What made this thing hardest to guard against was that it could fit perfectly against the palm, with a layer of invisible miniature magic arrays attached to its surface.
As long as it was not deliberately activated, the naked eye could detect nothing unusual about it.
And once it struck suddenly while someone was off guard, the power this palm cannon could unleash...
Was already fully comparable to an all-out strike from a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor.
As Li Mu thought, he gently stroked the palm cannon in his hand.
After confirming that it was fully loaded with five shells, he put it back against his palm.
He let it fit snugly against his arm.
Then he raised his eyes and looked calmly at Wang Dong.
Their gazes met just like that.
During this time, Wang Dong actually showed up now and then, and he even attended his regular classes on time.
At first, Wang Dong had still harbored some thoughts of escaping.
After the two of them were assigned to Mu Jin's class together, he had secretly passed messages to Mu Jin several times.
He wanted to tell someone about his situation, and had even wanted to tell Mu Jin part of the truth.
But all those attempts had eventually come to nothing.
It was not merely because of Li Mu's threats, but also because Li Mu had made a Class 1 Soul Tool in just five short days.
The first Class 1 Soul Tool he made was an extremely bizarre explosive chip.
Whenever Li Mu wished, that chip could be detonated in an instant and take his life outright.
So from then on, Wang Dong had behaved himself completely.
And by these past few days, with fewer than fifteen days having passed in total...
Li Mu had already developed a Class 2 explosive chip.
As she felt the chip pressed tightly against her neck, its presence had almost completely vanished.
That nearly imperceptible sensation was what frightened Wang Dong most.
But he said nothing, merely standing silently beside Li Mu. "Let's go. You have no choice."
Li Mu's voice was soft. "I'll be going to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy in a while. You'll have to come with me then. You won't have a chance to stay here."
He paused after speaking, and his tone grew cold. "Of course, if you want to die, I won't stop you."
As Li Mu spoke, he smiled at Wang Dong.
What he was doing now was actually no different from the actions of a madman.
After all, daring to kidnap Tang San's daughter was no joking matter.
Once Tang San turned his gaze their way and noticed something wrong here, he could crush him to death in an instant.
But he was betting that Tang San was not watching her at every moment while Wang Dong was young.
Or rather, to give Wang Dong a normal environment in which to grow up...
Although Tang San would pay attention to the Douluo Continent, he would not direct his gaze straight at his own daughter.
After all, at this stage, both of them were still too young.
If Tang San's gaze descended from time to time, it might affect Huo Yuhao, this child of destiny.
So, according to Tang San's original course of events, his daughter would naturally meet the child of destiny, Huo Yuhao.
Naturally, he would not intervene at this point.
As for Li Mu's own appearance, it was an entirely unexpected variable that Tang San could not possibly be aware of.
Of course, the current situation was already completely different from before.
Once he took Wang Dong away and brought her into the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy...
After letting her see the technology there and grow accustomed to living there, no matter what the other party did, she might no longer be subject to Tang San's manipulation.
Whether Wang Dong was in his hands actually made little difference to Li Mu.
But perhaps because of that little selfish desire hidden in his heart, he did not want Wang Dong to become the later Tang Wutong.
After all, what happened later was less a fusion of memories than an actual death.
Then someone else took possession of this body.
Li Mu did not like that feeling, so he had directly eliminated the possibility.
Having come to this world with Lan Xuanyu's template, and wielding the power of the Gold and Silver Twin Dragon Kings, he might attain the Dragon God Divinity in the future.
He had no reason to keep a low profile, nor had he ever been accustomed to so-called low profiles.
As he thought, the two of them walked out the door.
By now, the two of them had been moved into the same dorm room, something Li Mu had proposed to Mu Jin.
And Mu Jin had agreed without much thought. After all, in her eyes, this might not have amounted to much.
Leaving the dormitory building together, the two of them arrived in the classroom.
By then, most people were already seated.
Apart from Dai Huabin having vanished completely, the others showed no particular reaction.
News of the White Tiger Duke's Mansion's destruction, however, had not spread at all.
Dai Yueheng had merely gone back a few days earlier. Aside from that, all of Shrek Academy...
And even the entire Sun Moon Empire and the three great empires, were deathly quiet.
No one knew of the White Tiger Duke's Mansion's destruction. The matter had been covered up quite thoroughly.
And all of the White Tiger Duke's current children had already died, leaving only Dai Luoli and Dai Yueheng.
At this thought, Li Mu's gaze flickered slightly.
The reason he had destroyed the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and even killed everyone, leaving only Dai Yueheng and Dai Luoli...
Was, above all else, the influence the White Tiger Duke's Mansion had left behind.
For Huo Yutong, this was revenge, or perhaps a rebirth.
It had let her come to know this world anew, or rather, had completely destroyed her originally somewhat cowardly disposition.
But for Li Mu, this was a nearly perfect investment.
Not only had he helped Huo Yutong change her fate, leaving Tang San with one fewer trump card, but he could also bring this child of destiny to his side.
But beyond that, what mattered most was the hereditary status of the entire White Tiger Duke's Mansion.
The White Tiger Duke's Mansion held a very high position indeed.
Whether Xu Jiawei, the emperor of the Star Luo Empire, was willing or not, unless every last descendant of the White Tiger Duke died...
As long as someone remained, that person would inherit the bloodline and status of the entire White Tiger Duke's Mansion.
Although Huo Yutong's Martial Soul was not the Evil-Eyed White Tiger Martial Soul passed down in the White Tiger Duke's Mansion...
Her identity was, in fact, registered. She was Dai Hao's child, after all.
To be honest, Dai Hao merely refused to acknowledge it himself. He could not possibly have been unaware of Huo Yutong's existence.
After all, nominally, the first madam managed the entire White Tiger Duke's Mansion and held all its power.
But in truth, the lives and deaths of all the children, and even these madams, rested entirely on a single thought from Dai Hao.
He simply did not like to concern himself with them.
After all, Huo Yutong's mother was only a maid. With Dai Hao's status, how could he possibly think highly of a maid?
So he allowed his wife to humiliate and mistreat her. It might even have been an order he gave himself.
Of course, these were all guesses, though such guesses were probably the truth.
After all, to say that the White Tiger Duke could not control the entire White Tiger Duke's Mansion...
With so many hidden guards and hidden sentries within it, all of them his sworn retainers...
How could he not know what happened in the mansion?
No one would possibly believe such a claim.
Still, it doesn't matter now. Only Dai Yueheng and Dai Luoli are left in the entire White Tiger Duke's Mansion.
As long as I secretly eliminate those two, all the influence of the White Tiger Duke's Mansion should belong to Huo Yuhao then.
As Li Mu thought, a rare trace of excitement appeared in his eyes.
His future plan was to rule the entire continent. He wanted to be emperor himself.
So if he could secretly take control of all the forces the White Tiger Duke had left behind, as well as his prestige within the Star Luo Empire...
Staging a coup in the Star Luo Empire would be much easier than he had imagined.
And this would fit his plans even better.