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"Olay City, orphan?"
Tiandou Royal Academy.
Since his men had no idea where to start the investigation, Xue Qinghe had no choice but to go himself and find Dugu Yan to find out what was going on.
"That's what he told me." Dugu Yan said.
"This is his background..." Xue Qinghe was very surprised.
Being able to say such words and see the situation he was in so clearly, he thought that the child was from a big family in trouble, or the offspring of an old friend of Dugu Bo.
He is just an orphan from a small border town?
"Crown Prince, why are you asking this?" Dugu Yan asked puzzledly.
"He was badly injured because of Bars, and now because of the affairs between the two countries, he can only hold back his resentment. I really feel bad and want to compensate him, but I don't know what his situation is, so naturally I can only come to you to find out about it." Xue Qinghe said.
"Is that so?" Dugu Yan nodded.
"Lingling and I are going to school. I wanted to bring him to the academy, but he didn't want to. I guess he was traumatized by what happened before."
"I'm not too sure about leaving him alone at home, so I let him live with Grandma Lan first."
"My Lord, if you want to find him, don't bring that Bars with you."
"That's natural." Xue Qinghe said.
He originally wanted to let Bals die in an accident with princes of other kingdoms before Dugu Bo came back, at least to divert the conflict and not affect the relationship between the Tiandou royal family and the Barak Kingdom.
But he didn't expect that after hearing about what happened to Bars, those princes would avoid him as much as possible!
Let alone creating any accidents, it was difficult to even meet them! For example, all the princes in Tiandou Imperial City lived in the Imperial Palace, so there was no chance to create any accidents.
In order to prevent any problems from happening with Dugu Bo, he can only try his best to stabilize this side. Dugu Yan is not a big problem, but Xuan Ming is still a little unsafe after all.
Dugu Bo is a loner and doesn't interact with people easily, let alone a child.
Dugu Yan had just concealed a lot of information about the acquaintance between Xuan Ming and Dugu Bo.
When Prince Xue Xing brought back the news that Dugu Bo was serving as a guest official of the Tiandou royal family, he also gave the old emperor a piece of information. The old poisonous creature had just been hunted down by the two Titled Douluo Jue and Gui of the Spirit Hall.
Right after this incident happened, Dugu Bo brought back a child. There was a high probability that there were other disputes between the two of them.
If that entanglement causes Dugu Bo to take action against Bals regardless of his status, it would be troublesome.
To be on the safe side, it is better to stabilize Xuan Ming first.
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Ye Mansion.
Xuan Ming, who didn't want to get into trouble anymore, refused Dugu Yan's offer to take him to Tiandou Royal Academy.
After all, his luck has always been bad. A place like Tiandou Royal Academy has a complicated population. Not to mention that his appearance is already eye-catching, even if he did not have this unusual appearance, it would be easy for him to get into trouble.
"What are you doing?"
Xue Qinghe, who came to visit, saw Xuan Ming poking a big rock with a blood spear as soon as he entered the backyard.
"I want to see if I can make this thing explode." Xuan Ming said.
"Blast it?" Xue Qinghe couldn't help laughing.
"You're not even a soul master, how could you possibly explode such a big rock?"
"How do you know if you don't try?" Xuan Ming took a deep breath and circulated his soul power. His frail body became stronger and stronger. His limbs, which were originally human, were also covered with a layer of light black dragon scales.
The two dragons behind him exuded a fierce aura. He clenched the blood spear and aimed at the small gap in the center of the big stone that had been hit many times. Xuan Ming poured out all his strength!
"Bang!!!"
With the help of huge force, the blood spear was like a rotten wood that destroyed everything in its path. It directly blasted a huge rock that was a head taller than Xuan Ming. The broken stones flew everywhere and many flowers and plants in the yard were damaged.
Xue Qinghe's expression changed slightly.
Is this the power that a level 10 soul master who doesn't even have a soul ring should have? What's going on?
"What's wrong?" Xue Qinghe looked at Xuan Ming in confusion as he stood there motionless with his back to him.
"I seem to have gotten into trouble." Xuan Ming looked at the flowers and plants in the yard that were damaged by the rubble with a guilty conscience.
He had been poking at it all morning, trying to get the feel and find the point of force.
He was just trying it just now, and he didn't expect that he could actually blow it up.
Ye Lan went out to meet a friend at noon. When she came back and saw the mess in the yard, how would he explain it?
Is there a thief in the house?
"You are indeed in trouble. Senior Ye really loves these flowers and plants." Xue Qinghe said with a gloating look.
Ye Lan has a bad temper!
To be honest, he is only slightly better than Dugu Bo!
"What is the eldest prince doing here?" Xuan Ming put away the blood spear and walked up to pick up the rubble that had fallen everywhere.
"Duguyan has gone to school, and Senior Ye is out too. If you want to find them..."
"I'm coming to find you." Xue Qinghe said.
"Looking for me?" Xuan Ming paused and continued picking up stones.
"What do you want me to do? Do you want me to apologize to His Royal Highness the Prince?"
"What are you talking about?" Xue Qinghe was a little amused.
"I almost killed him." Xuan Ming said.
"Attacking the royal family, this seems to be a capital crime, right?"
He knew what Bals was dissatisfied with. He was just a commoner with no identity. Even if the incident was caused by Bals, it was true that he almost killed a prince.
However, since Ge Long stopped him at that time, no one thought that a kid like him who was not even a soul master could really kill Bals. In addition, because of Dugu Yan's relationship, no one mentioned this.
"Did you really want to kill Bals at that time?" Xue Qinghe asked.
Although Bars was a great soul master, he had been pampered since childhood and had almost no fighting ability. Judging from the power of Xuan Ming's attack just now, if he really wanted to kill him, without Ge Long's timely attack, Bars's ability would have killed him!
"In the situation at that time, if he didn't die, I would have died." Xuan Ming said.
Xue Qinghe thought about it and nodded, "Theoretically, it is true, but was it you who wanted to kill him, or was it Dugu Yan who asked you to kill him?"
In such an urgent situation, can a six-year-old child really make that kind of judgment and have that kind of determination?
"Why are you asking this?" Xuan Ming asked.
"Curious." Xue Qinghe said.
"In that situation, if you failed, you would be dead. In fact, even death was a luxury."
"If there is no third party intervention, I... am unlikely to fail." Xuan Ming said.
"Reason?" Xue Qinghe asked.
"I'm not even a soul master. At that time, the guards' attention was all on Dugu Yan. No one noticed me at all. That Bals was also completely unprepared. At that distance, I must have been the first to strike." Xuan Ming said.
"That's true. I was just a little bit short at that time. If it weren't for General Ge Long interrupting me, my spear would definitely have pierced that guy's throat!"