A Million Armored Soldiers! The Battle of Barak!
"Tap, tap, tap..."
The sound of orderly footsteps echoed as squads of soldiers from the Magic Guidance Camp and the Divine Machine Camp patrolled back and forth outside the Imperial Study of the palace, their faces solemn.
The Magic Guidance Camp and the Divine Machine Camp were newly established legions that year at the suggestion of Yu Tianmeng, each with 10,000 men.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, powerful members of the Royal Enshrinement Soul Master Legion were in charge.
Although the Royal Enshrinement Soul Master Legion has fewer than a hundred members in total, their strength is at least at the level of a Soul Emperor of level 60, and the chief honoree, Xue Shan, is a super strong expert at the level of a Title Douluo.
With their cooperation with the soldiers of the Magic Guidance Camp and the Divine Machine Camp, one in the open and one in the shadows, they were enough to defend this area like an iron barrel.
Just then, a flash of silver light appeared, and a graceful figure suddenly appeared at the door of the Imperial Study.
Who is it?
The sudden appearance of the figure instantly put the Royal Tribute hidden in the shadows on edge, and a sharp shout suddenly rang out!
As soon as the shout rang out, the hundreds of soldiers from the Magic Guidance Camp and Divine Machine Camp patrolling the perimeter immediately became alert and swarmed around.
The soldiers of the Magic Guidance Camp raised their arms, revealing black metal tubes strapped to their arms.
These metal tubes are the weapons of the Magic Guidance Camp: Miniature Soul Guidance Cannon!
Not only that, but a small group of Soul Guidance Camp soldiers actually flew in the air in small, single-person Flying Soul Tool, looking down at the suddenly appearing figure!
Soul Guidance Device are the crystallization of ancient civilization in the Douluo Plane. They have long been lost in this era, and no one knows the process of making Soul Guidance Device. There are only some storage Space Soul Tool dug out from ruins, or some auxiliary tools such as Amplifying Soul Tool and Lighting Soul Guidance Device that have been passed down.
Soul Guidance Device that can truly be used as weapons will not be reinvented by scientists in the Douluo Plane for thousands of years; they are almost nonexistent now.
However, Yu Tianmeng has.
As a transmigrator, Yu Tianmeng obtained construction blueprints and procedures for various soul tools from her Check-in System during a sign-in mission. These tools included Miniature Soul Guidance Cannon, Bursting Grenade, White Tiger Blade, Flying Soul Tool, shock Concussion Grenade, Incendiary Grenade, Flashbang, jamming Interference Grenade, Restraint Device, Defensive Soul Guidance Barrier- Soul Guidance Device shields, and more.
These Soul Guidance Device are mostly from an era ten thousand years in the future, and they have an overwhelming advantage over modern cold weapons!
However, Soul Guidance Device are too expensive. With the current level of civilization of the Heaven Dou Empire, even if they had the blueprints, they could not mass-produce them. They could only build a Magic Guidance Camp with a scale of 10,000 people first.
Yet this small Magic Guidance Camp of only ten thousand men possesses a combat strength comparable to, or even surpassing, that of a hundred thousand elite troops.
The newly established Royal Academy of Sciences of the Heaven Dou Empire once invited some Soul Master experts to test it. It was found that just one hundred Magic Guidance Camp soldiers working together could directly confront a Soul Emperor expert of level 60 or above!
A thousand soldiers from the Magic Guidance Camp are enough to crush most Soul Saint experts.
If ten thousand soldiers of the Magic Guidance Camp were to gather, even a Title Douluo like Xue Shan would have to retreat.
This is the fighting strength of the Magic Guidance Camp.
Beside these soldiers of the Magic Guidance Camp were soldiers of the Divine Machine Camp.
The soldiers of the Divine Machine Camp were much more low-key. They simply took out a black box, about a foot long, from their backs. It looked inconspicuous.
One end of the black box silently faces that graceful figure.
This black box is called the Zhuge Divine Crossbow. It can fire sixteen fine steel crossbow bolts at a time, enough to break through the defensive Soul Skill of a level 30 Soul Elder.
Even a level 50 Soul King might perish on the spot if they are too careless and fail to use their Soul Skill to dodge or defend.
The origin of these Zhuge Divine Crossbow was naturally Tang San's doing.
To be precise, this was the work of the Tang Sect.
Yes, Tang San did establish the Tang Sect as in the original story. The establishment of the Tang Sect also occurred at least five years earlier than in the original story.
And this was entirely due to Yu Tianmeng's instigation.
A year ago, Empress Xue Ke, who was eager to improve the strength of the Heaven Dou Empire's army, hit it off with Yu Tianmeng, a quirky transmigrator. The two sisters in the harem not only created the Magic Guidance Camp, but also planned to obtain the production process of Tang Sect Hidden Weapons from Tang San and form the Divine Machine Camp.
However, Tang San, as a disciple of the Tang Sect, strictly adhered to the clan rules and refused to reveal the manufacturing process of the Hidden Weapon. He was only willing to sell the finished Hidden Weapon for 10,000 Gold Soul Coin per set.
