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The leakage of soul information was within the possibility that Xu Tianxi had expected, and he also had a contingency plan. After all, a lot can happen in two years, and there is no wall that is impenetrable. But he was still a little angry.
You've just returned to the mainland and you're already causing trouble for me. Don't you take me, Xu, seriously?
"To what extent has it been leaked? Is it known to everyone or has it spread to a small area?" Xu Tianxi suppressed his anger and continued to ask.
Under the long, fluttering eyelashes of the Snow Queen, her deep blue eyes were like blooming ice flowers, filled with worry: "It hasn't spread on a large scale yet, but it has begun to spread among the upper echelons of the Sun and Moon Empire, and the three major empires may have heard the news."
"Your senior sister Meng told me that this news started to spread two months ago. We traced the source all the way back to the beginning. Someone retrieved the first batch of experimenters from two years ago and got the news from them."
"Oh, what a huge authority! Which powerful person in the Sun-Moon Empire is this? He came to me for information. Doesn't he know that this is a top-secret research that I have reported?"
Xu Tianxi smiled coldly, already having guesses in his mind.
"You know, there are not many people in the Sun-Moon Empire who have this authority. The only ones who can bypass you are the royal family, and they have legitimate reasons."
Xue Di began to explain the whole cause and effect to Xu Tianxi. Xu Tianxi sometimes nodded, sometimes frowned, and sometimes a few black lines appeared on his forehead.
The source of this incident was not some conspiracy, but a naive princess's obsession with Shrek.
Two years ago, when Mingdu was suppressing the Xishui League, Xu Tianxi proposed the idea of forming the Minghun Guard. Kong Deming returned from the sea and notified the relevant departments to approve it, and this nominal organization was established.
The core members are the many geniuses of the Actual Control Department of the Royal Academy. Ji Juechen and Ye Guyi are the main force. In the past two years, they often led people to clear out the remaining evil soul masters and had the most attendance. Hong Chen brothers and sisters, Xu Sanshi and others would occasionally take action.
This organization, which is similar to the Shrek Supervisory Group but has much higher work efficiency than the Shrek Supervisory Group, has attracted the keen interest of Princess Xu Tianzhen, a spiritual Shrek within the royal family.
Xu Tianzhen insisted on joining in and cosplaying as the Supervisory Group. The old emperor was afraid that she would burn down the palace again if she was unhappy, so he agreed to her request and asked the Crown Prince Xu Tianran to secretly guarantee her safety no matter what.
Jing Hongchen came forward to negotiate with Xu Tianzhen, requiring him to obey orders at all times after joining, not to leak any information, etc. There were thirty rules, and Xu Tianzhen agreed to all of them, except that she did not mention that Xu Tianran would be watching secretly, because she herself did not know.
This is where the problem arises.
Except for Ji Juechen who has not yet broken through to the Soul Saint level, Ye Guyi, Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen have all integrated their souls. Xu Sanshi, Ma Rulong, Ye Wuqing and others have also successively used soul cards and soul rings.
Over the past few months, Xu Tianzhen continued to carry out missions with the large army, hunting down some remnants of the Holy Spirit Church in an organized manner.
During the battle, in order to ensure safety, someone will occasionally release a soul to assist in the battle and encircle and suppress the evil soul master.
After this happened many times, Xu Tianran's people noticed something was going on and reported it to their superiors, and the Crown Prince became very interested.
Two years ago, he was very jealous of the talents under Xu Tianxi, but due to Xu Tianxi's existence, he had to restrain himself.
Now Xu Tianxi has not shown up for a long time. He claims to be in seclusion researching soul guides. One idea after another is like a brush, scratching in Xu Tianran's mind.
So driven by desire, he personally sat in a wheelchair and secretly observed several actions three months ago. He noticed something different about the souls, traced back to the experiment two years ago, and proposed several prisoners who had participated in the experiment.
