Douluo: Peerless Black Tortoise Moon God

Chapter 298 Xu Tianxi's Bloodstained Slaughter Feast, Mingdou Mountains, Martial Soul Fusion Skill Sensing
Three days later, at the Mingdou Mountains.

At the border between the original Douluo Continent and the Sun Moon Continent, which stretches for thousands of miles, it is now the season of autumn's desolation. Although the two empires have not clashed much in recent years, a cold and hard atmosphere still permeates the air.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy and the Star Luo Royal Academy arrived one after another at the heart of the two armies. The students, dressed in the uniforms of the two academies, lined up in rows, their postures upright, their eyes fixed ahead, neither willing to be outdone in spirit or energy.

"Master of the Red Dust Hall, it's been two years, but you still look as dashing as ever."

"Not at all, not at all. We never expected His Majesty to come here in such simple attire. We have great faith in the sincerity of the Star Luo Empire."

Jing Hongchen and Xu Jiawei shook hands and chatted, exchanging pleasantries and reminiscing. What should have been a scene of deceit and treachery actually felt somewhat real.

Jing Hongchen truly didn't know that Xu Jiawei would come in person; he thought that sending a prince from the other side would be enough.

However, if a prince were to actually come from the other side, the Sun and Moon Empire wouldn't be able to field a figure of equal standing, so he would have to go and greet him. After all, the princes of the Sun and Moon Empire are currently in prison, and the rest have already lost their heads in the market at the city gate.

Three days have passed. Tianxi should have cleaned up all those corpses by now, right?

Jing Hongchen glanced absently at Xu Tianxi beside her, a chill creeping into her heart.

Master Kong assigned Xu Tianxi to oversee the confiscation of the family property and the extermination of the entire clan, while he and Ye Yulin kept a close watch on the situation.

I witnessed firsthand how Xu Tianxi, like a cold-faced Yama, led his men to seal off the Prince's Mansion one by one, sending everyone in the mansion, except for the infants, young and old, to the Imperial Prison, and then slowly convicting them.

More than ten princely mansions and more than thirty county princely mansions were all sealed off within just five days. Then, Xu Tianxi didn't waste any more words and directly took the silver-haired beauty from the Star Dou Great Forest and activated the mental-type Great Memory Restoration Technique.

After a thorough investigation, more than five thousand people were found to deserve to die.

Such a huge number is unprecedented since the founding of the Sun Moon Empire. Those royal relatives cried and wailed in the prison every day, shouting that they wanted to see the emperor and reminisce about the past. Several old princes even said that they were too old to commit a crime deserving of death.

As it turned out, Xu Tianxi was quite reasonable and settled accounts with each of them according to their crimes and merits.

The list of those who deserved to die was ignored; those who deserved to die were to die, and the execution of their entire families was extended to a complete purge of their long-standing cronies.

You like to talk about your achievements, don't you? Let's take a look at your list of sins too.

Originally, I only intended to execute your entire family, but now I'm going to exterminate your entire clan! We'll be companions on the road to the underworld!

Those whose crimes did not warrant death could choose labor reform. Princes who had some military merits in their youth could have their entire families executed instead of being exiled to military regions, that is, to military camps in the Mingdou Mountains and naval camps in the west.

Some of the soul tools contributed were sent to the Hall of Offerings to be sold on the black market. The ninth-level soul masters would select them, and the main idea was to make the most of them. If they were useful, they would use them to the extreme, and they would work as soul tools for their entire lives.

The remaining princes, dukes, and princesses who had neither contributed nor created new productivity for the empire were all sent to the execution ground, regardless of age or gender. Eight princes, more than twenty dukes, and about twenty princesses were all beheaded.

During the killings, Xu Tianxi unprecedentedly summoned the people of Mingdu to watch, and publicly pronounced the crimes of each prince, duke, princess, and county princess.

Most importantly, the assets were also disclosed. Xu Tianxi publicly announced the enormous wealth of these people and widely publicized it, welcoming the public to report any illegal activities of the royal criminals.

Xiao Hongchen brought his scribes with him, made public the photographic footage and confessions, and finally killed them cleanly and efficiently.

This massacre, orchestrated by Xu Tianxi, resulted in the deaths of over five thousand people. The cries of agony at the execution ground echoed from sunrise to sunset, with the executioners and executioners being replaced several times over.

