Di Tian: My Pain Far Exceeds Yours

Leng Yaozhu:

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"Elder Han, didn't you say there weren't any fixed-installation soul-guided artillery shells?"

Leng Yaozhu's four-word Heavenly Wind Battle Armor had remained in its loaded state all along, but now she had also equipped a helmet over her head, the only part of her body not covered by the battle armor.

Han Tianyi did the same, and the two of them flew rapidly outside.

But the instant they took off, terrifying explosions erupted one after another. Like dominoes, one wave of explosions ignited a Soul Power tide. After blowing apart the entire floor, it triggered a chain reaction upward, causing floor after floor to explode in succession.

High temperatures swept countless metal fragments into the air, as though nurturing a terrifying fire dragon that devoured everything above it.

Leng Yaozhu and Han Tianyi were struck by the terrifying blast and swallowed by the fire dragon. Though they were unharmed, both of them were in an extremely heavy mood.

Fortunately, the Spirit Pagoda personnel had evacuated long ago. Some powerful spirit masters had been killed by Di Tian and their bodies tossed into the sea, while the rest had all fled outside. The Spirit Pagoda was now completely empty. That was probably the only good news.

The bad news was that the chain of terrifying explosions and the fire dragon it produced would eventually devour the entire Spirit Pagoda before detonating completely. When that happened, New Heaven Dou City would face a nightmare of despair.

A complicated expression appeared on Leng Yaozhu's face beneath her battle armor helmet.

She flew out of the Spirit Pagoda at top speed, then immediately sent a voice transmission to everyone. "The Spirit Pagoda will explode in less than five minutes. Run as far away as you can!"

Suspended in midair, Leng Yaozhu ignored the panicked crowd and looked at Han Tianyi instead. "Elder Han, what are the chances of stopping this explosion?"

Han Tianyi's brain raced madly through calculations before he shook his head in despair. "It's already impossible to stop it. We can only minimize the losses."

"No, it absolutely cannot explode! Especially not the Spirit Pagoda, one of the Eighteen Heavenly Pillars. Almost all the Heavenly Pillars are built in prosperous cities, and in their most central areas.

"Once word gets out that the Spirit Pagoda is about to be blown up, we'll suffer a devastating blow! This has nothing to do with any faction. Di Tian's move is truly ruthless. He knew this kind of explosion couldn't kill us, and he never intended to kill us. He simply wants to blow up the Spirit Pagoda and shake our foundations. Perhaps that was his true goal."

"Then why didn't he just blow it up and leave? Why wait until we arrived? Wasn't he afraid we'd discover him?"

"Elder Han, have you noticed? Even a Limit Douluo with a spiritual attribute couldn't detect it. That alone proves how meticulous his plan was.

"And the reason he waited until we arrived before setting it off was to tell the entire Federation that even if Limit Douluos came, they still wouldn't be able to protect anyone from him!"

"In this situation, the only thing we can do is join forces to reduce the explosion's power as much as possible. Then, in these short five minutes, notify the nobles near the Spirit Pagoda in New Heaven Dou City to evacuate. Get out as many as we can and minimize the losses!"

At that moment, everyone near the Spirit Pagoda began fleeing frantically after receiving the news.

New Heaven Dou City's broadcast stations quickly began livestreaming the incident. Under the guidance of soul masters, the nobles all fled three kilometers away at astonishing speed.

Yet none of those nobles fleeing for their lives even noticed that their slaves had already disappeared some time ago.

How could they possibly care whether slaves lived or died?

Slaves were as plentiful as could be.

Heaven Dou Continent was a slave society. In New Heaven Dou City, there were only nobles and slaves. The nobles were descendants of the remnants of the former Heaven Dou Empire, while the slaves were the native inhabitants of Heaven Dou Continent. There were no other identities.

At this moment, Leng Yaozhu didn't know whether she should feel fortunate or despairing.

Fortunately, the Spirit Pagoda was large enough—more than a hundred floors tall. Even if it was being explosively destroyed, it would take quite some time.

But the despairing part was that the longer the buildup, the greater the force of the eventual explosion.

Though they had already spent some time constructing a defensive soul-guided shield formation, even deploying black-grade mechas and fully unleashing their four-word battle armor, they estimated that they still would not be able to withstand much of the blast.

"Di Tian, you're truly ruthless!" Leng Yaozhu's despairing face was filled with rage toward Di Tian.

Little did she know that Di Tian was watching her from afar at that very moment, with Lin Chen beside him.

However, Lin Chen was not controlling Di Tian at the moment. Di Tian looked at Leng Yaozhu, at the despair in her eyes, and a hint of satisfaction appeared on his face.

"Feel pain. Understand pain. What does this amount to?

"My pain far exceeds yours!"

The moment Di Tian finished speaking, the entire Spirit Pagoda reached its critical point and exploded instantly.

In an instant, Leng Yaozhu and Han Tianyi were swallowed by flames. But flames of this level were little more than child's play before their four-word battle armor.

The problem was that the most terrifying threat now was not the temperature of the flames, but the explosion.

The instant the Spirit Pagoda burst apart, the defensive soul-guided shield formation constructed by Han Tianyi and Leng Yaozhu was torn apart. A world-destroying explosion swept outward in every direction.

Although Leng Yaozhu and Han Tianyi used their four-word battle armor and their own demigod-level strength to block a large portion of it, the fire dragon still spread outward.

Even after being weakened layer upon layer, the explosion was still apocalyptic, instantly tearing apart everything around it.

Within a one-kilometer radius centered on the Spirit Pagoda, everything was reduced to ashes.

Leng Yaozhu had no idea how many people had died, nor could she possibly know. There was only charred blackness and dead silence. Flesh and blood had been instantly vaporized by the extreme heat, leaving nothing behind.

Seeing this scene, she closed her eyes in grief. She could protect nothing.

Yet at that moment, her gaze fell upon a figure in the distance.

That bastard still had the mood to use a soul-guided device to livestream under these circumstances!

Everything that had happened here had surely already been broadcast live to the Federation's stations and appeared on countless television screens through soul-guided satellites.

Everything was over!

She could only be certain that the nobles within a one-kilometer radius had all escaped. Everyone else had likely been wiped out.

How many people had died?

The Spirit Pagoda would have a hard time in the days to come.

In Shrek City, within Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion, countless high-ranking officials had gathered together. Watching everything displayed on the soul-guided screen, every one of them wore a grave expression.

Yun Ming, seated at the head, let out a long sigh. "The soul beasts that disappeared from the Star Dou Great Forest have finally been found."

Long Yeyue's face was filled with killing intent. "They're taking revenge."