Chapter 157: The True Thoughts of Xue Qinghe
After the ministers walked out of the Imperial Study!
Committee Member Meng Shenji, Committee Member Bai Baoshan, and Committee Member Zhi Lin, the three Committee Members of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, walked to Xue Qinghe’s side with perfect tacit understanding.
Committee Member Meng Shenji hesitated for a moment, and after considering it repeatedly, he spoke in a low voice:
"Your Highness, the words you just said in front of His Majesty should not have been spoken by you personally; you could have completely instructed us to say them."
"Sect Master Ning was your teacher. After Sect Master Ning was killed, you really shouldn’t have been so calm. Although you were also considering the Heaven Dou Empire, we can all understand your good intentions."
"However, His Majesty will surely think you are rather cold-blooded, and he might even develop some ideas about you."
"Sigh! Your Highness, you are truly suffering too much. Sect Master Ning was killed by someone, and your heart must be filled with unbearable grief. Yet for the sake of the Heaven Dou Empire, His Majesty still requires you to suppress the immense pain in your heart and go recruit Lu Chen, the murderer. The sacrifice you have made for the Heaven Dou Empire is too great."
Xue Qinghe showed a look of sorrow on his face, glanced at the three Committee Members—Committee Member Meng Shenji, Committee Member Bai Baoshan, and Committee Member Zhi Lin—and said in a calm yet incomparably firm voice:
"Father Emperor carries the entire Heaven Dou Empire on his shoulders. As the Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire, I naturally need to share his burdens and carry half of the Heaven Dou Empire."
"My teacher was killed by someone. As his Disciple, I wish I could personally lead troops to kill the enemy with my own hands. But as the Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire, I cannot lead the Heaven Dou Empire into a pit of fire."
"Perhaps this will make me endure the harassment of gossip, but for the sake of the Heaven Dou Empire, I do not care."
"Committee Member Meng, you should all head back quickly. According to Father Emperor’s instructions, bring Rongrong to the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy to be well nurtured. As long as Rongrong can grow up, this will be the best consolation for Teacher."
Xue Qinghe’s words moved Committee Member Meng Shenji, Committee Member Bai Baoshan, and Committee Member Zhi Lin deeply. The three seventy or eighty-year-old men were so moved that tears were about to flow down.
Their Crown Prince was truly too great!
For the sake of the Heaven Dou Empire, he was willing to endure such huge grievances and willing to make such heavy sacrifices!
This was the most perfect imperial heir in their minds, worthy of their sworn allegiance.
Committee Member Meng Shenji’s expression was solemn, his eyes filled with determination, and he bowed and said:
"Please rest assured, Your Highness. We will go and find Ning Rongrong right now and, in the name of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, take her away and nurture her well."
"The three of us can guarantee with our Spirits that we will definitely nurture Ning Rongrong into a talent, so that Sect Master Ning’s Spirit in heaven can rest in peace."
After speaking, the three Committee Members—Committee Member Meng Shenji, Committee Member Bai Baoshan, and Committee Member Zhi Lin—bowed solemnly to Xue Qinghe once more, then turned and hurried away.
Watching the backs of the three as they left, Xue Qinghe still wore a look of sorrow on his face, but she was calm inside, and she didn’t feel any anger regarding the killing of Ning Fengzhi.
The complex emotions in her heart were all because of Lu Chen:
’Lan Chen? Lu Chen! To think that I only know your real name today. Lu Chen, oh Lu Chen, you have truly shocked me again and again.’
’twin spirits, the first Spirit is the Blue Silver Emperor, the second Spirit is a black sickle. The first Spirit has already become a Titled Douluo, possessing nine spirit rings: three purple, four black, and two red. The second Spirit also possesses three spirit rings, and it is an astonishing spirit ring configuration of two black and one red.’
’I was once confident that I could take you under my command, but looking at it now, that was nothing more than my wishful thinking. A dignified Titled Douluo would absolutely never submit to others.’
