stonecrandall Chapter 21 Shocking! The old gatekeeper is actually a peerless master!
Chapter 21 Shocking! The old gatekeeper is actually a peerless master!
After finishing the welcome banquet, as soon as Meng Xinghe returned to the Spirit Pagoda, his phone received a series of notification sounds.
"They're here."
He took out his phone, and Gu Yuena, who was next to him, did the same, unlocking her phone and clicking on the message sent by their teacher, Leng Yaozhu, from among the many messages.
Leng Yaozhu: Nana, quick, open today's hot topics, there's urgent news.
Breaking news?
It's Qiu'er's Golden Apple incident!
Gu Yuena reacted instantly, quickly opening the news app, and the headline on the homepage immediately came into view.
Shocking! The old gatekeeper is actually a peerless martial arts master!
The headline was accompanied by a picture of an elderly man dressed in simple clothes, who looked very kind and approachable.
⊙?⊙!
Shouldn't it be Qiu'er's Golden Apple incident?
Oh, I see it, I see it.
The front page headline occupies 70% of the homepage space, with the remaining 30% used to list other important news, one of which occupies 10% of that 30% space.
Peace Ambassador Attacked; Who Was the Target...?
Gu Yuena quickly clicked to view, skimming through the pages.
"Phew, it's good that Qiu'er is alright. These lousy news articles, what kind of terrible headlines are they? They scared me half to death."
At this moment, Meng Xinghe also finished reading the news, turned to look at Gu Yuena, and smiled:
"Isn't that how self-media works these days? The more eye-catching the title, the more clicks and readers it attracts, and the more traffic it gets."
"You're just too concerned to think straight."
"Who...who cares about that brat? I'm just worried that the Golden Apple will be stolen," Gu Yuena argued, her face slightly flushed.
After saying that, she looked down at her phone, pretending to read the headline news.
The news reports that the elderly man in the photo is the doorman and watchman of the Church of the Holy Spirit, who demonstrated quasi-divine power in the attack on the peace ambassador.
It turns out that this old man was no ordinary person, but the current Cardinal Council President of the Holy Spirit Cult, His Holiness the Holy Law Douluo, Elex.
"So it was him."
Di Tian had mentioned him, a visitor from another world, who now only had a fragment of incomplete divine consciousness remaining.
However, he made indelible contributions to the Douluo Continent and even the entire soul beast race, because he invented the Soul Spirit Technique.
After his fragment of divine consciousness was restored, he used the rules of Douluo Star to transform himself into a soul beast and participated in the reincarnation plan, transforming into a human again.
However, Di Tian did not say where Electrolux went after transforming into human form, or what his identity was.
Now I know, he went to the Holy Spirit Church, became the president of the council, and also took on the job of guarding the gate.
Why do these older generation powerhouses all prefer to conceal their identities and take on ordinary jobs, like doormen or floor sweepers...?
As Gu Yuena thought this, she completely forgot that she was much older than them.
"Now that Electrolux has revealed his strength, the Holy Spirit Cult's three Limits have surpassed the Spirit Pagoda."
The Spirit Pagoda has only two Limit Douluo on the surface: the former tower master Qian Gu Die Ting and the current tower master Qian Gu Dong Feng.
Before this, the Holy Spirit Cult only had two Limit Douluo on the surface: the current Pope Ya Li and the current Director of the Inquisition, Angel Douluo. Now, they have added another one: the current Cardinal Council President, Ilex.
Currently, in terms of the number of Limit Douluo, only Shrek Academy in the entire Douluo Federation can surpass the Holy Spirit Cult.
Heavenly Douluo, Vast Ocean Douluo, Light and Darkness Douluo, and Sky-Supporting Douluo—Shrek Academy has four Limit Douluos. If we add the Ruthless Douluo and Amorous Douluo from Tang Sect, then it becomes a sect with six Limit Douluos, three of whom are quasi-gods.
For some reason, Shrek Academy's influence across the continent is far less than it was 10,000 years ago, but its influence in certain regions is far greater than it was 10,000 years ago.
(After the Sun Moon Empire unified the Douluo Continent, Xu Tianran publicly announced that he would wear the Shrek Academy uniform and take a walk around Shrek Academy. As soon as he finished speaking, he was struck dead by a bolt of lightning from the sky. The throne was inherited by the crown prince born from the fertility of Ju Zi and the Xu family prince.)
Tang Wutong took on the responsibility of rebuilding the Tang Sect, which was then merged with the Soul Guidance Department of Shrek Academy.
Under Meng Xinghe's covert guidance, the Sea God Legion was no longer among the eight major legions of the Federation; only the Western Navy Legion remained. The Sea God Family still existed, but it was merged into Shrek Academy. As a result, Chen Xinjie, the Vast Ocean Douluo, was no longer the Hall Master of the War God Hall, but became the Elder of the Shrek Sea God Pavilion.
Finally, the Heavenly Favored Douluo who wasn't cuckolded has survived to this day.
"The Spirit Pagoda hides a thousand-year-old Qingfeng, which is an open secret among the Federation's high-ranking officials. In their eyes, the Spirit Pagoda has long been a place with three extreme abilities, and they all come from the same Soul Master family. The idea that the Holy Spirit Cult surpasses the Spirit Pagoda only exists in the eyes of ordinary people."
Meng Xinghe continued, following Gu Yuena's words, "Also, your teacher, Leng Yaozhu, is a genius Soul Master with the potential to break through to the Limit Douluo level, and there is a high possibility that she will break through to the Limit Douluo level."
"In the eyes of ordinary people, the Spirit Pagoda is a dual-limit technique, but in the eyes of the Federation's high-ranking officials, the Spirit Pagoda will soon be a quadruple-limit technique, comparable to Shrek Academy. Coupled with its friendly relationship with soul beasts, it carries far more weight than Shrek."
Gu Yuena understood the implied meaning.
"You mean, the Federation is wary of the Spirit Pagoda?"
"Well, the Qian Gu family is ambitious, so it's understandable that the Federation is wary of them."
"Let me put it this way," Meng Xinghe shook his head, "we can compare Soul Masters to an army, Soul Spirits to munitions, and the method of Soul Spirits to the secret recipe for making munitions."
"Soul Masters are the strongest army in the world, yet the secret formulas for manufacturing weapons are controlled by private forces. If you were a high-ranking official in the Federation, what would you think? And what would you do?"
"The peaceful coexistence of humans and soul beasts is an inevitable trend that cannot be changed. The Federation does not dare to let a calm river turn into a giant wave that can capsize a wooden boat. Therefore, what they want is to obtain this weapon formula from the Spirit Pagoda, which is also the direction they have been working towards all these years."
Upon hearing this, Gu Yuena immediately recalled the intricate and complex situation at the Spirit Pagoda headquarters, which truly lived up to the saying, "A large forest has all kinds of birds."
Without Sima Jinchi acting as her ruthless bodyguard, she, as the deputy master disciple of the Spirit Pagoda, would have faced countless twists and turns.
"Humans are truly complex creatures, and so am I now..."
She doesn't reject complexity.
Only those who are well protected from childhood can maintain their innocent and pure nature.
She is the ruler of all soul beasts. To shoulder the responsibilities on her shoulders, she must embrace complexity, because this world is essentially a giant dye vat, and no one knows what color they will become after going through it.
This is probably what humans call growth.