Douluo: Twins of Fate

Chapter 208 The Blueprint of the Soul Palace: Controlling All Soul Masters!
"This one……"

Under Jiang Qingtong's questioning, Du Busi was momentarily speechless. He shook his head and pondered, "Of course not. It's just that your actions are like...like the Spirit Hall ten thousand years ago!"

"Before deciding to unify the continent and transform into a Spirit Empire, were the actions of the Spirit Hall wrong from the perspective of an ordinary Spirit Master? If it weren't for the Spirit Hall's coercion, would the two great empires have provided subsidies to Spirit Masters at that time?"

Jiang Qingtong countered with a question, looking at Du Busi, and said, "Our Soul Hall should be like the Spirit Hall of that time, or even better!"

"But the Spirit Hall eventually became the Spirit Empire," Du Busi said, looking at Jiang Qingtong.

"Therefore, in order to prevent the Soul Hall from following in the footsteps of the Spirit Hall, the Spirit Tournament will be established simultaneously after the Soul Hall officially takes the stage on the continent." Jiang Qingtong looked at Du Busi and explained her organizational plan for the future of the Soul Hall.

Poison Immortal frowned and asked, "The Martial Soul Tournament? What does that mean?"

"For any sect that cooperates with the Soul Hall, the Soul Hall will provide suitable disciples, and their sect leader will be a guest elder of the Soul Hall."

"Unlike the Spirit Hall's mere figureheads, the Spirit Hall's guest elders can offer their opinions and suggestions on the Spirit Hall's operations at the grand assembly, and supervise its functioning. The Spirit Assembly can even dismiss and re-elect the heads of the Spirit Hall's various branches, including the Hall Master and Deputy Hall Master!"

Jiang Qingtong recounted her story to Du Busi in detail.

However, her vision for the Soul Palace went far beyond that.

In her blueprint, even all the academies would be under the control of the Soul Palace! Their deans would become guest elders, just like the sect leaders!
At that time, the Soul Hall will have access to all the information and files of Soul Masters and will manage their studies and cultivation, while the sects will act as technical units or enterprises.

In this way, the Soul Hall becomes a bridge between the academy and the sect, and it is more like a Soul Master education and employment coordination agency with expanded functions.

In fact, with the support of Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming, the Soul Palace has been gradually doing this within the Sun Moon Empire. Although progress is slow and there is considerable resistance, at least it has begun; everything is difficult at the beginning.

“Little girl, your idea is good, but you seem to have overlooked one problem.”

Du Busi looked at Jiang Qingtong and said to her, "Admittedly, your design can prevent the Soul Hall from becoming the Spirit Hall, but if this continues, the Soul Hall's control over the Soul Master world will become deeper and deeper, and a generation of Hall Masters will inevitably develop unwarranted ambitions. If he possesses the power of a Limit Douluo, what will the Spirit Tournament use to remove a Limit Douluo?"

"That's a good question."

Jiang Qingtong nodded and said, "But even Limit Douluo are not invincible. Under this system, the Soul Hall Master is selected by the conference, and he starts from the same point as the heads of various sects! If we really reach an era where there is only one Limit Douluo, the Soul Hall Master, and other sects, academies, and countries can't even muster a level 98 or even level 97 Super Douluo and a level 9 Soul Master, then letting him rule the entire continent might not be a bad thing."

Unlike other fantasy worlds, the Douluo Continent doesn't allow individual martial prowess to determine life and death with a single thought. Even a powerful Limit Douluo like Mu En can be threatened by Jing Hongchen, a level 94 Douluo, thanks to his level 9 soul tool.

This situation, where the gap between the most skilled individual and others is not insurmountable, makes democracy by the strong a possibility.

The Lord of the Soul Hall controls everything about Soul Masters, so he will inevitably develop the Soul Hall to gain control of more Soul Masters. In order to limit the safety of the Soul Hall and their respective forces, the guest elders of the sects and academies will also carefully select the Lord of the Soul Hall and supervise everything about the Soul Hall.

The two are inherently opposed. If all the sects were to unite and elect a useless person as the Soul Hall Master, their intentions would be laid bare. Why bother with rules? They might as well just start fighting!
Rules are only useful when things are stable.

Moreover, once rules and stability become the norm, even if they collapse, the collapse will be slowed down due to the enormous historical inertia.

No one can design a perfect system from the outset; all systems require continuous development and change. But the system that Jiang Qingtong and Jiang Shengyu prepared for the Soul Palace is far more advanced than that of the current feudal empire.

After Jiang Qingtong finished speaking, Du Busi fell into deep thought.

After a long while, he suddenly asked, "Was this your brother's idea?"

Jiang Qingtong hadn't expected the first question about the poison not being dead to be this. She asked curiously, "What's wrong? Why do you think that, Senior?"

"You'd better be honest, only your cunning brother could come up with these things!" Du Busi snorted, not holding back from scolding Jiang Shengyu in front of his sister Jiang Qingtong. "That brat dares to scheme against anyone, but only he can think this far ahead."

Jiang Qingtong raised her hand slightly and said to Du Busi, "Isn't it inappropriate for you to scold your brother in front of your sister?"

“I said the same thing to his face!”

Poison Immortal snorted and then instructed Jiang Qingtong, "Little girl, don't let your brother lead you astray. That brat has too many ideas and takes too big a step. Too much force leads to a fall. Try to persuade him when you have the chance. It's alright if he encounters a good person like me, but if he encounters a powerful evil spirit master with malicious intentions, it will be even more difficult to guard against! After all, there's no such thing as being able to guard against a thief for a thousand days."

Hearing Du Bu Si's earnest advice, Jiang Qing Tong nodded and obediently replied, "Yes! I understand, thank you, senior."

After saying that, she changed the subject and said, "However, we don't need to worry too much about the evil soul masters now. On our way back, we have already taken care of more than seventy soul saints, soul douluos, and more than ten titled douluos."

Upon hearing Jiang Qingtong's words, everyone present widened their eyes.

Even Elder Hong and the others stared at Jiang Qingtong in disbelief and asked, "Qingtong, is it true? This is no joke!"

Jiang Qingtong nodded and said, "Really."

Du Busi stared at Jiang Qingtong's face, and after confirming that she wasn't lying, asked, "How did you do that? Could it be that Di Tian helped you again?"

Jiang Qingtong shook her head, not telling Du Busi, and said, "That's the secret! Now, senior, it's time to answer my question! I've already proven to you that we have the ability to give the Body Sect talented Body Martial Soul Masters, so shouldn't you fulfill your promise?"

After Jiang Qingtong finished speaking, Du Busi fell silent.

Seeing his silence, Jiang Qingtong continued, "You can't go back on your word! I've already told you the secrets of the Soul Palace. If you go back on your word, I can only ask you to stay in the Sun Moon Empire for the rest of your life."

(End of this chapter)