Douluo's self has a soul beast clone

In the long course of history, the Spirit Hall, as the state religion, and the Douluo Empire's royal family, also gradually grew distant from their original close relationship, where they were so close they could share the same pants.

After all, emperors, wielding supreme power, generally develop an egotistical nature, and the Spirit Hall's Pope, as the representative of the gods in the mortal realm, undoubtedly held a higher position than the empire's emperor. This led to even the Douluo Empire's emperor needing the Pope to crown them upon their ascension to the throne to be considered legitimate!

From this, one can see how high the Spirit Hall's status was, subtly above even the imperial power!

The second-generation Douluo emperors were fine, but as the emperors passed down through the generations, the legends of the gods gradually faded... Wielding the peak of secular power, the emperors naturally grew dissatisfied with the Spirit Hall above them and began to intentionally restrict the Spirit Hall's power!

Initially, they didn't dare to be too blatant, as the Spirit Hall represented the pinnacle of Soul Masters! They controlled most of the world's Soul Masters. So, emperors gradually, generation by generation, probed and slowly took back the Spirit Hall's power into their own hands... This led to a consequence: the Spirit Hall, which should have been safeguarding the imperial power, gradually became estranged from the emperor.

As a religious force, the Spirit Hall didn't really value secular power. If the emperor wanted it back, then so be it. Anyway, this was a world where strength spoke. Power came from fists! With strength came power!

What they cared about was the peace of the continent and the stability of Douluo. In their eyes, the Douluo Empire wasn't the royal family's private property but belonged to all the people of Douluo. So, who became the emperor didn't matter, as long as they still believed in the Great Elemental God King.

It was precisely because of this thinking that the Spirit Hall stopped interfering with secular development, allowing the three kingdoms to have the opportunity to become independent, and the unified status of the Douluo Empire became nominal. It was a case of reaping what they sowed.

Although nominally the Douluo Continent was still ruled by the Douluo Empire, it had actually been divided into five countries. The Douluo Empire occupied 60% of the territory, while the remaining 40% was divided equally among the four kingdoms.

Since the original Sun Moon Empire was downgraded to a kingdom, it naturally couldn't occupy such a large area of the Sun Moon Continent. Therefore, a portion of the original Sun Moon Continent's territory was absorbed by the Douluo Empire, and another portion was divided among the other three kingdoms, resulting in a severe reduction in the Sun Moon Kingdom's land area.

Thus, the timeline came to ten thousand years after Li Chang'an's ascension. The格局 of one empire and four kingdoms had basically remained unchanged. Nominally, the Douluo Continent still had only one empire.

The Spirit Hall's status remained unchanged, high above!

And in these years, the Spirit Hall's branch halls had spread throughout the entire Douluo Continent, including the later-added Sun Moon Continent, which was now also filled with Spirit Hall branch halls.

The Spirit Hall continued the tradition from ten thousand years ago, going around to help people awaken their spirits for free. In addition, after becoming a formal Soul Master, they could receive a monthly subsidy of one gold soul coin. Becoming a Great Soul Master allowed them to receive 10 coins, and becoming a Soul Elder allowed them to receive 100 soul coins.

However, that was the limit. Beyond that level, the Spirit Hall would no longer issue subsidies each month. At the same time, Soul Masters over the age of 30 would also not be able to receive subsidies.

After all, the original intention of the Soul Master subsidy was to help impoverished Soul Masters so that they could cultivate in peace in their early years and not be delayed by other things. It was similar to a poverty-stricken student grant on Earth.

It couldn't be that the grant would be managed for a lifetime, right?

And the reason for setting the age limit of over 30 for receiving Soul Master subsidies was that if someone hadn't broken through to Soul Elder by the age of 30, then their achievements would basically be capped for life.

Such people had exhausted their potential, so there was naturally no need to invest in them anymore. Moreover, if calculated based on a person living to be 100 years old, the gold soul coins needed for a single Soul Master's monthly subsidy of 100 gold soul coins for their entire life would be simply outrageous!

So, it was impossible to manage subsidies for a lifetime. There were so many Soul Masters in the world, where would the empire get so many gold soul coins to subsidize? Of course, it could only be up to the age of 30.

And it's worth mentioning that although the subsidies were issued by the Spirit Hall on behalf, the gold soul coins were provided by the local official institutions. For example, in the Sun Moon Kingdom and the other four kingdoms, the subsidies for local Soul Masters would be provided by these four kingdoms.

The Spirit Hall itself was just a religion, not a kingdom. It certainly didn't have that much money to issue subsidies, so it could only be provided by the officials.

At this time, Li Chang'an, far away in the God Realm, had actually been paying attention to the era changes of the Douluo Continent. However, it was through two perspectives: one was from the clone left in the lower realm, and the other was from the high vantage point in the God Realm.

Frankly speaking, the feeling of the clone and the main body being separated in two places was not good. Because the time flow rate of the God Realm and the lower realm was not the same.

One day in the God Realm was one year in the mortal realm.

This meant that the time flow rate of the God Realm was 365 times slower than that of the mortal realm.

However, the thinking between the main body and the clone was synchronized, so his perspective was divided into two halves, one fast and one slow. In the early days, it almost drove him to neuroasthenia. It took him a long time to gradually adapt.

At this time, Li Chang'an in the God Realm was using his God King authority to observe the changes in the Douluo Continent's fortune through the God Realm's central hub. In his nearly ten thousand years of observation, he found that the distribution of the Douluo Continent's fortune had basically not changed much and was not particularly fond of anyone.

This meant that there was no so-called Child of Destiny born yet.

But now, as the ten-thousand-year period had arrived, Li Chang'an discovered that the Douluo Continent's fortune had begun to change dramatically, gradually forming a vortex. The thick fortune began to gather, eventually dividing into two parts: one part was on the human side, and the other part was on the soul beast side.

'Douluo II has begun.'

'But this time, without the Tang Sect, what should it be called?'

Li Chang'an murmured in his heart.

He wasn't sure if the Child of Destiny of this era, the person who gathered the Douluo's ten thousand years of fortune, was still that Huo Yuhao?

But it didn't matter.

Whether it was him or her, as long as they weren't a transmigrator with cheats, he wouldn't be afraid at all. The so-called Child of Destiny was not worth mentioning to him, a dignified God King.

It was too easy to knead and shape this Child of Destiny.

Li Chang'an wouldn't be as tasteless as Tang San in the original work, bullying a little guy, let alone using his daughter as bait to do some soul splitting. Although he didn't have a daughter either.

He just felt that after ten thousand years of accumulation, coupled with the current surge of Douluo's fortune, it was time for the demon race to sweep the soul beasts into the trash heap.

And when there were no more soul beasts, the Soul Master system would face a devastating blow! After all, Soul Master upgrades depended on the soul rings provided by soul beasts. Once all soul beasts transformed into demons, it would mean that there would be no more soul rings... and Soul Masters would lose their upgrade channels.

Li Chang'an felt that he should guide that Child of Destiny to find another way out for Soul Masters. For example, self-condensing soul rings or soul tool artificial soul rings? Both were a way out.

Killing beasts to obtain rings was truly an evil path!