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Chapter 168 Royal Family's Reaction (Please Subscribe!!!)
"His Royal Highness!"

Ju Zi hurriedly set off from Mingde Hall and arrived at the Crown Prince's residence. Upon seeing Xu Tianran's expression, she immediately knew that he was furious.

She could only kneel on one knee, not daring to look up at Xu Tianran's expression.

Xu Tianran suppressed his anger.

"Fine, fine, Mirror of the Mortal World." Xu Tianran suppressed his anger and made this decision with reason.

No statement will be made.

Even if the Holy Spirit Cult investigates, he can no longer provide any support to the Holy Spirit Cult.

Ultimately, it was the Holy Spirit who taught me to be reckless this time.

"This prince has not yet agreed to allow them to expand freely within the territory of Sun and Moon."

Xu Tianran had promised the Holy Spirit Church that he would declare it the state religion after he ascended the throne.

But he hasn't even ascended the throne yet!
Therefore, logically speaking, it was the Holy Spirit who started expanding ahead of schedule.

"Jing Hongchen, I hope you won't regret this."

Xu Tianran gritted his teeth.

He raised a hand.

A dark figure emerged from the shadows behind him.

“Gather all the royal family’s direct Soul Masters and have them enter the Hall of Worship for a year of advanced training.”

Orange broke out in a cold sweat.

Xu Tianran's meaning was quite clear: he felt that if these royal soul masters continued to stay in Mingde Hall, something bad would happen.

Why did this happen?

Is it a threat from evil spirit masters?

Even the power of Mingde Hall cannot defeat the evil soul master?

royal palace.

Today, Emperor Xu Lingtian's face showed a hint of anger.

"That Jing Hongchen is really cunning."

What is the strength of the Holy Spirit Cult?
Xu Lingtian knew less than Xu Tianran, but far more than Jing Hongchen.

The opposing team has a Limit Douluo!
This alone is enough to make people wary.

Xu Lingtian didn't think much of Xu Tianran's introduction of the Holy Spirit Cult, as long as he could find a way to resolve it afterward. It was inevitable that conflicts would erupt between domestic Soul Masters and the Holy Spirit Cult, but the timing of the outbreak was simply too fatal.

In order to secure the position of Crown Prince, Xu Tianran assassinated all the other princes. Now, Xu Lingtian's direct descendants are reduced to only two: Xu Tianran and Xu Tianzhen.

Of those, only Xu Tianran remains as a potential heir to the throne.

This is Xu Tianran's time to reap the rewards. He will continue to use the power of the evil soul masters to develop himself and gradually take control of the country.

But at this time, Mingdetang exploded.

At this juncture, Xu Tianran can no longer support the Holy Spirit Cult, and the same applies to the royal family; they must not be tainted by the Holy Spirit Cult.

Otherwise, if people start to think that even this compromise is not as good as finding a way to install a new emperor, then his usurpation of the throne would have been in vain.

However, this would surely anger the Holy Spirit Cult, which had previously cooperated well with Xu Tianran, and would inevitably cause a bloodbath in the Soul Master world of the Sun Moon Empire.

The Sun and Moon Empire's national strength will definitely suffer a significant loss.

This is a huge stain on Xu Lingtian's reputation.

Now all he can do is relinquish power to Xu Tianran as soon as possible, keep the royal family silent for a while, and Xu Tianran can smoothly ascend the throne after his death.

However, knowing his son very well, he knew that once the son truly seized power, he would quickly exert his influence and sideline him as the real emperor.

At that time, given Xu Tianran's ruthlessness, he might sideline him instead of replacing him, and blame him for the chaos caused by the evil soul masters, since it was a turmoil that occurred during his reign, and the Sun Moon Empire's national strength was greatly damaged because of him.

Therefore, he could not relinquish power to Xu Tianran.

This back-and-forth created a vicious cycle for him.

"You beast!" Xu Lingtian was now truly regretting his actions, regretting that he had allowed Xu Tianran to assassinate his brothers, thus providing Jing Hongchen with such an opportunity.

What was Jing Hongchen's attitude when he erupted at this time?

Why did he choose this point?

Xu Lingtian couldn't understand it.

"His Majesty has not responded, while Xu Tianran has withdrawn a group of Soul Masters and sent them to the Hall of Worship for further study."

Jing Hongchen sneered.

Further studies?

For a Soul Master, the best place to learn is Mingde Hall.

Yes, the Hall of Offerings is actually the place that truly represents the essence of the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Masters, but it's full of retired old men who are all thinking about developing more advanced techniques. They have no interest in dealing with a group of low-level Soul Masters.

"It seems the Holy Spirit Cult truly makes them wary."

If the evil spirit masters of the Holy Spirit Cult were easy to eliminate, then Xu Tianran and Xu Lingtian should be fully supporting him at this time, and besieging the evil spirit masters throughout the entire empire.

"It doesn't matter. As long as the Body Sect cooperates, the Mingde Hall can withstand the pressure from the Holy Spirit Sect."

Ignoring the royal family's reaction, Jing Hongchen took out the spiritual silver that Su Can had given him earlier and felt the spirituality within the silver.

"We can increase investment in the humanoid soul tool project."

Jing Hongchen had a premonition that as long as there was enough spiritual silver, the many difficulties of the humanoid soul tool would be overcome.

It's not just a humanoid soul guide device.

"The power of a level nine soul tool can also be slightly increased."

The presence of spirit metal opened up another system for soul masters, so even level nine soul tools can improve due to this material change.

"Level nine soul tools are incredibly powerful. In order to better control them, many positions in the core array inevitably have to be wasted to arrange arrays that enhance the connection with the soul master. With this spirit metal, these positions can be used to inscribe other arrays."

This is a transformation of the level nine core magic array.

There seemed to be flames burning in Jing Hongchen's eyes.

"If Master Kong can unleash the ultimate level of strength with a cultivation level of ninety-four, I can definitely do it too."

With this upgrade in materials, he will definitely be able to create a soul tool of the ultimate level!

half a month.

In the past two weeks, evil spirit masters have launched multiple attacks against the spirit masters of Mingde Hall.

Therefore, Jing Hongchen directly organized armed forces within Mingde Hall.

He reported to the royal family and formed an armed force of 500 men. He arranged 100 men at each of the four main city gates of Mingdu and inside the city as a team to patrol Mingdu 24 hours a day. He also announced that he would thoroughly investigate all underground black markets.

This really stirred up a hornet's nest.

However, Jing Hongchen did not encounter any resistance.

Because the level nine soul masters all have their own ideas, and Jing Hongchen wants to go against the Holy Spirit Cult, the level nine soul masters are all happy to do so, and they have all issued orders to the black market they protect.

Let him investigate!
Is the black market clean?
It's not clean.

The several level-nine soul masters who were the main players in the black market all knew this, but they all gave Jing Hongchen the green light.

However, let's make one thing clear before we go on. We're giving you face now so you can investigate the evil spirit master properly. Once you find out the problem, you'll have to give us some face in return.

Sun Moon Hotel.

Su Ming, Lei Zhen, Nana, and other disciples with their own martial souls gathered in one room.

"After this purge, Jing Hongchen's power will reach its peak, the Blacksmith Association will be officially established, and the Body Sect's branch sect will finally have a foothold."

As Su Ming spoke, he looked at the three people in the crowd.

These three were clearly agitated when they heard that Jing Hongchen was going to crack down on the black market, and they were the ones who had studied at Shrek Academy.

(End of this chapter)