So Sorry, Being Rich Is Truly Amazing.

"Damn it!"

Zhongli Tian, who had just escaped from the explosion and flames, had not even had time to pinch out the sparks smoking from his forehead when he saw a dazzling blue-purple thunderbolt surging toward him, covering the sky and earth.

Zhongli Tian cursed under his breath, putting every ounce of his strength into his defense!

On the other side, the second of the three brothers, Zhongli Di, who was being entangled by Xu Yu, was not in a much better state. Not to mention that his own cultivation was significantly inferior to Xu Yu's, the sheer variety of defensive Soul Tools Xu Yu possessed meant that none of the moves he unleashed could cause any real damage.

"Damn it, having high-end Soul Master equipment is so arrogant!"

Zhongli Di muttered in exasperation. To this, Xu Yu could only say: "Sorry, but a wealthy Soul Master really can do whatever they want."

"Big Brother!"

Forced back by Xu Yu for the umpteenth time, Zhongli Di scrambled to his brother's side, gritting his teeth in fury: "We can't hold back anymore! If we keep holding back, we're going to be finished!"

"I know!"

Amidst the fading thunder, the two brothers raised their staves in unison, and blood-red light began to diffuse outward from the gems at the center of their staves.

The two streams of blood-red light merged to support a massive crimson barrier, shrouding both brothers within.

"Bloody hell, you like hiding in your turtle shell, do you? Come on, taste the Landslide and Earth-Splitting Shell I've prepared for you!"

Spitting onto the empty ground beside him, Xu Yan's gaze toward the blood-red barrier below turned increasingly vicious.

He pulled an orange-yellow, long, metallic object from his storage ring, loaded it into another silver-white Soul Tool cannon, and fired it at the crimson barrier below without a moment's hesitation.

Compared to the previous two shells that arrived almost instantaneously, the flight speed of this third shell could not be described as fast—it could even be called sluggish—yet its heavy, oppressive aura was something no one dared to underestimate.

Boom!

A sharp, resounding explosion erupted from the ground near the blood-red barrier, and the scorched earth beside it instantly lit up with a dazzling brownish-yellow light.

When this brownish-yellow light first appeared, it covered only a small area about ten meters in diameter, but in an instant, it spread out to cover a hundred-meter radius, engulfing the entire surrounding area.

In that split second, it felt as if the very ground of the Star Dou Great Forest had turned over; the area covered by the brownish-yellow light instantly erupted in a terrifying, massive explosion.

The sound of the explosion shook the heavens and the earth, sending soil and stones flying. A powerful shockwave instantly swept across thousands of square meters.

The violent roaring continued to erupt, the earth cracked, and countless fissures spread in all directions from the center of the blast.

That's right, this was the Landslide and Earth-Splitting Shell that Xu Yan had dropped.

In terms of grading, this item belonged to the category of Level 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells.

As everyone knows, once Soul Tools reach Level 7 or higher, those with special effects often have their own names.

Fixed Soul Cannon Shells are especially prone to this, and their names can be quite varied.

This Landslide and Earth-Splitting Shell was one of them. It should have belonged to the category of Level 7 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, much like the Wrath of Burning Heaven and Wrath of the Thunder God before it, but after adding special core arrays and materials for stealth and anti-interference, it successfully crossed the threshold into Level 8.

Under the earth-shaking impact, the blood-red light shattered instantly. The two Soul Douluos were horrified to find that the terrifying destructive power had torn through their combined defense and had even engulfed them both entirely.

No matter who a person is, when their life is threatened, they will use their life-saving measures without hesitation, regardless of how precious they may be.

The surname Xu, Soul Tools, high-level Soul Masters, "His Highness"... things had escalated; these people were members of the Sun Moon Empire's royal clan.

When the two brothers realized that if they kept cowering like turtles, they would likely be blasted into dust by the various strange shells from these two Level 8 Soul Masters of the Sun Moon royal lineage, they finally revealed their trump cards.

In an instant, sky-obscuring blood-red beast souls surged madly from their respective staves to protect them.

They collided with the shells that Xu Yan was scattering as if they cost nothing.

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

In the state of their Martial Soul Avatars, the bodies of the Zhongli brothers became distorted. The gray scales covering their entire bodies became much denser, and even their eyes turned blood-red.

With a twist of their forms, the two curled up, transforming into two massive gray snakes.

Xu Yu, who had done some research on evil Martial Souls, recognized the Martial Souls of the Zhongli brothers the moment he saw them.

Nether Domain Snake, a very typical evil Soul Master Martial Soul; common, but not weak, and with several significant paths for development.

Boom!

Another Level 7 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell was tossed out by Xu Yan as if it were worthless, and the evil Soul Master brothers cursed out loud again.

In their Martial Soul Avatar state, they wouldn't be killed by a Level 7 Fixed Soul Cannon Shell, but those dense swarms of blood-red beast souls were things they had spent painstaking effort to capture!

The destruction of these beast souls was equivalent to the constant stripping away of their own strength.

Therefore, the two were currently using every ounce of their soul power to resist, trying to ensure that as few of their precious beast souls as possible were lost.

Enduring the pain and hatred in his heart, Zhongli Tian suddenly turned his head to look at his younger brother, Zhongli Di, and asked: "Second brother, how many of your beast souls have been lost?"

Zhongli Di's face darkened, and he gritted his teeth: "The loss is not small. Big brother, what do we do now?"

"What to do..."

Zhongli Tian narrowed his eyes, a fierce, malevolent aura erupting from his body as he said coldly: "Forget it. Release the Natal Beast Souls and drag them down. Third brother has already gone to capture the target; as long as he can bring the person back, we won't have lost."

"Fine!"

As soon as Zhongli Tian finished speaking, Zhongli Di acted immediately. Two rays of light shone from the brothers simultaneously, and the gems at the tips of their staves erupted with brilliant, incomparable radiance.

What Zhongli Di released was a fierce tiger, a tiger emitting a dark green luster.

What Zhongli Tian released was a majestic lion. This crimson-gold lion looked as if it had been carved from red crystal; it shone with a dazzling luster, and the moment it appeared, even the air became heavy.

Afterward, a massive amount of blood-red beast souls surged forth from their staves, masking the figures of the two.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the bodies of the Zhongli brothers suddenly transformed into gray light, hovering in mid-air as if they were a mass of gray mist.