"Just a human hiding inside an iron shell, and you think you're worthy of making me act in person?"
"Since you're in such a hurry to die, I'll grant your wish!"
The Underworld Emperor formed an incredibly strange hand seal with his left hand, one brimming with the Laws of Death, and slammed it toward the dragon-blood-stained earth below.
"Exclusive Domain: [Underworld Rebirth]! Open!"
"Rumble!!!"
Accompanied by the Underworld Emperor's roar, the ground throughout the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest trembled violently.
It was as if some horrifying ancient demon were tearing open the earth's crust.
"Crack! Crack!"
Twelve Netherworld Gates, each a hundred zhang tall and built from countless icy white bones and resentful spirits' skulls,
rose from the earth around the Vanguard Titan, forming an absolute circle of death!
Extreme deathly energy surged through the cracks in the gates, and even the surrounding air instantly plunged to absolute zero.
"Clop! Clop! Clop!"
The heavy, perfectly synchronized clanging of metal hooves slowly echoed from deep within the twelve gates to the Nether Realm.
Then—
under the horrified gazes of Tang Wulin, Zi JI, and Di Tian, who was still hanging from the sword,
twelve terrifying knights, each ten meters tall and mounted on enormous Bone Warhorses wreathed in Netherworld flames, slowly emerged from the gates!
These were no ordinary undead summons!
The Underworld Emperor had spent hundreds of years pouring his heart and soul into them, even draining the souls of countless human powerhouses and high-ranking Soul Beasts.
Only then had he forged his core fighting force—the Twelve Undead Scourge Knights!
Their equipment was outrageously lavish:
Every Undead Knight radiated a terrifying pressure on par with a Level 95 Super Douluo!
They wore custom undead Battle Armor forged from Deep Sea Sinking Silver and the deathly energy of the Nether Realm.
Its defensive power was in no way inferior to humanity's top-tier Three-Word Battle Armor.
In their thick white-bone hands, they held five-meter-long Bone-Slaying Greatswords burning with green ghostfire.
In their other hands, they raised Great Shields of Sighs that seemed capable of blocking every physical attack!
"Hum!"
The moment all twelve knights had emerged from the gates,
twelve dark-gray Three-Word Battle Armor domains instantly unfolded.
They intertwined and fused in midair, transforming into an absolute death zone that cut off every trace of life!
"It's... it's over..."
In the Shrek Seven Devils' ranks, Xie Xie dropped to the ground, his face ashen.
"Twelve... twelve Level 95 Super Douluos? And every one of them is fully equipped with a Three-Word Battle Armor domain?!"
How the hell were they supposed to fight that?!
Even at the height of Shrek Academy's power, with every Sea God Pavilion elder deployed,
facing an undead army that knew neither exhaustion nor pain and lived only to kill
would likely exact a devastating price!
In midair, the Underworld Emperor looked at the Vanguard Titan, now surrounded on all sides, and let out a wildly arrogant laugh.
"Kehehehe! Human brat, weren't you awfully cocky just now?"
"Every one of my twelve Undead Knights was a renowned powerhouse in life!
Now they'll use their greatswords and shields to tear your junk apart piece by piece!"
"Crush him to pieces!"
At the Underworld Emperor's command, the crimson soul flames in the twelve Undead Knights' eye sockets flared brilliantly.
"Roar!"
The Bone Warhorses let out soundless neighs.
The twelve Super Douluo-level Undead Knights raised their Bone-Slaying Greatswords and braced their Great Shields of Sighs.
Like twelve unstoppable meat grinders, they launched a charge at the Vanguard Titan, intent on bringing down heaven and earth!
And yet—
in the face of this Undead Scourge army, enough to plunge the entire Douluo Continent into despair,
Luo Feng, seated in the Vanguard Titan's cockpit, wasn't the least bit panicked.
His eyes were instead shining like two thousand-watt bulbs, and his grin stretched almost to his ears!
"Twelve Level 95 elite monsters?!"
"Underworld Emperor, you really are a generous soul!
You stole my kills, then sent me a whole bundle of experience to make up for it?!"
Luo Feng excitedly slapped the control panel.
A moment ago, he'd still been fretting over how difficult the Level 12 God-Slaying Soul Guidance Cannon was to charge. Using it on this pack of trash would be like slaughtering chickens with a bull-cleaver.
"Why use a Level 12 cannon on a bunch of walking skeletons?"
"BT! Keep the main cannon charged and locked. Stay ready in case that old corpse tries to run!"
"Open the entire secondary weapons bay!
Levels 7 and 8 barely scratch them. Today, I'm using Level 9 and Level 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons to give them a large-scale physical salvation!"
[Command confirmed! Weapons bay switched to Wide-Area Saturation Destruction Bombardment Mode!]
