"Ding-dang!"
As the twin-tailed little girl known as Dark Bell slowly emerged from the mist,
the black bell carved with skull patterns in her hand began to ring out crisply in the night sky.
The sound seemed gentle, but the instant it rippled outward,
it transformed into rings of visible, dark-purple mental waves, instantly covering several kilometers in every direction.
"Ugh..."
Not far away, Xie Xie, who had been standing guard, suddenly let out a pained groan.
He clutched his head with both hands and dropped to one knee, blood faintly seeping between his fingers.
Yuanen Yehui, Yue Zhengyu, and the other Shrek elites all turned deathly pale.
They felt as though millions of steel needles were stabbing into their brains all at once.
They hurriedly sat cross-legged and frantically urged their Soul Power to defend the origin of their Martial Souls.
Even Tang Wulin, who wielded the phantom of the Sea God Trident and had reached the peak of the Spirit Domain Realm in mental strength,
felt an uncontrollable wave of dizziness. Even the scenery before his eyes began to double and overlap.
"Everyone, be careful! This is the Third Heavenly King of the Holy Spirit Cult's 'Soul-Capturing Bell Sound'!
Seal your hearing and your Sea of Consciousness!"
Tang Wulin bit the tip of his tongue, using the pain to force himself back to his senses.
The Sea God Trident blazed with light, attempting to use its holy radiance to repel the all-pervading mental storm.
But unfortunately, Dark Bell was a Level 98 Super Douluo.
She was also an Evil Soul Master specializing in mental control.
The interference she unleashed with all her might could not be blocked simply by sealing one's hearing.
"Heehee, it's no use, little boys."
Dark Bell floated in midair, her petite body swaying gently with the ringing of the bell.
The twin ponytails tied behind her head made her look lively and adorable.
But the coldness in her eyes was enough to plunge anyone into an icy abyss.
"Just lie down and offer your souls to the Holy Spirit.
Become this Heavenly King's most obedient dolls, and you won't feel any pain."
As she spoke, her big, watery eyes turned playfully toward the cockpit of the Vanguard Titan.
As far as she could sense,
the Star Luo Imperial Son-in-law Luo Feng, who had instantly killed two Level 93 Titled Douluo, was currently hiding inside that cold Iron Shell.
As long as someone was a carbon-based life-form and possessed a soul, they absolutely could not escape her spiritual enslavement, which had surpassed the Level 98 threshold!
However, just as Dark Bell was preparing to increase her mental output and completely shatter Luo Feng's soul before dragging it out,
the spacious, holographic cockpit of the Vanguard Titan was eerily quiet and peaceful.
The holographic screen before the control console was flashing glaring yellow warning windows at a frantic pace.
Countless streams of data were refreshing at a rate of billions of times per second.
[Warning! Pilot!] [High-frequency, high-energy external brainwaves (mental-type) detected, attempting to forcibly breach the system firewall. The fluctuations exhibit potent hallucination-inducing and neurotoxic hypnotic effects.] [Target analysis: Low-grade mental interference. Frequency locked.] [Countermeasure protocol: Performing dual physical and logical isolation through the pilot's neural link.] [Routing external mental energy into the [Gate of Truth] for equivalent restructuring and analysis... Isolation successful! The intrusion has been completely nullified!]
BT's cold, mechanical electronic voice
instantly turned every warning window into a field of pure green, the color of absolute safety.
Luo Feng, seated comfortably in the pilot's chair, not only showed none of the pained struggle Tang Wulin and the others were enduring,
but instead leaned back against his seat with great ease.
He picked at his ear.
Looking at the radar screen, where the twin-tailed little girl floated in the sky, full of herself, he couldn't help but sneer.
"Little tramp, you must still be dreaming!"
A cruel curve tugged at Luo Feng's lips as he activated the Titan's external high-powered speakers.
"Hey! You there, twin-tailed, baby-faced brat!
Didn't your parents teach you that ringing a bell outside someone else's house is rude?"
"Stop ringing it. You're giving me a headache, and I'm not interested in old hags dressed up like little girls.
Put away your stupid bell and pick a different way to die!"
His booming, endlessly mocking voice
roared through the Vanguard Titan's steel frame, exploding like rolling thunder over the entire site of the old Shrek campus!
What?
Dark Bell, who had been using mental control, froze with a smile on her little face.
She was completely dumbfounded.
Ever since she had advanced to Super Douluo and become one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Holy Spirit Cult,
whether facing the Federation's elite divine mechas or those Titled Douluo who fancied themselves righteous,
whenever her bell rang, they all fell to their knees, begging for mercy and bleeding from all seven orifices.
But this Level 94 fellow before her was hiding inside a clunky Iron Shell.
Not only had he been completely unaffected, he had even dared to turn on his microphone and mock her as an "old hag dressed up like a little girl"?!
"Y-you... why wasn't your soul shattered?
That's impossible! What kind of Soul Tool did you use to block this Heavenly King's mental attack?!"
Dark Bell's voice turned piercingly shrill in an instant.
The saccharine childishness she had been pretending to show vanished completely, replaced by boundless humiliation and fury.
"A Soul Tool? I'm using science! Logic!"
Inside the cockpit, Luo Feng's eyes turned completely cold.
He glanced at Dark Phoenix, trapped in a high-pressure, dark-gold energy net, her face deathly pale.
Then he looked at Dark Bell in the sky, who had already gone hysterical.
"I might keep a long-legged mature lady around as a maid to serve me.
But a mentally disturbed, lovesick twin-tail like you is nothing but a waste of food."
"BT, don't bother conserving energy anymore.
The enemy's a Level 98 Super Douluo. Ordinary pea shooters will have a hard time breaking through her defenses in one hit."
Luo Feng slammed his finger down on the golden lever in the center of the main console, which had remained locked until now, and shoved it all the way to the top!
"Authorization unlocked! Bring out the trump card!"
"Level 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon—[Space-Rending Proton Annihilation Shell], load!!!"
"Give me a three-round burst. Let's see if that can't kill her!"
[Understood, Pilot. Maximum safety limiters disengaged. Level 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon array online.] [Proton reactor energy fully converted. Target acquired: Holy Spirit Cult Heavenly King, Dark Bell.] [Spatial lock complete. The target cannot escape through teleportation, intangibility, or similar means.]
"Rumble, rumble, rumble!!"
As BT's underlying code fully engaged, the Vanguard Titan, weighing dozens of tons,
underwent a transformation: its previously azure alchemical circuits turned completely black, like the color of death!