Xu Feng's Conviction

God Realm

"What is the situation with Xiao Qi? I certainly didn't send her in there to study!"

Tang San had wanted to intervene in the lower realm the moment the Skyscreen appeared, but after being blocked by it, even if the Five God Kings acted together, it was useless. They could only wait here for the future, the future where the God Realm would ultimately be destroyed.

However, compared to others, Tang San still retained a degree of control, which was the divine sense he had left inside his daughter. Although its limitations were great, it was at least operable.

Just like the fact that Xu Feng liked white silk—that was the result of him peeping from the God Realm every day. Though he wanted to make Xu Feng a running dog of his Tang family, it was obviously impossible to achieve this matter.

Xu Feng was not that crazy woman Bibi Dong. Tang San truly saw in him the imperial aura of someone uniting the world, an aura that no one on this Douluo Continent had ever displayed in the past ten thousand years.

Basically, all emperors over the past ten thousand years were for their own interests. Compared to the peace of unifying the world, remaining in a constant state of war actually suited their interests better, and they had all silently maintained the scene of warfare.

Although saying the continent was in a state of war made his faith relatively stable, he also really wanted to keep the continent in a state of chaos.

But after all, that fellow Destruction stared at him to the death. Clearly having a wife like Life, instead of focusing his attention on his wife, he kept staring at him. It almost made him suspect whether Destruction had some kind of fetish, just like certain senior brothers in the Tang Sect from his previous life.

Moreover, not only was Xu Feng's name the same, but even the things he pulled off reminded him of that General of Heavenly Strategy from the storybooks of his past life, so the dog-training plan was basically scrapped.

Since that was the case, he could only head in another direction. He might not be unable to board the big ship of the Celestial Court. As long as Xiao Qi also became his woman, then he would be his father-in-law. No matter what, would the man really manage to kill him off?

No matter what happened afterward, at least his side had a way out, and he only needed to maneuver a bit later on to elevate his status even further.

However, Xiao Qi truly disappointed him too much. He had wanted her to seduce—no, to go make friends with Xu Feng. As a result, several months had passed since enrollment, and she hadn't even caught a glimpse of him.

Feelings grew with time spent together; without time together, how could feelings grow? These two hadn't even seen each other yet. By the time Xu Feng had more and more women around him later on, the advantage Xiao Qi could leverage would become smaller, and his own room for maneuver would decrease.

Sigh, I really shouldn't have listened to Mubai. The notion that all emperors are lustful... This fellow's words have zero reference value.

Tang San could only continue silently peeping at the lower realm, while Destruction peeped at him from behind. To prevent him from intervening in the lower realm, Destruction came over for a daily peek, so to speak. Destruction was also unable to understand what was so good about the lower realm that he watched it every day.

Sun Moon Empire

The opportunity Tang San had waited for a long time finally arrived. With the end of the final matches, all the reserve members of the Sun Moon Team were chosen.

Meng Hongchen served as captain, Jing Ziyan as vice captain, with Ji Juechen, Huo Yutong, and Wang Dong'er as members. That was right, there weren't even seven people. If not for the fact that five people was the minimum requirement, Xu Feng was even prepared to arrange for just one person to take the field.

"Alright, students, I imagine you all clearly understand the real reason I summoned you here this time. In this Soul Master Tournament, you need only perform as your hearts desire, without deliberately hiding your strength. Of course, if you can seize the championship, that would be the best possible outcome."

This Soul Master Tournament was merely an inducement for him to instigate a war of conquest across the world. He wanted to use this grand event to let all factions clearly see the strength of the Sun Moon Empire, and also to lay the groundwork for his own eastward march with his armies in the future.

The reason he said they could just play as they pleased wasn't that he truly didn't care about victory or defeat, but rather that he didn't want these young people to shoulder heavy missions too early, nor did he want them to fight to exhaustion for so-called honor, or even pay the price of their lives.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince!" A clear voice directly broke the brief silence in the courtyard. Wang Dong'er stepped forward, her gaze fixed directly on Xu Feng. "Why must you provoke a war?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone around was momentarily stunned, and then cast strange glances one after another. In this Sun Moon Empire, the only person who would dare to directly and bluntly question the crown prince like this was probably just her, Wang Dong'er.

Yet Wang Dong'er completely disregarded those strange gazes. Ever since coming to the Sun Moon Empire, she had witnessed the peace and contentment of ordinary people within it.

Although she had never personally set foot on a battlefield, through the records in books, she clearly knew that once the flames of war ignited, these beautiful scenes before her eyes would turn to ashes, countless families would be shattered, and countless commoners would be displaced.

Xu Feng evidently did not expect Wang Dong'er to suddenly raise such a question on an occasion like this. He did not answer immediately, but instead walked step by step up to Wang Dong'er. The distance between the two of them instantly closed to a very delicate proximity—a distance where, if it weren't a kiss, it would be a fight.

Wang Dong'er did not flinch in the slightest, still tilting her head up to look straight into Xu Feng's eyes, wanting to get the answer she desired.

"Courage commendable."

This was the Wang Dong'er he had always liked in his past life. Although her temperament was somewhat reckless, she never lacked the courage to face everything head-on, daring to act and take responsibility, daring to fight and forge ahead, possessing her own sharp edge and proud spine.

Instead of that later so-called Tang Wutong, whose entire foundation of confidence came from the halo of her God King father, whose every choice followed her father's rules, possessing almost no true self, and even in the God Realm, treating her father's words as the supreme criterion while turning Huo Yuhao completely into a clown.

"You ask me why I must stir up war? Perhaps I should take you to see a real battlefield. For the past ten thousand years on the Douluo Continent, war has never truly stopped."

"Today you hit me, tomorrow I hit you, conflicts large and small appearing one after another without a single moment of true peace. And the price of every war is the blood and tears of the common people, the shattering of countless families, and the passing of countless innocent lives."

"I have fought quite a few battles and broken quite a few city walls. I have seen a mother crying bitterly over her child's corpse, an old man kneeling in the ruins searching for a loved one's memento, a young soldier muttering his hometown's name with his dying breath... These scenes, I will never forget."

He turned around, his gaze sweeping over everyone and finally resting on Wang Dong'er.

"And what I am going to do is unite this continent under one heaven. Only when the four seas are brought under one rule and ten thousand nations submit can there be no more war in this world! I am stirring up this war not for slaughter, not for conquest, but to end this endless strife! I will use this final war to end all wars in this world!"

As his voice fell, the courtyard plunged into silence. Wang Dong'er dazedly looked at Xu Feng, seeing that what burned within those eyes was a raging fire, a firm conviction, and the heavy weight of shouldering countless expectations and responsibilities.