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But this time, there was a hint of brutality and panic in his calmness.
At this time, someone laughed.
“Haha, haha, hahahahahaha…”
The strange laughter was filled with excitement and delight.
Xu Tianran suppressed the rage in his heart and looked in the direction of the voice. It was Xu Sheng who had disrupted all his plans.
The other person covered his face with his right hand and laughed up to the sky: "Xu Tianran, it turns out you really have nothing down there. I think you should stop calling yourself Xu Tianran and change your name to Xu Gongran, hahahaha——"
Xu Tianran was stunned for a moment, but soon understood what the other party meant. If you remove the person below the character "天", it becomes the character "工".
Such humiliation made him furious, but he still forced himself to remain rational and said, "Everyone, this must be the illusion cast by the traitor. Follow me to kill the evil demon!"
He called out again, but still no one responded.
The Sun and Moon warriors nearby all remained silent. No one launched an attack as they had rehearsed before. The powerful soul guide equipment gradually dissipated the soul power fluctuations. Some people even subconsciously stepped back, half a step away from Xu Tianran.
"what--"
At this moment, Xu Tianran could no longer maintain his emperor’s composure and dignity. He roared without any image, stared at Huo Yuhao with a hideous look, and said through gnashing teeth, “It’s you! You must have done all this!”
Huo Yuhao sneered and said nothing. Instead, he used mental sharing to type a word full of disdain into Xu Tianran’s mind.
"I did it. What do you want to do? What can you do? What do you dare to do?"
The three arrogant questions struck Xu Tianran's soul directly, causing him to tremble all over. He had not suffered any attack yet, but he felt colder than bathing in an extremely cold ice spring.
He knew that if the other party could let him see his ugly body, he would definitely let others see it. Looking at the reactions of the people around him, everything was obvious.
Objectively speaking, all of Xu Tianran's reactions just now were extremely excellent coping methods, enough to demonstrate his sophistication and skill.
He had a twisted mind, and when Du Bushi pointed out his disability, he quickly suppressed his rage, deliberately changed the subject, and ignored the other party's humiliation.
Huo Yuhao felt that Xu Tianran was knowledgeable about public relations.
When the other party made an extremely unfavorable accusation against him, Xu Tianran did not defend himself, but immediately changed the subject, waiting for Beidi Douluo to show up and then directly launched a mutiny, not giving anyone the opportunity to figure out the truth.
Xu Tianran understood that his first task was to eliminate his competitors and take the throne first. As for other people's suspicions later, he could deal with them slowly.
You can just dispel the rumor and kill all those who doubt it. If you really can't hide it, the worst that can happen is that you can just admit your flaws.
With his own abilities, even if he had no offspring, as he was still young and middle-aged, no member of the royal family would dare to disobey him.
If that doesn't work, he can still adopt an obedient and excellent child from a concubine as his heir. As long as he becomes the emperor, this won't be a problem at all, there's a lot of room for maneuver!
But the premise of all that was that he had become emperor.
After all, the emperor can be incapable of sex, but the prince cannot.
Xu Tianran's plan was simple. He would first muddy the waters, then directly launch a mutiny, and kill Beidi Douluo and Du Bu Si at all costs. He would then blame Du Bu Si for all the damage done to Mingdu.
Thousands of Mingdu people are bound to die in this process, which will serve as an excuse for him to stir up hatred. After recuperating for a few years, he will launch a holy war against the Tianhun Empire.
But now, all his plans collapsed at the first step.
Du Bu Si in the air had his martial spirit removed, and those Sun and Moon masters no longer paid attention to him. Only Kong Deming kept monitoring him. Du Bu Si didn't care at all. He narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the Temple of Heaven with interest.
He was very familiar with the spirit skill of mental detection, and he dared to assert that all this must have been done by that kid Huo Yuhao.
On the sixth floor, Jing Hongchen sighed. He and the masters of Mingdetang did not run to the seventh floor to join the battle and ignored Xu Tianran's orders.
Orange slumped on the ground, her once beautiful eyes and skin becoming extremely sad, without any trace of luxury.
Xu Tianran was finished, and she couldn't be spared either.
Xu Tianran is now deserted by everyone. Those who are loyal to him are indifferent. In an instant, the power he controls is left only by himself.
However, at this moment, that voice sounded in Xu Tianran's mind again.
"Look over there~"
Xu Tianran subconsciously followed the voice's guidance and looked down towards the Temple of Heaven, and he felt the blood in his body freeze.
Everywhere he looked, he saw densely packed people looking at him in unison. Looking down at this scene from a high place made his scalp tingle and his whole body tremble.
He understood the other party's intention instantly. Those who received the spiritual sharing were not only the strong men on the Temple of Heaven, but also the millions of Mingdu citizens below!
Xu Tianran only felt that the whole world had lost all other colors, leaving only shadows and paleness.
This Titled Douluo did not suffer any attack, and his soul power remained at its peak, but he felt dizzy. If it were not for the specially made soul-guided prosthesis in his lower body, he would not have been able to stand steadily.
However, this is not over yet.
The dead silence over the southern suburbs only lasted for a short while before the people gradually began to lose their patience and tiny noises could be heard among the crowd.
"I didn't expect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to..."
Some people couldn't help but whisper to themselves, some smiled secretly with their heads down, and some covered their mouths to hold back their laughter, so as not to be arrested by the nearby army for insulting members of the royal family.
But these tiny sounds and movements could not escape Huo Yuhao's mental detection.
These detected small movements and ridicules were shared with Xu Tianran through Huo Yuhao.
