Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 74 The Emperor's Mindset
The palace dinner lasted until midnight, and the nobles who were enjoying themselves in the palace left the palace garden one after another, feeling unsatisfied.

Day two.

The five-yearly Continental Advanced Soul Master Elite Competition was held as scheduled.

Tiandou Division.

Tiandou City Great Fighting Spirit Arena.

Except for the separately designated VIP seats, all other seats were filled with spectators.

In the venue, participating teams from all the advanced soul master academies affiliated with the Tiandou Empire gathered together to greet the enthusiastic shouts and cheers from the audience.

Among them, the academy with the highest audience support is naturally the Tiandou Royal Soul Master Academy, which has the home advantage, followed by the Five Elements Academy composed of Shenfeng, Chihuo, Tianshui, Lei Ting, and Xiangjia.

Apart from these six major colleges, all other colleges combined account for less than 10% of the audience's voices.

Not long after, the opening ceremony of the preliminaries was successfully completed with the speech of the current Tiandou Emperor Xue Ye.

Next, as per convention, a team will be drawn by lot to play an exhibition match with the second team of Tiandou Royal Soul Master Academy.

As expected, the team that the money-worshiping Bishop Salas of the Spirit Hall drew was the Blue Tyrant Academy founded by Liu Erlong.

As soon as the game started, the battle entered a white-hot stage. The situation was deadlocked and seemed a little tense.

In fact, judging from the strength alone, Tiandou Team 2 is slightly stronger than Lanba Academy in overall strength.

But unfortunately, all the members of Team Two are a group of playboys who came here to gild themselves. It is no exaggeration to say that the seven of them are flowers raised in a greenhouse.

There is no combat experience, a stable mentality does not exist, and strong willpower is even more impossible.

On the contrary, the seven members of Lan Ba ​​Academy are all from civilian backgrounds and are stronger than Tian Dou Team 2 in these aspects.

Therefore, after failing to attack for a long time, the Tiandou Team 2 had problems with their mentality and revealed significant flaws.

The seven players of Blue Bully Academy immediately seized the opportunity and began to fight back. The game began to become one-sided until the balance completely tilted to Blue Bully Academy's side.

After the exhibition match, in the first row of the VIP seats.

Emperor Xue Ye sat quietly between Ning Fengzhi and Saras, his majestic face now rather gloomy.

At this moment, Xue Ye really wanted to turn around and question his younger brother Xue Xing and the three academic committee members of the college.

But in the end, considering that the Platinum Bishop Salas of the Spirit Hall was sitting next to him, Xue Ye forcibly restrained the urge to turn around and question him.

It was not until the opening ceremony and exhibition match officially came to an end that the royal family returned to the palace.

Xue Ye, sitting on the throne, no longer suppressed his dissatisfaction. He slapped the armrest of the dragon throne with his right hand and asked sternly:

"Xue Xing, how are you going to explain what happened today?"

"Tiandou Team 2 represents the face of the royal family, but they actually lost to a little-known Blue Tyrant Academy. Where do you want the royal family to put their face?"

"Why aren't you talking? Are you mute?"

Below, Prince Xuexing was speechless.

The quality of students at the Tiandou Royal Soul Master Academy is not good, and this has not been a one- or two-day thing.

It’s just that this year happened to be the worst one in history, so it’s normal to lose the game.

However, although everyone knows about this kind of thing, knowing it is one thing and exposing it is another.

Therefore, Prince Xuexing could only swallow this loss in silence and bear all the blame alone.

On the throne, after Xue Ye vented his anger, he shifted his gaze from Xue Xing to Xue Qinghe.

"My son, your uncle is not strong enough to manage the academy. Please lend a hand and help your uncle. I don't want to see the scene today in the next competition."

Xue Qinghe, who was standing nearby, glanced at Xue Xing, whose face was ashen, and saluted Xue Ye before answering:

"I will obey your orders and live up to your trust."

At this time, Xue Qinghe had already begun to think about how to win over the three academic committee members of the college to become his own people.

The three teaching committee members of the academy, the second seat Bai Baoshan and the third seat Zhilin, are both from the Bai and Zhi families, hereditary nobles of Tiandou. They are both talented but are from side branches of the family and have no chance to inherit the hereditary title of the family. In addition, for some personal reasons, they became the teaching committee members of the Tiandou Royal Soul Master Academy.

Chief Meng Shenji was born into a small soul master family in the north of the empire and was also a native Tiandou.

Although it is impossible for these three teaching committee members to join the Spirit Hall, they can still contribute a lot to helping the Xue Qinghe, whom Xue Ye disguised as, ascend to the throne after her death.

After listening to Xue Qinghe's answer, Xue Ye didn't say much. He just nodded slightly, stood up and left the hall.

After the two waited for Xue Ye to leave, Xue Xing snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves, walked in front of Xue Qinghe and left the hall.

Prince's Mansion.

Xue Beng, who was waiting here, saw Xue Xing coming back, looked around, confirmed that there was no one around, and asked hurriedly:

"Uncle, how is it? Did the emperor not punish you?"

"No."

Xue Xing's answer made Xue Beng feel relieved, but Xue Beng soon heard Xue Xing say:

"However, my royal brother allowed your eldest brother to intervene in the affairs of the academy. Although his power is not as great as mine, he might as well give more."

"Ah? What should we do then?" Xue Beng's face suddenly fell after hearing this.

"Why are you panicking? Have you forgotten everything I taught you over the years?"

Seeing Xue Beng like this, Xue Xing angrily reprimanded him, and then explained:

"Although your eldest brother has interfered in the affairs of the academy, this is not an easy task."

"As the most dissolute student in the academy, you must know what the academy's culture is like."

"No matter how capable your elder brother is, it is simply a fantasy to want to change the habits that the Tiandou nobles have developed over countless years."

“With great power comes great responsibility.”

"Your eldest brother interfered in the affairs of the academy. As a result, the academy has not been able to change and remains the same. Your eldest brother cannot escape the blame for his incompetence in any way."

"By then, you and I, uncle and nephew, will add fuel to the fire behind the scenes and will definitely lower your elder brother's status in the emperor's heart."

After hearing this, Xue Beng's anxious expression faded away, and he looked at Xue Xing with admiration and flattered:

"That's great, uncle. I wasn't calm enough. I was distracted and didn't think of this the first time."

Xue Beng was very grateful to his uncle who saved his life and taught him how to survive.

If it weren't for his uncle, he would have died at the hands of his eldest brother because of his outrageous talent even though he knew nothing.

"Okay, stop flattering me." Xue Xing knocked on Xue Beng's head and said:

"How was your relationship with Tang San?"

"You know, Tang San is not only the descendant of the Haotian Sect, but he also created those magical hidden weapons, which can have a great impact on the world situation."

"It will do you no harm to be on good terms with him. He may even be able to help you get to that position in the future."

"Well..." Avalanche answered hesitantly.

"These days, Tang San has been acting like a complete hidden weapon fanatic and a training fanatic. Apart from promoting those hidden weapons, he almost never talks to anyone."

"Also, Uncle, you know that I am playing the role of a dandy boy, so Tang San simply ignored my advances."

"This..." Xue Xing didn't know what to say. After thinking for a while, she finally said helplessly:

"In that case, forget about making friends with Tang San, but there is one thing you need to remember."

"You must never let Tang San become your eldest brother's man."

"We can't get the help that you, big brother, can get. Do you understand?"

"Yeah." Avalanche nodded vigorously.

(End of this chapter)