Remember That I Come First
At this moment, Xu Xingyu silently looked at the woman in front of him, lost in thought, or rather, he no longer knew how to speak.
He acknowledged the strength and abilities of Xu Jiujiu of the Star Luo Empire and admired her love for her country.
That's why he really didn't expect Xu Jiujiu to make such a choice!
She actually gave up her status as a princess just so that their engagement could continue.
However, after careful consideration, Xu Xingyu realized something. First of all, Xu Jiujiu had said that her status as the Star Luo Empire Princess would remain abolished until Xu Xingyu was willing to lead the Spirit Contract Pagoda to support the Star Luo Empire.
The problem is that, according to her, the cooperation between Spirit Contract Pagoda and Star Luo Empire will not be interrupted in this short period of time, so to some extent Xu Xingyu can maintain the current trade relationship with the Star Luo Empire after the two get married.
Because it was the Star Luo Empire that sought their help, not their Spirit Contract Pagoda.
Does Xu Jiawei possess some undeniable confidence that will allow Spirit Contract Pagoda and the Star Luo Empire to forge a deeper partnership?
If I had to give an answer to this question, there is indeed one, but it's not something I can be 100% certain of.
That was the ever-watchful Sun Moon Empire.
As is well known, the Sun Moon Empire's ambition to unify the continent and rename Douluo Continent as the Sun Moon Continent has always existed.
If the Sun Moon Empire launches a war, then the Spirit Contract Pagoda Spirit Contract Pagoda that the Sun Moon Empire has placed there will also be forced to relocate.
Once the Spirit Contract Pagoda is also drawn into this war, they will have to choose a side, and the best option is the Star Luo Empire, which was originally the strongest of the three great empires.
However, this comes with a major prerequisite: the Spirit Contract Pagoda must be completely drawn into the war, and its operation must be reduced to the point where it needs the support of a certain country.
However, even if the branches of the Spirit Contract Pagoda of the Sun Moon Empire were abolished, the Spirit Contract Pagoda could have chosen not to choose any country in this war, and only provided the original three countries with Soul Tool and the Soul Spirit they needed, just like Shrek Academy did in the original work.
The only drawback of this approach is that Douluo Continent will not be unified. However, whether from Xu Xingyu's personal perspective or from the perspective of the Spirit Contract Pagoda's interests, a unified Douluo Continent would undoubtedly be the best scenario.
This brings us back to the multiple-choice question where we had to choose one of three countries.
As for choosing to assist the Sun Moon Empire in unifying the Douluo Continent, Xu Xingyu had considered such a possibility, but ultimately concluded that it was not advisable.
Although Xu Xingyu strongly supports the Sun Moon Empire's philosophy of prioritizing technology, aside from the fact that their technology is primarily developed for warfare, the Sun Moon Empire is also involved with the Holy Spirit Cult, Evil Soul Master faction.
Furthermore, since the royal family of the Sun Moon Empire can be confirmed to be descendants of Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon, Xu Xingyu has even less reason to cooperate with the Sun Moon Empire.
Once he, the son of the Dragon God, and the descendant of the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon meet, eighty percent of their energy will be devoted to figuring out how to kill each other, rather than cooperating.
Such a partner is completely unreliable.
The last option is to emulate the Spirit Hall of ten thousand years ago, establish their own empire, and then unify the entire Douluo Continent.
The problem is that doing so would easily make us an enemy of the entire Douluo Continent, and with the current funds of the Spirit Contract Pagoda, we simply cannot create our own kingdom.
The most important point is that most of the leaders of the Spirit Contract Pagoda are either Soul Beast or spirit Soul Beast in human form. The management ability of Soul Beast is well known. If the Soul Beast Clan had such good management ability, they wouldn't have almost driven themselves to extinction during the Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King era.
Thinking about this, Xu Xingyu felt a headache coming on. In his previous life, he mainly studied engineering, and he had only glanced at political matters symbolically.
However, he finally spoke up, "I understand. After this competition, you and Gu Yuena will go to the Spirit Contract Pagoda in Shrek City. We'll discuss this topic then."
After saying Xu Xingyu slowly left, not forgetting to say before she left, "Then I look forward to guiding you in the future."
Xu Xingyu startled Xu Jiujiu for Xu Jiujiu, then she quickly smiled and said, "It seems that this choice was not wrong."
Xu Jiujiu, this game of chess was quite risky, but in hindsight, it was the right move.
Even if Spirit Contract Pagoda doesn't develop a deeper relationship with the Star Luo Empire in the future, for Xu Jiujiu, the relationship between Spirit Contract Pagoda and the Star Luo Empire will still be much better than that of other countries.
After dancing with Xu Jiujiu Xu Xingyu went to find Gu Yuena's location. Relying on the secret she had given him, Xu Xingyu quickly found her location.
At that moment, Gu Yuena was enjoying the desserts served at the dinner party at a table when she noticed Xu Xingyu Gu Yuena waved to indicate her location.
As soon as Xu Xingyu arrived near Gu Yuena, Gu Yuena asked in confusion, "Little Xingyu, what's wrong? You seem a bit down. Did something upset you? If someone has bothered you, tell me right now and I'll go and take care of them."
After saying that, Gu Yuena raised her little fist as a gesture, and Xu Xingyu, who was standing next to her, couldn't help but laugh.
There's no way around it, Gu Yuena, who looks so sulky, actually has a kind of adorable and cute charm!
Fortunately, Xu Xingyu stopped Gu Yuena's actions in time. After all, once this person lost her temper, no one on the Douluo Continent could stop the punishment of the Silver Dragon King, the ruler of all Soul Beast.
Soon, Xu Xingyu recounted what had just happened to Gu Yuena. Gu Yuena was surprised to hear about Xu Jiujiu's decision and said with a smile, "I never expected that this princess would make such a choice when she was going to be with you. It seems that my Little Xingyu's charm is truly boundless."
Xu Xingyu could only smile wryly and say, "Alright, stop making fun of me. What do you think I should do? I'm a little undecided."
Seeing Xu Xingyu, Gu Yuena simply smiled and said, "What else can we do? The girl is already in this state, it would be unreasonable for you not to accept. As long as you remember that I, Gu Yuena, will always be number one, I won't have any objections."
"Uh, I understand."
"By the way, since you've decided to accept her, remember to make sure she can't live without you! If you don't know how, I'll lend you a hand."
Xu Xingyu immediately sensed something was wrong, but before he could ask Gu Yuena what kind of help she meant, Gu Yuena reached out and said, "Alright, the next movement is about to begin. Won't you ask me to dance this time?"
Upon hearing Xu Xingyu took Gu Yuena's hand and solemnly said, "Would this beautiful lady be willing to dance with me?"
"I do."
As the new music began, just like Xu Xingyu and Xu Jiujiu's dance before, Xu Xingyu and Gu Yuena undoubtedly became the focus of the banquet this time.
However, neither of them cared about the stares of those around them, and instead slowly savored the time that belonged only to the two of them.