Douluo Jueshi: Who made him a soul mentor?

"Hey, have you heard? This time when Crown Prince Xu Tianran was assassinated, not only were both his legs crippled, but his third leg is gone too."

"Really? Is that true?"

"I heard it from my uncle's grandfather's cousin's cousin's brother-in-law—can it be false?"

"Wow, that's explosive! Tell me more."

"Ahem, just listen to it as a joke, don't tell anyone I said it."

"Don't worry, what kind of relationship do we have? I definitely won't spread it."

"I heard that after the assassins caught the Crown Prince, they subjected him to inhumane torture, first breaking his limbs, and then breaking his fifth limb—"

In this way, rumors spread like wildfire, and soon reached the ears of the nobles in Mingdu.

When Second Prince Xu Tianyu learned that his elder brother Xu Tianran was impotent, he was immediately overjoyed.

Although he didn't know if the news was true or false, it was good news for him regardless.

If it was true, everyone would be happy, and Xu Tianran would inevitably be removed from his position as Crown Prince by their father.

If it was false, this news undoubtedly greatly damaged the prestige of Xu Tianran as the Crown Prince, which was also extremely beneficial to him.

Therefore, after hearing the rumors, Xu Tianyu directly sent hundreds of people to spread them everywhere.

Anyway, regardless of whether the news was true or false, spreading it was the only thing that mattered.

Third Prince Xu Tianshi was also overjoyed when he heard the news. He had initially cooperated with Xu Tianran to deal with Second Prince Xu Tianyu, but he didn't expect Xu Tianran to hide his strength and ultimately eliminate him as well.

Therefore, Third Prince Xu Tianshi was also extremely displeased with Xu Tianran, the Crown Prince. After learning of the rumors that Xu Tianran was impotent, Xu Tianshi directly and maliciously sent several beauties to Xu Tianran.

With the Second Prince and Third Prince taking the lead, their subordinates naturally cheered and sent people to spread the rumors.

Under the deliberate instigation and spread by the Second Prince and other nobles, the news that Crown Prince Xu Tianran had lost his manhood and was impotent spread throughout Mingdu at an alarming rate.

In just one day, the entire Mingdu was in an uproar, and countless people knew about the Crown Prince Xu Tianran losing his third leg.

The next day, when Wang Chen walked out of his house and heard people everywhere in the streets and alleys discussing the gossip about Crown Prince Xu Tianran losing his third leg and being impotent, he couldn't help but feel surprised.

Wait, is this news spreading too fast?

For a time, Wang Chen, the culprit, did not expect the rumors to spread so quickly and fiercely.

It had spread throughout Mingdu in just one day.

If Wang Chen played a role in the spread of the rumors, then the Second Prince, Third Prince, and the numerous nobles played at least ninety-nine percent of the role in the spread.

That's right, out of a full score of one hundred, Wang Chen only accounted for one point, or even less. After all, even if Wang Chen had been gathering manpower in the past two years, how could he compare to the Second Prince, Third Prince, and the many noble officials, who had more manpower under their command?

Wang Chen walked through the streets and alleys, listening to the lively discussions of the people of Mingdu, and a smile couldn't help but appear on the corner of his mouth.

Things were going more smoothly than he had imagined. With the terrifying speed at which the rumors were spreading, it was absolutely impossible to block or control them.

Unless someone launched dozens of level-nine fixed-installation soul-guided shells and blew the entire Mingdu into the sky.

Otherwise, even if the Emperor of the Sun Moon Empire personally intervened, at most he could only prevent people from discussing it openly, but he could not stop the rumors.

And he, the source of the spread, was basically impossible to find, because at this time, the entire Mingdu was full of spreaders. Noble officials and princely partisans were all spreading the rumors everywhere.

At this time, it was impossible to distinguish who was the source, who was the secondary spreader, and who was the tertiary spreader.

It could only be said that once people with power and influence spread rumors, the speed of the spread was absolutely terrifying.

As the rumors spread, Crown Prince Xu Tianran, the center of the rumors, was so angry that he almost died.

Crown Prince's Residence, in the study.

Xu Tianran's eyes were bloodshot at this time. Sitting in a wheelchair, he smashed everything in the study.

"Who is it! Who exactly is it!!"

"Who spread it out!"

"I have already silenced the doctors who treated me, so who spread it out?

"Who would know! Who is it!!!"

At this time, Xu Tianran had completely gone mad.

In fact, he had already noticed it not long after the rumors first appeared.

As the Crown Prince of the Sun Moon Empire, he had a lot of manpower under his command, so how could he not notice anything.

After receiving the news, Xu Tianran immediately sent people to block and control the rumors, and even silenced those who knew about it directly.

But how could rumors be so easily blocked?

Finding the spreaders of the rumors, and then finding out how many people the spreaders spread it to, all took time.

Moreover, when Wang Chen sent people to spread the rumors, he divided the manpower into several parts to spread them, in order to avoid being caught in one fell swoop.

Therefore, after Xu Tianran spent a lot of effort to finally block the rumors in one area, another area rose up again.

Then, not only did one place rise up, but many areas all had rumors.

This situation made Xu Tianran despair. He felt as if everyone in Mingdu was targeting him and mocking him, the Crown Prince.

How could this situation be blocked? Mingdu had tens of millions of people (in the original work, Xingluo City had millions of people, and the capital Mingdu was larger than the three Douluo countries combined).

He could silence a hundred people, a thousand people, but could he silence ten thousand, one hundred thousand, or a million people? He couldn't silence the tens of millions of people in the entire Mingdu.

Now everyone in Mingdu knew the news that he was impotent.

The most important thing was that he couldn't prove his innocence, because the rumor was true.

He, the Crown Prince, was indeed impotent.

Despair completely enveloped Xu Tianran. He really couldn't think of any other way to turn the situation around and keep his position as Crown Prince.

Ju Zi, who was outside the study, trembled when she heard Xu Tianran smashing things, and dared not step into it.

Ju Zi was afraid that after she entered, she would be used as a tool for venting by the mad and desperate Xu Tianran, and then be strangled to death.

Ju Zi thought to herself, "I risked my life to save Xu Tianran before, but I didn't expect Xu Tianran to be finished in a few days. No, I have to run quickly.

If I don't run, I'm afraid I will really be buried with Xu Tianran. Xu Tianran, I owe you a favor, and I have already repaid you with my life. We owe each other nothing."

Not long after Ju Zi ran away.

Outside the gate of the Crown Prince's Residence, a middle-aged man with a terrifying aura said loudly, "His Majesty has an order, summoning Crown Prince Xu Tianran to the palace immediately, without error, by imperial decree!!"