Sorry, Having Money Really Is Wonderful.

"Damn it!"

Zhongli Tian had just escaped the explosion and flames. The sparks smoking above his forehead hadn't even had time to go out before a dazzling wave of blue-violet lightning came surging toward him from the front.

Zhongli Tian lowered his head and cursed under his breath, then gave everything he had to defend himself!

Elsewhere, Zhongli Di, the second brother, was faring no better while Xu Yu kept him tied up. Not only was his cultivation far inferior to Xu Yu's, but Xu Yu's endless supply of defensive Soul Tools meant that none of his attacks could inflict any real damage.

"Damn it, what's so great about being a well-equipped Soul Engineer?!"

Zhongli Di muttered furiously. Xu Yu could only say, Sorry, but a Soul Engineer with money really can do whatever he wants.

"Big brother!"

After being driven back by Xu Yu for who knew how many times, Zhongli Di ran and leaped over to his eldest brother, gritting his teeth as he said, "We can't hold back anymore! If we keep holding back, we're going to be done for!"

"I know!"

Amid the lingering lightning, the brothers raised their staffs in unison. Blood-red light spread outward from the gems at their centers.

The two streams of blood-red light joined to form a gigantic crimson barrier, enveloping the brothers.

"Damn turtles! Like hiding in your shells, do you? Come on, try the Landslide and Earth-Splitting Shell I prepared for you!"

Xu Yan spat fiercely onto a patch of empty ground nearby. His gaze at the crimson barrier below grew increasingly vicious.

He took an orange-yellow, elongated metal object from his storage ring, loaded it into another Soul Cannon with a silver-white body, then fired it at the crimson barrier below without the slightest hesitation.

Compared with the previous two shells, which had arrived almost instantly, this third shell flew at a speed that was not merely slow—it could only be called sluggish. Yet its imposing presence was not something anyone dared to underestimate.

Boom!

A muffled blast sounded from the ground near the crimson barrier. The scorched earth beside it instantly lit up with dazzling ocher light.

At first, the ocher light covered only a small patch about ten meters across. In the blink of an eye, however, it spread to a hundred-meter radius, engulfing a vast area around it.

In an instant, it was as though the very ground of the Star Dou Great Forest had begun to churn. A terrifying explosion erupted across the entire area covered by the ocher light.

The blast shook heaven and earth as dirt and rocks flew everywhere. The powerful shock wave instantly swept across an area of thousands of square meters.

The thunderous rumbling continued to erupt. The earth cracked, countless fissures spreading out from the center of the explosion in every direction.

That's right. This was the Landslide and Earth-Splitting Shell Xu Yan had fired.

By its level, this thing was a type of Level 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell.

As everyone knew, once Soul Tools reached Level 7 and above, those with special effects often had names of their own.

Fixed Soul Cannon Shells were especially so; their names came in all shapes and sizes.

The Landslide and Earth-Splitting Shell was one such example. It should originally have belonged to the same category as the Wrath of Burning Heaven and the Wrath of the Thunder God, both Level 7 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells. But after special Core Arrays and materials for stealth and interference resistance were added, it had successfully crossed the threshold into Level 8.

As the earth shook and the mountains trembled, the crimson light shattered. The two Soul Douluo were horrified to discover that the terrifying destructive force had torn apart their combined defense and even engulfed them both.

When anyone's life was in danger, they would use whatever means they had to survive without hesitation, no matter how precious it was.

The Xu surname, Soul Tools, high-level Soul Engineers, Your Highness... This was serious. These people were members of the Sun Moon Empire's imperial clan.

Once the brothers realized that if they kept huddling together like turtles, the two Level 8 Soul Engineers from the Sun Moon imperial family above would likely blast them to pieces with all kinds of strange shells, they finally played their trump cards.

In an instant, blood-colored Beast Souls blotted out the sky as they poured frantically from each of their staffs, protecting them.

They collided with the shells Xu Yan was raining down as if they cost nothing.

At the same time, both brothers unleashed their Martial Soul Avatars.

In their Martial Soul Avatar forms, the brothers' bodies twisted at once. The gray scales covering them grew finer and denser, and even their eyes turned blood-red.

They turned and curled up together, transforming into two enormous gray snakes.

Xu Yu, who had studied Evil Martial Souls to some extent, recognized the brothers' Martial Souls the moment he saw them.

The Nether Domain Snake was a very typical Evil Soul Master Martial Soul. It was common, but not weak, and had several promising paths for development.

Boom!

Xu Yan flung out another Level 7 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell as if it cost him nothing, and the two Evil Soul Master brothers cursed again.

In their Martial Soul Avatar forms, they wouldn't be killed by a Level 7 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell, but those densely packed Blood-Colored Beast Souls had taken every ounce of effort to capture!

Every one of those Beast Souls that perished meant their strength was being stripped away.

So the two were pouring all their Soul Power into resisting, trying to keep more of their precious Beast Souls alive.

Suppressing his heartache and fury, Zhongli Tian abruptly turned toward his younger brother, Zhongli Di, and asked, "Second brother, how many of your Beast Souls have you lost?"

Zhongli Di's face was grim as he gritted his teeth. "Quite a lot, eldest brother. What do we do now?"

"What do we do..."

Zhongli Tian narrowed his eyes, a powerful aura of murderous fury bursting from him. He said coldly, "Forget it. Release our Lifebound Beast Souls and hold them off. Third brother has already gone to capture the person. As long as he brings them back, we won't lose."

"Good!"

As soon as Zhongli Tian finished speaking, Zhongli Di acted at once. Two beams of light shone from the brothers, and the gems atop their staffs blazed with dazzling radiance.

The one Zhongli Di released was a tiger, its body shimmering with an inky green sheen.

The one Zhongli Tian released was a majestic lion. The crimson-gold Lion looked as if it had been carved from scarlet crystal, gleaming with dazzling brilliance. The instant it appeared, even the air grew heavy.

Then, a great many Blood-Colored Beast Souls surged from the brothers' staffs, concealing their figures.

Taking advantage of this opening, the brothers' bodies abruptly transformed into a streak of gray light. They hovered in midair, looking just like a cloud of gray mist.