"BT! Don't hold back on the ammunition. Fire both Level 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons!"
"If the barrels haven't blown out, fire twenty Level 9 Soul Guidance Cannons too!"
Unlike those low-level Soul Guidance Cannons,
once a Soul Guidance Cannon reached Level 9, or even Level 10,
it could fire over an extremely long range.
Combined with the Vanguard Titan's advanced laser guidance,
even though Luo Feng was standing on the coast of the Star Luo Empire,
he could still accurately hit the three fleets more than a hundred nautical miles away.
Perhaps they were just too confident.
The Federal Fleet made almost no effort to conceal itself.
They didn't even need to launch a feint.
They simply lined up in a brazen row.
And at the very front was the Sea God Fleet, led by Chen Xinjie.
That man had quite a deep foundation, too.
After all, Vast Sea Douluo wasn't just an empty title!
"Heh!"
"This time, we'll take the Star Luo Empire in one fell swoop! Then we'll unite the entire planet!"
In truth,
ever since they had succeeded in eliminating Shrek Academy,
the confidence of these ambitious men had swelled beyond anything words could describe.
The reason the Star Luo Empire had held out until now
wasn't that it was strong in its own right.
It was that its geography was too favorable.
Surrounded by sea on all sides, it lay a long way from the mainland.
And on top of that, it had been conspiring with the Tang Sect all along.
That was the only reason it had lasted until now.
But Shrek and the Tang Sect, those two hidden threats, had been thoroughly wiped out.
It was time to swallow the last territory.
Just as Vast Sea Douluo stood on deck, full of confidence,
the corner of his eye suddenly caught two tiny red dots!
"What are those?"
"Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons?"
"Where were they fired from?"
As Chen Xinjie remembered it,
the Star Luo Empire was strong in individual combat.
But its technological level was nowhere near this advanced.
Even the Tang Sect didn't seem to have...
"Beep! Beep! Beep!"
"Alert! Alert!"
"Soul Guidance Radar has detected a lock from a Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon. Evasive maneuvers impossible!"
"Preliminary assessment: one Level 9 and one Level 10 Soul Guidance Cannon!"
What?
The Tang Sect had Level 9 Soul Guidance Cannons, so it made sense that they might have sold them to the Star Luo Empire!
But where had a Level 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon come from on a tiny island like this?
"Activate the entire air-defense array! Set every battleship's energy shield to maximum power!"
Chen Xinjie's eyes turned bloodshot. The instincts of a navy commander kicked in, and he reacted instantly, roaring at the top of his lungs.
At that moment, he no longer cared about the dignity of a Limit Douluo.
"All fleet officers at Soul Douluo rank or higher, take to the air!
Release your Martial Soul Avatars! Hold them back at all costs!!!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
At Chen Xinjie's roar, hundreds of powerful beams of Soul Power shot skyward from the Sea God Fleet's forward formation!
The Federal Soul Douluos and Titled Douluos, usually so lofty and untouchable, had gone pale.
Like madmen, they pushed all nine of their Soul Rings to the limit.
Huge Martial Soul Avatars appeared one after another above the sea.
Some were deep-sea demon sharks as massive as mountains; others were enormous sea serpents coiling through the air, along with all manner of top-tier Tool Souls blazing with dazzling light.
At the same time, the [Joint Linked Defensive Shields] of dozens of heavy battleships powered up to full strength.
A translucent blue dome of energy, dozens of meters thick and solid as a wall, enclosed the entire Sea God Fleet's vanguard.
This level of defense could withstand at least a few blows even from a true god.
But what they faced was the [Titan's Divine Punishment], forged by Luo Feng using the law of [Fullmetal Alchemist] to fuse a defective Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit.
The [Titan's Divine Punishment] that the Vanguard Titan had forcibly "built by hand"!
"Hum!"
There was no ear-splitting whistle as it cut through the air, only an overwhelming pressure that made hearts stop.
In the sky, two pure-white spheres of light, so blinding that even Limit Douluos couldn't look directly at them,
plunged down like a pair of miniature suns and smashed into the blue Joint Linked Defensive Shield!
