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Xuan Hao nodded in agreement after listening to Tang Yuehua's analysis.
"That's a good plan."
Xuan Hao picked up the teapot and poured himself a cup of water. "Since you've asked, I'll naturally look after him.
Anyway, in terms of seniority, I'm practically Tang San's uncle now. It's only right for an elder to help a junior."
"What uncle? What nonsense are you spouting?!"
Upon hearing this, Tang Yuehua's originally pale cheeks instantly flushed red, and she glared at him with a mixture of embarrassment and annoyance.
"What?"
Xuan Hao raised an eyebrow, looking at her with a half-smile, "If you feel that our relationship hasn't reached the final stage yet, and you feel embarrassed about calling me 'uncle'..."
Xuan Hao suddenly put down his teacup, leaned forward, and said in a low voice, "Then I don't mind pulling you inside right now, and we can break through that last barrier right here and now, make it a done deal, and officially establish our relationship?"
Tang Yuehua was taken aback by his sudden hooliganism.
Instead of turning away in shame and anger like an ordinary woman, she looked at Xuan Hao with a strange expression, a playful smile curving her lips:
Are you sure?
Tang Yuehua countered, "Don't forget your whole family of beauties.
If you really dare to make me the first woman you actually touch today... do you think Sect Leader Ning's darling daughter, Poison Douluo's precious granddaughter, and Na'er, who protects you like her own life, will go back and throw a tantrum at you, tearing your Heavenly Fighting Self-Improvement Association apart?"
Xuan Hao's eye twitched slightly, and he stubbornly said, "If I don't tell them, and you don't tell them either, how will they know?"
"If you don't want others to know, then don't do it in the first place. A woman's intuition can be quite terrifying."
Tang Yuehua shook her head, picked up her teacup again, and gracefully regained her usual composure: "Forget it, let's wait until you've completely sorted out that mess in your backyard and calmed those girls down before we continue to discuss this issue."
"So that you won't be caught in the middle and suffer from both sides, and I won't be embarrassed as a result."
Seeing that Tang Yuehua had completely shut him down, Xuan Hao touched his nose, went along with it, and decisively changed the subject.
He turned his head and looked at Liu Erlong, who had been sitting silently beside him.
"Yuehua is in a bad mood because of all the troubles that have happened at home."
Xuan Hao looked Liu Erlong up and down, somewhat puzzled.
"And you? You look preoccupied today too. What's wrong? Did something bother you?"
Liu Erlong rolled her eyes and said irritably, "Guess what's going on at my house now?"
"Your home?"
Xuan Hao was even more puzzled. "Didn't you completely sever ties with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan decades ago because of Yu Xiaogang, and never have anything to do with them again?
Where did you get a home from?"
Liu Erlong's face darkened, and he gritted his teeth as he corrected her, "Can bloodlines be so easily severed? It's barely related!"
"Alright, alright, that makes sense. What trouble has the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan gotten into this time?" Xuan Hao asked.
"It's all because of you!"
Liu Erlong pointed at Xuan Hao's nose and said hatefully, "More than two years ago, you single-handedly stormed the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's mountain gate and beat up all their experts in front of Yu Yuanzhen... I don't know who leaked it, but it's already spread throughout the entire Soul Master world!"
Xuan Hao raised an eyebrow: "Let it spread, I've already done it, why should I be afraid of what others say?"
"You're barefoot and have nothing to fear, but the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex Clan has a sense of shame!"
Liu Erlong was furious. "One of the three great sects was almost humiliated by a kid in his teens!
Once this news comes out, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan will lose face completely and become the laughing stock of the entire continent!"
"But unfortunately, the family can't do anything about you. After all, you really got in through sheer strength, and that old man Yu Yuanzhen really couldn't keep you."
Liu Erlong sighed: "In the end, in order to save face, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan could only choose to handle it quietly and not say a word to the outside world.
However, in the Soul Master world, when faced with such a shocking scandal, if you don't stand up to clarify and deny it, then in other people's eyes, it means that you assume it's true!"
"So what?" Xuan Hao shrugged. "What does their embarrassment have to do with me?"
"What's it to you?"
Looking at his nonchalant attitude, Liu Erlong laughed in exasperation, "Haven't you noticed that the overall atmosphere of this year's All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition has become very strange since you came out of seclusion?"
Upon hearing this, Xuan Hao's nonchalant expression gradually faded, and his brows furrowed slightly.
"It is indeed a bit strange."
Xuan Hao recalled what he had seen and heard in the past few days, "These past few days, there have been too many people and too many different kinds of people in the stands of the Great Soul Arena.
Although the Soul Master Tournament is a grand event held once every five years that can attract the attention of the entire Soul Master world, in the end, it is just a game for the younger generation to learn from each other."
"However, Xue Qinghe told me privately a couple of days ago that many veteran powerhouses who have disappeared from the Soul Master world for many years have secretly come to the stands for this preliminary competition. Even..."
Xuan Hao narrowed his eyes. "Even a few reclusive old monsters from the Star Luo Empire have secretly crossed the border to come to Tian Dou City to watch the competition. And their eyes seem to be fixed on me the whole time."
"This is really not right. Although I am famous, I am just a rising star of the younger generation.
I don't have enough influence to make these old fogies who are half-buried in the ground come out to watch me fight."
"That's because they were afraid."
Liu Erlong said in a deep voice, "You smashed up the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's territory, proving that you possess terrifying violence capable of shaking the three upper sects!"
"Furthermore, the Heaven Dou Self-Improvement Association you founded has always maintained a very close relationship with Xue Qinghe, the crown prince of the Heaven Dou Royal Family.
Everyone is now worried about one thing—once you grow a few more years and break through to the Title Douluo realm, will you really help the Heaven Dou Royal Family forcibly take over, or even completely control, the entire Soul Master world with absolute force?!"
Xuan Hao was stunned for a moment.
"You need to understand that the situation in the entire Soul Master world on the mainland is extremely tense right now."
Tang Yuehua picked up the conversation and analyzed rationally, "The Spirit Hall is expanding wildly, and its ambitions are obvious. Those small and medium-sized sects and rogue cultivators will either choose to submit to the Spirit Hall or choose to side with the alliance led by the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School in an attempt to stop the Spirit Hall's annexation."
"But now, your sudden emergence has directly shattered the fragile balance that the Soul Master world had been in!"
Tang Yuehua looked at Xuan Hao with a serious expression.
"You are on the side of the Heaven Dou royal family. Your talent and strength are too outrageous, completely exceeding the scope of a normal soul master.
Although you are close to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School has always openly favored the Heaven Dou royal family."
"Therefore, all the forces outside are now frantically suspicious.
They suspect that in another ten or twenty years, when you are fully powerful, will these three forces unite completely and, in the name of the royal family, carry out a bloody reshuffle and takeover of the entire Soul Master world?"
Liu Erlong added, "The reason why everyone resents the expansion of the Spirit Hall is simply because most spirit masters yearn for freedom at heart. Everyone strives to cultivate and become stronger because they don't want to be bound by various rules and regulations.
However, the Spirit Hall wants to treat all spirit masters like an army and centrally command them, so naturally everyone is unwilling."
"But now, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and the Heaven Dou Royal Family, who were originally seen as a counterbalancing force, suddenly have an accomplice like you!
There are even rumors that you might join forces with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School to undermine the Heaven Dou Royal Family?"
"Using the righteous cause of imperial power, coupled with your unreasonable and exaggerated violence, we will directly incorporate the entire Soul Master community of the Heaven Dou Empire!"
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