Chapter 44: Negotiation, Xu Jiawei's Cultivation and Attitude (2)

Xu Jiawei was stunned, then smiled and waved his hand, saying with a hint of appreciation: "You see it clearly. However, after observing for this period of time, I am not as nervous and worried as before. Just like the teacher said, fierce beasts with high intelligence are ultimately different from those low-level soul beasts that only know how to kill and reproduce. We shouldn't look at them with the eyes of looking at ordinary soul beasts. There have been precedents for cooperation between humans and soul beasts. If I remember correctly, the wife of the Sea God ten thousand years ago was a ten-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit who transformed......"

"Teacher?"

Shu Yan keenly captured the key point. Xu Jiawei's teacher—this was something he had never heard of. I'm afraid even Xu Jiujiu didn't know that her own brother had a teacher. Otherwise, she generally wouldn't hide it from Shu Yan.

Of course, there are exceptions, unless this matter involves a very deep level and is very involved. Only then could the so-called exception appear.

Xu Jiawei smiled slightly, no longer hiding it, and said directly: "I saw Old Qian once last time. I won't hide it from you anymore. Old Qian is my teacher and has an extremely deep relationship with several ancestors of my Star Crown Sect. Therefore, he joined the Empire's Offering Hall after several ancestors passed away and became the guardian of the Empire in their place."

"Later, I succeeded to the position of Crown Prince and showed excellent talent. Old Qian chose to come out of seclusion to take me as a disciple and taught me. If it weren't for Old Qian, I'm afraid I would have no possibility of breaking through to the Title Douluo realm that countless soul masters dream of at my current age."

Shu Yan was slightly stunned, not expecting such a hidden situation behind this matter. But after thinking about it, Shu Yan still temporarily skipped this topic.

"I have a few more things I'm curious about. Can Imperial Brother clear up my confusion?"

Xu Jiawei nodded, his gaze gentle, and then said: "Ask. As long as it's not excessive, I can answer for you."

Shu Yan also showed a hint of a smile and said:

"The first thing: what realm has Imperial Brother's cultivation reached now?"

Xu Jiawei looked at Shu Yan, a hint of a smile flashing in his eyes. After thinking, he said:

"I didn't expect you to be curious about my cultivation. To tell you the truth, my cultivation is now level 94. It's not far from Super Douluo, just lacking insight and opportunity."

Xu Jiawei stood up slowly, and nine soul rings rose slowly from his feet: yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red. The eighth soul ring was black with a hint of red. Although the ratio was not the most top-tier, it was extremely rare.

Seeing that Shu Yan seemed surprised, Xu Jiawei retracted his martial soul and soul rings, sat down gently, and explained:

"I had an accident when absorbing the eighth ring. That soul beast should have been ten-thousand-year cultivation, but because it burned too much of its own essence and source soul power in a desperate counterattack, the soul ring year was slightly worse. Otherwise, I should also have two ten-thousand-year soul rings."

Shu Yan was slightly shocked, but thinking of Xu Jiawei's identity and status, he felt relieved. Star Crown soul masters are affected by their martial soul. While possessing powerful auxiliary capabilities and even attack power, the improvement of the martial soul on their own physical fitness is very small. This led to physical fitness becoming a big trouble that Star Crown soul masters have to face.

But at that time, Xu Jiawei was the Crown Prince of a country and the next Sect Master of the Star Crown Sect. The resources he enjoyed were incomparably huge and precious.

It's no joke to say that Xu Jiawei had been taking various treasures beneficial to physical fitness since he was a child, including rare treasures like ten-thousand-year whale glue and shark beads that were hard to find in a hundred years. Such huge resources quickly made up for Xu Jiawei's shortcomings in physical fitness and even made his physical fitness stronger than battle soul masters of the same level, which gave him the confidence to absorb a ten-thousand-year soul ring for the eighth ring.

Perhaps there is one point Shu Yan doesn't know: Xu Jiawei is fully equipped with soul bones, and two of them have reached the ten-thousand-year level. The most precious of these two ten-thousand-year soul bones is a torso bone produced by a ten-thousand-year Star Dragon. At the same time, this torso bone is also the most precious one among the inherited soul bones of the Star Crown Sect.

After a short silence, Shu Yan asked again:

"The second question: I want to know what kind of connection the Empire has with those remnants of the Spirit Hall, or rather, I want to know Imperial Brother's attitude."

Xu Jiawei was silent for a while, as if summarizing his language, and as if struggling. After a long time, he said softly: "Very simple, it can be considered a cooperative relationship."

"Thousands of years ago, the ancestors of my Star Crown Sect led the Star Luo army and civilians to successfully defend this fertile land we have lived on for thousands of years. The former White Tiger royal family weakened and abdicated the throne to that generation of Star Crown Sect Master. And that generation of Star Crown Sect Master enfeoffed the former White Tiger royal family as the Empire's Duke, hereditary and perpetual, never to be broken."

"But anyone with a brain can think clearly: as former royal blood, how could the successive White Tiger Dukes not have the idea of regaining power? It's just that reality has never been enough to support their ideas."

"The balance between the royal family and the White Tiger Duke has never been broken, because everyone knows that in such an era, as long as this balance is broken, the entire Star Luo will face a disaster. It was under these circumstances that the royal family discovered the remnants of the former Spirit Hall in several coastal cities in the south of the Empire."

"Those remnants had been oppressed and expelled by the former Heaven Dou Empire for over a thousand years. After the war, they moved to the Star Luo Empire in groups. At that time, the throne and supreme power of the Empire had just changed hands. Those Spirit Hall remnants seemed to see the possibility of rebirth, so they were not resistant to the contact of our Xu family royal family. In the long-term interaction, they were forced by reality and slowly accepted the resources and support provided by the royal family..."

"But relatively speaking, they became a sharp blade secretly supported by our Star Crown royal family to face domestic contradictions and other troubles. This relationship has been concluded since thousands of years ago, and I only learned about it from the elders of my Star Crown Sect after I succeeded to the position of Star Luo Emperor."

Speaking of this, Xu Jiawei paused slightly before continuing: "As for my attitude, what you see is what it is. Old Qian is my teacher. If I really had to choose between the White Tiger Duke and the Spirit Hall remnants you mentioned, I would choose the latter without hesitation."

Seeming to notice the surprise revealed on Shu Yan's face, Xu Jiawei smiled, took a sip of fragrant tea, and then said leisurely: "Being an emperor is not that easy. Those without shrewdness or who are too simple-minded cannot live long in this position. What is on the surface is not necessarily true, and as for what is behind the scenes, that is even harder to say..."

Shu Yan laughed dumbly and nodded gently. Regarding the situation and reality, he had gained another point of understanding......

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