Ghost Leopard Douluo carried Demon Bear Douluo all the way back to Spirit City.
Demon Bear Douluo was badly wounded. He had relied on Ghost Leopard Douluo to carry him the entire way, and even after they entered the city, his face was deathly pale. Blood from one side of his body had soaked through his clothes.
The guards on the walls saw the two Titled Douluo return in such a state from afar. None dared step forward to ask what had happened.
But every heart skipped a beat.
Ghost Leopard Douluo handed Demon Bear Douluo over to the healing Soul Masters, straightened his armor, and went directly to the Papal Hall.
"I must see Her Majesty!"
A guard at the hall went in to announce him. A moment later, he was summoned inside.
After this period of recuperation, Bibi Dong had recovered considerably, though her face remained somewhat pale.
She sat high on her throne. When she saw Ghost Leopard Douluo enter alone, his armor dusty and his expression haggard, she knew Linxing Pass had fallen.
"Speak."
"Your Majesty, I have failed you!" Ghost Leopard Douluo dropped to one knee and bowed his head.
"Linxing Pass has fallen."
"A new kind of weapon appeared in their army."
"It was devastating. From an enormous distance away, it blasted straight through the pass walls."
"Demon Bear and I did everything we could, but we couldn't stop them."
He described the cannon, the shot leaving its barrel, and the walls collapsing, recounting everything exactly as it had happened.
The faces of the other elders in the hall grew grimmer with every word.
It meant that from now on, no city wall would be safe before the Heaven Dou army.
All they had to do was set up a cannon, and a city