Joint Enfeoffment as King by the Three Empires

Nether Lightning Douluo did not hesitate in the slightest. He reached out, tore off his own right big toe, and threw it onto the ground. The bloody sight sent chills down everyone's spine.

Zhong Li Wu strode forward and stopped before the two Soul Engineers kneeling on the ground. "Your defense was inadequate. You allowed the enemy to manipulate you at will, gathered immense resources, yet still let them enter the city. The two of you cannot escape responsibility."

Hearing his chilling voice, the two Soul Engineers instinctively raised their heads, their eyes filled with terror as they looked toward Xu Tianran. One of them could not help crying out, "Your Majesty—"

Before Xu Tianran could speak, Zhong Li Wu had already moved. Two jet-black skeletal claws emerged from nowhere and seized the tops of the two Eighth Level Soul Engineers' heads.

A powerful aura erupted from Zhong Li Wu, suppressing them so completely that they could not resist.

Though these two Soul Engineers possessed the cultivation of Eight-Ring Soul Douluo, every Soul Guidance Device on their bodies had been confiscated before they came to meet Xu Tianran.

And as Soul Engineers, without their Soul Guidance Devices, they were nowhere near comparable to Soul Masters of the same rank, much less capable of facing an immensely powerful Evil Soul Master like Zhong Li Wu.

The two did not even manage a groan before collapsing dead onto the floor. Their panicked souls were forcibly ripped out and compressed by the black currents emanating from Zhong Li Wu's hands into two flickering masses of faint white light, which then vanished.

Only then did Zhong Li Wu turn to Xu Tianran. "Your Majesty, things have come to this. We can only devise a response as quickly as possible. Once those from our Cult