Douluo Continent: Peerless Angel Qian Renxue.

Chapter 43 The Fallen, Evil Soul Masters, Holy Spirit Cult

"Didn't you tell me that your enemies are here?" Xue Di asked, following Qian Renxue. "Your enemies are these big rocks?"

Qian Renxue casually smashed a few stones: "No, this should be their warm-up for the attack, just like when two countries are at war, they exchange some arrows with each other first. After this wave of attacks is over, they will probably show up."

Her attention was drawn to a figure in the squad ahead, a Soul Master with four rings and four tails behind him, each tail bearing a bright red Soul Ring—two yellow and two purple.

What kind of martial spirit is this?

Qian Renxue narrowed her eyes. This seemed to be a fox-type martial soul, but it was very special because when this soul master possessed the martial soul, no evil aura appeared.

A fox spirit? A fox spirit is great! I wonder if anyone in this team has been seduced by her?

She couldn't help but mentally complain.

It seems that the resentment towards foxes from the past has been passed down to the present.

Does she hate Hu Liena? At the very least, she doesn't like her. Perhaps Bibi Dong even gave up her former room to this fox spirit, but she wouldn't look at someone with the same martial soul with such a sense of entitlement.

So she was just venting.

This is similar to how there are many Soul Masters in this world who are born with evil-attribute Martial Souls, but that doesn't mean they are evil Soul Masters who do bad things. For example, Elder Ghost Douluo once worried about whether he would be misunderstood by the Spirit Hall because of his Martial Soul, but he did not do anything heinous, so he was not labeled as a Fallen One.

Conversely, Tang San, who possessed the Sea God's position, ordered his "subordinate," the Poison Douluo, to directly poison and kill 500,000 people for the sake of victory in the war, without even flinching. Can the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor be considered an evil spirit? Not necessarily, but his actions were undeniably those of an evil spirit master.

Therefore, the term "evil soul master" is not comprehensive. On the contrary, it is not as good as the term "fallen one" used by the Spirit Hall ten thousand years ago. A fallen one can possess an evil martial soul or a righteous martial soul; it depends only on their actions, not their birth.

Therefore, Qian Renxue would not regard all fox spirit masters as Hu Liena; she would not do such a boring thing that would make her unhappy.

At this moment, the Soul Master of this fox martial soul was constantly flashing his figure, his movements were agile, and after each flash, he would leave behind an afterimage, which would follow the main body and launch an attack together.

A speed-attack type Soul Master—that was Qian Renxue's first thought.

If she were to cultivate to the extreme, she would probably become a top-tier assassin.

Qian Renxue sensed that this Soul Master's bone age was around fourteen years old, but his cultivation level had reached forty-six. He was simply a genius Soul Master.

It seems that their team was likely targeted by Shrek Academy because their leader, a Soul Saint or Soul Emperor, possessed martial souls with an evil aura.

But what does this indiscriminate rockfall attack mean? She and Xue Di have no connection with this team. Would they risk dragging innocent people into this in order to eliminate the Fallen Ones, or rather, the Evil Soul Masters?

Because of the falling rocks, in addition to the two people who were killed at the beginning, there were some additional casualties in that group. The dead were a low-level Great Soul Master and a Soul Venerable.

"Girls! Shall we cooperate?" The fox spirit sect member shouted when he saw Qian Renxue and Xue Di.

Qian Renxue thought to herself, "Can't you see that we're only Great Soul Masters?"

Xue Di spoke first: "Okay! Let's cooperate! The rockfall should be over soon!"

Qian Renxue had no choice but to nod in agreement.

As the old saying goes, you shouldn't be afraid of a god-like opponent; she's starting to feel that way now.

The falling rocks lasted for nearly two minutes. After it ended, they all sat on the ground, panting heavily. The Fox Soul Masters of that squad looked at their fallen comrades and couldn't help but feel a pang of sorrow. It was true that their squad was a group of evil soul masters, even belonging to an organization called the "Holy Spirit Cult."

