"Then..." Tang Ya was still hesitant, but Bei Bei preempted her question: "What kind of organization are you exactly? Could it be a hidden Sect? If we were to join your organization, would Xiao Ya need to disband the Tang Sect?"
"Bei Bei!" Tang Ya's expression was slightly annoyed, but she didn't say anything further, as Bei Bei's words were exactly what she wanted to ask.
"You want Sister Xiao Ya to join our organization? That's certainly possible. Our organization doesn't force members to sever their previous social ties. Sister Xiao Ya, you can continue to be the Tang Sect Master."
Bai Hong smiled faintly, then changed the subject: "However, our organization is blessed by a true God. The true God watches over every member of the organization. To formally join us, you need to swear an oath before my Lord's divine emblem, witnessed by an experienced member like me, and sign a relevant contract."
That's right, Bai Hong intended to reverse-recruit, turning Tang Ya, a dark chess piece of God King Tang, into Bai Hong's white chess piece.
Seeing Tang Ya and Bei Bei's hesitation, Bai Hong didn't strike while the iron was hot; that would be counterproductive, and the recruitment effect would be greatly diminished.
"It's alright, Sister Xiao Ya. When you've considered it, come and tell me. But as a senior member of the organization, I have a responsibility to introduce you to the great Mr. Fantasist!"
He took out the 'Fantasist Bible' he had compiled and showed Tang Ya and Bei Bei the divine emblem on the Bible.
The divine emblem's symbol was generally circular with a grey-white tone, with dragon wings symmetrically guarding it on the left and right. In the middle of the emblem, from top to bottom, a heart-shaped symbol with a vertical eye was depicted, along with a quill pen resting on an open book.
"My Lord calls Himself the Fantasist. In the past, in the present, and in the future, He descends into the peerless, the supreme ruler of the Mind World! The Father of Insight who has read all things!"
After reciting, Bai Hong put the Bible back into his spirit tool: "The Fantasist who descends into the peerless, the supreme ruler of the Mind World, the Father of Insight of all things—these are my Lord's three-part honorifics. You should recite them once to deepen your impression."
The Douluo Continent lacked the common knowledge that a true God's honorifics should not be recited lightly. He watched Bei Bei and Tang Ya leisurely as they quietly repeated it to themselves, sensing two tiny new light spots appearing within the Divine Kingdom of Emptiness and Ideation in his Mind World.
Bai Hong wanted to laugh, but having undergone professional training, he absolutely wouldn't lose his composure.
This move… was a reversal of roles!
Since they had already recited the honorifics, was it still far from ensnaring the entire Tang Sect?
Afterward, Bai Hong could, without bloodshed, turn the Tang Sect—a potential leverage point for God King Tang—into his own leverage point against God King Tang!
"Xiao Huo is also practicing our organization's basic cultivation method now. After his deep meditation ends, Sister Xiao Ya, you can observe his cultivation effects."
As he spoke, Bai Hong looked towards the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest: "Brother Bei, Sister Xiao Ya, are you also here in the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt for a spirit ring?"
"Yes," Tang Ya nodded, "I'm already at level 30 and looking for a suitable Spirit Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest."
"Then Sister Xiao Ya, Brother Bei, you should go ahead and get busy. Obtaining a spirit ring is important." Bai Hong wanted to send them away quickly.
"Do you really not need our help to guard him?" Tang Ya and Bei Bei looked at Huo Yuhao, who was still in deep meditation. For some reason, they both felt a sense of fondness for this child and wanted to help him... "No need. With me here, there won't be any danger."
It's you two who are the biggest danger!
Bai Hong narrowed his eyes, using Insight to observe the changes in Bei Bei and Tang Ya as if through fire.
The Douluo Plane's favor towards Xiao Huo Yuhao had turned into a golden glow, influencing their mental force and Minds, but this golden glow seemed to be tinged with specks of blue-gold light... Was God King Tang already starting his ten-thousand-year plan?
After temporarily borrowing the Fantasist's authority and God Position to enhance his Insight for careful observation, Bai Hong confirmed that God King Tang's great hand was indeed at work!
However, it wasn't exerting much force; the way God King Tang was influencing Bei Bei and Tang Ya's thoughts was still very crude, and the divine force he could project was just a tiny bit, having a weak influence on their thoughts, not even enough for direct brainwashing.
Bei Bei and Tang Ya, upon further thought, felt that with Bai Hong watching over them, nothing bad would happen, and obtaining a spirit ring was more important. So, they bid farewell to Bai Hong and walked towards the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest... Inside Xiao Huo Yuhao's mental force space, a Fantasist's divine emblem, which Bai Hong had deliberately left in his Mind, glowed faintly, and Bai Hong's figure emerged from it.
