Revenge Successful, Senior Martial Uncle—If You Don't Have a Gifted Disciple, Go Find One in the Imperial Family

Xu Tianxi suddenly understood why the former emperor of the Sun Moon Empire—He Caitou's father—had been slaughtered along with his entire family in the imperial palace by an Evil Soul Master, while Kong Deming and the other Ninth Level Soul Guided Devices of the Hall of Worship, as well as the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Legion assigned to guard the emperor, had simply stood by and watched.

Judging from Xu Tianran's guard team, even if Ye Xishui had personally acted, silently killing the former emperor's entire family would have been far from easy. The only explanation was that all of them had watched from the sidelines.

If even one of the Hall of Worship, the Imperial Clan, or the military had been willing to protect him, the former emperor would never have ended up with his entire household wiped out overnight.

As the emperor, he had disgraced the nation abroad, stubbornly advocated peace, exiled a group of military War Faction figures, and even forced several military leaders to their deaths. With the military already harboring deep grudges against the Original Three Kingdoms, how could they not hate this bastard to the bone?

He had forced a Rank 9 Soul Guidance Master who was born into the Imperial Clan and deeply rooted in the military to his death before the imperial palace. What face did the Imperial Clan have left? How many people's interests had been damaged? They would have to be insane to continue supporting this dog emperor.

What? The emperor's younger brother was unwilling to sit idle and wanted to stage a coup? Wonderful! Hurry up and kill him! The sooner this "Wanyan Gou" died and reincarnated, the better. Even if they replaced him with a tyrant, he couldn't possibly be worse!

Kong Deming, the guardian deity of the Sun Moon Empire, was also part of the War Faction. Excellent. Hurry up and get rid of this bastard who advocated peace. I'll just focus on researching Soul Tools and leave everything else alone!

Forget a fantasy world where power could be made one's own. Even in his previous life, when the valiant Qin was preparing to march east, if the man sitting on the throne had wanted peace, he still would not have escaped the fate of being kicked out!

"As you said, my mother and her entire family were loyal subjects harmed by the former emperor. Now that the dog emperor is dead, would it be appropriate for me to go to the Sun Moon Empire and avenge my mother?"

Xu Tianxi seriously considered his current identity. Looking at it this way, going to the Sun Moon Empire would no longer be defecting from the Three Kingdoms. It would be returning to his motherland—the land of his mother's birth.

Yue Lao wiped away his tears and snot and said hoarsely, "Yes. After the New Emperor ascended the throne, he pardoned all the families that had been exiled back then in order to win the military's support, and restored the reputations of the old master and the others."

As he spoke, he took an aged Purple-Gold Token from his Storage Ring. He bent over and solemnly held it out to Xu Tianxi.

"This was left behind by the old master. It was the token representing his identity as the head of the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Regiment. Young Master, Miss only said to keep it as a memento. Now, this old servant is giving it to you."

"Yue Lao, don't worry. Since it is an heirloom, I will certainly keep it safe." Xu Tianxi stared intently at the ornate token engraved with a purple dragon. He knew that this was the form of the Purple Emperor Annihilation Dragon. He accepted it and put it away.

"Mm..." Yue Lao's emotions surged, and he could no longer control himself. After bidding farewell to the two of them, he left.

It was already noon.

Xiao Changfeng looked at the sky and smiled. "Little Martial Nephew, let's eat first. Afterward, I'll tell you about my story. Speaking of which, my experiences were rather extraordinary too, though I was luckier than your mother."

"All right. I'm quite curious about your experiences too, Senior Martial Uncle."

Xu Tianxi let out a long breath and answered before following Xiao Changfeng to the dining hall. Dish after dish of food filled with color, fragrance, and flavor was served. Almost all of it was seafood, and even Xu Tianxi had never seen some of it before.

"The pills refined by the sect require large amounts of essence and vital blood from water-attributed plants, animals, and Soul Beasts. That is why the Black Tortoise Merchant Guild built its headquarters here in Vast Sea City. Your uncle has plenty of good things here, so eat as much as you like. Don't hold back."

Xiao Changfeng patted Xu Tianxi's shoulder and motioned for him to sit down. He then introduced the dishes, including shark oil refined from the body fat of a thousand-year Demon Soul Great White Shark, the brain of a thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca, and nourishing soup stewed from Whale Rubber and a scaled tortoise. All of them were greatly beneficial to Spiritual Power and the body.

