Sixty-Thousand-Year Head Soul Bone. A Gentleman Should Stand Between the Useful and the Useless, and Have the Transformations of Dragon and Snake!

More than a month had passed since he left that Old Woman's home.

Perhaps because that great battle had left the situation between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire extremely tense, the war that should have broken out at once had ultimately been stopped by Spirit Hall. For a time, the three sides remained locked in stalemate...

Because of that, Wu'an City had stayed very peaceful, with no further fighting.

During this month, Dai Chengfeng asked many people...

In the end, he learned from one of Xu Feng's comrades why Xu Feng, though clearly an imperial centurion, had still been so desperately poor at home.

Most of his money had gone to the widows of the comrades who had fought alongside him and died in battle.

His original words were: "Those who died are the heroes in my heart, not me... I can receive such a high military salary because the empire values me, but in my heart, I feel I owe them!"

After Dai Chengfeng received that answer, his doubts were finally resolved, but he increasingly felt that since he had come to this world, he should not merely be an outsider strolling through it.

However, Dai Chengfeng was also very clear...

If he wanted to forge the Human Emperor's Sword and create a vast and mighty nation, the first thing he needed was powerful strength of his own!

Otherwise, it would be impossible.

Therefore, Dai Chengfeng did not pay much attention to the high-level game between Heaven Dou, Star Luo, and Spirit Hall. Instead, he remained focused on improving his own Soul Power.

And after roughly this month of bitter cultivation, his Soul Power had smoothly reached rank 16.

Today, Dai Chengfeng was still silently circulating the Innate Skill in his room...

Until Zhu Fan arrived.

"Chengfeng, the widows of those fallen soldiers, including Xu Feng's mother—I spent more than a month arranging everything according to your instructions. I guarantee there won't be another situation like Xu Feng's mother living in a broken-down house."

"That's good."

Dai Chengfeng nodded in satisfaction.

"Also, this is a secret letter from His Majesty for you."

"A letter from Father?" A trace of curiosity flashed through Dai Chengfeng's eyes. "Could the game between the three sides have reached its final result?"

As he thought this, Dai Chengfeng opened the envelope.

"Chengfeng, seeing these words is as though we met in person."

"I have agreed to Spirit Hall's request to temporarily lay down arms. However, the Heaven Dou Empire is willing to privately compensate us with gold, a number of Silver Soul Coins, and among them, what I care about most is a Sixty-Thousand-Year Spirit Condensing Wisdom Head Soul Bone."

"I will keep this rare head soul bone for you. When you return to Star Luo City, I will personally bestow it upon my Qilin child as a reward for saving the tens of thousands of soldiers and the hundred thousand-plus civilians of Wu'an City."

"It is only that I do not know whether you can understand this decision to lay down arms..."

"But whether you understand or resent me, I understand you."

"Because I believe that when you stand at the same height as I do in the future, you too will make this choice for the sake of the bigger picture."

"Weakness is the original sin!"

"Though Star Luo defeated Heaven Dou, we are far inferior to Spirit Hall. If not for that pope and the Worship Hall restraining each other, my Star Luo Empire might be in danger of destruction."

"Therefore, I still hope that you can Obtain Soul Ring according to the Ancestral Method."

"After all, if you proceed step by step, you will surely enter the Titled realm in the future. At that time, you can resolve the danger of Star Luo's national destruction."

"If by luck you can step into the ranks of Peerless Douluo, my Star Luo will no longer fear Spirit Hall... Your talent is of vital importance to my Star Luo!"

"With this, I order you to return to Star Luo City before the end of the year. Your mother misses you."

"If you still choose to be willful and refuse to return as you did a month ago, do not blame me for using forceful methods!"

Looking at the letter in his hand, Dai Chengfeng frowned slightly.

He remembered it clearly...

The Sixty-Thousand-Year Spirit Condensing Wisdom Head Soul Bone was one of the three soul bones Tang San won from Spirit Hall in the Original Work after leading Shrek Academy to the championship of the "Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament."

Later, Tang San even fused it with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, raising the quality of this soul bone to over a hundred thousand years.

"This is the Douluo era. Soul bones are far from being everywhere."

"The age is exactly Sixty Thousand Years, and the name is exactly Spirit Condensing Wisdom Head Soul Bone. How could there be such a coincidence?"

"Looking at it this way, Heaven Dou Empire probably doesn't know about this so-called private compensation. It came from Spirit Hall."

"But it does seem understandable!"

After all, under the propaganda of Heaven Dou and Spirit Hall, the previous battle at Wu'an City was Heaven Dou Empire defeating Star Luo Empire.

