Douluo Continent: Starting with a Heavenly Fire Judgment

Chapter 508 Ji Lin's Ruthlessness

Ji Lin's lips twitched. He hadn't expected Ju Zi to be so crazy, actually wanting to overthrow Xu Tianran. It seemed that Xu Tianran had really pushed Ju Zi to the limit this time. Otherwise, Ju Zi's original idea was just to take revenge, but now she wanted to kill Xu Tianran and take his place.

Moreover, Ju Zi really has this opportunity. Xu Tianran still hasn't realized Ju Zi's murderous intent towards him. He still doesn't understand women at all. For a woman, getting pregnant and having a child is a very important thing.

Xu Tianran forced Ju Zi to have a child with a man she didn't know, which was tantamount to pushing Ju Zi into a corner. In order to get revenge, Ju Zi didn't care about marrying Xu Tianran, after all, Xu Tianran was a cripple. If she hadn't fallen in love with Ji Lin, Ju Zi might have gritted her teeth and compromised. But since she had someone she liked, she couldn't accept it. This was also where Xu Tianran made a mistake. He didn't know that Ju Zi had someone she liked.

This slight difference in understanding sowed the seeds of Xu Tianran's downfall. Ji Lin could also understand the Sun Moon Empire's choice of the Hall of Worship. That's how it is in the Douluo Continent. Most families don't really care much about the throne. For them, the inheritance of martial soul bloodlines is the most important thing. The throne, although important, is not a necessity.

Just like the White Tiger Duke lineage of the Star Luo Empire and the current Star Crown Sect lineage, the throne can be abandoned at any time. As long as the bloodline can be passed down, becoming a duke is not out of the question.

All the Sun Moon Empire's Hall of Worship wants is for their bloodline to continue within the Sun Moon Empire's royal family. This is simple: just marry a princess of the Sun Moon Empire. However, for Xu Tianran, this is a huge hidden danger because he is infertile. Once the Hall of Worship finds out about this, his throne will be unstable. Even if he can temporarily secure his throne through the Holy Spirit Sect, it will inevitably attract countless criticisms.

This is why he was willing to wear a green hat (symbolizing forgiveness) to force Ju Zi to have a child through artificial insemination. He knew how much the people in the Hall of Offerings valued bloodline inheritance. Once his infertility was exposed, the Hall of Offerings was likely to support other royal bloodlines, even though he had killed most of his brothers, leaving only some useless people who could not awaken their martial souls.

The offspring of a useless person who cannot awaken their martial soul are also very likely to be useless people who cannot awaken their martial soul. This is how the martial soul inheritance works in Douluo Continent: the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker. There is only a very small chance that a powerful martial soul will mutate into a weak martial soul, and a weak martial soul will mutate into a powerful martial soul, but that chance is pitifully small.

No family or powerful family would gamble on such luck.

Therefore, once the Hall of Offerings learns that Xu Tianran is infertile, he will be in big trouble, because he has already killed all the outstanding members of the Sun Moon Empire's royal family, leaving only some useless ones.

That's why Ju Zi said that as long as he marries Xu Tianzhen, the current princess of the Sun Moon Empire, he can get the support of the Offering Hall. This is something that only Ju Zi and Xu Tianran know, and even the Offering Hall itself doesn't know about it.

Ji Lin fell into deep thought. With Jing Hongchen's support, and if the Hall of Offerings and Orange were added, the Sun Moon Empire could be said to be his for the taking. He only needed to deal with Xu Tianran and the Holy Spirit Cult, and his chances of taking over the Sun Moon Empire would be very high.

Xu Jiujiu was somewhat tempted. Ji Lin originally wanted to unify the Douluo Continent. If he could subdue a part of the Sun Moon Empire's forces ahead of time, Ji Lin's path would be much easier. As for having Ju Zi and Xu Tianzhen, Xu Jiujiu didn't care at all. She believed in Ji Lin, and the one who would inherit the new empire created by Ji Lin would definitely be her and Ji Lin's child. This was Ji Lin's promise to her.

Anyway, there are plenty of girls staring at Ji Lin. The few behind her looking at her with shocked eyes are just a few of them. She doesn't care if there are two more or even more.

After a long pause, she narrowed her eyes. Just to be on the safe side, she said to Keke, "I can agree to your conditions, but I also have one condition. I wonder if you could agree to it on behalf of that Empress and War God?"

Keke gave a wry smile. She knew it wouldn't be that simple. Ju Zi was right; this Princess Jiu Jiu was no pushover either. She nodded and said, "Before coming here, Ju Zi had already given me full authority to make the decision. What are your conditions? I can agree to them on Ju Zi's behalf."

After a long while, she smiled and nodded, saying, "Alright, my condition is very simple: the child she conceives with my Xiao Lin's seed must have no relation to my Xiao Lin. She must not tell the child who his biological father is. I think you wouldn't dare let him take the surname Ji in the Sun Moon Empire. Of course, this condition is not absolute. If the time is right, I can also let that child know the truth."

Although she trusts Ji Lin, in order to prevent things from becoming complicated, she wants Ju Zi and Ji Lin to sever ties, and she will not reveal her opinion until the matter is settled.

