Nuclear Peace, Star Luo Defeated!

Once the declaration was issued, it immediately triggered a powerful reaction, the most direct manifestation of which was the withdrawal of the Daming Army stationed in the Tianjing Kingdom.

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the Fire Phoenix Empress, disguised as Ma Xiaotao, signed a peace treaty with Xu Nian'an's Great Ming Empire. The entire nation erupted in jubilation, and within the Tianjing Kingdom, the number of Ma Xiaotao's supporters saw an unprecedented, explosive increase.

One must understand that when the Star Luo Empire and the Great Ming went to war, the people most afraid were not actually those living within the two great empires.

How should one put it? Because the people of the two empires were located within their respective borders, far behind the front lines, it would take time for the conflict to reach them.

The ones most terrified were those on the fringes of the battlefield, or those residing in locations of strategic importance.

After all, if things went poorly, the place where one slept last night could become the center of a battlefield, caught in the crossfire, where casualties were merely a matter of course.

Now, however, the Tianjing Kingdom and the Great Ming Empire had signed a peace treaty.

As long as they no longer involved themselves with the Star Luo Empire, the battlefield would no longer have anything to do with them.

Their kingdom would no longer suffer deaths due to the war.

For the people of Tianjing, who had longed for peace, this was a moment they had waited for far too long.

"Damnable, simply damnable!"

"How dare they? How dare their Tianxing Province declare independence! How dare they sign a peace treaty with the Great Ming!"

"This is nothing short of betrayal!!!"

Inside the imperial palace of the Star Luo Empire, Emperor Dai Haochen was in a towering rage!

In truth, he had not been idle over the past few days; he had taken measures, such as initiating localized skirmishes with the Great Ming to pressure the Tianjing Kingdom.

Alas, it was all to no avail. Most importantly, they had lost the Tiger Roar Defense Line, forfeiting the opportunity to cover the majority of the Tianjing Kingdom's territory.

If the Tiger Roar Defense Line had still been in their hands, had the Tianjing Kingdom dared to declare independence, the Star Luo Empire could have issued them new Star Luo identification cards by that very afternoon.

But it was too late; everything was too late.

Of course, the Star Luo Empire was not entirely without options if they wanted to attack the Tianjing Kingdom.

They could dispatch troops from other provinces, but if they pulled forces away from the Great God Lake, the Daming Army would strike the very next second. The defense line would be lost again, and Xingyao City would be in peril.

"Your Majesty, do not be angry. It is the Great Ming that should be worried now."

"As long as we, Star Luo, hold the Great God Lake Defense Line and pin the Great Ming's main force here, then, given the troop numbers on both sides, the Heaven Dou Empire's gathering of five hundred thousand soldiers on the other side should yield results soon. When that happens, the Great Ming will surely be defeated!"

Indeed, on the surface, the army brought by Xu Nian'an numbered four hundred and fifty thousand, plus the two hundred and fifty thousand troops guarding Xingyao and Galloping Wolf, totaling seven hundred thousand.

For an empire that had only recently been established to possess such military strength was already shocking to the world.

With the Heaven Dou Empire sneaking in to strike their home base, how many troops could the Great Ming possibly spare for defense?

"Report!!!"

In Xingyao City!

A guard in red armor, sword at his hip, came sprinting from the distance, moving with the speed of a galloping horse.

Xu Nian'an glanced at him; he was young, perhaps not even an adult by modern standards, only sixteen or seventeen years old.

This was the new batch of the Imperial Guard.

"Report to Your Majesty, a secret dispatch from Haagen-Dazs!"

Hearing this, Xu Nian'an narrowed his eyes.

"Bring it here."

He opened the dispatch, which contained only a single, simple line of text.

[The Balak Kingdom has united with the Heaven Dou grand army, gathering five hundred thousand troops to crusade against the Ming!]

Five... five hundred thousand.

Heh, he had not expected that even after losing five hundred thousand men at the Great Ming border, the Heaven Dou Empire still had another five hundred thousand to spare.

They were truly willing to pay the price.

However, this number did indeed exceed Xu Nian'an's expectations.

In normal times, Heaven Dou would have at most been willing to commit another two hundred thousand troops.

Against one hundred thousand Dragon Guards—and with the Dragon Guards on the defensive—there would have been no possibility of the enemy breaking through the Great Ming border.

Even with three hundred thousand, it would have been a pipe dream.