If the victorious Heaven Dou Empire actually had to compensate the Star Luo Empire, could Qian Renxue still sit securely in the crown prince's position?

"Using some gold, Silver Soul Coins, and a Sixty-Thousand-Year head soul bone in exchange for making Qian Renxue's position as Crown Prince of Heaven Dou Empire as steady as Mount Tai? What a fine deal indeed!"

After all, if Qian Renxue really succeeded in replacing the crown prince and completely subverting Heaven Dou...

Forget a mere Sixty-Thousand-Year head soul bone—even if it were eighty or ninety thousand years old... if Bibi Dong had one, she would still be willing!

After all, as long as it did not involve Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong was still very decisive.

But very soon, Dai Chengfeng developed an intense headache again...

Although he understood his father's feelings as Star Luo Emperor, having to consider the safety of the empire and all its people, and not wanting to take risks...

He only wanted to let himself proceed step by step and steadily become a Titled Douluo.

But!

It was also precisely because Dai Chengfeng wanted to consider the Star Luo Empire that he was even less able to agree to Dai An's demand.

In Dai An's eyes, one Titled Douluo could turn the Star Luo Empire from danger to safety.

But as a transmigrator, Dai Chengfeng knew all too well that forget a Titled Douluo—even a Peerless Douluo, or even a Second Class God, would not be enough!

After all, in the future Star Luo Empire, the emperor's surname would be Xu!

Did Dai Mubai, that Second Class God, dare have any objections? Tang San held him firmly in his grasp, leaving him only able to watch with his own eyes, yet unable to do a thing.

"There are still six months before the end of the year..."

Dai Chengfeng did not doubt his imperial father's resolve in the slightest. If he truly kept refusing to Obtain Soul Ring according to his wishes, he really would use force.

"Looks like I can't stay in the Star Luo Empire anymore. Then I'll set off for Heaven Dou and go obtain the Immortal Herbs!"

"Once I've obtained all three soul rings, I'll come back then."

Dai Chengfeng smiled bitterly in helplessness. "Fortunately, the ancestor only stipulated the order of the first three soul rings. Otherwise, I really would have a home I couldn't return to!"

"But if I go to Heaven Dou, will I be safe?"

Dai Chengfeng rubbed his chin. "I should still be very safe!"

After all, in the eyes of the Heaven Dou Empire's upper echelons, the battle of Wu'an City was one the Star Luo Empire had "lost." So who would go out of their way to make things difficult for a Star Luo prince saddled with the name of Waste?

But very quickly, a black line seemed to flash across Dai Chengfeng's forehead as he thought of that lovestruck fool.

"All right!"

"There's also Qian Renxue, who knows the truth..."

Dai Chengfeng rubbed his chin. "But if I sneak over, she probably won't discover me."

"And even if she does..."

"With a threat as huge as Tang San, she still didn't choose to assassinate him, but chose to recruit him instead. After all, she's arrogant, confident that she can become the Angel God in the future. How could a mere mortal possibly surpass her?"

"Looking at it that way, she'll most likely choose to recruit me. I'm very safe!"

Dai Chengfeng naturally could not possibly agree to Qian Renxue's recruitment. After all, there was enmity between the two of them; right now, he simply had no way to repay it.

But...

A gentleman should stand between the Wood Goose, and when the time came, undergo the transformation of Dragon Snake.

Dai Chengfeng had his own destination.

For the sake of going to that "vast great nation of Eternal Peace"...

He did not mind traveling alongside an enemy for a stretch, at the right time.

"But before I leave! I have to take revenge for what can be avenged!"

Dai Chengfeng could not forget Xu Feng, who in that battle had chosen to die heroically in order to protect the mountains and rivers, and the common people;

Bai Zhan, who had blocked a fatal spear strike for him, saving his life, only to fall in battle before his very eyes in the end;

Yin Xu, who had still charged at the very front despite taking several cuts, never retreating until death, until only when his battle blood ran dry did he finally collapse powerless... as well as countless soldiers!

"Since Father Emperor has to consider the bigger picture and can't act personally, then I'll do it!"

Dai Chengfeng's eyes were icy cold as he looked toward the northwest. That was the direction Wu Ping City lay in!

"The blood debt owed to Xu Feng, Bai Zhan, Yin Xu, Yin Ming, Ye Songxing, Wang Xincheng... and three hundred fifty-two soldiers must be paid in blood!"

"With youthful chivalry, I befriended the heroes of the five capitals; hearts laid bare, hair standing on end. In a single conversation, life and death were shared; a promise was worth a thousand pieces of gold!"

"I promised you!"