Back at the dormitory entrance, Gu Yuena looked at Huo Yuhao. Instead of discussing the reason for the evil spirit master's attack, she said: "The Execution Department will probably handle this."
Not to mention her relationship with Emperor Tian and the others, her teacher was the older sister of Dark Phoenix Douluo. She knew the Execution Department quite well.
Supervision was their main responsibility, but hunting down evil spirit masters was also one of their tasks.
Now that she had been attacked by an evil spirit master, it was only logical that Carefree Douluo would inform Dark Phoenix Douluo.
"Yes."
Huo Yuhao nodded. Like Gu Yuena, he tacitly skipped over the matter of the evil spirit master's attack. Hua Yichen would handle that properly.
He thought for a moment, then asked: "I'm not very clear about the composition of the Execution Department. Could you tell me about it?"
He knew the purpose for which the department had been established, but not the details of its personnel. Hua Yichen wouldn't mention these things to him without reason. But based on his understanding of evil spirit masters, there wouldn't be many strong ones among them.
Just look at Miss Tang Ya. The speed of her strength improvement before using devouring abilities and after using them was worlds apart.
The reason evil spirit masters were powerful was because of the strange abilities granted by their martial souls. Without using them — unless it was a martial soul like Ma Xiaotao's, which could still achieve something even without becoming an evil spirit master — they weren't much different from ordinary spirit masters.
Gaining the right to live in the sunlight having meant to give up the ability to grow quickly.
It could be considered a case of no gain without loss.
Moreover, the Spirit Transmission Tower did not monopolise the benefits in matters of supervision. It cooperated with the Federation. The Federation also sent people to participate in the review.
Some children with the potential to become evil spirit masters therefore identified with the Federation to a considerable degree. Many of them entered various Federation departments to work after growing up. Naturally, the chances of the Execution Department producing strong individuals were even smaller.
But in Huo Yuhao's view, this was a good thing. It showed that the Spirit Transmission Tower had not been blinded by power.
Not to mention the political implications — if problems arose, they could even drag the Federation into taking the blame together. Why not?
Upon hearing this, Gu Yuena thought for a moment and said:
"The Spirit Transmission Tower's requirements for the Execution Department is for its members to develop in the direction of normal spirit masters. Moreover, some people leave the Execution Department after their review ends. So to this day, there are only two Title Douluo-level strong individuals. My teacher's younger sister, Dark Phoenix Douluo, is one of them."
"The other's title is... Zhenhun. He is also very special within the Execution Department. He is one of the few allowed by the Spirit Transmission Tower's high-rises to use his martial soul abilities to improve. He is also one of the Spirit Transmission Tower's hidden trump cards. Only those at the rank of Vice Tower Master or above are qualified to know of his existence. His abilities are related to souls. He must devour soul energy to improve his cultivation. Ordinary cultivation has no effect..."
The corner of Huo Yuhao's eye twitched. Even if Gu Yuena didn't finish, he could guess who that person was.
Good heavens. The Spirit Transmission Tower had become a branch of the Holy Spirit Cult.
The orthodox lineage of the Holy Spirit Cult was in the Spirit Transmission Tower?
After Gu Yuena had roughly explained the abilities and characteristics of Zhenhun Douluo, Huo Yuhao asked: "If I'm not mistaken, he got there by taking Spirit Elevation Pills, didn't he?"
"That's right. Or rather, the Spirit Elevation Pill was created because of him." Gu Yuena's expression also became strange as she spoke. "He is the first person to become a Limit Douluo by taking pills. He is also the strongest civilian spirit master the Spirit Transmission Tower has unearthed in the past hundred years."
Only being able to improve by devouring souls in the eyes of other powers, this type of spirit master could only be killed as an evil spirit master. But the Spirit Transmission Tower was different. They had even created artificial Spirit Souls!
Of course, the Spirit Transmission Tower wasn't going to feed Zhenhun Douluo Spirit Souls. They just gave him the energy used to create Spirit Souls to consume. After all, he only absorbed the energy within the souls.
