Phoenix God Continent Had the Power to Destroy the World?

Sun Moon Empire, Mingdu.

Inside Virtue Hall's research institute, hundreds of Soul Engineers watching the Sky Screen drew a sharp breath in unison.

A Level-Twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shell?

That number nearly blinded them all.

The Chat Interface erupted.

[Lu Renjia: Level twelve? You've got to be joking. Even a level-ten Fixed Soul Cannon Shell is only a theoretical concept!]

[Pao Huiyi: That's pure alarmism! A Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell is already the strongest weapon we can imagine. Level twelve can't possibly exist!]

[Tu Feiding: The empire only has a few Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shells. Level twelve? There's a limit to how much you can boast!]

The people of Douluo Continent, however, were baffled.

They had no idea why the people of the Sun Moon Empire had suddenly become so agitated.

Only a tiny handful understood what a "Level-Twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shell" meant.

Star Luo Empire, the imperial palace.

Xu Jiawei stared fixedly at the words on the Sky Screen.

"Level twelve... If this news is true..."

The palaces of the Heaven Dou Empire and Dou Ling Empire were just as deathly silent.

Meanwhile, inside the Body Sect...

Du Busi picked at his ear, looking utterly lost.

[Du Busi: What's all this about cannon shells?

You're all making such a racket. What is this thing, anyway? Is it worth a lot of money?]

As soon as the message appeared, someone answered him.

[Fan Yu: Sect Master Du, Fixed Soul Cannon Shells are the most powerful single-target Soul Tools currently known.

The strongest we know of is the Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell.

Only the Sun Moon Empire possesses them, and in extremely small numbers. They say no more than five exist in the entire empire.

One shell has power comparable to a Limit Douluo's all-out strike.

If detonated, it could destroy a large city in an instant!]

Fan Yu's messages sent the previously confused people of Douluo Continent into an uproar.

A Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell was as powerful as a Limit Douluo's strike?

It could destroy a city in an instant?

Then what did a Level-Twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shell from Phoenix God Continent represent?

[Du Busi: Kid, are you serious?

One shell can flatten an entire city?]

[Fan Yu: Absolutely! Every Soul Engineer knows this. I wouldn't dare make it up.]

[Du Busi: Now that's interesting.

Shrek Academy has been researching Soul Tools for a thousand years, hasn't it?

Don't tell me an academy that big can't produce even one Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell?]

That message landed squarely across Shrek Academy's face like a slap.

[Fan Yu: ...I'm ashamed to say it.

Forget level nine. Across all of Douluo Continent, there isn't a single Soul Engineer who can make even a level-eight Fixed Soul Cannon Shell.

The gap between Douluo Continent's Soul Tool technology and the Sun Moon Empire's is greater than we imagined.]

Then a message from Xuan Zi popped up.

[Xuan Zi: Hmph! I said long ago that the Soul Tool Department was useless!

After hundreds of years, you still can't make a single cannon shell, yet you take up so many of the academy's resources every year. What a waste of Shrek's funds!]

At Shrek Academy, those words made Xian Lin'er, head of the Soul Tool Department, explode on the spot.

[Xian Lin'er: Xuan Zi, that's completely unreasonable!

You know perfectly well how much funding the Soul Tool Department gets from the academy each year!

Ten Soul Tool Departments' budgets put together wouldn't amount to a fraction of the Martial Soul Department's!

Soul Engineer is already the most expensive profession on the continent!

If Shrek Academy wants to develop Soul Tools, it has to increase our budget!

Instead, you expect us to embroider a dragon robe with a sewing needle!]

[Xuan Zi: If you can't embroider it, you can't embroider it. Stop making excuses.]

[Xian Lin'er: You—]

Shrek Academy, the Soul Tool Department head's office.

Qian Duoduo hurriedly cut off his wife, afraid she was about to offer Xuan Zi a rather personal greeting involving his parents.

The Sun Moon Empire could not be bothered to look at Shrek Academy's quarrel.

All their attention was fixed on the words "level twelve."

Sun Moon Empire, the imperial palace.

The Sun Moon Emperor Xu Yutian sat on his dragon throne, staring fixedly at "Level-Twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shell" on the sky screen.

As the Sun Moon Empire's emperor, he knew better than anyone what a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell meant.

It was the strategic weapon the Sun Moon Empire kept hidden away, a national treasure that deterred all of Douluo Continent!

Even after pouring centuries of accumulated resources into it, the entire empire had produced only a handful.

Yet now, this Sky Screen that had appeared out of nowhere was telling him...

Another continent had already created Level-Twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shells and was preparing to mass-produce them?

Only after a long while did Xu Yutian force down the stormy waves raging in his heart and post a message on the Chat Interface.

[Xu Yutian: Elder Kong, I would like to ask: what exactly does a Level-Twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shell mean?]

At that, the chaotic Chat Interface gradually fell quiet.

Most people on Douluo Continent were unfamiliar with the name "Elder Kong."

Even many ordinary Soul Engineers in the Sun Moon Empire had barely heard him called that.

But among the empire's high-ranking Soul Engineers...

The name of Silver Moon Douluo Kong Deming rang like thunder!

Master of the Sun Moon Empire's Offering Hall, founder of Virtue Hall, foremost among Level 9 Soul Engineers, and the man hailed as the "father of Soul Tools"!

Legend said he was the person closest to becoming a Level 10 Soul Engineer!

Even the current master of Virtue Hall, Jing Hongchen, and the Level 9 Soul Engineer Starry Sky Douluo Ye Yulin respectfully called him teacher!

It was no exaggeration to say that this old man had laid the foundations of the Sun Moon Empire's entire Soul Tool system!

Yet this man who stood at the pinnacle of Soul Tool research remained silent for a long time before answering Xu Yutian's question.

[Kong Deming: Your Majesty.

I have studied Soul Tools all my life, but a Level-Twelve Fixed Soul Cannon Shell...

Even I cannot imagine what terrifying power it would possess.]

At those words, Xu Yutian's heart sank inch by inch.

Even Kong Deming could not imagine it?

[Kong Deming: However, though I cannot imagine it, I can make an estimate.

Each increase in a Fixed Soul Cannon Shell's level does not merely double its power. Its power surges by a geometric multiple!

By my estimate, if a level-ten Fixed Soul Cannon Shell were ever made, it could annihilate an entire nation in an instant!]

Annihilate an entire nation!

Countless people held their breath at those words.

But Kong Deming was not finished.

[Kong Deming: A level-eleven Fixed Soul Cannon Shell could sink an entire continent!]

Sink an entire continent?!

[Kong Deming: As for level twelve...]

A full ten breaths passed before the rest of Kong Deming's message appeared.

[Kong Deming: Perhaps the sky, the land, the oceans... everything in this world would cease to exist beneath that kind of power!]