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In addition, the Spirit Hall also has a special agency responsible for hunting down and controlling evil spirit masters.

Few people may remember the name of this organization anymore; it is the Martial Soul Tribunal.

Its function is to hunt down evil spirit masters throughout the entire continent. No matter where you hide, the people of the Martial Soul Tribunal can find you.

This system has been operating for over a thousand years. While its efficiency is not perfect, it has at least kept the number of evil spirit masters at an extremely low level.

How low is it? So low that an ordinary person would never encounter a single evil spirit master in their entire life.

[And then what did Tang San do? He uprooted the Spirit Hall completely.]

After the Spirit Hall was destroyed, the control system that had been operating for thousands of years collapsed overnight.

No one goes to different places to awaken the souls of six-year-olds anymore, no one goes to screen for evil martial souls anymore, and no one goes to hunt down evil soul masters anymore.

The two great empires, Heaven Dou and Star Luo, did take over some of the functions of the Spirit Hall, but they did a terrible job of it.

The imperial court is busy fighting for power and profit, and the local officials are busy lining their own pockets. Who has time to care about evil spirit masters?

The collapse of this control system directly led to one consequence: evil spirit masters entered a golden age of unbridled growth.

No one cares, no one chases, no one kills; they can freely grow and thrive.

But simply destroying the Spirit Hall is not enough.

Tang San did something else: he interrupted the inheritance of the Angel God.

Qian Renxue was defeated by Tang San in the Angel God Trial, and her Angel Godhood was shattered, her lineage completely severed.

The sacred power of the angelic lineage is the most natural enemy of evil spirit masters.

The Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul possesses an inherent divine purification power that has an absolute suppressive effect on all evil spirits.

Even a mere descendant of an angel with diluted bloodline can strike fear into the hearts of low-level evil spirit masters with just a lingering divine aura.

It can be said that as long as the legacy of the Angel God continues, evil spirit masters will never dare to openly develop their power.

However, Tang San destroyed the Angel God's legacy.

The divine power is gone; the thing that evil spirit masters feared most has vanished from the continent.

Without natural enemies or suppression, these desperados who had been lurking in the shadows for years could finally emerge with impunity.

They no longer needed to hide, no longer needed to fear the judgment of divine power. They could operate day and night, openly recruit followers, and gradually build a vast and organized force of evil spirit masters—this was the later Holy Spirit Cult.

So you see, this causal chain is as clear as it gets.

First, Tang San grew stronger by relying on the devouring ability of the Eight Spider Lances, planting the seeds of devouring in the Tang Sect bloodline, which indirectly affected Tang Ya and other descendants, causing them to fall into evil soul masters.

Secondly, Tang San destroyed the City of Slaughter, releasing a large number of evil soul masters and fallen soul masters imprisoned inside, directly injecting the seeds of evil soul masters into the continent.

Most importantly, evil spirit masters no longer have natural enemies, and things without natural enemies develop incredibly rapidly.