Chapter 47. It was a dark age
This incident planted a thorn in her heart.
After that, Hua Qiang's methods were no longer so sharp. Instead, she carefully searched for the reasons why evil soul masters appeared.
Lotus' words inspired Hua Qiang. At Shrek Academy, she saw that because of Shrek's rules that mentors are supreme, many mentors, in their excessive pursuit of the word "monster", used brutal means to expel many students from Shrek Academy who did not meet their requirements.
In the two empires, she saw the nobles annexing land. The land that countless civilians relied on for survival did not belong to them. Every year, after a good harvest, they had to pay a certain amount of tax to the local territory, regardless of whether it was a year of good harvest or a year of famine.
The dandy nobles galloped on their horses through the streets of the downtown area, trampling on the lives of many people along the way. However, in their eyes, they were just the deaths of a few untouchables.
Slave hunting groups constantly search the continent for beautiful slaves who cater to the needs of the nobility. Be it beautiful girls, handsome men, or girls who have accidentally awakened their spirits, imbued with the characteristics of a beast spirit, they all become their prey, captured by the slave organizations and sold at auction.
She initially believed that evil spirit masters deserved death, but seeing the birth and rise of each evil spirit master, she realized how ridiculous and naive she had been! Isn't the emergence of evil spirit masters a result of this extreme, this deformed, this unfair, this twisted society?
In this society, filled with rigid class structures, oppressed by the aristocratic spirit masters, the common people barely have a breath to breathe.
This world is rife with resentment, and it is this resentment that endlessly fuels the emergence of evil spirit masters.
As long as these evil spirit masters didn't threaten their rule or their status, they would tolerate their growth. When necessary, they would eliminate a wave of them to win the hearts of the people, making them more receptive to their rule and more devoted to the gods revered by the nobles.
Only when the evil spirit masters truly grew to the point of threatening their status would they ruthlessly and ruthlessly wield their swords to eliminate them.
By chance, Hua Qiang discovered the remains of the Spirit Hall from the Dark Ages, buried deep underground. Within these ruins, she came across a description of past history.
What was the Dark Ages?
People cite the War of the Three Gods as a turning point. Before the War of the Three Gods, Douluo Continent was under the dark and filthy rule of the Spirits. Over generations, the evil Spirit Hall pope attempted to annex the entire continent and enslave all life.
Their evil plot was discovered by the kind and great Shrek Seven Devils. The great Sea God Tang San united the three upper sects and the two empires, establishing the Tang Sect. He united all forces, defeated the Spirit Hall, and defeated its two evil gods in the Three Gods Battle. This ultimately ushered in a bright and peaceful era for Douluo Continent.
The Dark Ages had thus ended.
In that era, the Shrek clans, the major sects, the two empires, and all the others had portrayed the Dark Ages as a time of cannibalism, ugliness, and evil. Now, under the glorious influence of the Sea God, the people of Douluo Continent live in peace and contentment. Morality, intelligence, physical fitness, the arts, labor, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness are emphasized throughout the Douluo Continent, creating a peaceful era. Aside from the occasional appearance of a group of evil spirit masters, there have been few major problems.
Of course, even if these evil spirit masters were to suffer from cholera, the benevolent Sea God would dispatch Shrek's law enforcement team to help put an end to the rebellion and restore peace and prosperity to the people.
This is how people of this era perceive the present and the Dark Ages.
However, while excavating underground ruins, Hua Qiang uncovered some historical records of the Spirit Hall and the Dark Ages.
A map depicting an angel suppressing evil represents the origins of the Spirit Hall.
The Spirit Hall was founded during a chaotic era of conflict between evil and righteous spirit masters. A young angel god-ancestor suppressed all evil, bringing true light to the entire Douluo Continent and quelling the rebellions of many evil spirit masters. Her achievements earned her a divine status.
Before her divine ascension, she bequeathed a Spirit Hall to the world. These Spirit Halls, spread across the Douluo Continent, year after year offered free Spirit awakening services to the people of the continent. Under the Spirit Hall's control, the two empires, along with the Spirit Hall, each contributed money to provide monthly subsidies to the Spirit Masters, giving them time to rise and develop.
Eighty-nine out of ten civilian Spirit Masters emerged because of the Spirit Hall, and as a result, the Spirit Hall encompassed nearly sixty-seventy percent of the Douluo Continent's Spirit Masters.
The Spirit Hall suppressed truly evil spirit masters, but treated those who possessed evil spirits but committed no evil equally.
Although the Spirit Hall was viewed with hostility and vigilance by the three great sects and the two great empires of that era, its very existence offered a respite to the common people oppressed by the aristocracy.
In every village and city across the continent, countless families eagerly awaited the day they would awaken their spirits.
There, the Spirit Hall would dispatch a deacon to help them awaken their spirits. Some villagers' spirits resembled hoes, others sickles, and even carrots. Even if these spirits lacked spiritual power and couldn't make them spirit masters, they could still transform their lives. Becoming a spirit master could transform a person's destiny.
This is why, during that dark era, so many spirit masters supported the Spirit Hall.
In those days, evil spirit masters weren't as rampant as they are today, and slave hunting groups weren't as rampant as they are today.
The Spirit Hall was like a huge mountain, weighing heavily on the two empires and the three upper sects. They had created a more enlightened system than the current one, but this system had caused hatred and hostility from the nobles who already controlled the resources.
Because of the Spirit Hall's awakening, many civilian spirit masters would emerge from the vast number of common people on the continent, challenging their status. They attached themselves to the Spirit Hall, and the old nobles watched with hatred, but had no way to stop them.
However, such an enlightened era in Hua Qiang's eyes ended with the War of the Three Gods.
The dark age ended with the fall of the two evil spirits and the destruction of the Spirit Hall. After that, the Tang Sect, the Clear Sky Sect, Shrek Academy, and the order established by the two empires, the Age of the Sea God, arrived.
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