Douluo: Purple Brilliance Shines, Sun, Moon, Mountains and Rivers Are Forever

Chapter 134 Xu Tianran Kills Two Birds with One Stone; The Time to Deploy Troops Has Arrived (4K)

The joy of reunion was extraordinary. The merriment lasted until late into the night before gradually coming to an end.

After finally managing to coax the little devil Xu Tianzhen to sleep, Xu Tianze quietly left her room.

"Sigh, he's still just a child. He's so old, yet he still needs to listen to bedtime stories."

As Xu Tianze muttered to himself, he walked toward his room, only to encounter someone in the hallway outside who seemed to have been waiting there on purpose.

Orange bowed slightly to him, "Greetings, Your Highness, I am..."

"I know you. What brings you here so late?"

"I would like to speak with Your Highness."

"What? Did the Crown Prince send you here to gather information?"

Ju Zi was slightly taken aback. She hadn't expected that Xu Tianze would know so much about someone as insignificant as her, whom he had only met once.

Now that Xu Tianze has made things clear, there's no need to continue pretending to be ignorant.

"On behalf of His Highness the Crown Prince, I extend my greetings to Your Highness."

Xu Tianze scoffed dismissively, "Is this all you wanted to say? Fine, I got it. Go back and get some rest."

Ju Zi stepped forward, blocking Xu Tianze's path. "Your Highness is too kind. I've come to form an alliance with Your Highness on behalf of the Crown Prince's Palace."

"You're kidding me. My brother doesn't trust me, so he sent you to monitor me. I understand the helplessness of a working person like you. Just do your job and mind your own business. As for other things... I advise you to mind your own business. I'm busy and don't have time to deal with you. Go down the mountain as soon as possible and don't make trouble for yourself here."

After saying that, Xu Tianze walked straight past her.

Orange turned around and called out to his retreating figure, "Does Your Highness really intend to become an enemy of your elder brother?"

"So what if I am? So what if I am not? Do you think that with my talent, power, reputation, and status, even if I don't oppose my elder brother, he will let me go?"

“If you had been willing to behave yourself as a prince from the beginning, the Crown Prince would have had no reason to get rid of you. Similarly, if you were willing to give up your ambitions now and hand over the Shence Camp, the Crown Prince would have allowed you to live a life of wealth and honor as a prince.”

"Why should I? I was born into a good family, why can't I fight for that position?"
I am the sixth prince of the Sun Moon Empire, and my birth mother is the incomparably noble Empress Linglong. If I truly wished to live a life of leisure and tranquility, why would I need him to grant my wish?

"The Crown Prince is not as simple as you think. You are no match for him! If you fail in the struggle for the throne, you will surely die!"

Xu Tianze turned around and looked at her with disdain.

"You... have exhausted my patience. Don't spout any more unpleasant nonsense in front of me, or don't blame me for sending you down the mountain tonight!"

thump—

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Tianze slammed the door shut.

Looking at the tightly closed door, Orange clenched her fists, feeling helplessly furious.

"You really take other people's kindness for granted. Wait until you're about to die, then we'll see if you regret it."

Yesterday, Xu Tianze was so busy enjoying the joy of reunion that he didn't officially take over all the affairs of the Shence Camp until the next day.

The first thing to deal with was the level-nine soul tool that Shangguan Weier had escorted.

Xu Tianze, Ye Yulin, and Shangguan Weier arrived together at the test site in the wild. There stood a huge object shaped like a red lotus seedpod, with seven rocket launchers in the middle like sharp swords pointing to the sky.

"Your Highness, this is the Crimson Sky Soul Guidance Rocket Nest. It took Mingde Hall a year to build and more than a year to test it. After seven revisions, it has finally met Your Highness's requirements."

Xu Tianze nodded in satisfaction. "Not bad, very good."

"According to the blueprints provided by Your Highness, the Crimson Sky Soul Guidance Rocket Nest has achieved the ultimate in long-distance launch, with a maximum range of over 300 kilometers, which is more than ten times that of the Sun and Moon Divine Needle."

However, the accuracy of the rocket pods was correspondingly low.

"Who cares about precision? If the accuracy is insufficient, we can make up for it with power. As long as the general direction is correct, it's fine."

As the saying goes, truth always lies within the range of artillery, and dignity lies only on the edge of a sword. The main reason I want to maximize the range is to consider strategic deterrence.

Moreover, the targets of the Crimson Sky Soul-Guided Rocket Nest are not a single person or group, but rather to create a real deterrent against the enemy's passes and towns.

"That's what His Highness said."

With an ultra-long range of 300 kilometers, it is enough to cover 90% of the strategic locations in the Mingdou Mountains.

If supplemented by a complete air defense system and fixed-equipment soul-guided positions, the Mingdou Mountains would be transformed into an impregnable fortress, a place where one man could hold off ten thousand.