A set of Hidden Weapon costs 10,000 Gold Soul Coin. To equip 10,000 people, it would require 100 million Gold Soul Coin, a price that the Heaven Dou Empire could never afford.
After all, even though the Heaven Dou Empire's national strength has greatly increased due to the reforms, and the taxes it collects are twice as much as before, plus the subsidies from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, its annual income is still less than 300 million Gold Soul Coin.
With 300 million Gold Soul Coin needed to support tens of thousands of civil officials, five million soldiers, the royal Enshrinement Soul Master Legion, and the Magic Guidance Camp, where would there be any extra Gold Soul Coin for Tang San?
Besides, even if Xue Ke were willing to buy them, Tang San couldn't possibly make that many sets of Hidden Weapon by himself!
Several years ago, Ning Fengzhi and his daughter Ning Rongrong purchased 500 sets of Hidden Weapon from Tang San for the safety of the direct descendants of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School. Each set cost 10,000 Gold Soul Coin. Tang San spent a full six months crafting them, which shows how complicated the manufacture of Hidden Weapon was.
Now, the Heaven Dou Empire needs at least 10,000 sets of Hidden Weapon. If Tang San were to forge them all by himself, it would probably take him ten years to complete.
Therefore, Yu Tianmeng had to come up with another ingenious plan, which was to have Tang San establish the Tang Sect and use the sect's power to mass-produce Hidden Weapon.
Tang San immediately agreed to the plan.
In his previous life, Tang San was a Tang Sect. One of his greatest wishes was to establish the Tang Sect in the Douluo Plane.
Unfortunately, a teenager has neither the financial resources nor the martial prowess to establish a sect, so he can only keep this wish hidden in his heart.
Now, with substantial financial support from the imperial family, Tang San's ambition to establish a sect has surged.
Therefore, at Yu Tianmeng's suggestion, Tang San found his father Tang Hao's old subordinate, the patriarch of the Clear Sky Sect Strength Clan, an affiliated sect of the Clear Sky Sect, and an 86th-level Soul Douluo with the Martial Soul of Great Strength Gorilla, Tai Tan.
Tai Tan, this old man, is extremely stubborn. His Strength Clan over two hundred pure strength-type Soul Master have been living in Heaven Dou City since they went into seclusion after the Clear Sky Sect retired, making a living by running a blacksmith shop.
With such considerable power, the Purple Micro Palace had naturally taken notice of them long ago. Yu Tianmeng had repeatedly sent envoys to visit them, and even personally visited them, hoping to persuade the Strength Clan to submit to the Purple Micro Palace.
However, Tai Tan, that stubborn old man, always disagreed.
Because in Tai Tan's heart, there has always only been one master, and that is the deceased Clear Sky Douluo, Tang Hao!
Aside from Tang Hao and Tang Hao descendants, the Tai Tan will never pledge allegiance to anyone!
This infuriated Yu Tianmeng, who subsequently shelved her plan to recruit Strength Clan.
This time, when Yu Tianmeng encouraged Tang San to establish the Tang Sect, she remembered Tai Tan, that stubborn old man.
Knowing the plot well, she naturally knew that Tai Tan might not be willing to side with others, but he would definitely be willing to serve Tang San.
Even in front of Tang San, Tai Tan repeatedly knelt on one knee and called himself an old servant.
Sure enough, upon hearing of Tang San's plan to establish a sect, Tai Tan immediately displayed unimaginable enthusiasm, running around doing everything he could to serve Tang San, and quickly setting up the framework of the Tang Sect.
Then, under the supervision of Xue Ke and Yu Tianmeng, the newly established Tang Sect began mass production of Hidden Weapon, primarily the Zhuge Divine Crossbow, day and night.
Within just a few months, they equipped the Heaven Dou Empire with a 10,000-strong Divine Machine Camp.
Xue Ke was very satisfied with this result.
Unfortunately, the royal treasury is currently somewhat empty, so they can only form this one Divine Machine Camp for the time being.
After all, even though Tang San lowered the price of a set of Hidden Weapon to three Gold Soul Coin, equipping ten thousand people would still cost thirty million Gold Soul Coin!
Having completed the order from the Heaven Dou Empire, the bored old Tai Tan suddenly encouraged Tang San to recruit the Defense Clan, Speed Clan, and Breaking Clan, who were once affiliated with the Clear Sky Sect.
However, this plan was thwarted by Yu Tianmeng for various reasons.
The reason is simple: Yu Tianmeng also wanted to recruit these three clans, so naturally she had to stop Tang San.
Moreover, this is also for Tang San's sake.
With Tang San's current strength of only level 50-something, it's impossible for him to overwhelm the leaders of the other three clans with absolute power, just like in the original storyline.
It should be noted that the patriarchs of those three clans are also old fogies, and unlike Tai Tan, they have no goodwill towards Tang Hao, and only hatred towards the Clear Sky Sect. If Tang San tries to recruit them now, he will only be met with a cold shoulder.
Yes, this is for Tang San, and it's definitely not about using Tang San as a tool.
