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Chapter 186 - Chapter 187: The "Moderate" in the Hawk Faction—Are You Qian Renxue?

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"A Song of Blood and Fire Lament buried countless lives, the Angel Family was overthrown in a single morning, and the independent structure of the Southern Families came to an end."

In the airspace, Guan Yue sighed softly and said to Feng Zaixing, "I actually wanted to talk to you a long time ago. Before, I thought we weren't on the same path, but now... it seems that's not quite right either."

Feng Zaixing watched Le Zhengyang leave with the scattered Le Family descendants, and said in a deep voice, "I suppressed Shrek because they deserved it, both for public grievances and personal grudges."

Guan Yue closed his eyes in meditation, taking a long breath, and said, "Indeed, the Academy has had its faults over the years. Senior Brother caused a huge disturbance in Bright Capital back then, and Cai Yueer and Long Yeyue acted recklessly, yet I was powerless."

Seeing his look of helplessness, Feng Zaixing lowered his tone: "If you were sitting in the position of Pavilion Master of the Sea God's Pavilion instead of Yun Ming, I don't think suppressing Shrek would have been easy, as one would have to rely on reason."

Guan Yue gave a wry laugh: "Am I supposed to thank you? You made my Senior Brother suffer terribly."

"You really should thank me." Feng Zaixing actually nodded seriously, transmitting a message using his Spirit Domain Realm mental force: "When I acted, I only harmed Shrek Academy; certain lunatics in the Federation had a plan to bomb the entire Shrek City, destroying them along with the Tang Sect headquarters."

Guan Yue suddenly turned his head, looking greatly alarmed: "Is that true?"

Feng Zaixing countered, "Do I have any reason to lie to you?"

Guan Yue cupped his hands: "Please elaborate."

Feng Zaixing said, "The executors of this plan were the Holy Spirit Cult. Now the Holy Spirit Cult has been driven away, and most of their remaining spies on the Douluo Continent have been pulled out by me. They won't dare to return in the short term; otherwise, they would destroy the entire Shrek City, just as they did at the Dou Ling Tang Sect Branch."

"If they only destroyed Shrek Academy, I wouldn't interfere; but millions of common people are innocent, and I absolutely cannot tolerate that."

"The world says I am ruthless and cruel, and that is true; but the world doesn't know that if I don't do it, others will, and their methods are thousands of times more vicious than mine. When I act, I still leave a sliver of hope; they won't."

Using god-slaying class cannon shell to bomb Shrek was one thing, but bombing tens of millions of people was too extreme; Feng Zaixing knew he couldn't stop it alone, so he simply pulled out a conservative faction and took the Path of the Kingly Way to suppress Shrek directly, while also suppressing the Hawk Faction radicals.

If they had god-slaying class cannon shell, wouldn't it be better to throw them into the Abyss Plane, the Demon Plane, or at other great enemies?

If Shrek were bombed, countless spiritual Shrek followers on the Douluo Continent would frantically call back its soul; being destroyed by the Holy Spirit Cult would instead completely deify Shrek Academy, making its status impossible to shake, and once rebuilt, it would be unstoppable.

Guan Yue pursed his lips, cupped his hands while holding his spear, and said, "Thank you."

Feng Zaixing suppressing Shrek was leaving a sliver of hope, and wasn't his visit to the Le Family today the same?

If he hadn't come, the Le Family would have been uprooted, leaving no one behind; because he came, Le Zhengyang and some talented individuals had a chance to survive.

Strangely enough, Feng Zaixing turned out to be the "moderate" among the Hawk Faction. He possessed extraordinarily high talent, excelled at diplomacy and strategy, and his methods were firm yet measured. It was a pity he advocated for external expansion; if he had championed peace, he would have been Shrek's most ideal successor.

Feng Zaixing nodded lightly, then suddenly patted his chest, coughing. His face was pale as gold paper, and his aura rapidly declined.

"Cough, cough—"

Guan Yue's expression panicked. He reached out, wanting to check Feng Zaixing's body, but saw spatial halos flicker. Gu Yue and Naer appeared and pulled Feng Zaixing out of the airspace.

Letting out a soft sigh, Guan Yue looked at the desolate figure with gray hair and sighed quietly.

"Until we meet again."

Shrek City, Tang Sect headquarters.

"Report~—

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Guo Xiaoxu, the Hall Master of the Soul Fighting Hall, passed through several pavilions and found Cao Dezhi buried in work inside the Douluo Hall.

Cao Dezhi raised a hand to his grizzled temples, "What is it?"

