Ji Juechen Wants to Challenge Chen Xin? Deploying Soul Tool Satellites!

The two quickly returned to the mountain.

The camp was already set up, and the soldiers were taking orderly shifts to eat.

Kong Deming bent over a table, swiftly drawing a map of the surrounding area from information transmitted by the High-Altitude Detection Soul Tool.

Ji Juechen lay high in a tree, his sword cradled in his arms. Whenever a reckless soul beast came near, sword light flashed and the beast fell to pieces. No one could even see the sword fanatic make his move.

Jing Hongchen was taking stock of their supplies.

Seeing Ju Zi and Li Chen return, Jing Hongchen hurried over.

"How did it go?"

Li Chen gave him a quick summary.

"Oh? So we're right on Spirit Hall's doorstep?"

Kong Deming set down his pen and paper and came over. "Should we send someone into the city to investigate? If conditions allow, we could take Spirit Hall quickly."

Li Chen shook his head with a wry smile. "Elder Kong, that's not realistic."

"Spirit Hall is the strongest power on the continent today. Its Elder Hall has seven elders, all Titled Douluo, and its chief elder, Qian Daoliu, is a Limit Douluo."

"What's more, Bibi Dong, the Rakshasa God's successor, is there. Spirit Hall also has the Angel God's legacy."

"If we fight them head-on now, I'm afraid we'll suffer terrible losses."

Jing Hongchen stared. "Spirit Hall is that strong?!"

"Wait. Spirit Hall had a Limit Douluo ten thousand years ago? That's no weaker than Shrek Academy ten thousand years from now."

After all,

ten thousand years later, the Douluo Continent had only a handful of Limit Douluo: Long Xiaoyao, Ye Xishui, and Mu En.

Shrek Academy itself had only Dragon God Douluo Mu En.

Huo Yuhao frowned. "Spirit Hall was this strong, yet Tang San still destroyed it. Does that mean Heaven Dou, Star Luo, or Shrek Academy has someone even stronger right now?!"

Unease stirred in Huo Yuhao's heart.

That would be terrible news. If it were true, killing Tang San would be a pipe dream.

Because,

among them now,

only Kong Deming could stand against a Limit Douluo, and only with his level-ten Soul Tool, the Sun Moon Divine Light Shield.

Li Chen waved a hand. "No. Ju Zi and I have looked into it. Everything we found is here."

Li Chen pulled out a sheet of paper containing what he had learned by asking around.

He had known all of it already, but going through the motions would keep Ju Zi and the others from questioning where he had come from.

The group quickly passed the paper around and read it.

"Whoa!"

Jing Hongchen marveled. "So ten thousand years ago, the Top Three Sects dominated the Douluo Continent, while the two empires, Star Luo and Heaven Dou, had little in the way of high-level fighters."

"Those sects held as much power as nations. That's absurd."

Huo Yuhao soon spotted the crucial point:

"Shrek Academy's situation is unknown. Could it have only just started developing, so hardly anyone knows about it?"

Li Chen nodded. "Probably. But that also rules out the possibility that Shrek Academy has any high-level fighters. If a powerful expert were backing it, most people would have heard of the academy."

Huo Yuhao breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's good."

Huo Yuhao hated Tang San to the bone.

If Tang San had a powerful protector, dealing with him would be much harder.

Huo Yuhao was only a Soul Emperor right now. He was confident he could beat an ordinary Soul Sage, but even he would not boast that he could take on a Titled Douluo.

Ji Juechen spoke up, a rare occurrence:

"Interesting. One of the protectors of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, a member of the Top Three Sects, is a Titled Douluo called Sword Douluo Chen Xin."

Ji Juechen narrowed his eyes. "If I get the chance, I'll challenge Chen Xin!"

Ji Juechen had little interest in unifying the continent.

He had begun cultivating with an ordinary sword martial soul and only innate level-three Soul Power. Every soul skill he had learned enhanced his own abilities, and he had carved out his path through sheer dedication to his swordsmanship.

