Zhongli Wu's Fury

Zhongli Wu watched the Ice Bear King charge toward him.

His brow lifted slightly, and he then instructed the Fourth Worshipper beside him, "Fourth Worshipper, you and Myriad Souls, hold off the Ice Bear King."

"Yes!"

"All right!"

The Fourth Worshipper and Myriad Souls Douluo swiftly moved to block the Ice Bear King, engaging it in battle as they fought and retreated, luring it into the sky.

Jing Hongchen did not order the Royal Soul Engineer Corps to stop them.

At this moment, his focus remained on Zhongli Wu.

Just as Jing Hongchen and Zhongli Wu continued their standoff,

Feng Ling, who had been waiting on the outskirts, arrived with a large number of evil soul masters.

They disrupted the formation of Mingde Hall's soul engineer corps from the outside.

Seeing this, Jing Hongchen quickly ordered the soul engineer corps to abandon its circular containment formation and switch to a shielded defensive formation, preventing the Holy Ghost Cult from making a desperate last stand.

"Zhongli Wu, what's going on?"

Feng Ling naturally flew to Zhongli Wu's side. Behind her were no fewer than several hundred evil soul masters, a force that did not pale in comparison to Mingde Hall's Royal Soul Engineer Corps.

Moreover, these evil soul masters generally possessed higher cultivation than the members of the Royal Soul Engineer Corps.

It was only because the Royal Soul Engineer Corps was so well-equipped.

What was more, aside from the Fourth Worshipper and Myriad Souls Douluo, the Holy Ghost Cult still had two Super Douluo—Zhongli Wu and Feng Ling. There was also Minglei Douluo, as well as the two Titled Douluo Feng Ling had brought.

Seeing the main force arrive behind him,

Zhongli Wu regained his usual composure.

He stepped forward and arrived at the very front of the force.

He spoke unhurriedly, "Jing Hongchen, if you know what's good for you, hand over that angel brat."

"Otherwise, don't blame the Holy Ghost Cult for turning Mingde Hall upside down."

At this moment, Ye Fan saw the army of over a hundred evil soul masters before him.

He could not help but feel inwardly alarmed. The Holy Ghost Cult really went all out.

They actually made such a huge fuss over a single Soul Beast Embryo.

But what Ye Fan did not know was that Zhongli Wu wanted more than just the Soul Beast Embryo. He also wanted Ye Fan himself.

As Ye Fan's thoughts wandered,

Jing Hongchen had already turned his gaze toward Ye Fan. "What exactly did Ye Fan do to make the Holy Ghost Cult go to such lengths?"

But none of that mattered anymore.

As the master of Mingde Hall and Ye Fan's teacher,

no matter what Ye Fan had done, he would cover for him.

"Zhongli Wu, let me see what this leader of the Holy Ghost Cult is capable of."

"You actually dare to shamelessly threaten to wreak havoc in my Mingde Hall."

Right before Zhongli Wu's eyes, Jing Hongchen activated all of Mingde Hall's defensive facilities. Countless metal soul cannons locked onto Zhongli Wu and the others.

Then, without giving Zhongli Wu the slightest face, Jing Hongchen directed countless metal soul cannons toward the army of evil soul masters behind him.

"Jing Hongchen, you dare?"

Zhongli Wu had not expected Jing Hongchen to be so decisive.

He hurriedly summoned the Bone Dragon King.

The enormous Bone Dragon King had barely appeared before it smashed apart the formation of the Royal Soul Engineer Corps.

At the same time, Zhongli Wu ordered everyone around him, "Everyone, spread out and engage them in close combat. That way, they won't be able to use the advantage of their soul tools."

"Yes!" 100+!

At his command, the evil soul masters at his side and behind him answered in unison, following the Bone Dragon King as it endured the enemy's soul cannon barrage head-on.

Then, once they closed in on the Royal Soul Engineers, both sides launched into close-quarters combat.

The battlefield instantly descended into chaos.

On the Holy Ghost Cult's side, Zhongli Wu, Feng Ling, Minglei, and the two Titled Douluo Feng Ling had brought were all now free to act.

With a glance from Zhongli Wu, Feng Ling, Minglei, and the others moved to entangle Jing Hongchen.

Meanwhile, he himself rode the Bone Dragon King straight toward Ye Fan.

"Hehehe, brat, hand over the Soul Beast Embryo obediently, and I'll make you the Holy Ghost Cult's Holy Son."

"Oh no, he's going after Ye Fan!"

Jing Hongchen had just intended to rush over to help when Feng Ling, Minglei, and several Titled Douluo surrounded him.

"Damn it, Holy Ghost Cult, you're courting death."