The prisoners all signed confidentiality agreements, but the Prince's Mansion has its own memory recovery technology, and after being tortured, they confessed everything... The soul news was leaked.
Afterwards, Xu Tianran secretly reported the matter to the old emperor, wanting to interfere. Jing Hongchen hurried into the palace and said that the experiment was still in the research stage and the technology was not yet mature.
Xu Tianran then asked whether members of the royal family could also join the experiment, provide personnel, financial and material support, and promote the maturity of soul technology. His words were extremely sincere, as if he could give Jing Hongchen mountains of gold and silver.
And Jing Hongchen... was so angry that he almost slapped the bastard who wanted to pick peaches in the face.
You help? You help me! My Mingde Hall is the richest in the world, why do we need your little money? There are only two core technical personnel of the soul, Xu Tianxi and Meng Hongchen, and only these two people know the soul transmission spell.
Xu Tianxi was away traveling and had not returned yet, so Meng Hongchen returned to form a soul alliance with Xiao Hongchen and others. Subsequent research was directly halted without Xu Tianxi. Without a smart brain, no matter how much financial and material resources were invested, it would be useless.
If they agreed to Xu Tianran's proposal, this achievement would have to be labeled as Xu Tianran's in the future. Xu Tianxi was away and Jing Hongchen would never let this happen.
In front of the emperor, Jing Hongchen suppressed his anger and argued with Xu Tianran for a long time, and finally simply said vaguely that the person in charge, Xu Tianxi, was a member of the royal family, a top researcher with a good family background, and was still running around outside to contact soul beasts. Your Highness should stay where you can rest your legs...
The two sides parted unhappily.
A few days after the incident, details of the dispute and news about the spirit began to spread within the palace. It was impossible to find out who spread the news, but the rumor was very convincing and attracted the attention of many powerful figures, who visited the Royal Academy.
Among these people, there are quite a few level nine soul masters and even more level eight soul masters. If accurate information is not given, the students of the actual control department will not be able to go out. Some of Jing Hongchen's old friends are also talking about feelings openly or secretly.
Finally, Jing Hongchen and Ye Yulin came forward together and said that the soul experiment group was working hard to solve the problem under the leadership of the main creative person Xu Tianxi, and asked all soul instructors to give enough respect to this top-secret project that is destined to be epoch-making, otherwise don't blame us for taking drastic measures.
As time went by, the matter of souls began to spread among the upper echelons of the Sun-Moon Empire. If the spies from the three empires were not too incompetent, they would definitely be able to get some information.
After learning the whole story, Xu Tianxi frowned and was speechless for a moment.
Xu Tianran's behavior was expected, but how free does Princess Xu Tianzhen have to be? Instead of studying and practicing well in Mingdu Soul Instructor Academy, why does she go and meddle in the affairs of the Royal Academy?
It is obvious at first glance that he is the kind of person who has been spoiled. When he comes to power in the future, the first thing he will do is to send these terrorists who burn down palaces and cause chaos to the three empires to open up wasteland.
You like to stir up trouble, don't you? I'll capture you first when I get back, and use the Sun Martial Spirit as training food for my sister. I'll let you use your spirit skills a thousand times every day, and see if you still have the energy to stir up trouble, Xu Tianxi thought viciously.
"It has come to interfere with our experiments. It is no longer an ordinary thing. We must give it a heavy beating in the future!"
After defining this group of bastards, Xu Tianxi sighed and shook his head slightly.
The events in the Sun-Moon Empire had become so serious that he had no choice but to go back as soon as possible. There was no peace for him at all.
Xue Di nodded, indicating that she agreed with Xu Tianxi's attitude, and then said: "Also, there is something else that I need your opinion on."
"There's another thing? What's the other thing?" Xu Tianxi's brows furrowed, murderous intent overflowing.
Seeing this, Xue Di hurriedly waved her hands and comforted him, "Don't worry, this is not a bad thing. Strictly speaking, it is a good thing."
