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In Douluo Federation, Spirit Pagoda’s headquarter.
Qiangu Dongfeng sat on the main seat with a calm expression.
“How is everything with the crisis of our public relations? Is there anymore nonsensical talk about us from the media?” asked in a deep voice.
A middle-aged man sitting at the back of the meeting room respectfully replied. “We have basically seized control over all mainstream media. It was only due to the overly ferocious offense from Tang Sect earlier but we still didn’t expect their infiltration to media to be so impressive. There’s still a large number of unfavorable views from the common people now. Regarding this matter…”
“Alright.” Qiangu Dongfeng interrupted. He was genuinely exhausted from overwork these days. Even though the Spirit Pagoda was very influential right now, he still had many enemies out there too. Most importantly, Holy Spirit Cult had caused a few massive catastrophes in succession in Douluo Federation earlier.
The most haphazard incident was precisely the destruction of the entire Shrek City, followed by Heaven Dou City. There were also multiple attempts of terrorist attacks. The common people absolutely had a deep-seated hatred for Holy Spirit Cult.
Tang Sect’s most ruthless act was their retrieval of evidence from the Dou Spirit Empire due to their close relationship with it. They had exposed the evidence regarding Spirit Pagoda’s involvement excavated from underground to the media at once. They had even exposed it in the Star Dou Battle Network for a whole day before Spirit Pagoda managed to remove it.
As a result, the entire federation including some of Spirit Pagoda’s allies and the parliament had all begun to query them.
The absolute villain like Holy Spirit Cult could never possibly be accepted by any of their allies regardless of how close their relationships were!
Thus, Qiangu Dongfeng was feeling a little exhausted from the recent stress despite his high position in the federation.
However, he would still have to manage these matters regardless. He felt that the state of affairs was still expanding right now. Tang Sect’s influence in these matters over the common people and media’s guidance was simply ubiquitous.
Even Qiangu Dongfeng found himself careless in this matter. Ever since the Tang Sect’s drawback followed by converting to underground gradually, their influence was truly overly weak such that many people had neglected the influence of the first sect on the continent.
When Tang Sect had truly seized the evidence and began to launch a counterattack, Spirit Pagoda was caught off guard.
Speaking of which, all these were Tang Wulin’s contribution. The reason was very simple. He transformed into a Blood Dragon and destroyed Spirit Pagoda’s headquarters while simultaneously destroying the long-range communication system in the headquarters. On the other hand, there was not much of long-range cross-continental communication equipment available in the Dou Spirit Empire.
By the time people from Spirit Pagoda figured out a way to establish communication, three days had passed. On the other hand, Tang Sect had gathered sufficient evidence within those three days before sending it back to Douluo Continent. This was the most important reason that resulted in Spirit Pagoda’s passivity right now.
Qiangu Dongfeng personally made a public appearance and carried out public relations crisis control multiple times. He had also used many shady tricks in secret in order to suppress the incident with great effort.
However, Spirit Pagoda’s prestige had greatly suffered and reduced from major losses in just one short month. On the other hand, Tang Sect was on a resurgent trend as if it was rising from the ashes. They had begun making public appearances on many occasions. During this period of time, Spirit Pagoda dared not take any measures against Tang Sect in order to prevent giving the media another cause for gossip.
Fortunately, Qiangu Dongfeng received news from Star Luo Empire recently that Tang Sect’s newly-appointed Sect Master Tang Wulin was in Star Luo Empire at present. Moreover, he was even engaged in some form of friendly match with the Star Luo Empire.
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Qiangu Dongfeng was relieved upon receiving the news. He utilized the media under his control to indulge in unbridled propaganda hastily and announced that Tang Sect had a close relationship with Star Luo Empire. He proclaimed that Tang Sect was attempting to distance from the federation, fabricated wrong charges against Spirit Pagoda and that there was still an ulterior motive in Tang Sect etcetera.
Spirit Pagoda that was still catching its breath was instigating all sorts of accusations like a mad dog. Tang Sect was affected rather severely at once. In order to prove the authenticity of this matter, Spirit Pagoda had even managed to get their hands on a competition recording copy from the Battle of Five Gods from the faraway Star Luo Empire and played it on the television broadcast station.
However, little did Qiangu Dongfeng know that after the competition recordings of two battles were played the oppositions for Tang Sect greatly reduced on the contrary. There was even quite a lot of supporters for Tang Sect among the common folk.
