Douluo Continent: When Huo Yuhao Becomes the Lord of the End

Chapter 152 Disgusting Values

Holy Spirit Church.

In the underground area of ​​Mount Sumeru, a forest of demons.

The forest vegetation here is exceptionally dense, the dark ground has an eerie, viscous, asphalt-like texture, the air is filled with highly poisonous miasma, and raven spirit beasts occasionally fly across the sky, seemingly indicating the ominous nature of this place.

However, the numerous soul-purifying devices scattered throughout, along with the runes placed in the shadows to absorb flesh and blood, created an unusual sense of freshness.

This is the exterior of the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters.

Further down lies the true core of the Holy Spirit Cult, a thousand meters underground, covering a vast area.

Here are altars forged from tens of thousands of bones, a water prison that imprisons soul masters, and a soul tool factory that specializes in making soul tools.
If it weren't for the constant, echoing screams of countless souls and the countless vengeful spirits of flesh and blood in the environment, it would be truly difficult to associate such a large-scale force with a cult.

A chilling wind howled, and resentment filled the air. The ground was paved with relief tiles depicting skeletons, with bones scattered everywhere, perfectly fitting the stereotype of evil forces.

In a certain room, Vice Leader Feng Ling was admiring the beautiful body covered by a thin veil before her, a morbidly infatuated expression on her face.

"Yan Shaozhe, you never imagined that the disciple you placed such high hopes on would now be in my hands. You will definitely pay the price for what you did back then."

This vice-leader of the Holy Spirit Cult, and the wife of the current leader Zhong Liwu, is obsessed with being in love from the moment she opens her mouth.

More than a year has passed since she last kidnapped Ma Xiaotao. She has finally fully unleashed the evil fire energy within Ma Xiaotao, suppressing her violent and bloodthirsty consciousness while turning her into a member of the Holy Cult.

She intended to take him as her apprentice, or rather, that was her plan from the beginning.

Then train her to become the Holy Maiden of the Holy Church, and then have her kill her mentor and personally eliminate Yan Shaozhe, that philandering phoenix.

That womanizing Phoenix likes to bully himself, so now that I've taken his disciple under my wing and arranged for him to face Yan Shaozhe in a life-or-death struggle, isn't that another form of bullying?

Seeing his wife like this, Zhongli Wu didn't say anything, but his expression was unusually strange and rather unpleasant.

After all, the impact of these words is no less than that of a woman saying to her husband, "Someone slept with me back then, but he didn't want me, so I'm going to get revenge on him."

Feng Ling was completely unaware of Zhong Liwu's strange behavior. She was still admiring Ma Xiaotao's body, which she had already modified, and constantly fantasizing about how Yan Shaozhe would beg her not to hurt this little phoenix in the future.

Zhongli Wu couldn't stand it anymore; that expression was too perverted.

“I will accept my mother’s arrangement and let Ma Xiaotao become the Holy Maiden of the Holy Church. You don’t need to worry about the rest. I will talk to my mother.”

Thinking of Yan Shaozhe and Feng Ling, and the martial spirit of Ma Xiaotao in front of him, Zhong Liwu felt like cursing.

Could this woman really have been given to Yan Shaozhe? Is the woman in front of them actually their daughter?

So what am I now?
Fengling: I didn't intend to give it to him, but he insisted?

Zhongliwu: Did you give it to him just because he insisted?
In fact, Zhongli Wu was unwilling to promote or even cultivate someone like Ma Xiaotao. He even harbored some apprehension, fearing that she might threaten his position if she grew up in the future.

However, Ye Xishui already knew about it, so there was no use in him being wary, since the real power of the Holy Spirit Sect was actually in the hands of Ye Xishui, the Supreme Leader.

Yeah. It's that damn old man who married him a crazy mom, and she's his biological mother, blood is thicker than water.

Interestingly, the martial souls of Yan Shaozhe, Feng Ling, and Ma Xiaotao are all related to the phoenix, and Ye Xishui, the Supreme Leader of the Holy Spirit Sect, also has a phoenix as her second martial soul.

It's hard not to wonder if there's some other storyline involved. If Yan Shaozhe's bloodline elder is Long Xiaoyao, then wouldn't Ye Xishui be his nominal grandmother or great-grandmother?

Since Zhongli Wu is Ye Xishui's son, does that mean that Zhongli Wu and Yan Shaozhe are nominally uncle and nephew or grandfather and grandson, since they share the same ancestor, Ye Xishui?

So, given that Feng Ling's martial soul is a phoenix and she has a past with Yan Shaozhe, could it be interpreted as a case of unrequited love, where the younger generation's lover marries the elder?

Now, his former lover, now the wife of an elder, is actually ordering his disciple, Ma Xiaotao, who also possesses the Phoenix Martial Soul, to kill him.
hiss~
This is absolutely a mess; the relationships involved are so intricate that it would take three days and three nights to explain them all.

The fact that the Dean of the Spirit System at Shrek Academy and the leader of the Holy Spirit Cult have such a relationship—one worships the Sea God, and the other worships the Holy Emperor (those who know, know)—tsk tsk tsk, two birds with one stone! It has to be our shrewd and far-sighted Tang San who has such a profound plan.

Who is the ultimate winner? Of course, it's Ye Xishui, the Supreme Master.

Not only did he make one of his two bloodlines the leader of the Holy Spirit Cult and the other the dean of the Shrek Academy's Martial Soul Department, but he also manipulated two sycophants at will.

One man (Zhongli Laogui) got her body but not her heart, and the price was the entire Holy Spirit Cult as a 'bride price'; another man (Long Xiaoyao) got her heart but not her body; and yet another man (Mu En) got neither her heart nor her body, and had to feel guilty for the rest of his life.

