The O5 Conference. After the conference, the Star Luo Empire's First Soul Master Legion and First Soul Instructor Legion successfully crossed numerous mountains and arrived at the Lower Hekm Plain of the Douling Empire.
They engaged in a great battle with the Douling Empire's army, which had been incorporated into the Sea God Clan.
The Lower Hekm Plain is close to the sea, and the combination of sea soul beasts and sea soul masters with the Douling Empire's army dealt a heavy blow to both legions.
The Title Douluo of the Sea God Clan firmly suppressed the Star Luo Empire's strongmen, while countless sea soul beasts in the sea, led by ten Beast Kings, unleashed a thousand-meter-high tsunami that swept over the Star Luo Empire's army, leaving them disoriented.
Even Soul Saints would have to think twice before taking on a tsunami of this magnitude, as a single misstep could lead to their demise at sea.
Unable to land, the Amon Clan devised a treacherous plan: to first unleash a tsunami, then use it to force the sea soul beasts to land and ambush the Star Luo Empire's troops who had fallen into the water.
The initial offensive of the Star Luo Empire's First Soul Master Legion and First Soul Instructor Legion was immediately suppressed by the Dou Ling Empire. The
Soul Master Legion, composed of thousands of Soul Masters, along with the Soul Instructor Legion and over 100,000 ordinary army units, became embroiled in a protracted war.
This protracted conflict was the last thing the Star Luo Empire wanted.
Their domestic finances had already suffered a severe blow, and now, mired in this quagmire, they were forced to pour vast sums of money into the bottomless abyss of war.
It was only because the Star Luo Empire hadn't experienced a large-scale civil war or division in the past ten thousand years, and its foundation was strong enough, that Xu Jiawei could have publicly repented after this series of attacks.
The Heavenly Soul Empire dispatched three Soul Master Legions totaling three thousand men, coordinating with a large army unit, to enter the Snow Spirit Province from the Ling Mountain Range.
The Spirit Pagoda and Shrek Academy also mobilized a large number of Soul Masters to join them on the Dou Ling Empire's territory.
Soul tool aid from the Sun Moon Empire also arrived at the front lines through the Spirit Pagoda.
The allied forces were terrified by the current situation as soon as they entered Xue Ling Province.
The original lord of Xue Ling Province was Xue Shan.
After the Dou Ling royal family was wiped out by the Sea God family, Xue Leng from the neighboring Tian He Province immediately sent troops to annex Xue Ling Province, claiming that Xue Shan had been assassinated by the Sea God family.
Xue Leng was an arrogant and domineering young man with considerable ambition.
After the allied forces arrived, he plundered the people's treasures and even stole their winter clothes, sending these supplies to the allied forces and their leaders.
His goal was simple: to win the favor of the allied leaders.
With their support, he could become the new Dou Ling emperor after driving out the Sea God family.
Currently, besides Xue Leng, another powerful force in the Dou Ling Empire was Xue Kui of Luo An Province.
This middle-aged man appeared rather dull, but his methods were ruthless.
Taking advantage of the chaos in the Dou Ling Empire, he had one of his subordinates, a Title Douluo-level agility-type Soul Masters, assassinate a high-ranking officer of the border army, forcibly taking control of the border forces.
Then, instead of confronting the Sea God family, he secretly made contact with them and together they divided up the Tianling Province.
Without the emperor's restraint, he made no attempt to conceal his true nature in his territory.
When in a good mood, he would slaughter an entire village for amusement; when in a bad mood, he would slaughter two.
He was a complete executioner, with three Title Douluo under his command, all at relatively low levels, between level 91 and 93.
According to enthusiastic intelligence, Xue Kui and Xue Leng were father and son.
In his early years, while traveling through Tianhe Province, Xue Kui slept with the former Duchess of Tianhe Province, resulting in the birth of Xue Leng.
Xue Kui then had his assassins kill the former Duchess and her other sons, allowing his illegitimate son, Xue Leng, to successfully ascend to the throne.
On the surface, the two had no contact whatsoever, even frequently opposing each other, once even deceiving the former Emperor of Douling.
