Chapter 2158: Dealing with Each Other

The battle in the courtyard quickly subsided. The 8 guards were nowhere to be found. Amu sat on the steps in front of the castle, thinking. That's right, it was thinking.

Amu was considering a very simple question: it was clearly the one being beaten during the battle, so why was the enemy so angry? This made Amu unable to figure it out, so it asked Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang in a muffled voice.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's answer was that the enemy was jealous of your 'peerless appearance'. Amu was stunned for a long time, scratching its head in confusion. The second doubt appeared: what is a peerless appearance?

In the banquet hall of the castle, dozens of candlelight illuminated the place. The old duke sat at the head of the dining table, Su Xiao was diagonally opposite him, and in the other seats were the old duke's family members.

This old guy was ruthless enough. Knowing that Duke Lilin would send people to assassinate him, he still kept his family members in the castle. These family members of the old duke all had Saint-Descendant blood.

The Undead Curse was a curse that could be inherited. This curse did not forcibly destroy human physiological structure, but spread silently like a plague.

The horror of this curse was that as long as the Saint-Descendant wanted to maintain consciousness and not become an idiot who only knew how to repent to the gods, they had to constantly ingest life force and harm ordinary people. Once ordinary people died out, the end of the Saint-Descendants would also come.

Because of this, Saint-Descendants would try their best to control the number of descendants. When the number of Saint-Descendants was too large, they would kill each other crazily in the dark. This was the iron rule set by the first Saint-Descendant King.

This dinner, no, it should be a midnight snack, seemed both silent and oppressive. On the dining table in front of the old duke, only a wooden cup was placed, containing scarlet liquid.

The old duke would never station troops in his manor. The reason was the scarlet liquid in the cup. Some things, once exposed to the sun, he could only hide in the darkness forever.

Soon, the old duke's family members left the table, all relatively polite. After all, there was this 'distant relative' Su Xiao present.

"Kukulin Bai Ye, I have never heard that a Saint-Descendant can be reborn from death. This is the price of hunting gods; no one can escape."

The old duke leaned on the seat, gently rubbing the small skull in his hand with his thumb. There were two skulls, strung together, and they were a bit polished. These were the skulls of the old duke's two wives, which he had turned into this size with divine secret arts and had been carrying with him.

Seeing this scene, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who was squatting at Su Xiao's feet, was slightly stunned. It had seen people playing with walnuts and hand strings, but it was the first time it had seen someone playing with their wife, and even playing until the skull was polished.

"Nothing is impossible. Moreover, I said before, it's just a certain probability of success."

"Is that so? To avoid you slaughtering my family, let me state in advance that even if I agree to appoint you to the position of duke, the other 4 dukes will not agree. If you are not a Saint-Descendant, you are not qualified to be appointed as a duke."

The old duke knew the situation very well. Even if his family members swarmed up, the result could only be slaughtered, no other possibility, unless the imperial army was transferred, then it was possible to win.

"Oh."

Su Xiao was not surprised. The reason he didn't eliminate the old duke before was actually because of this. The position of duke was not inherited by killing.

As for what the old duke just said about not being able to appoint Su Xiao as a duke, this was also no problem. In the final analysis, the Sela Empire was in the hands of Saint-Descendants. They were already standing at the top of the pyramid and would not allow ordinary people to get involved in their power. This was their foundation for survival, otherwise, they would become street rats, everyone shouting to beat them. For cases, refer to the Ghouls on the Ghoul Continent.

"Did I say I want to be appointed as a duke directly?"

Su Xiao's goal was not a title; he wanted real power, real power sufficient to contact other high-level officials of the empire.

If the Space-Time Hub Device was in Yalanse City, it would only be in the hands of the Saint-Descendant King. Unfortunately, it was too difficult to contact the Saint-Descendant King.

"Then you want me to be your puppet?"

The old duke said this sentence very casually. It seemed like a joke, but it was actually a probe.

"Letting an old undead become a puppet is the most stupid choice."

"Then what do you mean?"

"What is the standard for the Saint-Descendant King to ascend to the throne?"

"!"

The old duke's gaze gradually became sharp, and then he was so angry that he smiled.

"Kukulin Bai Ye, we undead can rule the Sela Empire until today, just because we are united enough..."

Speaking of this, the old duke couldn't go on, because the gaze Su Xiao looked at him with at this time was clearly: 'Can you stop farting.'

