Chapter 31 31. Loyalty used as a bargaining chip
From Tiandou City to Xingdou Forest, the road is straight up and down.

Cross the Tianling Mountains.

Passing by Bingpo Grassland.

There is only one Star Mountain Range left to reach the Star Forest.

The Xingdou Mountains are the border of the Tiandou Empire.

Since there is the Xingdou Great Forest, a no-man's land between the Tiandou Empire and the Xingluo Empire, there have always been a large number of troops stationed in the Xingdou Mountains and Jincheng Mountains to prevent the opponent from sending an elite army composed entirely of soul masters to cross the Xingdou Great Forest and raid their own territory.

The Xingdou Mountains belong to the Tiandou Empire.

The Jincheng Mountains belong to the Xingluo Empire.

Between the two mountain ranges is the Star Forest.

Since it is a mountain range, it always has an end. The two mountain ranges can only block the front. On the left and right sides, there are Longxing City and Baoshi City of the Tiandou Empire and Xingyao City and Hadrian City of the Xingluo Empire respectively. In the middle of Baoshi City and Hadrian City, close to the Xingdou Great Forest, there is also a Wuhun City, which is the base camp of the Wuhun Hall. The Pope's Hall, the Elders' Hall, and the Worship Hall are all in this city.

Thanks to the excellent performance of the soul guide.

This journey would take a normal person two months to walk, or more than twenty days on horseback, but it only took the Blue Bully Academy team five days to reach a small town at the foot of the Xingdou Mountains from Tiandou City.

The advantage of a flying soul guide is its speed.

There is no need to take a detour and it is hard not to be fast.

The disadvantage is that it consumes more soul power.

Moreover, precisely because of its high speed, if the soul master who controls the flying soul guide device cannot keep up with the speed of nerve reflexes, there is a risk of the device being destroyed and people being killed at any time. If you want to use it in battle, not aiming for the upper limit, but just aiming for the ability to fly, the flying soul guide device is still very qualified. However, if you aim for the upper limit and expect to win by speed, it is not recommended to play like this.

Yes, you can.

But the risk is too high, so it is not recommended.

Relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to draft water.

This small town on the edge of the Star Mountains, including other small towns on the edge of the Star Mountains, all rely on the Star Forest opposite the Star Mountains for survival.

Soul masters need to obtain soul rings to break through their levels → Soul masters can only obtain soul rings by hunting soul beasts → The Xingdou Great Forest is the largest forest in the world and also the forest with the richest soul beast species → After hunting soul beasts, soul masters can recycle the soul beasts' corpses. The flesh, bones, fur, mucus, including cubs and eggs, are all purchased by people = These small towns located on the edge of the Xingdou Mountains, as the closest purchasing station and market to the Xingdou Great Forest, are not gorgeous, but they are rich enough.

The formula is very long, but fortunately the logic is correct.

"Lanba Academy has a purchasing station right here."

"Besides, there are purchasing stations not only here, but also in other small towns."

"Even in the Jincheng Mountains of the Xingluo Empire, there are Blue Tyrant Academy's purchasing stations in many small towns near the Jincheng Mountains."

"It's just that their names have nothing to do with Blue Bully Academy."

"Anyone who investigates can only find the spiritual food room's supply channels."

As the dean of Blue Tyrant Academy, Liu Erlong introduced the peripheral departments of Blue Tyrant Academy to Flanders and others, which also explained why someone came to pick them up when they arrived in this town.

It was already afternoon when we arrived at the town.

The Starry Forest at night is a hunting ground.

It is not a prudent choice for a weak and tired team that has traveled a long way to rashly enter the dangerous Star Dou Great Forest, even if there is a Titled Douluo, a Soul Douluo, and three Soul Saints in the team.

When a lion fights a rabbit, he also uses all his strength.

Therefore, after soliciting everyone's opinions, Liu Erlong issued an order: everyone is free to move, but must gather at the current hotel where they are staying before nine o'clock in the evening, get up at seven o'clock tomorrow morning, enter the Star Mountains at eight o'clock, and arrive at the outskirts of the Star Forest around ten o'clock in the morning. After resting for an hour, take advantage of the scorching sun at noon to enter the Star Forest.

The order was issued at 4 p.m.

to 9 p.m., with five hours of happy hour.

It was a rare opportunity for Ma Hongjun to travel far, and he was like a husky that had been released from its chain. In the blink of an eye, he disappeared.

Tang San wanted to take this opportunity to communicate with Xiao Wu. They flew too hurriedly. The old students of Blue Tyrant Academy all had various props to replenish their soul power. Each of them had a storage soul guide. Some personal flying soul guides even had a dual slot function. If the soul power was not enough, they would take out a gem full of soul power from the storage soul guide, open the spare slot and insert it, and then take out the gem that was about to be consumed, and the flight time could be reset in the air. According to the boasting of a member of the law enforcement team, he once created a record of flying for 22 hours while chasing an evil soul master, and when he landed to fight, his soul power was full, all he needed was enough gems in his hands. Obviously, they did not have this condition.

