Soul Bone Turmoil (I)

When Zhou Qing and the others left the Nuoding Guild, it was already evening.

Romantina bid farewell to Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu, and headed towards the wealthy residential area in the center of Nuoding City.

"Tina, you're back?"

Romanyac, the deputy lord of Nuoding City, came forward to greet them.

"Father, you?"

Romantina found it strange. In the past, her father was always very busy and would not come home until almost midnight every night. He would never come to greet her.

"I heard you got a Soul Bone while hunting Soul Beast for someone?" Romanyac asked anxiously. "Hurry up and give it to us! We can't have something like that!"

Soul Bone are the most precious treasures in the Soul Master World.

Anyone who possesses Soul Bone will not tell others, for fear that others will covet it.

Romantina would be overjoyed if her daughter possessed a Soul Bone and no one knew about it, but this matter has been exposed!

Baron Dales, the city lord of Falling Star City, had already visited him and inadvertently revealed that Romantina had obtained a Soul Bone.

Romanyac had secretly investigated Dales and knew him perfectly well: he was originally a declining noble family in Star Luo City who wanted to support the birth of the Star Luo Empire's First Prince, but his family had fallen on hard times and he couldn't even get an audience with the First Prince...

The Second Prince did not have an innate affinity for Martial Soul Fusion with the children of the Zhu Family family, thus automatically withdrawing from the race for the throne.

After the Third Prince was born, he planned to invest in Third Prince. However, due to the brutal power struggle within the Star Luo Empire's royal family, the supporters of the six-year-old First Prince had begun to secretly ostracize the nobles who supported the Third Prince.

The competition for the throne in the Star Luo Empire is brutal, but also (relatively) fair. Before the final victor emerges, the princes must not be harmed.

However, it is also important for the ministers and nobles of the Star Luo Empire to choose sides in advance, otherwise it will be too late to support them after the next Crown Prince of the Star Luo Empire has been selected.

Perhaps the Crown Prince will not say anything openly in the future, and may even try his best to appease those ministers and nobles who did not support him in the past, but he will never completely trust them in private, and may even suppress them in secret.

Six years ago, Dales was ostracized by the nobles who supported the First Prince and had to use his connections to come to this small town on the border of Heaven Dou and Xingluo to become the city lord in order to avoid the limelight.

But Romanyac knew that Dales had great ambitions, and the appearance of the Soul Bone would give him a reason to create chaos in Nuoding City and then find a way to intervene.

What exactly is the competition like on the Star Luo Empire side?

Romanyac didn't know, but he was certain that Dales would also want to take this opportunity to find a reason for the Star Luo Empire to attack the Heaven Dou Empire.

Contradictions and conflicts accumulate through repeated clashes!

If it succeeds, it doesn't matter whether he supports the First Prince or the Third Prince of the Star Luo Empire, because he has already proven his worth.

Such opportunists, who initially supported the First Prince but later switched allegiance to the Third Prince, are actually less likely to be purged in the end, and may even thrive in the process...

"Dales!"

Romantina gritted her teeth inwardly. She had thought the other party had a noble demeanor, but she hadn't expected him to think so far ahead and be so arrogant as to find a reason for the Star Luo Empire to launch an attack on the Heaven Dou Empire!

Absolutely despicable!

Although Nuoding City, Falling Star City, and the surrounding area are mostly mountainous and watery, and not strategically important, if Dales really succeeds in this, the peace and tranquility of Nuoding City and the surrounding villages will certainly be shattered.

They should have just been shot dead with the Soul Conductor Godly Zhuge Crossbow!

Romantina regretted it.

This was the first time she realized the cruelty of the world. In the past, her life in the Nuoding Guild, carrying out missions and receiving rewards with other adventurers, was so pleasant. She never expected that this mission would have such a big impact because Zhou Qing was not familiar with her at first and did not want to reveal his Soul Tool... This is understandable, but the problem of exposing the Soul Bone has such a big impact!

"It's no use talking about him now," Romanyac said anxiously. "Bring out the Soul Bone, and we'll hold a temporary auction immediately to sell it."

This is Romanyac's solution.

Given Dales's cunning, Romanyac was certain that he would have someone secretly spread the word that Romantina, the daughter of the deputy lord of Nuoding City, possessed a Soul Bone!

Although it's just a hundred-year-old Soul Bone, once exposed, Romanyac won't be able to protect his daughter.

Therefore, the best solution is to sell the Soul Bone.

He could tell that Romanyac also wanted that Soul Bone, so he figured he might as well pay the price to avoid further trouble.

"You haven't already absorbed it, have you?" Romanyac's heart sank when he saw Romantina remain silent. He sighed and said, "Then, I'll arrange for someone to send you out of the city tonight."

If it has already been absorbed...

The only thing Romanyac could do for his daughter was to send her out of town, into hiding, to avoid the limelight and keep the trouble away from Nuoding City.

Despite his utter helplessness, as the deputy lord of Nuoding City, his primary concern was the stability of the Nuoding City. As for his daughter, all he could do was silently pray that she would survive—[Dales, I will never forgive you!]

"No, but the Soul Bone isn't in my possession." Romantina shook her head.

"What?!" Romanyac exclaimed. "That's Soul Bone! You actually gave it to those kids?"

Romanyac naturally sent people to investigate the identities of Zhou Qing, Tang San, and Xiao Wu, and easily obtained information from the Nuoding Academy's Academic Affairs Office.

However, he never expected that his foolish daughter would not even want the Soul Bone.

"The Adventurer's Guild has a rule that once you accept a mission, everything except the reward belongs to the employer," Romantina said firmly.

"You...I..." Romanyac's fingers trembled, finally turning into a long sigh, "You are just too upright."

"Father, isn't this what you taught me when I was little?" Romantina asked, puzzled.

"Oh, my bad... Never mind, let's go find him and buy the Soul Bone from him before the news spreads, then auction it off... Hopefully he hasn't absorbed it, otherwise we'll have to cut off his limbs." Romanyac knew about the cultivation potential of Innate Full Soul Power, but ultimately he came from that small village of Holy Soul Village, with no background or power, a fact he had already investigated.

If the other party is from some sect or family, then it will be even easier. Just tell Dales about it, and he won't dare to take advantage of the situation anymore.

But unfortunately—

no.

For the sake of Nuoding City's stability, he had to be sacrificed.

At worst...

He'll take care of him at home from now on, feeding and spoiling him.

"That's a Head Soul Bone," Romantina whispered.

Romanyac: "..."

He also found out that Zhou Qing was an orphan, but it was a Head Soul Bone... Wasn't this forcing him to kill innocent people indiscriminately?

If it were Limb Soul Bone, even if they were severed, a good doctor could save the patient's life, and he could compensate afterward...

He was almost convinced by his conscience when he realized that it was actually a Head Soul Bone!

Is my luck really that good?

Isn't this tormenting his sense of justice?

"Zhou Qing probably didn't absorb it; he said he wanted to study the Soul Bone," Romantina added.

"That's good."

Romanyac's heart had been in turmoil, but he finally felt relieved. However, he didn't believe Zhou Qing could figure anything out; he just wanted to get his hands on the Soul Bone quickly, auction it off, and divert attention from the controversy...