stonecrandall Chapter 195 Emperor Xueye's Thoughts
Chapter 195 Emperor Xueye's Thoughts
Chapter 195 Emperor Xueye's Thoughts
"In this way, no one should suspect me. Moreover, with both teams severely weakened, Canghui Academy's chances of advancing will greatly increase."
"Hehehe!" Thinking of this, a sinister laugh appeared on Shi Nian's face again. Although the powerful background of Blue Tyrant Academy made him hesitant, he still decided to take the risk.
His eyes gleamed with greed as he muttered to himself, "Those girls are just too tempting. I've never seen such exquisite women in my entire life."
He thought to himself, "Besides, even if people do suspect me, I can just leave and abandon this comfortable life. The Douluo Continent is so vast, I don't believe anyone can find me."
……
On the other side!
Back in the palace, Emperor Xueye sat on his magnificent gilded throne, took a sip of the tea served by a palace maid, and then waved for her to leave.
Then, he slightly raised his eyes, looked at Prince Xue Xing and Crown Prince Xue Qinghe before him, and slowly asked, "Xue Xing, do you know Tang San's identity?"
"Your Majesty, Tang San is the son of a blacksmith in Holy Soul Village, Notting City, Fasno Province..." Prince Xuexing's heart tightened, but he still quickly answered Emperor Xueye's question, and added at the end: "However, Tang San was not recruited by me, but by Meng Shenji and the other two. I only found out afterward."
After speaking, he cautiously raised his head slightly to observe Emperor Xueye's expression, while simultaneously thinking rapidly about the questions Emperor Xueye might ask next and how he should answer them.
"Oh?" Emperor Xueye's eyes widened slightly, and he said calmly, "So it's the academy that Meng Shenji and the other two recruited."
Emperor Xueye's expression carried an inexplicable meaning, which made Prince Xuexing even more nervous, fearing that an unwarranted disaster might befall him.
"In that case, you won't receive any of my rewards?"
"Uh..." Prince Xuexing's head was filled with a big question mark, his face blank and full of doubt: What's going on? Shouldn't he be scolding me? How did it turn into a reward? He felt like he had missed a small goal.
Looking at Prince Xuexing's appearance, Xueye sighed inwardly, "My brother is still as useless as ever! Never mind, I won't tease him anymore."
Immediately, Emperor Xueye tossed over a storage ring, saying, "This is full of your favorite rare treasures. Remember, don't provoke Tang San or the people who came with him, or you know the consequences."
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Xue Xing quickly took the storage ring, and her previously tense emotions completely relaxed.
"You may leave now!" Emperor Xueye waved his hand impatiently. The sight of Xuexing inexplicably made him feel agitated. Sometimes, he would wonder if Xue Beng was his younger brother's son, since the two had such similar personalities.
Prince Xuexing bowed and withdrew from the main hall.
He found Emperor Xueye's attitude towards Tang San very strange and couldn't help but begin to doubt Tang San's identity: "What's so special about Tang San that makes my brother so concerned? He's just the son of a blacksmith in a small mountain village. His martial soul is the common Blue Silver Grass. Only his teacher is a bit special, being the son of Yu Yuanzhen."
"The blacksmith's son?" Suddenly, Prince Xuexing remembered something amiss. When he first saw Tang San's information, he had found Tang San's father's name strange, so it left a particularly deep impression on him.
"Could his father, Tang Hao, really be the Haotian Douluo Tang Hao?"
But then, he fell into deeper confusion, his brows furrowing tightly: "If he really is the son of Tang Hao, the Clear Sky Douluo, then why is his martial soul Blue Silver Grass instead of the powerful Clear Sky Hammer? Even if his mother's martial soul is Blue Silver Grass, could it be stronger than the Clear Sky Hammer?"
Although Prince Xuexing is an older version of Xue Beng, he still knows some basic Soul Master knowledge.
In the Douluo Continent, when people awaken their martial soul at the age of six, the martial soul is usually inherited from both parents or is a mutated martial soul.
Which parent's martial soul one inherits depends on the strength of both parents' martial souls.
Xue Xing almost instinctively assumed that the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul was definitely stronger than the Blue Silver Grass martial soul.
"Could Tang San's Blue Silver Grass be a mutated martial soul? But that doesn't make sense!"
Xue Xing was somewhat confused, because he knew that even mutated martial souls had patterns to follow. Generally speaking, mutated martial souls were related to one of the parents' martial souls, or to both parents' martial souls. And the one with the stronger martial soul was definitely the most affected.
Therefore, he felt that if Tang San was really Tang Hao's son, his martial soul mutation should have turned into a different kind of hammer, how could it have turned into Blue Silver Grass?