This avatar, formed by mental force, looked at the small puddle in front of him and shook his head: "The quantity of the Spirit Communication Realm is still too little water."
After Iler克斯 was taken away by him, Bai Hong occupied Xiao Huo Yuhao's internal old man ecological niche.
"Brother Bai, this Xiao Huo you chose for me is too weak. His physical condition is really terrible."
Tianmeng Ice Silkworm wriggled in front of Bai Hong and began to complain: "To become his spirit ring, I greatly compressed and sealed my power. His talent is actually worse than I imagined, almost to the point of being ridiculously bad! I really don't know if this is right or wrong now..."
In his opinion, how wonderful it would be if Bai Hong could be his host. Bai Hong's powerful mental force cultivation, which he called "Spirit Abyss Realm peak," could definitely easily bear all the mental force essence of him, a million-year Ice Silkworm.
Unfortunately, Bai Hong didn't want it.
"Tsk, you got a good deal and are still complaining. Xiao Huo is the favored one beloved by the Douluo Plane, otherwise, how could you have so coincidentally met him, a mental force Spirit Master?"
Bai Hong scratched Tianmeng's soft, elastic head and said: "You haven't added Spirit Abilities to that spirit ring yet, have you? That damn mental force detection sharing of yours, don't even think about bringing it up."
The four Spirit Abilities that Tianmeng Ice Silkworm originally gave Huo Yuhao could actually be directly created after learning the corresponding mental force manipulation methods, without even needing to move the spirit ring.
It was only due to the peculiar nature of the Douluo Continent, this fantasy sewer, where everyone focused on broken spirit rings to get by, and during this historical period of Douluo II, no one really developed the various wonderful uses of mental force, that the skills Tianmeng provided became version-defining divine skills.
In other fantasy settings, things like spiritual sense and divine thoughts were basic, common knowledge, and anyone who didn't have them would be embarrassed.
"But besides those, I don't know anything else?" Tianmeng said.
"You know the Mimicry Spirit Ability, right? And your sealed mental force essence can't just wait for Xiao Huo's mental force space to expand before being released, can it? Give him another Spirit Ability related to unsealing your mental force essence. Anyway, Xiao Huo will also learn how to use mental force from me, so there must be some consumption, right?"
Mimicry still had some use. If the first spirit ring had this Spirit Ability, it would free up Huo Yuhao's original second spirit ring slot for other choices.
As for Ice Silkworms, one Tianmeng was enough.
As for mental force detection, sharing, interference, and soul shock, these were basic applications of mental force to Bai Hong; just learn them and be done with it.
Bai Hong still had high expectations for Huo Yuhao. His own Mind Dragon Spirit was strongly correlated with the Audience Pathway, and his growth path was largely determined, but Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eyes Spirit had higher malleability.
His inherent physical deficiencies would soon be resolved by this deep meditation facilitated by Bai Hong. The realistic dream, specially tailored for Xiao Huo, allowed him to focus and introspect his body, guiding his mental force to act on the Xuan Shui Pill's medicinal power in a fool-proof manner, thereby guiding the medicinal power to clear and nourish Huo Yuhao's entire meridians.
The subsequent medicinal power of the Soul Ascension Pill would, under the guidance of the realistic dream, follow the meridian-clearing route of the cultivation method given by Bai Hong, and forcefully open Huo Yuhao's extraordinary meridians.
At that time, any notion of having no cultivation talent if innate spirit power was below level ten... that would be nonexistent!
Although this time, at least tens of thousands of gold coins were spent on Huo Yuhao, making Bai Hong feel a bit pained, this money would eventually be recouped.
When Huo Gua finally awoke from the real World, he had become a true 'black man.' The cleansing of his marrow by the Xuan Shui Pill's medicinal power and the opening of his extraordinary meridians by the Soul Ascension Pill's medicinal power had forced out all the impurities from his body.
Huo Yuhao, who had already understood his physical condition in the realistic dream during his deep meditation, quickly jumped into the stream to bathe, and the grey-black filth spread throughout the originally clear stream water.
"Good thing I caught the fish beforehand, otherwise..."
Glancing at the few fish and shrimp floating belly-up around Huo Yuhao, Bai Hong felt a chill.
Xiao Huo Yuhao, who had been starved for two days in deep meditation, changed into clean clothes and ravenously chewed on the fish and bear meat Bai Hong had just roasted.
"Xiao Yuhao, you're a Spirit Master now, and I helped you fuse with Tianmeng and even gave you precious pills worth ten thousand gold coins. Shouldn't you be doing things for our organization?" Bai Hong asked while eating roasted fish.
Leaving Tianmeng aside, Bai Hong was also a benefactor to Xiao Huo Yuhao. Not only did he give him Xuan Shui Pill and Soul Ascension Pill, but he also helped Xiao Huo Yuhao clear his extraordinary meridians.
