allendalepharm Chapter 196 Vast Ocean Universe Cover
Chapter 196 Vast Ocean Universe Cover
Chapter 196 Vast Ocean Universe Cover
"Please enlighten me, Father!" Qian Renxue found Emperor Xueye's words somewhat incomprehensible. Since they already knew Tang San's identity, why didn't they try to win him over?
Emperor Xueye said, "You may not know much about the Haotian Sect. The people of the Haotian Sect will never work for others or be affiliated with any force."
"because……"
At this point, Emperor Xueye revealed a disdainful smile, "The people of Haotian Sect are not only arrogant, but also extremely selfish."
"When facing the Spirit Hall, those single-attribute four clans who were willing to die for them were directly abandoned by them, with no regard for their lives."
"Who would dare to trust a sect like this?"
Qian Renxue was speechless for a moment, never expecting that the Great Emperor Xueye could see things so clearly.
Then, Emperor Xueye added, "I'm telling you all this in the hope that you can get close to Tang San, express goodwill to him, and even encourage Tang San and Tang Hao to cause trouble for the Spirit Hall."
Qian Renxue was taken aback. Although she was an undercover agent and knew about Emperor Xueye's conspiracy, this was clearly an open scheme with no way to solve it! Tang San and Tang Hao would definitely cause trouble for her Spirit Hall.
"Your subject understands!"
Emperor Xueye looked at Qian Renxue with a satisfied smile, "Qinghe, I believe you can handle this matter well."
Then, the tone shifted.
"However, we cannot neglect the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect either."
"The Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect is our main target for winning them over. You have a good relationship with Yu Yuanzhen's grandson, so you must maintain it."
Qian Renxue sneered inwardly, "Hmph, Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect? This young lady will certainly not forget that bastard Yu Tianyun. I will definitely tame him."
Just then, Emperor Xueye suddenly said, "That girl Xueke must be of marriageable age by now..."
"Huh?" Qian Renxue was instantly pulled back to reality by Emperor Xueye's astonishing words. Her eyes widened and her lips twitched slightly.
"Please reconsider, Father. My little sister... she's still young." Without any reason, Qian Renxue instinctively opposed Emperor Xueye's suggestion.
Marrying Xue Ke to Yu Tianyun would be like throwing good money after bad! He'd be thrilled!
Emperor Xueye frowned slightly. "Qinghe, I know you love Xueke the most, but being born into an imperial family means you must be aware of this. This is something you must understand!"
In the end, Emperor Xueye's tone became a bit harsher.
He originally thought that Xue Qinghe, as the crown prince, would understand his intentions and agree with his decision, but he did not expect that he would oppose it.
"It seems Qinghe isn't so heartless after all. Could it be that the deaths of the second and third brothers really had nothing to do with him?" Seeing Qian Renxue's reaction, Emperor Xueye couldn't help but feel some doubts.
He didn't know whether he should be happy or sad. As an emperor, he hoped that his successor would be both fraternal and respectful, yet also cold-blooded and ruthless.
"I absolutely cannot let Xueke be ruined by that bastard!" Qian Renxue frantically tried to come up with reasons for herself.
Does she really care about Xue Ke? She probably doesn't even know herself.
However, she still had some affection for Xue Ke, since Xue Ke posed no threat to her position and always regarded her as his own older brother, and was very attached to her.
Because of her childhood experiences, Qian Renxue cherishes family ties especially. When faced with a cute and lively younger sister like Xueke, she unconsciously puts herself into the role of an older brother.
"Father..."
"Qinghe!" Emperor Xueye's brows furrowed with impatience as he interrupted Qian Renxue, "My mind is made up. There's no need for further discussion."
When Emperor Xueye was speaking to his family in private, he rarely referred to himself as "朕" (zhen, meaning "I" or "the Emperor"), but once he did, it meant that he was angry.
"Your subject understands!" Qian Renxue had no choice but to reluctantly agree.
But she was seething with hatred. She couldn't understand why Yu Tianyun was so popular with women. He already had so many women around him, yet people still eagerly offered him women. "I really want to kill that...that scoundrel with a sword!"
Emperor Xueye looked at Qian Renxue and said earnestly, "Qinghe, you must know that to become an emperor, one must be cold-blooded and ruthless! Acting on emotion will destroy the country!"
"The world is generally fair. Xue Ke was born into an imperial family and enjoyed a luxurious life that ordinary people cannot enjoy, so she must also bear the corresponding obligations."
