RNP Chapter 44 The Journey, Part 7
Chapter 44 The Journey, Part 7
At that moment, the boy finished touching the corpse and then counted the items in front of him.
Then Huo Yuhao said to them in his spiritual sea, "This guy dropped 1,200 gold soul coins, plus a very simple storage soul tool, and nothing else. This is the most he's dropped recently."
Upon hearing this answer, Tianmeng within the Sea of Spirit nodded in agreement.
After obtaining the answer, Elder Yi continued to study the spirit ring in front of him, and at the same time took some of the spiritual essence energy stored here by Tianmeng to conduct experiments.
Faced with the situation, Tianmeng was about to hurl insults at him, but he swallowed them back before he could even open his mouth, after all, he knew he couldn't beat Elder Yi.
Therefore, at this moment, Tianmeng, in the sea of consciousness, could only silently wear the sunglasses that had been conjured up, and then lie on the recliner that had been conjured up from Huo Yuhao's memory of the wasteland New Vegas casino, listening to the radio music from that memory.
Huo Yuhao glanced at the two people in his spiritual sea, then returned his attention to reality.
At this moment, the boy put the gold soul coins he had touched directly into his storage soul tool, and then he turned his gaze to the corpse of the evil soul master in front of him.
Whether it was the evil spirit masters we encountered just now or before, they were all much more troublesome than those bandits or spirit masters.
Fortunately, the boy didn't encounter many evil spirit masters along the way, and their cultivation levels weren't particularly high, so he could easily deal with them with some effort.
However, the boy did not believe that these so-called evil spirit masters were just insignificant beings.
Because Huo Yuhao had heard a saying when he was in the wasteland: when you find a cockroach in your house, it means that there are more cockroaches than just the ones you see in front of you. They have already spread to various places in your house.
Of course, the radioactive cockroaches in the wasteland are not the small kind; they are larger than a foot, can be roasted and eaten as meat, and are even said to be able to bite people to death.
As for now, looking at the evil spirit masters he encountered on the road, the young man no longer thought he was just unlucky enough to run into anything. In fact, he thought he was too lucky to only encounter these low-level evil spirit masters.
From what he saw and heard along the way, and from the information he gleaned from some traveling merchants, the boy learned that the existence of evil spirit masters was not an isolated case in a particular region or empire, but rather a rumor that they existed in various areas.
Among these evil spirit masters, some are strong and some are weak; some are flamboyant and obvious, while others, like the one before us, are insignificant and have been attacked and eliminated by various parties.
However, the boy did not think the situation was so good. Judging from the governance capabilities of these empires he had witnessed, this was not the true state of evil soul masters across the entire Douluo Continent.
After all, even the weakest bandits in the wasteland know that they need to expand their power, so there must be a similar situation for beings like evil soul masters.
Not to mention the governance capabilities demonstrated by these empires and organizations that have existed for tens of thousands of years.
If this level of control has been maintained for so long, then it's impossible that there are only these scattered cockroaches. Perhaps the cockroaches have already spread throughout the entire house, and some of them are even unimaginably large, but they haven't really been exposed yet.
The young man had a different view on solving the problem of evil spirit masters than those empires and organizations. In addition to eliminating the existing ones, he believed it was even more important to address the root cause of the evil spirit masters' existence.
This is a societal problem, the same kind of problem the boy saw in the villages and towns. The root of the problem is the same, and it cannot be completely solved by killing.
Even in the wasteland, in the New California Republic or within the territory of Caesar's Legion, bandits and robbers are not something that appears out of thin air; their existence is influenced by the existing living environment.
Whether it's cracking down and governing like the New California Republic, or the hard-line sweeping and eradication like Caesar's Legion, comprehensive management within the territory is compressing the bandits' living environment.
Once the environment that breeds bandits changes, the number of bandits will naturally decrease. In Huo Yuhao's view, the problem of evil soul masters on Douluo Continent is the same as the situation of bandits in the wasteland.
This is a problem that, in addition to the existing crackdown and cleanup efforts, must be solved through social management. If a person is identified as an evil spirit master simply because their awakened martial spirit is evil, then that person will become an evil spirit master even if they are not one.
Of course, Huo Yuhao was also aware that the definition of an evil soul master was not as accurate as he had heard. In addition to whether they possessed an evil martial soul, their cultivation method also needed to be considered.
Ultimately, the main reason depends on the power of the sect to which they belong. Even if they have an evil martial soul, they are unlikely to become an evil soul master.
Those who become evil soul masters, at least those that Huo Yuhao sees now, basically have no backers and no teachers to guide them.
Adding to what the boy had seen along the way, he found it hard to imagine how many of these people, who were defined as having evil martial souls from the moment they awakened their martial souls, would not turn to the path of evil soul masters in the face of such circumstances.
Beyond these, how many Soul Masters, outside this definition, will voluntarily choose to become Evil Soul Masters in this world?
In this world, those at the extremes of the measuring standard are always the fewest, just as true geniuses are rare, so too are true idiots.
Most of these people, despite their individual differences, are ordinary people in the middle.
This argument makes sense whether you're talking about ordinary people, Soul Masters, or even Soul Beasts on the Douluo Continent.
Therefore, even on the Douluo Continent, those who are born with a love for killing, are bloodthirsty, insane, and most in line with the definition of an evil soul master are still a minority among minorities.
Of the evil soul masters Huo Yuhao is facing now, how many were born this way, and how many became this way later in life?
Huo Yuhao felt little sympathy for the evil soul masters who appeared before him, nor would he show any mercy during the battle.
However, this does not mean that he approves of the current way Douluo Continent deals with the issue of evil soul masters.
This approach itself is problematic, as it avoids and evades many real-world issues without ever genuinely considering ways to improve them.
The problem of so-called evil spirit masters ultimately comes down to society, just like the problems that teenagers see in rural areas and towns.
Only by changing its root cause can this problem be truly addressed. If we simply kill them one by one, the problem will never be solved, and one day it will erupt like a volcano, completely revealing itself to everyone.
The boy is not yet truly capable of solving this problem; he needs the plan to be feasible before he can proceed.