Douluo Continent: Not enough bloodline? Make up for it with brains

Chapter 580 Settling New and Old Debts Together (Please Subscribe!!!)

Xu Yuan was speechless for a moment when he heard this rumor.

Why are there no god-level soul masters in the Spirit Pagoda?

"Isn't my uncle from the Spirit Pagoda?"

Even Xu Yuan, as his nephew, almost doubted whether his uncle was truly the acting master of the Spirit Pagoda.

Just because someone has God-Forged Metal and breaks through a barrier doesn't mean they can't be considered a true God-level Soul Master, right?

Divine Forging City.

Xu Yuan found Xu Shengqun and learned the answer.

"Uncle, with your strength, you can directly determine the location of the tower master. There's no need to go through all this trouble."

Xu Shengqun gave a wry smile.

"In the past, my prestige was more than enough. But with the arrival of the God-level era, the three Limit Douluos, Qian Gu Die Ting, Qian Gu Dong Feng, and Qian Gu Qing Feng, have regained a lot of support. With their status, years of accumulation, and numerical advantage, the possibility of at least one of them breaking through is extremely high. Some people have begun to waver."

Upon hearing this, Xu Yuan also showed a look of disgust.

With such a system and the current atmosphere, the Spirit Pagoda has indeed been completely corrupted.

"But, Uncle, by stirring up this public opinion, you have put pressure on the three of them, which may actually help them make a breakthrough."

"Let them promote it then. Anyway, Qian Gu Dong Feng won't last long, and the Qian Gu family will be purged." A cold glint appeared in Xu Shengqun's eyes.

He was still unaware of Xu Zhi's reincarnation, so he remained deeply troubled by Xu Zhi's situation.

Now that the crisis on Douluo Star has passed, he is about to begin his reckoning.

Xu Yuan nodded slowly, agreeing, "That's true, they've lived long enough."

"I have investigated everything Qian Gu Dongfeng has done in the past. His cooperation with evil spirit masters is so disgusting that it makes my scalp tingle."

Xu Shengqun took out a document and handed it to Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan gasped as he looked at the various cooperation proposals.

Sure enough, once you start, you can't go back.

This ancient east wind has been able to cooperate with the Holy Spirit Church more than once.

However, Xu Yuan never imagined that the two sides would cooperate as many as thirty-eight times!

Moreover, this is the result after summarizing; if it were just contact with evil spirit masters, there might be hundreds of such encounters.

"He had already colluded with the Holy Spirit Cult when he was sixteen." Xu Yuan took a deep breath.

"The history of the Qian Gu family is not clean either," Xu Shengqun said. "Because they inherently possess the ability to exorcise evil, the Qian Gu family, with their Panlong Staff martial soul, naturally has an advantage against evil soul masters, even comparable to the Holy Angel martial soul with its Holy Flame. However, the Qian Gu family is far inferior to the Le family in their fight against evil soul masters. I previously thought that the Qian Gu family focused on vying for power and cultivating their strength within the Spirit Pagoda, but I never expected that the entire Qian Gu family has always maintained connections with the Holy Spirit Cult."

Destroy evil?

This was the first time Xu Yuan had noticed this attribute of the Panlong Staff.

The dragon attached to the Panlong Staff is not a dragon that inherited the bloodline of the Dragon God, but a kind of evil-repelling dragon, also known as the Heavenly Awakening Holy Golden Dragon. It is born and nurtured by nature, formed by the condensation of the righteous energy of heaven and earth, and has the ability to destroy all evil.

Xu Yuan knew the origin of the Panlong Staff, but he had never considered that this evil-breaking staff could also restrain evil spirit masters.

The main reason was that Qian Gu Dong Feng and the Holy Spirit Cult colluded, which prevented Xu Yuan from considering whether there could still be a restraining relationship between the two sides.

Looking back now, the fact that Qian Gu Dong Feng was able to collude with the Holy Spirit Cult so smoothly might be due to a family tradition. The reason the family has this tradition is because their martial spirit is able to counter evil spirit masters.

Because it restrains evil spirit masters, one can use this knife at will without any guilt.

Similarly, because they were restrained by the Evil Dragon, the Holy Spirit Cult also used cooperation to stop the Ancient Clan from carrying out a large-scale manhunt.

"According to records from the last three hundred years, apart from Qian Gu Qingfeng, the other members of the Qian Gu family have never taken action except when they were cracking down on evil spirit masters in official operations."

Xu Shengqun then showed Xu Yuan a lot of materials, all of which were evidence accusing the Qian Gu family.

"Since you've come to ask today, then we should close the net." Xu Shengqun looked at Xu Yuan and said, "The Thousand-Year East Wind still requires your personal action."

Xu Yuan nodded.

Although his parents were reincarnated (his mother was also sent to the Holy Demon Continent), the mistakes made by Qian Gu Dongfeng could not be made up for.

the next day.

