An Ambush? Then Ambush Me Properly!

Sunrise City was a major stronghold secretly controlled by the Holy Spirit Cult, and its branches were not limited to just a few like those in remote small towns.

Though it was far inferior to Bright City, which had dozens of branches of all kinds, it still had seven or eight strongholds.

Together, these formed the Sunrise City branch.

Inside a highly technological underground secret chamber, an entire wall was covered in screens.

They were special surveillance soul tools.

Several Holy Spirit Cult members monitored the screens, filming Xiao Yan from every angle without blind spots. Some of the feeds showed a sea of flames—the branch strongholds Xiao Yan had already destroyed.

Even with Soul Douluo stationed there, they had not lasted even a single breath, nor had they been able to escape.

"Prepare to report to the higher-ups. The target is heading toward..."

At that moment, however, the previously normal screens suddenly flickered several times.

Then intense firelight flared across every screen at once.

The next moment, a huge face filled the wall of screens.

"So they told you, but not you lot? You still dared to watch me?"

Xiao Yan's eyes widened. He had never seen anyone this stubborn.

Did these people not know he had already burned several spies to death?

Oh, they had been burned to the point that their souls scattered instantly. It was normal that no message had gotten out.

But that was the Holy Spirit Cult's problem.

Behind the screens, the Holy Spirit Cult's Soul Engineers were all stunned.

They were in an underground chamber nearly half a city away from Xiao Yan, protected by layer upon layer of encryption. How could they possibly have been discovered?

Xiao Yan seemed to have guessed their expressions.

With a faint smile, he ignited a wisp of flame on his index finger, raised it before his face, and gently blew it out.

"Haven't you heard that top experts have special senses when someone is spying on them?"

"Is this guy bluffing?" The Level-Six Soul Engineer of the Holy Spirit Cult at the side furrowed his brow. He came from the research faction; though rather crazed, he was not so easily fooled.

If this Xiao Yan could really kill people through a screen, why had no news come from the other surveillance rooms?

They had long since laid down an inescapable net. Could this ignorant brat be trying to bluff them?

Huh? Why did his body suddenly feel so hot?

The next instant, the Level-Six Soul Engineer's eyes slowly widened. The burning sensation throughout his body was no illusion; it rapidly became pain as though he were being sliced apart by a thousand blades.

Yet in another instant, it felt as if all five senses had vanished, and the world before his eyes was obscured by layers of watery mist.

Even his body seemed to be falling downward.

Plop.

Half a flaming head fell to the ground and was swiftly reduced to ash by crimson-gold flames. In the Soul Engineer's final sight, the entire surveillance room was incinerated.

Streams of black qi rose from the burned Evil Soul Masters, only to be quickly consumed by the flames.

In mere moments, the place had been burned into a white wasteland.

South of the city, Sunrise City headquarters.

Smack.

Another crystal lamp bearing a surveillance symbol ignited with fire and turned to ash in moments. On the sand table, only one crystal remained, representing this main stronghold.

"The enemy's methods are exceptionally strange. In less than the time it takes to burn an incense stick, every branch in the city, large and small, has been destroyed. Even the extremely hidden underground surveillance rooms have become scorched earth."

Staring at the scene on the sand table, the Evil Soul Master shrouded in a black robe spoke in a hoarse voice.

"Our place will be his next stop. Go, give our far-traveled friend a proper lesson."

"Hehe, the trap has been set, the ambush is complete. With such an inescapable net, even if he sprouts wings, he will not escape."

Amid a burst of piercing laughter, more than ten figures vanished from the room.

"This next wave of experience is going to be insane."

Xiao Yan swaggered toward the south of the city, glancing sideways at Ye Guyi's flushed face with a raised corner of his mouth.

Within his mind was a city formed from flames, identical to Sunrise City.

Unlike the small fry he had killed before.

In the south of the city, countless dense little red dots and several large red dots were gathered.

"..." Ye Guyi's face was flushed red, and she could not say a word.

