Douluo Continent: Peerless Angel Qian Renxue.

Chapter 149 Shrek's Veil

After awakening their martial spirit, each child will continue to test their soul power on the soul power testing device, and the device will also record the child's information.

These children with soul power will become reserve talents for the Sun Temple, or rather, the Spirit Hall!

During the martial soul awakening process, Qian Renxue also had several amplifying soul tools placed around the venue.

A vivid voice emanated from the soul tool; it was a recording that Qian Renxue had Lin Mengtong record in advance, telling one story after another.

Many people did not leave immediately after awakening their martial soul, but stood quietly at the entrance of the temple, listening to at least one story before leaving.

One of the stories goes like this.

There was a child born in the Star Luo Empire in the eastern part of the continent. Because his family had no background, no power, and no sufficient financial resources to pay for his martial soul awakening, he missed the best time to awaken his martial soul at the age of six.

A year later, his family, by chance, provided some assistance to a six-ring Soul Master. In order to repay his family, the Soul Emperor helped the child awaken his Martial Soul.

This child's martial soul is a crow, a very ordinary beast martial soul, but it is accompanied by innate level seven soul power!

This brought tears of joy to his family, and the Soul Emperor also introduced him to the Soul Master Academy where he had once studied.

This child demonstrated extraordinary willpower in cultivation. Despite delaying the awakening of his martial soul by a year, he gradually caught up with and even surpassed the cultivation pace of other children his age, reaching level ten in soul power cultivation at the age of eight.

He did not waste his talent. In the academy, he studied and cultivated with his classmates. Under the guidance of the Soul Emperor and other teachers, he reached level 58 in cultivation when he was twenty years old.

This talent, even on the entire continent at that time, would have placed him among the top.

At the age of twenty, he participated in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament, held in the capital of the Star Luo Empire. This young man led his team to a series of victories, ultimately advancing to the finals.

Everything was going so smoothly, everything was happening so naturally, as if his era was about to begin, as if he were the leading figure of the younger generation in that period.

However, this illusion was shattered in the final.

Because he was in the finals, his opponent was Shrek Academy, the number one academy on the entire continent.

He was indeed a standout of his time, but he was actually the only one in the team with the cultivation level of a Soul King, while the cultivation levels of his teammates were not particularly outstanding. He had only been able to defeat the rest of the team because of his exceptional personal abilities.

His opponent, Shrek Academy, was a team of seven, all of whom were at least Soul King level!

No matter how gifted he was, he couldn't fight seven opponents at once. Quality was overwhelmed by quantity; that was the Star Luo Empire's closest chance at the championship, yet it was still ruthlessly shattered.

He was outmatched in skill, but his desire for victory was too great. So he gave it his all on the Soul Fighting Stage, and even under immense pressure, he completed the second awakening of his Martial Soul!

This second awakening caused his Raven Martial Soul to evolve into the Dark Raven Martial Soul.

The martial soul itself doesn't prove anything. Dark attribute martial souls aren't necessarily evil. For example, the current Beast God's true form is the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King, which is also a dark attribute existence, but that doesn't mean it's an evil soul beast.

However, after discovering this problem, Shrek Academy immediately issued a warrant after the competition to do everything in its power to capture the boy.

With the help of his teachers and the Empire, the boy managed to escape back to the academy.

He felt that as long as he stayed true to himself, having a dark attribute martial soul didn't mean anything, because he remembered that before him, there was also a dark attribute Dark Holy Dragon Soul Master.

A martial spirit does not entirely represent one's character.

The Star Luo Empire naturally provided cover for this prodigy, and so the pursuit of him seemed to have temporarily come to an end. However, voices of doubt arose on the continent: how could Shrek Academy arbitrarily arrest people? Weren't they always the defenders of the continent?

Aren't they always the embodiment of justice?

Shrek Academy, isn't it a blessed land where the sea god bestows his grace?

How could a place like this slander good people?

The mounting doubts made Shrek Academy restless; they couldn't accept their authority being questioned. Therefore, another arrest warrant for the Dark Raven was issued.

This time, they were well-prepared, using one absurd claim after another to create momentum.

For example, Dark Raven's fourth soul skill is Dark Touch. The source of the soul skill is a kind of demonic eye vine. As an agility-type soul master, it is an indispensable skill for controlling opponents. However, it looks rather ugly and uses dark-attribute tentacles to entangle enemies.

Therefore, Shrek Academy stated that Dark Raven's fourth soul skill originated from an evil soul beast. Opponents bound by his fourth soul skill would be constantly entangled and even have their soul power and life force drained.

Absorbing soul power is correct, but the idea of ​​life force is nonsense.

However, Shrek Academy's research on soul skills and soul beasts is unparalleled, and there are always people who stand up to support Shrek Academy.

Originally, Dark Raven thought the Star Luo Empire would continue to protect him, but this time his movements were betrayed by the Star Luo Empire's Hall of Worship.

He didn't know what had happened between the Star Luo Empire and Shrek Academy; he only knew that he truly had no way out this time.

He began to flee constantly. During his escape, he had no choice but to kill those who were trying to capture him in order to protect himself. Finally, when he could no longer bear it, he broke through to the eighth level of Soul Douluo and killed all the enemies who came to attack. This time, he killed the members of the Shrek Academy Inspection Team.

Now he had no choice but to admit his guilt. Even if he wasn't an evil spirit master, he would still be blacklisted for killing someone from Shrek Academy.

When he was feeling hopeless about life, the Dark Holy Dragon appeared and saved him.

Using his Super Douluo strength, the Dark Holy Dragon quietly took the Dark Raven away and brought it into the state religion of the Sun Moon Empire.

The story ends here. Wuyun, the protagonist of this story, listened to the story with a blank expression.

By this time, he was already a member of the Holy Spirit Cult and the Spirit Hall, having forged a deep-seated enmity with Shrek Academy. These past events were nearly a hundred years ago to him, but when he heard them again, he couldn't help but worry about the reactions of those listening to his stories.

The offensive against Shrek officially began here, but this kind of public relations campaign was only one aspect of it.

Launching an attack against them from the perspective of Douluo Continent II: The Peerless Tang Sect is more difficult than starting with Spirit Hall in Douluo Continent I, but fortunately, it has the Sun Moon Empire as its background and the fact that gods cannot descend to the mortal realm themselves as a basis.

Moreover, Tang Hao is not yet the ruler of the plane at this time, so it can be said that the current start is quite successful.

In the early stages, the Spirit Hall will act as a church-like organization, much like its predecessor, the Church, which existed long ago. However, since it is a newly formed force, some of its methods can be imitated, such as offering free Spirit Awakening services to Spirit Masters to increase the number of believers.

Of course, there will be a series of more plans to follow.

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