"This is her innate mission. Even if she doesn't marry Yu Tianyun, I will marry her off to someone from another power."
"Besides, marrying her off to him wouldn't be a bad thing for her."
"I see that the women around Yu Tianyun all have extremely rare talents, so Yu Tianyun's talents must be even higher."
At this point, Emperor Xueye gazed intently at Qian Renxue and asked, "Qinghe, you are quite familiar with Yu Tianyun. What do you think of his talent?"
"Yu Tianyun is worthy of a title!" Qian Renxue had already tried to downplay the matter as much as possible. Given Xue Qinghe's status, this was the best she could do.
If she tells Emperor Xueye the truth that Yu Tianyun has the potential to become a god, who knows what he might do next, and she might even expose her own identity.
After all, the original Xue Qinghe knew absolutely nothing about gods.
"Very good! You must maintain a good relationship with him." Emperor Xueye's eyes gleamed, and he was somewhat excited.
If this can be accomplished, it will be much more than just finding a protector for the royal family.
In the Douluo Continent, where do Soul Masters' Martial Souls come from?
It's naturally inherited from my parents!
Moreover, aside from Tang San, who is a special case that Emperor Xueye cannot understand, which parent's martial soul did the other people inherit from? Naturally, it was the parent whose martial soul was stronger!
A genius young man with the potential to become a Title Douluo must have powerful genes.
Without a doubt, once Xue Ke becomes pregnant with Yu Tianyun's child, the child's martial soul will almost certainly be the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex!
Moreover, with so many women around Yu Tianyun, he might not pay special attention to any particular child. Under Xue Ke's guidance, it will be much easier to get the child close to the royal family.
In this way, their royal family will not only have a guardian deity in Yu Tianyun's generation, but in the next generation, and even under good conditions, every generation of the Tian Dou royal family may have its own true guardian deity.
If it works out, it would be an incredibly profitable deal; there's nothing more lucrative than this.
But then Emperor Xueye frowned again; things were certainly not as simple as he thought.
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan generally practices endogamy and places great emphasis on bloodlines. Although there are quite a few philanderers like Yu Tianyun, most members still choose to marry soul masters who also possess the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul.
Even someone like Yu Luomian, who has illegitimate children outside the sect, will have them brought back to the sect for training as long as their martial soul is the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus or another powerful martial soul.
(Of course, Liu Erlong had grown too powerful and was extremely resentful of Yu Luomian. Forcibly taking her back would have backfired. That's why a gentler approach was chosen, trying to meet Liu Erlong's demands as much as possible, such as establishing the Blue Tyrant Academy for her.)
Talented female soul masters from sects like Liu Erlong would require their husbands to marry into the sect, even if they didn't marry into the sect itself. Otherwise, they would never marry an outsider.
Therefore, it is basically impossible for Emperor Xueye to bring Yu Tianyun and Xue Ke's child into the royal family.
It should be noted that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is even more eager than the Heaven Dou Royal Family to obtain the genes of highly talented Battle Soul Masters, but in the past few thousand years, no direct disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School with other combat-type martial souls have been seen.
In fact, there are several reasons why the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School has no direct disciples with other martial souls.
First, geniuses are often very proud, and very few top geniuses with top-tier martial souls are willing to marry into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.
Second, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's martial soul quality is too high.
In fact, they had successfully recruited some commoner geniuses with top-tier martial souls as their sons-in-law, but the results left them both amused and exasperated.
Because the child born will still possess the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul.
Although this martial soul has the limitation of never being able to advance to the Soul Douluo level, it can still be called the number one support-type martial soul on the continent. Its quality is definitely not weaker than the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus or the Clear Sky Hammer, and may even be slightly stronger. It is one of the top-tier martial souls.
According to the theory of martial soul inheritance, the child born is more likely to awaken the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
Third, the powerful martial souls possessed by commoner soul masters are all mutated martial souls.
Some of the martial souls of the commoner geniuses they recruit may even be stronger than the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
However, ordinary people can only awaken powerful martial souls through mutated martial souls. Mutated martial souls are generally extremely unstable and difficult to pass down.
Fourth, the problems faced are similar to those faced by Emperor Xueye.
Only major sects like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan and the Clear Sky Clan have top-tier martial souls that can be stably inherited.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School must have tried, but those two sects aren't stupid, so they definitely didn't succeed.
Because, in the case of marriage alliances between major sects, the ownership of a member is usually determined by the awakened martial soul, and it is impossible for one's own martial soul to be leaked out.
