Douluo Continent: The Eye of Truth

Chapter 83 Trilateral Talks

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Looking at Zhongli Wu, who was all smiles, Kong Deming coldly uttered a single word.

However, the Holy Spirit Cult leader in front of him was Zhongli Wu, a Super Douluo whose soul power was much higher than Kong Deming's.

Under Kong Deming's imposing aura, Zhong Liwu actually took a step back. Seeing this, Zhong Liwu's pupils constricted. He hadn't even noticed that Kong Deming had used any soul tools.

It should be noted that Kong Deming, as the head of the Sun Moon Empire's Hall of Worship, is loyal only to the empire. Moreover, he is hailed as the person among the ninth-level Soul Masters who is closest to the tenth-level Soul Master level, in addition to his original twin martial souls and ninety-fourth-level Soul Power cultivation.

Even if Ye Xishui, the Supreme Elder of the Holy Spirit Cult and a Limit Douluo, came, she would still have to give Kong Deming some face.

After all, this is an era where Soul Masters still dominate.

No one can underestimate the power and significance of a powerhouse approaching the level of a tenth-level Soul Master, not even a Limit Douluo.

But what does it mean that Kong Deming was able to force him to retreat without using a soul tool?

Or is it that even the traces of Kong Deming using the soul tool are no longer noticeable to him?

The person who was originally standing behind Zhongli Wu, shrouded in a black robe, seemed to be unaffected. Instead, he stepped forward, relieving Zhongli Wu of much of the pressure.

"What a lively day! I didn't expect that in addition to the Beast God Emperor Tian coming in person, the Evil Emperor would also be here." Kong Deming's face turned cold, but he showed no fear whatsoever.

At the same time, his gaze fell upon a faint, malevolent aura in the distance—the Limit Douluo, the Supreme Elder of the Holy Spirit Cult, Ye Xishui.

Kong Deming could sense that the person in front of him, apart from having the aura of the Evil Emperor, was actually empty inside, at most equivalent to the level of an ordinary Title Douluo. It should be that the Evil Emperor's spiritual power was just residing on the puppet of the Holy Spirit Cult.

Although Ye Xishui seemed to have arrived, he didn't appear to be prepared to personally appear, and even if he did, he was fearless now.

You should know that he had long disliked the Holy Spirit Cult, but as the head of the Sun and Moon Empire's Hall of Worship, all he had to do was maintain the imperial lineage and ensure the survival of the nation.

During this period, no matter how immoral the royal family may be, as long as their actions do not jeopardize the continuation of the empire, he will not intervene.

Furthermore, given the strength of the Holy Spirit Cult itself, cooperating with it would indeed enhance the power of the Sun Moon Empire and allow it to contend with the other three kingdoms.

Therefore, he has turned a blind eye to this over the years. However, he is not afraid of the Holy Spirit Cult's ultimate combat power. Now that the Holy Spirit Cult members are jumping around in front of him like this, isn't this an open provocation? Do they really think he has no temper?

"Elder Kong, please don't misunderstand." Zhongli Wu quickly stepped forward and said, "Our Holy Spirit Sect has come here entirely for the sake of the Empire."

"A rat in the gutter, does it really want to get on the table?"

Kong Deming's face darkened, and he was about to explode. After all, he didn't have time to get entangled with Zhongli Wu. If Mingdu and Ditian were to fight, even if they could repel them, the people of Mingdu would definitely suffer heavy losses.

"Master Kong is mistaken. As the saying goes, a strong alliance is the best alliance. If Master Kong can persuade Di Tian to back down, he can certainly ensure the safety of Mingdu. But wouldn't the resources spent on purchasing the True Dragon Egg be wasted for nothing?"

"But now that the Evil Emperor is here, and since our Holy Spirit Sect can negotiate a cooperation with the Evil Emperor, why don't we give it a try?"

"If we can win over the soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, it will be a tremendous help to the great cause of my Sun Moon Empire in the future."

"After all, the Star Dou Great Forest has been exploited by the original three kingdoms of Douluo Continent and Shrek Academy in recent years, and the area it can control and the number of soul beasts it possesses have been greatly reduced. Although the Beast God did not retaliate on a large scale for some reason."

"However, I believe the Beast God would be willing to talk if given the opportunity."

Kong Deming's eyes flashed with an uncertain look. He knew that since the Holy Spirit Church had taken the initiative to propose cooperation, it would definitely have extremely favorable consequences for them.

However, what he is considering now is whether the other party's actions will create hidden dangers for the Sun Moon Empire, or how to weigh the consequences of revealing hidden dangers against the benefits of cooperating with the Star Dou Great Forest.

