The Power of Technology

After a few breaths, Xu Yan, who had been twisting and crawling on the outskirts of the core zone, received the distress signal and charged out of the core zone without looking back, speeding toward the mixed zone.

Xu Yan's flight speed was by no means slow, and soon he could see the location of Xu Yu and the others from a great distance away.

The fifth soul ring of the maid who was currently advancing from the fourth to the fifth ring was still in the process of being absorbed.

And this, precisely, gave Xu Yan enough time to secretly prepare for battle.

About an hour later, the maid named Xiao Yu finally finished absorbing the soul ring.

Seeing this, the oldest and most prestigious of the three old geezers impatiently paced in front of Xu Yu and the others, glaring at Xiao Yu and saying with a face full of annoyance:

"You little girl has an unstable foundation! A fifth soul ring actually made us wait this long! Forget it, since you've finished absorbing your soul rings, hurry up and follow us. Don't delay our important business."

Having secretly discussed their escape plan, Xu Yu no longer hesitated. She looked at the old geezer, nodded, stood up, and said, "Very well, please lead the way. And please explain in detail what you need our help with on the way."

"Hmph, you'll know once you follow us."

After speaking, the three old men formed a formation with one in front and two behind, 'escorting' Xu Yu and the others toward the core zone. This walk lasted for nearly an hour.

By the time they had entered the deepest part of the mixed zone, they could even see the dense forest located on the edge of the core zone across a stretch of grassland.

Now is the time.

Realizing that the moment to strike had arrived, Xu Yu suddenly erupted. She first used her soul power to push the three people with lower cultivation out of the three brothers' 'escort circle,' then took out a silver-blue soul tool longsword and pointed it directly at the one among the three brothers closest to her.

"Xiao Yun, Xiao Yu, take the Princess and go. Leave this to me."

"Yes."

As soon as the words fell, the two maids quickly took out their flying soul tools, each grabbing one of the little princess's arms and flying toward the direction behind the Soul Douluo that Xu Yu was entangling.

"Did she just say... Princess?"

Detecting the extraordinary status of this group from a special title that ordinary people would not use, the eldest of the three brothers hurriedly roared at his third brother: "Third, that little girl's identity is not simple! Go after them, leave this to the second and me!"

"Right!" After the third of the three brothers responded, he leaped into mid-air and sped toward the direction where the three little girls were fleeing.

No sooner said than done, Xu Yan, who had already been lying in ambush on the way, made his move!

"You three old bastards, your Grandpa Xu Yan is here! Eat a blast from your grandpa first!"

Accompanied by a sudden shout, Xu Yan, fully prepared for battle, carried a bizarre soul tool cannon on his shoulder and 'whooshed' out from the hollow of a large tree.

He held his breath, locked onto his target, and fired a shot at the third brother flying in the sky!

A thunderous explosion erupted from the air. The third brother, left covered in dust by the soul tool shell, couldn't help but turn his head to look in the direction from which the shell had come.

"Who goes there!"

"Good grandson, it's your Grandpa Xu Yan!"

"Hmm!"

Seeing Xu Yan's appearance, the eldest brother's already gloomy face changed abruptly, and he glared with rage: "Good, good, good, good! There is a path to heaven you refuse to take, and there is no gate to hell you insist on breaking in! Let me tell you! You've gotten yourself into big trouble today!"

"Big brother is right. It has always been us brothers bullying others; no one has ever dared to provoke us three. Kid, just wait to die." The second brother, who was being entangled by Xu Yu, also took time out of his busy schedule to shout.

"Pah, three old losers who bully the weak and outnumber the few, stop acting tough with me. If it were one-on-one, let's see if your Grandpa Xu Yan couldn't chop off your three idiots' dog heads to use as chamber pots."

"Arrogant!!"

Just as Xu Yan finished speaking, the three evil soul masters roared in unison:

"I, Zhongli Tian, Zhongli Di, and Zhongli Ren, swear here that we will surely slay you in this place. If we break this oath, may heaven destroy us and the earth annihilate us."

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Listening to the inexplicable oaths of these three, Xu Yan couldn't help but feel a bit strange. Although swearing was a normal thing.

The oaths of these three were also quite ordinary, but to swear just because they were cursed at twice—wasn't that a bit of an overreaction?

What made it even stranger was the way the three of them swore in unison; it seemed... they were already accustomed to swearing like this.

"Then it seems you three idiots are destined to be destroyed by heaven and earth today. Eat your grandpa's Wrath of Burning Heaven."

As the words fell, a dark red cannon barrel was already resting on Xu Yan's shoulder. This barrel was entirely black, and the terrifying black body was covered with countless magnificent orange-red patterns.

This was a seventh-level soul tool heavy cannon famous for its high temperature and high explosion, which Xu Yan had named the Wrath of Burning Heaven.

Boom—

The moment the heavy cannon was activated, a strong red light suddenly burst forth. The dark barrel of the Wrath of Burning Heaven began to display circles of dark red halos from back to front. Then, a giant crimson rainbow erupted from the muzzle, and wherever it passed, whether it was grass or rock, everything was burned into a sheet of fire.

The crimson rainbow light traversed a hundred meters in an instant. The intensity of this red light was so great that the forest within a radius of several hundred square meters almost turned into a sea of crimson, and all the vegetation was illuminated in the same color by the violent explosion.

"Third, leave this to me and the second! Hurry and chase!"

As soon as the eldest brother, Zhongli Tian, finished speaking, his figure was swallowed by the terrifying and scorching fire. The violent explosion roared in two stages.

The first stage was the high explosion, and the powerful explosive shockwave instantly plowed through everything that the red light had previously illuminated.

Whether it was small flowers, shrubs, or towering trees, in the face of that terrifying impact and destructive power, there seemed to be only one path: to be reduced to ashes.

Facing the heatwave that followed closely behind the shockwave, which was said to arrive in an instant.

"Big brother! Oh no!"

Seeing his big brother's figure swallowed by the flames, Zhongli Ren, the third brother, felt anxious, but he did not forget the important task his big brother had entrusted to him.

Zhongli Ren gritted his teeth, turned into a streak of light, and flew rapidly toward the distance.

Only this time, what he used was no longer the Wrath of Burning Heaven, known for its high explosion and high temperature, but its sister version: the Wrath of the Thunder God.

The second after this second shot, wrapped in countless blue-purple electric arcs, was fired.

A terrifying and blinding blue-purple beam of light rose from the flames, its brilliance so intense that it illuminated the entire forest and most of the sky in the same color.