Now, Huo Yuhao not only reached level 15 in spirit power but also possessed cultivation aptitude comparable to innate full spirit power.
Simply out of gratitude, Huo Yuhao was very willing to join the organization Bai Hong spoke of.
"Then, Brother Bai, what is your organization called?" Huo Yuhao asked curiously.
Bai Hong smiled mysteriously and pulled out the brick-sized "Fantasist Bible" from his spirit tool: "Our organization is called the Unfettered Church."
Since he transmigrated to the Douling Empire in this World, stayed in an orphanage until he was six, and then used his saved money to awaken his Spirit and obtain his first spirit ring, Bai Hong began his journey across the Douluo Continent.
The Audience Pathway sequence, as his golden finger, not only propelled Bai Hong's mental force cultivation to breakthroughs during the process of sequence unlocking, advancement, and digestion, but he could also conjure the Audience Pathway sequence's extraordinary characteristics out of thin air, bestowing them upon others as "God's blessings."
Currently, Bai Hong could only create Audience Pathway extraordinary characteristics one level lower than his currently unlocked sequence. Under ideal circumstances, Audience Pathway extraordinary characteristics before Sequence 3 could be created infinitely, but the cost of creation would be determined by the sequence from low to high.
The maximum number of Sequence 2 extraordinary characteristics that could be created was fixed at 9. Sequence 1 could not create extraordinary characteristics; there was only the one characteristic maintaining the Fantasist God Position, and the quill pen and notebook separated from the God Position, totaling 3.
However, the three extraordinary characteristics that Bai Hong could currently create—"Audience," "Mind Reader," and "Psychiatrist"—were already capable of playing a significant role in the evangelism process.
Bai Hong, in the name of the Fantasist's favored one, evangelized throughout his journey across the Douluo Continent, bestowing "God-given extraordinary characteristics." He established a church in the Divine Kingdom of Emptiness and Ideation, creating his own pan-continental secret organization, with members distributed across the four Empires of the Douluo Continent and Shrek City.
"I am willing to join the Unfettered Church."
To repay Bai Hong's kindness, Xiao Huo Yuhao unhesitatingly agreed to join the organization Bai Hong belonged to.
Moreover, Brother Tianmeng was also urging him in his Mind. This Unfettered Church had a true God, and it was personally invited by Bai Hong, the "favored one," so there would definitely be many benefits!
"Great, our Unfettered Church welcomes mental force Spirit Masters. You don't know, our Unfettered Church can be said to be the largest mental force Spirit Master organization in this World..."
In front of Huo Yuhao, Bai Hong spread his palm, and a silver-white vertical eye immediately appeared in his hand.
"I will be your guarantor for joining the Unfettered Church. Now, as long as you swallow it, you can become a formal member of our Unfettered Church."
The Sequence 9 "Audience" extraordinary characteristic could grant keen observation skills and provide a mental force enhancement buff. Even Spirit Masters not originally from a mental force background could forcibly pry open the door to mental force cultivation through this silver-white vertical eye.
Furthermore, low-intelligence, low-year Spirit Beasts could even undergo an immediate awakening of spiritual intelligence through this small Sequence 9 Audience extraordinary characteristic, becoming Spirit Beasts with human wisdom.
The Unfettered Church also had Spirit Beast members!
For Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eyes Spirit, it was even more significant. The mental force body Spirit configuration of eyes + brain was perfectly compatible with the Audience Pathway extraordinary characteristics.
Huo Yuhao, determined to join the organization, immediately swallowed the vertical eye in one gulp. After experiencing a bizarre sensation while consuming the extraordinary characteristic, when he opened his eyes again, they shone brightly, revealing double pupils, and the Spirit phantom behind him turned completely silver-white!
Within his mental force space, the total amount of mental force, originally just a puddle, grew steadily with the infiltration of the extraordinary characteristic, evolving from a small pool into a small lake.
This was mental force at the Spirit Sea Realm level!
Body Spirits determine their potential during secondary awakening based on the importance of the awakened body part. Xiao Huo Yuhao's top-tier configuration of eyes + brain, stimulated by the "Audience" extraordinary characteristic that was incredibly compatible with him, immediately stepped into the threshold of a secondary awakening for a silver-grade Spirit.
He even awakened the characteristic double pupils of the White Tiger Duke's lineage!
This was even more effective than the Gaze of Autumn Water Dew produced by the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. For Huo Yuhao... one could only say that for a favored one like Huo Gua, who was constantly being fed by the Douluo Plane's heavens, whatever happened to him was quite normal.
"Very good, Yuhao, you are now a formal member of our Unfettered Church. Your member level is Sequence 9, and it also has another name, which is the true name of the God-given Sequence 9 extraordinary characteristic you just swallowed: 'Audience'!"