The headless corpse lay on the ground, lifeless.
Wang Nan had always been a man of his word, trying his best to fulfill promises. However, he wasn't prepared to let an Evil Soul Master leave so easily, so he simply didn't agree to Nangong Wan's proposal.
With Wang Nan's current spiritual perception, how could Nangong Wan's small tricks escape him? When Nangong Wan finally mentioned the children, his eyes darted around. After several months, their fate was already sealed.
Wang Nan didn't mind. He squatted down and rummaged through Nangong Wan's Soul Guidance Device, quickly finding a square Soul Guidance Device that resembled those he had seen on the battlefield before.
However, the grey square box in his hand was much larger. Looking at it closely, through its translucent shell, he could see a dark grey lamp inside. The lamp flickered, and above the flame, countless semi-transparent faces constantly swayed, emitting silent screams.
It should contain the Souls collected from the battlefield, the sacrifices Nangong Wan spoke of.
Although he understood some of Electrolux's magic, Wang Nan was not skilled in purifying Souls. He stared at the dark grey light for a moment. Not having a good way to deal with these Souls, he decided to put them away for now and find someone to purify them later.
He looked up into the distance, where tiny lights glowed on the ground, like small mountain villages from his previous world. It was getting late, and the lights on the ground were gradually dimming.
Just then, a low hum came from behind Wang Nan, like the panting of a beast that had been dormant for a long time, about to erupt.
Before Wang Nan could turn around, the entire world trembled. A shockwave came from a great distance, compressing the air into an invisible force that knocked everything around him to the ground.
Bright light shot out simultaneously, piercing the sky and illuminating the dark night as if it were day.
Wang Nan finally turned to look behind him and saw dazzling light emanating from the Sun Moon Empire's military camp in the distance. By the time the invisible impact reached him, it had lost its destructive power over such a long distance, merely stirring a breeze that rustled his clothes.
At this moment, within the military camp, hundreds of tents were blown to the ground. The high temperature from the explosion ignited the surroundings, and heat waves rolled. Soul Masters with lower cultivation had already turned to ashes in the sea of fire.
Only the commander's tent in the middle of the camp, surrounded by several Soul Guidance Device lights, remained standing amidst the flames.
"Where are our detection Soul Guidance Devices?" Inside the commander's tent, an old woman with a pale face snapped at those around her.
"Commander, our detection Soul Guidance Devices caught a trace, but that person was too fast, and we didn't expect them to detonate a ninth-grade fixed-position Soul Guidance Device from such a distance."
"Where did the Tianhun Empire get a ninth-grade fixed-position Soul Guidance Device?"
"This..." The Soul Master who had just spoken hesitated, "This should have been made by the Mingde Hall. Previously, people from the Three Great Empires raided the Mingde Hall. Although Hall Master Mirror Hongchen returned in time to reinforce, they still took away many Soul Guidance Devices."
A hint of anger flashed across the old woman's face, but she couldn't say anything more. "Pass on my order, immediately organize a counterattack. Also, send emergency signals to other Soul Master legions in the vicinity."
Since the war began, the Tianhun Empire had always been at a disadvantage on the front lines. The Sun Moon Empire had pushed them all the way to Tianling City. Each time, they had been the ones to launch attacks, never seeing the Tianhun Empire retaliate. This had inevitably led to some complacency.
The Tianhun Empire took advantage of the night and this slight opportunity to send a ninth-grade Soul Guidance Device into the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Master legion's camp.
In the night sky, a figure stood in mid-air, enveloped in a wide green robe. Nine spirit rings—two yellow, two purple, two black, and three red—circled him.
The Sun Moon Empire's camp naturally had extremely strong defenses, but against the ninety-eighth-level Super Douluo Poison Undying, it was ultimately somewhat lacking.
Poison Undying watched the camp burn with an expressionless face, listening to the heartbreaking cries constantly emanating from the ground.
The Tianhun Empire was not without achievements in Soul Guidance Devices. A few years ago, they used their self-developed burrowing Soul Guidance Devices to launch a surprise attack on Mingde Hall, taking away many Soul Guidance Devices. They originally planned to dismantle these Soul Guidance Devices to improve their manufacturing technology.
However, now that most of the Tianhun Empire's territory had been lost, and even the capital Heaven Dou City had fallen into the hands of the Sun Moon Empire, keeping these Soul Guidance Devices no longer made sense.
The flames on the ground continued to burn, and thick smoke billowed. Poison Undying's eyes reflected the dancing firelight, and he pondered whether his previous disdain for Soul Guidance Devices was truly a mistake.
The detonation of the fixed-position Soul Guidance Device was just the beginning. As the Sun Moon Empire's military camp descended into chaos, two more lights shot up from Tianling City, reaching the front lines in an instant. Judging by their spirit rings, both possessed the cultivation of a Titled Douluo.
Sensing the several auras attacking from mid-air, the old woman in the tent knew she could no longer wait. Although the coordinated attack of the Soul Master legion possessed offensive power not inferior to a Titled Douluo, before the Soul Guidance Device defense positions were established, their flexibility was ultimately incomparable to a true Titled Douluo. With the camp suddenly under attack, it would take some time to rebuild the Soul Guidance Device defense positions.
Thinking of this, the old woman, despite the significant consumption from having just blocked the ninth-grade fixed-position Soul Guidance Device, didn't hesitate. A firelight ignited in her hand, and with a Phoenix cry, a long sword appeared out of thin air. The next moment, her figure shot into the night sky amidst the glow of several Soul Guidance Devices.
However, the gap between her and Poison Undying was still too great. Although Poison Undying had been seriously injured by Zhongli Wu's sneak attack at the Tianhun Empire's border and had not yet fully recovered, he was still not someone a ninth-grade Soul Master could easily defeat.
Seeing the old woman fall into a disadvantage, the other two Titled Douluo of the Tianhun Empire had also made their move. Meanwhile, in another part of the military camp, Zhongli Wu, dressed in black, walked slowly through the flames, watching Soul Masters disappear in the explosions and heat waves.
Behind him, a translucent giant figure flickered, and Souls continuously shot out from the flames, entering that transparent figure.
Although they had a cooperative relationship with the Sun Moon Empire, their Holy Spirit Cult never hoped that the Sun Moon Empire could so easily unify the entire Douluo Continent. Moreover, only by making the Sun Moon Empire pay a greater price could they rely more on their Holy Spirit Cult.
Just as Zhongli Wu was unhurriedly absorbing the Souls from the military camp, he suddenly looked up towards the rear of the camp, where a familiar aura was rapidly approaching from the north.