Chapter 166: It's Time to Train a New Account Again
Being sternly questioned by the Star Luo Emperor like this, the Duke of the Zhu family—who was Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing's biological father—was already drenched in cold sweat.
He tremblingly raised his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.
At this moment, his expression was a hundred times more bitter than swallowing a raw yellow lotus.
"Your Majesty, please calm your anger! This… this subject truly does not know what exactly is going on!"
The Duke of the Zhu family's voice was trembling violently, and he was truly on the verge of panic.
"Your Majesty, please see clearly. Ever since the founding of the Star Luo Empire, my Zhu family has intermarried with the royal family for generations."
"In these long years, this is the first time such an absurd matter has ever occurred!"
The Duke of the Zhu family swallowed hard and, under immense pressure, continued to explain in a trembling voice, "Two people who originally possessed martial soul resonance have suddenly lost their connection."
"This kind of bizarre and unreasonable situation has never been recorded in even a single word within my Zhu family's ancestral records!"
Listening to this pale and powerless explanation, Dai Yutian was clearly very dissatisfied.
As the ruler of a nation, he did not care about the process or those vague and illusory reasons; he only cared about the final result!
Dai Yutian narrowed his eyes slightly, a trace of extremely dangerous cold light flashing in them.
He ignored the Duke of the Zhu family and directly turned his head to issue a deep command to the royal guard at his side.
"You immediately take men to the Prince's residence and the Zhu family."
"Bring the Third Prince and the Zhu family's third young lady, Zhu Zhuqing, to the imperial study at once!"
"I want to personally see whether the compatibility of their martial souls has also disappeared!"
Dai Weisi's face was extremely pale. He knew very clearly that all his years of scheming and planning were now completely over.
Within the Star Luo Empire, the top-tier martial soul fusion skill, Hell White Tiger, had always been a symbol of royal orthodoxy and absolute power!
A prince without the Hell White Tiger as his strongest trump card could never ascend to that supreme throne.
Now, the martial soul fusion skill between him and Zhu Zhuyun had completely disappeared.
Although the exact reason was still unclear, it had obviously become an irreversible fact.
Dai Weisi, once the most dazzling and highly favored eldest prince of the Star Luo Empire, at this moment had essentially lost his qualification as the heir to the Star Luo throne!
A prince unable to use the Hell White Tiger had already lost his greatest value in the cold and ruthless Star Luo royal family.
Looking at the current structure of the Star Luo royal family, among the adult princes, the second had been eliminated, leaving only the two brothers.
And now, only the third prince Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing still possessed martial soul compatibility.
Under this cruel elimination system, the two of them had naturally become the final heirs of royal orthodoxy.
Sitting on the dragon throne, Dai Yutian's mind was as clear as a mirror.
No matter how debauched Dai Mubai usually was, how much he indulged in pleasure houses, or even showed signs of self-abandonment, as long as the Hell White Tiger between him and Zhu Zhuqing still existed, he was the only current heir of the Star Luo Empire.
The two of them absolutely could not afford any more mistakes!
Otherwise, who would inherit the Star Luo royal lineage that had lasted for ten thousand years?
As the emperor of the Star Luo Empire, Dai Yutian would never entrust the empire's future entirely to luck.
Even if only Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing remained as a compatible pair, he would not put all his eggs in one basket.
At this moment, a very realistic and cold idea had already formed in Dai Yutian's mind.
It seemed it was time to train a new account again.
Dai Yutian silently calculated in his heart.
While he was still in his prime, having a few more princes with outstanding talent and raising them anew might be the most stable way to break the situation.
The reason why the Star Luo royal family had always been able to suppress the Heaven Dou royal family in overall national strength lay in two key points.
First, their proud top-tier martial soul fusion skill, Hell White Tiger.
Second, the almost Gu-like, extremely cruel royal competition system.
It was precisely because of this bloody system that every generation of the Star Luo Emperor emerged as the strongest survivor from mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
But precisely because of this, within the current vast royal family, aside from him and the empress possessing the combat power of the Hell White Tiger, among the princes, only Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai remained.
Because before officially ascending, all princes of the Star Luo Empire had to eliminate all their competitors without reservation.
This elimination could be light—crippling the opponent's cultivation and exiling them to remote barren territories—or severe, involving direct killing in assassination or in life-and-death arenas, uprooting them completely!
In fact, after Dai Yutian had gone through near-death struggles and finally ascended to the throne back then, he had once hesitated briefly.
It wasn't that he had never considered, in the depths of the night, whether to abolish this overly cruel competition system.
After all, as time passed, the situation on the continent was constantly changing, and the power of Spirit Hall was growing stronger, its foundation unfathomable.
In contrast, within the Star Luo royal family, the only ones possessing Titled Douluo-level combat power were him and the empress through the Hell White Tiger.
This lack of top-tier combat power appeared somewhat insufficient and thin when facing Spirit Hall.
Dai Yutian had once carefully calculated it.
If this mutual slaughter competition system were completely abolished, allowing all princes with the White Tiger martial soul to grow steadily. Within thirty years, these sons of his would definitely form a considerable top-tier combat force.
There might even be several Soul Douluo, and perhaps the first Titled Douluo could appear!
Because without this cruel competition, talented princes would not die prematurely, nor would they be excessively rushed in growth, thus increasing the probability of reaching Titled Douluo.
However, there was one point that made him extremely conflicted and wary.
This was also the fundamental reason why the Star Luo royal family's competition system had been passed down to this day and never abolished!
It was once that the number of Hell White Tigers became too many; it would very easily trigger massive internal chaos within the empire!
Just imagine.
If a prince possessing the Hell White Tiger martial soul fusion skill were sent to his fiefdom,
What he would secretly do there in terms of recruiting troops and expanding power would be very difficult for the emperor sitting in Star Luo City to fully control.
After all, it was impossible to monitor every single movement of the other party twenty-four hours a day without any blind spots.
Once the prince grew powerful and harbored rebellious intentions, combined with the Hell White Tiger's terrifying combat strength, it would inevitably ignite a monstrous war.
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