[talent ranking list No. 6, Fourth Imperial Prince of Heaven Dou Empire, Xue Beng!]
Star Luo Empire, Star Luo Imperial Palace.
"The Heaven Dou Fourth Imperial Prince Xue Beng made it onto the list?"
"I don't even need to look to know that his result on the list will be a punishment!"
Upon learning that Xue Beng had made it onto the talent ranking list, White Tiger Emperor Dai Tianli of the Star Luo Empire confidently spoke.
Xue Beng was a notorious wastrel of the Heaven Dou Empire. He was gluttonous, lazy, bullied men and women, and was uneducated.
Previously, four people of this generation had made it onto the talent ranking list.
Without exception, the results for those four people on the list were all punishments!
Any one of those four people was much better than Xue Beng!
It was precisely for this reason that, in White Tiger Emperor Dai Tianli's view, Xue Beng's final result on the list would certainly be a punishment! And the punishment Xue Beng would face was very likely to far exceed that of the previous four!
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Heaven Dou Empire, Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, Xue Beng's palace.
"I'm on the list?"
"I'm going to be exposed!"
Seeing his name appear in the light screen in the sky, this thought immediately popped into Xue Beng's mind.
Wastrel?
That was all Xue Beng's disguise!
Xue Beng understood in his heart that since he was on the talent ranking list, he would be explained by the sky screen, and at that time, his feigned wastrel act would inevitably be exposed!
The world only knew that the Heaven Dou Crown Prince was a fake Crown Prince.
The world did not know that the Heaven Dou wastrel was a fake wastrel!
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After revealing the sixth talent to make it onto the talent ranking list, the dazzling light screen in the sky began to introduce him.
Only the majestic voice was heard, echoing across the Douluo Continent, the Sun Moon Continent, and the vast Vast God Realm.
[On the current Douluo Continent, there are two great Empires, and numerous kingdoms and duchies.]
[The Heaven Dou Empire is one of the two great Empires. The Heaven Dou Empire occupies the northern territory of the Douluo Continent, contending with the Star Luo Empire located in the south.]
[The current Emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire is Xue Ye. He has four sons and one daughter.]
[Among Xue Ye's four sons, three died prematurely.]
[Among the three, two were poisoned to death, and one was killed.]
[The one killed was the Heaven Dou First Imperial Prince Xue Qinghe. He died at Qian Renxue's hands.]
[The ones poisoned to death were the Second Imperial Prince and Third Imperial Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire.]
[The Heaven Dou Second Imperial Prince was very intelligent and died at the age of twelve.]
[The Heaven Dou Third Imperial Prince had excellent cultivation talent and died at the age of eleven.]
[Without exception, all three Imperial Princes died because of Qian Renxue!]
[Xue Beng is also Xue Ye's son. He is Xue Ye's only surviving son.]
[Whether in Xue Ye's eyes or in the eyes of the world, in short, Xue Beng is a wastrel Imperial Prince.]
[Uneducated and lazy in cultivation.]
[Bullying others by relying on power, bullying men and women.]
[This is Xue Beng in the eyes of almost everyone.]
[However, the real Xue Beng is not like this.]
[At least, some of his wastrel behavior was acted out!]
Extreme North Land, outer region.
The outer region of the Extreme North Land, in addition to Spirit Hall's camp and Clear Sky Sect's camp, also had the large army led by Xue Ye.
The army led by Xue Ye was stationed outside the outer region. Don't ask why they didn't go deeper; the answer is that they simply couldn't enter.
Most of the army consisted of ordinary people.
They could hardly endure the severe cold of the Extreme North Land.
It was precisely for this reason that they could only be stationed on the outermost edge.
"What?"
"Acted out?"
"Why would he act like a wastrel for no reason?"
"Doesn't he know that doing so would make him ineligible for the position I'm sitting on?"
As soon as the content from the light screen in the sky appeared, Emperor Xue Ye was stunned. When he spoke, he was pondering why Xue Beng would act like a wastrel.
Beside him, Prince Xue Xing, who knew the truth, stepped forward. He wanted to say something, but after thinking it over, he ultimately decided against it.
Instead of him, Xue Xing, saying it, it would be better for the light screen in the sky to tell! To tell the real Xue Beng! To tell why Xue Beng had to act like a wastrel!
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Spirit City, Hall of Offerings, Angel Sanctuary.
"An acted-out wastrel?"
Upon learning this news from the light screen in the sky, Qian Renxue's beautiful eyes widened in shock.
Qian Renxue knew that Xue Beng was a wastrel!
But Qian Renxue did not know that Xue Beng's wastrel act was acted out!
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Under everyone's gaze, the dazzling light screen in the sky began to explain Xue Beng's wastrel act in detail.
[The world only knows that the Heaven Dou Crown Prince Xue Qinghe was impersonated by Spirit Hall's Young Master Qian Renxue.]
[But the world does not know that the Heaven Dou Fourth Imperial Prince Xue Beng's wastrel act was also acted out.]
[As the saying goes, all under heaven hustle for profit, and all under heaven bustle for gain! Since Xue Beng had to act like a wastrel, then undoubtedly, acting like a wastrel must have benefits for him!]
[What benefits?]
[It could save Xue Beng's life!]
[When Xue Beng was very young, his second and third brothers successively passed away.]
[The sensation caused by the deaths of the two Imperial Princes was self-evident.]
[And Xue Ye also dispatched Xue Xing to investigate the deaths of the Second Imperial Prince and Third Imperial Prince.]
[After investigation, Xue Xing, as a Heaven Dou Prince, made a discovery.]
[Xue Xing concluded that the deaths of the Second Imperial Prince and Third Imperial Prince were inseparable from the First Imperial Prince! But due to the lack of substantive evidence, only suspicion, the matter was left unresolved.]
[The Heaven Dou Empire's Second and Third Imperial Princes were successively murdered, and the next one to be murdered was very likely the Fourth Imperial Prince. In order to save the Fourth Imperial Prince's life, Prince Xue Xing had Xue Beng act, pretending to be a useless wastrel.]
[It was precisely because Xue Beng acted like a wastrel, not catching the eye of Qian Renxue, who was disguised as the Heaven Dou Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, that he was able to save his life.]
[If Xue Beng had shown his brilliance and revealed his excellence, then his final outcome would certainly have been the same as his three brothers, dying because of Qian Renxue!]
[If Qian Renxue was a good actress, then Xue Beng was an even better, gold-medal actor!]
[Qian Renxue's acting deceived Emperor Xue Ye, deceived Sect Master Ning Fengzhi of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, and deceived the vast majority of people in the Heaven Dou Empire, while Xue Beng's acting deceived Qian Renxue.]
Hearing these words from the sky screen, an unprecedented sense of humiliation surged into Xue Ye's heart.
Three of his sons died because of Qian Renxue; Xue Ye did not know.
His youngest son, Xue Beng, was forced to disguise himself as a wastrel because of Qian Renxue; Xue Ye knew even less about this!
As a father, Xue Ye was not good enough.
As an Emperor, Xue Ye was even worse!
"Pass down my decree: establish Imperial Prince Xue Beng as the new Crown Prince."
After a period of careful consideration, Xue Ye issued this command.
...
The light screen in the sky was still changing.
The majestic voice was still echoing.
[In the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace coup, there were losers and winners.]