The Tang Sect branch was completely destroyed. All that remained was a huge crater over a kilometer in diameter. The rock at the bottom of the crater had been melted by the high temperature, taking on a strange glassy sheen, glowing faintly blue under the moonlight. A pungent smell of burnt filling the air. Occasionally, the sound of unburned building materials popping could be heard.
Huang Zhengyang stood at the edge of the crater, watching the ruins with a grave expression.
Even for a Xingluo soldier like him, scenes like this were rare.
"What is the situation?"
"Report. Thermal imaging shows there are still faint life reactions nearby."
An officer quickly ran over. The detector in his hand flashed a dangerous red light.
"After such an explosion, there are still people alive?"
Huang Zhengyang frowned deeply. Looking in the direction indicated by the instrument, he saw intact buildings and a pitch black spatial crack. He immediately understood the situation. After thinking for a moment, he ordered, "All forces. Continue firing."
As soon as Huang Zhengyang's order was given, the Xingluo army's soul tool artillery positions once again lit up with blinding light. The muzzles adjusted their angles, aiming at the location of the abnormal heat source indicated by the instrument.
"Loading complete."
"Target locked."
"Fire."
With a series of commands, dozens of fifth grade Fixed Type Soul Tool Shells screamed through the air, drawing deadly arcs in the sky.
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On the other side, Bone Dragon Douluo and the other two had just escaped from the previous explosion and were still somewhat shaken.
"Those Xingluo madmen. Have they taken the wrong medicine? How dare they use a ninth grade Fixed Type Soul Tool Shell to bomb us?"
Recovering, Magic Scythe Douluo said incredulously, "Has Xu Chengzhi grown wings? Does he want to learn from the Sun Moon Empire of ten thousand years ago?"
Blood Shadow Douluo was the first to calm down. He thought for a moment and shook his head. "That ninth grade Fixed Type Soul Tool Shell probably was not Xingluo's doing. It was likely prepared by the Douluo Federation."
Bone Dragon Douluo was about to speak when he suddenly saw countless soul tool shells falling from the sky and nearly cursed.
Regardless of whether the ninth grade Fixed Type Soul Tool Shell was arranged by Xu Chengzhi, at least right now, the Xingluo army's artillery was definitely firing at them.
Could you not go easy on us when putting on a show?
Fortunately, the three of them were powerful Super Douluo. They had dodged the direct explosion of the ninth grade Fixed Type Soul Tool Shell. With preparation, these lower grade soul tool shells naturally could not harm them either.
Huo Yuhao and the others' gazes naturally fell on them as well.
After dodging the soul tool shells, the three evil soul masters stood in midair, off facing against Huo Yuhao and his group from a hundred meters away. The air was filled with a suffocating pressure.
In the end, Blood Shadow Douluo broke the heavy silence. "You have really given us a heavy gift. All the gifts we prepared for you were destroyed. Those were proof of the close cooperation between the Tang Sect and us in recent years."
"I am not interested in the gifts you prepared."
Upon hearing this, Duoqing Douluo looked with a gloomy expression at the already destroyed Tang Sect branch. He fixed a cold gaze on the three, took a step forward, and Duoqing Sword appeared in his hand. The world suddenly changed.
Terrifying spirit power fluctuations swept in all directions like a tsunami. Nine spirit rings rose beneath his feet one by one. Black, black, black, black, black, black, red, red, red.
The configuration of six black and three red spirit rings made the entire space tremble.
The pressure of a Limit Douluo was released without reservation. The air within a kilometer radius seemed solidifying. Bone Dragon Douluo and the other two only felt pressure surging like a mountains crashing and a tsunami, making even breathing difficult.
Casual talk was one thing. Facing a Limit Douluo directly was another.
Even with trump cards sufficient to counter a Limit Douluo, standing before Duoqing Douluo still brought considerable pressure.
Fortunately, they also had a Limit Douluo on their side.