However, behind the scenes, they maintained frequent contact, their interactions behaving like those of an ordinary father and son, presenting a picture of paternal love and filial piety.
Meanwhile, in the original timeline, after the Sun Moon Empire annihilated the Douling Royal Family, Xue Kui and Xue Leng, under the pretext of defending the emperor, marched towards Lingdou City.
They even dispatched five Title Douluos and over twenty Soul Douluos to kill the newly regent Xu Sanshi and the former princess Xue Lingxun.
The two Beast King-level Soul Master Corps—Huanglong and Xiejun—that the Sun Moon Empire sent to annihilate the Douling Royal Family were also let in by these two.
They had long since pledged allegiance to the Sun Moon Empire, agreeing to make the Douling Empire a vassal state after ascending the throne.
Currently, Xue Kui and Xue Leng are playing good cop and bad cop
to the allied forces. Xue Kui vehemently resists the arrival of the allied forces, completely rejecting their strategies and even sending troops to clash with them.
Xue Leng, on the other hand, constantly tries to appease the allied forces, willing to cooperate with all their actions and proactively providing them with supplies, even if these supplies are plundered from the people of her own territory.
Because of the suddenness of the situation, the O5 meeting of the Spirit Pagoda had to send a member as the Supreme Inspector of the Allied Forces to oversee the use of aid and restrain the behavior of supporting Soul Masters.
Di Tian and Xue Di were naturally unsuitable, and Otto, as the Prime Minister of the Sun and Moon Kingdoms, was not trusted by the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
Mu En was physically disabled and needed to stay in the rear, and a Limit Douluo personally going to the Douling Empire could very likely trigger a stress reaction from the Sea God Family.
They might not maintain the current intensity of the war and directly launch a decisive battle.
Therefore, the most suitable candidate was Su Tong.
Poor Su Tong not only shouldered the affairs of the Warlords but also had to serve as the Supreme Inspector of the Douling Empire.
Fortunately, Gu Yuena, the Water Dragon King, and Xue Di helped share the Warlords' workload; otherwise, when Huo Yuhao returned, he might have found Su Tong dead, a truly tragic loss.
Huo Yuhao could only tearfully go to the Underworld to retrieve her.
Currently, the situation in the Douling Empire is, in a sense, a civil war among the Warlords.
The battle between Su Tong and Amon also conceals Ye Guyi, the sixth evil Soul Master. "
...
Marquis Xue Kui!"
"Do you know what you're doing?!"
"You're selling out your country! You're betraying the country! You want to become a traitor!"
Li Guozhong, the former Marshal of the Army, was angrily confronting Xue Kui, his eight spirit rings gleaming, his aura as a Soul Douluo sweeping across the entire area.
Because of Amon's deliberate indulgence, this guy successfully escaped from Lingdou City and rushed all the way to the border army camp of the Douling Empire.
As a result, upon arriving there, he discovered that the border army's high-ranking officers, whom he had trained for many years, had all been assassinated by Xue Kui, and the entire border army was now completely under Xue Kui's control.
From his former subordinates, Li Guozhong also learned that this madman wanted to collude with the Sea God family and was preparing to hand over the entire southeastern region of the Douling Empire as a condition for signing a peace treaty with the Sea God family.
Xue Kui sighed, gently stroking the marshal's desk in front of him, and coldly said to Li Guozhong:
"Traitor?"
"I'm preserving the Douling flame. Do you think the Douling Empire, plus the so-called allied forces, can defeat the Sea God Family?"
"Marshal Li, you should know that Di Tian won't intervene in this war, right?
Without Di Tian, who can stand against the Sea God Douluo? That's someone who can trigger a divine descent."
"And I also want to ask you, as the Grand Marshal carefully cultivated by the Douling royal family, when the royal army was completely annihilated, you didn't fight the Sea God Family to the death but instead ran back to the border army camp."
"Can I assume you're either a deserter or have reached some kind of secret agreement with the Sea God Family?"
"Heh, Marshal Li, you're a marshal. You should know very well how deserters and traitors are dealt with in the army, right?"
"Shadow, send the Grand Marshal on his way!"
