Chapter 290 What Do You Regard the Glory of an Evil Soul Master As?
As the opening ceremony of the Soul Master Competition was getting closer, several major events happened in the Sun Moon Empire.
The first event was, of course, the death of the old emperor, which everyone was happy about.
After a certain enthusiastic doctor who had been walking around the world for many years and did not want to reveal his name, the emperor who was seriously ill and dying finally passed away and was buried in the imperial mausoleum.
As for his position, as agreed at the beginning, it was inherited by the crown prince Xu Tianran.
Although everyone knew that the old emperor was dying a long time ago, it was really strange that the situation deteriorated to this extent in just a few months.
However, no matter how they tracked down, all the clues pointed to the fourth prince who was busy holding silver parties in the palace all day long.
This made the other princes who secretly united very angry. They knew exactly what kind of character this useless brother was. It was precisely because they had never expected this guy to pose any threat to Xu Tianran from the beginning that they deliberately ignored him when they united privately.
I thought my expectations were low enough, but I didn't expect this guy to be able to refresh the bottom line and quietly do such a big thing, so that when they reacted, Xu Tianran had already inherited the throne and became the biggest beneficiary of this incident.
The matter was done. Even if they realized that the prince might be behind this, they could only accept it without finding evidence.
If the lack of evidence of Xu Tianran's involvement was the main reason why they did not dare to act rashly, then the second major event that happened next was the main reason why their anti-Xu Tianran faction completely gave up competing with him.
On the day of his succession to the throne, Xu Tianran stood up from his wheelchair in full view of the public.
Relying on his legs, which were made of flesh and blood and had been restored to their original state at some unknown time.
It was like clearing the last obstacle on the road. Under the expressions of astonishment or surprise of the crowd, he stepped up one step at a time, walked up to the high platform where all the civil and military officials in the court had to look up, and sat on the throne that belonged to him with a smile.
Overlooking everything.
At this moment, those middlemen who were originally wavering because Xu Tianran's legs were disabled and thought that his becoming emperor would damage the image of the empire finally made their own choices.
Of course, support is support, and it is impossible to say that they are not curious about Xu Tianran's changes.
Although Xu Tianran did not say the reason for his regeneration of his broken limbs until the end of the succession ceremony, this did not prevent everyone from inferring the answer through a series of actions after he came to power.
——An evil soul master helped Xu Tianran recover his legs.
After all, this guy's series of actions after taking office were too biased towards evil soul masters, and they really couldn't help but think so.
For example, after the succession ceremony, it was announced without any warning that the Holy Spirit Church would officially become the state religion of the Sun-Moon Empire from now on, and the current Holy Son of the Holy Spirit Church. Oh no, the current leader of the Holy Spirit Church was appointed as the state teacher of the Sun-Moon Empire.
Once this news came out, it is conceivable how shocked the people who attended the succession ceremony were.
Such a thing happened at the highly anticipated succession ceremony, which naturally could not be hidden from the eyes and ears of the other three empires. Of course, judging from Xu Tianran's fanfare, he had no intention of hiding it.
Under the deliberate indulgence of the new Sun-Moon Emperor, the news swept the entire continent like a storm in just a few days, shocking all the senior officials of the three empires including Xu Jiawei.
After learning of this earth-shaking news, everyone had only one thought in their minds.
That is, Xu Tianran was crazy.
What is this? In this era when just exposing the evil martial spirit will be targeted, there are empires willing to recognize the status of evil soul masters, giving these rats in the gutter a chance to return to the sun.
It was like suddenly learning that Tang San's ancestor, who defeated the evil Spirit Hall and saved the entire continent ten thousand years ago, was actually an evil spirit master. It was simply a fantasy.
No, you just became the emperor, and you can't wait to get close to the evil spirit master! ?
Even if your Sun Moon Empire has a good relationship with the evil spirit master in private, even if your legs were healed by the evil spirit master, it wouldn't go to this extent, right?