This was because Tang Sect had a very simple counteraction. Tang Sect had only announced to the outside that this was a spar between Tang Sect and Star Luo Empire. Moreover, Tang Sect had also explained the significance of the Battle of Five Gods in detail and explained that Tang Sect had actually represented Douluo Federation to challenge Star Luo Empire. Tang Sect’s business was spread out over the three great continents but so was Spirit Pagoda’s! Why would anyone stop Tang Sect’s newly-appointed Sect Master from going on a tour to inspect his branch in Star Luo Empire? Could it be that Qiangu Dongfeng had never visited Star Luo Empire before?
The verbal warfare was waged and the recordings were played. Then, Tang Sect turned the tide by immediately changing its propaganda to place the federation’s honor as the main priority.
Tang Wulin’s double-win streak in Battle of Five Gods was equal to him fighting alone against an entire empire. Even though Douluo Federation’s people did not advocate for individual heroism as much as Star Luo Empire, but powerhouses remained respectable in the eyes of ordinary people. When they witnessed with their eyes of how Tang Wulin defeated the opponents in his overbearing manner and had even defeated the deputy Pagoda Master representative sent out by Star Luo Empire’s Spirit Pagoda during the second battle, the current of public opinion changed at once.
Qiangu Dongfeng had only engaged in the setup mission back in the beginning by playing the recordings of the Battle of Five Gods. He had not expected that Zhang Geyang would be representing the Star Luo Empire in the second battle. Hence, the recording had already been played by the time he noticed.
All at once, Spirit Pagoda was giving itself a ferocious slap on its mouth. Tang Sect had even taunted the Spirit Pagoda by saying that their Tang Sect sparred against Star Luo Empire independently while Spirit Pagoda had actually become the representative of Star Luo Empire’s royal household. What else could be said about that? How was Spirit Pagoda anymore qualified to accuse the Tang Sect of giving supplies to the enemy?
It was fine that Zhang Geyang represented the Star Luo Empire but Qiangu Dongfeng had almost spat out a mouthful of old blood when he learned that Zhang Geyang had actually been defeated.
He could still put words out that Spirit Pagoda represented the Star Luo Empire in the battle because these two organizations were on bad terms after Tang Sect attacked Spirit Pagoda’s branch in Dou Spirit Empire. However, it was truly disgracing for the Spirit Pagoda to lose this competition and even the spirit soul had committed mutiny.
Zhang Geyang was a rank-98 Hyper Douluo! How did he lose to Tang Wulin whose age was only a little over twenty years?
The young man had only entered Qiangu Dongfeng’s vision for the very first time yet he profusely infuriated and shocked Qiangu Dongfeng.
Tang Wulin’s name had also rapidly become widely-known to the people of the entire federation. The double victories in the Battle of Five Gods had also quietly resulted in a gradual increment of Tang Sect’s support in the federation.
Of course, there was still a lot of opposition towards Tang Sect. After all, this was a crucial moment of the federation preparing to wage war on Star Luo and Dou Spirit Empire.
Tang Sect destroyed Spirit Pagoda’s branch in Dou Spirit Empire first then the Sect Master personally visited Star Luo Empire. It seemed a little unrealistic to point out that there was no other hidden motive in this.
Thus, Spirit Pagoda and Tang Sect were in quite a great amount of troubles at present and were both queried by the parliament. Both organizations were managing this crisis with all sorts of methods. At least judging from the surface, Tang Sect was not in a disadvantageous position.
“Have you found anything regarding Tang Wulin through your investigation?” asked Qiangu Dongfeng to Leng Yaozhu.
Leng Yaozhu darted him a look. “Investigation? What’s there to investigate about him? This young man’s information is in our database since earlier, just that it’s not considered overly detailed. He is the same age as Gu Yuena and they were even classmates. They grew up together. He is the leader of the current generation’s Shrek Seven Monsters. You’re already aware of this information. As for the rest of the details related to him, there’s no way to tell now.”
“Especially in recent years after the Shrek City was destroyed, there was utterly no information regarding where he went, what he did and how did he come the Sect Master of the Tang Sect. I’m afraid we won’t be able to find anything even if we were to run an investigation.”
Qiangu Dongfeng took a glance at Leng Yaozhu. He could feel the dissatisfaction in her tone. All of a sudden, an idea arose in his mind. “You were saying that Gu Yuena and this Tang Wulin were classmates once? She is in Star Luo Empire at present. I wonder if she knows more about Tang Wulin? Please patch me to the long-range communication at Star Luo Empire, I wish to communicate with spiriter Gu Yuena.”