Li Guozhong, worthy of being a marshal commanding a region, almost instantly completed his Martial Soul Possession.
His muscles bulged, his thick white fur moved without wind, and a massive wolf howl shook the entire marshal's tent.
Sharp wolf claws gleamed with silver light, slicing through the air with ice-attribute soul power and colliding fiercely with a dark purple light.
"Clang!"
A crisp collision sound rang out, and layers of air waves erupted beneath Li Guozhong's feet, cracking the ground.
However, Li Guozhong's strength was clearly inferior to the attacker's.
After a brief stalemate, he began to cough up blood.
The icy blue claw light was slowly suppressed by the dark purple blade, which aimed straight for his heart.
Li Guozhong gritted his teeth, igniting his source energy to forcefully unleash his soul power, forcing back the black shadow.
He knelt on the ground, panting heavily.
The black shadow in the distance also revealed itself.
An old man holding a dark purple dagger stood quietly beside Xue Kui, with nine soul rings—two yellow, two purple, and five black—surrounding his body.
"Clap! Clap! Clap!"
Xue Kui clapped his hands with admiration, saying softly,
"As expected of the Imperial Marshal, his strength is truly formidable.
Even being ambushed by a Title Douluo of the Agility-type, he managed to force him back."
"If you were one of my men, how wonderful that would be."
"Look around, those former subordinates of yours, they seem to have no intention of rescuing you at all."
The clash between the Title Douluo and the Soul Douluo was quite a spectacle, and a large number of border soldiers began to gather around.
They watched their once beloved marshal kneeling on the ground, covered in blood, their hearts filled with extreme pain.
Their hands, gripping their weapons, trembled uncontrollably, and they closed their eyes, unable to meet the marshal's disappointed gaze.
However, Li Guozhong did not look at these soldiers with disappointment.
In his view, this was normal. Facing a Title Douluo, these soldiers, who might not even have soul power, were already showing immense courage by coming to see him off.
Li Guozhong closed his eyes, began to ignite his source energy, and then opened the Magic Network, preparing to borrow money from the Magic Network Bank.
This time, he planned to gather enough Dream Coins for a level 94 character in one go, then burn them all at once and explode with Xue Kui.
"So what if I die, I'll still have to work for that 'Ye Ge'?
As long as this traitor is taken away, he'll be smiling even while working.
" "Stop, Ice Wolf Lord."
"Sword Banner Lord, kill him."
"Yes, Caesar."
A dark purple sword-shaped harp bow, crafted from pearl shells, slashed towards the head of the Shadow Douluo with a chilling sword light.
The Shadow Douluo was startled and hurriedly retreated, only to find a strange power suddenly enveloping him. His fighting spirit and will to live vanished in this power.
He suddenly felt that life was meaningless, and it would be better to just die.
Even the ability to move no longer existed, and the meaning of his existence was being stripped away bit by bit.
Even until the dark purple harp bow severed his head, he did not retreat an inch.
His head, rolling on the ground, had an indifferent expression on it, even a hint of relief, which made everyone present feel a chill down their spines.
"You, who are you?!"
Xue Kui could no longer sit still. As his sharpest blade, he knew very well the strength of the Shadow Douluo. He never expected to be killed instantly by an unknown being.
"Who am I?"
"You are not worthy to know."
Heather stepped aside, placing one hand on her chest and bowing slightly to let Kerudela pass.
A petite girl wearing a crown blazing with blue flames slowly approached him.
Xue Kui's pupils contracted, and he retreated, speechless with shock.
"Blue hair, a crown with flames, a titled Douluo guard."
"You, you are the last member of the Douling royal family?!"
He sat down heavily on the ground, staring at the person before him in disbelief.
News from the Sea God family had spread throughout the continent, and with the added support of enthusiastic intelligence, no one doubted the authenticity of Kerudela's identity.
"No, even if you are a member of the Douling royal family, you have no right to kill a marquis, a nobleman!"
Kerudela raised the blue scepter in her hand and said calmly,
"Because I have arrived, I have seen, I have conquered."
(End of this chapter)
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