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As soon as Saint Dragon Douluo spoke, the people in the conference hall fell into silence once again.
The soul guidance technology on the original Douluo Continent side was limited. Even though the Star Luo Empire had obtained that rank 9 fixed soul ammunition from Shrek Academy, they could not manufacture the cannon barrel needed to fire it.
Therefore, there were only two ways for them to use that rank 9 fixed soul ammunition. One was to drop it from the air onto the Sun Moon Empire's soul guidance position, but this would inevitably be detected in advance by the Sun Moon Empire's high-altitude detection soul tools and intercepted.
Only the final method of detonating it at close range could pose a threat to the Sun Moon Empire's soul mentor corps.
Saint Dragon Douluo's idea was not wrong, but by doing so, he himself would not survive.
Not to mention a Title Douluo, even a Super Douluo-level powerhouse would find it difficult to survive if placed in the core area of a rank 9 fixed soul ammunition explosion.
Saint Dragon Douluo was clearly preparing to die for his country, and he was even bringing the entire Saint Dragon Family with him.
The predecessor of the Saint Dragon Family was the Saint Dragon Sect from ten thousand years ago. The sect inherited the powerful earth-attribute sub-dragon martial soul, White Armor Earth Dragon. They had once followed the Spirit Hall and participated in the wars against the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire. Although they ultimately ended in defeat, the bloodline of the Saint Dragon Family was passed down. They were exiled by the Star Luo Empire's emperor at the time to the northwestern frontier of the Star Luo Empire.
Before the collision between the Douluo Continent and the Sun Moon Continent, the northwestern frontier of the Star Luo Empire had rugged terrain and had always been very barren. Later, due to the huge threat brought by the Sun Moon Empire, and the exchanges between the Star Luo Empire and the Sun Moon Empire's borders, this area gradually became prosperous.
The seven war-prepared cities, including Yuming City, were developed under this background.
The Saint Dragon Family had taken root here for generations. To wash away the shame of their ancestors, they voluntarily chose to join the army and serve the country. Within the Star Luo Empire's First Soul Master Legion under Xuanji Douluo, there were more than three hundred disciples from the Saint Dragon Family.
The expressions of the people present kept changing, but without exception, the look in their eyes when they looked at Saint Dragon Douluo had changed.
Leading his own family to die for the country, ask who among them could be as decisive as Saint Dragon Douluo?
"Saint Dragon, you…"
Xuanji Douluo knew the obsession in Saint Dragon Douluo's heart and could not help but sigh softly.
Princess Xu Jiujiu's eyes lit up, and she said impatiently, "Saint Dragon Your Excellency, we will definitely not forget the contribution your Saint Dragon Family has made to the empire. When I return to Star Luo City, I will report these matters to my imperial brother and have him personally announce it to the entire nation to clear the name of your Saint Dragon Family!"
Under the powerful linked soul tools of the Sun Moon Empire, casualties among the Star Luo Empire's soul master legions were inevitable. If they could heavily damage the Sun Moon Empire's soul mentor corps at such a 'small' cost and thereby delay the Sun Moon Empire's invasion, Xu Jiujiu was naturally willing.
She was such a utilitarian woman.
"Thank you, Your Highness, the Princess!" Saint Dragon Douluo responded respectfully, then looked toward White Tiger Duke Dai Hao.
After all, Xu Jiujiu was a princess of high status in the Star Luo Empire's imperial family. Although Dai Hao felt that Xu Jiujiu's words and actions were too utilitarian and repulsive, he could not openly go against her face. Moreover, seeing the firm look in the eyes of his old subordinate, he ultimately could not say the words of refusal.
"Saint Dragon, Your Excellency, how do you plan to do it?" Dai Hao unconsciously changed his address for Saint Dragon Douluo to a respectful form.
Saint Dragon Douluo laughed heartily and freely.
"Duke, please retreat with Her Highness the Princess first. Our Saint Dragon Family has inherited Yuming City for over ten thousand years. How could we allow mere foreigners to set foot here?!"
Dai Hao had already understood Saint Dragon Douluo's intention. He took a deep breath and solemnly handed a storage ring to Saint Dragon Douluo.
"Saint Dragon, Your Excellency, do you have any other instructions?"
Saint Dragon Douluo closed his eyes again, as if calming the emotional fluctuations in his heart, then sighed with melancholy, "Duke, afterward, please take my grandson away from the front lines and preserve a trace of bloodline for the Saint Dragon Family."
Dai Hao nodded with a solemn expression.
"Saint Dragon, Your Excellency, please rest assured. After this, I will immediately have someone escort him to Star Luo City. As long as my White Tiger lineage still exists, we will always protect him."
"Good!" With White Tiger Duke Dai Hao's guarantee, Saint Dragon Douluo had settled his last concern and took his leave from everyone.
"In that case, this subordinate will go down first to prepare."
The people in the conference hall all watched as Saint Dragon Douluo left freely. Feelings of shame and admiration are intertwined in their hearts.
