Tang San had settled the matter with one decisive blow.
The tide of public opinion in the Black World had been forcibly turned around in an instant.
However.
Before the people of the Black World could fully digest the topic,
the Sky Screen changed again!
This time,
it was no longer Dai Mubai bullying someone.
Instead...
[Black World: A Cruel Royal Family, Brothers at Each Other's Throats!]
The background grew gloomy.
On a long, narrow palace path,
five-year-old Dai Mubai was walking along cheerfully with several guards.
Suddenly,
a figure appeared up ahead.
He was a youth a few years older than Dai Mubai.
His golden hair fell over his shoulders, his eyes were different colors, and he radiated a chilling aura far beyond his years.
It was none other than Dai Mubai's eldest brother, Dai Weisi!
A group of imposing attendants followed behind Dai Weisi, and they blocked Dai Mubai's path.
"Well, well. If it isn't my useless little brother?"
Dai Weisi's contemptuous voice rang out from the screen.
The moment young Dai Mubai saw Dai Weisi, his arrogant swagger vanished without a trace, replaced by a look of terror and fear.
"B-Big Brother."
Young Dai Mubai's voice trembled.
"Kneel."
Dai Weisi didn't waste a word. He coldly spat out the command.
There was no reason for it.
He simply wanted to humiliate him.
At the sight of this,
the people of the Black World held their breath.
Someone muttered under their breath:
"Isn't Dai Weisi taking things too far?"
"White Tiger Douluo had such a bad temper as a child. He can take this?"
"Of course he'll fight him! The White Tiger Martial Soul is made for slaughter. It would rather break than bend!"
Everyone waited expectantly,
hoping that the little tyrant who had been so arrogant just moments ago would rise up and resist. Even if he got beaten, at least he'd show the White Tiger's spirit!
However,
the next moment,
something that left everyone utterly dumbfounded happened.
Thud!
A dull thump rang out.
Without the slightest hesitation,
without the slightest resistance,
without even a single defiant word,
young Dai Mubai's knees buckled, and he dropped heavily onto the hard stone pavement.
Not only did he kneel,
he lowered his head and spoke in a tearful voice:
"Big Brother... I was wrong."
"Please let me go, Big Brother."
Pathetic.
Cowardly.
It was fear etched into his very bones.
Dai Weisi looked at his kneeling little brother, let out a piercing laugh, then kicked Dai Mubai in the shoulder and strode away.
He left young Dai Mubai kneeling there alone, trembling.
Silence.
A deathly silence.
The entire Black World, from Heaven Dou Camp to the great cities, sank into an eerie hush.
Those who had just been praising Dai Mubai for having "an air of authority from childhood" and "never bending"—
now felt as if someone had slapped them hard across the face.
It stung.
It burned.
This was White Tiger Douluo?
This was Dai Mubai, the man reputed to have a fiery temper and a warrior's spirit?
He just knelt?
He didn't even dare to resist?
Yu Xiaogang's mouth hung open. The words "fierce and domineering" caught in his throat, and he couldn't get them out.
Tang San's pupils also contracted sharply.
He had thought that Dai Mubai might have been no match for Dai Weisi as a child.
But he hadn't expected—
him to be this weak!
Was this really Boss Dai, who had led the Shrek Seven Devils into battle?
Could the servility in his bones really disappear just by growing older?
"Damn it!"
At that very moment,
Dai Mubai stood in the camp, his face dark as the bottom of a pot.
His fists were clenched tight, his nails digging into his palms.
Humiliation!
Unprecedented humiliation!
Who was behind this?
Who had set up this damn Sky Screen?
Why expose the most shameful part of his past for the whole world to see?!
He could feel it.
The soldiers and Soul Masters around him were looking at him differently.
No longer with reverence,
but with suspicion, contempt, and even... pity.
"Haah... haah..."
Dai Mubai panted heavily, his chest rising and falling violently.
He had to say something.
Otherwise, his image as "Boss Dai" would collapse!
"I was... still a child back then."
Dai Mubai's voice was hoarse as he struggled to keep himself composed.
"Dai Weisi was much older than me, and he'd awakened his Martial Soul long before."
"If I'd resisted, he would've beaten me even worse."
"That was... biding my time."
"It was just a momentary humiliation. I knelt so I could survive and seek revenge one day!"
He spoke with such self-righteous conviction,
as though he hadn't knelt out of fear, but because he'd been hatching some grand scheme.
Seeing this, Tang San immediately caught on.
Although something about it felt off to him, he had to keep everyone's spirits up.
"Exactly!"
Tang San stepped forward and swept his gaze across the crowd, his voice firm.
"Those who achieve great things don't concern themselves with trifles!"
"A five-year-old facing an enemy he can't defeat chose to protect himself. That was wisdom!"
"Don't be fooled by appearances."
"It's only a parallel world. Maybe that so-called White Emperor had an even worse childhood!"
With Tang San taking the lead,
Ma Hongjun and Oscar quickly chimed in as well.
Only then did the others reluctantly accept that explanation.
Still, deep in their eyes, some of the reverence they'd once felt was gone.
White World.
Boom!
A terrifying wave of killing intent swept through the entire Star Luo Great Hall.
"Wretch!!!"
An old general with snow-white hair was so furious that his beard trembled. The wine cup in his hand crumbled to powder.
"What a disgrace!"
"He's disgraced the Star Luo Imperial Family!"
"Kneeling? He actually knelt?!"
"The White Tiger line would rather die than yield! Even in death on the battlefield, we must never live on our knees!"
"That Dai Mubai from the Black World doesn't deserve the Dai name!!!"
Throughout the great hall,
every Star Luo powerhouse felt a deep sense of shame.
It was the shame of sharing a name.
They knew it was another world.
But seeing a face identical to their own emperor's behave in such a spineless manner—
they wanted to rush into the screen and slap that worthless fool to death!
On the raised dais,
Zhu Zhuqing was so furious that her pretty face had gone deathly pale.
She bit her lower lip hard, her gaze fixed on the Sky Screen and filled with murderous intent.
"So that's the man I'm supposed to marry in the Black World?"
"A coward like that deserves me?"
"If he's that kind of worthless man, I'd rather never marry—or... kill him!"
Qian Renxue and Ning Rongrong beside her wore equally scornful expressions.
"I can't even watch."
Qian Renxue shook her head, contempt filling her golden eyes.
"How could a spineless coward like that even cultivate to the Titled Douluo level?"
"Looks like the standards in that world aren't very high."
The members of the harem chattered among themselves, all defending their own man.
They thought that Dai Mubai from the Black World was insulting the very name "Dai Mubai."
Only Dai Mubai himself
remained seated, perfectly unruffled.
He even picked up a peeled grape and leisurely popped it into his mouth.
"Enough."
"Don't get worked up."
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