After learning the exact location of the Blue Silver Emperor seed, Qian Pingchuan clasped his hands and said quietly, "Bear Venerable, please make a trip and bring back the seed of my mother's Doppelganger."
"No problem! I'll take you all back first, then escort Tang Hao and the other one to find the Blue Silver Emperor seed. If they can't find it, I'll crush them to death right there! That'll teach them to lie."
"Mm."
Qian Pingchuan approved of Xiong Jun's plan. Then he turned to Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu and said, "Now that things here are settled, you two should come with us."
Zhu Zhuqing glanced at Xiao Wu and hesitated before speaking. "Um, I'm willing to leave with you! But please don't make things difficult for my friends or Shrek anymore."
"Of course! Our goal was to take you and Xiao Wu away from the start!"
"Xiao Wu too?"
Zhu Zhuqing could only nod. She said nothing more. This group seemed easy to talk to, but they'd kill you the moment you crossed them!
"Xiao Wu! If you want to take her, you'll have to step over my dead body!"
At that moment, Tang San shouted, his eyes bloodshot with fury.
Tang Hao endured the agony of watching the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring slip away right before his eyes, then knocked Tang San unconscious with a chop to the neck. He was afraid his son really would be killed!
Xiao Wu sighed inwardly and looked at Qian Pingchuan, pleading, "I'm willing to go with you, but please don't hurt Third Brother!"
Qian Pingchuan asked, puzzled, "What's your relationship with him?"
Xiao Wu explained her relationship with Tang San. Qian Pingchuan's expression turned rather strange as he thought, They've shared a bed since they were little? This... damn, that's something! Were they really both children? Could they actually sleep in the same bed? Did nothing really happen? And they slept together until they were twelve! Twelve—already freaking adults!
For a moment,
Qian Pingchuan couldn't figure out whether his Doppelganger, Tang San of the Tang Sect, was a pervert, or whether this Hundred Thousand Year Soft-Bone Charm Rabbit had gotten the better of him.
Qian Pingchuan thought, Does this count as Xiao Yi's Doppelganger losing her virginity? I don't get it! I really don't!
The question was too profound. He couldn't make sense of it just then.
Beside him, Ozka hadn't given it that much thought. He raised a thumb and praised her. "Impressive! His father's a Titled Douluo, and yet you've been his sworn sister since childhood? You were practically lining up to give him a Soul Ring and Soul Bone!"
Feng Xiaodi summed it up brilliantly: "You weren't a child bride. You were a child Soul Ring, a child Soul Bone!"
Xiao Wu's heart sank. They really do know I'm a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast!
"Whew..." Xiao Wu let out a long breath and spoke as if resigned to her fate. "Please don't hurt Third Brother! Spare their lives! I'm willing to go with you... You can kill me or do whatever you want!"
Yu Tianshu smiled. "Don't worry! We won't do anything to you. After all, murder is against the law!"
At that, Xiao Wu stiffly turned her head and glanced at Dai Mubai, whom Yu Tianshu had kicked to death. His body hadn't even gone cold yet! Then she turned back and gave Yu Tianshu a timid look, not daring to argue.
When you're the meat on the chopping board, you can't help but believe that murder is against the law!
"Uh..." Yu Tianshu's mouth twitched. He was about to explain, but Feng Xiaodi cut him off. "People from Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Imperial Family are coming! There are too many eyes on us now, too. Let's hurry out of here. To avoid being followed, we'll split up and meet again once we've shaken off the tails."
"Mm."
Everyone nodded.
Just as they were preparing to leave, Yu Tianshu glanced at his aunt Liu Erfeng's Doppelganger, Liu Erlong. One look was all it took for his brow to furrow!
Just as Qian Pingchuan and the others were thinking of leaving, Shrek's people finally began to relax a little.
Now that they'd relaxed, Yu Xiaogang couldn't hold back the pain from being slapped flying. He coughed lightly, thin threads of blood still seeping from the corner of his mouth.
"Xiaogang! Are you all right?"
Liu Erlong supported Yu Xiaogang, then tenderly wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth! Yu Xiaogang gratefully took her hand and even squeezed it a few times. Only then did he take the handkerchief and say, deeply moved, "Cough, cough... I'm fine."
My uncle's holding my aunt's hand... and freaking caressed it a few times, all tender and affectionate! Damn!
Yu Tianshu muttered to himself, frowning as he tilted his head and asked, "Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, what's the relationship between those two?"
At that, the two followed Yu Tianshu's gaze.
In an instant!
Zhu Zhuqing furrowed her brows, while Xiao Wu murmured, "Does true love really have to care about what the world thinks?"
"T-true love?"
Boom!
Yu Tianshu's mind exploded, and he felt as if the whole world had gone wrong! What had he just heard? True love? What the hell did she mean, true love? What kind of worldview was that?
"Damn!"
Yu Tianshu cursed, gritting his teeth. "Explain yourselves! What's their relationship?"
Everyone nearby sensed the fury Yu Tianshu could barely keep out of his voice! Qian Pingchuan immediately tried to stop him. "Yu Tianshu! Let's get the facts straight first!"
Ozka chimed in quietly. "Yeah, let's find out what this 'true love' business is about first. It could be a misunderstanding, right? Sure, they're your uncle and aunt in the Immortal Court, but this is a different world... Maybe—just maybe—they aren't first cousins here?"
"Right!" Feng Xiaodi chimed in too. "They can't really be first cousins, can they? That'd be insane!"
"Well... you have a point! Whew..." Yu Tianshu let out a long breath, forcing down his anger. "Xiao Yi... no, Xiao Wu, what exactly is their relationship? Are they first cousins?"
Everyone's reaction made Xiao Wu a little afraid to say more.