In addition to being able to launch rockets at extremely long ranges, the Crimson Sky Soul Guidance Rocket Nest is also equipped with various types of cannon barrels, capable of firing fixed-position soul guidance projectiles of different levels. It can even send high-altitude soul guidance devices into the sky.

Ye Yulin stroked his beard and said calmly:
"Your Highness, please entrust this Crimson Sky Soul Guidance Rocket Nest to me. Apart from Your Highness, I am the person in this world who knows it best. Let me guard the borders of the Sun Moon Empire."

“Grandpa Yulin, if you take on this responsibility, you will have to stay in the Mingdou Mountains from now on.”

"What's wrong with staying here? We can attack or defend as needed. When I have nothing to do, I just stay in the research institute and study soul tools. It's far from the emperor's reach, and I'm as happy as an immortal."

Things are different now. The secret base that the Shence Camp has built in the Mingdou Mountains suits my taste perfectly; it's a great place to retire.”

Xu Tianze naturally knew that, in terms of both strength and loyalty, Ye Yulin was absolutely the best candidate to control the Crimson Sky Soul Guidance Rocket Nest.

Before he could say anything more, Ye Yulin had already made the final decision.

"Your Highness, it's decided then and there. The Crimson Sky Soul Guidance Rocket Nest will belong to me."

Xu Tianze bowed to him and said, "Grandpa Yulin, I'm entrusting everything to you."

"Please rest assured, Your Highness, as long as I am alive, the Mingdou Mountains... will definitely not be lost!"
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Mingdu, Ziyang Pavilion.

"Master, a secret report from 'Red Sleeve Pavilion'."

Hongxiuzhao was originally one of the sex industries under the Pingfan Alliance. Later, Luo Xinyao, under the orders of Xu Tianze, retrained all the prostitutes in the Pingfan Alliance and carefully selected them to form an intelligence agency that spread throughout the capital and the surrounding areas.

Some of them stayed in places like the Red Sleeve Pavilion, some switched to other industries, and others infiltrated the mansions of high-ranking officials and nobles.

This news came from an official in the Eastern Palace, a confidant of the Crown Prince.

Luo Xinyao took the secret report. The note read: The Third Prince has passed away. The Eastern Palace plotted against the Star Luo Empire.

Since Xu Tianze led his army to the Mingdou Mountains, Crown Prince Xu Tianran has been dedicated to eliminating dissidents and suppressing the Third Prince, Fourth Prince and Fifth Prince who posed a threat to him.

There are not many factors and forces that can influence the succession to the empire, but the royal family is definitely one of them.

Prince Xu Guohui, who is in charge of the royal family, holds great power, and he has always supported the Third Prince.

Therefore, apart from Xu Tianze, the Third Prince poses the greatest threat to Crown Prince Xu Tianran.

Xu Tianran, like a man who picks the softest persimmon first, took the lead in eliminating the support of the Fourth Prince and the Fifth Prince. One was imprisoned for life, and the other was exiled. Neither of them had any chance of succeeding to the throne. In the end, only the Third Prince and the Crown Prince were left to compete in the capital.

In the treacherous political struggles, the Third Prince ultimately made a fatal mistake, losing everything. Of course, given Xu Tianran's character, he would never stand idly by and watch the Third Prince, who had posed a significant threat to his position, continue to live.

Thus, through his ingenious scheme, he first successfully got the Third Prince out of Mingdu, and then accidentally killed him under the blades of the Star Luo Empire's army.

With the man dead, the threat was completely eliminated. Xu Tianran not only cleaned himself up, but also laid the groundwork for his future attack on the Star Luo Empire, killing two birds with one stone.

"The struggle for the throne has reached its final stage. Now it depends on whether His Highness or the Crown Prince can prevail."

“Right now, the power of the Crown Prince is at its zenith. If His Highness does not return soon, the Crown Prince will likely sideline His Majesty.”

"We don't need to worry about His Highness's affairs; he has his own decision to make."

"Master, should we prepare an escape route in advance? As things stand, His Highness's strength is far, far inferior to that of the Crown Prince. What if..."

Luo Xinyao shot a sharp glare at him, causing the subordinate's face to change drastically. He immediately knelt down, trembling, and confessed his guilt.

"Please forgive me, Master! I was only thinking of you. I will never dare to do it again. Please forgive me!"

"Your Highness's great cause will surely succeed. If there is even the slightest mishap, it will certainly be because of you cowardly fellows."

No one is allowed to harbor disloyalty around His Highness, and neither are those around me! You may die!

The subordinate turned pale with fright. As Luo Xinyao's confidante, she had witnessed Luo Xinyao's methods firsthand. Luo Xinyao was ruthless, decisive, and vicious. The title "venomous woman" was well-deserved.