Keke's expression changed, and she looked at Ji Lin with a complicated expression, saying, "Is this also your idea?"

Ji Lin's lips twitched. He knew what Xu Jiujiu was thinking. After all, she was a princess. It was normal for her to be wary of Ju Zi and her child after being influenced by her. Moreover, Ji Lin felt it was unreal. He had only provided a seed, and now there was another child who couldn't take his surname. At least that was the case before Xu Tianran died.

Ji Lin didn't have much affection for Ju Zi, and although his feelings about the child conceived from his seed were complicated, he didn't really have any real feelings for her. So he simply let Xu Jiu Jiu do whatever she wanted. After all, she was a princess, so he would spoil her. Although Ju Zi would feel wronged, Ji Lin couldn't care less. No feelings meant no feelings.

And since he didn't completely rule things out, there's still a chance to salvage the situation.

Seeing Ji Lin nod, Ke Ke gave a bitter laugh. She felt sorry for Ju Zi. The man you longed for, the man you were willing to have children with, actually didn't care about you at all. How tragic! But Ke Ke knew that Ju Zi was very stubborn. Otherwise, she wouldn't have gone this far for revenge. If Ju Zi were here, she would probably agree. After all, Ju Zi knew very well that Ji Lin didn't like her now.

Well, this is just Ju Zi's wishful thinking after all, and it has nothing to do with Ji Lin. She did it voluntarily. Before Ke Ke came, Ju Zi had already analyzed what would happen, including the conditions that Xu Jiu Jiu had proposed. As the Empress of the Sun Moon Empire, Ju Zi still had some understanding of the thoughts of people in this position. As a princess, Xu Jiu Jiu would definitely be wary of her and her child, which was only natural.

Wang Dong'er and Nan Qiuqiu opened their mouths, their eyes filled with disdain as they looked at Ji Lin. The word "scumbag" floated into their minds. They felt a little sorry for Ju Zi, who was willing to have a child for Ji Lin, but she couldn't get his recognition. Instead, he wanted to sever ties. Although there were reasons due to the situation, Ji Lin was truly a scumbag.

What's even more ridiculous is that they just happen to like Ji Lin. Even though Ji Lin can be a jerk sometimes, they believe that he would never treat them like that.

Although they sympathized with Ju Zi and the child who hadn't even been born yet, Nan Qiuqiu and the others actually agreed with Xu Jiujiu's idea: everything has a first-come, first-served order. We were here first, and you overtook us on a curve, fine, but you want more? No way!

Ji Lin shook his head helplessly at the look Wang Dong'er and the others gave him, knowing it was wrong and unfair to Ju Zi. But he really couldn't believe it. In his previous life, he was a single dog who refused to date or have children, choosing to lie down and do nothing.

In his previous life, girls were all troublesome, and he didn't want to touch them at all. It would have been better to be a single nobleman. That's how he transmigrated to Douluo Continent. Because the world was different, the girls were also different from those girls in his previous life. Even a princess like Xu Jiujiu, who had received elite education, was much simpler than those girls in his previous life. Ji Lin could easily deceive her and build a harem with ease.

He finds even dating troublesome, let alone having and raising children. To him, even if Ju Zi gave birth to his child, he wouldn't feel it was real, since he had never even touched Ju Zi.

He couldn't be a father. In this respect, he was heartless and completely gave up, so he simply left it to Xu Jiujiu and couldn't be bothered to care.

Of course, he wouldn't do anything to harm Orange and her child, such as splitting the child's soul in two; at most, he would just ignore it.

Of course, this is also due to the special circumstances of Ju Zi. If it were Xu Jiu Jiu's child, Ji Lin would still learn how to be a father. But to be honest, Ji Lin does not want children. For him, who is pursuing immortality and becoming a god, offspring are dispensable.

But since Xu Jiujiu and the others wanted to conceive, Ji Lin wouldn't go against their wishes. However, to be honest, Ji Lin sometimes felt relieved that Xu Jiujiu and the others hadn't gotten pregnant yet.

He wasn't prepared, which is why he's letting Xu Jiujiu do whatever he wants, even at the cost of hurting Ju Zi and her child.

Keke staggered back two steps, glaring fiercely at Ji Lin and said, "You're so heartless. How could Ju Zi have fallen for you? I agreed to your terms on Ju Zi's behalf. If you don't want to acknowledge it, so be it. Anyway, Ju Zi didn't expect anything from you. She already knew that."

Ji Lin nodded, unsurprised. With Ju Zi's intelligence, how could she not see that he had no feelings for her? She also realized that Ji Lin wouldn't care about the child she bore. But love is love, and there was nothing she could do about it. Moreover, she really didn't dare let the child she gave birth to take the surname Ji, and she didn't even dare let Xu Tianran live until the child was six years old and awakened his martial soul. If the child awakened Ju Zi's martial soul, that would be fine, but if he really inherited Ji Lin's martial soul, then things would be very serious.

Therefore, Ju Zi will not let Xu Tianran live for too long. For the sake of her future child, she has made up her mind. She had also anticipated Xu Jiujiu's thoughts and was prepared for Ji Lin's ruthlessness.

(End of this chapter)