Waves crashed against the shore, and the roaring was incessant.
Above the battlefield, the Sun Moon Empire walked out a hulking figure in order to guard its final shred of dignity.
That was an old man who looked to be in his seventies or eighties. His appearance was thoroughly unremarkable, but his pair of eyes were as sharp as a hawk's.
His pupils were a brilliant yellow, like the sun, flashing with a scorching brilliance. He walked step by step to the center of the battlefield, gazing at Ye Qingqiu and the others ahead.
The moment he set foot on the battlefield, the entire heaven and earth abruptly rose in temperature.
"Xu Ming of the Sun Moon Empire, please offer your guidance!"
Following the falling of his words, nine soul rings began to ripple beneath him. It was still the top-tier soul ring configuration, except that his martial soul was terrifying, rising behind him like a great sun.
The crimson scorching sun projection hung beneath the firmament, burning golden flames draped down in all directions, and boiling waves of fire filled the air.
The originally chilly seawater actually steamed into a sky full of white mist on the sea surface. The roaring waves were scorched layer by layer into vapor by the high temperature, water mist surged into the sky, and the heatwaves were still boiling and stinging to the skin across several thousand meters.
A level-ninety-four Titled Douluo, martial soul Sun, possessing the Ultimate Fire attribute, title Red Sun!!
He and the Blazing Sun Douluo were brothers, except that the Blazing Sun Douluo's flame attribute had not reached the Ultimate Attribute, so his cultivation speed was slightly faster.
Yet his Red Sun was the solid, genuine Ultimate Fire!
This was a countermeasure card on the side of the Sun Moon Empire.
Through the preceding duels, they had already seen that the royal contestants of the Blue Silver Empire possessed a very obvious characteristic: the majority were of the wood attribute belonging to the Blue Silver series, whereas Ultimate Fire was specialized against the wood attribute.
Therefore, they gambled on this match; they were going to play on attribute restraint!
Xu Ming stood planted in the center of the sea of fire, his expression arrogant and fierce. His older brother had been beaten so miserably; whether it was fighting for national glory or avenging his brother, he had to go all out to win this round!
The solar blazing flames around his body surged violently, and he looked at Ye Gucheng and the others opposite.
"I wonder who from the Blue Silver Continent side will come out to fight?"
Amidst the bated breath of the masses, Ye Gucheng looked toward the Wanderer warship behind him. Although there were a few Titled Douluo accompanying them on the ship, their combat strength was not outstanding, and facing this formidable Red Sun Douluo, they might not necessarily win.
Immediately, he cast his gaze toward Ye Qingqiu by his side.
"Ninth Sister, when you came, who did Father send to protect you?"
Ye Qingqiu pouted, feeling slightly guilty with a somewhat flushed pretty face as she said:
"Ahem, I... I sneaked out and didn't tell Father..."
Although he did not get the answer he wanted, Ye Gucheng knew that his old man would never let Ye Qingqiu face danger alone. The entirety of Blue Silver City was under his control; how could he not know that his precious pearl had run off?!
Just as he turned his head, a streak of white-robed flowing light stepped through the air and arrived instantaneously above the vast sky.
There was no roar of mecha, no sound of soul power breaking through the air, only a white-robed figure arriving while stepping upon a streak of sword light.
His posture was solitary and unyielding, his white robes snapping fiercely in the wind, yet his speed was not inferior in the slightest to Ye Qingqiu's supersonic mecha.
The instant they saw that wispy sword light, Ye Qingqiu and Ye Gucheng's pupils lit up simultaneously. The Red Dragon Douluo stood beside them, a smile of settled certainty blooming across his face, and even Huo Yunhao, standing off to one side, revealed a trace of yearning in his eyes.
"Fourth Brother!!"
"Old Fourth!!"
The person who had arrived was none other than the fourth prince of the Blue Silver Empire, Ye Jian.
The sword light beneath Ye Jian's feet swept through an arc, finally stopping in front of Ye Gucheng and the others.
