Boom!
When the beam from the [Truth: Underworld Dragon Life-Death God-Slaying Cannon] slammed into the towering defensive barrier around the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters,
a bizarre sun of purple-black and emerald seemed to rise in the sky above Ming Capital!
There was no ear-splitting explosion, only the dreadful sound of energy being annihilated.
The "Eternal Kingdom Defense Array" surrounding the Spirit Pagoda, reputedly capable of withstanding a Level 12 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon,
faced this absolute truth, which contained the essence of three Ferocious Beasts and the laws of antimatter.
It held for less than a tenth of a second before shattering into pieces like fragile glass!
"It's over... It's all over..."
Out in the wilderness, Qiangu Dongfeng lay sprawled in a muddy pit, his face ashen.
He stared at the unstoppable beam, his eyes filled with despair.
The Spirit Pagoda's thousand-year legacy was about to turn to ashes before his very eyes!
However!
Just as the beam of destruction was about to pierce the heart of the Spirit Pagoda and erase the towering structure—and Gu Yuena within it—in the very nick of time,
a sudden change occurred!
Hummm!
From the deepest foundation beneath the Spirit Pagoda's lowest level, the very core of the entire structure,
a vast, pure, sacred blue light suddenly burst forth, transcending every law of Douluo Planet!
There was not a trace of the metallic aura of Soul Guidance Technology in that blue light.
Only the purest spiritual power and the bone-chilling laws of Ultimate Ice!
Boom!
Accompanied by a distant hum that seemed to cross ten thousand years,
a colossal vertical eye, as profound as a star, slowly opened above the Spirit Pagoda!
[Spirit Eye]!
Then, a majestic phantom figure, wreathed in an icy-blue divine aura, projected itself from within the Spirit Pagoda.
He merely raised his phantom hand, and an absolute law belonging to a First-Level God of the Divine Realm—or even a God King—
formed a translucent, icy-blue diamond-shaped shield, precisely in the path of the [Truth: Underworld Dragon Life-Death God-Slaying Cannon]'s beam!
Hissss!
Two utterly different yet equally terrifying forces, both at the very limits of the Douluo Plane,
clashed in a frenzied struggle high in the sky!
The purple-black antimatter beam fought to annihilate everything in its path.
But the icy-blue divine shield seemed to contain endless laws of emotion and soul.
It forcibly held back the shock wave—powerful enough to destroy half a continent—outside the Spirit Pagoda!
The terrifying ripples of energy instantly swept every cloud from the sky for dozens of miles around!
Crack... Crack...
After a full ten seconds of stalemate,
the Level 12 God Cannon beam, condensed from the essence of three Ferocious Beasts,
slowly dissipated into the air, extremely unwillingly, as its energy ran out.
The majestic phantom and Spirit Eye above the Spirit Pagoda had also exhausted their remaining reserves of divine power.
They dissolved into a sky full of icy-blue motes and flowed back into the tower.
The smoke cleared.
The entire scene fell silent!
The Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, a symbol of the continent's pinnacle of power, had been scorched black along its outer walls.
Terrifying cracks ran across the tower, and it teetered as if it might collapse at any moment.
But it still stood in the very center of Ming Capital!
It had held!
This ancient tower, weathered by ten thousand years of wind and rain,
had actually survived a direct hit from a Level 12 God-Slaying Cannon!
"H-How is that possible?!"
Inside the Vanguard Titan's cockpit, Di Tian's miniature Soul Spirit phantom opened his golden vertical pupils wide.
His voice brimmed with utter shock.
"That was... Huo Yuhao's aura?!"
"The human brat who founded the Spirit Pagoda and later ascended to the Divine Realm to become the God of Emotions?!"
As the Beast God, who had lived for a million years, Di Tian recognized that aura all too well!
Back then, it was that young man named Huo Yuhao
who had single-handedly created the Soul Spirit System and even tricked Snow Empress and Ice Empress of the Star Dou Great Forest into sacrificing themselves.
"So that's it. His original divine sense, left behind before he ascended to the Divine Realm, was sealed inside the Spirit Pagoda's core formation!"
"No wonder... No wonder even our Level 12 Fusion Cannon couldn't smash it!"
Di Tian's voice held both shock and a trace of helplessness.
After all, Huo Yuhao was one of the true Supreme God Kings of the Great God Circle.
The life-saving trump cards he left behind were beyond the comprehension of mortals.
However,
contrary to Di Tian's expectations,
when his sure-kill shot was blocked, Luo Feng—sitting in the driver's seat—didn't get the slightest bit angry.
Instead, he slapped his thigh in excitement and burst into laughter!
"Excellent! Now that's the God of Emotions! Now that's Huo Gua!"
Luo Feng's eyes gleamed with the feverish light of a player.
"As expected of the famous Child of the Plane from the original story! The Spirit Pagoda was his old stomping ground, and its defenses are every bit as rock-solid as they come!"
"To take the full-power blast of the Vanguard Titan's Level 12 Anti-Matter Cannon with a divine sense left behind ten thousand years ago...
Huo Yuhao's worth really is even greater than Old Tang's!"
As a transmigrator, Luo Feng
didn't care whether one shot could level the Spirit Pagoda.
What mattered to him was that this kind of clash—defying convention and going toe-to-toe with a god's legacy—
was exactly the ultimate dungeon experience Fourth Calamity players craved!
Besides, the fact that the Spirit Pagoda hadn't been completely destroyed was actually fantastic news for him.
"Phew... It held. Thank goodness it held."
Luo Feng let out a long breath and leaned back in his leather seat, utterly at ease.
"If that one shot had really blown the tower to dust, taking Gu Yuena inside with it,
wouldn't this whole trip to the Matchmaking Conference have been for nothing?"
At Luo Feng's words, Bi Ji and Zi JI also breathed a sigh of relief.
In that moment, they had truly feared that their sovereign, Gu Yuena, would perish in the horrific explosion.
As it turned out, the divine power Huo Yuhao had left behind had inadvertently protected the Silver Dragon King.
"BT, scan the Spirit Pagoda's internal structure with the full mecha system."
Luo Feng's playful expression vanished, and his gaze sharpened.
"That divine sense has exhausted its reserves. The Spirit Pagoda is just a toothless tiger now—an impressive shell with nothing behind it."
[Command confirmed! High-frequency microwave scan has covered the target structure!]
[Pilot, life signs detected within the Spirit Pagoda:
Aside from a high-energy reaction on the lowest level, the guards on the remaining floors have largely lost their combat capability in the shock wave.]
"Nicely done."
Luo Feng snapped his fingers in satisfaction and shoved the Vanguard Titan's control stick forward.
"Let's go, my two top-tier maids."
"Since that old fox Qiangu Dongfeng has wet himself and even opened the gates for us,"
"we'll go in ourselves, walk over all this rubble, and escort your sovereign out... as her rightful husbands-to-be!"