Chapter 192: The Decisive Battle Begins.
With the order from the kings of the two empires, the war officially broke out.
Led by their Titled Douluo, the Spirit Empire began its advance towards Xingluo City. Despite the loss of many spirit masters in the battle with the Heaven Dou Empire, the Spirit Empire still had over 30,000 spirit masters. The combined forces of the Xingluo Empire, however, held fewer than 7,000, and that was after the Silla Empire forcibly summoned the small and medium-sized sects within the empire.
The Spirit Empire's frontline assault was led by shield soldiers and heavily armored troops. These two types of troops possessed exceptionally strong defenses, their thick shields and armor capable of withstanding attacks even from Soul King-level opponents.
The Spirit Empire, however, held the advantage of defending the city, with its century-high walls descending from the sky. Countless spears, tumbling stones, and even fireballs rained down from the sky, inflicting heavy casualties on the Spirit Empire's soldiers.
The highest-ranking spirit masters, especially weapon spirit masters, inflicted the greatest damage to the Xingluo Empire. Snake Spear Douluo, Thousand Strength Douluo, and Demon Subduing Douluo, along with many Soul Saints and Soul Douluos with weapon spirits, used their massive weapon spirit avatars to smash into the city walls, creating numerous holes in them.
Seeing this, the Star Luo Empire's soul masters also tried their best to block the attack.
While Titled Douluos could fly, their speed was far inferior to those possessing flying spirits. This was especially true of Spirit Luan Douluo and Azure Luan Douluo. Their massive Flame Eagles and Azure Luans flew swiftly through the air, periodically inflicting damage to the city walls.
The Star Luo Empire, lacking these Titled Douluos, was at a disadvantage. Among the bird soul masters, Ma Hongjun and White Crane possessed the highest soul power, but their strength was still far behind those of the other two.
At this moment, a massive golden light appeared in the sky, dazzling the defenders. A gigantic angel with twelve wings appeared in the sky, bathed in sunlight and resembling a small sun. It was the Angel God Qian Renxue.
A mighty voice echoed from the sky, like a command from Shen Chi, unyielding: "Tang San, come out and fight."
Tang San seemed to understand that he couldn't let Qian Renxue get close, or the city walls would soon be breached.
From the walls of Xingluo City, a vast blue light shot up into the sky. Within the blue light, a figure wielding a trident emerged, eight blue wings behind it. It was Sea God Tang San, holding the Sea God Trident.
"Qian Renxue, Sea God Tang San is here."
"Tang San, I will defeat you this time. Where can you escape?"
"Qian Renxue, your Spirit Empire has waged war and slaughtered countless lives. I will make you pay."
With that, Qian Renxue swung her sword at Tang San, who in turn swung the Sea God Trident. Sword and halberd clashed in the sky, causing a tremendous ripple.
After becoming a god, ordinary spirit skills were no longer effective, and more people developed their own spirit skills. The angel god Qian Renxue wielded the Holy Angel Sword, using an unknown sword technique that was immensely powerful. Seagod Tang San wielded the Thirteen Golden Halberds, taught to him by the old Seagod. He had mastered the thirteen halberd techniques.
In the sky, two rays of light, one blue and one golden, collided, seemingly tearing the heavens apart.
While Tang San and Qian Renxue were evenly matched in the short term, at the god level, Qian Renxue was clearly inferior to Tang San.
Qian Renxue's cultivation talent might be even higher, as she was the only one in thousands of years to reach level 20 innate spirit power. However, Tang San also possessed full innate spirit power, along with twin spirits. Especially in terms of combat experience, Tang San had experienced the trials of the Slaughter City and countless battles with spirit beasts, even having once defeated Qian Renxue during the Heaven Dou Palace Incident.
Bibi Dong, the Emperor of the Spirit Empire, simply watched from the platform, showing no intention of intervening immediately, perhaps hoping to use Tang San's power to hone Qian Renxue.
However, the walls of the Heaven Dou Empire below were under immense pressure. Tang Chen, Tang Hao, and Tang Xiao hadn't yet decided to intervene; they were arguably the Spirit Empire's last remaining trump cards.
Seeing this, the Star Luo Emperor issued a command, mobilizing all the experts of the Silla Empire's royal family. In an instant, multiple Netherworld White Tigers appeared in the sky.
The Nether White Tiger is a fusion technique of the Dai and Zhu families, the royal families of the Star Luo Empire. It's incredibly powerful, combining speed and strength, and the Nether White Tiger possesses the ability to fly.
Two Soul Douluo-level masters, using this fusion technique, can leapfrog Titled Douluos.
If one of the two performing this fusion technique is a Titled Douluo, their power becomes truly formidable. This is the foundation of the Dai and Zhu families' dominance within the Star Luo Empire, allowing them to even challenge the former Spirit Hall.
Without the Spirit Hall's obstruction, the Silla Empire might have unified the Douluo Continent long ago.
Despite the Nether White Tiger's formidable power, the Star Luo Empire is still at a disadvantage due to the disparity in the number of Titled Douluos. The Spirit Empire boasts a diverse array of spirit masters, from support-type spirit masters to food-type spirit masters, far surpassing the Star Luo Empire. Many even possess exceptionally unique skills, capable of unpredictable effects on the battlefield. This is the essence of the Spirit Empire's nearly ten thousand years of spirit master training.
Guangling Douluo once again shone. As the continent's only Titled Douluo with a bow-type spirit, and arguably its strongest ranged-attack Titled Douluo, his arrows were practically unstoppable. Even a Soul Douluo would be severely injured by a single blow. Just like a battlefield in later times, both sides exchanged barrages of fire with ordinary pistols and machine guns, sometimes even engaging in hand-to-hand combat. Guangling Douluo, like a sniper, commanded the entire field with the bow's ultra-long-range attack and powerful damage.
Guangling Douluo actually challenged Tang Xiao, who had been blessed with the Haotian Formation, and was ultimately outnumbered by Tang Xiao, making him famous and making the Three Priests a laughingstock.
Bibi Dong, however, possessed commanding and strategic abilities. Through her planning, the battlefields of the Spirit Empire were far more logical than in the original novel, allowing each Titled Douluo to better utilize their abilities.
The Spirit Empire's offensive strategy this time was completely different from the one employed on the battlefield at Jialing Pass. At Jialing Pass, the Spirit Empire was more of a stalemate and stability, purely hoping to drag the Heaven Dou Empire to its knees.
On the current battlefield, however, they were throwing their entire force forward, clearly aiming for a quick victory, a decisive battle.
In the distance, Wang Xiaofei of the Elemental Academy quietly approached with hundreds of their men. Even Bibi Dong and the other two, both gods, were unaware of their approach thanks to Wang Xiaofei's cover.
Everyone watched the battlefield with a solemn expression. The battle between Tang San and Qian Renxue in the sky, in particular, was beyond anyone's imagination, both in terms of intensity and the level of combat.
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