Xu Shengqun left the underworld.

Once back in the public eye, reporters quickly got wind of the news and contacted Xu Shengqun for an interview.

"Venerable Tian Sheng, some people online are saying that the Spirit Transmission Tower has no God-level Venerables. However, Venerable Tian Sheng, you originated from the Spirit Transmission Tower and have served as the acting tower master for several years. Do you have anything to say about this?"

Xu Shengqun looked very dissatisfied and angry.

"I am Xu Shengqun. I broke through to godhood four months ago, and I still hold the indisputable position of acting tower master of the Spirit Pagoda!"

His tone was firm and powerful.

He glanced around and then looked at the camera.

"The atmosphere in the Federation is getting worse and worse. It's unbelievable that such public opinion can even rise up. It seems that some people have infiltrated the Federation from top to bottom. I hope the Federation can investigate who is manipulating public opinion and deceiving the higher-ups instead of questioning me, the one who was slandered."

After saying that, Xu Shengqun snorted coldly, unleashed his divine soul power, and transformed into a beam of light, flying towards Shrek City.

Those around were stunned by the power of the divine soul and remained rooted to the spot for a long time.

"Was that divine soul power just now? I felt like I was facing the heavens."

Someone muttered to themselves, their tone filled with disbelief.

"This is the Venerable One!"

"It is said that Abyss Lord and Underworld Lord are even stronger, having reached the transcendent god level, which is two major stages higher than the god level that the Venerable One is at!"

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After initially being at a loss, the reporter looked around at the chaotic scene and quickly spotted a military uniform.

Seeing that calm and composed figure, she felt as if she had found a lifeline and quickly stepped forward, asking, "Hello."

The reporter was momentarily unsure of who the soldier was. As she paused, pondering how to address him, the composed figure looked at her and said calmly, "Hello, I am Yu Guanzhi."

The reporter's mind raced, quickly connecting the name Yu Guanzhi to the identity of the man before him.

"Hello, Commander Yu." She forced a smile and said, "The Heavenly Saint Venerable just pointed out that the Federation has been infiltrated. Do you know anything about it?"

Upon hearing the question, Yu Guanzhi's demeanor instantly changed, causing the scene to fall silent.

He looked at the camera and solemnly said, "The Federation has also realized what Venerable Tian Sheng said and has launched an investigation, targeting the group that controls public opinion in the Federation."

"Really?" the reporter pressed. "Then could you please reveal the other party's specific identity?"

"There are too many people, so I won't go into details here. The Federation is already prepared and will soon take action to clean up the interior."

With the threat from the abyss gone, the Federation turned its attention to internal matters.

"It's not just an internal problem of the Federation. During the war with the Abyss, our Federation suffered heavy losses from attacks by evil spirit masters all over the country. At that time, the Federation's strength was concentrated in the Underworld to fight against the Abyss army, and we were really distracted. Now that the Underworld Lord and the Abyss Lord have defeated the Abyss Saint King and won the war for us, the Federation has begun to mobilize forces to carry out a cleanup operation against the evil spirit masters."

"This time, we will definitely take down the evil spirit master in one fell swoop!"

Taking advantage of this opportunity to speak out, Yu Guanzhi also said a lot.

These are all the federal government's next moves.

Of the two points he mentioned earlier, the two he mentioned later are the most noteworthy.

One is about how to deal with the egregious incident of manipulating public opinion against His Holiness; this is just something to watch from the sidelines.

One is to crack down on evil spirit masters, which is related to the actual safety of everyone's lives.

While this report was being made, Qian Gu Dong Feng, far away in Shrek City, received the news.

The ancient court was interrupted from its seclusion by the ancient east wind.

"What happened? Why are you so flustered?" Qian Gu Die Ting asked, quite displeased.

They've already gone through a dimensional war, yet they're still so impulsive.

Qian Gu Dong Feng then said directly, "Father, this is troublesome. Xu Shengqun is coming to kill us."

"What?" Qian Gu Die Ting stood up in surprise.

The war between the two planes was raging, and the three ultimate members of the Qian Gu family naturally arrived at the front line one after another. They occupied Qian Gu City from beginning to end and managed everything of the Qian Gu family.

After Xu Shengqun broke through to the god level, the three of them returned to Douluo Star.

Among them, Qian Gu Qing Feng disappeared alone, while Qian Gu Die Ting and Qian Gu Dong Feng quickly returned to Shrek City, found the elders of the Spirit Pagoda, and visited them one by one to persuade them to support Qian Gu Dong Feng.

Many of the elders were also adept at changing their stance depending on the wind.

Although Xu Shengqun had built up a considerable network of connections over the years, he still couldn't resist the promises of Qian Gu Dong Feng.

It should be noted that even now, Xu Yuan has only forged a piece of divine-forged metal for Xu Shengqun on the surface, but has not forged any other person using divine-forged metal.

