Chapter 166. Life is long, and we are all connected.
A newspaper appeared on Ning Fengzhi's desk.
Ning Fengzhi was looking at the newspaper with a worried look on his face.
"Master, it's just a piece of paper. What's the point?" Gu Rong said.
"What's the point?" Ning Fengzhi closed the newspaper, took a deep breath, and said, "What do you think the significance of destroying a sect and wiping out a clan is?" "Destroying a sect and wiping out a clan?" Gu Rong gasped and said, "Is this piece of paper really that exaggerated? Anyone who wants to destroy my Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect should ask me and Coward first."
Ning Fengzhi said, "Uncle Gu, do you remember how the entire Douluo Continent viewed the Haotian Sect when it was oppressed by the Spirit Hall and forced to close its sect for self-protection?"
Gu Rong fell into deep thought. He said, "I think it seems that the Haotian Sect was unjust first, destroying the Spirit Hall and causing innocent casualties. The Spirit Hall is seeking justice for those who died."
"Yes," Ning Fengzhi said, "Long before launching that war, the Spirit Hall had already made preparations. Not only did they want to declare war on the Haotian Sect, they also wanted to put the Haotian Sect in a disadvantageous position."
"The significance of this piece of paper is that it can allow the public to understand any domineering behavior of the Spirit Hall in the future." Ning Fengzhi said: "If one day, the Spirit Hall wants to take action against our Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect, I can guarantee that this newspaper will publish a lot of negative news about our Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. Make our Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect be spurned by everyone."
Gu Rong stood up in shock, and then looked at the newspaper in Ning Fengzhi's hand and said: "The Spirit Hall is really vicious."
"Then, we can't just sit there and do nothing. Since the Spirit Hall can withdraw from that newspaper, I think we might as well launch a newspaper and compete with the Spirit Hall." Gu Rong said.
Ning Fengzhi said worriedly, "Even if we could publish a newspaper, it wouldn't be comparable to a continental organization like the Spirit Hall. Furthermore, the Spirit Hall has a secret: soul guides, which are even more deadly. I'm shocked that the Spirit Hall has been able to produce so many soul guides in such a short period of time."
"Could it be that the Spirit Hall has already mastered the technology to manufacture soul guides? Are they only masters of these communication-type soul guides, or have they also mastered the offensive soul guides recorded in ancient texts?"
"If that's the case, we're in big trouble with the three upper sects and the two empires," Ning Fengzhi said, taking a deep breath.
"Then what should we do?" Gu Rong asked.
Ning Fengzhi shook off the decadent thoughts in his mind. He remained steadfast in his determination, insisting,
"Soul guides are the common wealth of the continent. If the Spirit Hall has accidentally acquired the technology to manufacture them, it shouldn't monopolize it. We protest to the Spirit Hall in the name of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect. Furthermore, we must intensify our espionage efforts and increase our financial investment. The Spirit Hall is such a large organization, I doubt we can't buy out some intelligence."
"Increase the deployment of spies into the Spirit Hall. No matter what, we must seize the soul guide technology from them. This is the common wealth of the continent. Why should the Spirit Hall monopolize it all?" Dai Tianfeng declared angrily.
On his desk lay a pile of shredded paper, clearly Spirit Hall newspapers. Ning Fengzhi could see the problem, so how could Dai Tianfeng not?
Furthermore, Dai Tianfeng was thinking even more.
In the Xingluo Empire, the White Tiger Imperial Family held a sacred and inviolable image. Xingluo propaganda portrayed Dai Tianfeng and the White Tiger Clan as the appointed representatives of the gods, ruling the region. His voice was described as holy, and wherever he went, people bowed in obeisance.
If, one day, he and several concubines bathed in a wine pool, selected barbecued meats in a forest hung with fragrant meats, and tore expensive silk fabrics in the courtyard with some concubines, creating a melodious hissing sound, and if he enjoyed riding around on a human chair, or if he loved digging a pit in the palace, filling it with poisonous toads, snakes, and spiders, and shoving people in it to be devoured alive by the venomous creatures, or if he delighted in forcing prisoners to walk across a red-hot column, and if these things were broadcast throughout the continent through the Spirit Hall newspaper, wouldn't his dignity be violated?
Of course, none of this was done by me, Dai Tianfeng. This is just a hypothesis, nothing more, so don't speculate.
"Also, issue a decree. All officials and nobles in the Star Luo Empire are prohibited from purchasing Spirit Hall newspapers. Immediately establish a Star Luo Empire media outlet to counter this."
This series of decrees clearly showed Dai Tianfeng's fear of them.
Of course, while Dai Tianfeng could prevent nobles, military officers, and others within his own country from accepting Spirit Hall newspapers, he couldn't prohibit civilians from purchasing them, as that would be tantamount to breaking with the Spirit Hall. The Star Luo Empire had no clear laws prohibiting its citizens from purchasing Spirit Hall newspapers.
Therefore, Spirit Hall media outlets spread across the continent.
Meanwhile, the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire followed suit, and the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect also followed suit. Their media outlets had a drawback: they didn't have the same widespread reach as the Spirit Hall. The Heaven Dou media didn't know about events in the Star Luo Empire, and the Star Luo media didn't know about events on the Heaven Dou side. And the Seven Treasures Newspaper's influence was even smaller, as it was just a sect.
Another drawback was the time and cost of disseminating information. For example, if something happened in the Heaven Dou Empire, the Spirit Hall newspaper in the Star Luo Empire would know about it through spirit guides without much delay. However, even for information from the Heaven Dou Empire itself, it would take months to reach the most difficult areas in the north.
This led to the Spirit Hall newspaper gradually becoming the mainstream.
Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi, realizing that the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect wasn't in this line of work, hosted a banquet for Xue Ye and Dai Tianfeng to discuss the matter.
The general idea was that the three parties should put aside their differences and unite to fight against the Spirit Hall. Since the power of one party alone couldn't resist the Spirit Hall's infiltration, why not establish a joint newspaper to counter it?
Upon hearing Ning Fengzhi's proposal and considering the threat posed by the Spirit Hall, Dai Tianfeng and Xue Ye agreed.
Thus, the Continental United Newspaper was established, with the Star Luo Empire, the Heaven Dou Empire, and the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect joining forces.
The Continental United Newspaper Agency, having integrated the intelligence resources of the Tiandou and Xingluo empires, launched a counterattack against the Spirit Hall, but was still no match for the Spirit Hall.
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