The most frightening thing is that this major case, the first since the founding of the nation, shows no signs of stopping. Xu Tianxi is no longer satisfied with just purging the royal family members in the capital city.

The people he sent to settle accounts with these royal family members who had acquired properties throughout the country have not yet returned. When they do, I fear that the number of people who have lost their heads will not be less than five thousand.

Of course, after seeing the wealth of those princes, dukes, princesses, and county princesses, everyone, including the emperor, Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen, and others, felt that Xu Tianxi was right to kill them.

The combined wealth of these people exceeds the total tax revenue of the Sun and Moon Empire over ten years!

Slaughtering a group of people to collect taxes for ten years is much more profitable than slaughtering a pig for the year.

As far as Jing Hongchen knew, after seeing this astronomical figure, the finance officials of the Sun Moon Empire had become Xu Tianxi's loyal supporters, submitting memorials every day to support Xu Tianxi in confiscating more fat pigs, and even suggesting that he should chop off all of these pigs' heads...

The reason is simple: Xu Tianxi prioritizes fairness in his work. Forty percent of the money goes to the Imperial Ancestral Hall, thirty percent to the national treasury, twenty percent to the Mingde Hall, and the remaining ten percent is earmarked by him for public welfare and charitable work.

For example, constructing large-scale water conservancy facilities and nationwide roads, and... promoting free martial spirit awakening nationwide.

Using more than a year's worth of revenue from the Sun Moon Empire for this kind of work was unimaginable before. Countless people flocked to these assets, hoping to get a piece of the pie.

If the person in power were not Xu Tianxi, a special figure with the triple background of the Gongfeng Hall, Mingde Hall, and the royal family, and who was also exceptionally capable and had a strong personality, no one would be able to withstand such pressure.

Driven by self-interest, the upper echelons of the Sun Moon Empire reached a bizarre consensus: for the sake of the empire, the royal princes must sacrifice themselves!
Among the people in the Hall of Offerings, there were eight level-nine soul masters who were willing to follow Xu Tianxi to investigate the royal family's assets across the country. Not to mention level-eight soul masters, even the palace eunuch Wang led a group of eunuchs out with him.

Looking back now, Xu Tianxi's move to disclose his assets was the most ruthless. He didn't bet that the upper class in the country would hate the princes for their crimes, but he bet that others would be willing to follow suit and make more money. Whoever killed fewer people would fall behind.

Whenever Jing Hongchen figured out this crucial point, he would occasionally feel a chill run down his spine. Xu Tianxi was a man of few words, but when he did make a move, it was earth-shattering.

Sometimes, he even thought that the timing and location of Xu Guozhong's self-destruction of the level 8 fixed-position soul-guided cannon shell were too coincidental. He was a level 9 soul master, after all. How could he make such a low-level mistake? Hmm, he couldn't think about it too much. He should take a look at the Mingde Hall's research funding that had been soaring recently.

It wasn't that Xu Tianxi's design was good; it was his design that was better. In any case, Jing Hongchen is the biggest beneficiary.

With that funding, Jing Hongchen was confident that he could achieve in three years what he had previously accomplished in five or even ten years, greatly enhancing his resume.

Researchers won't have to worry about meager funding for the next twenty years; they've all become Xu Tianxi's natural supporters. It's said that Xu Tianxi's version of the God of Wealth souvenirs has already been freshly produced.

This vibrant and promising situation filled Jing Hongchen with a deep sense of pride, and even her gaze towards Xu Jiawei became much happier.

Hehe, the students of my Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy can turn the world upside down with a single move. I'm afraid the students of your Star Luo Royal Academy don't have such courage, do they?
I heard that the other party's cultivation had improved after he came out of seclusion a year ago. He then began to investigate the officials of the Star Luo Empire, and also punished many nobles. Occasionally, he would kill a few marquises and earls to make an example of them, and send a few dukes who had committed heinous crimes to prison.

These actions could be considered those of a wise ruler, but Jing Hongchen, who was used to seeing princes, dukes, princesses, and county princesses beheaded and the crown prince imprisoned, thought that these scenes were too small.

They didn't even kill a duke, and they still dare to call it anti-corruption?

We still need to practice and learn.

In the crowd, Xu Tianxi, as one of the people seeing them off, calmly looked at the people coming from the opposite direction.