Stop and go along the way.

If it weren't for them, it might have arrived in three days.

Even so, they were too tired to have time to talk and laugh. They could only rest again and again. Under the helpless gazes of many veteran students, they sat cross-legged on the ground to restore their soul strength. Only when they arrived in a city and found a place to stay did they have some leisure time.

Then, we had to leave again the next day.

There is no time to recover soul power, how can there be time to communicate?
However, Xiao Wu still needs to be quiet for a while.

What's more, Tang San was tired, but she was not idle either.

Tang San was recovering his soul power, and she was also recovering her soul power.

Everyone is tired.

Ning Rongrong was tired, Zhu Zhuqing was tired, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Dai Mubai were all equally tired. She didn't want to listen to Tang San's explanation now, she just wanted to take a break.

So, in Tang San's incredible eyes, Xiao Wu rejected him again...

Rejected him again...

Rejected him...

"Okay, Xiao San, don't think so much..." In the noisy bar, Dai Mubai held a beer, and put his arm around Tang San's shoulder, telling him the philosophy of life he had realized: "As long as you are strong enough, you can have as many women as you want. It's hard to find a three-legged frog, but two-legged people are everywhere. Look at Zhu Qing..."

"I say, Dai Boss..." Tang San interrupted Dai Mubai. If Dai Mubai used other people to persuade him, he really couldn't find an excuse to refute. But if he used Zhu Zhuqing to persuade him, it would be a bit funny: "You can take down other people, but you can't take down Zhuqing, right?"

Dai Mubai was choked and speechless.

Is there anyone who chats like this?

I am trying to persuade you, not to hurt my heart.

In order to save face, he could only make up a story: "Zhu Qing is different from other women!"

“No matter how different she is, she is still a woman…” Tang San rolled his eyes, drank the beer in the glass, shook his head, patted Dai Mubai’s shoulder regretfully, and threw down five copper coins: “It’s getting late, I’ll go back first.”

Dai Mubai nodded absentmindedly.

For a moment, I even forgot to drink the wine in the glass.

Holding the cup, there was a strange light in his eyes.

What Tang San meant by that sentence was to say goodbye.

But to Dai Mubai, it was like opening a brand new door!

"No matter how different you are, you are still a woman?"

"No matter how different she is, she is still a woman!" "Soul Guidance Technology, Stellar Martial Arts, Titled Douluo!"

"White Tiger of the Netherworld, daughter of the Zhu family."

"When a girl is born into the Zhu family, she is a girl of the Zhu family."

"If I remember correctly, there is an additional condition after the three conditions, unless he personally allows it."

"So, can it be understood that if he personally allows it, then..."

In the bustling bar, Dai Mubai made a silent decision that attracted the whole world. With a twinkling look in his eyes, he paid for the drinks, left the bar and headed straight for the hotel.

……

……

"Come in..." Ye Qingcang was doing two things at once, holding a red crystal carving knife in one hand and a metal wristband in the other. When he heard the knock on the door, he just gave an order without turning his head. Even when the knocker pushed the door open and the footsteps stopped behind him, he still calmly carved characters on the metal wristband: "What's the matter?"

"Yes." Dai Mubai witnessed with his own eyes how the young man with his back to him captured a Title Douluo alive with overwhelming force, so he did not dare to express his dissatisfaction at all, let alone let those dark thoughts germinate in his mind: "I want to make a deal with you."

"From your perspective: any support and promises you can give me, your father and your brother can give me, and they can give me more than you, and I need to pay less."

"From your personal perspective: your future is not worth my investment. Some people are arrogant eagles, some are obedient dogs, and some are wolf cubs. When the seeds of prejudice take root and sprout, even I will still succumb to prejudice and succumb to suspicion. However, I am more rational than others and am willing to wait. I will make the next decision only after confirming the facts and evidence I want to confirm."

“No one is perfect when it comes to his deeds but not his heart.”

Every word Ye Qingcang said gave Dai Mubai a feeling of dissecting himself, as if he had no secrets at all. The shame and fear kept attacking his psychological defenses: "So, after ruling out all the impossible answers, there is only one answer left; I don't want to believe that this answer will be regarded as the correct answer by you, so I want to ask you, how do you think I am a man controlled by my lower body?"

Before he knew it, Dai Mubai's forehead was covered with cold sweat.

He is the third prince of the Xing Luo Empire.

Even if his spirit was crushed, he had still learned the mindset of an emperor.

He thought no one could see through his disguise.

Because no one has seen through it.

Unexpectedly, it was analyzed so thoroughly, clearly and in every detail with one sentence after another. This ability to read people's expressions can only be described as terrifying!
However, even such horror could not stop his desire to live!

In order to survive, people often do things that exceed human limits!

This is not an isolated case, but a common phenomenon!

