Although the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Legion was the strongest among the five protector legions of the nation, from the time the Sun Moon Empire launched the war until today, it had never directly participated in the war. It had always been responsible only for guarding the safety of the Sun Moon Empire's imperial palace.
Not only the Heavenly Soul Empire side, but probably no one could have imagined that the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Legion would suddenly launch a surprise attack on the Heavenly Soul Empire's imperial palace. And strangely, the powerhouses of the Heavenly Soul Empire and the Body Sect had no prior perception at all. The entire Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Legion seemed to have descended from the sky, arriving at the center of the Heavenly Soul Empire's imperial palace.
The power of the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Legion was far beyond what the other four soul engineer legions among the protector hands could compare to. Relying on the amplification of humanoid soul tools, every member of the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Legion possessed combat power at the Soul Douluo level, and there were also dozens with Title Douluo-level combat power.
However, while possessing such terrifying combat power, there were also hidden dangers.
Humanoid soul tools required extremely strong spiritual power to control. With the members of the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Legion, it was fundamentally impossible to achieve this. Their true individual strength was at most at the five-ring or six-ring level. The reason they could control humanoid soul tools was that they used a special secret method. At the cost of consuming their life force, they forcibly elevated their spiritual power to a sufficiently powerful level.
The resulting hidden danger was that their lifespans were much shorter than those of ordinary soul masters, basically not living past fifty years.
But even so, such a terrifying elite fighting force was not something the Heavenly Soul Empire's imperial family could resist.
Moreover, accompanying the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Legion in the surprise attack on the Heavenly Soul Empire's imperial palace were the evil soul masters from the Holy Spirit Cult. Among them were not lacking powerhouses from the Worship Hall. It was precisely these Worship Hall experts from the Holy Spirit Cult who held back the Title Douluo elders of the Body Sect, allowing the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Legion to smoothly carry out the purge of the Heavenly Soul Empire's imperial family.
In an extremely short time, the Heavenly Soul Empire's imperial palace was completely breached by the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Legion. All imperial family members, including the Heavenly Soul Empire's emperor, were killed in battle. Currently, among the direct bloodline of the Heavenly Soul Empire's imperial family, only Princess Wei Na, who was far away in Dragon City, survived.
The sky above the imperial palace seemed as if it had been torn apart by the aftershocks of the battle between the Body Sect elders and the Holy Spirit Cult Worship Hall experts. Terrifying energy aftershocks and soul power lights illuminated the sky as bright as daytime.
The battles between Title Douluo-level powerhouses were extremely intense. After all, both sides were now in a life-and-death situation with no room for compromise. If not for their battlefield being in the sky, under unrestrained full-power actions, the entire Heavenly Dou City would have been reduced to ruins in an instant.
And two battlefields in particular were especially intense, where even ordinary Title Douluos did not dare to approach.
"Kong Deming, are you seeking death?!" Several thousand meters up in the sky, an extremely angry low roar sounded. The huge sound wave swept over, like thunder exploding.
A towering giant entirely shining with gold stood between heaven and earth. This golden giant's height exceeded a thousand meters, and its build was extremely massive.
It was precisely the Body Sect's Sect Master, Du Busi's martial soul true body, and in the state of his golden-level Body martial soul's second awakening.
At this moment, Du Busi was simply like a mad demon, charging toward the opposite Kong Deming without regard for anything. In this battle, not only had the Body Sect's elites suffered heavy losses, but the destruction of the Heavenly Soul Empire's imperial family had crushed all his pride.
Only today did he truly realize how ridiculous the Heavenly Soul Empire's deeply rooted self-sealing ideology was. The development of soul tool technology was already an existing technology that could not be ignored. Falling behind the times was the fundamental reason leading to the decline and fall of their Heavenly Soul Empire.
Kong Deming, suspended high in the air, also had a grave look in his eyes. Wanting to stop a frenzied Limit Douluo was no easy task. If not for relying on his natal soul tool, the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier, he himself would not even qualify as Du Busi's opponent.
