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

Chapter 23 Deeply Scheming, A Serendipitous Encounter

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"Young Master, is this appropriate?"

Back at the First Prince's residence, Serpent Spear Douluo was quite puzzled by Qian Renxue's actions that day.

Qian Renxue, who is now playing Xue Qinghe, presents a kind and benevolent image to the outside world, but today, she directly offered to give Bals's life as a gift to that boy, which is really too risky.

If it were anyone else, it wouldn't matter, but this Bals is Xue Qinghe's cousin.

You have to understand that they just poisoned the second prince of the Heaven Dou Empire at the beginning of this year, and the Heaven Dou royal family is still conducting an intense investigation into it. At this time, Qian Renxue made such a promise in the name of Xue Qinghe. If that kid were to reveal this matter, the death of the second prince would be inextricably linked to Xue Qinghe.

“Uncle She, I know what you’re worried about.” Qian Renxue dropped her pretense.

"But I have my own considerations about this."

“Young Master, you have been an undercover agent for many years. You really shouldn’t put yourself at risk for such a trivial matter,” said Serpent Spear Douluo.

“You haven’t experienced his domain, so you don’t know his value,” Qian Renxue said.

“He’s worth the risk, and most importantly, he’s very smart.”

"Smart?" Serpent Spear Douluo scoffed.

"Now Dugu Bo is his biggest support, but he does not try his best to maintain his relationship with Dugu Yan. He even categorizes their friendship as simple sympathy in front of Xue Qinghe."

“If he were truly intelligent, he should have seized upon Dugu Yan’s sympathy for him and further solidified the friendship that had developed in the Barth affair.”

"But what he said not only made him seem somewhat distant from Dugu Yan, but also revealed his personality, which was somewhat cold."

In a situation where someone is being chased, instinctively taking another person with you to escape could easily have made you appear as someone who values ​​loyalty and righteousness.

But instead of taking advantage of this, that kid made his intentions so clear to Xue Qinghe.

Is that considered clever?
“But what if he did it on purpose?” Qian Renxue said.

Serpent Spear Douluo was taken aback, "Intentional?"

“I told you, he’s smart, he knows what I want to hear,” Qian Renxue said.

"Moreover, you say that Dugu Bo is his biggest support right now, but I don't think so."

"From what he said when he mentioned Dugu Bo, it can be seen that his relationship with Dugu Bo was not particularly good. At least in this matter, their friendship was not enough for Dugu Bo to kill this prince of the Barak Kingdom for him."

Dugu Bo was indeed a loner by nature and didn't have the demeanor of a strongman when he fought, but similarly, that old poison master didn't like to cause trouble for himself.

Bars is a prince of the Barak Kingdom, and he carries considerable weight. If Dugu Yan is indeed injured in this matter, or if the girl begs Dugu Bo to kill Bars, there is a high probability that Dugu Bo will disregard the trouble this matter will cause and insist on taking action.

But Dugu Yan has already let the matter go, and Dugu Bo won't go looking for trouble like that.

"Does the young master mean that he thinks Dugu Bo won't help him in this matter, so he deliberately said those things to get Xue Qinghe to help him?" Serpent Spear Douluo asked doubtfully.

"That doesn't seem to make sense, does it?"

Bars is Xue Qinghe's cousin, and Xue Qinghe has been trying to help Bars in this matter. Why would that kid want Xue Qinghe to help him?

“Normally, it doesn’t make sense, but what I said later in the tailor shop, as Xue Qinghe, already implied that I didn’t care about Barrs’ life or death. What I cared about was only this potential war,” Qian Renxue said. At that time, Barrs was being foolish and had angered Dugu Yan again, so she had to change her approach and put pressure on Dugu Yan on the level of the greater good of war between the two countries. At the same time, to enhance the effect, she deliberately stated that she was not on Barrs’ side. She did all this simply because she was worried about the outbreak of war.

Thus, Dugu Yan's decision to give up pursuing Barrs was more out of her own desire to avoid a war between the two countries and the resulting bloodshed, rather than simply out of consideration for Xue Qinghe. The favor she owed Dugu Yan for saving her in this matter still remained.

Unexpectedly, Xuanming grasped her meaning.

"Just because of Xue Qinghe's hint, he said so many things that were detrimental to himself?" Serpent Spear Douluo still couldn't understand it.

"If Xue Qinghe is unwilling to help him and tells Dugu Yan what he said, wouldn't he be pleasing neither side?"

Dugu Yan's concern for that boy now stems more from his injuries, and she believes it's because of her injuries.

But Xuanming's words directly absolved Dugu Yan of any responsibility.

“He was just trying it out, and besides, it was just the two of us in that courtyard at the time; there was no third party present. He can’t prove what I said, and I can’t prove what he said,” Qian Renxue said.

"In this situation, if I were to tell Dugu Yan these things, do you think Dugu Yan would believe Xue Qinghe or him?"

"If things go wrong, then I'll be the one trying to sow discord."

"He was just a child who had been injured, and then he was framed and provoked. Dugu Yan's guilt towards him will only deepen."

"The things he said today have made it clear that he can get revenge, and even if Xue Qinghe doesn't help him, he won't suffer any loss."

"This..." Serpent Spear Douluo was stunned.

"This kid's scheming is far too deep."

“Deeply scheming…” Qian Renxue shook her head.

"No, he probably just wanted to kill Barth to vent his anger. As for anything more, it was probably just a lucky accident."

"However, whether he is scheming or just stumbled upon it by chance, it is worth the risk for me."

Serpent Spear Douluo was somewhat worried, "Young Master, if it really is the former, don't you think he's a bit too dangerous?"

A six-year-old child with such cunning and scheming mind—what if Qian Renxue's disguise is exposed in the future? That would be a real problem!

"Danger?" Qian Renxue laughed.

Do you think I can't handle him?

“Young Master certainly has the ability,” said Serpent Spear Douluo.

"But we don't have any suitable means to deal with Barth right now."

Now that everyone in Tiandou City knows that Barrs has offended Dugu Yan, it is extremely difficult not only to make Barrs disappear without anyone noticing and to have Xuanming take action himself, but also to distance himself from Dugu Bo and not affect the relationship between the Tiandou royal family and the Barak Kingdom.

“It’s impossible to do this within Heaven Dou City, but what if we’re not in Heaven Dou City?” Qian Renxue said.

Serpent Spear Douluo was taken aback. "Barth is terrified now. How could he possibly dare to leave Heaven Dou City?"

"Moreover, if Xue Qinghe invites him out, and something happens, the suspicion might shift to the Tian Dou royal family."

(End of this chapter)