She often speaks the sweetest words while wielding the most vicious knife, cutting people to the point of wishing for death.

Jingle Bell--

This is the call bell in the master's room. Once it is rung, a servant will come in and await your instructions.

"This letter is extremely urgent. Send it to Mingdou Mountain Range as quickly as possible and have Your Highness read it personally. Also, dispose of this corpse for me."

"Yes, I will obey the Lord's orders."

The waiter took the envelope and left. Then four more waiters came in. Two of them lifted the body and carried it out, while the other two knelt down and wiped away the remaining bloodstains on the ground.

Luo Xinyao continued to flip through the account books, her face and heart showing no ripples of emotion, as if the loss was not of a so-called confidant, but of an unknown nobody.

Or rather, to her, everyone except His Highness was a pawn that could be discarded at any time.
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Mingdou Mountain Range, Shence Camp.

Xu Tianze and Ye Yulin are testing the various performance characteristics of the Chixiao Soul Guidance Rocket Nest.

When designing the secret base, Xu Tianze had reserved a special place for this behemoth, so that it could be hidden inside the mountain without affecting its use.

The researchers at the institute are working diligently to record and perform calculations.

Di Qiu'er led her personal guard, escorting a batch of high-altitude soul tools, and waited quietly to the side. Once the soul masters were ready, she directed the loading and launch of all the soul tools into the sky.

"Your Highness, everything is ready!"

Xu Tianze and Ye Yulin exchanged a glance and nodded in tacit agreement.

"Load the first Eye of Fear".

"Yes."

As Di Qiu'er raised her hand and waved it gently, a guard stepped forward with both hands, holding an initial version of the "Eye of Fear," and placed it in the launch silo.

The Eye of Fear is a strange remote-controlled soul tool invented by Ye Yulin. It can only be used after being launched into the air. This soul tool can be any level of level seven, eight, or nine.

The Level 7 Eye of Fear is renowned as the "strongest Level 7 Soul Tool," capable of being launched to a height of 100 meters above the ground, with an attack coverage diameter of 300 meters.

Every ten seconds, the Eye of Fear will emit a ray of fear, which has multiple effects such as decomposition, continuous explosion, piercing, ablation, burning, and corrosion.

Today, their mission is to launch one hundred Level 7 Eyes of Fear into a designated location via the Crimson Sky Soul Guidance Rocket Nest.

"Infuse with soul power...fire!"

The Eye of Fear shot out instantly, rising to a certain height before drawing a perfect arc in the air. At the same time, it adjusted its position and recharged the soul tool, injecting soul power a second time.

The incandescent tail flame shot out, and the Eye of Fear flew into the distance in an instant.

"Report! The Level 7 Eye of Fear has reached its designated location, and the energy-gathering array has successfully commenced operation. Launch mission successful!"

"Continue launching the second, the third."

Two more guards stepped forward; this time, they were to fire two Eyes of Terror simultaneously.

As expected, it was a complete success.

After that, they continued with the launch in an orderly manner, without Xu Tianze and Ye Yulin needing to be on-site to supervise.

"Grandpa Yulin, are you finding these assistants I sent you easy to use?"

"They were all personally selected by His Highness, so they are naturally excellent. Especially Ma Rulong, who is indeed worthy of being the captain of the main team that led the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy to win the championship. His theoretical knowledge of soul tools is very solid, and he is also a master at making soul tools."

"The horse captain is indeed excellent. And... what about Hawke?"

"That kid is the complete opposite of Ma Rulong. One follows the standard Royal Academy Soul Mentor development system, which is very conventional and lacks innovation."

Hawke, on the other hand, is completely unorthodox. Whether in his research or creation, there is no discernible system or method; he is entirely his own school, yet he is full of ingenious ideas.

If you ask me, the one I get along with best is Your Highness.

From a young age, you received a standard and rigorous elite education from a spiritual mentor, while your innovative inspiration flows like a never-ending river. More importantly, you are able to synthesize and apply your knowledge, which has often greatly benefited and deeply impressed me.

"Grandpa Yulin, it's not good to praise someone to their face. This is making me... really too happy."

"We should really let Qiu'er, Mengmeng, and Tianzhen come and listen too."

Just as the two were talking, Shangguan Weier rushed over in a great hurry.

"Your Highness!"

"Vice Pavilion Master Shangguan, is there anything I can do for you?"

"A secret letter from the Pavilion Master, extremely urgent!"

Xu Tianze frowned slightly, took the secret letter from her hand, and after confirming that it had not been opened, he opened and read it.

The few words on the secret letter caused Xu Tianze to look solemn.

"Your Highness, what has happened?"

"The time has come to send troops to attack the Star Luo Empire!"

(End of this chapter)