However, these disciples of child age are not necessarily evil spirit masters; they were simply born into the Holy Spirit Cult's branch in the Heavenly Soul Empire. Because their parents were both members of the Holy Spirit Cult, they were destined to face exclusion from birth.

Qian Renxue looked at the group of people expressionlessly. She had no good feelings towards evil soul masters, and it could even be said that she loathed the fallen ones. However, she could also tell that among this group, perhaps only the few high-level soul masters in the lead had truly committed evil deeds.

Even this little fox probably hasn't really done anything truly evil.

Before the two groups could even exchange a word, they were drawn by the shouts of battle coming from all around. From all directions, a dozen or so combatants dressed in dark green cloaks and uniforms emerged.

"What awful taste!" Qian Renxue frowned. "Wearing such filthy green clothes and attacking passing merchants and hunters, what's your purpose? Who ordered you to do this? What are your motives? Did you obtain permission from the relevant authorities?"

Xue Di was shocked. This was a classic case of the villain accusing the victim first... no, turning the tables? Hmm, no, that's not quite right either... how to describe it? Yes, preemptive strike!

"Hunters and merchants would travel this way? Don't you have any idea what kind of place this is?" Sikong Qi ignored Qian Renxue's words. "I'd like to ask you, who are you people?"

"We're just hunters passing through," the envoy said innocently. "If we cross this valley, we'll find a colony of red vultures, and we're just going there to hunt."

"A Soul Saint-level evil Soul Master telling me he's going hunting? Do you think I'm stupid?" Sikong Qi scoffed. "And you two? Are you going hunting too?"

Xue Di looked horrified: "No, we were watching them hunt. We just wanted to buy the red vultures they hunted, but red vultures need to be refrigerated immediately after being shot, so we brought our soul tools with us into the mountains. However, it was too dangerous to get too close, so we followed them from a distance."

Qian Renxue glanced at Xue Di; this guy can now lie so easily. Hmm, the teacher is very pleased.

Sikong Qi felt his intelligence had been trampled on again. He had clearly seen that the two girls were handling the falling rocks with ease.

The Holy Envoy was taken aback by Xue Di's words, but he realized that at this point, the two groups were in the same boat. These two girls were quite strange, and he had witnessed their earlier attack. They might still have to fight the Shrek Academy's inspection team soon, so having an ally was always beneficial.

"Who are you kidding?" the demolition team junior, whose mind had been instantly elevated by battlefield training, said disdainfully. "Since you're all in this together, then you're all evil spirit masters!"

"We, the Shrek Inspection Team, are here specifically to deal with you! Under the glory of Shrek and the radiant light bestowed by the Sea God, all evil will ultimately be brought to justice!"

"Damn it..." Sikong Qi wished he could slap this idiot to death. They wore those shit-green combat uniforms precisely to conceal their identities. Although most evil spirit masters on the continent knew that the Shrek Academy's surveillance team was hunting them, it was an open secret, a fact known to all.

At this moment, the two other women were clearly not evil spirit masters. When they made their move, he could actually sense that there was no evil aura in their martial spirits.

The original work provides a relatively clear description of evil spirit masters:

The existence of evil spirit masters has a long history. It is said that Tang San, one of the first generation of Shrek Seven Devils, once encountered a powerful evil spirit master, who was also an Evil Douluo. He obtained a domain-type ability from him.

Without a doubt, this Evil Douluo is Tang Chen, who has fallen into the Slaughter King.

The so-called evil soul masters are those soul masters who possess extremely special evil martial souls.

There is no clear definition here. If that's the case, does the Evil Phoenix count? Don't say that the Evil Fire was eventually controlled. If the Fourth Brother hadn't met the Third Brother, then there's no doubt that he would have lost control and become a villain who oppressed women.

He was never a very determined person; otherwise, he wouldn't have only inherited a second-level godship, left his wife in the mortal realm, and then regretted it deeply, crying and saying things like, "Ah, Xiangxiang, I miss you so much," when he was just indulging in self-pity.

You can tell what kind of person someone is from the little things they do in their daily life. But this leads to another point: so-called evil martial spirits can be saved; it just depends on whether you are willing to save them.

(End of this chapter)