Blood Shadow Douluo looked at Divine Domain Douluo. The latter quietly sighed. A flash of holy light passed. Nine spirit rings also rose beneath his feet. The powerful pressure seemed to surge toward the three evil soul masters, but in reality, it silently blocked part of the pressure from Duoqing Douluo for them, thereby indicating that his position remained unchanged.
But sensing the holy light emitted by Divine Domain Douluo, the three evil soul masters, who had been happy that he had made a wise choice, twitched their eyes, their moods somewhat subtle.
How to put it. Compared to facing the pressure of a Limit Douluo directly, the holy light from Divine Domain Douluo without pressure made them more uncomfortable. After all, the three of them
were relatively pure evil soul masters. Their compatibility with the Light Sacred Dragon martial soul was not good.
Seeing the two Limit Douluo both releasing pressure to intimidate the evil soul masters, Huang Zhengyang said arrogantly, "Dawn Society, just surrender. Your situation is hopeless."
With two Limit Douluo backing them up, that was how arrogant he could be.
The other side only had three Super Douluo. Facing them, could they still turn the tables?
Blood Shadow Douluo glanced at Huang Zhengyang, ignoring this fellow who was out of the loop. His gaze swept over Duoqing Douluo and the others, finally focusing on Huo Yuhao.
The aura closest to that of the ninth grade Fixed Type Soul Tool Shell was strongest on him. Presumably, it was this Holy Son who had fired the ninth grade Fixed Type Soul Tool Shell.
"This time, we were indeed careless. We did not expect you to use a ninth grade Fixed Type Soul Tool Shell. But that does not mean you have won."
Blood Shadow Douluo looked coldly at Bone Dragon Douluo beside him. "Act."
Bone Dragon Douluo nodded calmly.
The next moment, three spatial cracks appeared in midair. Huang Zhengyang and the Xingluo army watched this scene warily, considering the possibilities.
Were there other Dawn Society bases behind those spatial rifts? Would enemies emerge from within? Or had the three evil soul masters prepared dangerous weapons elsewhere, intending to retrieve them through the spatial passages? Or perhaps they wanted to use spatial power to launch a sneak attack?
Well, none of the above came true.
The three evil soul masters simply walked into the spatial passages as soon as they appeared. Then, half a minute, one minute, two minutes.
After waiting a long while, seeing no trace of the three evil soul masters, Huang Zhengyang snapped out of his daze.
"Did they escape?"
Obviously. If they were not leaving, would they fight here?
Divine Domain Douluo sighed quietly and directly tore through space to pursue.
Some things could not be brought into the open now. So he could not openly act in front of the Xingluo army. That would cause huge chaos. Blood Shadow Douluo and the other two also understood this, which was why they planned to divert the battlefield through spatial rift.
Not only Divine Domain Douluo, but Duoqing Douluo, Soul Calming Douluo, Huo Yuhao, and Gu Yuena also tore through space to pursue.
The army's large-scale area attack capability was good, but its effectiveness against individual experts was very limited. Moreover, given the relationship between Xingluo and the Holy Spirit Cult, they had to be constantly wary of being backstabbed while staying here. A change of battlefield suited them just fine.
Only Huang Zhengyang watched them one by one skillfully tear through space, then looked at his own stunned troops, his expression blank.
This was not right.
Had he only come here to be a tool to command the troops to concentrate fire? Was that all the screentime he got?
The script should not be like this.
He was the Xingluo Federation's mecha regiment commander, a senior officer at the regimental level. Where was his highlight moment?
Huang Zhengyang stood in place, looking at the empty crater and the dissipating spatial crack, a sense of absurdity welling up in his heart.
And did you have to be that skilled? Was spatial power not an ability that only Limit Douluo could master?
How was it that Soul Calming Douluo, a level 98 Super Douluo, was so skilled? How was it that Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena, both Soul Emperors, were so skilled?
You are making me, a Titled Douluo who cannot keep up, look very useless.
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