"There's good news and bad news. Which one would you like to hear?" Guo Xiaoxu's expression was a strange mix of joy and sorrow.

"How can there be such a strange thing?" Cao Dezhi became interested and looked up, "Tell me the good news first."

"The Le Family was almost wiped out!" Guo Xiaoxu shouted.

Cao Dezhi instantly stood up, his face growing larger in Guo Xiaoxu's view.

"The Le Family was wiped out? Who did it? Did the Holy Spirit Cult come back?" Cao Dezhi's voice trembled slightly with excitement.

"Absolutely true; but it wasn't the Holy Spirit Cult. It was done by the War God Hall and the Federal Investigation Bureau."

Guo Xiaoxu looked around, covered his mouth with his hand, and lowered his voice: "Do you remember our negotiation three months ago, where we traded the interests of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile School for the Le Family idiots? Those idiots agreed to secretly betray us and planned the assassination of Yu Xin."

Cao Dezhi nodded, sneering, "I remember. Those people were truly foolish, easily incited by us into betrayal; they also didn't take Feng Zaixing seriously."

"Heh heh, they were accustomed to being the Southern Overlords, and had long stopped taking anyone seriously. In their eyes, Feng Zaixing was just a vicious dog they kept, and they ended up suffering a backlash."

Guo Xiaoxu sneered, saying, "A few days ago, Feng Zaixing returned and learned that many important figures in the Le Family were behind the assassination. Since he never received an explanation from the Le Family members, his heart completely chilled, and he thoroughly established his own faction."

"He self-immolated eighty years of Lifespan to help Le Zhengyu's Spirit evolve; when the War God Hall and the Yu Family attacked the Le Family, he brought people to assist them; Le Zhengen fell in the great battle, and only Old Man Le and some juniors of the Le Family managed to leave."

"Feng Zaixing didn't push things to the absolute extreme. He let them take the Le Family's foundation and resources, allowing them to rise again given time, but they can no longer dominate a region."

Cao Dezhi sighed, "A heroic rage for a beauty, fighting for his and the Investigation Bureau's future—truly decisive."

After a moment of silence, he asked again, "What about the bad news?"

Guo Xiaoxu's smile vanished: "Leng Yaozhu and Yuan En Zhentian have achieved a Breakthrough to Quasi-God, greatly increasing the power of the Spirit Transfer Pagoda. Feng Zaixing's influence has also greatly increased, and we no longer have a chance to deal with him."

"I suggest we hurry up and relocate, and at the same time, tell the Disciples within the sect to keep a low profile. We should bomb anything we can't take with us for the time being. If we can't bomb it, just leave it. We cannot afford to provoke the Federation."

"What? Two Quasi-Gods!" Cao Dezhi's pupils constricted violently, his voice shot up, and he stumbled back two steps, nearly sitting down on his own desk.

Guo Xiaoxu added: "And that Rank 98 Super Douluo Yuan En Tiandang you mentioned last time, he also achieved a Breakthrough to Limit Douluo."

Hearing this, Cao Dezhi nearly blacked out and fainted. When did Limit Douluo become as common as cabbage?

Moreover, Quasi-Gods and Demigods, though only one word apart, have vastly different strengths. One Quasi-God can usually defeat three Demigods!

Guo Xiaoxu cautiously said, "Sect Leader, why don't we try to make peace with Feng Zaixing? Guan Yue said he believes Feng Zaixing is not impossible to cooperate with and suggests we open our hearts and talk to him."

When under someone else's roof, one must bow their head. The Tang Sect's current strength is inferior to that of the Le Family and the Southern Legion, and the power Cao Dezhi can mobilize is even less than Feng Zaixing's.

Black lines covered Cao Dezhi's face, and he gritted his teeth, "Then where is Feng Zaixing now?"

Guo Xiaoxu mumbled "Er" for a moment, then awkwardly said, "He burned eighty years of Lifespan, and has gone into seclusion to recover from his injuries. Your subordinate doesn't know where he went."

Cao Dezhi felt utterly exhausted and waved his hands like a windmill: "Get out, get out, get out! Come back to me when you have news of him!"

"Burning his Lifespan at the drop of a hat, he has already burned a hundred years, just like Yun Ming! No matter how much of a Genius he is, he won't live long."

The place where Feng Zaixing went into seclusion to recover from his injuries was the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Looking across the Douluo Continent, nowhere has more abundant Heaven and Earth elemental force than here. According to Naer, the intensity of the Heaven and Earth elemental force in the great ominous land of the Star Dou Sightseeing Park is less than one-fifth of this place.

