Being questioned so sternly by the Star Luo Emperor, the Duke of the Zhu Family—the biological father of Zhu Zhuyun and Zhu Zhuqing—was already dripping with cold sweat.
He tremblingly raised his hand and frantically wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.
At this moment, his expression was a hundred times more bitter than if he had eaten raw coptis root.
"Please appease your wrath, Your Majesty! I... I really don't know what's going on!"
The Duke of the Zhu Family's voice was shaking violently; he was truly driven to the brink of madness by anxiety.
"Your Majesty, please see clearly. Since the founding of the Star Luo Empire, my Zhu Family and the Imperial Family have intermarried for generations."
"In these long years, this is the first ridiculous case in history!"
The Duke of the Zhu Family swallowed hard, enduring the immense pressure as he continued to explain in terror, "Two people who originally had Martial Soul Resonance have suddenly lost their connection."
"Such a thing that defies common sense has never been recorded even in the slightest in the records of my Zhu Family!"
Hearing this pale and powerless defense from the Duke of the Zhu Family, Dai Yutian was clearly very dissatisfied.
He was the ruler of a country; he didn't care about the process or those ethereal reasons; he only cared about the final result!
Dai Yutian's eyes narrowed slightly, a glimmer of extremely dangerous cold light flashing in the depths of his gaze.
He no longer paid attention to the Duke of the Zhu Family, but turned directly to the personal Royal Guard beside him and ordered in a deep voice.
"You, take men to the Prince's Mansion and the Zhu Family immediately."
"Bring the Third Prince and the Zhu Family's Third Young Miss, Zhu Zhuqing, to the Imperial Study at once!"
"I want to see for myself if the Spirit compatibility between the two of them has also disappeared!"
Dai Weisi's face was extremely pale; he knew very well in his heart that his years of calculation and planning were completely finished.
In the Star Luo Empire, the top-tier Martial Soul Fusion Skill 'Hell White Tiger' had always been the symbol of imperial legitimacy and absolute power!
A prince without the Hell White Tiger as his strongest trump card would never be able to sit on that supreme imperial throne.
Now, the Martial Soul Fusion Skill between him and Zhu Zhuyun had completely disappeared.
Although the specific reason was not yet clear, it was obvious that this had become an irreversible situation.
Dai Weisi, the once most dazzling and popular First Prince of the Star Luo Empire.
At this moment, he had essentially lost his qualification as the successor to the Star Luo Great Emperor!
A prince unable to perform the Hell White Tiger had lost his greatest utility to the cold and realistic Star Luo Imperial Family.
Looking at the current structure of the Star Luo Imperial Family.
Among the adult princes, the Second Prince had been eliminated, leaving only the two brothers.
And now, only the Third Prince, Mubai, and Zhuqing still possessed Spirit compatibility.
Under this cruel elimination mechanism, the two of them had logically become the final successors of the imperial bloodline.
Dai Yutian sat on the Dragon throne, his mind as clear as a mirror.
No matter how profligate and playboy Mubai usually was, how much he frequented brothels, or even if he was suspected of giving up on himself and letting things rot.
However, as long as the Hell White Tiger between him and Zhuqing remained, he was currently the only successor to the Star Luo Empire.
Nothing else could be allowed to go wrong with the two of them!
Otherwise, who would serve as the successor of the Star Luo Imperial Family, which had passed down its Legacy for ten thousand years?
As the Emperor of the Star Luo Empire, Dai Yutian would never place the future of the Empire entirely on ethereal luck.
Even if only Mubai and Zhuqing were left with compatibility, he would not put all his eggs in one basket.
At this moment, a very realistic and cold thought had already arisen in Dai Yutian's mind.
It seemed it was time to start a new alt.
Dai Yutian calculated silently in his heart.
While he was still in his prime, fathering a few more exceptionally talented princes and training them anew might be the most stable way to break the deadlock.
The reason why the Star Luo Imperial Family had always been able to suppress the Heaven Dou Imperial Family in comprehensive national strength lay in two key points.
First was their proud, top-tier Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the Hell White Tiger!
Second was that almost Gu-like, extremely cruel imperial competition system!
It was precisely because of this bloody competition system that every Star Luo Great Emperor in history had fought their way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood as the strongest.
But because of this, within the current massive Imperial Family, besides the Hell White Tiger combat power possessed by him and the Empress.
Among the princes, only the two brothers, Dai Weisi and Mubai, remained.
This was because the many princes of Star Luo had to unreservedly eliminate all their competitors before officially taking the throne.
This elimination, at its lightest, involved crippling the opponent's cultivation and banishing them to a remote and desolate territory.
At its heaviest, it meant killing them directly in an assassination or on a life-and-death arena to uproot the grass and its roots!
In fact, after Dai Yutian had gone through nine deaths and one life to finally become the Emperor, he had also hesitated for a moment.
He had considered in the deep of the night whether to abolish this overly cruel competition system.
After all, as time passed, the situation on the continent was constantly changing, and the power of the Spirit Hall was growing larger, with unfathomable foundations.
On the other hand, in their Star Luo Imperial Family, those with Titled Douluo-level combat power were only the Hell White Tiger performed by him and the Empress.
This lack of high-level combat power seemed slightly insufficient and thin when facing the Spirit Hall.
Dai Yutian had once calculated.
If this fratricidal competition system were completely abolished, allowing all princes with the White Tiger Spirit to grow safely.
Then within thirty years, these sons of his could definitely form a formidable top-tier combat force.
There might even be several more Spirit Douluos, and perhaps even the first Titled Douluo!
Because without this cruel competition, those talented princes would not die prematurely or be forced to grow too quickly, so the chance of achieving the Titled Douluo rank would be higher.
However, there was one point that made him feel very conflicted and wary.
This was the fundamental reason why the competition system of the Star Luo Imperial Family had never been abolished to this day!
That was, once the number of Hell White Tigers became too many, it would be extremely easy to cause a massive internal rebellion in the Empire!
Just imagine.
If an Imperial Prince with the Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill were sent to his territory to take up his post.
What he would do in secret, like recruiting soldiers and buying horses in his territory, would be basically impossible for you, the Emperor sitting in Star Luo City, to fully control.
After all, you couldn't send people to monitor the other party's every move for twenty-four hours a day without any blind spots.
Once the Imperial Prince's wings were full and he developed rebellious intentions, combined with the terrifying combat power of the Hell White Tiger, he would surely ignite the fires of a great war.