"Gentlemen, hear me out. We are all people of status and standing. Harmony brings wealth; there is no need to fight to the death at every turn."
Xue Ye forced down the fear in his heart, stepped between the two sides, and began persuading them earnestly.
On one side stood Ning Hai, Sect Master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, one of the Upper Three Sects, along with the sect's guardian, Fire Dragon Douluo.
This was the party he had always sought to win over, hoping to forge an alliance through marriage.
On the other side stood Saphis, one of Spirit Hall's four Platinum Bishops and the master of Heaven Dou City's Spirit Holy Hall.
This was someone he had always wanted to recruit but had never been able to win over.
Both sides were forces he could not afford to offend. Even after inheriting the throne of the Heaven Dou Empire, he could only soothe and court them.
Douluo Continent was, in the end, a world ruled by Spirit Masters.
The Heaven Dou Empire might have an army of a million, but did assembling a million troops not take time?
Qian Xunji was immensely powerful. He had actually infiltrated the imperial palace alone and appeared before his father.
This made Xue Ye understand that if a force with a Titled Douluo truly wished to assassinate the Heaven Dou Emperor, the Heaven Dou Empire, without a Titled Douluo to guard it, would be utterly unable to stop them.
"Hmph!" ×2
The two sides glared furiously at each other and snorted coldly.
Saphis had never wanted to waste time confronting Ning Hai here.
Right now, he only wanted to capture more criminals and escort them before Qian Xunji to obtain that Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone.
At present, nothing was more important than that.
Saphis waved his hand, leading his subordinates away to continue their work.
On the other side, Ning Hai likewise had no desire to waste time with Saphis here.
He had come to Heaven Dou City for only one purpose: Qian Xunji.
He wanted to invite this suddenly emerged Limit Douluo to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as its guardian Douluo and Supreme Elder.
Now that Xue Ye had conveniently offered him a way out, he naturally took it.
"We're leaving." Ning Hai waved his hand and gave the order.
Seeing that the two sides truly had not started fighting and had simply left, Xue Ye let out a sigh of relief.
Only after relaxing did he realize that his back was already soaked with sweat.
"Your Highness, are you all right?" Ge Long asked worriedly.
"I'm fine. It was just truly dangerous just now."
Xue Ye's expression abruptly changed, his gaze turning sharp and resolute. "Our Heaven Dou Empire must have Titled Douluo of our own."
He did not say the latter half aloud: without Titled Douluo, there would be no dignity.
But how could Titled Douluo be so easily cultivated?
Even if he sent his sweet-looking younger sister to offer herself to Qian Xunji, Qian Xunji would not spare her a glance.
To these Titled Douluo, perhaps only women who were Titled Douluo themselves could be worthy of them.
They could not even be bothered to look at beauties with the cultivation of a Soul Elder.
On this point, Xue Ye had wronged Qian Xunji.
It was not that he could not be bothered to look at a Heaven Dou princess sent to warm his bed as a gift. He simply instinctively did not want anything to do with stupid women.
After all, he came from an era where men and women were equal, where women could even deliver takeout alone to earn money and raise children.
Heaven Dou Emperor Memorial Square.
Qian Xunji looked over this batch of criminals escorted by the Palace Guard Knights of Heaven Dou City's Spirit Holy Hall.
They were broad and burly, with tense jaws, protruding cheekbones, and murky, vicious triangular eyes that carried undisguised intimidation whenever they looked at someone.
Dark green thorn tattoos wound from their necks to their shoulders, their jagged patterns tangled together.
Dark coats hung carelessly over their shoulders, their collars crooked. Their knuckles were thick and covered in calluses. Even standing there silently, they radiated the crude, tyrannical hostility of the underworld.
Those looks, that aura—one could tell at a glance that they were no decent citizens. They had to be thugs, lackeys, and dirty gloves raised by nobles...
"As expected of Spirit Hall, the most moral, upright, and commoner-friendly force in every generation of Douluo Continent. When it came to cracking down on criminals, they handled things professionally." Comparing them to the Heaven Dou Imperial Guard, Qian Xunji could not help but praise them inwardly.
Time to get to work.
He still had a long way to go before fulfilling the KPI of judging ten thousand criminals.
He would strive to complete the requirements of the Asura Third Trial within a month.
"Charging nine out and collecting thirteen back, engaging in usury, demanding annual interest greater than the principal, and forcing others to sell their sons, daughters, and wives."
"Death sentence. Execute immediately!"
