Six, a full six Title Douluo.
Lin Xiao scanned the surroundings in a single glance, taking in everything around him. As the Death God Tower's attack descended, the first to react were naturally the several Title Douluo guarding Mingdu.
Two figures rose from the direction of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, while the other four emerged together from a blind spot in the imperial palace, clearly the consecrators protecting Xu Tianran.
Dark red light converged toward the Death God Tower once more; the next attack was about to fall.
The Title Douluo in Mingdu stood as if facing a formidable enemy, not daring to slack off in the slightest as they flew toward the Death God Tower.
Seeing that signature soul tool, the same thought rose in everyone's mind almost simultaneously: Ye Xishui had returned.
After the incident in Heaven Dou City, two Ultimate Douluo of the Holy Spirit Cult, Long Xiaoyao, had died in battle, while Ye Xishui had vanished without a trace. Xu Tianran, knowing that the Sun Moon Empire's betrayal of the Holy Spirit Cult would surely displease Ye Xishui, had repeatedly sent people to search for her whereabouts, but all efforts came up empty.
And tonight, Ye Xishui had finally come looking for them.
The four consecrators flying out from the palace all lit up with radiance, as though several faint beams of light connected the four of them. In the next instant, blinding light erupted from their midst, heading straight to meet the direction of the Death God Tower's attack.
Boom—
Another deafening roar. Under the collision of the two forces, the mere shockwaves lifted a fierce gale around them. Some of Mingdu's tall buildings shook violently, their decorations falling to the ground in a cacophony of sounds.
Troops had already appeared on the streets to maintain order, yet they still could not suppress the panic and screams of the city's residents.
The four consecrators exchanged glances, a hint of surprise in their eyes, as though even they themselves had not expected to block the Death God Tower's attack so easily.
But the opponent was, after all, an Ultimate Douluo; there was no time for them to think too much. They focused solely on responding to the enemy in the way they were most skilled.
As soul power surged, various soul tools on their bodies sprayed forth beams of white light. Before they even drew close, the attacks had already crossed more than half of Mingdu and struck toward the Death God Tower.
They could not have known that the Death God Tower could not now unleash its strongest attack. After all, the Death God Tower's most powerful strike required burning a massive number of souls, and Lin Xiao was not extravagant enough to waste the souls he had painstakingly collected here for nothing.
Of course, they also could not have imagined that behind the Death God Tower hovering in midair outside Mingdu City, there was fundamentally no "person" at all.
Around Mingdu, over a hundred figures clad in humanoid soul tools appeared from all directions at once, precisely the most powerful force in the Sun Moon Empire's arsenal, the Royal Soul Engineer Legion.
As the legion commander, Jing Hongchen still had to mobilize the army and was slightly slower in arriving. When he reached the vicinity of the Death God Tower and saw the indistinct shadowy figures beneath it, his brows furrowed slightly.
Dark Lightning Douluo, Myriad Souls Douluo, Mask Douluo… Others might not recognize them, but Jing Hongchen, who had cooperated with the Holy Spirit Cult for a very long time, could identify them.
The Sun Moon Empire had hunted the Holy Spirit Cult for so long, and these elders seemed to have evaporated into thin air with no trace left. Yet unexpectedly, they had all appeared together here tonight.
"Be careful, they're all Title Douluo!"
Jing Hongchen called out in a low voice. One soul tool after another appeared on his body. The others, hearing his warning, also turned grave.
If they joined forces with the Royal Soul Engineer Legion, they might be able to hold off one Ultimate Douluo, but with the opponent bringing several Title Douluo as support, the outcome was far from certain.
Beneath the Death God Tower, Myriad Souls slightly raised his hand and looked at his own body. He was no stranger to the method of commanding souls in battle, yet he had never imagined that he himself would one day be driven by others.
By contrast, Dark Lightning, beside him, flexed his body, somewhat curious about his current state. "This world really does have many wondrous things. I never thought I'd be able to move around in this condition."
"Be that as it may, in our current state, our combat power is less than one-tenth of what it was at our peak. What can we really accomplish?" Myriad Souls looked at the several attacks landing on the Death God Tower, causing it to shake repeatedly and sending ripples across their bodies.
"Pretending to be mysterious should be doable, right? As long as we can hold them up for a little while in this form, it'll be enough."
Inside the imperial palace, almost everyone's attention was drawn to the Death God Tower in the sky. The corridors were empty of guards; only a figure cloaked in a gray cape hurried past, unnoticed by anyone.
It was only when he reached the door of a study that Lin Xiao stopped. Just as he was about to push the door open, he suddenly halted his hand.
Turning back, he saw an old man standing not far behind him. Moonlight pierced through the clouds and fell on the old man's body, making his entire figure seem to glow faintly.
Level 10 soul engineer, Kong Deming.
"That outfit of yours…" Kong Deming paused slightly as he spoke. "As expected, the Calamity Douluo that the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion encountered in the Evil Forest was also from the Holy Spirit Cult."
"Why hasn't Ye Xishui come? Is it that she doesn't want to personally take revenge for the Holy Spirit Cult, or is it that her injuries from back then still haven't healed, yet she came looking anyway?"
Lin Xiao listened to Kong Deming's words without ever speaking. Unlike the people in Mingdu, only he himself knew that the one who had come to Mingdu tonight was not the Holy Spirit Cult at all; from beginning to end, it had been him alone.
With the development of soul tool technology, operating soul tools no longer requires a soul engineer to control them personally. As long as sufficient soul power was supplied, they could attack on their own.
Moreover, after obtaining Electrolux's divine sense fragment and learning necromancy from it, the souls of those Holy Spirit Cult elders were no longer mere invisible phantoms to ordinary people; they now possessed power capable of affecting the real world.
Lin Xiao could not predict how long a single Death God Tower and a few souls could bluff those Title Douluo. At this moment, he could only end things quickly.
Thoughts flashed through his mind. Lin Xiao's gaze turned cold. In an instant, he turned and charged toward Kong Deming. An aura of dead silence spread outward. Behind him, several streams of dark red light shot into the sky before enveloping Kong Deming.
Kong Deming's expression changed drastically. In that moment, two completely different, even utterly opposing, sensations surged uncontrollably from within him.
One was the instinctive fear all living beings feel toward death. Though he was already a Hyper Douluo, under this extreme aura of death, every part of his body seemed gripped by terror, constantly trying to flee this horrifying presence.
Yet at the same time, his heart felt incomparably calm, as though a faint, almost imperceptible voice kept calling to him, beckoning his consciousness to return to the final destination that all life must reach, death.
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