Dai Mubai took a deep breath, his pupils were already stimulated to the extreme by fear. The scenes of Dugu Bo being dragged away by Ye Qingcang flashed before his eyes, and his heterochromatic pupils were temporarily stimulated into dominant features: "Aren't people, especially men, animals who think with their lower body?"

The room was quiet for a long time.

There was only the sound of the carving knife rubbing against the metal.

Not harsh.

But it feels like a knife scraping on people's nerves.

I don’t know how long I shaved.

a year?
Two years?

three years?

Or ten years, a hundred years, or a thousand years?
Only when the carving knife stopped rubbing against the metal and the rune was carved did Dai Mubai's dilated pupils instantly shrink back to their original size. He looked up at the clock in the room and saw that only three minutes had passed!

I moved subconsciously and was startled again by the wet clothes on my back!
"You're right. Men really are animals that think with their lower body."

“No matter how well you do or how well you control yourself, you can only stop being controlled by your lower body. You still have to think with your lower body.”

"It's human nature."

"Even so, there are still very few things that people can control."

"You can only control your hands from reaching into other people's pockets to take certain items, and you can only control your eyes from avoiding those indecent places; you cannot control your heartbeat, your internal organs, or your subconscious mind at the moment; or in other words, you can control, but you are no longer a human being."

Ye Qingcang's calm and powerful tone gives people a gentle and refined feeling.

But his godlike and devilish temperament always makes people feel fear.

The two combined are like the devil's whisper.

But what he said was still correct.

It's a bit like a revelation from God.

The contradiction is chilling, but no one dares to deny this fact.

Because he is right.

It is right to trample on morality.

"Three sentences." Ye Qingcang put down the metal wrist guard and put away the carving knife: "I'll give you three sentences to prove your sincerity."

"To the Xingluo royal family, the status of a Titled Douluo is greater than that of a crown prince!" Dai Mubai played a trick and held on for a breath: "If the Titled Douluo is a prince, he can ignore the ancestral precepts and ascend the throne without the need for Empress Zhu!"

"One sentence." Ye Qingcang stood in front of the window, looking at the world outside.

"Zhu Zhuqing is loyal and faithful. Her loyalty is the most precious thing!" Dai Mubai did not have time to think about the consequences of taking advantage of the loophole, and continued: "People in high positions can only see smiling faces when they see others. It is not uncommon to see people pretending to obey but secretly disobeying. A partner who will never betray you should be rare, even for you!"

"The second sentence." Ye Qingcang remained indifferent, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.

Dai Mubai could only bite the bullet and throw out his last chip, which was also his last trump card: "I will help you deal with everything cleanly, and I will never do anything to her. I just want to live. She can find me because she also wants to live. Davis and Zhu Zhuyun will not let us go, but they can let me and her go separately. She and I will only die if we stay together. Only by separating can we each survive. I want to practice the Star Martial Arts, become a Titled Douluo, and change my destiny. For this, I can give everything except myself. I can also be your eyes and ears, hiding beside Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, and help you do some things that are inconvenient for you to do!"

"Third sentence." Ye Qingcang turned around, his eyes as calm as water made Dai Mubai despair, because he could not find any sign that he had impressed Ye Qingcang: "Are you done?"

"That's all..." Dai Mubai laughed bitterly, stood up and prepared to leave.

But unexpectedly, I heard my own voice!
He widened his eyes in horror and looked in the direction of the sound!

A jade seal machine suddenly came into view!

"This is the contract." Ye Qingcang put the jade seal machine into the storage soul guide: "You should know the rules of asking others to do things, right?"

"I understand, I understand, I understand..." Dai Mubai nodded frantically. Even the Titled Douluo had been subdued. No matter how strong the White Tiger was, it was just a white cat: "Pay first and I'll give you back later. I'll give you back when you're satisfied!"

"It's past eight o'clock." Ye Qingcang crossed his bracelets and looked at the wall clock in the room.

Dai Mubai nodded immediately, tactfully found an excuse to leave, and left Ye Qingcang's room with mixed feelings, feeling guilty towards Zhu Zhuqing, excited about changing his fate, and contempt for Tang San and Yu Xiaogang.

“He’s a smart man.” Violet jumped out of the shadows, took off the hideous ghost mask on her face, and handed Ye Qingcang a black notebook that recorded the activities of Shrek and his group. “It’s a pity that he’s not smart enough. He’s sold out by you and still helps you count the money…”

“He has the qualifications to live hard…” Ye Qingcang flipped through the black notebook, and it seemed that he said it casually, but it also seemed to be a meaningful judgment of fate: “But I also have the power to use him; Violet, you have been with me for many years, today I will teach you another truth: for those who are not friends, or for those who you cannot tell whether they are your friends or not, never believe their promises to you, you should look at what you get, not what they give. Similarly, for friends, when you give, you must look at what they get, not what you give…”

　The kitten was betrayed (-^〇^-)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)