And this was also the thing that had caused the Sun Moon Empire to miscalculate the most. Du Busi had broken through to the Limit Douluo realm. If such a person were allowed to live, he would definitely become a major hidden threat to the Sun Moon Empire.
Nine pitch-black soul rings as dark as ink pulsed around Kong Deming. The profound black light made this space seem sluggish.
The seventh soul ring shone, and a silver moon suddenly rose into the air behind him. Silver Moon True Body.
The silver moon hung in the sky, complementing the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier that Kong Deming had already released earlier. The Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier expanded, forcefully enveloping Du Busi's thousand-meter-tall martial soul true body within it.
Du Busi's entire body bloomed with brilliant golden light, wanting to tear the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier apart. But that silver light barrier was extremely resilient. It would be stretched larger by Du Busi's martial soul true body, but it simply could not be broken through.
This was the power of a Class 10 soul tool.
"Kong Deming! If you don't kill me today, every once in a while, this old man will go take a stroll in your Sun Moon Empire's Ming Capital." Du Busi was still frantically ramming about inside the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier, his eyes overflowing with killing intent.
"Since you dared to bring people to raid my Heavenly Soul Empire's imperial palace, what bullshit rules does this old man still need to talk about with you?! I want to see if you can stop this old man from going mad?! Sooner or later, this old man will raze your entire Ming Capital to the ground!"
"Du Busi, you dare?! To attack civilians, aren't you afraid of heavenly retribution?!" Hearing Du Busi's words, Kong Deming's expression immediately changed. This was what he was most worried about.
If Du Busi were only a Rank 98 Super Douluo, he was confident he could handle it calmly and protect Ming Capital. But now that Du Busi had broken through to Limit Douluo, if he really went mad, it would be very difficult for him alone to restrain him. At that time, the civilians in Ming Capital would inevitably suffer heavy casualties.
"What doesn't this old man dare to do?!"
Du Busi arrogantly raised his head, his eyes full of mockery.
"Even if there is heavenly retribution, so what? This Sect Master will take it! But before that so-called heavenly retribution descends, this old man would like to know whether you can withstand the heavenly retribution that this old man brings you?!"
Du Busi had a frenzied appearance as if he was ready to perish together with his enemies. In his angry roar, his pair of hands gradually turned silver, and a cluster of strong silver light quietly flickered. Only to see him push his hands outward, and around this cluster of strong silver light, a circle of black halo appeared. That was clearly torn space.
To ordinary soul masters, Kong Deming's Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier should have an inseparable connection with his martial soul, the Silver Moon. But as a Limit Douluo, Du Busi had seen through the secret within this Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier. The Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier was not borrowing any silver moon power at all, but rather borrowing the power of space.
Relying on the wonder of spatial power, the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier was able to restrain a Limit Douluo like Du Busi when he erupted with full power.
Seeing this scene, Kong Deming could not help but sigh inwardly. In the end, he had discovered it.
Although Du Busi appeared to have been blinded by anger, he had not lost his reason. He used spatial power to counter Kong Deming's Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier, resolving the stalemate.
Kong Deming waved his large hand, and silver light blazed in the air. Before Du Busi could launch his attack, he retracted the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier. Then he lowered his head and glanced in the direction where the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Legion was located. He knew that his wish to use the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Legion to kill Du Busi had fallen through.
But that was fine too. After all, their goal had already been achieved. The Heavenly Soul Empire's imperial family had been destroyed, and the Heavenly Soul Empire would at least be in chaos for the next few years. This gave their Sun Moon Empire enough time to prepare so that in the next war, they could completely annex the original three empires of the Douluo Continent.
Moreover, regarding the Holy Spirit Cult side, he also had to be on guard and could not reveal all his trump cards.
Under Kong Deming's control, another cluster of dazzling silver light shone. But this time, the silver light appeared in the center of the Heavenly Soul Empire's imperial palace. All members of the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Legion were covered by the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier. With a flash of silver light, the figures and auras of the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Legion disappeared from their original spot.
The Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier was an unprecedented Class 10 spatial soul tool. Previously, the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Legion had been able to appear without any warning in the central sky above the Heavenly Soul Empire's imperial palace precisely through the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier.
The ability possessed by the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier was equivalent to a weakened version of Xu Zihuang's Golden Eyed martial soul true body's innate ability, Void.
After doing all this, Kong Deming resisted Du Busi's attacks while preparing to retreat. And in another battlefield high in the sky, the ones confronting each other were precisely the Death God Douluo Ye Xishui and the Bone Dragon Douluo Gu Lao.
The hundred-meter-tall Blood Soul Demon Puppet's light shadow and the awe-inspiring pitch-black bone dragon; the auras of both sides were constantly clashing. The sky was clearly divided, one side an eerie blood-red, the other a deep black.
Gu Lao's expression was unsightly as he stared at Ye Xishui. The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect was not far from Heavenly Dou City. When he discovered the anomaly here, he rushed over at the first moment.
When he and Du Busi learned that Silver Moon Douluo Kong Deming's ability was sufficient to contend with a Limit Douluo, he felt that something was wrong. He had not expected that the Death God Douluo Ye Xishui, who had previously been heavily injured by Yu Tianhuang, would also bring Holy Spirit Cult evil soul masters to participate in this operation, and Ye Xishui's injuries had completely recovered.
As Limit Douluos, Ye Xishui had broken through to this realm a full hundred years earlier than Gu Lao, and her comprehension of spatial power was clearly deeper. Coupled with the advantages in her martial soul and soul ring configuration, Gu Lao was almost completely suppressed by Ye Xishui in all aspects.
However, for Ye Xishui to defeat Gu Lao in a short time was not that easy either.
Gu Lao was holding back because he was wary of that one person still hidden in the dark who had not yet appeared. Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao.
"Clang!" As if pulled by qi, a black bone dragon giant claw burst out from the void in front of Gu Lao, blocking an almost imperceptible blood line.
Terrifying air currents frantically spread outward. With this collision point as the core, black and blood colors surged simultaneously, wave after wave invading outward.
Gu Lao's bone dragon claw was shaken back, but it suffered no damage. He stared expressionlessly at Ye Xishui.
Suspended in front of the Blood Soul Demon Puppet's light shadow, Ye Xishui's similarly blood-red eyes were filled with venomous hatred. She let out a cold, sharp screech.
"I didn't expect that you, this old thing on the verge of death, could also reach this step. But you still cannot be this seat's opponent. Hand over that little thing, otherwise this seat will definitely wash your Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect in blood!"
Gu Lao ignored Ye Xishui. His profound gaze shifted to the void behind Ye Xishui, and his voice clearly carried a trace of coldness.
"Long Xiaoyao, I originally thought that you guarding beside this madwoman had your own difficulties. But I didn't expect that you would be so indiscriminate between right and wrong. As a person of the Heavenly Soul Empire, you sat by and watched the Sun Moon Empire collude with these evil soul masters to destroy the Heavenly Soul Empire's imperial family. Do you feel even half a bit of guilt?"
After a brief silence, Long Xiaoyao's figure appeared out of thin air behind Ye Xishui. The expression on his face was extremely complicated. He opened his mouth, but all the words in his heart ultimately turned into a sigh.
"Old Bone Dragon, at this point, saying more has no meaning. I don't want to explain anything for myself. What I owe Xishui, I can never repay it all."
At this point, Long Xiaoyao came to Ye Xishui's side again and advised with a pained expression, "Enough, Xishui. Stop."
"Shut up!" Ye Xishui's reaction was particularly intense. She glared fixedly at Long Xiaoyao, her chest heaving.
"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking! You keep saying you love me, but in the end, you still want to protect that little beast. If you don't want to stay by my side, you can leave. I won't stop you. Otherwise, just shut your mouth for me!"