Gu Yue expressed strong dissatisfaction and protested seriously about the name "Star Dou Sightseeing Park." Naer pulled out an Invalid Card and giggled.

The life sapling was released by Feng Zaixing from his Sea of Spirit and temporarily rooted itself in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. It stood tall like a canopy, over a hundred meters high, thriving in this number one plant Holy Land and showering down a Life Tide.

Xiangxiang and Bajiao led the spirit plants in worship day and night, thanking Feng Zaixing and the life sapling for their blessings.

This human is different. As expected of the existence chosen by the Core of Life, he truly let everyone experience the Eternal Life Card!

Xiangxiang generously stated that as long as the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had space, Feng Zaixing could bring as many people as he liked to Cultivate. Feng Zaixing was naturally not a sentimental person, and immediately brought all the core members of the One Heart Society.

Apart from the Nine Stars, dozens of elders, including Wu Siduo and Xu Yucheng, also arrived. Two groups of Spirit Fusion Skill Geniuses Cultivated weightlessly on the leaves of the life sapling, participating together in the "Ice and Fire Cultivation Year" team-building event initiated by Feng Zaixing.

"Although it's good that you repay kindness, can you stop burning your life at every turn?"

At the top of the life sapling, Feng Zaixing sat cross-legged on the Life Tide cloud. Old Jin, using the sapling, projected an image that no one but Feng Zaixing could see, sighing repeatedly.

"Eighty years of Lifespan! Even if you eliminate a batch of Evil Soul Masters, you won't be able to replenish it. You cherish your life too little."

"Repaying kindness completely is a matter of integrity, which brings clarity to the state of mind. It's nothing." Feng Zaixing asked with a smile, "How do I make up for the loss?"

Old Jin said, "At least kill a top-tier Demigod. Le Zhengen would have been suitable, but you didn't do it."

"I am not an Evil Soul Master. How could I use him as a sacrifice?"

Feng Zaixing shook his head, pondering, "The Netherworld Ghost Two Emperors are not easy to kill. I hope the Abyss Plane and the Demon Plane have suitable targets."

Old Jin laughed wryly: "You truly are—"

"Burning my Lifespan is not without benefits. Eight instances of burning have brought my understanding of the Fire of Life, Sacred Fire, and Angel divine force to a new height."

Feng Zaixing said seriously, "I have countless ideas in my mind. As long as I sort out these insights and make them my own, my understanding of Cultivation will not be inferior to any Limit Douluo."

"My mental force is rapidly increasing, and the Spirit Domain Realm no longer presents a Bottleneck. When helping Le Zhengyu evolve his Spirit, I even vaguely saw a trace of the Divine Rank World. Stepping into it means reaching the Divine Origin Realm, and perhaps I can even convert my spirit power into divine force."

"Within a year, I will certainly undergo a complete transformation and achieve my Martial Soul True Body."

Old Jin sighed, "Very well. I hope your path of using war to sustain war goes smoothly. This old man has received many benefits from you, and now I can only support you."

"Thank you." Feng Zaixing cupped his hands in a salute, and his consciousness sank into his Sea of Spirit.

On the Eastern Mental Floating Island, the Heavenly Sacred Winged God Tiger had long since awakened. It stood upright, its body half black and half white, manifesting Evil and Sanctity, in endless Reincarnation.

"You're here?" The Heavenly Sacred Winged God Tiger, which had transformed from a pure white cat into a black and white cat, yawned.

"I'm here. It seems burning my vitality provided a good boost to you."

Feng Zaixing examined his most important innate spirit soul, saying, "When sorrow reaches its limit, joy comes; the extreme transformation of elements. This is an extremely dangerous yet extremely powerful path, and it is the path I wish to take."

"I wanted Little Ye to demonstrate for me, and even wanted to study Spirit Fusion Skills, but now I don't originally need to. Having you as a template for research is enough."

The Heavenly Sacred Winged God Tiger lowered its head: "Fine, go ahead and research, just don't blow yourself up."

"No rush, there's still someone I need to see."

Feng Zaixing smiled lightly, looking behind him at the stunning girl in the long dress who had arrived gracefully.

She was the Legacy spirit soul Feng Zaixing obtained from the Angel Family. Unlike other Legacy spirit souls that only have one pair of wings, she had three pairs, but her form was illusory. Feng Zaixing called her "Xu Yanzhen."

Now, she had materialized from an illusory state.

Feng Zaixing looked at the Angel Halo behind the girl's head, which radiated divine light, and asked with interest, "Are you the first-generation Angel God or the second-generation? Or rather, are you Qian Renxue?"

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