"Senior, please take a look," Ye Wen said as he waved the token in his hand.
"Although our Medical Alliance publicly claims that the leader is elected by everyone, any soul master knows how important a martial soul is to their cultivation. Ordinary low-level martial souls cannot reach the advanced soul master level, let alone qualify for the leadership election.
As the Medical Alliance grows stronger in the future, more advanced martial souls will inevitably emerge, leading to struggles for power. To address this, I specially consulted with my teacher and created this Medical Alliance Leader Token.
In the future, only those soul masters whose martial souls are recorded on this token will be eligible to run for the position of leader.
Moreover, to be recorded on the token, a martial soul must at least possess the potential to reach the Title Douluo level. As you can see now, apart from my teacher and the Nine-Heart Begonia family, there's only this 'Huo' family crest. This crest represents the Huo family, where my grandmother-in-law resides. Though she doesn't have the cultivation of a Title Douluo, like you, Senior Yang, she walks the Limit Path and can easily handle ordinary Title Douluos. My fiancée, on the other hand, was born with full soul power and has the potential to become a Title Douluo in the future.
Therefore, Senior Yang, I've made myself clear. If you join us, we can immediately add the imprint of your Breaking Clan's martial soul to this token. In the future, the Breaking Clan may very well produce a Title Douluo or even a leader of the alliance."
Yang Wudi was somewhat stunned. He hadn't expected such an ambitious plan from a newly formed faction, aiming to gather ten martial souls with the potential to reach the Title Douluo level as its foundation.
Soon, Yang Wudi realized that the development model of the Medical Alliance wasn't much different from the eight hidden families of the Spirit Arena—just that the Medical Alliance was more open to outsiders joining.
Now understanding that his concerns had been addressed and seeing hope for the future, Yang Wudi grinned.
"Young Master Ye Wen, your sincerity has been received. On behalf of the Breaking Clan, I officially declare our allegiance to the Medical Alliance."
With that, Yang Wudi retracted his martial soul and respectfully bowed to Dugu Bo and Ye Wen.
Thus, the Breaking Clan officially joined the Medical Alliance.
At this moment, the Medical Alliance reached the peak of its current strength, boasting four Title-level combatants.
Upon hearing the news, Ning Fengzhi sighed, "The younger generation surpasses the older one. Who would have thought that young Ye Wen could be bolder than I was back in the day, managing to recruit four individuals with Title-level strength into the Medical Alliance. If only he were my biological child!"
Yu Yuanzhen was also slightly surprised upon hearing the news, but as long as the Medical Alliance didn't challenge his position as the top Beast Martial Soul or the Upper Three Sects, he didn't bother paying it much attention.
On the other hand, both the Spirit Hall and the two empires grew deeply wary.
Unlike Ning Fengzhi and Yu Yuanzhen, who were relatively open-minded, the true peak powers of the Douluo Continent lay with the Spirit Hall and the two empires.
Though the Medical Alliance currently only had four Title-level fighters, the Elder Hall of the Spirit Hall, upon learning about Ye Wen's vision for the Leader Token, felt deeply threatened by the Medical Alliance.
'What audacity!' they thought. 'A neutral force planning its strength to rival ours? Today they dare to imagine themselves equal to us—what happens when they grow even stronger and rise to become the second Spirit Hall?!'
However, for a long time, the Spirit Hall refrained from taking action against the Medical Alliance. As Ye Wen had pointed out, while the Spirit Hall's peak forces were formidable, Dugu Bo's mass attack capabilities were unmatched across the Douluo Continent.
As long as the Medical Alliance didn't show signs of rebellion, if the Spirit Hall dared to attack, even someone as mild-mannered as Dugu Bo wouldn't hesitate to fight to the bitter end. The losses for the Spirit Hall would only escalate, potentially leaving them without any allies.
As for the two empires, their initial thought was naturally to try and recruit the Medical Alliance.
But every Title Douluo already possessed both strength and wealth, able to obtain whatever they desired. The most the empires could offer were soul bones or some resources.
Even then, it was difficult to sway a Title Douluo. After all, who would willingly trade freedom for being tied down?
Unless they were specifically nurtured from the start, bound by ties of loyalty, these Title Douluos wouldn't betray their original factions.
When recruitment proved ineffective, the two empires considered pitting the Medical Alliance against each other. However, in the end, it became a dogfight with no real winners. The Medical Alliance focused solely on business—if either empire caused trouble, they'd simply sell their goods to the Spirit Hall, ensuring their own survival.
Seeing that the Medical Alliance was unshakable and remained steadfastly neutral, the two empires eventually gave up.
The Medical Alliance continued to thrive in the soul master business, opening countless storefronts among the common folk and healing countless civilians. While their reputation couldn't match the Spirit Hall, which regularly helped awaken martial souls for the common people, they still gained significant renown.
Originally, Ye Wen's trip to Star Luo had another target in mind—Bai He.
Though the Agile Clan was truly pathetic, despite having a Soul Douluo as their leader, most of their wealth amounted to only a hundred gold coins on Bai He's person—less than a month's stipend for a Soul Ancestor cultivator. In the future, they wouldn't even be able to afford one of Tang San's Zhuge Divine Crossbows. It was utterly embarrassing.
Ye Wen likened Bai He to the Douluo version of Kong Yiji.
Had Bai He, as a Soul Douluo-level clan leader, done something productive—like helping others hunt for soul rings...
Well, some might say that Bai He specialized in extreme speed, with poor offensive capabilities.
But even without targeting ten-thousand-year spirit beasts, hunting thousand- or hundred-year ones could easily earn him thousands of gold soul coins. Yet, he refused to do so.
If this isn't Kong Yiji, then what is?
He clearly had the ability to provide his clansmen with meat and wine, but as the clan leader—and an elder of Tang San's grandfather's generation—he couldn't bring himself to lower his pride and do such things. As a result, the entire Agile Clan had to rely on aid from the Breaking Clan!
It was absurd!
For someone who valued face but accomplished nothing, Ye Wen had no intention of bringing Bai He under his wing.
However, Bai He did possess something valuable—a half-immortal herb.
This was the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, an eighth-grade herb with several thousand years of growth. If it reached ten thousand years, it would ascend to the ninth grade, becoming a true immortal herb. Unfortunately, in the original storyline, it was devoured by Xiao Wu in her rabbit form, mistaking it for a radish—a complete waste. Its final effect was merely to help Xiao Wu assimilate the potency of the Yearning Heartbroken Red, allowing her body to temporarily assume human form.
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