After being heavily injured by Xu Zihuang, during her recovery period, Ye Xishui revealed the truth of that year to Long Xiaoyao. Although she had also been coerced by the previous generation's Holy Spirit Cult leader, Old Ghost Zhongli, she had ultimately deliberately deceived Long Xiaoyao, so she was in the wrong first.
However, she had stubbornly stood on the moral high ground to mentally suppress Long Xiaoyao, forcibly making him feel guilty toward her.
Facts proved that Long Xiaoyao, as Ye Xishui's loyal simp, really fell for this trick and had been completely controlled by Ye Xishui from beginning to end.
And right at this moment, a golden-eyed pupil light shadow abruptly appeared directly above the Heavenly Soul Empire's imperial palace. Xu Zihuang stepped out from the golden-eyed light shadow through the void. With a sweep of his spiritual power, he instantly understood the current situation.
His expression slightly sank as he looked toward the distant Kong Deming, who was fleeing.
Although Xu Zihuang's spiritual power had been elevated to the demigod level, if he probed Limit Douluo-level powerhouses, there was still the possibility of being detected. Previously, in Ming Capital, to ensure that there were no accidents in the plan with Ju Zi, he had not carefully probed the situation of the Sun Moon Empire's imperial palace.
In his subconscious, he had thought that Kong Deming would be deep within the Sun Moon Empire's imperial palace. After all, in his previous life's memories, Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Legion only joined the war in the later stages.
Kong Deming and the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Engineer Legion's surprise attack on the Heavenly Soul Empire's imperial palace was also beyond his expectations.
"I was still careless." Xu Zihuang's brows furrowed tightly. And in this instant, he seemed to sense something. A trace of mockery and coldness flashed deep in his eyes.
Gu Lao's expression changed drastically high in the sky. He directly unleashed his martial soul true body, standing on the dragon head of the thousand-meter Bone Dragon King, and rushed toward Xu Zihuang's side.
"Tianhuang, careful!"
But a blood light arrived in an instant, piercing through Xu Zihuang's chest from behind first.
Ye Xishui quietly drilled out from the blood-colored light. Her left hand, which had pierced Xu Zihuang's chest, still maintained its forward-reaching posture. She laughed sharply.
"Little beast, I've caught you. Ga ga ga ga ga ga ga!"
Not only Gu Lao, but even Long Xiaoyao stared at the scene before him with a dazed expression. Warm blood slid from Ye Xishui's blood claw, and Xu Zihuang's chest was a bloody mess, incredibly realistic.
But before everyone could react, the space within several kilometers instantly solidified. Just like a mirror shattering, this space appeared with countless fine cracks, then boomed and shattered.
"Crash—"
The heaven and earth faded in color. This space still retained its original appearance, but Xu Zihuang appeared intact before Ye Xishui. As if what had just happened was only an illusion.
Among the eight soul rings, six red and two gold, the eighth one, the blue-gold soul ring, was blooming with noble and majestic light.
Eighth soul skill: Mirror Flower, Water Moon!
This was precisely one of the soul ring skills granted to Xu Zihuang after combining the Sea Princess soul ring with the Golden Eyed martial soul. It was not an illusion-type soul skill, but one involving the profound mysteries of time and space, turning unfavorable situations against him into illusions.
At the same time, Xu Zihuang's right hand gripped Ye Xishui's left wrist, and his left hand fiercely slapped across Ye Xishui's cheek. The terrifying power displayed by his god-level physique almost instantly caved in Ye Xishui's cheek. Blood mixed with broken teeth sprayed from her mouth.
Gu Lao and Long Xiaoyao's expressions remained dazed, but the situation had already reversed.
A majestic Limit Douluo was now in such a wretched state at the hands of Xu Zihuang and humiliated in this manner.
"Little beas—"
Ye Xishui recovered from the effects of Mirror Flower, Water Moon, and, in a frenzied state, prepared to counterattack, but only heard a 'bang' sound. Xu Zihuang's left hand slapped across her face again, and an icy voice rang out.
"Old dog, what are you barking about?"
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