Douluo Continent: The Peerless Tang Sect - Sharingan Intercepts Tianmeng

Chapter 114, Earl 114

Seeing the Ice Jade Scorpion's soul bone appear among the prizes of this competition, Xiao Qiang was filled with questions.

"We've found a weakness in the Star Luo Empire, and after some negotiations, Dream, this soul bone is yours."

As Jing Hongchen spoke, he was about to hand over the soul bone to Meng Hongchen. After all, Jing Hongchen knew that Xiao Qiang had soul bones in both arms, so without any hesitation, he prepared to hand the soul bone over to Meng Hongchen directly.

However, Meng Hongchen refused. "Grandpa, let's give this soul bone to Xiao Qiang. After all, he's the one who contributed the most in this competition."

Meng Hongchen directly refused the soul bone, and Xiao Qiang also accepted it without ceremony, while simultaneously using mental sharing to transmit his voice to Meng Hongchen.

"Teacher, the Ice Jade Scorpion's soul bone can only be absorbed by soul masters with the ultimate ice martial soul. Other soul masters will only suffer a backlash if they absorb this soul bone."

Upon hearing Xiao Qiang's voice transmission to him privately via mental sharing, cold sweat broke out on Jing Hongchen's face beneath his mask.

"I was wondering why this soul bone came so easily. It turns out it was waiting for me here. Luckily, you reminded me. Damn it, I'll remember this incident with the Star Luo Empire. Since they dared to trick me with the soul bone in the competition, they can't blame Mingde Hall for having problems with their soul tools afterward."

Jing Hongchen cursed inwardly. He knew that the Star Luo Empire could be shameless at times, but he didn't expect them to even mess up something as simple as the champion's prize.

In the end, Jing Hongchen handed over the Ice Jade Scorpion's soul bone to Xiao Qiang, while the other two ten-thousand-year soul bones were given to the two main members of this competition.

Aside from the Ice Jade Scorpion Soul Bone, the other two ten-thousand-year soul bones were of very ordinary quality. Even if Xiao Qiang wanted those ordinary ten-thousand-year soul bones, Jing Hongchen would not allow him to absorb them.

The Sun Moon Empire is not Shrek Academy; it is a completely hostile nation. Naturally, the soul bones given by them could not be of good quality. If the prizes of the competition had not been determined from the beginning to be ten-thousand-year soul bones, the Star Luo Empire might have only given some ordinary thousand-year soul bones.

After quickly distributing the soul bones, Jing Hongchen led Xiao Qiang and the others to a nearby military camp to rest.

From the moment they left the capital of the Star Luo Empire, they had been traveling at a high intensity, constantly fearing being ambushed by Shrek Academy or the Star Luo Empire. The pressure on everyone during this period was considerable.

However, when they arrived at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Legion, everyone felt much more at ease.

With the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Legion around, the Star Luo Empire was helpless against them, given the legion's formidable strength.

Although Dai Hao has always been called a war god, throughout the entire Peerless Tang Sect, the army led by Dai Hao is either being beaten by the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps or on its way to being beaten by the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps. Therefore, there is no need to worry about a sneak attack from the Star Luo Empire.

Of course, Jing Hongchen came to the military camp not only to get a temporary respite, but also for another purpose.

"Commander Xu, may I borrow your military's communications with the capital?"

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Sun and Moon Empire, Imperial Capital, Imperial Palace.

The current emperor of the Sun and Moon Empire is lying on his bed, half-dead and sighing.

As the younger brother of the previous emperor, he had aspirations for the throne since he was young.

However, he was not the eldest son, and his elder brother was more favored by his father. Therefore, after his father passed away, his elder brother naturally inherited the throne, while he became the only prince of the Sun Moon Empire.

He was not content with being just a prince, after all, the emperor and the prince were two completely different concepts. He longed to go further and become the emperor, but this idea was just a thought at first.

Although the throne was very tempting, he knew his own limitations. In addition, his elder brother had treated him quite well, and he had never stopped receiving good things. As he grew older, although he still longed for the throne, he ultimately lacked the courage to take that most important step.

He was supposed to live a peaceful life as a prince, but unfortunately, his elder brother had been to Shrek Academy and had some connection with it. He also believed that soul tools were bad and began to strictly prohibit the development of highly offensive soul tools.