Beside her, Zhu Zhuqing, who was usually more composed, continued for Xiao Wu. "They're first cousins! And... husband and wife!"
Boom!
This time, it wasn't a bolt from the blue. It was the Soul Power inside Yu Tianshu surging out of control!
Feeling the palpable pressure of his Soul Power, Zhu Zhuqing hesitated, then hurriedly clarified, "More specifically, they're a couple who share meals. They're husband and wife who don't sleep together."
"Fucking beasts!"
Yu Tianshu's eyes blazed with fury. He asked, each word deliberate, "Your Highness, I want to kill this pair of shameless wretches!"
Qian Pingchuan was stunned too!
No matter how many possibilities he'd considered, Qian Pingchuan had never imagined that first cousins would actually be in love!
Ever since arriving at Shrek, one thing after another had completely surpassed the limits of Qian Pingchuan's understanding!
It was one thing to give the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Rings from animal-type Soul Beasts, but why give the Blue Silver Emperor poison attributes too? Those theories they revered as treasures and took such pride in were downright blinding! And siblings could openly be in love? They even had the nerve to call themselves a "couple who share meals"!
He couldn't help it!
A line his father had once said flashed through Qian Pingchuan's mind: Was this a collapse of morality, or a distortion of human nature?
"Ah..."
Qian Pingchuan sighed inwardly. I'm an assassin who kills without blinking, and I've lived two lifetimes! Yet my knowledge is still so shallow! This trip to Shrek wasn't wasted—I've really seen things today! As for this... I'll let Yu Tianshu decide for himself whether they deserve to die!
After a second of silence, Qian Pingchuan said, "Watch your back. We're leaving first!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Hu Lieni and Feng Xiaodi each carried one person and withdrew. Xiong Jun grabbed one in each hand too, reminding Yu Tianshu, "Don't linger too long!"
"Mm."
Yu Tianshu nodded lightly. The fury in his chest was already beyond control!
The taut nerves Shrek's people had just managed to relax snapped tight again!
After killing Dai Mubai and taking Xiao Wu and Zhu Zhuqing away, wasn't it over? Weren't they all preparing to leave? They'd already accepted their fate! How had things suddenly taken another sharp turn?
"What else do you want?" Flender stepped forward and stood in front of everyone.
But the moment Flender saw the eight Soul Rings rising beneath Yu Tianshu's feet—purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red, red, trembling slightly with his fury—and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon crackling with blue lightning behind him, his heart gave a sudden lurch.
The killing intent radiating from Yu Tianshu had become tangible!
It wasn't as chilling as the Divine Slaughter's Domain Tang Hao had unleashed moments ago, but the crushing pressure of Yu Tianshu's killing intent was no weaker!
When he'd kicked Dai Mubai to death, he'd been so nonchalant. Now Yu Tianshu had become a raging dragon!
What would happen next was impossible to predict!
Yu Tianshu glared furiously at them and demanded, "Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, are you really brother and sister? Are you really... husband and wife?"
Liu Erlong gritted her teeth, fury choked in her chest. "I love him! Nobody can stop me from being with Xiaogang!"
At that, the last shred of hope in Yu Tianshu's heart vanished without a trace!
Yu Tianshu took a deep breath, then suddenly spoke in a calm voice, his words full of disappointment. "Aunt, you've really disappointed me."
"Aunt?"
Liu Erlong knitted her brows slightly.
The boy before her was covered from head to toe, but why did his voice sound so full of disappointment? Aunt? Whose aunt was she?
As she thought about it, Liu Erlong's heart gave a sudden lurch. She realized that this person really was from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan! Maybe she really was his aunt!
Liu Erlong's heart sank.
She had the courage to face the world and defy her father! But to have a younger nephew walk in on her and her uncle together, to witness the two of them entangled with each other... that left Liu Erlong with nowhere to hide from shame!
"Whew..."
Yu Tianshu closed his eyes and drew in a long breath, holding it in his chest. He felt as if the fury inside him were about to explode.
Boom!
The next moment, Yu Tianshu shattered the ground beneath his feet. Like a flicker, he appeared in front of Liu Erlong and punched her in the stomach!
But Liu Erlong didn't fly backward. A surge of Soul Power held her fast against Yu Tianshu's fist!
"Aunt... You've cast aside kinship, morality, and propriety! Surely you still know what shame is?"
"Pfft!"
Liu Erlong spat out a mouthful of blood and glared at Yu Tianshu. Blood at her lips, she stubbornly challenged him, "For the sake of your so-called propriety, kinship, and morality, do I have to leave the one I love?"
At that!
Yu Tianshu felt the fury in his chest surge even higher! How could his aunt's Doppelganger be someone with no sense of even basic decency or shame?
She was his beloved aunt, the aunt who had raised him from infancy! And her Doppelganger had... had fallen in love with her own brother? Fallen in love with the beast who'd destroyed the entire clan!
Wretch?
Yu Tianshu silently repeated the word in his heart, but he would never say it to his aunt's face!
"Wretch!"
Yu Tianshu roared at Yu Xiaogang, released Liu Erlong, kicked Yu Xiaogang to the ground, then stomped on his chest. "Wretch! I wish I could crush you under my foot, you inhuman beast!"
He couldn't take it out on Liu Erfeng's Doppelganger, but couldn't he take it out on that good-for-nothing Yu Xiaotie's Doppelganger?
"Xiaogang!"
Boom!
Flender tried to come to his aid, but Yu Tianshu flicked a hand and sent him flying with a dragon-shaped blast of Soul Power.
Everyone had no time to worry about whether Yu Tianshu had just used a Soul Skill without activating his Soul Ring. They only knew the attack had taken the shape of a dragon, so it probably had something to do with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.
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