"That's it. How do you want to be the crown prince of the Heaven Dou Empire? It's your choice."
After saying that, Nan Feng turned around and left.
But Qian Renxue took a step forward again and stood in front of him.
"Teacher!"
"You have told me so much, so what kind of person do you want me to be? In other words, how do you want me to choose?"
"I'm not making any suggestions."
Nan Feng raised his eyes slightly, his expression calm and cold. "As I said just now, I will only state the facts and help you sort out the pros and cons. As for what you ultimately want to choose, that is your own business and has nothing to do with me."
Qian Renxue gritted his teeth and was not willing to end this topic.
She stared at Nan Feng and suddenly changed the subject. "Then... where is that woman? How did she choose?"
When Bibi Dong was mentioned, Qian Renxue's eyes became a little complicated, even with a trace of incomprehensible confusion.
"Spirit Hall's rules have changed too much in the past few years."
"Although this change has indeed greatly improved Spirit Hall's image in the hearts of civilians and low-level Soul Master throughout the continent, it has also caused extremely strong protests and backlash within the Spirit Hall!"
"Teacher, you should know better than me. The essence of the Spirit Hall is a Soul Master organization that controls the most powerful violent machine in the entire continent! And those who master absolute violence must be strong, domineering, and even unruly in their behavior. This is the iron law of Soul Master World that the weak will eat the strong!"
"But what has that woman been doing these past few years?"
"As the pope, she issued extremely strict iron laws to forcibly restrict the behavior of all soul masters in the Wuhun Palace! From the grassroots soul masters in a remote town, to the soul saints and Contra-level bishops in major major cities, and even the relatives and descendants of the elders in the Elders Palace, they are all under her high-pressure supervision!"
"If these rules are implemented to the letter, it means that Soul Master, who has absolute power, must reason with the weak who have no power to resist! Is this reasonable? Is this in line with Soul Master World's law of survival?"
Qian Renxue stared at Nan Feng: "If it weren't for that conference that year and your ups and downs, that woman was pushed to the absolute pinnacle of righteousness, giving her unprecedented prestige in the Spirit Hall and even the entire continent..."
"The reforms she has implemented in recent years that offend all vested interests will never work! Spirit Hall has mutinied long ago!"
"To put it bluntly, inside the Spirit Hall, many middle and high-level Soul Master are complaining privately, thinking that His Holiness the Pope is crazy and doesn't know what they are doing. Just to establish a so-called 'glorious image' in the eyes of outsiders, they actually suppress Soul Master, who they work hard for!"
Listening to Qian Renxue's standard villain speech, which can be called "Social Darwinism", Nan Feng was not only not angry, but also laughed.
"Look, what did I just say?"
Nan Feng spread his hands and looked at her mockingly. "What flows in your bones is still Qian Family's extremely arrogant 'gangster logic'. In your perception, having power means that you should be able to ignore the rules and trample on the weak."
"As for Bibi Dong's choice, that is her political ambition and path as Pope." Nan Feng replied calmly, "I am just a knife. Whatever order she wants to establish, I will be responsible for helping her remove obstacles."
After hearing this answer, Qian Renxue was not only not disappointed, but his eyes suddenly lit up.
She looked at Nan Feng with burning eyes, and tentatively took a half-step forward, her voice trembling slightly. "Then... what if I give up assassination, what if I make the same choice as that woman?"
Qian Renxue took a deep breath and discarded her real purpose tonight. "Teacher, if I choose to take that bloodless road, will you... help me?"
Nan Feng heard this, as if he had heard some extremely funny joke, he tilted his head slightly and asked, "Do you need my help?"
"You are the only bloodline of the Angel Clan's generation. Behind you, stand Grand Pontiff Qian Daoliu, and the pinnacle worshipers of the immortals in the entire Douluo Hall."
"You have the top military group in the continent backing you, so you still need to ask me, an outsider, for help?"
Faced with Nan Feng's ridicule, Qian Renxue was not angry. Instead, her eyes became clearer and sharper than ever before.