The voices of millions of people were aggregated and selected, like a connected matrix and Skynet, or a swarm of bees with transparent minds, forming a huge information storm that poured into Xu Tianran's mind. Of course, these voices were mainly mocking.
Xu Tianran's already wide eyes opened even wider, and the bloodshot in his eyeballs was no less than Huo Yuhao's.
It’s just that Huo Yuhao was forcibly maintaining the drastic consumption of his mental energy, while Xu Tianran was out of extreme anger.
"Hahaha, this is your prince, Xu Tianran, how do you feel now? How do you feel?"
Huo Yuhao’s voice was like the whisper of a devil, but only Xu Tianran, the person involved, could hear it.
This is another extreme application of mental sharing - mental pollution.
Mind sharing can not only be shared with companions to help transmit information and understand the surrounding environment, but it can also be shared with enemies to torture them to the point of exhaustion, neurasthenia, and mental allergy.
Combined with Mental Exile, the lethality of this combination of skills may have no upper limit for some people.
Huo Yuhao guessed that Ji Juechen was very likely immune to this move, but it was obviously very effective against Xu Tianran.
As the noisy laughter from the people echoed in his ears, Xu Tianran's body began to tremble continuously.
After suffering such a great humiliation, what would be the point even if he could become the Sun and Moon Emperor and unify the entire continent?
No.
What is the meaning of being alive?
From now on, no one in the world will respect him anymore. Even the cats and dogs on the street can laugh at him behind his back and call him... waste!
Kong Deming's expression was uncertain at the moment. The strong men of the Sun and Moon Empire turned their eyes to him, wanting him to take charge of the situation, but the current situation was beyond Kong Deming's understanding, and even he didn't know how to deal with it.
It looked like Du Bu Si didn't want to fight anymore, and the Sun and Moon warriors all looked at each other in bewilderment.
Just when they were in a stalemate, something strange happened.
"Ahhhh-"
Xu Tianran finally couldn't bear it anymore. He looked up to the sky and let out a long, shrill and painful howl, and the purple-gold soul power in his body burst out violently.
His aura surged, and all nine soul rings behind him flashed at the same time, and then merged into Xu Tianran's body at the same time.
Xu Tianran had gone mad. He screamed and flew into the air, transforming into a giant purple-gold dragon in the air. With his momentum constantly rising, he swooped down rapidly in the direction of Huo Yuhao.
The giant purple-gold dragon opened its bloody mouth and continuously let out painful roars. It did not look majestic or handsome at all, only showed endless cruelty and destruction.
Xu Tianran seemed to have transformed into a demon dragon.
"Your Highness can't!"
Kong Deming reacted instantly, still maintaining the most basic courtesy, and wanted to step forward to stop it.
But he found that Xu Tianran's momentum had surged to an unreasonable level.
In front of the ferocious head of the giant purple-gold dragon that Xu Tianran transformed into, there was a ridge-shaped crystal floating.
Around the crystal that was originally surrounded by purple light, that purple light was rapidly transforming into black lightning.
"That's the soul core!"
Kong Deming recognized what the crystal was at a glance. When he saw its changes, he understood Xu Tianran's intention and his face was full of horror.
Xu Tianran is burning all his soul power, mental power and life to activate his soul core.
He's going to blow himself up.
"Roar--"
Madness had filled Xu Tianran's pair of vertical golden dragon eyes, and a distance of dozens of meters passed in an instant.
He was so decisive that he left no way out for himself.
"go to hell!"
The violent fluctuation of soul power instantly pulled all the strong men back to reality from silence. While they were surprised, they opened their own shields and flew into the air at the same time, moving away from Xu Tianran as quickly as possible.
Huo Yuhao frowned and sneered, "Another self-destruction?"
This is also the reason why he chose to kill Xu Tianran here, to prevent him from launching a dying counterattack at the last moment due to anger and shame, and to minimize the harm.
When the purple-black lightning was about to engulf Huo Yuhao, two rays of light, one green and one white, suddenly flashed in front of Huo Yuhao.
The extreme coldness met the annihilating lightning and resisted Xu Tianran's attack. Ice and snow began to condense from Xu Tianran's dragon head, and quickly spread along the dragon's body. In the blink of an eye, the giant dragon that Xu Tianran had transformed into was wrapped in white frost and snow.
But Xu Tianran's movements did not stop because of the freezing. The energy accumulated in the soul core in front of the huge dragon head was still accumulating rapidly.
He stared at Huo Yuhao fiercely, determined to remember this face that destroyed everything for him.
But in the next moment, the white and green extreme ice soul power eroded into the soul core, and Xu Tianran's vitality stopped burning, and the destructive power in his body no longer raged.
Xu Tianran's only eyes that could move were filled with horror. He couldn't believe that he couldn't even die with dignity.
After the extreme cold comes the extreme heat.
Xu Tianran raised his eyes with difficulty and could barely see the dazzling light in the sky.
It was an orange-red light that was more dazzling than the sun, and it was the Sun Soul Guide.
Huo Yuhao pointed his right index and middle fingers high up in the sky and said coldly, “If we’re comparing who is more unscrupulous, I win.”
After saying that, he swung his right hand downwards violently, and a blazing high-temperature beam poured down from the Sun Soul Guidance Device, piercing straight through Xu Tianran's dragon head. The ice on his body melted, and then he was hit by a blazing high temperature.
The two repelling attributes of ice and fire acted together on Xu Tianran, dividing his last bit of vitality.
"Ow—"