Just now, after Chen Junting had everyone leave, he directly began soul searching. However, although this method was ruthless and efficient, the mastermind behind the scenes seemed to have already prepared for this.
Some simple information was irrelevant, but when searching for some confidential information, the souls behind the two individuals self-immolated without the slightest hesitation, completely turning into wisps of black smoke.
The bodies of the possessed individuals also collapsed to the ground.
"So no information could be extracted at all?"
The two envoys from the Tian Hun Empire and Star Luo Empire looked relieved, then troubled. They had found the cause, but they knew nothing at all—wasn't this equivalent to being blind?
Thus, hopeful gazes turned toward Chen Junting.
"Don't look at me, nothing can be searched out."
Chen Junting shook his head, indicating his powerlessness while also explaining what was meant by "restrictions set within the soul—once key information is touched, the soul will scatter and disperse."
What a pity!
Just as the two envoys couldn't help but feel regretful, Ning Bowen spoke up at this time: "Since those two possessed souls have perished, what is the condition of the two possessed individuals?"
"Not good."
Chen Junting shook his head, then glanced at the thunder still gathering in the sky above. With a wave of his large hand!
The Heaven-Deceiving Great Array instantly dissolved.
With this, the heavenly tribulation that was no longer shielded began searching again, but after a while without finding its target, the accumulated thunder gradually dissipated, and the dark clouds in the sky also slowly broke apart.
"Let's go, let's go in."
Chen Junting gave a greeting and walked in first.
Everyone followed closely behind, seeing two "corpses" collapsed on the ground. The two envoys stepped forward first, coming to the "corpses" of their respective countrymen, briefly examining them.
"Still alive!"
The two envoys were delighted and immediately got to work.
Slap slap slap—
"Hey! Wake up! Wake up..."
"Alright, alright, stop slapping."
Seeing the two envoys' heavy force almost slapping the faces of these two "corpses" to pieces, Chen Junting quickly stepped in to stop them.
"They can't be woken up anymore. These two were possessed, which means their souls have completely perished. They're still alive now, hm... if this state can even be called alive, it's only because their physical bodies still have vitality—their souls are already gone."
"Huh?"
At this moment, not just the two envoys, but everyone else also felt shocked and suspicious. Could a person without a soul still have their physical body alive?
"Of course they can."
Facing everyone's confusion, Chen Junting provided an explanation:
The physical body and soul are both one entity and can be separated. Ordinary people's deaths are all due to the physical body first cutting off its vitality. Even mental-type soul masters' mental attacks don't directly strike the soul but cause brain death, making the physical body's vitality perish, or simultaneously hitting the soul along with brain death.
In any case, after the physical body's vitality is severed, this directly leaves the soul without a dwelling place, so it drifts in the human world before perishing.
Moreover, this perishing speed is very fast.
The current state of these two individuals is that their souls have perished while their physical bodies still have vitality. But without energy supplementation, the physical body's vitality will also gradually fail, then completely step into death.
"I see."
The two envoys looked at the two lying on the ground and shook their heads.
Forget it, take them back first.
No matter what, it's an explanation to some people.
After the fates of the two were completely determined, the two envoys also asked Chen Junting for advice on what other methods could be used to distinguish the identities of these "possessed" individuals. Otherwise, if they were allowed to mix into the populace, or even into the high levels of the empire... if it truly reached that point, then things would be terrible.
"We request Your Majesty's guidance."
The two envoys lowered their attitudes, bowing and cupping their hands.
With the achievement of killing a Limit Douluo, even if that battle was a combined effort of three people, Chen Junting was sufficient to bear the title of "Your Majesty."
"If simply providing a method, it's not a difficult matter."
What Chen Junting said was not arrogance.
If simply identifying the identities of corresponding personnel, he could arrange an array to make those entering the array reveal their true forms.
However...
"However..."
Chen Junting changed the subject, "Even if I really provide a method, it's unrealistic for you to want to use it to identify all personnel in the empire."
How many citizens does an empire have?
Probably tens of thousands of millions.
Truly wanting to identify all of them would be a fool's dream.
"No matter, no matter."
Hearing that there really was a universally applicable identification method, the two envoys were immediately delighted. They waved their hands repeatedly at Chen Junting's indication that identifying all citizens was unrealistic, not caring about it.
"If that's the case, then wait for me for a period of time."
Chen Junting nodded, then said seriously, "You two came as envoys this time—was it only for this matter?"
"Of course not."
Speaking thus, the two envoys' faces became serious as they each took out a sealed letter from their bosoms. The envelope in the Tian Hun envoy's hand bore a snow lotus imprint, representing the Tian Hun imperial family; the envelope in the Star Luo envoy's hand bore a star crown imprint, representing the Star Luo imperial family.
Then, they handed them to Ning Bowen one by one.
Seeing this, Ning Bowen's face also became extremely serious.
He knew—the main event had arrived.
He cleanly tore open the envelopes, his gaze sweeping across, the meaning of "as expected" entering everyone's eyes.
Subsequently, he passed the two letters around for everyone to read.
When it reached Chen Junting's hands, he saw the meaning of the letters from the Tian Hun Empire and Star Luo Empire: they wished to ally with the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, agreeing to jointly campaign against the Sun Moon Empire in half a month.
Of course, this alliance agreement was not only sent to the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. This time, the Tian Hun Empire and Star Luo Empire used the act of having people identify these "traitors" with clean backgrounds to secretly send invitations to all major powers of the original Douluo Continent.
Of course, among these powers receiving alliance invitations, they were either trusted by the two great empires, or had formed grudges with the Sun Moon Empire and could not possibly turn toward the Sun Moon Empire.
Moreover, these powers also included the Dou Ling Empire.
However, given that the Dou Ling Empire mostly adopted a policy of inaction when facing the Sun Moon Empire, plus the recent coronation of the new emperor of the Dou Ling Empire, the Tian Hun and Star Luo Empires couldn't gauge this new emperor's thoughts.
Thus, while secretly sending invitations to various major powers, both great empires also issued declarations to the Dou Ling Empire about establishing diplomatic relations with the new emperor, and sent envoys to Ling Dou City to establish relations with the new emperor.
Their purpose was to have the Dou Ling Empire join in launching the war together.
Clearly, the two great empires decided to give the Sun Moon Empire a heavy blow at the beginning of the war, to boost their own morale while also making the Sun Moon Empire's overall morale difficult to recover from.
At this moment, after everyone had finished reading the letter's contents, Ning Bowen directly stated they needed to discuss and had the two envoys go down to rest.
Subsequently, Ning Bowen looked at everyone.
"This battle—to participate or not to participate?"
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