Chapter 114: Thunderstruck

The Ghoul Sage raised an eyebrow at Xiu Ye and muttered, "Goal, huh... Isn't it obvious?"

He slightly raised his right hand up in the air and clenched it into a tight fist, his eyes flickered with purple sparks of electricity, "Destruction, and rebirth. We, and most importantly our goddess, wish for total reconstruction of the entire world. We want the world to enter a new age."

"Child, you might not know, but the divine god realm has been long separated from our world and thus cutting any chances for anyone to ascend to godhood. The last recorded person to ever done that was the Spirit Ice Douluo, Huo Yuhao. For ten thousand years, no one has ever become a god."

"But this time, it'll be different. Twenty thousand years ago, Tang San, and the Shrek Seven Monsters, destroyed Spirit Hall and saved the Douluo Continent; which the age of new systems and other rules for soul masters begun. Then ten thousand years ago, Huo Yuhao, along with the Shrek Seven Monsters and Tang Sect destroyed the predecessor of Holy Spirit Cult: Holy Spirit Church, which he then started the age of spirit souls that changed the whole world. Do you understand what this means boy?"

Xiu Ye frowned, "That they're legends?"

The ghoul snorted and shook his head, "You're not wrong, but also not right."

"It's a pattern boy. Twenty thousand years ago, Tang San was the first to start it by rebelling against the tyranny of the Spirit Hall. Ten thousand years ago, Huo Yuhao followed by repelling the invasion of Sun Moon Kingdom and destroying the Holy Spirit Church. Don't you see? The first time, it was a miracle. The second, a coincidence. Third? Well, that's what we're about to do, well, in a different way. The evil soul master way."

Xiu Ye narrowed his eyes before they widened in realization, "You all want follow their examples.... but opposite, by destroying the world!"

The Great Dragon Ghoul grinned, "Correct."

In two different eras of ten thousand years, a great person or group, Tang San and Huo Yuhao and their respective Shrek Seven Monsters, would fight against great adversities that would pose a great danger in the world. And in the end, they would ascend into godhood.

Because both groups of new gods had ascended to the Divine Realm and didn't spread the instructions of how to ascend to godhood, almost no one in the world knew how to.

But the members of Holy Spirit Cult were all ambitious and would do anything, if it meant they become gods. Even if they have to sacrifice the entire world for it to happen. But the paths of the two most powerful soul masters in history wasn't advisable for them.

And so, they improvised.

'Fuck! I knew that they were planning on becoming gods but I thought that was supposed to be years away for them to initiate their plans!' The angry scowl on Xiu Ye's face became even more fierce as he glared at the ghoul sitting on his throne. He didn't have to fake the emotion he was showing.

"Even so, you guys still can't become gods! Isn't the Divine Realm gone?" The grin on the ghoul widened.

"Oh, that's easy to solve. If there's no Divine Realm, we just have to build one don't we? And we just have the necessary materials."

"And that is...?" Xiu Ye narrowed his eyes, a pit forming in the bottom of his stomach.

"People. The entire human race's life force, an accumulation of billions of lives, should be enough to be the foundation of the creation of the Divine Realm." The Great Dragon Ghoul Sage nonchalantly said. "Also, if there were some complications in achieving such a goal, my goddess and her organization has some powerful backers to help them."

'Powerful backers...?' This was the first that Xiu Ye heard about Holy Spirit Cult having a powerful backer, powerful enough to help them create a Divine Realm.

'Could it be, God Level Soul Masters? But that should be impossible! The current state of the world is dying. The Douluo Plane doesn't have enough power to handle the ascension of New Gods, much less anchoring their existence in this realm.'

'Unless... Their backers isn't from this world?' Everything was getting more and more complicated it seems.

"As for any lingering sentiments from when I was still human..." The Ghoul Sage spoke, a far away look in his eyes. "I don't know if this is truly me, or a side effect of becoming a ghoul, but any feelings I have to my former friends, family and acquaintances are indifference. What I have left in me, is my perverse crave for power. Though it is most likely the latter, as I what I feel for living humans is either hunger or extreme hatred."

The ghoul let out a sigh. "Enough. I have talked for too long now."

Xiu Ye tensed. 'Did he see through my acting?'

"I know what you're trying to do; sending the information I'm telling you to your comrades through that earpiece of yours while also stalling me till they come and help you. Not a bad plan, but you still failed in hiding it completely and made me realize what you were doing."

