Douluo Continent: My Martial Soul is the Black Dragon, I am the Lord of the Gods

Chapter 21 I'm Curious

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"Outlet City, orphans?"

Tiandou Royal Academy.

Since his subordinates had no idea where to begin their investigation, Xue Qinghe had no choice but to personally go and find Dugu Yan to understand the situation.

“That’s what he told me,” Dugu Yan said.

"So that's his background..." Xue Qinghe was quite surprised.

To be able to say such things and to see his own situation so clearly, he thought the child was from a large family in distress, or the offspring of an old friend of Dugu Bo.

He was just an orphan from a small border town?

"Your Highness, why are you asking this?" Dugu Yan asked, puzzled.

“He was so badly injured because of Barth, and now he has to keep his resentment bottled up because of the affairs between the two countries. I feel really bad about it and want to make it up to him, but I don’t know his situation, so I can only come to you to find out what’s going on,” Xue Qinghe said.

"I see." Dugu Yan nodded.

“Lingling and I are going to school. I originally wanted to bring him to the academy with me, but he didn’t want to. He probably has some lingering trauma from what happened before.”

“I’m not comfortable leaving him alone at home, so I let him stay at Grandma Lan’s place for now.”

"Your Highness, if you're looking for him, please don't bring that Barth along."

“That’s natural,” Xue Qinghe said.

He originally planned to have Baras die in an accident with other princes before Dugu Bo returned, at least to shift the conflict away and not affect the relationship between the Tiandou royal family and the Barak Kingdom.

Unexpectedly, after hearing about Barth's story, the princes avoided him like the plague!

Forget about creating any accidents, it's even difficult to meet them!
Nowadays, all the princes in Tiandou Imperial City live in the palace villas, so they have no chance to cause any accidents.

To prevent problems from arising with Dugu Bo, he can only try to stabilize things here for now. Dugu Yan is fine, but Xuan Ming is still somewhat unreliable.

Dugu Bo was aloof and did not easily interact with people, let alone a child.

Dugu Yan still kept many things from Xuanming and Dugu Bo's acquaintance.

When Prince Xuexing relayed the news that Dugu Bo had been appointed as a guest minister of the Heaven Dou royal family, he also sent a message to the old emperor: that old poisoner had just been chased by Chrysanthemum and Ghost, two titled Douluo from the Spirit Hall.

Right after this incident, Dugu Bo brought back a child, suggesting there's likely some other entanglement between the two.

If that entanglement leads Dugu Bo to disregard his status and take action against Bals, that would be troublesome.

To be on the safe side, let's stabilize Xuanming first.

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Ye Mansion.

Not wanting to cause any more trouble, Xuanming refused Dugu Yan's offer to take him to the Heavenly Dou Royal Academy.

After all, he has always had bad luck. The Heavenly Dou Royal Academy is a place with a complex mix of people. Not to mention that his appearance already attracts attention, even if he didn't have this unusual appearance, he could easily get into trouble.

"What are you doing?"

Xue Qinghe, who came to visit, saw Xuan Ming stabbing a large rock with a blood spear as soon as he entered the backyard.

“I want to see if I can puncture this thing,” Xuanming said.

"Poke it open?" Xue Qinghe couldn't help but laugh.

"You're not even a Soul Master, how could you possibly break such a big rock?"

"How will I know if I don't try?" Xuan Ming took a deep breath, circulating his soul power. His thin body subtly grew stronger, and his limbs, originally human, were faintly covered with a layer of black dragon scales. The two dragons behind him exuded a ferocious aura. Gripping the blood spear tightly, he aimed at the small gap in the center of the large rock, which had appeared after repeated impacts, and Xuan Ming unleashed all his power!

"boom!!!"

With its immense force, the blood spear swept through the rocks like a whirlwind, shattering a boulder a head taller than Xuanming. Shards of rock flew everywhere, and many of the flowers and plants in the yard were damaged.

Xue Qinghe's expression changed slightly.

Is this the power a level 10 Soul Master should have, even without Soul Rings?
What's going on?

"What's wrong?" Xue Qinghe looked at Xuan Ming, who was standing still with his back to him, with a puzzled expression.

"I think I've messed up." Xuanming looked at the flowers and plants in the yard that had been damaged by the rubble with a guilty conscience.

He had been poking all morning, trying to find his rhythm and test his strength.

He was just trying it out; he never expected to actually break it.

Ye Lan went out to meet a friend at noon. When she came back and saw the mess in the yard, how could he explain it?

Is there a burglar in your home?
"You've really messed up. Senior Ye really cherishes these flowers and plants," Xue Qinghe said with a hint of schadenfreude.

Ye Lan has a bad temper!

To be honest, he's only slightly better than Dugu Bo!

"What is the Crown Prince doing here?" Xuanming put away the blood spear and went up to pick up the scattered stones.

"Dugu Yan has gone to school, and Senior Ye has also gone out. If you want to find them..."

“I’ve come to find you,” Xue Qinghe said.

"Looking for me?" Xuanming paused, then continued picking up stones.

"What do you want with me? Do you want me to apologize to His Highness?"

"What are you saying?" Xue Qinghe found it somewhat amusing.

“I almost killed him,” Xuanming said.

"Attacking royalty is a capital offense, isn't it?"

He knew what Bars was dissatisfied with. He was just a commoner without any status. Even if Bars was the one who caused the incident, it was true that he almost killed a prince.

However, since Goron stopped him at the time, no one thought that a child who wasn't even a Soul Master could really kill Barth. In addition, due to Dugu Yan's influence, no one brought it up.

"Did you really want to kill Barth back then?" Xue Qinghe asked.

Although Bars is a Great Soul Master, he has been pampered since childhood and has almost no combat power. Judging from the power of Xuanming's attack just now, if he really had the intention to kill, and if Golong hadn't intervened in time, Bars would have been dead!
“Given the circumstances, if he hadn’t died, I would have been the one to die,” Xuanming said.

Xue Qinghe thought for a moment and nodded. "Theoretically speaking, that's true. However, I'd like to know, did you want to kill him, or did Dugu Yan order you to kill him?"

In such an emergency, could a six-year-old child really make that kind of judgment and have that kind of determination?
"Why are you asking this?" Xuanming asked.

"Curious," Xue Qinghe said.

“In that situation, if you failed, you would be doomed, or even death would be a luxury.”

“If no third party intervenes, I… am unlikely to fail,” Xuanming said.

"Reason?" Xue Qinghe asked.

“I’m not even a Soul Master. At the time, all the guards’ attention was on Dugu Yan, and no one paid any attention to me. Barth was also completely unprepared. At that distance, I definitely had the first strike,” Xuan Ming said.

"That's true. It was just a hair's breadth away. If it weren't for General Goron's interference, my spear would have definitely pierced that guy's throat!"

(End of this chapter)