Come, fight your way out with me!

The Black Iron gate, weighing tens of thousands of kilograms, burst open with a deafening roar, and the flames from outside the underground passage surged in.

The atmosphere in the fortress council chamber was heavy.

Ning Fengzhi held three blood-stained urgent reports in his hand, with Sword Douluo Chen Xin, Bone Douluo Gu Rong, and Dugu Bo, whose left rib was wrapped in bandages, standing on either side.

In the center of the hall, three elite scouts from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect knelt on one knee on the Blue Stone bricks, their bodies covered in soot and smoke.

Su Chen stepped out of the passageway. The black and purple poison markings on his left neck had long since faded, and the level 54 Soul Power surging around him was even more domineering and powerful than before his seclusion.

Ning Fengzhi's tightly furrowed brows relaxed slightly, and he quickly stepped forward, saying in a deep voice, "Young friend Su Chen, Your Highness Qian Renxue, the Heaven Dou Imperial City is in complete chaos! Just half an hour ago, the old thief Xue Xing forcibly ascended the throne in the Tai Chi Hall with a forged Blood Edict of Succession, falsely accusing the Eastern Palace and my Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect School of conspiring to murder the emperor. Right now, 100,000 troops from the capital region and elders of the Clear Sky Sect are gathering, preparing to surround us from all sides!"

Chen Xin gripped the Seven Kill Sword tightly and said coldly, "That's not all. Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Liu Erlong, who fled from Suotuo City to Heaven Dou, have openly surrendered to the Xue Xing Pseudo-Dynasty. Xue Xing has appointed them as commanders of the Royal Soul Master Legion, and these three are currently leading a large number of Pseudo-Dynasty henchmen on raids, specifically targeting academy teams and small sects inside and outside the city that refuse to submit their pledge of allegiance!"

A cold glint flashed in Su Chen's eyes as he looked at the other scroll of secret letters bearing the dark gold Pope emblem in Ning Fengzhi's hand. "What about Spirit City?"

"Spirit City is enraged!" Ning Fengzhi a deep breath and handed over the Dark Gold Confidential Report. "News from the Battle of the Meridian Gate has reached Spirit City. Pope Bibi Dong, upon learning of Yue Guan's death, shattered her Pope's Scepter on the spot! Ghost Douluo Gui Mei tearfully pleaded for battle before the Pope's Hall and has now personally led the four Platinum Bishop and 20,000 elite Soul Master of the Spirit Hall on a night expedition northward, officially declaring war on the Heaven Dou False Dynasty!"

The council chamber fell silent, and everyone turned to look at Su Chen.

Su Chen reached into the Wishful Treasure Pouch at his waist and took out the few petals of the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum that he had picked up in the ruins of the Meridian Gate.

The edges of the golden petals had long since dried and darkened, and the life essence blood of the Titled Douluo that stained them still exuded a tragic, bloody smell.

Looking at the remaining petals in his palm, the scene of Yue Guan burning his ninth Soul Ring and blocking his head, turning into a rain of blood, resurfaced in Su Chen's mind, and killing intent surged in his chest.

He carefully tucked the petals back into his body, surveyed the crowd in the hall, and said in a cold, hard voice, "Yue Guan was ordered to protect us! From this day forward, the blood feud between the Spirit Hall and the Clear Sky Sect is my, Su Chen's, undying blood feud! Issue the order: my forces will form a life-or-death alliance with the Spirit Hall army marching north. Once the two armies unite, we will crush the false Heaven Dou Dynasty, behead Tang Hao and his son Tang San, and offer our sacrifice to Yue Guan Guan's spirit in heaven!"

Standing beside Su Chen, Qian Renxue's eyes trembled slightly as she listened to these words.

She knew better than anyone else Yue Guan in the Spirit Hall. Su Chen's statement completely dispelled the last trace of estrangement between the former members of the Eastern Palace and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

While making the vow, Su Chen also had some doubts in his heart.

Since awakening in Holy Soul Village, he has never set foot in Spirit City, nor has he ever met Bibi Dong.

A level 95 Super Titled Douluo would be a pillar of strength suppressing destiny in any faction.

What exactly did Bibi Dong, that ruthless and cold-blooded woman, see in him that made her willing to go to such lengths to give Yue Guan a death order to protect his life, even at the cost of her own?

Su Chen turned his head to look at Qian Renxue beside him and asked in a low voice, "You hold a prestigious position in the Spirit Hall, do you know why Bibi Dong would place such a huge bet on me?"

Qian Renxue gently shook her head. "I've been lurking in Heaven Dou for over ten years, rarely interfering in the Pope's Hall's clandestine affairs. I only heard Uncle She Long mention casually that six years ago, the Nuoding City branch submitted a top-secret Dossier to the Pope's Hall with the highest level of confidentiality. After reading the Dossier, that woman immediately Elder Hall' objections and personally issued the highest-level death warrant to secretly protect you..."

The Dossier submitted by Nuoding City six years ago? Su Chen secretly made a mental note of this matter, his eyes sharpened, and he strode to the military sand table in the center of the council hall.

