"Okay!"
Wu Yun nodded, her face showing pain, but her eyes had not returned to their previous blood-red state. Her hoarse voice became soft.
"I..."
The soft voice gently recounted her story. Wu Yun's story was simple: due to her appearance, she and her sister were kidnapped by a fat transvestite to an underground brothel.
They were humiliated and tortured by countless people in the cold cellar. Then, in their suffering, they awakened their Martial Souls, killed all the people who had tortured and abused them, and tore that fat transvestite into pieces.
As she spoke, Wu Yun's voice grew more and more trembling. Wang Lin's fists involuntarily clenched. Although his face showed no obvious change, his anger could be felt.
"Follow me. You are responsible for seeking vengeance against this world, and I will be responsible for reforming the world after the vengeance."
Wang Lin stood up. The gray in his eyes completely overshadowed the gold. He also returned to his true appearance, and his gray eyes fixed on Wu Yun.
"Vengeance against the world!?"
Wu Yun looked at Wang Lin. Although Wang Lin hadn't explicitly stated everything, she nodded in spite of herself.
"Okay."
"Little Linzi, what exactly do you want to do!?"
Long Xiaoyao's voice rang out. The old Black Dragon looked at Wang Lin with astonishment. At this moment, Wang Lin was radiating an aura that Long Xiaoyao found extremely dangerous.
"First, a small goal: become a pillar of the Holy Spirit Cult, and then overthrow the nobles of the three empires!"
Wang Lin said in a deep voice. Long Xiaoyao frowned tightly. "Why do you harbor such hatred for the nobles?"
"Because of oppression and exploitation," Wang Lin answered. "Master, do you know about the war between the Spirit Hall and Tang San?"
"Of course I know that."
Long Xiaoyao frowned. Tang San's statue has always stood at the entrance of Shrek Academy, and his story has been widely circulated.
"Then do you know why the 'evil' Spirit Hall was able to spread across the continent back then?"
Wang Lin continued to ask. The old Black Dragon shook his head. The propaganda of Shrek Academy rarely contained details about Spirit Hall.
"Because the Soul Masters of Spirit Hall would arrange for a Soul Master to go to the countryside every year to freely awaken Martial Souls for commoners. Children with soul power even qualified for free enrollment in Soul Master Academies, and as long as they became a Soul Master, they could receive an annual subsidy..."
Wang Lin listed them one by one. Long Xiaoyao couldn't refute these points, because in the story of Sea God Tang San, Tang San himself relied on these things to survive his weakest period and meet his teacher.
"Do you think free Martial Soul awakening, compulsory education, and living subsidies are good or bad!?"
Without waiting for Long Xiaoyao's answer, Wang Lin continued: "In Shrek Academy's propaganda, these were all acts of gaining public support.
Hmm, that's not wrong; there certainly was an intention to gain public support. But in reality, while Soul Masters traveled to remote villages every year to awaken Martial Souls for the children, they could also check on the condition of each village.
At that time, let alone Evil Soul Masters, bandits were rare on the continent.
Free enrollment in Soul Master Academies provided protection for children who awakened Martial Souls during their weakest period, while also educating them.
And those who could attend a junior Soul Master Academy would be able to break through level ten and become a Soul Master in six years, even with poor talent.
Although they left the academy then, children who became Soul Masters received a subsidy from Spirit Hall, and few would stray onto the wrong path."
Wang Lin finished speaking, paused for a long while, and then asked:
"Master, do you think Noble Soul Masters or Commoner Soul Masters would rise up during this process?"
"Commoner Soul Masters."
Long Xiaoyao let out a breath and said in a deep voice. Noble Soul Masters had family education, so this model did not have a huge impact on them.
Ten thousand years later, most junior Soul Master Academies have been abolished. Today, the noble mode of family education is prevalent.
Wang Lin's experience is family education. Most children from commoner families who have the opportunity to awaken a Martial Soul and possess innate soul power either sign a contract with a noble or join a small sect, working like oxen and horses.
"So, the war between Sea God Tang San and the Spirit Hall was essentially a war between Noble Soul Masters and Commoner Soul Masters. The nobles, represented by Sea God Tang San, won the war. Spirit Hall failed, and the aforementioned free Martial Soul awakening, compulsory education, and living subsidies all vanished."
Wang Lin said, clapping his hand once, and stated in a deep voice.
"From then on, Commoner Soul Masters gradually disappeared from the stage of history, but the common people remained. What kind of existence do you think replaced the Commoner Soul Masters?
Or what did those former Commoner Soul Masters become?"
"Evil Soul Masters!" Long Xiaoyao said subconsciously. The moment the words left his mouth, a chill shot up from his heart. He looked at Wang Lin with horror.
It was as if he was only truly getting to know his disciple now.
This line of reasoning was not only shaking the foundations of the three empires but also pulling Shrek Academy into an abyss.
According to this logic, the culprit for everything was Sea God Tang San. Sea God Tang San was long gone, but the biggest beneficiary of that war, Shrek Academy, remained.
Moreover, Shrek Academy has promoted the Sea God as its greatest honor for ten thousand years, and even the high-level organization of the inner courtyard is called the Sea God Pavilion.
Wang Lin's reasoning could damn Shrek Academy for all eternity!
"Little Linzi, you..."
Long Xiaoyao wanted to retort, but for a moment, he couldn't find a counter-argument, because what Wang Lin said was actually quite true. Most of the Soul Masters in the cult indeed came from commoner backgrounds.
And they were all victims of persecution, their Martial Souls mutating under extreme stimulus. Wu Yun beside them was a perfect example of this situation.
"My target is not Shrek Academy."
Wang Lin said, shaking his head. Looking at Wu Yun beside him, he was truly determined now. He was going to give this world a massive shake-up.
At the very least, he needed the Sun Moon Empire to complete its unification. Only a complete and unified continent would stop constantly falling into internal warfare and consumption.
A massive-scale liberation of productive forces.
"Little Linzi, innate soul power is an unbridgeable chasm!"
"The development of soul tools will solve these problems."
Wang Lin really wanted to say that soul tools are the primary productive force. In his first year at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Wang Lin had already completed the manufacturing of a soul-powered machine.
The existence of soul power can perfectly replace electricity, and in some applications, it is even superior to electricity due to the nature of soul tools.
Therefore, soul tools are naturally the technology of the Douluo world, and soul tools are naturally the primary productive force.
"Little Linzi, you have blind confidence in soul tools." As a traditional Soul Master, Long Xiaoyao found it hard to agree with Wang Lin's view. Soul tools are not omnipotent.
"It's not blind confidence. It's because I came."
Although Wang Lin is currently only a minor rank two Soul Engineer, his mind contains the technological crystallization of another world, which can help the soul tool technology of this world bypass many detours.
The principles of technology are interconnected, and the ways of thinking are also interconnected. Moreover, he remembers that the Sun Moon Empire had already developed light energy soul tool technology, not to mention the existence of Elder Yi with him.
By gathering ideas from all sides, they would always find a solution, at least a way to allow ordinary people to use soul tools.