Besides Xu Jiujiu and ten students, there was also a Super Douluo accompanying him. He was an old acquaintance, Shattered Star Douluo, who was looking at him with great interest.

Except for Xu Jiujiu, all the students of Xingluo Royal Academy are dressed as Soul Masters, with Level 4 and Level 5 Soul Master badges pinned to their chests.

Xu Jiujiu didn't have a badge on her chest, but her soul power had reached level 70, which surprised Xu Tianxi.

Was I too harsh back then, turning the princess into a cultivation fanatic just like me? She should be around twenty years old, right? She's almost as fast as Long Aotian.

Moreover, Xu Tianxi sensed an inexplicable sense of affinity from her.

"Strange, this feeling seems to originate from the martial soul, but I didn't have this feeling when I interacted with her before. What's going on?"

Xu Tianxi thought to himself that it was strange. Of course he knew what this inexplicable sense of affinity was, as it was the prerequisite for the two of them to generate a martial soul fusion skill.

Generally speaking, when two Soul Masters encounter this situation, they only need to try to fuse their Soul Power and Martial Soul for a period of time to naturally unleash a powerful Martial Soul Fusion Skill, making them invincible among those of the same level and undefeated across levels.

"Is this a change that occurred after my own martial soul potential was activated, or is there some other reason?"

Xu Tianxi pondered his own actions. After parting ways in Xingluo City, he developed a self-fusion martial soul technique at sea. Could this be the reason that made it possible for him to create a martial soul fusion technique with others?
The opponent's Star Crown Martial Soul is the top-tier Star Martial Soul, and it's possible that it could fuse with his Illusion Moon Martial Soul, which isn't incomprehensible.

But Xiao Hongchen is clearly a divine beast martial soul, so why didn't he fuse with his Xuanwu?
Thinking this, Xu Tianxi glanced at Xiao Hongchen in the group with disdain. He felt that it must be because this guy didn't work hard in his cultivation, and the potential of the three-legged golden toad had not been activated.

Just wait, you'll get your own underwater package someday, and good things will surely come your way.

Xiao Hongchen sneezed unexpectedly, suspecting that someone was cursing him or thinking about him behind his back.

"Brother, what's wrong?" Meng Hongchen asked with concern.

"It's nothing, maybe someone is just concerned about me," Xiao Hongchen said casually, wiping his nose.

After thinking for a moment, he transmitted his voice and said, "Don't forget our mission to Xingluo City this time. We must take on the responsibility of being intelligence agents behind enemy lines and gather as much intelligence as possible about the former Three Kingdoms while we are cultivating there."

"Don't worry, I won't forget." Meng Hongchen had a relaxed smile on her face. There were no enemies within the Sun Moon Empire for the time being, and everything was fine. Next, they would set their sights on the former Three Kingdoms.

With a glance, Meng Hongchen looked at Xu Jiujiu opposite her. Xu Jiujiu's eyes flickered slightly, and the two stared at each other for a few seconds before looking away at the same time.

"His cultivation has improved quite quickly, but he's still a bit behind me... Once I get back, I'll defeat that sword fanatic and get my soul bone," Meng Hongchen thought to himself.

Xu Jiujiu pondered the information that Meng Hongchen "had an excellent relationship with Xu Tianxi, but not as good as Xiao Hongchen" and "had likely already merged with the soul spirit," and thought of the information about the soul spirit.

He glanced absently at Xu Tianxi, then sensed that he had been at the Soul Saint level for two months, and his elder brother's admonitions welled up in his mind.

As their thoughts raced, Xu Jiawei and Jing Hongchen finalized the agenda, and each set off with their respective groups.

Before leaving, Xu Jiawei glanced at his younger sister and Xu Tianxi with a smile and said lightly, "Master Hongchen, Duke Zhenguo, I will trouble you two to take good care of my sister during her cultivation in your country. His Majesty Suixing will only keep an eye on her safety in secret and will ensure that nothing goes wrong."

Jing Hongchen smiled and nodded, then opened his soul-guided aircraft, carrying ten students from the Star Luo Royal Academy.

Xu Tianxi didn't make any special requests and sat in the soul-guided aircraft as well.

A short while later, a pleasant and respectful voice reached my ears.

"Duke Zhenguo, I have long had something I wish to ask you. Would you be willing to enlighten me?"

(End of this chapter)