Chapter 88

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The banquet went very smoothly. Nan Feng has never made trouble when eating; this is one of his few qualities, or rather, basic respect for food.

Of course, after the meal, that's another matter.

"Brother Tianfeng, do you know why I helped the Tiandou Empire?" Nan Feng said suddenly.

Dai Tianfeng was stunned, "I don't know what deep meaning the Elder has?"

The Spirit Hall has always been inciting during peacetime and pacifying during wartime regarding the conflict between the two great empires. This situation has lasted for hundreds of years, but this is the first time they have almost directly taken a side.

And, to be honest, they don't understand what the Spirit Hall wants to do this time.

They can understand that the Spirit Hall doesn't want Star Luo to destroy Tiandou, but at the same time, the Spirit Hall wouldn't want to see the two great empires become stronger.

The stronger the country, the better the treatment it can give. When the two great empires develop to the point where they can give treatment that the Spirit Hall cannot, the Spirit Hall will lose its necessity for existence.

Anyone can see that for thousands of years on the mainland, the number of Spirit Masters has been increasing. If this continues, the noble status of Spirit Masters will surely disappear.

Things are precious because they are rare; not only those precious gems, but people are the same.

The number of Spirit Masters today is not large, accounting for less than one-thousandth of the total population of the mainland. There may not even be one Spirit Master in a thousand people, which is why a social system where ordinary people support Spirit Masters can be formed. But if the number of Spirit Masters increases, survival of the fittest, one day, Spirit Masters will be everywhere, and even Titled Douluos will no longer be legendary figures.

This situation has little impact on the two great empires because their social rules are based on the majority of people.

But the Spirit Hall is awkward. An organization composed purely of Spirit Masters—when Spirit Masters lose their noble status, the Spirit Hall will no longer be noble.

Look at the mainland now; just the registered Spirit Masters are nearly one hundred thousand. What if we add those Spirit Masters not counted by the Spirit Hall? Most sects, as well as the eight great families, including some nobles, will not expose their information to the Spirit Hall. After all, a tall tree catches the wind, and it is inevitable that they will be plotted against.

Therefore, in addition to the Spirit Masters counted by the Spirit Hall, there are a large number of unregistered Spirit Masters on the mainland. Adding them all up, there are at least several tens of thousands.

That is to say, the number of Spirit Masters on the Douluo Continent today is over one hundred thousand, and in a hundred years, it is expected to exceed two hundred thousand.

But a thousand years ago, the total number of Spirit Masters on the entire mainland was probably less than ten thousand.

Why could the Tiandou Imperial Family, that kind of big white goose, start from scratch in the war and become an imperial family? There is no other reason; it's simply that the number of Spirit Masters a thousand years ago was too small.

Even the big white goose martial soul of the Tiandou Imperial Family possessed powerful force for most people.

And after the establishment of the two great empires, information on the mainland circulated, marriage and childbearing between Spirit Masters and non-Spirit Masters became frequent, and the number of Spirit Masters began to rise significantly.

But in a thousand years, the number of Spirit Masters has only increased by this much; is this really reasonable?

According to statistics from Star Luo over the past few hundred years, the Spirit Hall has been intentionally controlling the number of Spirit Masters. Even the history of the two great empires can be traced back no more than a thousand years, but the core prototype of the Spirit Hall can be traced back ten thousand years.

For ten thousand years, the number of Spirit Masters on the Douluo Continent has almost not changed, and after the establishment of the two great empires, the number of Spirit Masters began to rise rapidly.

But this upward trend changed a few hundred years ago. The number of Spirit Masters returned to stability, and even almost stabilized, without continuing to increase. The total number of Spirit Masters in the same period remained at about one hundred thousand.

And this is all thanks to the Spirit Hall. They secretly incited fighting between sects and also incited war between Star Luo and Tiandou. War kills people, and conflicts between Spirit Master sects also kill people.

That is to say, because of the existence of war, the number of Spirit Masters has not gone out of control, and the Spirit Masters of the Douluo Continent can maintain their noble status!

Only then can the Spirit Hall, this pure Spirit Master organization, maintain its noble status. This is the fundamental reason why the Spirit Hall incites the two great empires to go to war, but does not want either side to destroy the other.

But now, because of Nan Feng's messing around, the Tiandou Empire has become unprecedentedly united. Facing such a Tiandou Empire, Star Luo cannot start a war in a short time, because they can't get anything, just increasing consumption in vain.

And if they don't fight and both sides recuperate, the number of Spirit Masters that should have been consumed by war will gradually go out of control!

If this continues, the noble status of Spirit Masters will not be guaranteed!

This is of no benefit to the Spirit Hall!

"Because I am a kind person who loves peace." Nan Feng said.

"The Tiandou Empire is getting worse year by year, while Star Luo is thriving. If it doesn't change, a war of national destruction will surely break out in the near future."

"What does war mean? I don't need to say more, right?"

Dai Tianfeng nodded, "So, Elder Nan Feng hopes that Tiandou and Star Luo maintain balance? So that the Spirit Hall can profit from it?"

"No, I don't intend to let anyone profit." Nan Feng said.

"I hope Tiandou and Star Luo can promote each other in a peaceful way."

"Just like that thing I sold you today, Tiandou bought it, and Star Luo will definitely buy it too. And in order to get rid of the dependence on my stuff, you will definitely improve based on that crossbow cart and create new weapons that surpass it."

"And in order not to fall behind Star Luo, the Tiandou Empire will also try every means to become stronger."

"Without war, the two great empires can also become stronger."

Dai Tianfeng was stunned, "But the two great empires getting stronger is no good for the Spirit Hall."

"I don't care." Nan Feng said.

"Things that can't keep up with the times deserve to be eliminated—the Spirit Hall, the two great empires, the Seven Great Sects, they are all the same."

"But wouldn't it be better to let Star Luo destroy Tiandou, unify this mainland, and have no more war?" Dai Tianfeng said.

"Then what do you think would happen if the Spirit Hall destroyed the Seven Great Sects and the Eight Great Families, eliminated all the Spirit Master forces large and small on the Douluo Continent, and left only the Spirit Hall?" Nan Feng asked back.

Dai Tianfeng was speechless for a moment.

Wouldn't the Spirit Hall go to heaven? "I have always believed that power leads to corruption, and absolute power will surely lead to absolute corruption." Nan Feng said.

"For creatures like humans, once they lose the threat of external forces, the desires of those standing high will surely go completely out of control."

"There is progress only with competition, and motivation only with pressure."

"If there is no opponent, it means there is no win or loss. But if you won't lose, will you still think about winning?"

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(End of chapter)