The person walking in from outside the door was an old man in pure white robes. This kind of retro attire was rarely seen nowadays. His face was quaint. His thin and tall figure appeared particularly straight and tall. A head of silver white long hair casually hung behind his shoulders, falling past his shoulders.
However, his eyes were exceptionally clear, forming a sharp contrast with his weathered, aged face. Such eyes did not belong to an elderly person, yet they appeared on his face.
Seeing him enter, Dai Tianling's pupils contracted. He hurriedly stood up and bowed. "Greetings, Your Majesty Divine Domain."
This old man was none other than the current dean of Monster Academy, the renowned great expert of the Xingluo Empire, the legendary Imperial Preceptor, known as "Divine Domain Douluo," En Ci.
He was a generation's legend of Xingluo.
At the age of thirty, he was still an unremarkable little soul master, merely an ordinary three ring Soul Grandmaster.
Logically, no one would have paid attention to such a person. But he relied on his three ring strength to defeat everyone below four rings at Monster Academy, entering the academy at the oldest enrollment age in its history, which caused widespread attention.
After that, En Ci seemed to have cheated, constantly improving at a speed that others found incomprehensible.
In four years, he went from a small three ring Soul Grandmaster to a six ring Soul Emperor.
In another four years, he went from a six ring Soul Emperor to a generation's Titled Douluo. Afterwards, in a comparable amount of time, he became a Super Douluo.
When he was fifty years old, he was already standing at the peak of the Xingluo Continent, becoming Xingluo's only Limit Douluo.
To this day, his advancement seemed very strange to many in Xingluo.
After all, the Light Sacred Dragon martial soul was a very powerful martial soul. How could it be that he accomplished nothing for the first thirty years, then advanced by leaps and bounds for the next twenty?
Dai Tianling did not fully understand the reasons for En Ci's advancement, but his respect for this man was beyond doubt.
After all, he was Xingluo's only publicly acknowledged Limit Douluo.
En Ci nodded to Dai Tianling. His gaze slowly swept over Duoqing Douluo and the others. A deep light shone in those clear eyes. He greeted each of them separately.
Duoqing Douluo, Soul Calming Douluo, and the others also cautiously returned the greeting.
This was a Limit Douluo, and not one who had just entered the Limit realm. Regardless of the stance of both sides, he needed to be treated with caution. However, what surprised them somewhat was the aura on his body.
That pure light aura could not be faked. En Ci's martial soul was definitely light attribute. How could someone like that cooperate with the Holy Spirit Cult?
Or rather, why did the Holy Spirit Cult tolerate the existence of such a person on the Xingluo Continent?
Were they not afraid of suffering backlash, that En Ci would ultimately act against them?
For a moment, even Duoqing Douluo, who had received news from the Tang Sect branch, began to doubt his own guess.
Had Xingluo truly completely fallen?
Or, with En Ci present, had Xingluo not yet completely degenerated into an evil soul master nation?
Just then, a telepathic message from Huo Yuhao reached their minds, making them alert. "There are precedents of light attribute martial souls appearing within the Holy Spirit Cult. Ten thousand years ago, at the height of the Holy Spirit Cult, there was such an example. Death God Douluo, Ye Xishui."
A light attribute soul master appearing in the main stronghold of evil soul masters? What was so strange about that?
Look at Death God Douluo from ten thousand years ago, a wonder with twin martial souls, an evil martial soul and the Light Phoenix. She was what she was. She never went wrong as an evil soul master, nor was she ever soft hearted.
She was one of the few who, even after falling in love, still prioritized her ambitions, a madwoman.
Moreover, she also pulled the Dark Sacred Dragon into the evil soul master camp. If not for the fact that Dragon God Douluo was not brain dead and joined the Holy Spirit Cult with them, just see if the Holy Spirit Cult would accept him.
And from the fact that the Dawn Society had already existed for several hundred years, it could be seen that the Holy Spirit Cult's influence on Xingluo could not have formed overnight. It probably had quite a history.
Then, under these circumstances, did En Ci, born into such an environment, have a choice?
This was far more terrifying than Long Xiaoyao being drawn into the Holy Spirit Cult by Ye Xishui. Long Xiaoyao was just lovesick. En Ci had no other choice.
Your life, your friends, your teachers, your relatives, and even your wife are all in Xingluo, or are even members of the Holy Spirit Cult.
The resources you have cultivated to this point may have all been provided by the Holy Spirit Cult. They have been right beside you, watching you grow, presenting a bit of truth at the appropriate moment, watching you make your choice.
So what if it was the Light Sacred Dragon martial soul? So what if he restrained himself?
If it was this version of the Holy Spirit Cult, the prototype of a demonic cult that had endured humiliation for ten thousand years, wanting to fight back against the Douluo Federation, they could tolerate a Limit Douluo like En Ci and would have enough time and means to control him.
It took him fifty years to grow from a small soul master to a Limit Douluo. With Xingluo completely under control, En Ci could do nothing.
Huo Yuhao took a deep breath and used the information he had recently obtained to remind them. "I have been to the Xingluo auction. The Human Pills used for cultivation are still being auctioned through official channels. Clearly, the Holy Spirit Cult's power here is deeply rooted. Under these circumstances, the Holy Spirit Cult might overlook others, but a powerful light attribute soul master like him, once he reached a certain level, would definitely be valued by them. And since he is not dead, then..."
Huo Yuhao did not finish, but Duoqing Douluo and Soul Calming Douluo already understood his meaning. They completely put away their doubts.
A Light Sacred Dragon who had grown up under the Holy Spirit Cult's noses and had not died could only mean that in the Holy Spirit Cult's view, he would not cause them any loss.
And if even the only Limit Douluo was like this, it indirectly showed that the Holy Spirit Cult had completely controlled the overall situation in Xingluo.
"How insidious."
Duoqing Douluo looked at Divine Domain Douluo's gentle face as he detailed the plan, thinking to himself.
They were actually sending a light attribute Limit Douluo to assist them. If they had not obtained that information along the way, would they have been screwed over by Xingluo?
After all, even if they did not trust Xingluo, when fighting evil soul masters, they would trust this Light Sacred Dragon martial soul possessor.
Given the attribute of his martial soul, he would inevitably fight the Holy Spirit Cult to the death. The Holy Spirit Cult would also target him, just as the original Holy Spirit Cult very much wanted to kill Saint Spirit Douluo. Anyone would think this way.
And if they really thought that, they would be the ones to die.
Thinking this, Duoqing Douluo looked at Huo Yuhao with complicated eyes.
The intelligence about the Human Pills had been discovered by Huo Yuhao. If not for him, what would have happened to them on this diplomatic mission to Xingluo?
While Duoqing Douluo was distracted, En Ci laid out the entire plan. Then, when Soul Calming Douluo asked for the location of the Holy Spirit Cult's hiding place, he gave a location. "The Dawn Society is an affiliated organization of the Holy Spirit Cult, just disguised under a different skin."
Huo Yuhao said, "..."
The Dawn Society said that the Xingluo Federation was in cahoots with the Holy Spirit Cult.
The Xingluo Federation said that the Dawn Society was a branch of the Holy Spirit Cult.
Maybe we should not go on the surrounding and annihilate mission. You two fight first and decide who is better.
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