Xu Jiujiu also belatedly realized her earlier loss of composure and felt somewhat ashamed. Dai Luoli gradually recognized the cruelty of war and matured a lot in an instant.
Subsequently, White Tiger Duke Dai Hao decisively issued the order. Taking advantage of the fact that the Sun Moon Empire's high-altitude detection soul tools had not yet covered the area, the entire army retreated.
After suffering several losses at the hands of the Sun Moon Empire's soul mentor corps, Dai Hao knew that an army composed of ordinary people staying on the front lines would only become a burden. He had long ago withdrawn the main army to the rear. What remained on the front lines now were basically the elites from the various soul master legions, with extremely high mobility. They had all withdrawn from Yuming City before dusk.
The setting sun was like blood. Yuming City, which enjoyed abundant sunlight all year round, seemed to be bathed in a blood-colored glow.
As a war-prepared city on the northwestern frontier of the Star Luo Empire, the civilians in the city had been relocated to other cities in the heart of the Star Luo Empire when the war began several years ago. Later, the army gradually withdrew as well, leaving Yuming City almost empty.
Yuming City was built on a steep branch of the Mingdou Mountain Range. The scale of the city was not large, but its special terrain gave it an important strategic position.
Dazzling lights flickered on the distant horizon. These lights flashed at an extremely high frequency, accompanied by rumbling explosions.
This was White Tiger Duke Dai Hao organizing the Star Luo Empire's Title Douluos to block the Sun Moon Empire's soul mentor corps at the front lines. On the surface, it looked as if the Star Luo Empire was dispatching powerhouses to desperately delay the Sun Moon Empire's soul mentor corps' actions to allow the soul master legions to retreat safely.
The ones confronting the Title Douluos from the Star Luo Empire side were precisely the Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps, one of the Sun Moon Empire's five Protectorate Corps. Two other soul mentor corps were also assisting from the sides.
The one who had taken over the position of Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps leader from the former Mad Bull Douluo Wang Yiheng was the former vice leader of the Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps, Xia Xuanchen. Although his strength was somewhat inferior to that of Mad Bull Douluo Wang Yiheng, he was still a rank 9 soul mentor.
Under Xia Xuanchen's command, the Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps maintained their soul mentor position in the air. The soul power between them maintained the same frequency of operation. Through a spike-shaped special soul tool at the top of the flight soul tools behind them, they output power outward. A huge dark blue light shield instantly protected them, actually blocking the attacks from several Title Douluo powerhouses on the Star Luo Empire side.
The leader on the Star Luo Empire side was none other than Xuanji Douluo.
Xuanji Douluo seemed to have keenly sensed something. His brows rose. He pointed his right hand toward the sky, and a silver-white light shot up into the air, unfolding into a large umbrella with a diameter of more than fifty meters.
This was Xuanji Douluo's martial soul, the Xuanji Umbrella. His soul power had even reached rank 94.
The Xuanji Umbrella spun at high speed, blocking large swaths of soul guidance light descending from the sky, even including attacks from several rank 8 soul mentors in the Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps.
Those soul guidance rays and soul guidance cannons did not directly land on the umbrella's surface. Instead, upon contact with the silver-white light of the umbrella, they were decomposed and devoured by countless fine space cracks. Therefore, the commotion on this side was not too great.
Seeing that several Title Douluos beside him had consumed quite a bit, Xuanji Douluo decisively issued the order to retreat.
"Withdraw!"
Several Title Douluos on the Star Luo Empire side tacitly launched a long-range attack, then turned into streams of light and swept away into the distance.
"Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps, pursue them!" Xia Xuanchen snorted coldly with disdain, his eyes full of eagerness to try.
Compared to the other several Beast King Soul Mentor Corps leaders, he, who had just taken the position, was lacking in both qualifications and strength. If he could establish illustrious military achievements in this war against the Star Luo Empire, it would be extremely beneficial for him to firmly sit in the position of Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps leader.
Back then, the Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps had been the first to swear allegiance to Xu Tianran. Strictly speaking, their Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps was the true direct lineage of the current emperor.
The Sun Moon Royal Soul Mentor Corps was temporarily under Kong Deming's control, not to mention the others. The remaining Imperial Dragon Soul Mentor Corps, Terrorclaw Soul Mentor Corps, and Fire Phoenix Soul Mentor Corps all had shadows of other forces within the Sun Moon Empire behind them. For example, the one standing behind the Imperial Dragon Soul Mentor Corps was the imperial clan of the Sun Moon Empire.
On a high peak in the Mingdou Mountain Range, Ju Zi, dressed in magnificent fiery-red armor, stood quietly. Beside her stood seven or eight rank 9 soul mentors, including Fire Phoenix Douluo Luan Feng and Starry Sky Douluo Ye Yulin, among other veteran powerhouses of the Sun Moon Empire.
Ju Zi silently listened to the timely reports of the frontline situation. An unusual light flickered in her beautiful eyes.
On the other side, Xia Xuanchen had already led the Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps to arrive above Yuming City first. Among the four Beast King Soul Mentor Corps, the Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps was best at speed.