After eating them for two years, their effects were naturally not as good as they had been the first time, but the nutrition they provided was still immense. Xu Tianxi had never mistreated himself when it came to eating.

Without saying much, Xu Tianxi practically treated eating as cultivation and combat. He devoted himself to it completely and decided to write a letter to Xu Sanshi that night to share his feelings.

He had to let Xu Sanshi feel a little involved in such a good thing. It was like looking at plums to quench one's thirst.

Xu Sanshi had broken through to Soul Elder a year ago. He was now thriving at Shrek and was known as the Outer Courtyard's number-one defensive Soul Master. Xu Tianxi would have to raise the intensity for him and make sure he did not grow complacent.

After eating and drinking his fill, Xiao Changfeng began telling his story. Xu Tianxi sat upright and listened, his expression shifting repeatedly from surprise to understanding, then to endless emotion...

The story was not especially fresh. Like Kong Xiyue, Xiao Changfeng had been born into a branch of the Imperial family, except that Kong Xiyue belonged to the Sun Moon Empire's Imperial family, while Xiao Changfeng belonged to the Heaven Dou Empire's Imperial family.

His father was an old prince of the Heaven Dou Empire and an Imperial Uncle of the current Tian Hun Emperor. His mother had come from a humble background. She had been a cook in the prince's residence and shared the surname Xiao. Xiao Changfeng had been born after the old prince got drunk and acted recklessly.

The princess was not jealous. She simply despised, with equal contempt, this "bastard" who had sullied the Imperial family's bloodline. She sent them both to the kitchen court to perform menial chores. Young Xiao Changfeng's only hope was to awaken a decent Martial Soul so that he could obtain some resources and improve his and his mother's circumstances.

At that moment, his own grandmaster appeared once more. Xu Xiaoyun, who loved eating, had wandered into the old prince's kitchen and become a rooftop lurker. After tasting several delicious dishes, he found them to his liking and sought out Xiao Changfeng and his mother.

After learning of their situation, Xu Xiaoyun did not hesitate. He directly took the pitiful mother and son out of the prince's residence and brought them back to the Xuanming Sect.

Afterward, Xu Xiaoyun found Xiao Changfeng clever and pleasing to the eye. He gave him some miraculous pills to improve his constitution. Xiao Changfeng also lived up to expectations. At the age of six, he not only awakened Innate Full Soul Power but also awakened the mutated Ice Crystal Phoenix Martial Soul.

The strength of the Phoenix Martial Soul was beyond question. Delighted to discover such talent, Xu Xiaoyun immediately accepted Xiao Changfeng as his disciple. After teaching him for nine years, he sent him to the Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy to cultivate. Xiao Changfeng transformed himself at the Star Luo Royal Academy, reaching the high-level Soul Emperor realm before the age of twenty. He led his team in sweeping away every team from the Heaven Dou Empire in a Tournament held in Heaven Dou City.

After the battle, he returned to the Xuanming Sect to cultivate in seclusion. Once he broke through to Level Ninety-Six and his strength reached maturity, he left seclusion and secretly crippled the old princess who had made things difficult for him and his mother. He then came to the Black Tortoise Merchant Guild to serve as its president.

What a textbook case of Huo Yuhao successfully taking revenge!

Excellent. It seemed that his grandmaster's line had a special tradition: collecting the Imperial Clan nobles of the major empires, then sending them to opposing countries or forces to cultivate.

It didn't matter if they lacked a gifted disciple. They could just go find one in the Imperial family! Aside from that bunch of useless people in the Dou Ling Empire, the other three families could all produce Talent.

"So, Senior Martial Uncle, wouldn't you be the most outstanding Genius in the history of the Star Luo Royal Soul Master Academy? Didn't the Star Luo Empire offer you benefits back then and try to persuade you to stay with them?" Xu Tianxi teased.

"They did offer quite a few benefits, but I wasn't very interested."

Xiao Changfeng raised his teacup and took a sip, his expression calm. "What they could give me, my teacher could give me too. What they couldn't give me, my teacher could give me as well. With my teacher's strength, they wouldn't have dared force me to stay."

"Among the Three Great Empires, the Star Luo Empire has the strongest military and Soul Tool technology, but its Soul Master power is much weaker than the Heaven Dou Empire's. The gap between them in terms of Titled Douluo isn't large, but the gap at the Super Douluo level is considerable."