The Spirit Elevation Pill was developed for this reason. The spiritual energy inside it was the energy used to manufacture artificial Spirit Souls, which was why it could enhance a Spirit Soul's longevity.
"According to Zhenhun Douluo himself, to become a Limit Douluo, eating pills made him sick of it," Gu Yuena added.
Huo Yuhao and the spirit beasts in the Sea of Spirit: "..."
Becoming a Limit Douluo by eating pills... the Soul Engineers of ten thousand years ago would cry with envy. And you're not satisfied?
Was that something a human being should say?
"But the price was also high. In that era, most of the spiritual energy from the Spirit Elevation Platform was used to manufacture Spirit Elevation Pills. Only a very small number of quotas were distributed to other powers, which caused quite a few incidents. It took decades to recover."
"In a sense, he was cultivated using enough resources to raise dozens of hundred-thousand-year Spirit Souls."
Of course, compared to a Limit Douluo with strange abilities who could serve as a trump card, these things didn't matter much.
Thinking this, Gu Yuena looked at Huo Yuhao. "The Spirit Transmission Tower values him not only for his strength. He can produce his own spirit rings. Whenever he absorbs enough spiritual energy, his martial soul condenses spirit rings for him. If it weren't for the need for some Spirit Soul supervision, all nine of his spirit rings would be self-generated. He has great research value."
Huo Yuhao nodded inwardly.
A spirit master who produced his own spirit rings — he wasn't much different from a transformed spirit beast. Among the spirit masters of this era, this former head of the Holy Spirit Cult's Four Heavenly Kings was also someone he was very interested in.
If he had the chance, he would also like to study his abilities — and ask him whether becoming a Limit Douluo by eating pills was actually comfortable!
In the Sea of Spirit, Ice Empress was speechless.
Her earlier thought had come true. There really was a human who produced their own spirit rings...
Looking at the silent Huo Yuhao before her, Gu Yuena suddenly asked:
"Now, among the Eighteen Heavenly Pillars' tower masters and the Federation Council members, there are spirit beasts. As can be seen from the Execution Department, the number of evil spirit masters has also begun to decline because of the Spirit Soul contract. The Spirit Transmission Tower has fulfilled its initial promise — even gone further. Are you satisfied with that?"
Huo Yuhao was startled, then smiled. "Whether I'm satisfied or not — that's a question for the people and spirit beasts living in this era to answer. I only just returned. I'm not qualified to speak on behalf of the Spirit Transmission Tower. You should ask yourself that question."
"..."
Gu Yuena's bright, spirited black eyes looked into Huo Yuhao's eyes. After a moment of silence, she broke into a smile. "I don't dislike this era. But I hope it can be better."
Huo Yuhao chuckled lightly and turned to walk toward the forging room. "The premise to making it better is to participate in the process yourself, isn't it? Are you going to try the new forging method?"
"Yes. Yes, I am." Gu Yuena followed with light, quick steps.
The premise to making it better was, of course, to participate in it herself.
She, the Silver Dragon King, did not want to coast to victory!
The first floor of this dormitory building had rooms dedicated to various secondary professions. The two of them went to a forging room, and Huo Yuhao took out several pieces of rare metal.
"You can first try using elemental force to remove the impurities from the metal. I understand basic purification and can give you some guidance."
Gu Yuena nodded, took a piece of metal, and did not use the forging table. She directly used wind element to suspend it in the air. At the same time, various elemental lights began to flow around her body — dazzling and colorful, as if the elemental forces of heaven and earth were all responding to her summons.
Compared to during their fight earlier, her aura at this moment was unprecedentedly powerful.
Watching this scene, Huo Yuhao thought of his previous impression of Gu Yuena. Six words suddenly came to mind.
Kotodama • Heaven and Earth as a Furnace?
Your Excellency is truly Teacher Shrimp?
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