Ning Fengzhi pointed to the terrain south of the city on the sand table, his face showing worry. "Young friend Su Chen, the 100,000 troops from the capital region and the elders of the Clear Sky Sect will complete the encirclement within two hours at the latest. Although the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Grand Array of the fortress is sturdy, facing the repeated attacks of 100,000 troops and Titled Douluo, I'm afraid it won't last until the sect's main reinforcements arrive..."

"Being trapped in this isolated city is a slow death. I have no intention of staying here like a sitting duck!" Su Chen slammed his palm on the exit of the Official Road on the south side of the sand table. "The Clear Sky Sect's mountain gate is only three hundred miles east of Heaven Dou City. Once they bring in the remaining titled elders who are cultivating in seclusion, it's only a matter of time before they exhaust the city's protective array! Order the entire army to abandon this fortress immediately, assemble lightly equipped within half an hour, and follow me south for a forced breakout!"

"Alright! I'll go and muster five thousand elite armored soldiers to clear the way!" Chen Xin's eyes flashed with sword light, and he, Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, and Dugu Bo immediately accepted the order and left, and the entire fortress quickly began to operate.

Taking advantage of the half-hour gap while the army was breaking camp and preparing, Su Chen led Gu Yuena, Qian Renxue, and the Xiao Wu three women into the inner hall's quiet room.

With a slight thought, he took out a jade bottle that shimmered with nine-colored light.

"Gu Yuena, drink this bottle of repair fluid to stabilize your Divine Core." Su Chen uncorked the bottle and handed it to her.

Gu Yuena, transformed into a sixteen or seventeen-year-old silver-haired girl, had a slight glint in her pale purple dragon eyes. She took the jade bottle, tilted her head back, and drank it all in one gulp.

The nine-colored divine liquid melted upon entering her throat, instantly condensing into a thick ancestral dragon seal on her heart, suppressing the restless dark red Asura Sword Qi deep within her brow.

Her previously pale face quickly regained its rosy hue, and the scattered Elemental God around her solidified again. She whispered, "Thank you."

Su Chen nodded and took out the 20,000-year Soul Bone Age Enhancement Card.

A series of rapid cracking sounds emanated from his spine as eight 30,000-year-old Ice-Fire Dark-Gold Dragon Emperor Spear pierced through his clothes from Su Chen.

A surge of powerful golden-red primordial energy flowed into his bone marrow, and the eight slender, dark-gold bone spears merged and reshaped amidst the blazing divine light, with tough, dark-gold dragon wing-like bone membranes rapidly growing between the sharp joints.

The left wing was shrouded in the laws of extreme cold and profound ice, while the right wing burned with the Pure Yang Ancestral Dragon True Fire, and the edges of the wings were also marked with a wisp of silver spatial sharpness that tore through the void.

The Ice-Fire Dark-Gold Dragon Emperor Wings, a top-grade External Soul Bone with a wingspan of four meters, was fully formed after 50,000 years! With a gentle shake, Su Chen cut several visible vacuum blade marks in the air inside the quiet room, combining high-speed flight, powerful defense, and whirlwind killing.

Without pausing, he flipped his hand and took out two fragrant, God-Level Barrier-Breaking Pill, followed by two dark-gold divinely bestowed Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring source crystals, handing them directly to Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling: "Yanzi, Lingling, refine these two source crystals and break through to the fourth ten-thousand-year soul ring!"

Dugu Yan gripped the warm Source Crystal tightly, her emerald eyes blazing with fighting spirit.

Without hesitation, the two women swallowed the Breakthrough Pill on the spot, sat cross-legged, and then crushed the Source Crystal with their hands.

Two violent bursts of Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring primal power exploded, instantly engulfing them.

The soul impact contained within the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring caused Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to tremble violently.

"Pure Yang Dragon Aura, suppress!" Su Chen stepped forward, and the pressure of the level 54 Chaos Ancestral Dragon and the pure Pure Yang Dragon Qi surged into the Meridians of the two women, firmly protecting their hearts and internal organs.

Gu Yuena, standing to the side, also raised her delicate hand in unison. The seven-colored elemental Dragon Might's might pressed down from the sky, directly smoothing out and taming the remaining violent and ferocious energy within the divinely bestowed source crystal.

Under the dual protection of the two supreme dragon bloodlines, the residual medicinal power of the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma and the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid that had been accumulated in the two women's bodies was completely detonated.

In less than a quarter of an hour, two deep, ink-black, and incredibly powerful Fourth Soul Ring, each ten thousand years old, condensed and took shape under the feet of Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling.

The Jade Phosphorus Purple Crystal Snake Martial Soul behind Dugu Yan roared silently to the sky, the purple-gold imperial pattern on its crown shone brightly, and the poison completely transformed into the domineering Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison. Its Soul Power leaped four levels, reaching the forty-fourth level, ten-thousand-year four-ring Battle Soul Ancestor!

The Red-Gold Dragon-Pattern Begonia in Ye Lingling's palm bloomed brilliantly, and the rich life light filled the quiet room. Her Soul Power leaped to level 43, a ten-thousand-year Four-Ring Soul Ancestor!

Just then, a deep and desolate bugle call sounded from the training ground outside the fortress.

"Let's go, follow me and fight our way out!" Su Chen folded his wings and led the group of women, whose cultivation had greatly improved, out in a great stride.