Chapter 358: The Temptation of the Sacred Light Feather, Lin Yu's Reasoning
Sacred Light Feather?
In the livestream, after the cold voice announced the rewards for the top three positions in the Q&A, the first-place reward, being too distant, was basically always Lin Yu's, so everyone had already given up on winning it.
The third-place reward didn't generate much interest from the major forces either.
But when the second-place reward, the Sacred Light Feather, appeared, many forces couldn't help but get excited.
This was because the effect of the Sacred Light Feather was astonishing.
It could allow a martial soul to acquire the light attribute, provided it didn't already have the dark or evil attribute. Furthermore, there was a chance for evolution. If the martial soul was a bird-type or had the light attribute, it would definitely evolve!
Martial soul evolution was already a rare opportunity that was more valuable than a 100,000-year-old soul bone for most soul masters.
And let's not forget, after absorbing and refining the Sacred Light Feather, it could give the martial soul the light attribute, which was essentially a huge win!
As for this Sacred Light Feather reward, the ones most eager to obtain it were undoubtedly Qian Daoliu, Qian Renxue, and everyone from the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, including Xue Ye the Great Emperor and Prince Xuexing.
This was because the effect of the Sacred Light Feather could cause bird-type martial souls and those with the light attribute to definitely evolve.
The Heaven Dou Imperial Family's martial soul was a swan, which was considered an average-level martial soul.
Because of this, despite the Heaven Dou Imperial Family investing all their resources into cultivating a royal prodigy, they were unable to even cultivate a Soul Saint.
In contrast to the Xingluo Imperial Family, who had produced Title Douluos, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family was truly embarrassing!
Because of this, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family had always wanted to change things, but they had found no way to do so.
In previous livestreams, there were rewards that granted martial soul evolution opportunities.
Initially, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family was most eager to get a martial soul evolution reward.
However, after the livestream upgraded, martial soul evolution rewards no longer appeared, leaving the Heaven Dou Imperial Family disappointed.
Now, seeing the Sacred Light Feather again, which could also allow martial souls to evolve and acquire the light attribute, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family naturally yearned for this reward.
Likewise, because the Sacred Light Feather could cause bird-type martial souls and those with the light attribute to evolve, Qian Daoliu and Qian Renxue, whose Six-Winged Angel martial soul was undoubtedly of the light attribute, also wanted to obtain the second-place reward to allow their Six-Winged Angel martial soul to evolve.
Moreover, compared to previous rewards that simply allowed martial soul evolution, this time, since the Sacred Light Feather was said to be condensed from light energy, it might even enhance the soul master's cultivation after absorption and refinement, which made its value soar.
However, thinking about the question for this Q&A:
In the livestream, what was the cause of the rampant evil soul masters on Douluo Continent in the future?
This made many forces fall into deep thought.
From the surface of what was shown in the livestream, the reason for the evil soul masters running rampant in the future of Douluo Continent was undoubtedly because of the absence of the Spirit Hall.
But answering that question alone would be too simple!
One must know, this Q&A had a six-month interval. Logically speaking, the answer shouldn't be that simple.
In previous livestreams with similar six-month gaps, the questions, while seeming simple at first, often had multiple answers when it came time to respond.
This time, the answer would surely be the same.
In the livestream, the reason for the rampant evil soul masters on Douluo Continent was the absence of the Spirit Hall, but that could only be one reason. There must be other answers as well.
To answer the question correctly this time, one needed to think of all possible answers and carefully consider which ones were most appropriate.
Lin Yu thought the same.
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"In the livestream, what was the cause of the rampant evil soul masters on Douluo Continent in the future?"
As the question was posed in the livestream, Lin Yu couldn't help but stroke his chin, deep in thought.
The first answer that came to Lin Yu's mind was indeed the absence of the Spirit Hall.
But after some careful thought, Lin Yu felt it wasn't that simple.
Because, strictly speaking, that couldn't really be the answer.
The absence of the Spirit Hall was certainly the direct cause of the evil soul masters running rampant during the Peerless Tang Sect era.
But if, during the Peerless Tang Sect period, a power had emerged to replace the Spirit Hall, wouldn't Douluo Continent have still been free from the rampant evil soul masters?
Since the livestream was showing events from the Peerless Tang Sect period, the answer to this Q&A question should also be considered from the historical perspective of the Peerless Tang Sect period.
If one thought about it from the perspective of the Dou I era, it would be like using a sword from the previous dynasty to strike the current officials—completely irrelevant!
So, when thinking about the Peerless Tang Sect era, why did the evil soul masters run rampant during that time?
It was undoubtedly because, during the Peerless Tang Sect era, there was no force like the Spirit Hall to protect the rights of commoner soul masters, maintain order in the soul master world, and prevent the birth of evil soul masters.
And why couldn't a new Spirit Hall emerge during the Peerless Tang Sect period?
After thinking about it, Lin Yu felt everything was related to the two great empires.
After the chaos of the Soul Hall Empire during the Dou I period, the two great empires had learned their lesson. They undoubtedly took steps to prevent the emergence of a new Spirit Hall.
However, without the "Spirit Hall" to keep them in check, the two great empires, which both had the same power structure—soul master families and nobles—would, without the Spirit Hall, eventually make decisions that favored soul master families and nobles, even if those decisions were wrong.
Take the soul master subsidy, for example. Whether the two empires wanted to continue issuing it or not, over time, they would inevitably cancel it.
The reason was simple.
The two empires initially provided the soul master subsidy to counteract the influence of the Spirit Hall's free martial soul awakenings for commoners and to win the hearts of commoner soul masters.
Without the Spirit Hall, there was no longer any need for this policy.
After all, continuing the subsidy policy would cost a lot of money each year!
Even if the emperors of the two empires were wise enough to see that the policy had more benefits than drawbacks and chose to continue it, as time went on, soul master families and noble classes would only grow stronger, and eventually, local nobles would turn their attention to the soul master subsidies.
In an ancient world like Douluo Continent, the royal family's oversight of local areas was seriously insufficient.
Without the Spirit Hall's supervision, once the local nobles colluded to embezzle the soul master subsidies, the royal family might never know about it.
As soon as the local nobles targeted the subsidies, they would inevitably clash with the commoner soul masters, who could never win against the nobles.
But on Douluo Continent, soul masters could still fall and become evil soul masters, which made things even worse.
Once local nobles made life unbearable for commoner soul masters, some would inevitably fall into darkness, becoming evil soul masters, and seek revenge on society.
When the two empires realized that the soul master subsidies had been embezzled by the local nobles, they would likely stop issuing the subsidies altogether.
But this would result in even worse consequences!
(END CHAPTER)
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