"What are you doing? This is His Majesty the Space Douluo! All of you, step back!"
Just as the soldiers of the Magic Guidance Camp and the Divine Machine Camp surrounded the suddenly appearing, graceful figure, a powerful shout suddenly rang out.
Then, a plump old man emerged from the shadows, waved his hand, and the soldiers who had surrounded him retreated like a tide.
This plump old man is Bai Baoshan, one of the Three Great Education Committee Members of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Martial Soul the Heavenly Star Furnace.
The Three Great Education Committee Members, failing to see through Qian Renxue 'Qian Renxue true colors, remained her loyal lackeys.
However, on the day of the palace coup, after Qian Renxue's failed retreat, the Three Great Education Committee Members immediately found Xue Ke, knelt before Xue Ke, wept bitterly, and repented.
Seeing their sincere remorse, Xue Ke accepted their offer of allegiance and formally invited the Three Great Education Committee Members to join the Royal Enshrinement Soul Master Legion.
Moreover, since the Three Great Education Committee Members were loyal to the Heaven Dou Imperial Family and were also super strong individuals at the Soul Douluo level, Xue Ke decided to train them.
So Xue Ke used her womanly charm and even patted her chest to promise to give Zhou Chen three sons, in exchange for Zhou Chen bestowing upon her Three Great Education Committee Members God Crystal and cultivation techniques.
Then, three Title Douluo were freshly appointed.
Chief Education Commissioner Meng Shenji jumped from level 86 to level 93.
Meng Shenji, who possesses the Black Demon Martial Soul capable of plunging people into Nightmare illusions, earned the title of Nightmare after breaking through to the Title Douluo level.
Bai Baoshan also broke through from level 85 to level 92 and was awarded the title of Heavenly Star.
As for Zhi Lin, one of the three members of the Education Committee, his Soul Power was originally only level 83. Therefore, even with the help of the God Crystal and the power of the cultivation technique, he could only barely break through to the Title Douluo level. He was the lowest-level Title Douluo, at level 91. Moreover, it is estimated that his Soul Power Level will not improve any further in the future.
His Martial Soul is the Zhi Lin of the Azure Vine, and his title is Azure.
With the addition of these three Title Douluo, the Royal Enshrinement Soul Master Legion has greatly increased in strength, and the power of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family has almost reached its peak in a thousand years.
After breaking through to the Title Douluo, the Three Great Education Committee Members were extremely grateful to Xue Ke, so they volunteered to have one of them accompany Xue Ke every day to protect Her Your Majesty the Queen's safety.
Today, the heavy responsibility of protecting the Empress falls on Bai Baoshan's shoulders.
After dismissing the soldiers, Bai Baoshan approached Yu Tianmeng with a smile, bowed, and said, "Greetings, Your Highness Space."
"Mr. Bai, you don't need to be so polite. Just call me Tian Meng."
Yu Tianmeng returned the greeting with a smile. Although Bai Baoshan was not of a higher rank than her, his age was a factor, and calling him "Old Bai" did not diminish her status.
"Then I will follow your advice."
Bai Baoshan nodded, then said softly, "His Majesty is in the study, but it seems he just fell asleep not long ago."
However, just then, the door to the Imperial Study suddenly opened, and Xue Ke walked out, still sleepy-eyed. She yawned cutely and muttered in dissatisfaction, "You're all making so much noise! Even if I'm asleep, you'll wake me up!"
"This is my fault."
Upon hearing Xue Ke's dissatisfaction, Bai Baoshan immediately bowed slightly and said respectfully.
Although Bai Baoshan was already a Title Douluo, he shouldn't have needed to be so respectful to Xue Ke. However, the Three Great Education Committee Members were all shrewd and always gave Xue Ke plenty of face.
To be precise, they weren't giving Xue Ke face, but rather Zhou Chen, who was behind Xue Ke.
"Alright, alright, Mr. Bai, this has nothing to do with you."
Xue Ke waved her slender hand and said with a smile, "I'm not such a petty person. You may leave now."
"Yes, sir."
Bai Baoshan slowly retreated into the shadows outside the Imperial Study and disappeared without a trace.
"Alright, Sister Tian Meng, tell me what's going on, I need to catch up on some sleep!"
Xue Ke stretched and said with a Mengmeng expression.
Seeing Xue Ke's listless appearance, Yu Tianmeng couldn't help but shake her head with amusement. She then handed the letter to Xue Ke and said, "Zhang Luo Shen has agreed. The Silves Kingdom will mobilize 300,000 troops to restrain the Barak Kingdom for the Empire!"
"What? That's great!"
Xue Ke excitedly took the mailbox, emptied out the letter, read it through, and then let out a joyful cheer, saying, "My husband is truly amazing! We couldn't persuade Queen of Silves no matter what we did, but she agreed to pledge allegiance to the Empire just by mentioning his name in the letter."
"Ha, that scumbag only knows how to build a harem."
Yu Tianmeng scoffed, then said in a deep voice, "At that time, Zhang Luo Shen will lead his army straight to Barak City, the capital of the Barak Kingdom, and initiate the Battle of Barak!"
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