"Foolish kindness, being set up by others without even realizing it. Go back! Think through what happened today, then we can talk about anything else!" Ratio rebuked them mercilessly, refusing to respond to the women's expectations.
These women had all gathered here of their own accord because they were worried about Ratio's safety.
Now, not only had they failed to see Ratio's true face as they wished, they had instead been rebuked.
They immediately fell silent.
Bibi Dong instantly turned around, staring at Ratio in disbelief, and cursed under her breath:
"This idiot! Doesn't he know that doing this will make Spirit Hall's situation even worse?" Bibi Dong gritted her teeth, as though she could already see the scene of those furious women storming Spirit Hall.
A few seconds later, the women suddenly erupted into discussion.
"Master Ratio means that we were tricked? That must be it! How could Master Ratio possibly be coerced by anyone? So it turns out we were worrying for nothing!"
"As expected of Master Ratio, with just a few words, he made us understand the key point!"
"It's a shame we can't see Master Ratio's true face, but, Master Ratio cares about us too! He's so gentle, I'm crying to death!"
"…"
The women immediately grasped the implication of Ratio's words.
In reality, even if Ratio had merely cursed at them a few times for no reason, they would still have found excuses for Ratio!
This was the difference in treatment between ugly men and handsome men.
And women of the same sex, women prettier than most other women, had a status even lower than ugly men!
Ratio glanced at them, confirming that these people would not continue making trouble.
Blue flames suddenly ignited around his body, flashed for an instant, and then vanished!
Bibi Dong watched this scene. Quite a few women were still sighing regretfully, while others were still pondering, yet among the more than two hundred thousand women, the one thing absent from their faces was resentment!
Even though Ratio had let down all their expectations and refused to accept their goodwill.
These women actually still maintained goodwill toward Ratio!
"Why?! These women are simply too shallow! They actually abandoned their principles because of Ratio!" Bibi Dong was so angry her teeth itched. She was now certain there was no longer any hope of turning things around.
Her only expectation was to make Ratio suffer a setback as much as possible.
Even such a wish failed to come true!
Zi Ji watched Ratio disappear, urgency appearing on her face, "Where's Master Ratio? I still need to greet him…"
Bi Ji hugged Zi Ji's arm and gently shook her head, "Zi Ji, don't be anxious yet…"
At this moment, Spirit Hall's soul masters began organizing the women to leave.
Fortunately, they were all ordinary women, and things had not yet reached the most dangerous point. Although some had been injured and fallen unconscious, there had not yet been any deaths.
Soon, all the people blocking the plaza exits had been evacuated.
Then the spectators inside also left through the exits.
Because too many people were involved, Spirit Hall could not possibly screen them, so they could only let everyone leave.
But there was one group of soul masters who could not escape!
They were the soul masters who had taken advantage of the fact that most of Spirit Hall's soul masters were guarding the plaza to attack the structure atop the Pope's Palace tower!
The soul masters from more than a dozen sects were all arrested and brought to justice!
Among them were the Firebird Sect, which had launched the crucial strike, and the Misty Cloud Sect, which had linked everything together!
Even the soul master from the Earth Dragon Sect had not escaped disaster, though only a corpse remained!
…
On the second day of the company's new product launch, Qian Daoliu summoned representatives from several soul master sects and held a meeting in the Pope's Palace.
In the conference room, powdered debris from the section of the Pope's Palace that had been blown apart was placed right on the conference table.
Qian Daoliu wore a grim expression, his entire body radiating a chill.
One could well imagine how much pressure the threat emanating from a level ninety-nine Titled Douluo placed on the other soul masters.
All the soul master factions present had participated in the attack on Spirit Hall. Now, seated on both sides of the conference table, they were all sitting on pins and needles!
Yu Luomian, in particular, kept squirming in his seat, glancing from time to time at Yu Yuanzhen beside him.
Aside from Spirit Hall, the calmest person was Ning Fengzhi of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. During yesterday's unrest, he had not allowed his sect's soul masters to take advantage of the chaos to cause trouble, and had behaved himself perfectly!
"Everyone, do you see this? You all witnessed yesterday's farce as well!"
"Very good, the major soul master factions besieging our Spirit Hall? Applying pressure both inside and outside the venue?"
"Do you truly think Spirit Hall is an existence that will compromise just because it is threatened?"
Qian Daoliu questioned them furiously.
His icy eyes swept coldly over everyone, and they all lowered their heads.
One by one, they began trembling with fear.
Yesterday, when they had banded together, they had still dared to make trouble for Spirit Hall.
Now they were sitting right in front of them, who would dare utter even half a word of nonsense?
"Someone must repay the humiliation Spirit Hall suffered! According to our investigation, the root cause of the riot was the Misty Cloud Sect…" Qian Daoliu's voice was icy as he looked in the direction of Yun Leng from the Misty Cloud Sect.
Yun Leng immediately stood up, his face pale, and actually confessed outright.
"I'm sorry, Grand Worship. It was we who linked up with the other sects. But if we're talking about the fuse, it was Nan Haohao of the Earth Dragon Sect! Because he killed our sect master, we retaliated like that!"
"In addition, to compensate Spirit Hall for its losses, our Misty Cloud Sect is willing to merge into Spirit Hall!"
Yun Leng spoke forcefully, pointing in Nan Haohao's direction.
Nan Haohao's face flushed red as he stood up. Facing everyone's strange gazes, he raised his head and shouted: "It was me! I beat their sect master to death! That's all there is to it, it has nothing to do with anyone else!"
Nan Haohao took all the responsibility onto his own sect.
No one else believed it. The brutes from the Earth Dragon Sect must have been egged on by someone!
Otherwise, they could never have done such a thing.
For a moment, everyone's gaze turned toward Yu Luomian.
Yu Luomian felt even more ashamed upon hearing this, and Yu Yuanzhen could not help frowning as he looked at him.
As an affiliated sect, voluntarily taking the blame for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan did not mean they should accept it as a matter of course.
A practice like the Clear Sky Sect's, discarding someone after they had served their purpose and leaving affiliated sects behind for the enemy to vent their anger on, was something that, once done, would draw universal condemnation!
Yu Luomian suddenly stood up and said solemnly:
"Things have already come to this, so it's too late to say anything! The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan is willing to compensate Spirit Hall tenfold for its losses! At the same time, we will no longer make demands regarding the allocation of slots for experimental personnel!"
"Lastly, Yu Xiaogang of our Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan has achieved some results in researching bloodline-inherited martial souls!"
Yu Luomian first took responsibility voluntarily, then suddenly dropped a bombshell!
"!!!" Everyone was dumbfounded, expressions of wild joy appearing on their faces.
The theory of bloodline-inherited martial souls was the first theory Master Ratio had put forward, and it was also one they were especially looking forward to!
Was it actually about to truly be unveiled now?!
Yu Xiaogang froze for a moment and cursed inwardly: Second Uncle is screwing me over way too hard! He only had a few conjectures, that was all!!!
(End of Chapter)