Xu Tianxi's eyes turned, and he asked curiously, "How so? I heard Grandmaster say that the Star Luo Empire has a Hall of Worship dedicated to enshrining Titled Douluo and Super Douluo. The Medicine Immortal Douluo, the greatest healing-type Soul Master of the age, is there too."

"No matter how great the Medicine Immortal Douluo's abilities are, they can't keep the Hall of Worship Master alive. What use are they?"

Xiao Changfeng shook his head and said, "The current Hall of Worship Master of the Star Luo Empire is an old ancestor of the Star Luo Royal Family. The Star Luo Royal Family's Xu Clan was originally the reclusive Star Crown Sect. Their inherited Star Crown Martial Soul surpasses most top-tier Martial Souls in quality, and that Star Crown Ancestor has also reached Level Ninety-Eight. His combat power is formidable."

"But time spares no one. He is even older than my teacher and Mu En. He stopped appearing in public long ago and is said to have been in closed-door cultivation at the Hall of Worship for many years.

"My teacher speculated that the Star Crown Ancestor's condition must already be extremely poor. Whether he can still fight is a question. He may even have exhausted his lifespan, with the Star Luo Royal Family secretly withholding news of his death."

"I see. No wonder Xuan Zi acted so arrogantly in the Star Luo Empire. No one from the Star Luo Empire came out to take charge. It seems that even if the Star Crown Ancestor isn't dead, he is probably in much the same condition as Mu En..."

After learning this secret of the Star Luo Empire from Xiao Changfeng and recalling how Xuan Zi had openly threatened everyone in the Star Luo Empire in the original story—"If anything happens to a disciple of my Shrek, this old man will go crazy right here"—and had confidently declared, "It seems no one here can stop this old man from going crazy," Xu Tianxi immediately understood. A trace of pity rose in his heart for the Star Luo Empire.

Fists were the only real truth. Without a top expert in the family, one could not even speak with confidence.

"Other than the Star Crown Ancestor and the Medicine Immortal Douluo, there aren't many figures in the Star Luo Empire's Hall of Worship worth taking seriously. At the Super Douluo level, they might not even be able to suppress our Xuanming Sect, so there's no need to take them too seriously."

Xiao Changfeng looked indifferent, a calm confidence showing between his brows.

Xu Tianxi couldn't help laughing. "Of course. You are a Level Ninety-Six Super Douluo with the Ice Crystal Phoenix Martial Soul, and your soul ring configuration is powerful too. I'm afraid even a Level Ninety-Seven Super Douluo might not be able to defeat you for certain."

At this, thoughtfulness appeared in Xiao Changfeng's eyes. He tapped his knuckles against the table as if calculating his chances.

"There are only two Level Ninety-Seven Super Douluo widely known in the Soul Master world: the Dou Ling Empire's Sun Douluo and Shrek's Green Shadow Douluo. I've never fought them, but their Martial Souls are inferior to mine, and their vital energy isn't as abundant..."

Xu Tianxi's lips twitched. You're actually calculating it? Those two are veteran seniors of the Soul Master world. Of course they aren't as young and vigorous as you.

"I think that instead of considering this, you should calculate when you can advance further. Once you break through to Level Ninety-Seven, those two definitely won't be a match for you, this rising star."

Xiao Changfeng's expression turned solemn. He shook his head and sighed. "That really isn't easy. Even if you gave me ten years, I couldn't guarantee that I would definitely break through."

"That's normal. Take it slowly..." Xu Tianxi encouraged him kindly.

"Unless I stop concerning myself with outside matters and begin cultivating in seclusion from this moment onward. Then I might have a good chance. But that's impossible."

Xiao Changfeng thought for a moment before adding that.

"You really are..."

Xu Tianxi's eyelids twitched. He was momentarily speechless, not knowing how to respond.

Perhaps realizing that his words had been difficult to answer, Xiao Changfeng laughed heartily to dispel the awkwardness and said loudly, "Little Martial Nephew, you don't need to envy me. Although your Ultimate Martial Soul will make cultivation very slow after Level Thirty, we'll do everything we can to help you advance quickly. Once you become a Titled Douluo and begin cultivating your Second Martial Soul, that will be when you truly unleash your strength. By then, catching up to me—or even surpassing me—will be within reach."

A flicker of light moved through Xu Tianxi's eyes. "After my Deep Meditation, I came up with some ideas about my fighting style. Senior Martial Uncle, could you give me some guidance?"

"All right. Come on."