Chapter 178: Split the Land and Become the King?
"Princess Jiujiu, what do you mean by this? Why don't I understand?"
Seeing the hostility in Xu Jiujiu's eyes, Meng Hongchen was not panicked at all, nor did she feel that she was caught poaching.
After all, she was not poaching. Ling Shuang was not from the Star Luo Empire, so how could she be considered poaching?
Xu Jiujiu also knew this truth, so when faced with Meng Hongchen's question, she was a little speechless for a while and didn't know how to answer.
However, Xu Jiujiu was the most outstanding princess of the Star Luo Royal Family after all, so she didn't continue to talk about this topic, but said:
"If Master Ling is willing to join our Star Luo Royal Family, the Royal Family is willing to give Master a satisfactory price."
No matter what, she must not see Ling Shuang being wooed by the people of the Sun-Moon Empire.
Ling Shuang's talent is in everyone's eyes, and no one will doubt his future.
Everyone can confirm that what Ling Shuang lacks from the peak of the continent is just time. As long as there is enough time, he will definitely be a person standing at the top of the Spirit Master world in ten years.
The current Sun-Moon Empire is already terrible enough.
Xu Jiujiu is very clear about the power gap between the two countries.
Although she is a member of the royal family of the Star Luo Empire, she has to admit that the Star Luo Empire is not as strong as the Sun-Moon Empire in terms of overall strength.
Now that the Sun-Moon Empire is making frequent moves, the situation on the mainland has begun to surge.
As for the Dou Spirit Empire and the Tianhun Empire, it is not that Xu Jiujiu looks down on them, but the strength of these two empires is really limited, let alone compared to the Sun-Moon Empire, even compared to the Star Luo Empire is far behind.
When the Sun-Moon Empire came into contact with the three empires that originally belonged to the Douluo Continent, even the coalition of the three countries could only repel the offensive of the Sun-Moon Empire, but could not even counterattack further.
Now that so many years have passed, she don't know how much the national strength of the Sun-Moon Empire has improved.
Although the Star Luo Empire is also seizing the time to develop, if a full-scale war breaks out again, whether the coalition of the three countries can still withstand the attack of the Sun-Moon Empire as before, Xu Jiujiu has to put a question mark on this answer.
But there is one thing that Xu Jiujiu can be sure of:
the three countries that originally belonged to Douluo Continent have no ability to compare with the Sun-Moon Empire in terms of soul guides. The only advantage is the top-level combat power.
(Xu Jiujiu did not know that Xu Tianran had reached a cooperative relationship with the Holy Spirit Church, and that the Holy Spirit Church had two Extreme Douluos.)
If Ling Shuang accepted Meng Hongchen's invitation to join the Sun-Moon Empire, then in ten or twenty years, this only advantage would be gone.
After all, in addition to Ling Shuang, who will surely become the pinnacle of the Spirit Master world in the future, if he joins, he will also bring Xue Di, the existing Extreme Douluo, into the camp of the Sun-Moon Empire.
At that time, the three countries that originally belonged to Douluo Continent will really have no chance.
So Xu Jiujiu will never allow this to happen.
Seeing that Xu Jiujiu was going to fight against him to the end, Meng Hongchen was no longer polite: "Ling Shuang, my Sun-Moon Empire can definitely give you the treatment that your Star Luo Empire can't give!"
"Really?" Xu Jiujiu heard this and sneered.
She threw out more chips: "Mr. Ling, if you are willing to join the Star Luo Empire, the royal family is willing to grant you a title of king and fiefdom."
"I wonder if your empire can also do this, Miss Meng?"
Xu Jiujiu didn't believe that Meng Hongchen could do this.
This condition was not something Xu Jiujiu said casually in a moment of excitement.
Even if she was the princess of the Star Luo Empire, this condition was not something she could decide to give.
This was the best treatment that Xu Jiujiu had discussed with her brother, the Star Luo Emperor Xu Jiawei, to win over Ling Shuang.
Meng Hongchen was speechless for a moment.
If it was anything else, it would be fine. Even without asking the royal family, she, Illustrious Virtue Hall, could come up with it.
But the conditions Xu Jiujiu gave were really too outrageous.
Splitting the land and becoming a king, this kind of treatment is rare even in the history of the entire Douluo Continent.
This is no longer a condition that their Illustrious Virtue Hall can offer.
Not to mention her, even her grandfather, the head of Illustrious Virtue Hall, Jing Hongchen, cannot make such a promise here.
This is a decision that only the emperor can make.
Meng Hongchen never thought that the Star Luo Empire would be so cruel.
"Ling, I can also go back and apply to the royal family. I believe they should not..."
"So Miss Meng can't actually give the actual conditions now, but is just making promises to Mr. Ling?"
Meng Hongchen was interrupted by Xu Jiujiu before she finished speaking.
Xu Jiujiu pressed forward step by step, not giving Meng Hongchen a chance to breathe.
Xiao Hongchen, who was standing aside, frowned slightly. Seeing that his sister was at a disadvantage, he hurried forward to support: "It's not a promise, but we just need to consult the royal family."
"With Brother Ling Shuang's talent value, the royal family will most likely agree."
As he spoke, Xiao Hongchen's momentum was outward, as if he was expressing his dissatisfaction with Xu Jiujiu's aggressiveness.
"You also said that it's just a probability." Xu Jiujiu would not be scared by Xiao Hongchen.
This is Star Luo City, her territory, how could she be afraid of Xiao Hongchen?
Moreover, both of them have the cultivation of Soul King. Maybe Xu Jiujiu is not Xiao Hongchen's opponent, but it is impossible for Xiao Hongchen to defeat Xu Jiujiu for a while.
As long as the two of them start to fight, the royal soldiers not far away will come over.
In this case, how could Xu Jiujiu be scared by Xiao Hongchen?
She hoped that Xiao Hongchen would take action, so that she might be able to make a profit from Illustrious Virtue Hall.
"Sorry, I don't have the idea of joining any forces." Ling Shuang interrupted the confrontation.
Although Xu Jiujiu's conditions are very tempting, it is actually nothing to Ling Shuang.
Splitting the land to become a king sounds quite impressive, but what's the use? No matter how generous Xu Jiawei is, it's nothing more than dividing a few cities.
To put it bluntly, with the relationship between Ling Shuang and Xue Di, a place as big as the Far North can actually be regarded as his territory.
As long as he wanted, he could even lead the soul beasts of the Far North to launch a beast tide and have a continental battle.
But that would be meaningless.
Ling Shuang saw very clearly that in a world with extraordinary powers, everything else was secondary, and only one's own strength was the most important.
The battle between empires was nothing more than a matter between mortals.
Once Ling Shuang completed the two major divine tests on himself and achieved the status of a god, the overlord of the continent would be nothing more than a piece of cake.
He was not Qian Renxue, who left a good throne to inherit and had to spend her mind on these things that were obviously within reach as long as she became a god.
Ling Shuang could not do such a thing of neglecting the main purpose.
He did have the idea of competing for hegemony, but that was just a backup idea before he discovered that he had already been tested by a god, and he was prepared to try to become a god by believing in faith if he could not obtain the inheritance of the god.
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