Even though Xu Yuan said that the Divine Forged Metal could not be used by all Soul Masters, there were still some people who did not believe it.

To be precise, it's not that some people don't believe it, it's that the vast majority of people don't believe it.

No one who isn't a master craftsman will genuinely believe what Xu Yuan says. Even a master craftsman, if they don't admire Xu Yuan but instead approach his words with skepticism, will become increasingly disbelieving.

Even the blacksmiths below him, aside from admiration, would not believe Xu Yuan if they seriously tried to understand what he said with a skeptical attitude.

This is the fact.

After all, the profession of blacksmith was created from the very beginning to serve the vast world of Soul Masters.

There has never been a particular type of forged metal that couldn't be suited to everyone.

Some people will only think that Xu Yuan is unwilling to change the formula and tailor-make the corresponding divine forging metal for others.

If Xu Yuan had forged divine metals for others, he could naturally help Xu Shengqun. However, the problem is that over the years, more than one Limit Douluo has requested divine metals, but Xu Yuan has never given him a single piece.

In this case, who would still support Xu Shengqun out of respect for Xu Yuan's divine metal forging skills?

Human nature is always greedy, and also foolish.

The realm of divine forging has appeared, but it does not serve Soul Masters. How can that be acceptable?

High-level blacksmiths enjoy the veneration of the Soul Master world, not because their forging skills are praiseworthy, but because they can bring benefits to Soul Masters.

But when a blacksmith is unable to serve a soul master, the soul master will have to resort to other means.

A threat of strength is obviously not an option.

Then we can only create an opportunity to subtly influence the vast number of Soul Masters, so as to force Xu Yuan to return to his original profession as a blacksmith.

It was precisely because of this that some elders were misled, and eventually, the latest news about the election of the Tower Master began to circulate within the Spirit Pagoda, with Qian Gu Dongfeng, Qian Gu Die Ting, and even Qian Gu Qingfeng all being listed as candidates.

Of course, Gu Yue, Leng Yaolai and his apprentice, and Xu Shengqun were also present.

"What does the Federation mean by this?"

Qian Gu Die Ting took a deep breath, his face extremely pale.

"We've shed blood and risked our lives for the Soul Master world. What do our achievements in the Underworld count for?"

Qian Gu Dongfeng, standing to the side, also wore an expression of great resentment, deeply pained by the Federation's betrayal.

Although Yu Guanzhi did not explicitly name who was manipulating public opinion during the interview, he spoke immediately after Xu Shengqun and followed Xu Shengqun's words.

The father and son of Qian Gu Dongfeng know perfectly well who is manipulating this public opinion.

They even joined forces with the elders to secretly try to stop this trend, since the Spirit Pagoda now has the god-level Xu Shengqun. If they were to kick him out because of public opinion, it would be a loss for the Spirit Pagoda.

The three members of the same family have three limits, and the probability of them breaking through to the god level is not small, but that is still before they have broken through.

If none of the three here can break through, then the Spirit Pagoda will have to rely on Xu Shengqun to lead the way in the future.

Therefore, the elders also tried to reverse public opinion.

But it was precisely because they had tried that they realized how powerful the forces behind this public opinion were.

Even though they hold high positions and wield great power, like top experts in their own world, this public opinion is still accompanied by the majestic might of Heaven.

How can anyone stop this?

So, even though the public opinion was clearly being controlled by the federal government, Yu Guanzhi, as the federal representative, claimed that he had found the person behind the manipulation and was preparing to take action.

What to do when a thief cries "Stop thief!"?

The "thieves" these thieves are referring to are undoubtedly them.

"Why did it come to this?"

The ancient east wind is heartbreaking.

He simply couldn't believe that the Federation would make such a decision.

Shouldn't they try to smooth things over?

Now that we've ushered in a new golden age, with no external threats, shouldn't we be trying to sow discord internally? The Spirit Pagoda, being the biggest troublemaker, isn't the more chaotic the better?

"Let's find Qingfeng first. The three of us should lay low for a while. Once one of us breaks through, we'll have leverage in negotiations." Qian Gu Die Ting believed that the reason they didn't have a God-level Venerable on their side was because they didn't have one.

The ancient east wind reacted.

Yes, we're in the age of gods now, and all distribution of benefits should be based on the standards set by the Venerable Ones.

That's why the Federation sided with Xu Shengqun.

"Damn it, if it weren't for the divine forging metal provided by Xu Yuan, how could Xu Shengqun have broken through before us!" Qian Gu Dongfeng gritted his teeth.

While hurling insults, he did not hesitate at all and quickly withdrew with Qian Gu Die Ting.

However, they were ultimately too slow.

"The east wind of ages past, new and old grievances, should be settled today."

A vortex appeared out of thin air in front of the two, and from within the vortex, a person seemed to emerge from nothingness.