The reason given was a love of peace, but the Sun Moon Empire could do without highly offensive soul tools, but it couldn't do without them.

With his elder brother's so-called peace-loving decree, research on highly offensive soul tools was halted, and Xingluo and Tianhun, who had been suppressed by the Sun Moon Empire in military matters, began to bare their fangs at the Sun Moon Empire.

Not only were armies in many places defeated by Tianhun and Xingluo, but Tianhun and Xingluo also used their advantage as victors to demand that the Sun Moon Empire open up the sale of soul tools, otherwise the war would continue.

The former emperor, who did not want to continue the war, naturally agreed to Tianhun and Xingluo's demands, but the price offered by Tianhun and Xingluo and their attitude towards the Sun Moon Empire angered almost all the nobles.

Originally, it wouldn't have been enough to warrant the killing of the former emperor if it had only angered the nobles. After all, no noble wanted to commit regicide, and no noble dared to do it.

But it wasn't until his eldest son, Xu Tianran, appeared.

Unlike himself, his eldest son, Xu Tianran, not only had a strong desire for the throne, but he was also daring and ruthless, and would stop at nothing to achieve his goals.

There were still some loyal ministers around the former emperor. Those nobles did not want to be the first to stand out, so Xu Tianran found someone who could be the first to stand out.

While he was still just thinking about it and had no idea whether he should do it, Xu Tianran had already secretly contacted the evil soul master to be the first to act, and with overwhelming power, sent his elder brother's entire family to meet his father.

Because his eldest son acted very cleanly, and because patricide was something an emperor absolutely could not do, he successfully ascended to the throne.

The good news is that he successfully ascended to the throne, but the bad news is that he was not a normal successor to the throne. Instead, he was pushed up by a group of powerful nobles after the regicide. The powerful nobles had to offer him something in return. Why would they allow someone with obvious suspicion of regicide to become emperor if there were no benefits to him?

Do you really think that a kid like He Caitou, who isn't even level 20, could escape a massacre involving even a titled Douluo?

To ensure his throne was secure, the current emperor had no choice but to relinquish power to gain the support of the powerful nobles. The result was obvious: all the powerful nobles tacitly approved of the current emperor's actions. Not a single noble witnessed the regicide, and the current emperor was a legitimate successor. This was the benefit the powerful nobles gave to the current emperor.

The benefit the current emperor gives to other noble families is that he has become emperor, but the power he actually wields is not much greater than that of his crown prince son.

He had to follow the rules in many things, and he could not arbitrarily seize the rights of certain nobles unless they made obvious mistakes.

And so, the current emperor of the Sun Moon Empire secured his throne, but as time went on, he realized that he was not as good as the prince he had been.

In addition, no one said it, but the fact that he murdered the emperor was true. Just thinking about how he killed his elder brother's entire family and ultimately obtained a throne that he sat on but had no real power made him so angry that he fell ill.

He now has the reputation of a traitor, but he hasn't enjoyed any real power for a single day. What's more, he doesn't dare to actually go to war with the original Douluo Three Kingdoms and become a unified emperor. He can already imagine how his descendants will curse him when he dies.

"Isn't there even a single piece of good news? Even just something that would improve my reputation would be helpful!"

He did nothing good after usurping the throne; isn't he destined to be infamous for eternity?

"Your Majesty, the results of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament are in." As the Sun and Moon Emperor reminisced about the past, a eunuch came running over to say this.

"Second place again? Step down, I understand."

"Your Majesty, this time the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy has achieved first place, not second. This time, our Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy has successfully defeated Shrek Academy and won the championship of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Competition."

As soon as the eunuch finished speaking, he saw the emperor, who had been lying on the bed looking sickly, suddenly stand up.

"What did you say?"

"Your Majesty, this time the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy did not achieve second place, but first."

"Very well! Shrek Academy defeated the Spirit Hall ten thousand years ago, and since then Shrek Academy has always been the number one on the continent. Now, is the number one spot finally going to fall into the hands of my Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy?!"

"Therefore, all participants in this competition shall be granted the title of Earl! Those who have rendered meritorious service will be rewarded further by me!"

Emperor Sun and Moon said excitedly, "With this achievement, at least I will no longer be a traitor who will be infamous for ten thousand years."

(End of this chapter)