Anyone involved in usury or human trafficking would be killed outright. Not a single one was innocent.
Not only did the culprit have to die, he could not be allowed to walk the road to the underworld alone. His whole family had to accompany him, nice and neatly.
Sending people to confiscate their property and exterminate their clans was the proper way.
"What right do you have to judge me? I'm from the Blue Lightning Jade Clan!"
Seeing a criminal swallowed by golden flames and burned down to ashes, Yu Xiaogang screamed in terror and revealed his background.
He feared that the armored man before him would judge and burn him alive, so he could only reveal his origins.
He believed that no one would dare kill him after hearing the name Blue Lightning Jade Clan.
A disciple of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was not the same as a member of the Blue Lightning Jade Clan.
Their status within the sect was worlds apart and could not be compared.
Killing a member of the Blue Lightning Jade Clan in public meant forging a deadly enmity with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
No sane person would dare make an enemy of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, one of the Upper Three Sects.
Qian Xunji asked the Spirit Hall deacon beside him, "Who is the current sect master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and how strong is the sect?"
On the first day after transmigrating, he had left Spirit City and gone to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.
After that, he had successively traveled to the Far North, Slaughter City, Sea God Island, and Star Dou Forest.
He truly had not interacted much with the natives of Douluo.
Nor had he looked into the circumstances of the major powers.
After all, Qian Xunji believed that once he inherited the Asura God Position, he could simply crush any problem head-on with absolute force.
The foolish natives of Douluo had the ultimate skill of "a sudden bright idea," and they had thought themselves into misery and death.
There was no sense of accomplishment in competing in wits and courage with fools.
He might as well steamroll them with brute force.
"Reporting to Your Excellency, the current sect master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan is Yu Yuanzhen. He advanced to Titled Douluo not long ago and inherited the position of sect master."
"His title is Thunder, and his Soul Power Level is level 91."
"There is only one Titled Douluo in the sect: Sect Master Yu Yuanzhen."
After hearing the report, Qian Xunji spoke with contempt in his voice. "I thought there was a Limit Douluo holding the fort. I never expected him to be nothing more than a newly advanced Titled Douluo."
"Are all you people from the Blue Lightning Jade Clan this ordinary and arrogant?"
Yu Xiaogang's eyes turned red with fury. He panted like a bull, his bloodshot eyes fixed fiercely on Qian Xunji.
If looks could kill, he would have killed Qian Xunji ten thousand times.
Anyone who dared look down on the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had to die!
"What crime did this criminal Spirit Master commit?" Qian Xunji asked the Spirit Hall deacon beside him.
The Spirit Hall deacon picked up the file, checked it, and answered truthfully, "Reporting to Your Excellency, he forcibly seized a civilian woman in broad daylight, causing her parents to suffer severe injuries and die without treatment."
"Dragons are lustful by nature. Besides, being favored by this young master was her good fortune." Yu Xiaogang said smugly.
"Dragon lust is nothing more than an excuse used after committing a crime, nothing more than a way to make yourself feel better."
As Qian Xunji finished speaking, he controlled a golden short sword and severed Yu Xiaogang's manhood. Golden flames clung to the wound.
"Aah!!!" Yu Xiaogang collapsed to the ground, clutching the wound with both hands as a miserable scream erupted from his mouth.
Amid his screams, the golden flames began spreading across his entire body.
Before long, Yu Xiaogang was burned to ashes.
The Spirit Hall deacon watched the entire scene.
A direct descendant of one of the Upper Three Sects had been killed just like that. He acted so decisively, completely unafraid that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan might come for revenge.
Just who was this Titled Douluo before him?
He was actually this bold.
"I'm a Tang Family member of the Clear Sky Sect. Our sect master is a Limit Douluo..."
Tang Family members of the Clear Sky Sect did not need to be judged. They were simply ignited and burned to death; not a single one was innocent.
"I'm from the Seven Treasures Ning Clan. I didn't forcibly seize civilian women in broad daylight like Yu Xiaogang, nor did I slaughter innocents indiscriminately in the spirit fighting arena like Tang Yin!"
Qian Xunji glanced at the file. This man from the Seven Treasures Ning Clan, Ning Xia, truly had not done anything wicked enough to cost others their lives.
Perhaps it was not that he did not want to, but that as a Support Spirit Master, his strength did not permit it.
However, he had engaged in low buying and high selling, deceiving consumers countless times.
Of course, nearly all members of the Seven Treasures Ning Clan behaved this way. It was practically an inherited family skill.
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