"Searching for assassins?"
"Yeah, everyone entering or leaving Mingdu is under strict inspection. I heard it's because of what happened last night."
In Mingdu, people were chatting idly about the events in the imperial palace from the previous night in many places.
The commotion had been so great that even ordinary people who had gone to bed early were startled awake from their sleep by the sounds of the battle between Title Douluo, not to mention those who had personally witnessed the Death God Tower.
In just one night, the news that Xu Tianran had been assassinated and injured had spread throughout the entire Mingdu.
"I think it's probably the same as the previous few times, the three great empires are behind it."
"I heard this time is different from the last two. It seems it was the remnants of the evil soul masters taking revenge against His Majesty."
"These evil soul masters…"
Casual conversations from passersby on the street kept drifting over, not only discussing what had happened in the palace last night but also talking about the war on the front lines and speculating when the Sun Moon Empire would conquer the three great empires.
Lin Xiao blended into the crowd. The soul tool concealed beneath his clothing completely masked his soul power fluctuations. Whenever he saw soldiers passing by in the distance, he quietly stepped into a shop by the roadside, looking no different from an ordinary resident of Mingdu.
Walking along the street, Lin Xiao turned two corners with familiarity, and soon an unremarkable building appeared before him.
The tightly closed main gate had two crossed sealing strips that were particularly eye-catching, occasionally causing passing pedestrians to stop and look for a moment.
Lin Xiao glanced left and right, his feet not stopping as he seemingly passed by the gate casually. However, a phantom detached from his body and silently merged into the courtyard behind the gate.
Through the assassin's soul's vision, Lin Xiao once again saw this Holy Spirit Cult branch that he was extremely familiar with.
The branch was now empty. The mechanism leading to the underground hall had been violently broken open, leaving a conspicuous entrance on the ground.
Continuing downward, the underground hall appeared largely unchanged. The dark purple light around it remained, and that oppressive aura seemed as if it had never changed.
Found it.
On the street, Lin Xiao's movements paused slightly. Then he turned into a nearby shop, stood in front of the shelves casually browsing, but his consciousness had already followed the assassin's soul into the underground hall of the Holy Spirit Cult branch.
For some reason, the Sun Moon Empire had not destroyed the arrangement of the underground hall, and some soul tools were still left in their original places.
On one wall, a large, pitch-black flag hung high. Though there was no wind underground, it seemed to flutter gently.
"You came here to find it?" Electrolux's voice rang in Lin Xiao's mind.
"At the time, I had concerns and didn't completely purify the remnant souls in the holy flag. I let them rest here temporarily. Now, it's time to give them a proper place of belonging."
Responding in his heart, Lin Xiao's lips moved slightly as if chanting something. In the underground hall, the assassin's soul stood directly in front of the holy flag. A faint gray light rose around its body, and Lin Xiao's voice emerged from its mouth.
"To the departed souls resting here, I will guide you to forget your resentments and proceed to the world of the dead, the true resting place of eternal slumber…"
In Lin Xiao's spiritual sea, gray mist slowly flowed, but Electrolux remained silent throughout. Lin Xiao had already learned much from him, and these matters no longer required his guidance.
Moments later, the holy flag in the underground hall remained unchanged in appearance, as if nothing had happened, yet faintly, it also seemed as though something was missing.
Outside the branch, Lin Xiao withdrew his mind. He casually took a few items from the shelf, paid, and then turned to leave, blending back into the flow of people on the street.
When Lin Xiao's figure reappeared, he was already outside Mingdu.
Looking back, he could still see teams of soldiers in the distance carrying detection soul tools, constantly searching for traces of the assassin. Long queues of people waiting for inspection had formed at the entrances and exits of Mingdu.
Lin Xiao let out a soft sigh upon seeing this.
The Sun Moon Empire's soul tool technology was indeed far superior, but precisely because of this, they were overly confident in their soul tools.
Soldiers equipped with detection soul tools, combined with the high-altitude detection soul tools that constantly enveloped Mingdu, were indeed sufficient to lock onto most people's movements.
But for a Title Douluo capable of using soul tools to shield soul power fluctuations, such methods were somewhat inadequate.
After glancing around, Lin Xiao did not choose to return to the Tongming Cult. Instead, he flew toward the west.
With Lin Xiao's current speed, in less than half a day, he could already see the Evildemon Forest, which now looked completely different from before.
After he had found Electrolux's divine sense fragment back then, Xu Tianran had sent people to activate ninth-grade stationary soul cannon shells in an attempt to completely eradicate the Holy Spirit Cult.
Because of this, Lin Xiao had hurriedly left. Thinking back now, there should still be many things from the Holy Spirit Cult buried beneath those ruins. Most of them were useless to him, but for the newly established Tongming Cult, they could save a great deal of effort.
Now, under the bombardment of those three ninth-grade stationary soul cannon shells, the entire Evildemon Forest had been divided into two parts.
One part still retained its original appearance. Strange-shaped trees occasionally flashed with figures, likely soul beasts. It was unclear whether they had failed to escape in time back then or had migrated here later.
The other part was completely unrecognizable from its former state, as if the entire ground had been shaved off by a thick layer, exposing the original color of the soil beneath.
There were several collapses in the soil; those were the ruins of the original Holy Spirit Cult headquarters.
Landing on the ground, Lin Xiao looked around and noticed quite a few footprints nearby. He immediately frowned.
It seemed that after he had scared off the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Legion that had rushed here back then, others had come afterward. He just didn't know how much of the Holy Spirit Cult's possessions remained.
While Lin Xiao was pondering, he suddenly sensed something. He looked up toward the distant woods. Soul power slowly circulated through his meridians, and a phantom had already shot out from his body.
It was a spying gaze, not something a soul beast without developed intelligence could possess.
However, when the dispatched soul "saw" what was inside, Lin Xiao's figure froze slightly.
"Lord?"
A probing voice came from the woods. Soon, two figures emerged from the trees, looking toward Lin Xiao from afar.
"Wu Yun, Wu Yu, why are you two here?"
"Lord, it really is you!"
As soon as Lin Xiao spoke, Wu Yu immediately flew toward him. Wu Yun was slightly more composed, but the joy on her face could not be concealed.
"Lord, we received news from the front lines…"
"I'm fine." Lin Xiao looked at the Wu Yun and Wu Yu sisters who had landed before him and shook his head slightly.
"But you two, I remember you were in Rising Sun City watching over those sect members. How did you end up here?"
Wu Yun and Wu Yu exchanged a glance upon hearing this. "Lord, this is a long story…"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here are the chapters for today (づ￣3￣)づ╭～
"Don't forget there are chapters available on Patreon."
"From Douluo to Godhood by Defy 30 Advance chapters."
"Douluo: Far North Invincibledo 30 Advance chapters."
"Douluo Peerless: Living as an Evil Soul Master 40 Advance chapters."
"Douluo Dalu 2:Peerless Tang Sect Dawn of Sun and Moon 40 Advance chapters."
[email protected]/facficmax10--------(@→a)