[50 Level 9 High-Explosive Plasma Soul Guidance Cannons loaded!]
[3 Level 10 Anti-Matter Armor-Piercing Incendiary Shells loaded into the primary launch bay!]
[Targets locked: 12 high-energy undead lifeforms.]
Watching the twelve red dots charging toward him on the holographic radar,
Luo Feng let out a ferocious, unhinged laugh and slammed his thumb onto the red firing button!
"Turn every last one of them to ash!"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
The very next moment, the Vanguard Titan's shoulders, chest, and the hidden armor on both sides of its thighs sprang open.
Fifty Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons, trailing blinding tails of flame,
shot out like a meteor shower flying backward, pouring forth in a dense barrage with ear-splitting sonic booms!
Close behind them came three special Level 10 armor-piercing shells, each radiating a deadly, eerie glow!
No probing shots. No taking turns.
Just the purest, most brutal industrial-scale bombardment!
"Rumble!!!"
The three Undead Knights at the front raised their Great Shields of Sighs high.
Their fused Three-Word Battle Armor domains erupted in brilliant ashen light as they tried to withstand the barrage.
In their past battles, this level of domain defense had been enough to withstand even some attacks from Limit Douluos.
But today, they faced Level 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons that played by no rules whatsoever!
"Crack—boom!"
Within the first one-hundredth of a second after the Level 10 Anti-Matter Armor-Piercing Shells struck the Great Shields of Sighs,
the undead Battle Armor they had been so proud of melted and disintegrated at the atomic level like butter tossed into a blazing fire!
The supposedly indestructible shields shattered in an instant!
Then, earth-shaking chain explosions tore through the Undead Knights' charging formation!
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The combined force of fifty Level 9 Soul Guidance Cannons
turned the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest, over several thousand meters in every direction, into a churning sea of plasma fire!
"Roar!"
The Undead Knights howled in agony.
Against extreme physical heat reaching tens of thousands of degrees and shock waves capable of tearing through space,
what were Netherworld flames and the laws of the undead? Nothing but a joke!
Their Bone Warhorses were blasted into flying ash in an instant.
Their white-bone bodies, each comparable to a Super Douluo, were blown to pieces beneath the barrage.
Broken Bone-Slaying Greatswords and shattered armor fragments flew in every direction like bullets through the fiery explosions.
"Blow them up! Keep blowing them up! Don't stop!"
Luo Feng roared wildly inside the cockpit, savoring the supreme thrill of overwhelming them with firepower.
Under this deranged saturation bombardment, the twelve seemingly invincible Undead Knights
didn't even manage to touch the Vanguard Titan's mech shield!
They tried to reassemble their bodies, only for the next wave of high-explosive incendiary shells to burn their core skeletons into nothingness!
The crimson soul flames in their eye sockets didn't even get the chance to struggle.
The destructive energy of the Level 10 Soul Guidance Cannons vaporized them completely!
In less than half a minute,
the Underworld Emperor's pride and joy, the Twelve Undead Scourge Legions—an elite force capable of sweeping across an entire nation—
had been utterly, brutally blasted into a pile of rotten bone fragments that scattered on the wind!
Instant kill!
Another overwhelming, utterly one-sided instant kill!
As the smoke slowly cleared, the once-icy Nether Realm
had become a huge scorched crater, dozens of meters deep, with dark-red magma still flowing at the bottom.
At that moment,
the long-awaited system notifications began flooding Luo Feng's mind like a torrential downpour!
[Beep! Extremely high-energy undead lifeform detected and completely eliminated!]
[Congratulations, Ironclad! You have slain one Level 95 Undead Scourge Knight!]
[Congratulations, Ironclad! You have slain five Level 95 Undead Scourge Knights!]
[Congratulations, Ironclad! You have slain twelve Level 95 Undead Scourge Knights!]
[Beep! Hidden achievement "Scourge Terminator" unlocked!]
[You have received an enormous amount of peak-quality pure Soul Power experience!]
[Your Soul Power experience bar is completely full. Breakthrough and reconstruction commencing...]
"Boom!"
The instant the final system notification sounded,
an overwhelming Soul Power pressure, ten times more terrifying than before and boundless as the sea,
swept across the battlefield from the Vanguard Titan like a tangible golden storm!
Under the pressure, the towering ancient trees that had somehow survived the bombardment snapped in half and crumbled into dust.
Inside the cockpit, Luo Feng's bones crackled like beans popping in a pan.
The Soul Power inside him surged like a roaring sea.
The [Gate of Truth] Martial Soul floating behind him burst into an extraordinarily blinding light of truth.
The alchemical runes on the gate grew ever more profound and mysterious.
[Beep! Breakthrough successful!]
[Congratulations! Your Soul Power Level has successfully crossed a bottleneck! Current level: 98 (Peak Super Douluo)!]