Douluo Continent: Starting with a Heavenly Fire Judgment

Chapter 480 Conspiracy

If the Sun Moon Empire chooses to attack the south first, it will likely face a siege from the Star Luo Empire, the Heavenly Soul Empire, the Fighting Spirit Empire, and Shrek Academy, which would be a decisive battle.

If it weren't for the Star Luo Empire's attack on the Sun Moon Empire's homeland, the Sun Moon Empire might have planned a decisive battle. With the support of the Holy Spirit Cult and relying on several Soul Master Corps and two Limit Douluo, they would have been quite confident.

However, the attack on the Sun Moon Empire's homeland threatened the very foundation of the Sun Moon Empire, forcing them to divert troops to provide relief. Under these circumstances, the front lines were stretched thin.

Continuing the invasion from the north would at least allow them to bypass the Star Luo Empire and Shrek Academy. The reinforcements from the Douling Empire and the remnants of the Tianhun Empire could at most only delay their invasion.

For the Sun Moon Empire, it is clearly more advantageous to attack from the north to the south now, and the choice is self-evident.

At the same time, the Sun Moon Empire also needs to slow down. Although the Heavenly Soul Empire is not as large as the Star Luo Empire, its land area is still larger than that of the Dou Ling Empire. Compared with the Sun Moon Empire, it is close to two-thirds the size of the Sun Moon Empire. Having suddenly occupied a large area of ​​the Heavenly Soul Empire's land, the Sun Moon Empire also needs time to appease the common people and consolidate its rule. This is why the Sun Moon Empire seems to have calmed down for more than a month.

As the saying goes, conquering a country is easy, but maintaining it is difficult. Wars of aggression cannot be won overnight, because they are not purely about plunder, but about expanding the territory.

According to the intelligence left by Nan Shuishui's spies before she left Dragon City, the Sun Moon Empire did not destroy Dragon City, nor did it attack the civilians. It did not harm the people and did not bring the suffering of war to ordinary civilians. It only drove away the major soul master sects in Dragon City. Those who were unwilling to leave would be like the Heavenly Dragon Gate. Those who were willing to leave would not be intercepted by the Sun Moon Empire, such as the Earthly Dragon Gate.

After driving away the Soul Masters, the Sun Moon Empire left only a small number of troops to maintain order, and then the main army marched straight south.

The Sun Moon Empire not only spared the civilians in the conquered cities without harming them, but also turned a blind eye to the nobles of the Heavenly Soul Empire. Instead, it dispatched the Sun Moon Merchant Guild, which had come with the Sun Moon Empire's army, to distribute civilian soul guides free of charge in the cities, especially to the nobles.

In snowy cities like Dragon City, the Sun Moon Empire gifted advanced soul tools like the Soul Guiding Heat Energy Device, which replaced coal. Coal was expensive, but the Soul Guiding Heat Energy Device could save a lot of expensive coal. It only required a soul power injection from a soul master of the Sun Moon Empire once a week to meet the heating needs of a noble family with an area of ​​no more than 500 square meters. There was no smell of burning coal, and it quickly replaced coal.

Ji Lin smiled and said, "The Sun Moon Empire still has capable people. This is an open strategy! In the short term, the Sun Moon Empire has lost money and resources, but in the long term, once the nobles and commoners of the Heavenly Soul Empire get used to life with advanced soul tools, they will no longer want to go back to the past and live that backward and simple life. Once they accept the soul tools given by the Sun Moon Empire and get used to their existence, it won't take more than a few years for the Sun Moon Empire to win over the commoners and nobles. At least they will be well-behaved and won't think about causing trouble."

The Sun Moon Empire fully utilized its advanced civilian technology. People are like that; once they've used something better, they won't go back to using something outdated. The same applies to ordinary people. If they live better under the rule of the Sun Moon Empire, they won't think about the Heavenly Soul Empire anymore. For ordinary people, survival is their lifelong pursuit. As for who rules them, it doesn't matter, as long as they can eat their fill.

As for the nobles, although they might initially reject the Sun Moon Empire, since they would no longer be nobles once the Heavenly Soul Empire was gone, they would accept it as long as the Sun Moon Empire was willing to give them some status, even if it was lower than their original status. Moreover, the Sun Moon Empire would not only give them the same or even higher status as before, but also a higher quality of life, so they would not be loyal to the Heavenly Soul Empire.

The Sun Moon Empire's goal is to win over some and suppress others. It wins over nobles and commoners while suppressing Soul Master sects. After all, Soul Master sects have deeply ingrained ideologies and are much harder to deal with than nobles and commoners. Nobles only want status, money, and a better life, while commoners want even less—just survival. Moreover, their power is not as great as that of Soul Master sects, so they pose a much smaller threat to the Sun Moon Empire.