Although he did not interfere in state affairs, Kong Deming still had his own judgment on the general direction of the Sun Moon Empire's development.

At this moment, Zhong Liwu's wrinkled old face still wore a forced, disgusting smile.

But he had no choice but to do so, because if he could get involved with the power of the Star Dou Great Forest, then he could combine it with the original power of the Sun Moon Empire and the power of their Holy Spirit Cult.

Even if each of them has their own ulterior motives, their combined efforts will surely lead them to dominate the Douluo Continent in the near future.

And the first one to be wiped out will be Shrek Academy, which loves to meddle in other people's business!

Shrek Academy's defeat in the previous Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Tournament is a sign of its decline. How can we not take advantage of its misfortune?

However, since the true dragon egg is not currently in their hands, they are naturally not qualified to discuss any cooperation with Di Tian.

Fortunately, the original dragon egg wasn't in their hands; otherwise, they would be lucky to have survived Di Tian's destruction, let alone be able to negotiate a cooperation with him.

Moreover, after Mingdetang obtained the True Dragon Egg, no one knew that Kong Deming had disclosed to those knowledgeable level nine soul masters the progress made in the development of level ten soul tools.

This so-called progress, how much progress has actually been made? It's just that he can negotiate head-on with the Beast God Emperor Tian without being at a disadvantage, and considering the pressure he released earlier.

The gains he made through the dragon egg probably far exceeded everyone's imagination.

In addition, Zhongli Wu also had his own selfish motives, because the Holy Spirit Cult had long established diplomatic relations with the Evil Emperor, and the Evil Emperor himself belonged to the Soul Beast camp.

Furthermore, since the Evil Emperor is about to undergo his great tribulation of 800,000 years, he is willing to take the initiative to act as a bridge to achieve cooperation with the Star Dou Great Forest, in order to use the power of the Star Dou Great Forest to help him overcome the tribulation.

In Zhongli Wu's view, it would be much easier for soul beasts to negotiate with each other, or for the number one and number two of the ten most ferocious beasts to negotiate, than for humans to negotiate with them.

In fact, this is why Kong Deming did not initially consider negotiating with Di Tian.

Kong Deming was a native of the Sun Moon Empire and had never been in contact with the Star Dou Great Forest. Moreover, the Sun Moon Empire had never had any connection with the Star Dou Great Forest.

Kong Deming was naturally unaware of Di Tian's temperament and style, so he preferred to avoid trouble and simply send the enraged beast god away as soon as possible.

Therefore, if the Holy Spirit Cult can broker a cooperation between the Sun Moon Empire and the Star Dou Great Forest through the Evil Emperor, then the one who will ultimately carry it out will certainly not be the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Master, who is not good at this matter.

Instead, their Holy Spirit Cult's evil soul masters will be responsible for contacting the Star Dou Great Forest. At that time, their Holy Spirit Cult can take the opportunity to make a fortune from the vast resources contained in the Star Dou Great Forest. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

It is important to know that there are so many untapped resources in the Star Dou Great Forest. As long as they cooperate with Di Tian and eliminate the hostility of the soul beasts towards them, they can even be a little more restrained in their behavior and avoid crossing the red line of the soul beasts.

But simply collecting the corpses and resentment produced by low-level soul beasts hunting for food every day, without touching their fundamental souls, can be considered a pleasant task, not to mention the herbs that soul beasts cannot refine or utilize.

Because during their previous collaboration with the Evil Emperor, the Holy Spirit Cult had already figured out how to communicate with these "shallow-sighted" soul beasts.

Aside from the direct lineages of those soul beasts, for high-level soul beasts, low-level soul beasts like the Soft Bone Rabbit are merely food.

In their view, there is no difference between having a Soul Master help dispose of kitchen waste and letting that kitchen waste rot on its own and being disposed of by carrion-eating Soul Beasts and nature.

Therefore, apart from the original Douluo Continent which was under the jurisdiction of the Shrek Academy's oversight group, the evil soul masters of the Holy Spirit Cult also established many transactions with soul beasts in the Demon Forest and overseas through this cooperative model.

However, the cooperation with some sea spirit beast clans is long-term, while the cooperation with others is a one-off deal involving deception and fraud.

This largely depends on the compatibility between the evil spirit master in charge and the spirit beast groups. For example, evil spirit masters are very fond of demonic tiger whales, while spirit beasts such as mermaids are not very popular.