"Crack!"
In the first second, the linked shield—said to withstand a full-power strike from a Limit Douluo—couldn't even stir up a ripple.
Like a hammer striking fragile glass, it instantly filled with countless fine cracks!
"Pfft!"
Dozens of Soul Douluos hovering in midair and struggling to hold the shield all spat out blood at once.
Their Martial Soul Avatars shook violently like guttering candles in the wind.
"We can't hold it! Commander, we can't hold it!"
A deputy general at Titled Douluo rank screamed in anguish.
"Break!"
A cold mechanical voice rang out from the sky.
The second [Level 10 Divine Punishment] followed right behind, striking the exact same point.
"RUMBLE!!!"
A terrifying explosion beyond the power of words burst above the Sea God Fleet!
The violent resentment of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Spirit mixed with a nuclear-scale plasma storm, tearing the fleet's defenses to shreds in an instant.
The flash was so bright that coastal cities on the Douluo Continent, hundreds of nautical miles away, thought the sun had risen early!
A gigantic mushroom cloud surged skyward, piercing tens of thousands of meters into the air.
A terrifying tsunami, a hundred meters high, spread in every direction from the blast site!
But it wasn't over!
The destructive storm from the Level 10 Soul Guidance Cannons had only just torn open the fleet's formation when the sky rang again with the shrill cry of the Grim Reaper.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
All twenty [Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons] burrowed into the breach in the shattered defense like maggots in a corpse,
striking the densely packed vanguard fleet with pinpoint accuracy!
"No!!!"
Chen Xinjie's eyes nearly split with rage. He unleashed the power of a Limit Douluo, trying to protect the flagship.
But against this saturated bombardment—a terrifying, dimension-crushing assault—an individual's power seemed so insignificant.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
A chain of world-shaking explosions raged across the sea!
The water boiled and vaporized instantly, sending scalding steam billowing into the sky.
In less than half a minute, the once-mighty, well-ordered vanguard of the Federal Fleet's three great armadas had become a blazing hellscape!
More than twenty expensive, well-equipped Federal heavy warships were caught in the combined assault of the Level 9 and Level 10 Soul Guidance Cannons.
Their sturdy alloy armor tore apart and melted like paper, and towering flames engulfed their hulls.
The decks were strewn with anguished cries and severed limbs.
The five high-speed gunships at the very front suffered the worst.
They didn't even get a chance to send out a distress signal.
At the center of the blast from the two [Level 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons], the five steel behemoths, each two hundred meters long,
along with the thousands of elite Federal soldiers aboard, were vaporized in an instant by temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees.
No wreckage, no survivors in the water—not even a trace of their existence remained. They simply vanished from the sea!
"Cough... pfft!"
On the flagship's deck, Chen Xinjie was hurled dozens of meters by the shock wave.
He slammed into the command tower and spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with pieces of his organs.
The famed Vast Sea Douluo, who had once shaken the continent, now stood in torn clothes with his hair in disarray.
He looked nothing like the man who had been surveying the world and brimming with confidence just moments ago.
He stared blankly at the fleet's vanguard engulfed in flames, at the soldiers struggling in the boiling sea. His mind was completely empty.
"What kind of monster has the Star Luo Empire produced?"
Meanwhile, on the coast of the Star Luo Continent,
Luo Feng was just as dumbfounded.
His eyes were fixed on the Titan Communication Panel before him.
System notifications kept appearing in his mind.
[ Ding! Congratulations, you have killed 50 Soul Saints. Your Soul Power Level has increased by 15 levels. ] [ Ding! Congratulations, you have destroyed nine Soul Douluos. Your Soul Power Level has increased by another 20 levels. ] [ Ding... ]
What was going on?
Was this like leveling up by killing monsters in a game?
He had indeed managed to join the Empire's First Armored Legion.
But Luo Feng had relied on his mecha's combat strength.
His own Soul Power Level had been far below that of officers at the same rank.
He had even been weaker than Dai Yun'er.
But now, as the enemy ships continued to sink,
Luo Feng seemed to have discovered a whole new world...