"...Tsk. Was I really that obvious?" Xiu Ye clicked his teeth, completely lying with a straight face. 'Phew! For a second there I thought I was busted. But he isn't really wrong.'

Xiu Ye transmitted most of the conversation he had with the Ghoul Sage, excepting the conversation with Ryūjin Jakka and Tianguo, to teacher Wu and others by telepathy than his earpiece, because it would have been way too obvious.

To prove it, he asked, 'Teacher Wu, guys, you all still hearing this?'

'Hm. We're hearing all of it.' Wu Zhangkong replied, his voice grim and serious. 'Keep making him talk. We'll continue sweeping the rest of the floors for the Blood Suppression Formation core.'

'Roger.' Xiu Ye's lips twitched.

He had been found out by trying to be sneaky, but it looked like it sorta backfired on him and got him caught.

"If you knew what I was doing, then why didn't you stop talking? Or more logically, kill me?" Xiu Ye asked.

The Great Dragon Ghoul Sage merely scoffed, "Why should I care? What I say won't stay hidden for long anyway and even if they would want to make countermeasures of the plans of my goddess and her organization, it would all just end up being useless."

"Then, you'll tell about the location of the core of the Blood Suppression Formation?" Xiu Ye's golden eyes shone.

"Do I look like an idiot?" The Ghoul Sage snarled at him, feeling offended.

'No, but you sound like one.' Xiu Ye, Ryūjin Jakka, Tianguo, teacher Wu and the others listening stared at him with dull eyes.

'His arrogance and hobbit of monologuing might be a side effect of his ghoul transformation. I refuse to believe that someone could be this dumb!' Mu Xi commented with a weary voice.

'Its called villain syndrome. Trust me, every once in a while you'll meet someone who acts exactly like this guy.' Xiu Ye replied back.

"I think I have let you lived long enough." The ghoul stood up from his throne, interrupting Xiu Ye's conversation with his friends, as the soul power waves in the air suddenly became heavier.

Purple electricity sparked and appeared all around the ghoul's body. It danced across his body and on the ground, splitting the air and sending sparks of purple electricity everywhere as if a thunderstorm was summoned.

Even a few feet away from him, feeling the sparks of electricity in the air, Xiu Ye could feel the strength of purple lightning coursing around the ghoul's body.

Just from the feeling alone told him that, even Mjolnir's lightning, his spirit soul, couldn't match up to the ghoul's purple lightning! He was sure that his lightning resistance could only help him a little and not tank it like he did earlier.

'Oh shit! He's much stronger than I imagined.' Xiu Ye sweat dropped. His mind began the necessary steps to trace the weapon that he had chosen in his inner world.

The Ghoul Sage raised his right hand, a sound akin to a thousand chirping birds was heard, and a bright purple burst of lightning appeared in his palm.

'What the fuck? Chidori?!' Xiu Ye popped his eyes wide at the sight of a infamous ninjutsu he saw many times in his childhood.

Sure, with his ability to control lightning now, he could replicate said ninjutsu, so he shouldn't be surprised in seeing it. But seeing it being used by someone else other than him had completely caught him off guard, after all, anime was scarce here.

It was also one of the reasons why he wanted to start a company, bringing true entertainment to the uncultured population of the Douluo Planet.

"Don't even think that help would arrive." The ghoul told Xiu Ye as he aimed his purple lightning covered hand towards him. "My generals are now on their way to intercept your allies, including the ones trying to stop the new bloods from escaping."

'Trying to stop the escape of the new bloods?' Xiu Ye blinked, confusion on his face. 'Is he talking about Gu Yue and the others at Spirit Pagoda?'

"Now," The ghoul's right arm suddenly formed dark purple reptilian scales, his pupils turning into dark slits and red scleras. His opened mouth showed rows of sharp teeth. Beneath his feet, his seven soul rings rose up and Xiu Ye's eyes widened in surprise at the colored configuration, it widened even more when one of the black colored soul rings glowed and the 'chidori' in the ghoul's hand became even more powerful.

'Oh. Shi-'

"Remember my name, the one who destroyed you, Yu Tiansheng!" Yu Tiansheng loudly proclaimed as he cocked his lightning covered, reptilian scaled arm, back and punched towards Xiu Ye, sending a large purple thunderbolt, at the size of a soul car, towards him.

"Thunderstruck!"

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