Looking at the empty Yuming City, he could not help but frown. The goal of their operation this time was to occupy this Yuming City, but he had never expected that the Star Luo Empire would really hand over Yuming City without a fight.
It seemed reasonable that the Star Luo Empire was unwilling to increase losses for no reason, but he always felt that something was off.
At this moment, hundreds of figures appeared scattered throughout Yuming City. Rich soul power fluctuations mixed with a violent aura. Identical White Armor Earth Dragon silhouettes emerged behind them. Countless yellow, purple, and black soul rings filled Yuming City.
Saint Dragon Douluo appeared on the top of the tallest building in the center of the city. With a ferocious expression, he shouted coldly.
"Form the array!"
All the Saint Dragon Family disciples were covered in a layer of white scales, their bodies becoming extremely thick and large. A blazing white light rose from under their feet, forming a divine and enormous rune.
Saint Dragon Douluo was located at the eye of this rune array. Two yellow, two purple, and five black, nine soul rings in total, rapidly pulsed around him, and his aura suddenly surged.
Martial soul combination skill!
The deep and abyss-like seventh and ninth soul rings shone in succession. Saint Dragon Douluo, who had transformed into a white giant earth dragon, raised his head and spat out a mouthful of white breath. This white breath was like white dragon flames as it swept toward the people of the Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps. Its diameter was astonishingly over a thousand meters.
Judging from the terrifying soul power fluctuations and aura, the power of this strike was probably even greater than a full-powered attack from an ordinary Super Douluo.
"Hmph! I knew you wouldn't let us occupy Yuming City so easily!" After a brief moment of surprise and doubt, Xia Xuanchen quickly calmed down and roared.
"Ring-linked formation, defensive shield!"
Balls of blue light lit up on the bodies of the Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps members, quickly connecting. Amid intense soul power fluctuations, the previous huge dark blue shield condensed once again and collided fiercely with the white breath spat out by Saint Dragon Douluo.
Dark blue halos continuously spread out. Terrifying, explosive sounds continued endlessly, refusing to subside for a long time.
The White Dragon Breath martial soul combination skill that Saint Dragon Douluo had executed by gathering the power of the entire Saint Dragon Family was indeed powerful, but the Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps could also gather everyone's power through linked soul tools.
Countless buildings in Yuming City turned to powder under this terrifying energy impact. The Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps' formation was scattered, and the Saint Dragon Family disciples also staggered backward.
The Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps immediately began to counterattack. The soul tools they were equipped with had certain combination effects. Groups of three to five people each launched soul guidance rays that caused explosions below.
Compared to them, the situation of the Saint Dragon Family disciples on the ground was much more tragic. In just a few breaths, dozens of people had fallen, their bodies blown into pieces. Low-rank soul masters facing soul mentors who could coordinate with each other were destined to be suppressed in all directions.
The defensive power of the White Armor Earth Dragon martial soul was simply vulnerable in front of powerful soul tools. It was a crushing massacre. Even White Armor Earth Dragon soul masters at the Soul Saint level, once they rose into the air, would be suppressed by the linked concentrated fire of the Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps' soul mentors, then heavily injured or even killed.
Saint Dragon Douluo roared. In his martial soul true body state, he soared into the air and charged toward the soul mentor position that the Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps had rebuilt, but unfortunately, everything was in vain. The dense soul guidance rays and soul guidance cannons fired by the Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps bombarded his main body from above.
Countless white dragon scales flew and scattered. Saint Dragon Douluo was actually suppressed so hard that he was forced to his martial soul's true body state.
"Overestimating your own capabilities, trash."
Xia Xuanchen sneered with a smile. He waved his right hand, and a brilliant silver war hammer suddenly appeared in his grasp, then smashed toward Saint Dragon Douluo. This was not a soul tool, but his martial soul.
"Bang—" A low, muffled sound rang out. Saint Dragon Douluo's body was heavily smashed to the ground by this silver war hammer. Blood flowed from his mouth and nose, and his aura was extremely weak, but he still stared fixedly at Xia Xuanchen.
The other disciples of the Saint Dragon Family had already been wiped out by the Evil Monarch Soul Mentor Corps. Xia Xuanchen and the others landed inside Yuming City together.
Xia Xuanchen walked step by step toward Saint Dragon Douluo. A slight arc curved at the corner of his mouth. No matter the process, the outcome was ultimately good. They had not only occupied Yuming City but also achieved such rich results. It could be said to be a great achievement. Taking the head of this Title Douluo from the opponent would naturally increase his prestige in the Sun Moon Empire's army.
But facing Xia Xuanchen's mockery, Saint Dragon Douluo, leaning against the rock wall, revealed a miserable yet eerie smile.
"Welcome to the continent's highest city."
As he spoke, Saint Dragon Douluo suddenly slapped his right hand on the ground. A special shock wave caused the entire Yuming City to begin trembling.
An inexplicable sense of palpitation surged into his heart. Xia Xuanchen's pupils contracted.
"You?!"
Before he could react, a flash of orange-red light appeared in his field of vision, then swallowed the entire Yuming City.
"Rumble—"
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