Our Supreme Leader Ye Xishui is practically a model of manipulating men. First, she established a relationship with Mu En, then made Long Xiaoyao withdraw in disappointment, and then, after getting drunk, she had sex with Long Xiaoyao and fathered a child (speculation).
Alright, your relationship with Mu En should be over by now, right? You should feel guilty, right? I'll use your feelings to become an evil soul master, and I'll be 'forced' to marry Zhongli Laogui, the former leader of the Holy Spirit Cult, to give birth to Zhongli Wu, and become the actual controller of the Holy Spirit Cult.

On the surface, I, Ye Xishui, love Mu En, but in reality, I love you, Long Xiaoyao. However, I will not say it, so that Mu En, this old dragon, will keep his emotions closed for the rest of his life. You, Long Xiaoyao, will also feel guilty for the rest of your life for cheating on your brother's woman, and will try to follow and protect me.

On the surface, it was I, Ye Xishui, who was injured, but in reality, only two old dragons were being manipulated.

Hehe, this is truly mind-blowing! And yet, in the end, our Supreme Master Ye Xishui still managed to successfully whitewash his image.

Three scoundrels with shabby views on relationships and no sense of ethics are actually praised as regrettable and pitiful in the end, and their relationship values ​​of responsibility and emotion are touted as Shrek's. It's disgusting.

What are the respective stances of the three individuals in the eyes of our Supreme Elder Xuanzi?

Ye Xishui: The tearing apart of her identity with the Holy Spirit Cult and her personal feelings ultimately led her to extremes; Long Xiaoyao: The contradiction between infatuation and atonement, willing to bear the infamy to protect her love; Mu En: A lifelong struggle between the mission of justice and the regret of love.

Okay, okay, this verdict, tell me if you're scared or not.

A love-struck, crazy evil spirit master who appears to be a saint but actually harms two generations of geniuses. He is fickle in his love life and ruthless in his career. In the end, he even tries to drag Long Xiaoyao down with him in a suicide pact, a self-indulgent scoundrel who claims that he went to extremes because of a broken heart.

A love-struck, late-stage simp who could have become a top-tier powerhouse but chose to be a watchdog for the Holy Spirit Cult. His century-long devotion resulted in a "deathbed confession," a purely self-indulgent tragedy that he actually called a testament to his devotion and forgiveness.

A saintly, resentful backup lover who was cheated on and even helped raise someone else's child. He lived a life of resentment only to be told that he actually loved the other person. Shrek Academy's strongest tool, he was even remembered as a white moonlight after his death, supposedly because he struggled with a mission of justice and regret throughout his life.

In short, not a single one of them is normal; their disgust is no less than that of prostitution.

Hoo~~tui!!
Above the earth fire, the evil fire within Ma Xiaotao's body has been fully activated. Relying on that violent fire attribute energy, her soul power has now been greatly enhanced.

Not only that, even his appearance has changed. His hair has turned dark red, and he has a black phoenix tattoo on his body. His overall style is bewitching and evil.

The current soul power level is already level 70. Not only has the Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul mutated into the Dark Phoenix, but even the Evil Fire has vaguely touched the threshold of its ultimate potential.

"Woo~"

Seeing that Ma Xiaotao was showing signs of waking up, Feng Ling used her secret technique to further erode her mind in order to achieve mental manipulation.

These dark, evil fire energies are powerful, but if they are not suppressed regularly, this person will eventually become a mindless puppet, which is not what Feng Ling wants.

Because in her subconscious, if she really turned Ma Xiaotao into a puppet, there would be no possibility for her and Yan Shaozhe anymore. See, that's how defying the heavens she is.

Fortunately, Zhongli Wu, who was standing to the side, was unaware that he was preoccupied with how to arrange for the Holy Church to deal with the joint attack by Shrek Academy and the Three Kingdoms during this period. Otherwise, he would have really killed Yan Shaozhe, who was from Shrek Academy, by his own hand.

"By the way, the Holy Church said a while ago that they found a promising talent down there. She's a little girl from Shrek Academy and also has a background with the Tang Clan."

"If you're interested and really want to take on apprentices, I think that little girl with the Dark Blue Silver Grass is quite good."

Feng Ling frowned but did not answer. Sometimes it's like that; even if you give yourself to a man, you still feel extreme disgust for him.

She didn't kidnap Ma Xiaotao to take her as a disciple; she did it purely to attract Yan Shaozhe's attention and make that bastard regret it.

"Well, I'll consider it once Mother appoints Xiaotao as the Holy Maiden of the Holy Church."

"Wu, I love you."

Zhongli Wu didn't know why there was this last sentence, but he didn't take it to heart.

She said she loves me. She's never said that before. Why is she saying it now? Does it mean she's discovered how good I am to her?

Sure enough, as long as you keep flattering her, your sincerity won't let you down.

"By the way, does Shrek Academy's Gluttonous Douluo have any connection with our Holy Church?"

After all, the incident where that Soul King evil soul master almost wiped out Shrek Academy had caused quite a stir and had already spread throughout the continent since the competition a year ago. The Holy Spirit Cult had also investigated it.

No matter how you look at it, that little Soul King of the Holy Church had neither the strength nor the reason to almost wipe out the Shrek Seven Devils right under the nose of that Gluttonous Douluo. Such a loss is something that even a Title Douluo might not be able to achieve.

This situation makes it hard not to associate it with the Gluttonous Douluo lurking in the shadows.

Could this person be an undercover agent of the Holy Church, secretly rising to a high-ranking position at Shrek Academy without anyone knowing?
Or perhaps this person was actually a backup plan planted by his own mother, the Supreme Master, or even the Chief Elder.
(End of this chapter)