Killing an Evil Tiger

In the main living room of Heavenly Dou Empire, the atmosphere is quite heavy as most of the royals are waiting for the Emperor to arrive.

There is something he has to tell to everyone.

The moment he entered the first thing he did was to get a glass of wine. After drinking a whole glass of it he finally spoke.

"The Crown Prince has been assassinated." Emperor Xue Ye said with a heavy tone.

The first one to react to this was the Empress who started to cry. While Xue Long was angry. 

He wasn't angry that his older brother died, he didn't have any sort of feeling for him for the simple reason that they were too different and obviously royals of Empire in an ancient society.

The First Prince was a wimp, while Xue Long was punch first if it's annoying. Where the Crown Prince would discuss things first, the Fourth Prince would provoke so that he could beat up. 

And most of all. The Xue Qinghe would have assassinated Xue Long long ago if not for his cultivation and connection to Spirit Hall.

This is why there were no feelings when the guy was killed. BUT! The Fourth Prince was pissed how the guy has died! Assassinated!? Internally he was screaming at him for being such a weakling! At least die while killing five of them! In a glorious battle! Not by a goddam dagger in your back! At least have some sense of readiness! You were a Crown Prince for all the Gods sake!

*Tsk*

"I have to get to the Academy." The fourth Prince said angrily as he got up from his seat.

"Qiu'er, Xue'er let's go!" The golden lion and his fiance quickly followed after him.

The pair of royals saw how angry the Fourth Prince was they thought that he was angry that his Elder Brother was assassinated. So they didn't say anything about his rude behaviour. Not that he cares that he was been rude.

The only one who had a real sense of this anger was his uncle who spend a considerable amount of time with his nephew and knows his character.

He was quite pissed that his Heavenly Dou Empire had lost face like this as well. Showing that they are vulnerable to such things.

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As Xue Long was walking through the corridors he saw his little sister rushing towards the main living room. 

"Qiu'er intercept her." 

As he said that the lion moved. The Golden Lion got in the way and started to snuggle with the little girl.

"Qiu'er stop! It tickles!" Xue Ke, the little Princess started to protest against such an 'assault'.

So the Fourth Prince walked over and extremely casually picked the little girl up.

"Where do you think you are going?" The Fourth Prince asked with a curious tone.

"Brother Qinghe promised me a pet! And I got tired of waiting!" 

Hearing how she mentioned Xue Qinghe, for a second his smile stiffed but quickly returned to how it was before.

"Oh? He promised that? Well, I was about to go to Star Dou Forest. So may as well get something for you." 

The moment he mentioned that his Fiance's eyebrow went up. Didn't he just say that he will go to the Academy? Now he will go to the forest? 

"Oh!? Really!? Can you get me a bird!? Can you!?" The little girl asked with an excited tone and cute look.

"Sure thing. Anything for my little Ke'er" 

She happily nodded that her big brother will help her to get her bird pet!

After that Xue long took her back to her room to continue playing with her toys. He stayed with her for a few hours before going outside. His destination was his Palace and not the Academy.

"Are we truly going to the Star Dou forest?" Qian Renxue asked him curiously.

"We are. I need to pummel someone." 

He said that casually. But same time she could feel a cold, steel-like tone underneath that causality.

One could say that the death of Xue Qinghe did affect him. But not in the way it affects normal people.

"Who do you think assassinated him?" The blonde asked curiously. She had no idea it was her 'mother' who ordered it. The girl had no direct interaction with Spirit Hall except her Grandfather who comes to visit her from time to time with Second Worship.

In other words, it doesn't even cross her mind that her Spirit Hall ordered the assassination.

"Star Luo Empire. Who else? Since they could not finish me off they will try to hamper my cultivation by making me the Crown Prince."

Hearing that Qian Renxue's eyes slightly glistered in certain light. Did… Star Luo empire did a favour to her? Her marriage with Xue Long was intended for him to take the Throne eventually! And now he will be Crown Prince!

She will be an Empress in the future!

A small smile appeared on her lips before she started to snuggle into him.

"Well, I don't care as long as you are fine." 

He hummed at her. Yep, his darling while no longer extremely arrogant she still is single-minded in her affairs. The Empires can crumble and the world can collapse. She will still be alright as long as he is fine. 

~~~~~~~Later, Star Dou Forest~~~~~~

Instead of bringing the whole army this time the visit was abrupt and Xue Long only brought a core of his people. With the protection of Two Titled Douluo's, there was no need for exaggeration and since the majority of them can fly they can quickly find the prey they want.

"Let's go deeper into the forest. We going to get that bird for Ke'er on our way back." As the Prince said that he had two of his maids holding around their waists. 

His angel fiance was quite annoyed that her Martial Spirit comes with wings! It would be better if she could not be able to fly at this moment!

And instead would be carried around by Xue Long like how these two are carried!

"Very well. We going to spread out and check for any beast which could fit for you or the Saintess." Snake Lance Douluo said that with crossed arms.

Poison Douluo could only nod. He wasn't taking orders! He was simply agreeing because it fits with what they came here to do!

As they are about to spread out a loud beastly roar spread through the area. Everyone for a second stopped in their tracks and looked at the source of this roar.

"I guess I just found my prey." The Fourth Prince said that with a smirk as he handed over his maids to the pair confused Titled Douluo's before rushing towards the source of the roar.

"W-Wait! My Prince, we don't know what kind of Spirit Beast it is!!!" Snake Lance Douluo said with a sweaty forehead! Their Prince is far too reckless!

That thing even gave him goosebumps! Pretty sure it's not a weak beast!

