Douluo: Star-Breaking Sword God

Chapter 183 The Death of Prince Xuexing, the Crown Prince Regent

On the outskirts of Tiandou City, inside a secret gambling den.

"Drink! Come on~" Prince Xuexing grinned wickedly, slowly pouring the fine wine in his hand down the fair neck of the beautiful woman in his arms.

The amber-colored wine shimmered with a seductive luster under the flickering candlelight, meandering down her collarbone and dampening her thin clothes.

The body is horizontal, and there is nothing inside.

The woman giggled coquettishly, half-heartedly resisting. The entire private room was filled with an atmosphere of debauchery and extravagance, where the smells of alcohol, perfume, and the ambiguous panting between the man and woman mingled together.

"Suck it-"

Prince Xuexing greedily licked the remaining wine from the woman's neck, his hands roaming freely over her back, causing the woman to let out seductive moans.

"Come on, drink this. This is something reserved for the Crown Prince. It's said to have body-refining effects. I even added some special ingredients."

Xuexing took out a small glass bottle from his pocket, uncorked it, and a pungent and eerie fragrance instantly filled the air.

The beautiful woman was slightly taken aback, a hint of hesitation flashing in her eyes, but seeing Prince Xuexing's unyielding gaze, she still smiled sweetly, took the bottle, and tilted her head back to pour the liquid into her mouth.

As the liquid entered her throat, the woman initially frowned, a look of pain appearing on her face, but she quickly adopted an expression of intoxicated frenzy.

Her eyes turned bloodshot, her breathing became rapid, and she pressed herself against Prince Xuexing, her actions becoming increasingly wild and unrestrained.

Seeing this, Xue Xing laughed triumphantly, pressed the beautiful woman onto the couch, and drank the liquid himself.

“Excellent, truly excellent. My good nephew has finally delivered a ‘great gift’ to me, making my efforts to curry favor with him after my death in the avalanche all worthwhile.”

Xue Qinghe, oh Xue Qinghe, I'll let you sit in this crown prince position for now. When Xue Ye is about to die, I will take back the throne and let you taste what it's like to fall from the clouds into the mud.

Hahaha."

"Bang bang bang-"

Suddenly, the door was knocked loudly, interrupting Prince Xuexing's unrestrained laughter.

He frowned, his face full of displeasure, and roared, "Which blind fool dares to disturb my pleasure!"

Xuexing shoved away the beautiful woman rolling her eyes in his arms, grabbed a brocade robe from the side and draped it over his shoulders, then strode to the door.

"Bang—" The door swung open, and Xue Xing looked at the guard, "You better be in trouble, or I'll wipe out your entire family."

The guard swallowed hard and stammered, "Your Highness, the Crown Prince is coming this way. He asked me to tell you to wait for him here."

"Xue Qinghe?"

Xuexing shook her head, her eyes regaining clarity for a moment. She knew that her place was not a simple gambling den; all sorts of dirty deals, anything imaginable, were happening here.

As a prince of the royal family, his presence here is itself a crime, but it is impossible to hold him accountable.

The crucial question is, how did Xue Qinghe find this place? Damn it!
Xuexing kicked the guard to the ground and grabbed him by the collar, "Do you know you're keeping a ghost by your side?"

"Mr. Lu, Mr. Lu!"

Xue Xing suddenly shouted, and a figure appeared in front of him, completely covered by a black robe.

Xue Xing was overjoyed. This was a Soul Saint expert he had hired at great expense, possessing a bird-like martial soul and extremely fast speed.

He took out a token-like object from his pocket and said, "Mr. Lu, please go to His Majesty Dugu's residence and give him this object. Please ask him to come and keep watch for me."

As Xue Xing reached out to pass the head, suddenly, a head rolled out in front of him without warning, stopping right at his feet. The head's face was contorted, its eyes wide open—it was none other than this Mr. Lu! Blood gushed from the severed neck, staining the ground at Xue Xing's feet, and the body in front of him collapsed.

Xuexing stared in horror, her body moving backward uncontrollably until she landed hard on her bottom.

Even a Soul Saint was killed by the opponent inexplicably, so what is he, a Soul King? His Martial Soul is the White Swan, which has low combat power.

"This this?"

At this moment, a figure slowly emerged from around the corner, dressed in magnificent princely attire, lightly tapping his palm with a folding fan, a smile playing on his lips. It was none other than the prince, Xue Qinghe.

"Uncle, what are you doing here? Why are you killing people?"

Xue Xing forced himself to stand up, his voice sharp but his tone weak, and said, "Xue Qinghe, how dare you! You dare to kill the elites of my Tiandou Empire at will, and even dare to trespass on my territory and cause chaos. Don't think that just because you are the Crown Prince now, I can't touch you."

"I killed him? Didn't you kill him?"

Qian Renxue sneered, her expression icy, "Xue Xing is raising private soldiers, secretly colluding with the Spirit Hall, and attempting to conspire with foreign enemies to overthrow the Heaven Dou royal family."

They have illegally built an underground gambling den and run this filthy place with great success. Gambling, pornography, drugs, deadly duels and so on, are all things that my Heavenly Fighting Royal Family cannot do. They have already committed a deadly act!

At midnight tonight, Xue Xing frequents a gambling den, only to be avenged by the relatives of a woman she had previously persecuted. They approach her with their beauty and secretly poison her.

When you've indulged in excessive pleasure and become too weak to resist the poison, I'll use a sharp blade to sever your sinful head!

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Xue Xing's eyes widened in anger. "How dare you? I am Xue Ye's brother, your royal uncle. As for those princes, that's one thing, but how dare you lay a hand on me?"

His eyes were filled with panic, and he suddenly knelt down and kowtowed, "Qinghe, I beg you, spare me. You can take all my soldiers, money, and women. I will live in anonymity from now on and never set foot in Tiandou Imperial City again."

“What a joke,” Qian Renxue sneered. “The moment you harbored ill will towards me, you were destined to die. Kill him.”

With a flash of light, a line of blood instantly appeared on Xue Xing's neck, and blood gushed out like a fountain.

Who exactly are you?

Her body went limp, and Xuexing fell straight down, kicking up a cloud of dust. She died with her eyes wide open, unable to close them.

Qian Renxue snorted coldly, "Clean this place up. The Tiandou nobles are rotten from top to bottom. With Xue Xing leading the way, no wonder the human trafficking has become more and more rampant in recent years."

Even in the auction house, there have been more orcs lately. They are hunted indiscriminately, even though they know that the orcs only had some problems when they awakened their martial spirits and were not unable to cultivate.

What do they take human life for?!

She burned the small glass bottle to ashes. "Can't even tell if it's poison? What an idiot."

The following day, the entire court and the country were shaken.

The death of Xue Xing caused a greater stir than the death in the avalanche, as it involved a wide range of people and complex interests.

Those sordid things were brought into the open. If the people wanted to be appeased, someone had to take the blame, and Xuexing alone wasn't enough.

This also gave Qian Renxue the opportunity to subdue forces and further infiltrate Tiandou.

Inside the main hall, all the officials remained silent, trembling with fear.

Emperor Xueye looked around at everyone and let out a long sigh. "I am old now. The case of Xuexing will be handled by the Crown Prince. From this day forward, Crown Prince Xue Qinghe will serve as regent."

After a while of silence.

"Your Majesty is wise!"
(End of this chapter)