’This is my last time trying to recruit you. Your talent and your potential have already exceeded my imagination. As long as you are willing to become my assistant, whatever you want, I can give it to you.’
’If you are not willing to become my assistant, with your world-shocking talent and terrifying potential, sooner or later you will become my enemy, and an enemy that makes me feel desperate and unable to resist.’
’Perhaps I will have to ask Grandfather for help, letting Grandfather take action with the Elders of the Elder Hall, and before your second Spirit is attached with nine spirit rings, thoroughly eliminate you and curb your growth.’
’Lu Chen, I beg you. I really do not want to go to that step. I hope you do not disappoint me.’
Xue Qinghe’s eyes flickered, eventually turning into a complexity that was impossible to see through.
Xue Qinghe greatly appreciated Lu Chen’s talent, if not for the fact that she still had to carry out her undercover mission to seize the political power of the Heaven Dou Empire.
She would definitely use her true face to ask Lu Chen for advice on the Dao of Cultivation and become close friends with him.
But as the Young Lord of Spirit Hall, she carried the ideal of Spirit Hall unifying the Douluo Continent on her shoulders.
She had to suppress her emotions and could not act on impulse.
Otherwise, all the efforts she had made before would fall short of success.
Taking a deep breath, Xue Qinghe strode out of the Imperial Palace. After returning to the Crown Princes Residence, she immediately arranged for people to go to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School to inquire about Lu Chen’s whereabouts.
The information received was that Lu Chen had arranged for a Grand Elder to be responsible for incorporating some of the Disciples left behind by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.
As for Lu Chen himself, he was missing, and no one knew where he had gone.
Xue Qinghe was helpless about this. Titled Douluo come and go as they please; even if she had an intelligence network spread across the Douluo Continent, it was very difficult to track the whereabouts of a Titled Douluo.
In desperation, Xue Qinghe could only plant eyes and ears outside the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, so that once Lu Chen returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, they would immediately report to her.
The plan to recruit Lu Chen could not be carried out smoothly because Lu Chen was missing.
However, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family quickly took action regarding the recruitment of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School Disciples.
In the capacity of an ally of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family issued an obituary with extreme solemnity, announcing the deaths of Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong, and set about holding an extremely grand funeral for them.
This attracted those Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School Disciples to come and mourn, taking the opportunity to incorporate all of those Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School Disciples under their command.
As for the wishes of those Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School Disciples who hoped the Heaven Dou Imperial Family would step forward to punish the murderer Lu Chen.
The Heaven Dou Imperial Family did not pay much attention to it.
Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong were all dead, and the remaining Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School Disciples had become stray dogs.
In the eyes of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, being able to give these stray dogs a place to stay was something they should be grateful for. If they had any more unrealistic ideas, then they should not blame the Heaven Dou Imperial Family for turning heartless.
After all, Emperor Xue Ye did not just want to gather the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School Disciples; he also wanted to recruit Lu Chen as an ally.
It was a typical case of wanting everything!
If one were to ask where Emperor Xue Ye got his confidence, it could only be attributed to this feudal system on the Douluo Continent.
Imperial power is supreme!
Because in the Douluo Continent under a Western fantasy background, there had not been a single bottom-up peasant uprising that completely overthrew the corrupt rule of an emperor and an Empire, which made emperors quite sacred on the Douluo Continent.
Even a Titled Douluo would never dare to act recklessly by relying on their power in front of the emperor.
This invisible order tightly bound everyone on the Douluo Continent at the ideological level.
Even the Spirit Hall, with its deep foundation, possessing Qian Daoliu, a level 99 super Douluo, Bibi Dong, a level 98 super Douluo, as well as six other Super Douluo Elders, and nine other Titled Douluo Elders.
Wanted to seize the political power of the Heaven Dou Empire, yet they actually needed to send out the Young Lord of Spirit Hall, having Qian Renxue disguise herself as Xue Qinghe to carry out the plan to steal the country.
This shows how deep-rooted the feudal imperial power is...
(End of Chapter)
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