Douluo 2: This Dragon God has too much martial virtue

Chapter 580 Fire
Huo Yuhao calmly selected soul bones, gathering all the hundred-thousand-year soul bones and ten-thousand-year soul bones close to the hundred-thousand-year mark as the numerous disciples of the Body Sect watched in anger, but dared not speak. He particularly focused on collecting soul bones from the head and torso, nearly plundering these high-quality soul bones, leaving only the lower-quality or damaged ones. Ultimately, the only soul bones left for the Body Sect were those from the limbs.

"Senior Du, do you think the ranking of the ten most ferocious beasts is reliable?" Huo Yuhao suddenly asked.

"Reliable as hell!" Du Bu Si spat. "Are there no ferocious beasts in the ocean? When I saw those Shrek bastards ranking the soul beasts, they didn't even take the soul beasts in the ocean into account!"

"Indeed." Huo Yuhao smiled faintly. "Ranking based solely on years of cultivation is indeed not fair. Just like between soul masters, even if the soul power level is the same, the strength that can be exerted by different quality spirits is very different. For example, the ultimate spirit is far more powerful than ordinary elemental spirits, and the higher the purity of the dragon spirit, the greater the suppression power it has on other beast spirits. Doesn't this principle apply to soul beasts as well?"

Huo Yuhao then suddenly changed the subject: "Then, Senior Du, have you ever thought about why Shrek Academy ranked her ninth? This is almost the bottom of the list, yet she has killed many Shrek high-ranking officials, and even had many Sea God Pavilion masters wiped out by her."

Indeed, during that period, whoever became the leader of the Sea God Pavilion would be the one to die, and the Shrek executives were all very humble. It was not like they were trying to shirk responsibility just for the sake of politeness, but they really did not want to live a life of sleeping with their eyes open.

Du Bu Si and the members of the Body Sect were all shocked upon hearing this. So this was what Shrek Academy had reluctantly revealed about being "excellent at assassination"? Even the Sea God Pavilion Master could be assassinated and even his entire clan wiped out. This record was truly too brutal!

If you think about it from another perspective, the Beast God might be more gentle than that one.

"Indeed, why is this?" Du Bu Si asked anxiously.

“When I was a child, I once heard…” Huo Yuhao paused slightly, as if deliberately avoiding a certain name. “I heard a legend. During the Holy War over four thousand years ago, at the site where the three great empires and the Sun-Moon Empire were fighting, a dragon fell from the sky…”

"Later, the Beast God Emperor Tian forcibly intervened in the war and took the dragon away." Princess Vina, as a member of the Celestial Soul Empire's royal family, was well aware of this history. The clever princess immediately realized, "So the one we saw that day was actually the dragon itself, correct?"

"How dare those Shrek bastards rank the dragons from the Divine Realm ninth?!" Du Bu Si was furious. As the leader of one of the continent's top factions, he was of course aware of the Divine Realm's existence. After the dragon's fall, Dai Mubai, the White Tiger lineage's divine ancestor, delivered the dragon-slaying oracle to Tang San.

Shrek Academy regarded this oracle as the supreme command, and even took the initiative to gather the forces of the three former Douluo Kingdoms after the end of the Holy War, openly declared war on the Star Dou Great Forest, and firmly demanded that the Beast God Di Tian hand over the dragon.

This was the first time that humans took the initiative to wage war against soul beasts. However, before they could confront the beast tide head-on, they suffered a devastating blow from the Beast God Emperor Tianshulun Dragon Flame.

The result was predictable: more people died than in the war against the Sun Moon Empire. If Shrek Academy hadn't realized the situation was dire and withdrawn in time, their reputation built during the Holy War would have been shaken. "It's understandable that he's so angry, isn't it? After all, he also comes from the God Realm… Ah, sorry, please forget about that!"

You must have done this on purpose, didn't you? Du Bu Si glared at Huo Yuhao, who seemed to realize he had slipped up. He only knew a dragon from the divine realm had crash-landed on Douluo Continent, but he never imagined there would be two of them. So what's the point of fighting them? Better to just keep your tail between your legs and behave yourself!
"So, Senior Du, can you guess why Shrek Academy gave her such a low ranking?" Huo Yuhao asked himself, answering, "Of course, it's to get all the top forces involved in this dragon-slaying operation! There will always be geniuses who are not satisfied with a hundred thousand year spirit ring and pursue ferocious beast-level spirit rings to break through their limits, right?"

"No, the risk is too great." Du Bu Si retorted, shaking his head. "I'm not referring to the risk of hunting. Even if a spirit master pays a huge price to kill a ferocious beast, it is difficult to gain any practical benefits. This is because humans are almost unable to absorb the spirit rings produced by ferocious beasts. The bodies of most spirit masters simply cannot withstand the power of the ferocious beast's spirit rings and the impact of their souls."

"But for everyone in the Body Sect, physical strength shouldn't be a problem, right?" Huo Yuhao raised an eyebrow and asked, "Come to think of it, since your sect dared to kill seven hundred thousand year old spirit beasts in a row in the Star Dou Great Forest, has it never considered killing ferocious beasts?"

Du Bu Si was suddenly speechless. Of course there were. Not to mention those elders from the Body Sect, he himself had even thought about secretly killing one.

"So, as long as the Body Sect also attacks her, it would be equivalent to tacitly executing the Dragon Slaying Oracle. This would not only divert the Beast God's hatred, but also greatly reduce the pressure on Shrek Academy. Am I right?"

Du Bu Si was so angry that he trembled all over when he heard this. So Shrek Academy had been plotting against top factions like them for thousands of years? And the first to bear the brunt of the attack was their own Benti Sect!

It seems that we were too lenient towards the remnants of Shrek before! Du Bu Si immediately decided to raid the homes of a few more nobles who had close ties with Shrek.

"Not long ago, my brother mentioned that the Xuanming Sect, a hidden sect in the Tianhun Empire, was having some business friction with our Dragon Pavilion. Coincidentally, I also heard that the youngest sister of the former emperor of the Douling Empire eloped with the current leader of the Xuanming Sect..."

"Then let's start with the Xuanming Sect and continue the reckoning." Princess Vina immediately responded, demonstrating decisiveness. She was aware of the Dragon Pavilion's past collaboration with the Xuanming Sect, but she keenly sensed that the situation was different. Perhaps someone in the Xuanming Sect had offended the Dragon Pavilion's leadership.

After all, the royal family has always coveted the Xuanming Sect's specialty, the Xuanshui Pill. This precious pill has the miraculous effect of cleansing the tendons and marrow, increasing the level of soul power, and improving the talent of soul masters.

"How did they offend you?"

"It wasn't a big deal, just a business dispute." Huo Yuhao suddenly felt that this Sect Master, Du Bu Si, really loved gossiping, from humans to dragons. "A few years ago, the Dragon Pavilion accidentally acquired a 100,000-year-old golden tortoise-shell spirit ring. They originally wanted to use it to exchange with the Xuanming Sect for the formula for the Xuanshui Pill. After all, their inherited martial spirit is the Xuanming Turtle. If they could fuse it with the golden tortoise-shell spirit ring, it would be possible to completely transform their martial spirit. In this way, their descendants' martial spirits would no longer be the Xuanming Turtle Shell Shield, but the pure Divine Beast Xuanwu Shield. This was originally a win-win deal, but their young sect master insisted on marrying one of the Pavilion's sisters to the family. Even the princess of the previous dynasty personally came to propose marriage on behalf of her son..."