The Vanguard Titan's emotionless electronic voice echoed through the air.
Its enormous mechanical arm thrust forward and snatched Luo Feng off the ground.
At the same time,
the armor plates on the mech's chest burst open to either side, revealing a cockpit glowing with a deep blue light.
Luo Feng didn't even need to exert himself.
The mechanical arm placed him inside the cockpit with astonishing speed and precision.
"Click!"
The heavy armored hatch slammed shut.
Neural link established!
Martial Soul Avatar [Gate of Truth], synchronizing!
"Vrrr!"
The Vanguard Titan, previously nothing more than a mechanical construct, seemed to receive a genuine divine soul in that instant.
Countless alchemical circuits, glowing with a faint blue light, rapidly spread across the mech's cold metal armor.
A terrifying level 94 aura erupted from within the steel behemoth,
no weaker than the Dark Phoenix's—and faintly suppressing it.
Coupled with the immense industrial pressure exerted by Tai Tan's own several-dozen-ton frame,
the air over the entire former site of Shrek Academy seemed to stop moving.
"In front of my Vanguard Titan, Evil Soul Masters are nothing!"
Luo Feng's voice, filled with boundless arrogance and killing intent,
boomed through the Titan's external speakers like rolling thunder.
Inside the cockpit, Luo Feng's hands flew across the control panel.
Blue holographic projections instantly locked onto the two level 93 Evil Soul Masters, who had been sent tumbling to the ground by the shock waves,
and the Dark Phoenix, spreading its wings in midair.
"BT, lift the weapons system restrictions.
Give these bumpkins who've never seen the world a taste of some serious industrial shock!"
[Command confirmed: Weapons bay restrictions lifted.] [Targets locked: Two level 93 Evil Soul Masters, one level 97 Evil Soul Master.] [Tactical plan generated: Execute saturated carpet bombing. Level 7, 8, and 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon arrays online.] [Firing mode: Zero-second instant launch, fire all rounds!]
"What?"
Blood Spider Douluo and Evil Spirit Douluo had just struggled to their feet, blood still at the corners of their mouths.
Their pupils instantly shrank to pinpricks.
According to the common knowledge of the Douluo Continent,
high-level Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons possessed enough power to lay waste to the heavens and earth.
But they had one fatal flaw: their lengthy charging and targeting times.
That was why powerful Titled Douluo usually had no reason to fear mechs.
Before the cannons fired, they had ample time to destroy them or escape the targeting area.
But this unreasonable steel behemoth before them had utterly crushed everything they knew!
"Ka-ka-ka-ka!"
The armor over the Vanguard Titan's shoulders instantly folded open to either side,
revealing a densely packed array of miniature launchers like a honeycomb.
The concealed weapons bay in its chest opened wide as well,
exposing three Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons radiating a light that made the soul tremble.
No charge-up! No waiting! No countdown!
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!!!"
Accompanied by a deafening shriek,
dozens of streaks of death, trailing long tongues of flame, poured out in a tenth of a second!
Thirty Level 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons.
Fifteen Level 8 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons, and three Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons held back as the ultimate killing blow!
That much firepower would have been more than enough to attack an entire major city.
Yet Luo Feng had concentrated it all on an open area measuring no more than a few hundred square meters, just to blast three people to smithereens!
"Defend! Martial Soul Avatar!!!"
Blood Spider Douluo let out a scream of utter desperation.
She no longer cared about holding back. The ninth Soul Ring beneath her feet blazed to life.
A vast scarlet web, formed from pure tainted blood and resentment and large enough to cover half the plaza, surged into the sky,
trying to block the rain of missiles.
Evil Spirit Douluo, standing beside her, was just as terrified.
With a roar, his body swelled, transforming into a horrifying evil spirit skeleton twenty meters tall.
He crossed his arms over his chest and unleashed the full potential of a level 93 Titled Douluo.
But before the overwhelming firepower of a total bombardment, every fancy trick was futile!
"Rumble!!!"
The first to arrive were the thirty Level 7 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons.
Blood Spider Douluo's beloved scarlet web,
the moment it touched the fiery blast,
was like snow before a blazing fire.
It didn't last even half a second before it was vaporized!
"No!"
Next, the fifteen Level 8 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons came one after another, clinging to their target like bone parasites.
They struck Evil Spirit Douluo's enormous skeletal avatar with pinpoint accuracy.
Even an ordinary Super Douluo wouldn't dare take the full force of a Level 8 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon.
Amid a series of earth-shattering explosions,
Evil Spirit Douluo's Martial Soul Avatar disintegrated piece by piece with a grating crack.
Frenzied plasma storms, mixed with extreme heat, melted away their protective Soul Power.
But the true coup de grâce came from the three Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons held back until the end!
"Boom!!"
When the three shells, each embodying the power of strategic-level destruction, exploded above their heads,
the world seemed to lose its voice.
There were no screams, no struggles.
The temperature at the heart of the explosion had instantly soared to tens of thousands of degrees.
Blood Spider Douluo and Evil Spirit Douluo, two level 93 Evil Soul Masters who could command the wind and summon the rain wherever they went,
along with every Soul Bone and Storage Soul Tool they carried, were utterly vaporized in an instant!
The surrounding space twisted violently.
A bottomless crater appeared in the earth, its edges crystallized into terrifying glass.
Instantly killed!
Reduced to ashes without leaving so much as a scrap!
"Madman! That guy's a complete and utter madman!!!"
In midair, the Dark Phoenix, who had been waiting for a chance to strike,
felt a chill shoot from the base of her spine straight to her skull, leaving her scalp tingling.
She was a level 97 Super Douluo and one of the Holy Spirit Cult's Four Heavenly Kings!
Yet even she felt a shudder deep in her soul at the sight below: that mech was fighting dirty, using Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons to carpet-bomb the battlefield!
"Retreat!"
There was only one thought in the Dark Phoenix's mind.
Her instincts told her that if the mech's radar locked onto her,
even at level 97, she wouldn't fare any better than those two useless fools.
"Ninth Soul Skill: Dark Phoenix Nirvana Abyss!"
At the brink of life and death, the Dark Phoenix burned her source blood essence without hesitation.
The black phoenix phantom behind her let out a mournful cry and burst apart,
transforming into a domain of absolute darkness that devoured all light.
Using the force of the explosion to forcibly tear through space, her true form became a streak of black lightning.
At a speed beyond the limits of sight and reason, she forcibly escaped the blast zone of the Soul Guidance Cannons.
"Trying to run?"
Inside the cockpit, Luo Feng watched the red dot racing outward at an astonishing speed on the radar and sneered.