The Sun Moon Empire's method is far better than bloodshed. If the Sun Moon Empire wants to unify the continent, it certainly cannot rely solely on force. This method of infiltrating with soul-guided technology is practically bloodless. A small number of troops are stationed there to lower the guard of the nobles, and then soul-guided technology is integrated into their lives. The core technology is in the hands of the Sun Moon Empire. In the long run, whether nobles or commoners, they will only have eyes for the Sun Moon Empire, and the Heavenly Soul Empire will no longer exist.

Perhaps in a few years, the hearts of the people in the areas occupied by the Sun Moon Empire will no longer be with the Heavenly Soul Empire, but with the Sun Moon Empire. The Sun Moon Empire's move of subduing the enemy without fighting is a brilliant strategy!

This coincided with Ji Lin's original idea. Ji Lin originally planned to use the soul guidance technology of the Sun Moon Empire to comprehensively improve the living standards of the people of the continent after unifying the Douluo Continent, so that they would naturally forget their former country. For ordinary people, whoever can feed them is their faith.

"It must be Ju Zi who came up with this idea," Ji Lin thought to himself. Given Xu Tianran's personality and the style of those evil soul masters from the Holy Spirit Cult, it would be good enough if they didn't massacre the civilians of the original Douluo Three Kingdoms, or even slaughter entire cities. The person who could come up with this method of conquering the civilians of other empires without bloodshed couldn't possibly be them; it was very likely Ju Zi.

If the Sun Moon Empire were to implement this method in all the Heavenly Soul Empires it occupied, no one could stop them unless they were driven out of the Sun Moon Empire in a short period of time.

This is a truly open and aboveboard strategy. It may be slow to take effect, but it is a method that will solve the problem once and for all! Once they succeed, it will be extremely difficult for the Heavenly Soul Empire to reclaim its territory.

Given the current situation of various countries on the continent, whether it is the Sun Moon Empire or the three countries that originally belonged to the Douluo Continent, the foundation of their nation-building is actually the aristocratic class. The aristocratic class controls almost all the country's resources, and the highest aristocracy is the royal family of each country. This is the foundation of the imperial system.

Therefore, the Sun Moon Empire's target was very accurate. The first group they infiltrated with their soul guidance technology was the nobles of the Heavenly Soul Empire. Once the noble class gradually sided with the Sun Moon Empire, they helped them promote soul guidance technology within their country. Without core technology, the final result would be that they would be at the mercy of others and would never be able to break free.

The longer the occupation lasts, the more pronounced this becomes.

Listening to Ji Lin's analysis, Xu Jiujiu, Wang Dong'er, and the others were dumbfounded. They never imagined that a small action by the Sun Moon Empire would have such a terrifying effect. This was too terrifying!

The person who devised this plan inspires admiration in everyone.

Although they were in a hostile relationship, this method of invasion—without large-scale killings, but simply through technological infiltration—was something they had never seen before, but they knew how friendly this method was to ordinary people.

Because ordinary people don't need to worry about being targeted or going hungry, and their lives may even be better than before, this is a temptation that ordinary people in any country would find irresistible.

"What a clever and open scheme! It really leaves us with no way to deal with it!"

After a long pause, she pursed her lips and said with a complicated expression.

The fact that the Sun Moon Empire could resort to such a blatant scheme is simply because the original Douluo Three Kingdoms were incompetent. Compared to the Sun Moon Empire, they were far too backward in both technology and ideology. Within the Sun Moon Empire's own territory, they had already reached the point of promoting Soul Guidance Technology to the general public, while the common people in the northern part of the Heavenly Soul Empire were still using the most primitive method of heating by burning charcoal. Moreover, charcoal was not cheap; it was a necessity that one had to buy. Without it, one would only freeze to death in the harsh northern weather.

As time goes by, even if the Sun Moon Empire stops its offensive, as long as it maintains the current momentum, it won't be long before the occupied part of the Heavenly Soul Empire truly submits to them. With more resources and more popular support, the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Guidance Technology will develop faster and faster, further widening the gap with the original three kingdoms of the Douluo Continent.

In recent years, Soul Guidance Technology has been advancing by leaps and bounds. With its continuous development, in the near future, Soul Guidance Technology will one day reach a level that can threaten Title Douluo, or even Limit Douluo. If that happens, the unification of the continent by the Sun Moon Empire will be an almost inevitable historical process.

It should be noted that a level 10 soul tool has already been created. Although Ye Xishui's Death God Tower was forged and activated using the vengeful souls of humans, it is still a level 10 soul tool. As long as there is a beginning, the development of soul tool technology in the Sun Moon Empire is destined to advance by leaps and bounds. No one knows whether the Sun Moon Empire can produce a second level 10 soul tool, or even a third one, in a short period of time, or even directly develop a level 11 soul tool that can threaten quasi-gods.

Ji Lin, who transmigrated here, never underestimated the power of technology. As long as technology is advanced enough, even gods can be killed. God-slaying is not impossible if you give those researching soul masters some time.

Ji Lin is very happy to see technological development, but that will only be after he unifies the Douluo Continent. Although he likes to have great power in his own hands, he will not reject powerful soul tools.

(End of this chapter)