~~~

Pitch black winger tiger with a scorpion-like tail was munching on another spirit Beast when a huge fist coated in diamond-like energy smashed into its head.

Sending it flying through several trees and eventually stopped at one huge tree, cracking the tree trunk in the process.

"Quite a durable one. Fantastic!"

***Roar!!!***

"Someone's angry. Don't worry. I am angry too today!" As he said that he took a casual martial arts style and his six rings appeared behind him. It was two purple and fourth black. 

The black tiger lunged out from its crashing place and landed in front of him. Opened its mouth and started to drain him!

"Hoho! I see how it is! You want to eat my energy!? Very well! You can have it!" 

With simple kick-off Xue Long jumped forward and delivered an extremely hard smack to the beat's face. It was a straight punch which slightly stopped the tiger in what he was doing. 

Though Xue Long didn't stop there as he punch at the same place again and again. Until the tiger started bleeding from its nose!

This just pissed the tiger off and it used its bony tail to try to nail the Prince, who caught it with its hands which were coated in diamond-like energy.

"Hehe. Someone doesn't like the purifying light? Well, too bad for you."

As he said that a monk avatar appeared behind him.

"Deva Diamond Radiance!" 

Blinding light consumed the whole area. The pitch black tiger tried to get away from the prince's hold but his hands turned into draconic claws as he just merged with his Martial Spirit.

Extremely pained roars escaped from the tiger's mouth as the light was simply killing it!

Once it settled down Xue Long saw the tiger was bleeding all over its body but it was still very much alive.

"What a robust creature you are. I suppose I should reward you for your strong survival ability." The Fourth Prince said that with a surprised look. There was genuine awe in his eyes. The stronger the evil the more devastating the Diamond Radiance is. And this tiger is simply evil itself. Its whole body should have turned into ash and only the spirit ring should remain from it!

Yet…

His third ring glowed. 

A ghostly avatar of Golden Dragon King manifested with Xue Long in the middle of it.

***ROAR***

Ear-shattering dragon roar spread through the forest. Freezing everyone except the prince's allies in its place. Then the Dragon avatar grabbed the paralysed black tiger with its mouth and started gathering golden energy in its mouth.

The beast tried to struggle from its paralysing bind, as it felt the incoming doom. But it was in vain as the pain from the Diamond radiance combined with ring ability made it impossible to escape without some extra time!

The ghostly Dragon Avatar then looked at the sky and released the concentrated energy into the sky.

"Golden Dragon King's Third Spirit Ring Ability, Golden King's Judgment." Xue Long casually said that a ball exploded into tens of meteorites which started to fall into the forest.

A few seconds later the charred body of the pitch black tiger dropped on the ground. It was still alive as it was twitching and spasming and trying to get up.

"Damn… you one strong kitty." Xue Long said that as he shook his head.

"...My Prince… this is Evil DevilGod Tiger… with the way its tail is segmented and wing span it should be around 80 thousand years old." Snake Lance Douluo said with wide eyes. He can't believe how quickly the Prince has destroyed such a deadly foe!

"No wonder! It has 'God' in its name! Quite durable one!" As Xue Long said that he walked over to the barely alive tiger.

He pulled out his simple-looking sword. The blade glowed blue as he then swing it and chopped the head of the beast.

Moments later a pitch-black ring appeared above it.

Since it was such a rare beast and the name had 'God' in it. It should have some more stuff.

With simple sword swings, he cut open the beast and was about to pull out an orb which was the nucleus of the beast. However, some space warping has started around the orb.

"As if…" 

His hand quickly moved and pulled out the core and send a shockwave of purifying energy to cancel whatever scheme the tiger has come up with before its death…

Storing the nucleus away he got into position to absorb the ring.

"It doesn't have any dragon affinities but the element mastery of the beast will come in handy for the prince." Snake Lance Douluo said that from the side. There was a smirk on his lips. Such a beast should give the prince some impressive passive abilities.

"Indeed. This will be a fine ring for the little monster." Dugu Bo said from the side. 

Only, Qian Renxue had goosebumps going through her whole body when she felt what kind of creature is this thing! 

It's pure evil. Such a thing should be weak to her purifying light but she can feel that she would lose against this thing if she is to fight it!

'Thankfully Long has taken care of it '. She thought with relief.

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