When Xiao Yan had killed those people earlier, he had mixed in a strand of her Angel Holy Flame, causing her to receive a great share of the experience.

She could only follow closely behind Xiao Yan, focusing entirely on cultivation.

After passing through more than a dozen cities, the experience she had mooched was becoming too much for her to handle. Following the cultivation method Xiao Yan had taught her, she felt as though she was about to successfully carve out a special space within her dantian.

Yet she could not make any further progress. Only by staying beside Xiao Yan, or by being taken into the Flame Domain by him, could she cultivate normally.

As Xiao Yan placed a hand on Ye Guyi's shoulder, streams of warm flames flowed into her. Their auras quickly connected as one, and as the flames guided their soul power in circulation, Ye Guyi soon let out a long breath. Sure enough, dual cultivation with Xiao Yan was still more comfortable.

Watching Xiao Yan withdraw his hand with lingering reluctance, Ye Guyi could not stop savoring the thrill of such rapid cultivation, coupled with casually suppressing and killing Evil Soul Masters.

Gulp, there was no going back now. She was completely unable to leave Lord Xiao Yan...

Ye Guyi purified the strange thoughts in her mind with holy power. Keeping her expression straight and suppressing the blush on her face, she gave a dry cough and changed the subject.

"Boss, what level are the Evil Soul Masters ahead? Soul Douluo?"

From the time she had encountered Xiao Yan and followed him in killing Evil Soul Masters until now, she had never once seen him go all out. Every time, he acted with effortless ease. It was as if he restrained Evil Soul Masters even more than she did with her Angel Martial Soul. With only the slightest move, he made them unable to cope.

"There are Soul Douluo. More than one, too." Xiao Yan glanced at the cameras lining both sides of the streets and the bustling main road devoid of a single pedestrian, then smiled faintly. Those Evil Soul Masters were rather creative, trying to use the arrogance he had displayed to pull off an open scheme.

He wanted to see what kind of show those people had prepared for him.

Fiery Golden Eyes!

Xiao Yan's pupils instantly turned crimson-gold. As flames surged, they pierced through all things in the world.

His gaze fell toward the south of the city, and he immediately clicked his tongue repeatedly.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. They really spent a fortune to ambush me."

Seeing Ye Guyi standing beside him with the blank look of someone blind, Xiao Yan flicked out a wisp of flame and allowed her to share his vision.

It was a massive underground plaza. Three identical old men stood in the middle as if waiting for something, while two identical women lay in ambush in the shadows on either side.

"There, triplets and twins. Five Evil Soul Masters at the Soul Douluo level." Xiao Yan smiled faintly.

This was merely the most obvious ambush. Combining his memories from his previous life with the intelligence he had, those three old men were undoubtedly the three Zhongli brothers. As for the two women, they were the sisters Wuyun and Wuyu.

All of them were Evil Soul Masters at the Soul Douluo level. The three brothers possessed the Netherworld Snake Martial Soul and were exceptionally skilled in defense. The sisters' Vengeful Souls, meanwhile, possessed astonishingly high killing power.

Either Vengeful Soul on its own could rival an ordinary Title Douluo.

With the three Zhongli brothers taking the front and absorbing damage, even a level ninety-four Title Douluo could not defeat this combination.

Before Ye Guyi could even recover from her shock, Xiao Yan looked once more toward the hidden space within the walls.

After being isolated by special materials, even a spiritual-type Soul Douluo would not be able to detect anything unusual within.

An organized Soul Engineer corps was lying in ambush inside. Several Fixed Soul Missiles that radiated terrifying fluctuations had even been planted there.

"This!!!" Ye Guyi's eyes widened. The Evil Soul Masters had actually infiltrated the empire to such an extent!

With such an inescapable net, even a Super Douluo who came here would likely be buried in this place!

Yet an exceptionally dissatisfied voice sounded beside her ear.

"What, just this? Who are you looking down on?"

"An ambush? Then ambush me properly!"