Chapter 45: The Wheel of Fate, Fortune Surging

Only then did Dai Mubai finally come to his senses.

Seeing the corpses all over the ground, he involuntarily vomited again, shouting like a madman: "Dai Xiyu, you lunatic, demon!"

Dai Xiyu looked at Dai Mubai indifferently and said lightly:

"This is originally a life-and-death battle between you and me; if you aren't prepared to kill your rivals, you can only become dust in the river of history early on."

Turning around, Dai Xiyu took Zhu Zhuqing's slightly trembling hand, walking toward the carriage while saying without looking back:

"As for you…… Dai Mubai, you're still somewhat useful to me, and I'm too lazy to kill you. In the long time ahead, we'll wait and see."

Having said that, he opened the carriage door and pulled Zhu Zhuqing aboard together.

Dai Mubai just sat dazedly in place, his eyes vacant.

……

Just after boarding the carriage, a special prompt appeared in the upper left of Dai Xiyu's vision.

【Harvest from Dai Mubai's fortune +2,000,000】

Two million fortune, Dai Xiyu wasn't overly surprised.

He originally knew that this incident would definitely deal Dai Mubai a huge blow.

In the original plot, Dai Mubai also couldn't bear Dai Weisi's blow, which is why he went to Shrek Academy.

Presumably, the world line altered by Dai Xiyu should be very similar to the original.

According to the plot's development, the original Dai Xiyu would also, like today, die in Dai Weisi's hands while Dai Mubai watches.

However, Dai Weisi without a hunter identity cannot plunder fortune from Dai Mubai.

Shaking his head, Dai Xiyu couldn't help recalling that just now he saw Dai Mubai's head topped with fortune seeming to be over fourteen million.

Now, after having plundered two million himself, there remains twelve million fortune.

Thinking thus, Dai Xiyu opened the fortune store.

Looking, his fortune had already reached six million.

From the small goal of twenty million, there is still a long way to go.

Under the coachman's driving, the carriage slowly began to move, setting off toward Star Luo City.

After such an incident, Dai Xiyu obviously can't continue practical combat training; now he has more important things to do.

After the carriage entered the gate of Star Luo City, Dai Xiyu took out a medicine bottle, opened the cap, and drank most of it.

The remaining small half, he handed to Zhu Zhuqing.

Seeing this, Zhu Zhuqing took the medicine bottle while asking doubtfully: "What is this?"

Dai Xiyu said: "It's a medicine that suppresses soul power; after taking it, it blocks the circulation of soul power, affecting the release of soul skills in the short term."

Hearing Dai Xiyu say that, Zhu Zhuqing stopped asking further and drank the remaining half bottle of medicine.

Immediately afterward, Dai Xiyu personally messed up their clothes a bit, even deliberately tearing several holes.

After doing all that, the carriage was already near the imperial palace.

The carriage stopped, and he then took Zhu Zhuqing together to openly go audience with the Star Luo Emperor.

After the audience, Dai Xiyu voluntarily recounted everything that had just happened.

Of course, he could not state it according to the facts.

In the oral account of Dai Xiyu and the coachman, the events completely turned into the arrangement Dai Xiyu had prepared beforehand.

——Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai joined forces, leading seven Soul Ancestors to set up an ambush midway, intending to assassinate Dai Xiyu.

As a result, Dai Mubai had earlier bought off half of the Soul Ancestors, and in the chaos he turned traitor, intending to kill both of them together and seize the crown prince position ahead of time.

In the chaos, Dai Weisi was unfortunately killed, while the attendant named Qin Yang had a change of heart and chose to help Dai Xiyu.

Meanwhile, Dai Xiyu and Zhu Zhuqing had been poisoned in advance by Dai Weisi, unable to exert their full strength, and still fell into danger.

Fortunately, their martial soul fusion skill could still be used.

Relying on the martial soul fusion skill Netherworld White Tiger, the two joined forces with Qin Yang and successfully eliminated the last two Soul Ancestors.

Qin Yang voluntarily stayed behind to cover the retreat; the poisoned Dai Xiyu and Zhu Zhuqing then managed to escape danger and returned to Star Luo City.

……

Because it was premeditated, what Dai Xiyu and the coachman said basically matched.

This caused an uproar throughout the Star Luo court, even the Star Luo Emperor grew angry.

Although the Strife of the Star Luo royal family ultimately ends in death or crippling, preemptive killing is not permitted.

Only after becoming crown prince and winning the competition does one have the right to dispose of the other losers.

This is to give the princes time to grow, but more so to maintain the dignity of the royal family.

Now, Dai Mubai and Dai Weisi actually broke the rules, and Dai Mubai even killed Dai Weisi in advance.

To the royal family, this is nothing short of losing all face.

Immediately, the Star Luo Emperor dispatched the Netherworld Duke, personally leading people out of the city to verify the truth of this matter.

And when the Netherworld Duke, accompanied by a host of Royal Guards, arrived at the scene.

Present were only Qin Yang alone, and the ground littered with corpses.

Dai Mubai's figure had long since vanished.

Qin Yang was arrested on the spot and thrown into the Heavenly Prison for strict interrogation.

Now, Qin Yang's future and prospects are entirely in Dai Xiyu's hands; naturally he would not dare to speak recklessly even if beaten to death.

Thus, the truth of the matter was confirmed.

What Dai Xiyu and the coachman said were all true, and some details were also supplemented.

After Dai Xiyu and Zhu Zhuqing left the scene, Dai Mubai, realizing things were bad, actually fled in the opposite direction from Star Luo City.

This point, Dai Xiyu had not anticipated.

They originally thought Dai Mubai would return to Star Luo City and file a complaint against the second older brother before the Star Luo Emperor.

At that time, Dai Xiyu would again use the remaining few eyewitnesses to completely cast Dai Mubai into the abyss.

Unexpectedly, Dai Mubai's endurance was so poor that there was not even a thought of resistance, and they were directly frightened away.

However, this further substantiated the truth of the matter.

If not for having a guilty conscience, why would they flee?

Actually, even if Dai Mubai did not flee, they would not be sentenced to death.

After all, they are a prince, and this is in the fiercely competitive imperial family of the Star Luo Empire.

In such a situation, the Star Luo Emperor would at most throw Dai Mubai into a small black room, imprison them for three to five years, and then release them.

However, after seeing Dai Weisi's corpse, Dai Mubai lived in fear that they might be killed by Dai Xiyu someday, and thus could not bear it and chose to flee.

It can be said that, due to Dai Mubai's own clumsy maneuver, they are as if they jumped into the Yellow River and still cannot wash clean.

And just after Dai Mubai fled, the upper-left corner of Dai Xiyu's field of view also refreshed the special prompt once again.

【Gain from Dai Mubai's fortune +2000000】

At this moment, Dai Xiyu was standing in Dai Mubai's bedroom, gazing indifferently out the window.

"Flee, flee. The course of history will extend along its predetermined direction; the protagonist with great fortune will still meet up."

"However, you, who now have half less fortune than before, what will you become in the future?"

(End of chapter)