Death of Xue Beng

Following the departure of those guards, Leng Yu asked,

"Your Highness, since we're already here, can we go see Xue Beng? We were friends after all."

Hearing this, Xue Xing thought for a moment and nodded. Regardless of whether Xue Xing liked these children or not, the people they represented stood with him, supporting the ministers and nobles behind Xue Beng.

Thus, Xue Xing nodded and said to Leng Yu and the others,

"Xue Beng is resting in the room ahead, so be quiet when you go in!"

Hearing this, Leng Yu and the others nodded repeatedly to show they understood.

Then, the few of them walked toward Xue Beng's room.

Once they entered the room, Leng Yu and the others saw Xue Beng on the bed, and Leng Yu spoke up,

"What kind of bad luck is this? We were playing together just yesterday, and now he's lying there motionless."

"Yeah, who knows how long it'll take for him to get better."

Just as they were still expressing their emotions there, someone suddenly cried out,

"Hey, hey, hey, look, Xue Beng is vomiting blood."

Hearing this, Leng Yu and the others all looked toward Xue Beng and noticed blood currently flowing from the corner of his mouth.

Therefore, Leng Yu shouted toward the outside,

"Your Highness, it's bad! Xue Beng is vomiting blood!"

Outside, Xue Xing had originally been quite angry upon hearing people shouting inside the room. He had already said that once inside, nobody was allowed to shout and disturb Xue Beng's rest; why did they start shouting the moment they went in?

Yet upon hearing the latter words, Xue Xing grew anxious as well. Why had Xue Beng started vomiting blood?

In the next second, Xue Xing rushed into the room, and amidst the astonished gazes of Leng Yu and the others, he saw Xue Beng lying on the bed with blood beginning to flow from the corner of his mouth.

Seeing this scene, Xue Xing immediately yelled,

"Healing Spirit Master, come quickly!"

Hearing this, the Healing Spirit Master on guard outside immediately ran inside. Seeing Xue Beng on the bed, he instantly used his Soul Power to investigate. Once the investigation concluded, this Healing Spirit Master was also astonished and retreated repeatedly.

For this Healing Spirit Master had grown terrified as well, discovering something he had originally failed to detect. Initially, he had only found minor damage to Xue Beng's internal organs, which could recover with quiet rest.

Right now, however, he discovered that the damage on Xue Beng's internal organs wasn't just minor—there were fatal injuries. He hadn't noticed them at all at first; now that he had found them, it was already too late. Unless a Title Douluo made a move, or a Healing Spirit Master of Spirit Douluo rank or higher acted immediately.

Putting aside whether anyone met these conditions—Dugu Bo was impossible, since these injuries were inflicted by Dugu Bo's granddaughter, and Dugu Bo had wanted to kill Xue Beng on the spot back then. As for the other option, the Ye Family of the Nine Heart Begonia, while they also met this condition, you'd be lucky if they didn't retaliate against you, let alone expecting them to come save him.

Not to mention that even if they went to beg them now, there wouldn't be enough time for them to arrive; he couldn't be saved.

Having figured this out, the next second, the Healing Spirit Master dropped to his knees and spoke,

"Lord Xue Xing, the prince is beyond saving."

"There is a fracture on His Highness's internal organs. If it had been discovered at the very beginning, there would still have been a sliver of a chance of survival, but I don't know why it wasn't detected at first."

Hearing this, Xue Xing froze for a moment, then grabbed the Healing Spirit Master before him in the very next second:

"Why wasn't it found originally, and why is it only discovered now that he can't be saved?"

"My lord, I don't know either! The last time I checked, I didn't find this fracture at all, but now it has appeared."

As the man finished speaking, before Xue Xing could even vent his anger, Xue Beng on the bed suddenly began bleeding from his seven orifices, accompanied by convulsions.

Consequently, Xue Xing asked,

"What is going on?"

Seeing this, the Healing Spirit Master lowered his head even further and said,

"Your Highness, judging by Prince Xue Beng's current condition, he is in critical danger."

Following the Healing Spirit Master's words, Xue Beng stopped moving entirely. Seeing this, Xue Xing stepped forward and felt him, only to discover that Xue Beng had already breathed his last.

In an instant, Xue Xing flew into a rage, kicking the Healing Spirit Master in front of him to the ground before shouting,

"It's all your fault, you quack! If you had caught it, Xue Beng wouldn't have died. You're the one who killed him."

"Guards outside, come in and drag him out to be executed."

Hearing this, the guards outside the door entered, ready to drag this person away.

Faced with this scene, the Healing Spirit Master panicked as well, and hastily spoke up,

"My lord, you can't blame me for this! His Highness wasn't beaten by me. Furthermore, what if the Poison Douluo used his Soul Power to seal it up first so it couldn't be detected, and now that the time was up and the Soul Power dissipated, it manifested? You can't pin all the blame on me, my lord."

Hearing this, Xue Xing panicked as well, and immediately shouted to the guards,

"What are you standing around for? Why haven't you gagged him yet? It's one thing that he couldn't save the prince, but now he even dares to slander a Title Douluo."

In the next second, the Healing Spirit Master's mouth was gagged, and he was dragged outside to be executed.

Then, Xue Xing said to Leng Yu and the others,

"All of you, go back. Not a single word of what you heard just now must be breathed after you return, understand?"

Hearing this, Leng Yu and the others didn't dare to say anything more; they nodded and immediately left.

With only Xue Xing and Xue Beng's corpse remaining in the room, Xue Xing walked to the side of Xue Beng's body, looking at the nephew who had been so lively just moments ago, now reduced to a cold corpse.

As for the words of that Healing Spirit Master just now, Xue Xing naturally kept them in mind. After all, while others might not know this Healing Spirit Master well, didn't he, Xue Xing, know him? This Healing Spirit Master had followed him for goodness knows how long.

Therefore, Xue Xing understood that there were only two possibilities for that fatal fracture on Xue Beng's internal organs: either it had been there from the start, exactly as the Healing Spirit Master had claimed just then,

Or else someone had struck in the dark while Xue Beng was lying here.

The latter possibility seemed out of the question to Xue Xing, because the only people permitted to enter Xue Beng's room were his own people. The only outsiders might be Leng Yu and his companions, but these individuals were Xue Beng's friends, and their families were allied with his faction—they wouldn't pull off such a deed.

Thus, after much deliberation, only a single possibility remained: the scenario the Healing Spirit Master had mentioned. That fracture had existed all along, only someone had temporarily sealed it with Soul Power to prevent anyone from noticing it immediately.

The only person with that kind of strength was none other than that single individual—Dugu Bo.

Xue Xing also knew how deeply Dugu Bo doted on his only granddaughter, so it was entirely possible for Dugu Bo to do such a thing. Besides, now that Xue Beng was dead, he couldn't possibly use a corpse to question a Title Douluo, could he? And to pin a crime on a Title Douluo based merely on the words of a Healing Spirit Master—did they really think a Title Douluo had a good temper?

In the end, Xue Xing had no choice but to swallow this grievance, execute the Healing Spirit Master, and bring the matter to a close, yet the hatred for Dugu Bo already festered deep within Xue Xing's heart.