He first nodded at the Red Dragon Douluo, then his gentle gaze looked toward Ye Qingqiu, extending a hand with his index and middle fingers pressed together and curled, hovering right there.
Ye Qingqiu seemed to have known her fate long ago, wincing with a bitter little face as she stretched her head beneath his hand.
Carrying a trace of a smile on his face, Ye Jian gave her a light tap on the head before reaching out to give her a rub.
"Father said that after you saw Third Brother's performance, you definitely couldn't hold back your temperament, so he let me follow behind you to protect you."
"As it happens, let me make a move for this third match of Titled Douluo combat."
As proud as Ye Qingqiu was, with her eyes raised above the top and practically invincible among her peers, before this fourth brother she could only pout:
"Fourth Brother, I know you're very strong, but that Xu Ming on the other side isn't weak either, and what's more, he's level ninety-four-a full three levels higher than you!"
"It's fine."
With his hands clasped behind his back and after exchanging greetings with the third prince Ye Gucheng, Ye Jian stepped upon a blade of grass and flew into the center of the battlefield.
"Blue Silver Empire, Ye Jian, please!"
Very few people knew Ye Jian's strength. Unlike the third prince Ye Gucheng, who joined the military to establish military achievements, he only liked reading and practicing the sword, ordinarily serving as a lecturer within the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.
Had Ma Hongjun not wantonly mocked them on the firmament earlier, coupled with his little sister Ye Qingqiu single-handedly rushing to the front lines to court danger, and him going out upon the command of the Emperor of the Blue Silver Empire, perhaps some people would not have known at all about this fourth prince's peerless combat strength!
Ye Qingqiu and the others' conversation just now had not avoided them, so Xu Ming heard every word of it.
The young man before him actually wanted to fight a level ninety-four himself with level ninety-one strength; he truly did not know whether to call him arrogant or confident.
He possessed the Ultimate Fire martial soul, after all. Both his martial soul quality and his own strength were absolute top-tier, and he was also a genius of the Sun Moon Empire in his youth, yet now someone actually wanted to defeat [trans: fight an uphill battle to slay a superior] him.
He smiled.
Even if the opponent was a so-called prince of the Blue Silver Empire, he still did not feel that the opponent had the slightest chance of winning.
In that case, this match was his to take!
"Sun Moon Empire, Xu Ming, martial soul Sun, level ninety-four, head bone, right arm, and left leg bone-three soul bones. Please!"
"Blue Silver Empire, Ye Jian, martial soul Blue Silver Sword Grass, level ninety-one, no soul bones. Please."
The moment Ye Jian's voice fell, the entire battlefield and even the firmament were shocked.
[Sun Moon Continent · Theorist Little Shi Yu Dahang]:
"Viewed from the theoretical research of my many years as a theorist, in this battle, the Blue Silver Empire is bound to lose!"
[Douluo Continent · Sword Douluo Chen Xin]:
"A bit interesting. Blue Silver Grass possessing Sword Intent-can his Sword Intent block the Ultimate Fire of this Sun martial soul?"
[Blue Silver Continent · Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Student Liu Neng]:
"Hey, this... Ye Jian is my homeroom teacher! My homeroom teacher is a Titled Douluo? Holy moly, classmates, come quick and cheer for our old teacher!"
[Douluo Continent · Theory Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang (Regained Confidence Edition)]:
"Hmph, the gap is a full three levels, and furthermore it's three levels of cultivation at the Titled tier; this Ye Jian is bound to lose without a doubt!
Every single level above Titled Douluo is a natural chasm. Level ninety-one against level ninety-four is already fighting across tiers, not to mention that his attributes are suppressed by the fire attribute-he is bound to lose without a doubt!"
[Douluo Continent · Seven Treasure Witch Ning Rongrong]:
"Gosh, everyone from the Ye family is so handsome!
Yet why on earth does a proper imperial fourth prince not have a single soul bone? Is it that he looks down on them?"
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