Ji Juechen desperately needed another swordsman to test and temper himself against.

He was now a level-eighty-nine Soul Douluo,

and had been stuck just short of becoming a Titled Douluo for a long time.

Ji Juechen had a feeling

that if he found a formidable opponent to push him, he might break through to Titled Douluo in one stroke!

"Interesting. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon!"

The Hongchen siblings marveled. "The continent's strongest beast martial soul? That name sounds pretty imposing."

Xiao Hongchen clenched his fist with a cold laugh. "I wonder how it would fare against my Three-Legged Golden Toad!"

Kong Deming quickly drew the information together.

"So the Douluo Continent has quite a few powerful experts at present."

"Of the Top Three Sects, both the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan have Titled Douluo backing them."

"The foremost sect, the Clear Sky Sect, is even more formidable. Its Limit Douluo, Tang Chen, has disappeared, and we don't know whether he's alive. If he is..."

"Together with Spirit Hall's Qian Daoliu, that would give the Douluo Continent two Limit Douluo!"

Kong Deming had to admit he was impressed.

They might have traveled here from ten thousand years in the future,

but the Douluo Continent's top-tier combat strength left him speechless.

Was this the pinnacle of the soul master system?

He had to bow to these veterans.

Even ten thousand years later, their Sun Moon Empire had no Limit Douluo to speak of. It had needed to cooperate with the Holy Spirit Cult and rely on Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui.

Jing Hongchen sighed too. "No wonder the Douluo Continent's soul masters reached the Sun Moon Continent first and committed every atrocity from arson to murder and looting."

"Their soul master system had already developed this far ten thousand years ago. If Soul Tool Technology hadn't flourished, our Sun Moon Empire would probably have been swallowed by the Douluo Continent long ago."

Ju Zi tapped the table.

"That's enough reflection."

"We need to decide on a plan: what to do now, and how to do it."

At Ju Zi's words,

everyone settled down.

Huo Yuhao and the Hongchen siblings excused themselves. This was a strategy discussion for the leadership, not a place for them to speak.

Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan left as well. He would simply do whatever his superiors ordered.

A tall, elderly man spoke up.

Li Chen looked at him. He was Ye Yulin, a senior member of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, known as Starry Douluo.

He was a level-ninety-three Titled Douluo and a level-nine Soul Engineer.

He specialized in designing long-range aerial Soul Tools and had created famous devices such as the Sun Moon Divine Needle and the Eye of Fear.

"Old Kong and I took inventory. We don't have many Soul Tool weapons left. I have a Sun Moon Divine Needle, and Old Kong has a Silver Moon Divine Light Shield."

"Across our two Soul Tool regiments, only about half the soldiers have Soul Tool Machine Guns and Soul Tool Magazines. That cuts our combat strength considerably."

"We have fewer than ten High-Altitude Detection Soul Tools, only thirty Soul Tool drones, two thousand Soul Guidance Milk Bottles, and fewer than a hundred sets of Soul Tool Exoskeleton Armor. As for Energy-Gathering Soul Tool Cannons..."

Ye Yulin quickly summarized their current military resources. Everyone there was a Soul Engineer and keenly aware of the numbers, so the inventory mattered.

"I don't think we should act rashly. The situation on the continent is complicated. If we attack first, the others could easily join forces against us."

Li Chen nodded. "Agreed."

Ju Zi and Kong Deming raised their hands in agreement too.

Ye Yulin continued:

"We simply don't have enough Soul Tools. Our first priority is to obtain more raw metals. We have plenty of Soul Engineers here; with materials, we can gradually replenish our equipment."

"Above all, we need Soul Tool Satellites and Fixed-Installed Soul Tool Shells. Once we have Soul Tool Satellites, we'll have eyes on the entire continent."

"Then, whatever we do, we'll be one step ahead!"