"Cough, my conflict with Duke Lilin is just a game between old friends, just like that."

The old duke's fist clenched, that gaze, like a ghost wanting to swallow someone alive.

"I have no interest in the Saint-Descendant King, but I can cooperate with you on other matters. I have long been tired of the power of the duke position."

This sentence of the old duke gave Su Xiao an important clue, that is, the Saint-Descendants were fighting for something, even at the cost of breaking the balance of power.

Greed, fickleness, no warning when turning against each other, this was the most intuitive feeling the old duke gave Su Xiao. As for saying that the Saint-Descendants lived too long and were tired of the world, judging from the old duke's performance, this old guy was not only not tired but also enjoyed it. For some Saint-Descendants, immortality was a disaster, but for the old duke, immortality was what he wanted.

"Artifact? Weapon? Or some kind of ability?"

Su Xiao's words made the old duke gently rub his temples. This uninvited guest he encountered was not only as strong as a monster but also terrifyingly intelligent.

"That's a gem. It is said that a thousand years ago, a group of explorers found a corpse in the Abyss, and the corpse was holding that gem in its hand."

"Gem? Specific features."

"..."

The old duke was silent for a moment. Thinking that Su Xiao was not a Saint-Descendant, he took out a strip of cloth from his arms, on which something was drawn with blue dye.

The old duke placed the cloth strip on the dining table and pushed it to Su Xiao very casually. From his attitude, it could be seen that the information he was about to reveal was not a secret, at least not a secret to Saint-Descendants.

"It is unique. Only it can suppress the life stripping phenomenon of the undead, or rather, it can be embedded into the soul."

Su Xiao didn't care what the old duke was saying. He was thinking about putting Zhan Long Shan into the storage space, but considering the hidden nature of the embedding effect, he felt relieved in his heart.

Su Xiao basically judged the old duke's purpose. Even if they cooperated, the old duke was more inclined to use him.

Su Xiao didn't care about this at all. They were just using each other; there was nothing to complain about. What he cared about was why this old guy took out a rag with the Soul-Severing Shadow Stone drawn on it, or rather, why the Soul-Severing Shadow Stone appeared in this world.

So far, Su Xiao had found three Soul-Severing Shadow Stones. If the old duke's words were true, this was the fourth one. When Su Xiao gathered five Soul-Severing Shadow Stones, he would have a chance to obtain the Soul-Severing Shadow ability.

And the old duke also said just now that this Soul-Severing Shadow Stone was held in the hand by a skeleton. Could that skeleton be the skeleton of a previous Law-Severing Shadow?

If that was really the case, could that previous Law-Severing Shadow have left something on his own skeleton? Once something was really left behind, Su Xiao would make a big profit if he could find that skeleton.

Of course, the old duke's words were true and false. Whether this information was true or not still needed to be carefully judged. However, the old duke was a smart man. Now Su Xiao could kill him at any time. Lying at this time would only make him die faster.

"Coincidentally, I am also looking for something."

A smile appeared on Su Xiao's face.

"Is that so? Then our meeting is not only my luck but also your luck."

The old duke smiled more and more kindly, his right hand still playing with the skulls of his two wives, the polish of the skulls reflecting a warm feeling under the candlelight.

"That's right, but cooperation requires trust."

Su Xiao lit a cigarette, his words completely insincere.

"Of course I trust you."

The old duke said this without any heart. Under the candlelight, the two looked at each other.

The old duke's attitude change was very interesting. At first, he wanted to stabilize Su Xiao, and once there was a chance, he would transfer the army to eliminate Su Xiao. But after the negotiation, he decided not to do so, because this was an opportunity, an opportunity to get rid of the curse, to be immortal without paying the price of immortality.

"Wah~"

A cry came. A Saint-Descendant little loli who was eavesdropping was scared to cry by the conversation between Su Xiao and the old duke. I don't know why, Su Xiao and the old duke were clearly both smiling, but this Saint-Descendant little loli was afraid, afraid from the heart.

The Sela Empire had five dukes, all of whom were old schemers who didn't know how many years they had lived. They were so dangerous that Xi didn't dare to come here at all. The situation here was already beyond what Xi could deal with by her martial arts and her wisdom.

And today, one of the five dukes, Adrian Alfer, made a huge mistake. He shouldn't have had dinner with an alchemist. ===== CHAPTER 2159 =====