You're Just Craving the Young Handsome Guy's Body, You're Typing

In an instant, countless gray currents surged madly from Zhongli Tian's chest, and the half-dead man let out a shrill, miserable scream during the process. However, as a human stick pinned to the ground by the Angel Holy Sword, all he could do was wail and shriek.

Qian Yuhan's eyes brightened, allowing the Angel Holy Sword to continuously feed back golden streams of light to him.

Zhongli Di wailed for a full ten seconds amidst the holy flames carried by the blade of the Angel Holy Sword before being completely reduced to ashes.

His older brother, Zhongli Tian, was slightly stronger than him, struggling for a mere two seconds longer.

With this, Zhongli Tian, Zhongli Di, and Zhongli Ren—the three Evil Soul Master brothers whose primary combat method was manipulating beast souls—successfully achieved the hidden accomplishment of being born on the same day and month of the same year, and dying on the same day and month of the same year.

"Tsk tsk tsk, they died far too quickly."

After speaking, the Rakshasa Phantom turned to look at Qian Yuhan, whose aura was incredibly condensed after 'purifying' three Evil Soul Douluo in succession, and asked with a smile: "How do you feel?"

"Not bad," Qian Yuhan replied truthfully.

"Then let us withdraw."

"Fine."

Retracting his soul rings, Qian Yuhan, having successfully purified the three eight-ringed Evil Soul Masters, hid his merit and fame, turning to head deeper into the Star Dou Great Forest.

Realizing that she would surely regret it if she didn't do something, Xu Tianzhen's brain spun rapidly, and she came up with a brilliant excuse with rare cleverness.

"Auntie..." Xu Tianzhen raised her head, reaching out to tug hard on Xu Yu's sleeve, saying:

"Did you see that? My savior is leaving! Our Xu family is, at the very least, the upright Sun-Moon Royal Family; how can we leave a kindness unrequited? You should say something, do something to keep him here so we have a chance to repay him."

"?"

Hearing this, Xu Yu's aged face couldn't help but twitch slightly. She opened her mouth, her lips trembling a few times, wanting to speak but stopping, wanting to stop but speaking.

In the end, the long string of words about how she would be punished with a hundred strokes of the rod upon returning was firmly stuck in her throat by her strong self-control.

Instead, she secretly grumbled in her heart:

Princess, why don't you take a look at the expression in your eyes right now? Is that really you wanting to keep a savior to repay him?

You are clearly just looking at how handsome the young man is, how talented he is, and you are coveting his... tsk tsk tsk tsk, I'm too embarrassed to expose you to your face...

Of course, grumbling was grumbling, and complaining was complaining.

If she could satisfy the reasonable request of her little princess, she would try her best to do so.

Moreover, she was indeed very interested in this gifted youth.

If they could forge a bond of goodwill here, it would be a great thing for both the empire and herself.

Thinking this, Xu Yu nodded at Xu Yan, making a micro-expression that meant 'go ahead and do it.'

Xu Yan naturally understood, and he raised his hand, shouting to Qian Yuhan with a momentum like a rainbow:

"Young friend, please stay your steps."

"!!!"

The moment Xu Yan's 'young friend, please stay your steps' left his mouth, Qian Yuhan shivered several times in a row.

That sudden, eerie feeling felt to Qian Yuhan as peculiar as someone pulling open his collar in the middle of winter and stuffing a large snowball inside.

"?"

Qian Yuhan turned his body slowly, looking suspiciously at the muscular man with a pair of proud peach-blossom eyes behind him, unable to help but mutter to himself: What exactly is going on? Why does it feel... like something is not quite right!

Forcing down that sudden sense of weirdness, Qian Yuhan paused to steady his mind and said softly: "Does your Excellency... have further business?"

"Just now, our Princess encountered danger. If it weren't for your righteous intervention, I fear she would have already..."

"Stop right there."

Before Xu Yan could finish his platitudes, Qian Yuhan, who feared trouble, took the initiative to kill the conversation: "I think you have misunderstood. I did not intend to save anyone; I merely acted to exterminate those Evil Soul Masters who deserve to be killed by all!"

"A mere trifle, not worth mentioning, and naturally there is no need to speak of thanks or repayment."

"Young friend is truly... straightforward."

Since advancing to Soul Douluo ten years ago, Xu Yan had not had a younger generation speak to him in such a way for a long time, and he was now somewhat ashamed.

He grinned awkwardly, grumbling in his heart:

My goodness... this kid... really knows how to chat! You've killed the conversation like this, what else can this old man say...

"Princess... shall we..." Xu Yan had just wanted to say should they just forget it, when he looked down and saw Xu Tianzhen looking at him poutily with her bright, watery eyes.

In those agate-like sparkling pupils, what flickered was not frustration or anger, nor the common grievance or petulance, but a kind of disappointment that said: You are truly useless, to fail at such a simple task...

Yes, that was it, disappointment—a kind of disappointment that said you are already at such an age, how can you be so unreliable, I am so helpless.

"I have other matters to attend to, I shall take my leave."

As the words fell, Qian Yuhan turned to leave, but he did not expect that Xu Tianzhen, who had been protected behind Xu Yu and Xu Yan since just now, had already darted out. She scurried to his front and spread her arms to block his path.

Qian Yuhan: "Hm?", ಠ_ಠ.

"..."

After a few seconds of silence, Qian Yuhan let out a soft breath and said quietly: "Is there anything else?"

(✪ω✪) Wow! He looked over! He is talking to me!

At this moment, Xu Tianzhen, who had just been mentally rehearsing several different ways to start a conversation, found her mind momentarily blank; it took a long while before she managed to stammer out:

"Uh... I... um, well... my name is Xu Tianzhen, and I am a princess of the Sun Moon Empire."

"Mm," Qian Yuhan nodded noncommittally, answering in a rigid, matter-of-fact tone, "I already gathered that from your conversation just now."

"You saved us earlier," Xu Tianzhen said, lowering her head as an unnatural flush crept across her cheeks.

"As I said before, I had no subjective intention of saving anyone; I was simply intent on killing the Evil Soul Master."

"Regardless, you still saved me," Xu Tianzhen suddenly lifted her head again, her eyes filled with determination, "The family motto of our Sun Moon Empire royal family is that every favor must be repaid."

Huh!?

What on earth? Every favor must be repaid?

Since when did our Sun Moon royal family have such a family motto?

And... my dear little princess, have you forgotten that your branch of the family seized the throne through rebellion? You don't follow any family mottos at all!

Listening to Xu Tianzhen's righteous declaration of "repaying favors" and the supposed family motto, Xu Yan and Xu Yu, who knew the royal family's dirty laundry better than anyone, exchanged a subconscious glance before silently bowing their heads, as if wishing they could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Embarrassing, it was just so damn embarrassing...