It was precisely by utilizing the resources produced by the soul beasts in the Demon Forest and the sea that the Holy Spirit Cult and the Sun Moon Empire were able to establish a relatively equal yet mutually wary cooperative relationship.

Otherwise, if all necessary resources are held by the Sun Moon Empire, even if evil soul masters can obtain a large amount of cultivation resources through killing, they will eventually fall into a vicious cycle of insufficient income.

Seeing Kong Deming deep in thought, Zhongli Wu added, "If Elder Kong is still worried about me, then you might as well ask His Excellency the Evil Emperor to negotiate with the Beast God personally. As for the most important True Dragon Egg, neither His Excellency the Evil Emperor nor I will get our hands on it."

"After all, my Holy Spirit Sect is not short-sighted. I have never thought of using the True Dragon Egg to incite the hatred of the Sun Moon Empire and the rage of the continent's number one ferocious beast. Please rest assured on this point."

Upon hearing this, Kong Deming snorted coldly and turned away without refusing, which naturally indicated his intentions.

Seeing the other person leave, Zhongli Wu also put away the ugly smile on his face and returned to his expressionless state.

"Stop laughing, why did you stop? Your expression was kind of funny."

Although the face of the evil emperor was concealed by a black robe, he clearly carried an air of instigation and provocation.

"I'm sorry to have made you laugh, Your Majesty. After all, the strength of this Kong Deming, Elder Kong, is absolutely not to be underestimated. Even a junior like me has to be careful in front of him."

Zhongli Wu himself was naturally not embarrassed. After all, as evil soul masters, as long as they achieved their goal and could get the meat into their mouths, how many criticisms and curses had they received?

A moment later, Kong Deming took out the well-preserved dragon egg from the secret laboratory of Mingde Hall and flew straight towards the direction where Di Tian was. Xie Di followed after him.

Kong Deming, Xie Di, and Di Tian held a meeting in the sky, and Di Tian also transformed into human form, which eased the tense atmosphere that was originally on the verge of conflict.

Poison Undying, who had been watching from afar, secretly thought to himself that something was wrong.

"Fight! Why aren't you fighting anymore?" Could it be that the Sun Moon Empire has really backed down?

"And you, Di Tian, ​​how could you just let it go like that? But who was that man in black? He seemed to be just an ordinary Title Douluo? But something just doesn't feel right."

Because of the great distance and the fact that he didn't want the three people above to notice, Du Busi didn't dare to release his spiritual power and aura to investigate.

However, among Kong Deming, Xie Di, and Di Tian, ​​Xie Di, who was the most skilled at detection, did not arrive in his true form. Therefore, despite their mutual vigilance, they did not discover that Du Busi was observing from afar, concealing his presence.

A dozen minutes later, Di Tiancai left the place with the True Dragon Egg, followed by Xie Di. Kong Deming returned to Sun and Moon City to appease the residents and mobilize the Soul Masters to return in an orderly manner.

Several hours later, after confirming that there were no further incidents, Du Bu Si finally left the place where he had been.

"Damn it, this is unbelievable."

Poison Undying cursed inwardly. Although he didn't know what the Sun Moon Empire and Emperor Tian had discussed, his intuition told him that it was definitely not a good thing.

But today, I never expected that a Soul Master from the Sun Moon Empire would be qualified to confront Di Tian and even negotiate with him.

This also made Poison Undying wary of the existence of Soul Masters for the first time.

Moreover, he had just sensed that there was a slightly stronger aura hidden within Sun and Moon City, concealed and unleashed.

However, this seemingly concealed act was actually a show of force against Di Tian, ​​deterring him from taking further action.

There is no doubt that the only being stronger than him, a level 98 Super Douluo, is the Limit Douluo.

Is it that the Sun Moon Empire has a Limit Douluo? Or is it that this Limit Douluo is not a native of the Sun Moon Empire?

After all, even Kong Deming, who faced Di Tian directly, only had a soul power of level 94, and was not even a Super Douluo.

One question after another weighed on Du Bu Si's mind, and he couldn't help but seriously consider the possibility of the evil soul master that Mu En had mentioned before.

"Damn it, the more I think about it, the more frustrated I get. Oh well, I'll deal with whatever comes my way. I'd better go catch that little guy a 100,000-year-old Evil-Eyed Tyrant as a gift for him to become his apprentice."

"Damn it, as long as that little guy can grow up, no Soul Master or Evil Soul Master will be an obstacle to the rise of my Body Sect!"

With that thought in mind, Du Busi stopped worrying and fled towards the Demon Forest.

(End of this chapter)