Openly supporting the evil spirit master, doesn't this guy know the consequences of doing so?
If you are threatened by the evil spirit master, just blink your eyes. Although we are hostile forces, as long as you cede part of the territory afterwards and take some rare metals as compensation, we can also lend a helping hand to you out of humanitarianism.
However, the most exaggerated thing is not this. In addition to establishing it as a state religion, Xu Tianran even allowed the Holy Spirit Church to build a city mainly for evil spirit masters at the border with the Xingluo and Tianhun empires.
It is called the City of Original Sin.
Although it is claimed that it does not exclude spirit masters with normal martial spirits from joining, how many normal spirit masters are really willing to live with evil spirit masters?
Everyone can fully foresee that this city will become the center of the entire evil spirit master group in the near future.
However, even though everyone has already prepared themselves in their hearts, when the news really spread, the evil spirit masters who heard the news still shocked them.
The mere recognition of the status of evil spirit masters, allowing them to have a place to live without being targeted every day, has attracted more evil spirit masters to join than anyone imagined.
In just three months, nearly a thousand soul masters with evil martial spirits came here. Even though the City of Original Sin had not yet been completed, it still could not stop those people from wanting to join it with their families.
The most important thing is that a large number of these evil soul masters who came here came from their Douluo Three Kingdoms!
It was not until they saw this scene that the Douluo Three Kingdoms realized the Sun Moon Empire's plan and understood how much power they had lost due to the previous social atmosphere.
The city had not yet been fully built, but it had attracted nearly a thousand evil soul masters, and this was not counting the relatives who came with them.
Just like Nana's father, even under this social atmosphere, there were still many people willing to accept soul masters with evil martial spirits. Most of these people were soul masters, and their acceptance of evil soul masters was relatively high, so they would naturally not be too resistant to living with evil soul masters.
Especially when the almost strict rules of the City of Original Sin guaranteed their safety.
It is no exaggeration to say that the punishment for criminals in this city is more than double that of ordinary cities, especially for murder, which is almost zero tolerance. Any bloody incident in the city will be investigated to the end.
But this does not mean that they cannot kill people after joining the City of Original Sin.
For those who simply want a place to live, joining the City of Original Sin is a very tempting choice.
And for those evil soul masters who have to kill people to practice, the City of Original Sin also gives them an irresistible reason. That is to join the Holy Spirit Church and become the law enforcer of this country.
In short, the new emperor who took office with three fires abolished the establishment of the royal patrol team that had been in the Sun and Moon Empire for who knows how many years, and abolished the law enforcement power that these guys relied on to survive and ride on others for years.
As for the duties they used to be responsible for, managing various disputes, it was naturally replaced by the Holy Spirit Church.
As long as you join the Holy Spirit Church, you can become a law enforcer with the power of life and death to a certain extent. Moreover, their law enforcement scope is not limited to the capital like the Royal Patrol, but throughout the entire empire. As long as someone commits evil in the territory, they can give corresponding punishment according to the severity of the circumstances.
Do you have to kill people to practice? No problem! The City of Original Sin will accept you.
As long as you join the Holy Spirit Church and follow instructions from now on, you can kill those vicious criminals by exercising your legitimate rights as a law enforcer.
Just like what Huo Yuhao said at the beginning, criminals will not be tolerated by society for exercising violence, but law enforcers who maintain order can be accepted by most people.
In this case, he will give evil soul masters the power to exercise violence within the rules in the name of the emperor of this country.
Although compared with the days of killing people at will in the past, this kind of life that can only kill evil people is indeed a little "tight", but in order to live in the sun, this insignificant problem can be completely overcome.
In the past, everyone practiced their own way. You killed people but only absorbed the flesh and blood, and I killed people but only absorbed the soul. Just like some people like to eat fish heads but throw away the fish bodies, while some people like to eat fish bodies but don't even look at the fish heads. This will undoubtedly cause huge waste.