Seeing Zhongli Wu head directly for Ye Fan, Jing Hongchen's heart clenched. Towering fury surged through him in an instant, and he completely disregarded the encirclement of several Titled Douluo before him.

He no longer held back. In an instant, he entered an extremely berserk state, and the soul power around him erupted explosively.

The metal cannon barrels covering his body trembled in unison as they all activated. Dense cannon fire poured forth madly, scorching energy blasts raging across the sky.

The violent firepower sealed off the entire airspace layer by layer. The fierce bombardment forced everyone back again and again, forcibly suppressing Feng Ling, Minglei, and the other Titled Douluo.

He fought while retreating, moving closer to Ye Fan.

At the same time, he kept shouting to Ye Fan, "Xiaofan, run! Go to the imperial palace and find your grandmaster!"

As for Ye Fan, he continuously flapped his Angel Wings, swiftly dodging the shockwaves from the chaotic battle around him as well as Zhongli Wu's pursuit.

The moment he heard that, Ye Fan immediately realized who Jing Hongchen meant.

"The grandmaster Teacher mentioned must be Kong Deming, the foremost soul engineer in the Sun Moon Empire and the only true god of the continent's soul engineer world, said to be the person most likely to break through to a tenth-rank soul engineer!"

Upon hearing the name Jing Hongchen had mentioned, Zhongli Wu panicked at once and immediately called to Feng Ling and the others, "Feng Ling, stop that brat! We absolutely cannot let him escape!"

"Yes!"

After receiving Zhongli Wu's order, Feng Ling, Minglei, and the others did not dare delay for even a moment.

The four split into two groups. One group intercepted Jing Hongchen, while the other intercepted Ye Fan.

Ye Fan's head throbbed at the sight. Great. Three Titled Douluo are surrounding me alone!

Looks like I can only hide in the Undead Demiplane.

Without any hesitation, Ye Fan chanted the undead incantation right in front of Zhongli Wu.

He opened the spatial gate to the Undead Demiplane, then plunged straight inside.

Zhongli Wu was greatly alarmed. "Spatial power. Damn it, that brat is trying to escape."

Jing Hongchen was overjoyed. "Spatial power? I never expected Xiaofan to have such a trick."

Jing Hongchen relaxed slightly as well. The firepower around him was no longer quite as violent, but it was still enough to suppress the two lower-ranked Titled Douluo besieging him.

As for Zhongli Wu, Feng Ling, and Minglei, the three Titled Douluo could only watch as Ye Fan vanished from where he stood.

Each of them looked as though they had seen a ghost.

Feng Ling was the first to stop fighting. She asked Zhongli Wu, "Zhongli Wu, the target has disappeared. What do we do now?"

Zhongli Wu had already stopped fighting as well. With an indignant expression, he said, "What else can we do?"

"Everyone, retreat!"

Zhongli Wu used his soul power to spread his voice throughout the battlefield.

After receiving the order, all the remaining evil soul masters fought as they retreated, gathering once more behind Zhongli Wu, Feng Ling, and the others.

Zhongli Wu glanced from the corner of his eye at the evil soul masters behind him, whose numbers had been reduced by more than half. He inwardly fumed, Damn it. Not only did we fail to recover the Soul Beast Embryo, we also lost over a hundred men.

Zhongli Wu began considering how to explain this to the two mountains hanging over his head.

Suddenly, he looked toward Myriad Souls Douluo and the Fourth Worshipper, who were still battling the Ice Bear King in the distance.

Zhongli Wu thought to himself, Hm, it's all that useless Myriad Souls brat's fault.

On Jing Hongchen's side, the two Titled Douluo heard Zhongli Wu's order and began fighting as they retreated.

Jing Hongchen roughly guessed, "Zhongli Wu must have seen Xiaofan disappear into thin air and decided to retreat."

Jing Hongchen made an immediate decision. "Royal Soul Engineer Corps, heed my command! Stop the evil soul masters from escaping at all costs!"

At the same time, Jing Hongchen altered Mingde Hall's defensive offensive once more, raising a circular dome-shaped barrier around the area. From above to below, from inside to out, it sealed Mingde Hall tightly.

The instant ordinary evil soul masters touched the barrier, they were slain by the soul power impact upon it.

Zhongli Wu hurriedly probed with his spiritual power and discovered that the barrier carried its own soul power attacks. Although it could not stop the Titled Douluo on their side,

those below the rank of Titled Douluo simply could not withstand the soul power impact it unleashed.

With a grim expression and a cold voice, Zhongli Wu said to Jing Hongchen, "Jing Hongchen, are you truly going to take things this far?"