Unfortunately, the force arriving this time was five times the size of the Dragon Guard.

Xu Nian'an narrowed his eyes. Perhaps, he had been looking in the wrong direction from the very beginning.

The Great Snow Dragon Cavalry and the Dragon Guard were his most loyal armies.

They were far more powerful than ordinary people; why should he waste such an army to wear down the Star Luo Empire?

To be honest, if time weren't so tight, Xu Nian'an would have hesitated not a moment to have the members of the Holy Spirit Cult awaken the Martial Souls for his entire army, one by one.

With the existence of the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, the divine beast of the empire's national destiny, the citizens of the Great Ming Empire had a one-hundred-percent awakening rate for Martial Souls with Soul Power.

After awakening their Martial Souls and obtaining their Soul Rings, wouldn't one of them easily be able to take on ten?

The more he thought about it, the more Xu Nian'an felt he was losing out.

However.

With the Great Ming's national strength, territory, and financial resources, supporting this million-strong army was no burden, but a million or tens of millions of Soul Masters would be a different story.

For instance, simply gathering the first Soul Rings for a million or tens of millions of Soul Masters was a massive challenge.

That was no small number.

There is always a way when the cart reaches the mountain.

Xu Nian'an shook his head, casting all these thoughts from his mind.

He finally reached a decision.

He would not use the Dragon Guard and the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry to clash head-on with the Star Luo army, as that would be entirely depleting his own combat strength.

"It is time to end this battle."

By this time tomorrow, many people might be dead, and Xu Nian'an would become a sinner across the entire continent.

But... Xu Nian'an did not care.

Because the number of people who had died indirectly by his hand had long since exceeded a million; a few hundred thousand more made no difference.

On the Tiger Roar Defense Line, atop a distant mountain peak, a massive launch platform was slowly being installed.

"Let me ignite the fire of 'nuclear' peace for the Douluo Continent!"

Hum~!!!

The next instant, Xu Nian'an slammed his palm heavily onto the launcher.

The heavens and earth roared instantly as a massive missile soared into the sky.

Its target was the Great God Lake Defense Line, which had clashed with the Daming Army no fewer than five times in the last ten days, yet remained unyielding.

This was also the Star Luo Empire's final line of defense, its strongest, with over five hundred thousand troops stationed there.

Unfortunately, under a single roar, everything turned to dust!

Bang~ Boom!!!

A piercing roar resounded, and the next instant, a flash of fire erupted in the endless night.

The next second, the fire grew larger and larger, expanding against the wind, sparks instantly igniting the entire night sky and turning into the second sun of the Douluo Continent's night!

Hum hum hum~!!!!

"This is the power of the nation's heavy weapon, the Level 9 Soul Tool, Little Girl!"

Gulp~!!!

Xu Nian'an swallowed hard. Although he was a transmigrator from the modern world, even as a modern man, he had never seen a nuclear explosion before.

Now, Xu Nian'an's head was buzzing, filled with a constant ringing.

Swish~

The massive sound jolted Dai Haochen awake in the Star Luo Imperial Palace; countless high-ranking officials of the Star Luo Empire trembled and immediately rose to their feet.

Then, they were dumbfounded, because in their impression, they had only just fallen asleep, and then, the sky had turned bright.

In Xingyao City, Xu Nian'an opened his mouth and rubbed his ears, trying to make his eardrums feel a little better.

It was over; he believed the Great God Lake Defense Line was now filled with nothing but "well-done" remains.

"Since that is the case..."

"Someone, convey my decree: abandon the Great God Lake Defense Line. No one is to go there without my order. March south immediately, bypass the Tiger Roar Defense Line, head toward the Huwei Forest, and press directly upon Star Luo City!"

Xu Nian'an's orders were issued rapidly. The first to move were the three hundred thousand Great Snow Dragon Cavalry, as they were cavalry by nature.

The Dragon Guard followed after.

By the time the horizon turned a pale white, three hundred thousand soldiers in white robes and silver armor had arrived at the gates of Star Luo City!

Star Luo Imperial Palace!

"Report! Report, Your Majesty, it is bad! Three hundred thousand elite Daming troops have bypassed us by hundreds of miles overnight and have reached the gates of Star Luo City. We are surrounded!!!"

Swish~!

Dai Haochen looked up instantly.

The sudden situation last night had kept him up late, and he had only just fallen asleep when he was startled awake, only to be told... such a bolt from the blue?

"What? Has my Great Star perished?"