In fact, Ning Fengzhi's generation is the closest the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School has come to having its own Battle Soul Master.
For example, Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo's martial souls are in no way weaker than Clear Sky Hammer and Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex, and they are not mutated martial souls, but can be stably inherited.
Moreover, both of them were alone and had no family ties, making them the perfect candidates for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School to recruit.
However, both of them were obsessed with the path of becoming Soul Masters and paid no attention to having offspring.
This left Ning Fengzhi feeling extremely helpless and heartbroken. He so desperately wanted the two of them to have one last youthful burst of energy and pass on their legacy.
Having learned from the example of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, Emperor Xueye would not naively believe that he could claim Yu Tianyun and Xue Ke's child as his own.
Of course, he could also have Xue Ke seduce Yu Tianyun to obtain his 'seed', but that would undoubtedly antagonize the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect.
When Yu Yuanzhen finds out about this, he will probably come to their door and take them away, and the Tiandou royal family will surely end up losing both their people and their wealth.
Therefore, he only hoped that through Xue Ke's education, he could subtly influence her and Yu Tianyun's child and make them closer to the royal family.
But this is not easy either. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect will definitely see through his obvious intentions, and Yu Yuanzhen probably won't give him that chance.
After all, family members know their own situation; their Heaven Dou Royal Family's Swan Martial Soul is just an ordinary high-level Martial Soul.
Xue Ke's talent was also quite ordinary, and she couldn't compare to the women around Yu Tianyun at all. The only thing that caught his eye was Xue Ke's social status.
But when have sects like the Upper Three Sects ever cared about status? They value talent more when choosing a partner. Only by marrying a partner with comparable talent can they produce offspring with equally good talent.
Identity isn't really that important to them, considering that the history of most of their sects is even longer than that of the Heaven Dou Empire.
In fact, there are not many marriage alliances between major sects, and even fewer marriage alliances with the royal family. They are usually due to special circumstances.
Therefore, Emperor Xueye had to pay a price to make it difficult for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan to refuse this marriage alliance.
"Qinghe, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan might refuse this marriage alliance, so... if necessary, we can use the national treasure as a bargaining chip!" With that, Emperor Xueye took out a crystal-clear blue triangle and handed it to Qian Renxue.
Emperor Xueye felt a little bitter. Their national treasury had some ten-thousand-year-old soul bones, but none of them were suitable for the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul. The only one that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would take a liking to was probably this national treasure—the Vast Ocean Universe Cover.
In fact, the reason why Emperor Xueye was willing to give up the Vast Ocean Universe Cover to facilitate this marriage was not only because of Yu Tianyun's talent.
What truly made Emperor Xueye use the Vast Ocean Universe Cover as a bargaining chip was the strength of the Blue Lightning Overlord Clan.
In the VIP section today, with his political acumen, he vaguely sensed that Ning Fengzhi was following Yu Yuanzhen's lead.
This is something to think about. In the past, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School was stronger than the Blue Lightning Tyrant School because it had two titled Douluo.
Now that Ning Fengzhi has humbled himself before Yu Yuanzhen and even married off his most beloved daughter to him, it is enough to show that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan's strength is unfathomable.
Furthermore, the fact that Dugu Bo, a self-made titled Douluo, also married his granddaughter to him further corroborates Emperor Xueye's conjecture.
It should be noted that Dugu Bo valued his granddaughter immensely, even more so than Ning Fengzhi valued Ning Rongrong, yet he still sent her to Yu Tianyun, who already had many women.
Even if Emperor Xueye were the most foolish and incompetent, he could still understand that the Blue Lightning Overlord Clan was no longer what it used to be.
In the eyes of Emperor Xueye, Ning Fengzhi and Dugu Bo were definitely not only interested in Yu Tianyun's talent.
In the eyes of these leaders of various forces, or rather, titled Douluo, a talented seedling is important, but not to this extent. They value the combat power of a titled Douluo more.
Therefore, Emperor Xueye naturally guessed that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan definitely had more than one Title Douluo, and that its overall strength was definitely stronger than that of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan.
In the heart of Emperor Xueye, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Sect is now more important than the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Moreover, gaining the friendship of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Clan indirectly means gaining the friendship of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan and Dugu Bo. Besides, the Heavenly Dou Royal Family already had a good relationship with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan and Dugu Bo.
Once the marriage alliance is successful, the Heaven Dou royal family will have closer ties with these forces, making them more composed and confident when facing the Star Luo Empire and the Spirit Hall.
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(End of this chapter)