"Forget it, whatever. I'll have to warn Avalanche when I get back not to mess with those people." Prince Xuexing couldn't understand the reason, so he shook his head helplessly and walked out of the palace.
After Prince Xuexing left, Emperor Xueye turned his gaze to Xue Qinghe, his eyes flickering slightly.
His feelings toward Xue Qinghe, his eldest son, were very complicated.
If Prince Xuexing could sense that the deaths of the Second Prince and the Third Prince were related to Xue Qinghe, how could he not know?
But what could he do even if he found out? He had no choice! As for the remaining avalanche, he was just an incompetent playboy, completely useless. We'd be grateful if he could just cause us less trouble.
Therefore, he had no choice but to hand over the position of crown prince to Xue Qinghe.
In fact, his favorite was the third prince, and he had even planned to make him the crown prince when the third prince grew up. However, the third prince died young.
As for Xue Qinghe, to be fair, Emperor Xueye thought he was a qualified emperor. In fact, from an emperor's perspective, he felt that Xue Qinghe was not ruthless enough and should have secretly eliminated Xue Beng as well.
But from a father's perspective, he felt that Xue Qinghe was too cruel. At the same time, he was also somewhat relieved that Xue Beng was still alive, which was a small consolation.
If Emperor Xueye knew that the Xue Qinghe before him was actually Qian Renxue in disguise, and that the real Xue Qinghe had long since died, one wonders what he would think.
"Sigh!" Emperor Xueye sighed inwardly and slowly said, "Qinghe, I am very satisfied with what you have done over the years."
"Father, you flatter me. This is all my duty," Qian Renxue replied respectfully, her expression calm and composed, showing no pride whatsoever despite Xueye's praise, perfectly fitting her carefully constructed persona.
"Hmm, not bad, not arrogant or impatient." Emperor Xueye smiled with satisfaction. "Just like your uncle's question, do you know Tang San's background?"
"Your subject... knows the same as the Imperial Uncle." Qian Renxue was taken aback. She really didn't know what was so noteworthy about Tang San. The information she knew was about the same as that of Prince Xuexing.
In fact, after witnessing Yu Tianyun's talent, Qian Renxue had unconsciously stopped paying much attention to other geniuses.
Qian Renxue only paid slight attention to the three members of Shrek Academy who possessed innate full soul power; she didn't focus much on the others.
In her eyes, those people, though talented, were not worthy of her attention. Moreover, among the three people with innate full soul power, she felt that only Oscar was somewhat worthwhile, after all, he was the first food-type soul master in history with innate full soul power, and his role on the battlefield was much greater than that of soul masters of other types.
In response, she sent Serpent Spear Douluo to the Spirit Hall, Oscar's birthplace, to investigate the records there.
The investigation revealed that Oscar was indeed born with full soul power, and there was no exaggeration in his claims.
But this did not make Qian Renxue happy at all; instead, it made her furious.
In front of She Long and Ci Xue, he directly berated Bibi Dong for being incompetent, saying that the Spirit Hall had become so corrupt under her leadership that it had overlooked such a true genius.
Qian Renxue couldn't help but sigh that under Bibi Dong's control, the Spirit Hall had become a true example of something that looked good on the outside but was rotten inside.
As for Xiao Wu and Tang San, she mainly felt that something was strange about them.
Strangely, the two people's martial souls were the Soft Bone Rabbit and the Blue Silver Grass. One was the weakest beast martial soul, and the other was the weakest plant-type martial soul. These two martial souls were usually synonymous with useless martial souls, but unexpectedly, they could both produce innate full soul power. This made her sigh at the vastness of the world and how strange things could be.
Apart from that, she had no further interest in Tang San and Xiao Wu. She thought that even if the Blue Silver Grass and the Soft Bone Rabbit could cultivate to the level of Title Douluo, how powerful could they possibly become?
Instead of wasting energy trying to win over these two, it would be better to focus all our attention on Yu Tianyun.
In her eyes, Yu Tianyun's talent was second only to her own, and he had the potential to become a god. She had fantasized more than once about how prestigious it would be to have Yu Tianyun under her command, a god-level follower.
Emperor Xueye wasn't angry at Qian Renxue's bewildered expression. After all, when Ning Fengzhi told him Tang San's identity, his first reaction was disbelief. It was simply too unbelievable; no one could have guessed that the son of the mighty Haotian Douluo would possess the Blue Silver Grass martial soul!
However, he still believed Ning Fengzhi's words. Who would lie to him about something like this for no reason? Lying to him wouldn't do Ning Fengzhi any good.
