"What kind of talk is this."
Xue Feng's sarcasm didn't seem to weigh on the Tian Hun Emperor or Xu Jiawei. The Tian Hun Emperor took a small baton-like stick from Wei Na's hand, intending to hand it to Xue Feng.
"This is merely our preliminary proposal. Naturally, the new Dou Ling Emperor can now divide things according to his own thoughts. After some discussion, we can arrive at an answer that satisfies everyone."
"Oh? Is that so."
Xue Feng glanced at the small stick, paying it no heed.
Whoosh—
The sword at his waist was suddenly drawn, its tip pointing directly at the table.
Whoosh— He infused soul power into the sword and, on the light projection, decisively drew a line southward from Mingdu—the capital of the Sun Moon Empire—spanning several cities, dividing the map projection. Then he drew a massive circle around the territories of the Tian Hun Empire and Dou Ling Empire.
Seeing this, the Tian Hun Emperor's face couldn't help but darken.
Xu Jiawei raised his head to look, a smile at the corner of his lips.
He had no objections whatsoever; at most, it was just somewhat less territory than he had initially divided for himself. But the Tian Hun Empire? They were directly driven from their home, banished to the Sun Moon Continent.
Regarding this, Xu Jiawei merely said in a flat tone, "The new Dou Ling Emperor's move encompasses Tian Hun territory. Aren't you afraid the Tian Hun Empire will disagree?"
"Tian Hun territory?"
Xue Feng seemed to have heard something amusing. "Perhaps the Xu family has replaced the Dai family for too long. Could it be you've forgotten that the Tian Hun Empire was originally the territory of my Xue family, known as the Tian Dou Empire?"
"Hehe, does the new Dou Ling Emperor not know history?"
The Tian Hun Emperor was not polite either. "In this world, there are only winners and losers. Since the Xue family ancestors were defeated by my Tian Hun ancestors, then this Tian Hun territory no longer belongs to the Xue family, but to our family."
Between the three emperors' words, hidden blades and mutual sarcasm abounded. The various major powers watched with eyes on their noses and noses on their hearts.
Prominently displaying a stance of not interrupting and not interfering.
Fight!
Fight all you want!
Once the fighting is done, it will be time to truly make a move against the Sun Moon Empire.
Little did they know, a storm was brewing.
Another room in the Ling Dou Grand Hotel.
Here was the residence arranged by the Dou Ling Empire for the Sun Moon Empire envoys. At this moment, deep in the night, not only were the three original Douluo empires and various major powers meeting and discussing, but these two Sun Moon Empire envoys had also been unable to sleep for a long time.
At this moment, they sat facing each other. On a small table were placed a dish of peanuts, two wine cups, and a small pot of wine. Under the soul guidance lighting, their dim shadows were refracted.
Tsk, ha—
Raising the wine cup, lightly sipping at the lips.
When setting it down again, only a bit of leftover wine remained. The slightly intoxicated face lifted slightly, looking toward the opposite side, "Old Li, this should count as one of our last few drinks, right? Quite a kick to it."
"A kick? Heh—"
The envoy called "Old Li" laughed disdainfully. He picked up a peanut from the plate with his hand and threw it into his mouth, chewing roughly before swallowing. "This wine produced by the Tian Hun Empire counts as having a kick? If you want a kick, it has to be what we brought ourselves."
Speaking thus, he took out a pot of good wine from his storage soul guidance device. However, the appearance of this wine pot was identical to the one they were currently drinking from, making it impossible to distinguish true from false.
He shook the wine pot in his hand, seeming melancholic.
"Old Wang, want some?"
"Old Wang" raised his head, his eyes seeming to become clear.
"The last cup?"
"The last cup."
"Old Li" filled both their cups to the brim, then raised his cup toward "Old Wang" in a toast, "For the empire, for His Majesty!"
His tone was impassioned, and he downed it in one gulp.
And along with him, naturally, was "Old Wang."
Then, after two relatively muffled "thuds" and "bangs" came from this room, there were no other sounds.
At this moment, darkness and shadow seemed to take this as their center, beginning to envelop in all directions until they swallowed everything.
Only in some other rooms of this hotel did the escort guards, after a moment, open their eyes with soul-stirring gazes.
...
The Extreme North.
Whoosh whoosh—
In the vast expanse of white snow, everything was frozen and silent. Only wind like the wailing of ghosts and wolves constantly howled. The terrifying pallor surrounding them was ice and snow covering the earth, forming boundless ice fields and stretching snow-capped mountains.
In the bone-piercing cold, it seemed no life existed. No, to be precise, no non-ice-attribute spirit beast life existed!
But it was in this forbidden land where only ice-attribute spirit beasts could survive that, at this moment, streaks of blue light were still moving through the snow, enduring the cold wind like scraping bone knives. These hundreds of blue lights moved rapidly through the Extreme Northern Lands like a river of stars.
And each of these people flickering with blue light had a white flying-type soul guidance device on their back, dressed in white robes as if to conceal their movements in this world of ice and snow. One could say that besides the soul guidance flames spewed by the flying soul guidance devices, the only blue remaining was the huge eye pattern on their chests.
However, this eye pattern was not merely a simple decoration. It seemed to be made of some metallic material, and the blue light flashing earlier came from these eyes.
Those blue eyes had deep pupils. Though they were only patterns, they seemed capable of devouring everything. Around the pupils were countless dark blue light patterns resembling blood vessels. This completely revealed the identity of this several-hundred-person team:
The Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion!!!
The Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion was one of the Sun Moon Empire's Guardian Hands and one of the four directly subordinate Beast King-level Soul Engineer Legions.
The remaining three Beast King-level Soul Engineer Legions were the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion, the Terror Claw Soul Engineer Legion, and the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion.
The Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion was named by the Sun Moon Empire using the fearsome reputation of the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord to deter foreign enemies.
Compared to the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion which was composed entirely of female soul engineers, and the Terror Claw Soul Engineer Legion composed entirely of robust males, with the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion being the strongest in combat power, the characteristic of the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion was that it was composed of soul engineers excelling in speed.
In other words, marked by the Evil Eye Tyrant Lord, this Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion excelled most in speed and surprise attacks!
Beyond this, the unified standard for soul engineers in the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion was soul power above Level 40—that is, strength above Soul Ancestor—and the total number was three hundred. The commander leading this soul engineer legion was a Class 9 soul engineer.
At this moment, this Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion had moved out in full force!
Even more unusually, they were clad in white robes, shuttling through the Extreme Northern Lands, and in a posture of moving southward at maximum speed!
Clearly, their purpose was extraordinary and impure!
As for where exactly this Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion was heading south toward? If the continent were a map, following the direction of the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion's travel and drawing a line, the final destination would be...
The Tian Hun Empire!
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