huo Tianluo comforted himself: The Ancestor's just youthful again after turning human. That's all.
Yun Ming, oh Yun Ming—why did you have to provoke our ancestor?
Though you're hailed as the strongest man on the continent, until you ascend to godhood, you're still only human.
But the Huo Family—
The Huo Family stood strong not merely because of their ancestral soul beast—but by the might the Ancestor himself commanded!
With a single order, the Federation's hidden machinery began to move—vast, precise, unstoppable.
"Connect to Snow Empress City! I wish to speak with Her Majesty the Snow Empress—request authorization to launch the Eternal Kingdom!"
(END CHAPTER)
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