Rumble—
A muffled roar, like thunder, exploded within the dark green clouds. The vortex swirled, and great, howling winds swept across the heavens and the earth as a terrifying pressure radiated in all directions!
"What in the world is going on!?"
"It's a powerful enemy! Prepare for battle!"
"Look at the sky!"
"..."
Rip!!
In an instant, a giant dark green hand appeared, accompanied by a flash of ghastly white lightning! The sky-holding giant hand tore through the firmament formed by the dark green clouds. The revealed heaven-reaching giant palm was vast enough to blot out the sky, causing all the soul engineers of the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion below to widen their eyes, an involuntary look of fear spreading across their faces.
"This feeling... there's no mistaking it."
Regiment Commander Wang's fierce eyes seemed to become incomparably clear at this moment. No, it wasn't clarity, but rather an unprecedented wariness, and even a sense of powerlessness, in his gaze.
He had only had the "honor" of sensing this feeling from a handful of people. Some of them were now dead, while others still lived.
Long Xiaoyao;
Ye Xishui!
Without a doubt, this one was also a Limit Douluo!
"A troublesome one has arrived."
Regiment Commander Wang's expression turned grim to the extreme. Feeling this pressure that blanketed the earth, every muscle, every nerve in his body was tensed to its absolute limit!
But even so, he couldn't stop his heart from sinking.
He knew all too well the terror of a Limit Douluo.
If the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion were still at its full strength, he would have had the confidence to preserve a third of their effective forces and secure a chance to retreat.
But now...
To have even one person make it out alive would be considered fortunate.
"So you are the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion."
A deep yet immensely domineering voice echoed from afar once more, like muffled thunder that shook one's eardrums. Then, without another word, the giant hand that had torn through the clouds fiercely pressed down. Its five thick fingers were like five colossal mountain peaks, suffocating all living beings below!
It seemed like a casual move, but for a Limit Douluo with a Body Martial Soul, this seemingly effortless, bare-handed strike was in no way inferior to another Limit Douluo unleashing a soul skill.
Although Regiment Commander Wang couldn't clearly see this, the threat it posed made his heart pound. He didn't dare to hesitate in the slightest.
"All units, defend!"
With his order, one defensive soul barrier after another unfurled. Stacked layer upon layer, it even created the illusion that the soul barriers were rising to meet the descending giant palm.
The next second, Crack, crack, crack— Beneath the heaven-reaching giant palm, a series of shattering sounds rang out as the soul barriers were disintegrated inch by inch.
It was only when Regiment Commander Wang raised his own defense that he managed to block this strike.
But after one strike, it was not over.
The next second, from within the thick, dark green sea of clouds, a massive shadow even more sinister and terrifying than the clouds themselves rapidly magnified in the eyes of everyone, who were frozen in place. They saw a shadow, as if it could blot out the sky, crisscrossing within the sea of clouds, as if two great suns were suspended upon it, their piercing light soul-shaking!
Instantly, a fierce gale kicked up, blowing dust and smoke from the ground.
In the horrified gazes of the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion, a head the size of a mountain peak slowly emerged from the sea of clouds. Along with it came a terrifying body, like a mountain range holding up the sky and a mountain range shaking the earth, which parted the dark green clouds...
"Body Douluo—Du Busi?!!"
Regiment Commander Wang's eyes widened. "How is this possible!?"
He never would have imagined that the three original Douluo empires had gained the combat strength of another Limit Douluo. And the one who had made the breakthrough was the strongest among the Level 98s from a while ago!
"..."
Cries of alarm could no longer be uttered from the mouths of the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion members. They could only stare in terror at the heaven-reaching, earth-standing giant, swallowing dryly, their bodies breaking out in a cold sweat.
The giant formed by Du Busi narrowed its eyes as it swept its gaze across the land, finally settling on Regiment Commander Wang.
After all, he was the Class 9 Soul Engineer.
They saw Du Busi's lips curl into a savage grin.
The next second, "Banquet of Death!"
A blood-red light flashed. After Du Busi made a posture of holding up the sky with both hands, rays of green light erupted from his body, shooting down towards the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion below.
But the elite were still the elite. Despite facing the immense pressure of a Limit Douluo like Du Busi, the soldiers of the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion chose to counter-attack after maintaining their composure!
At the fastest possible speed, Regiment Commander Wang made the first move!
And in the instant he briefly blocked Du Busi's attack, two hundred of the three hundred soul soldiers in his legion quickly formed a soul tool emplacement. The soul power from their entire bodies surged forth without reservation, all of it pouring into the soul tools.
In an instant, the soul tool emplacement on the ground erupted with flashes of intense light, weaving a blue net of death in the air that enveloped the descending green light from Du Busi.
The remaining one hundred members of the soul engineer legion swiftly rose into the air. To counter the incoming green light, thirty of them split into groups of five, each group carrying a massive soul tool. This soul tool looked somewhat like a five-pointed star, with five metal rods extending from each point, carried on the shoulders of five soul engineers. At its center was a giant, eye-like sphere, upon which a dark blue light flickered and intense soul power fluctuations continuously appeared.
And this soul tool, to a certain extent, could be considered the "exclusive" soul tool of the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion.
The next second, the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion's attack shot through their regiment commander's defense, heading straight to meet Du Busi's "Banquet of Death." The green light collided with the blue net in the air, instantly easing Regiment Commander Wang's burden considerably. But what was astonishing was...
Vibrate—
With a light tremble, not a single sound of a collision rang out. Yet, the blue net unleashed by the three hundred members of the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion and fired from the ground-based soul tool emplacement rapidly melted and dissipated, turning into specks of golden light that vanished into mid-air.
Before they could even react, "Hmph!"
Du Busi's eyebrows knitted together. The next moment...
BOOM!!!
They saw him form a fist seal. The dark green clouds in the sky instantly changed dramatically. As they were drawn into the vortex in the firmament, terrifying soul power fluctuations converged into Du Busi's fist at extreme speed.
In less time than it takes to draw a breath, Du Busi's fist, like a colossal pillar piercing the heavens, smashed down viciously, striking directly against Regiment Commander Wang's defense. In an instant, his defense was shattered!
And at that very moment, the green light of the "Banquet of Death" was no longer obstructed, raining down entirely upon the Evil Monarch Soul Engineer Legion's emplacement.
And the first to suffer were the one hundred soldiers flying in the air. Wherever the green light passed, soul tools instantly melted. Those soldiers whose defenses were not timely became "dishes on the platter" of the "Banquet of Death."
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