In the border war, Spirit Hall deployed ten Titled Douluos and over ten thousand Soul Masters. Among those ten Titled Douluos were three who had never appeared before, whose names no one in the Douluo ranks had ever heard. A suffocating aura of blood surrounded them, as though they had crawled out of hell.
The Heaven Sect also deployed over ten Titled Douluos, more than ten thousand Soul Masters, and an army two to three hundred thousand strong.
The Clear Sky Sect arrived to support them under Tang Xiao and Tang Hao's personal leadership, while Chen Xin led reinforcements from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After Grandmaster returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Yu Yuanzhen personally led the clan's Soul Masters to the border.
The balance of power on the battlefield tipped outright. The Wanling Empire's forces now completely overwhelmed Spirit Hall's.
Spirit Hall lost four Titled Douluos in that battle. The Chrysanthemum and Ghost Douluos suffered grievous injuries, Ghost Leopard Douluo lost an arm, and more than half their Soul Masters were lost. Only after Qian Jun and Jiang Mo led a desperate rescue did Spirit Hall's remaining forces manage to withdraw from the battlefield.
The Wanling Empire suffered no losses among its top fighters, only casualties within its army.
What puzzled everyone was that Bibi Dong, the Pope, had never appeared despite the scale of Spirit Hall's operation.
In Slaughter City, Tang Chen had been repairing the breaches that had appeared there ever since parting ways with Tang Xuan and the others. The power of slaughter within the city had diminished considerably. While repairing the breaches, Tang Chen had inadvertently allowed a few small fry to slip out. Too busy sealing the breaches, he had no attention to spare for them. In his view, those