A slight smile appeared on the aged face of Emperor Xueye, and he stopped keeping the audience in suspense. "Tang San's identity is no simple matter. His father was once recognized as the youngest Title Douluo on the continent—the Haotian Douluo, Tang Hao!"
"This person's deeds are quite legendary, especially after he broke through to the Title Douluo level, he actually killed the previous Pope of the Spirit Hall—Qian Xunji—and from then on, he became a force to be reckoned with across the continent, invincible!"
Qian Renxue clenched her fists, the killing intent in her eyes almost uncontrollable.
After all, only Bibi Dong, the murderer, and Qian Daoliu, who knew the inside story, knew the true cause of Qian Xunji's death. Oh, and Yu Tianyun, the prophet, also knew.
But in the eyes of others, Qian Xunji was killed by Tang Hao.
Of course, pinning this blame on Tang Hao isn't entirely unfair. If Qian Xunji hadn't been severely injured by him, Bibi Dong wouldn't have been able to take advantage of the situation. Therefore, Qian Xunji's death was ultimately closely related to Tang Hao.
If Qian Renxue wants to take revenge on Tang Hao, it can't be said that she has chosen the wrong target.
"Hmm? Qinghe, what's wrong?" Emperor Xueye looked at Qian Renxue, whose body was trembling slightly, and felt a little strange. Just knowing that Tang San was Tang Hao's son, was it really necessary to be so agitated?
In fact, Emperor Xueye had no idea that his unintentional mention of Qian Xunji was like rubbing salt into Qian Renxue's wounds, almost causing Qian Renxue to expose her identity.
"Please forgive me, Father. I was just too excited when I heard the news." Upon hearing this, Qian Renxue quickly composed herself and regained her composure.
But she couldn't calm down for a long time. She only recognized two relatives: her grandfather Qian Daoliu and her father Qian Xunji.
As for her mother, Bibi Dong, she never gave her maternal love. On the contrary, she hated her extremely and even forbade her to call her "Mom" and only allowed her to call her "Sister".
Hearing news about her beloved father from the Snow Night Emperor, especially negative news at that moment, how could she not be excited?
She really wanted to directly possess her martial soul, cut off Emperor Xueye's head with a single sword strike, and then cut off Tang San's dog head.
But she didn't lose her composure. After regaining her composure, Qian Renxue feigned surprise and asked, "Father, how is this possible? Tang San's martial soul is Blue Silver Grass, while Haotian Douluo's martial soul is Haotian Hammer. How could they be father and son?"
Emperor Xueye, unaware of Qian Renxue's inner thoughts, smiled and said, "I was also surprised when Ning Fengzhi told me this news. But Ning Fengzhi wouldn't lie to me about something like this. Tang San should be Tang Hao's son. As for why his martial soul is Blue Silver Grass, I'm not quite sure either. Perhaps he has two martial souls."
Twin Martial Souls!
A thought suddenly popped into Qian Renxue's mind: if that were really the case, then Tang San might actually be Tang Hao's son.
but……
Others may not know much about twin martial souls, but Qian Renxue knows them very well.
When she was a child, in order to please Bibi Dong, who disliked her, Qian Renxue tried every means to learn everything about Bibi Dong.
Aside from some private matters, such as Bibi Dong's first love with Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong's murder of Qian Xunji, Qian Renxue knew almost everything else.
This naturally includes Bibi Dong's two martial souls. To this end, she consulted a lot of information and learned that the conditions for the birth of twin martial souls are that the martial souls of both parents must be of similar strength in order for twin martial souls to be born.
Perhaps Tang San's Blue Silver Grass martial soul is not ordinary, and its quality is no less than that of the Clear Sky Hammer?
Qian Renxue couldn't help but make this guess, but she was still not quite sure, because she had never heard of any Blue Silver Grass martial soul that could compare with a top-tier martial soul like the Clear Sky Hammer.
However, this did not affect Qian Renxue's subsequent investigation. Her heart was filled with hatred, and she planned to start investigating Tang San's background after returning, and follow this clue to find out about Tang Hao.
Finally, she would personally cut off Tang Hao's dog head, sword by sword, right in front of Tang San, so that Tang San could also experience what the ultimate pain of losing a father was like.
Immediately, her expression turned serious as she looked at Emperor Xueye and asked, "Father, do you mean to contact Tang Hao through Tang San? And then bring Tang Hao and even the Clear Sky Sect into our camp?"
Upon hearing this, Emperor Xueye shook his head and said, "It would be best to win over Tang Hao and the Haotian Sect, but I know that's impossible."
(End of this chapter)