"Didn't my father have the support of the worshipers back then?"
Qian Renxue pointedly asked, "But what's the result?"
"In that conference that year, even all the worshipers including Golden Crocodile Douluo came forward. But the final outcome was that they were completely deprived of the qualification to interfere with the Spirit Hall's power, at least in name and law! They could only huddle in the Douluo Hall to retire in frustration!"
"Who caused all this? Isn't it all teacher you?"
"You could even force my grandfather to kick my biological father's name out of the Angel Family family tree forever at that conference! Let my father be ruined and be nailed to the pillar of shame forever!"
Qian Renxue took a deep breath and said, "Yes, my grandfather and those worshipers are indeed powerful."
"But... weren't they all completely defeated by you, teacher?"
"..."
Nan Feng looked at Qian Renxue, who was standing in front of him, with a bit of stubbornness and expectation in his eyes, and his eyes suddenly became a little strange.
It should be said that a few years ago, Qian Renxue was still young, and she had been extremely longing for maternal love since she was a child. Therefore, during the days of Spirit City, she had an almost instinctive dependence on him as her "teacher".
But it's different now.
For the past three years, she had been lurking alone in the crisis-ridden Heaven Dou Imperial Family. Not long ago, she even personally planned and perfectly replaced the real eldest prince Xue Qinghe.
Struggling in this murderous whirlpool of power, she is no longer the little girl who needed coaxing.
Coupled with her extremely standard and cold-blooded "law of the jungle" speech just now, Nan Feng was already convinced that after experiencing the baptism of power, Qian Renxue had begun to inevitably move closer to her arrogant father Qian Xunji.
Result...
Nan Feng narrowed his eyes slightly. How come this girl's eyes are exactly the same as they were in the Pope Palace a few years ago?
Are you still so eagerly thinking about the approval of his teacher?
Looking at Qian Renxue's appearance, Nan Feng's brain, which has always used the worst angle to speculate on people's hearts, couldn't help but have an extremely dark suspicion--
Could this girl be playing a trick with him?
You know, Qian Renxue is not only the daughter of Qian Xunji, she is also the biological flesh and blood of that crazy woman Bibi Dong who tolerated herself to the extreme!
Bibi Dong was able to endure humiliation for several years, pretending to be obedient, just waiting for the perfect opportunity to take revenge on Qian Xunji with his own hands.
And Qian Renxue himself was willing to sacrifice his best youth for the sake of the Spirit Hall's ambition to unify the mainland, and lurked in the Heaven Dou Imperial Family for twenty years!
This terrible forbearance and character, once used on him Nan Feng...
Now she is pretending in front of him, pretending to be humble and obedient to the teacher, lowering his guard, and then one day stab him in the back to avenge her disgraced father Qian Xunji.
This possibility is not only possible, but also very high!
It was eerily quiet in the study.
Qian Renxue was a little frightened by Nan Feng's strange gaze that seemed to be able to peel off human skin and look directly into the depths of the soul. She subconsciously touched her cheek and asked doubtfully:
"Teacher... what are you looking at?"
"It's nothing." Nan Feng withdrew his gaze, clasped his hands on his chest, and said in a tone of extremely rare frankness and emotion, "I just suddenly felt that I can't understand you."
"Can't you understand?" Qian Renxue was stunned for a moment.
"Yeah."
Nan Feng sighed, "If what you just said to me, including your current attitude, are all true from the bottom of your heart, then I will indeed be very happy."
"After all, this shows that my ability to 'fool' and brainwash me has really reached its peak. Even though you have left Spirit City and have been alone in this Heaven Dou Imperial Palace full of intrigues for three full years, you still have faith in me as a teacher."
"But... if everything you just did was just pretending, and you were deliberately pretending to be submissive in order to cater to me. To be honest..."
Nan Feng grinned and showed an extremely satisfied evil smile, "I will be happier than before."
"Because that means that it was me, Nan Feng, who personally taught you to become a qualified top politician who can tolerate everything to achieve his goals. You have learned my most essential skills."