"Good thing?"
Xue Di nodded slightly, with a strange look in her eyes, and said, "Yes, Xiao Bai and his friends have arrived in Mingdu and brought someone with them."
"Bring someone?" Xu Tianxi thought for a moment, then raised his eyes slightly: "A soul master with the Ice and Snow Girl's martial spirit?"
"Yes." Xue Di said seriously, "The girl's name is Su Tong, she has the cultivation level of a quasi-Soul Emperor. Three months ago, she went to the Far North to hunt souls. Xiao Bai and A Tai found her and captured her alive."
"Xiao Bai told me that they have been training the girl with various etiquette rules for two months and she is guaranteed to be absolutely obedient."
Those two big guys were teaching human spirit masters the etiquette and rules? Would little Su Tong be frightened?
Xu Tianxi's eyelids jumped, and he asked in confusion: "What does this have to do with me? Your son prepared this for you."
"Don't talk nonsense. Xiaobai is just my godson. You make it sound like we are related by marriage." Xue Di said softly, then smiled and said:
"You know my situation best. I already have a path to becoming a god. There is no need for me to transform into a human spirit. This girl is of no use to me now."
"Xiao Bai and the others said that this girl could be my maid even if I didn't need her. But I haven't had a maid in hundreds of thousands of years, and I'm not used to using one. But since she was sent to me, I thought..."
Xu Tianxi's mouth twitched slightly, and he asked tentatively: "Leave it to me?"
The Snow Queen nodded slightly, smiled faintly and said: "You like to collect geniuses. A female spirit master with the Ultimate Snow Martial Spirit must have pretty good talent, right?"
"It's good, but it feels a little weird..."
Xu Tianxi glanced at Xue Di and thought it was strange. Then he said, "You are kind-hearted, so I won't refuse. Let's talk about it after we return to Mingdu."
"Okay." Xue Di smiled.
"Thank you for reminding me of these two things. If there's nothing else, I'll go and rest first. I just returned to the mainland. I'll rest for a night before going back to deal with the troubles of the Sun and Moon Empire. You should also have a good rest."
Xu Tianxi waved to Xue Di and walked out of Xue Di's guest room in Xuanming Sect.
Xue Di's vision disappeared as Xu Tianxi disappeared. Her lips moved but she didn't say anything.
"Why is it so difficult to tell you to have a good rest? What's wrong with me?" Xue Di thought strangely.
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Under the cover of night, Sun Moon Empire, Prince's Mansion.
Xu Tianran and Xu Guozhong sat opposite each other and discussed matters in secret, while Shadow Douluo Xuechen kept watch for them outside.
One of them had lost his lower body, and the other had lost his right thigh. They each had a prosthetic limb, but they looked no different from normal people.
"How is it, uncle? We have been searching for the Conferred God Platform for two years. There should be some news about it, right?" Xu Tianran tapped the table with his knuckles. His face was half bright and half dark in the candlelight, which made him look particularly intimidating.
"Got it! Don't worry! I will teach Jing Hongchen a lesson this time!"
Xu Guozhong nodded heavily, handed over a scroll, and said with some satisfaction: "The old thief Jing Hongchen hid very well. I mobilized all the spies I planted in Mingde Hall to find the location of that thing."
"But your majesty, would those guys from the Body Sect really be so stupid as to come here?"
Xu Tianran took the scroll map and looked at it, then put it down with a cold smile on his face: "Of course, I recently offered a reward of 100 million gold soul coins to the Adventurer's Association, just to let them attack Mingde Hall!"
"Your information will appear on the Adventurer's Association's bounty tomorrow. I will also mark a few more important experimental areas."
Glancing at the memorials and a handful of files related to Jing Hongchen on the table, Xu Tianran became furious. He slammed the table and overturned all the files.
"Jing Hongchen has repeatedly been ungrateful. This time, I will teach him a lesson!"