Chapter 50: The Jiangnan Leather Factory Has Closed Down

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"If that brat's technique could really control others at will, he wouldn't have deliberately provoked you into taking action against him." Jin E said.

"Perhaps, his martial soul needs to satisfy some special conditions to be activated, and they are passive conditions."

Jiang Mo's expression stiffened, "Then doesn't that mean we really can't take action against that brat?"

Once you take the initiative to attack, there's a risk of being controlled?

"At least that's the case for now. After all, even the Grand Elder couldn't block that brat's control, so it's impossible for us to block it either." Jin E said.

"If we're talking about weaknesses, he should only be able to control one person at a time, and when he activates the control, his body loses control—it's highly likely a backlash. And that clone should be something he activated to protect his own body."

"Then doesn't that mean we have no way to deal with him?" Jiang Mo said with a heavy expression.

"No." Qian Daoliu frowned slightly.

"His type of control definitely has other restrictions. Otherwise, he shouldn't have let me sneak attack Jin E just now, but should have made me commit suicide like Demon Bear!"

Perhaps his mental power was strong enough, or perhaps the Angelic Divine Power in his body resisted a portion of the control.

But that brat's mental control definitely couldn't do whatever he wanted!

"Then what should we do next?" Qian Jun Douluo said.

"Those people in the Elder Hall have already been scared out of their wits by him; I'm afraid they're all going to defect to Bibi Dong's side next."

"Don't move for now." Qian Daoliu said.

"Before we figure out that brat's ability, we absolutely cannot take the initiative to attack."

"Then…… what about Xue'er?" Jin E asked worriedly.

"You saw it too, that brat is a total lunatic; he really is capable of anything!"

Qian Daoliu was silent for a moment, "Probably not. If he really wanted to go down with us, he wouldn't have used Xue'er to provoke me time and time again."

"He is reminding me where my weakness lies."

His biggest concern in not letting Qian Jun and Jiang Mo take action just now was Qian Renxue! If they couldn't completely finish that brat off today, it would truly be a life-and-death feud! A lunatic hiding in the shadows!

Damn it! He didn't take action against the Clear Sky Sect because he feared such lunatics! First Tang Chen, and now there's this even more dangerous lunatic!

"What if?" Jin E asked worriedly.

Qian Daoliu was silent for a moment, "I'll go talk to Bibi Dong. I hope that crazy woman hasn't gone completely insane yet."

"Will she care?" Jin E doubted.

"Perhaps. This is the only way for now. If it doesn't work, then……" Qian Daoliu's eyes narrowed.

"Then let's go down together!"

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"Yo-ho? Where are you all going?"

After Qian Daoliu left, Nan Feng walked to the conference table and picked up the two spirit bones.

Taking this opportunity, the six Titled Douluos represented by Ghost Leopard Douluo were about to sneak away.

"Uh……"

Watching Yue Guan and Gui Mei, who were silently standing at the entrance of the Elder Hall, the group of Elders stiffened and stopped their steps.

Damn! You two are truly disloyal!

"My business with Qian Daoliu is temporarily over. What about you guys?" Nan Feng laughed.

"Don't you plan to show some gesture? Or do you need me to take the initiative?"

"No, no, no!" The Elders panicked. Let you take the initiative? Would we still have our lives? They were afraid of death, but not that afraid. The problem was that no one wanted to die inexplicably!

So aggrieved!! "But we don't have any spirit bones either." Ghost Leopard Douluo said awkwardly.

Things like spirit bones were entirely a matter of luck!

Most Titled Douluos didn't even have a single spirit bone on them!

Even if they did, they would definitely have absorbed it immediately; it was impossible to have any spares.

"None? You're that poor?" Nan Feng raised an eyebrow.

"Worked in the Spirit Hall for half a lifetime and couldn't even get a bone?"

Once these words were out, even Yue Guan and Gui Mei's expressions became unnatural.

No, what do you take spirit bones for?

Cabbages on the side of the road?

If hunting a spirit beast could yield a spirit bone, it would basically be absorbed by that Spirit Master along with the spirit ring; it was impossible for it to flow outside.

If a Spirit Master died of old age, the spirit bone would dissipate along with that Spirit Master's spirit power, turning into an ordinary bone!

To seize a spirit bone from a living person, you must use special means to intercept the part of the body where the spirit bone was absorbed while the person is still alive. If you force it out, the spirit bone will shatter, lose its spiritual nature, and become a broken bone.

Moreover, during the process of extracting a spirit bone that has already been absorbed, there will inevitably be loss; most are incomplete.

Even if passed down for two generations, it would still become a worthless waste spirit bone.

To extract a spirit bone without any loss, only a Titled Douluo on the verge of death can self-sever their cultivation! Just like the inheritance spirit bones of the Clear Sky Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan—they are only given when it is confirmed that the successor has the potential to become a Titled Douluo.

And most Spirit Masters, or rather, any Spirit Master who can cultivate to above Spirit Saint, basically want to die with dignity. Who would want to die with an incomplete corpse?

"Don't be nervous, sit down, just treat it like your own home." Nan Feng said.

The Elders walked back with pained expressions and sat in their seats.

What did they come here for today!! Excluding the Pope, the Spirit Hall had a total of sixteen Titled Douluos, more than the Seven Great Sects combined. Excluding the seven Grand Elders led by Qian Daoliu, there were nine Titled Douluo Elders. Yue Guan and Gui Mei followed Bibi Dong, Demon Bear just died, so now only six Titled Douluo Elders remained.

Pufferfish, Snake Spear, Ghost Leopard, Spirit Kite, Sacred Dragon Sect Master Tuoba Xi, and the "Ninth Elder" who almost had no presence.

"Tsk~ died so miserably." Nan Feng walked to Demon Bear's corpse, his face showing a sigh.

"Look at you all, this is the Qian family's good dog; he died and no one even collected his corpse."

Mean and ungrateful—Qian Daoliu was like this, Qian Xunji was like this, and Qian Renxue was like this. It was basically a character trait inherited by the Qian family, and Bibi Dong, who was taught by Qian Xunji, was much the same.

He couldn't see a shred of human warmth in this Spirit Hall, nor could he see a shred of belonging to the Spirit Hall from these Elders and Bishops, because the corporate culture of this organization was just like this.

The mediocre go down, the capable go up. This made the Spirit Hall the most popular Spirit Master organization, making it powerful, but it also destined this organization to be extremely fragile.

Not a shred of cohesion! Except for a very small number of Spirit Masters who grew up being brainwashed, any Spirit Master who joined the Spirit Hall halfway, without exception, treated the Spirit Hall as an "electronics factory." They were more active than anyone else when making money, just like the Spirit Empire Bibi Dong established later, which expanded to the point of suppressing the two great empires in just a few years.

But when there was no money to be made, they ran faster than anyone else!

After Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue died, the Spirit Empire collapsed almost instantly! Just like the Jiangnan Leather Factory closing down—once it collapsed, it was gone.

Human warmth—this thing is disgusting to outsiders because the existence of this human warmth creates privilege and breeds corruption. But, in human society, is it possible to have no human warmth?

Most people think of "one person attains the Dao, and their chickens and dogs ascend to heaven," rather than disowning their relatives.

Who doesn't hope to have a powerful relative?

What for? Of course, it's to bask in some glory.

But what if someone else has such a powerful relative? Corruption! Too corrupt! Why don't they just die!

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 51 =====