Although we can't kill people casually now, we can still live well if we share a fish.
In a sense, this is also a disguised way to cultivate the thrift consciousness of these evil soul masters.
Perhaps in this process, law enforcers will violate the rules because of their selfish desires, such as privately increasing the punishment, but such a small number of cases will not affect the overall situation.
Let alone evil soul masters, even among ordinary soul masters and ordinary people, don't they also violate the rules for the sake of profit?
This does not prevent most people from living by relying on the existing rules.
As for those special cases that violate the rules, just find a way to deal with them.
As the person who leads all this, he only needs to firmly grasp the high-level leaders of the Holy Spirit Church and the general direction of the future.
As long as he gives an order, someone will naturally help him worry about such trivial matters.
For example, set up an investigation team to investigate the situation of each mission target afterwards to see whether the law enforcers strictly enforce the law in accordance with the rules.
You can even set up a system of anonymous reporting.
I believe that other law enforcers will be happy to report the person who violates the rules and then make him their next law enforcement target.
It is precisely because of the need to maintain the purity of the Holy Spirit Church that, under the promotion of Xu Tianran, the law enforcement power of the Holy Spirit Church is completely within the scope of the imperial power.
It is managed by the high-level officials of the church, who are completely under the command of Xu Tianran and are only responsible to the Sun and Moon Emperor.
Although the high-level officials of the Sun and Moon Empire strongly opposed this decision, it did not play any substantial role except attracting Ye Xishui or other high-level officials of the Holy Spirit Church to visit them.
They were still privately speaking wildly, scolding Xu Tianran for being incompetent and even threatening to do their best to stop such things that damage the image of the empire from happening.
As a result, he stood at the door of his house, nodding and bowing, watching Ye Xishui and others leave with a smile on his face. After finishing, he raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief that he was able to save his life.
In comparison, the reactions of the common people seemed much more indifferent. Some of them didn't even know the name of the emperor of the country, so they naturally wouldn't care about these so-called major events.
If they had to say that their only feeling about this matter was that the public security in the past two years had indeed improved a lot.
Just kidding, compared to those guys who simply took the maintenance of public security as a task and dealt with it casually, the evil soul masters who practiced in this way were simply like crazy, working hard as if they were enemies with criminals.
Even Ye Guyi couldn't help but feel ashamed after seeing how hard they worked.
If it weren't for the restrictions of the rules, they would have wanted to kill the nine clans of others just because they spit on the ground.
And this scene fell into the eyes of those forces who were originally prepared to laugh at the Sun and Moon Empire, but made them a little uncomfortable.
No one expected that after being recognized by the Sun and Moon Empire, those unruly evil soul masters not only did not let themselves go and make the entire empire a mess, but instead consciously became peacekeeping police, greatly reducing the crime rate.
Are you fucking evil soul masters? ?
Where have your rapes, plunders, and all your evil deeds gone? ?
What do you guys think of the glory of evil soul masters? ?
To be honest, they don't care what the future of those evil soul masters will be like, nor do they care whether they have been treated unfairly.
But this doesn't mean they are happy to see someone really use this power for their own benefit, especially when the power that uses the evil soul masters for their own benefit doesn't have a very good relationship with them.
It's like everyone is a neighbor on the same floor who doesn't like each other. Everyone litters in the corridor, and over time, the corridor becomes smoky.
Everyone knows that these things should be solved, but in the end, not only may they not succeed, but they may also get themselves into trouble.
The most important thing is that they don't want to let others get away with it.
However, one day, a wronged person suddenly appeared in the corridor, willing to spend a huge price to do this thankless task. How can they not be happy?
However, when the other party started to solve the problem, everyone was dumbfounded. Not only did this guy not suffer any losses because of this incident, but he also turned the garbage into treasure and made a lot of money.
How could they tolerate this?
Just as everyone was discussing how to prevent their neighbor from getting this amazing benefit.
The opening day of the Soul Master Competition is approaching...