While Huo Yuhao was aboard this cargo ship, sailing toward the Star Luo Empire.
News of the attack on the Spirit Pagoda branch in Lingbo City of the Heaven Dou Empire had already spread across the three continents. Of them, the Star Luo Empire had the most muted response.
Although the threat of the Sun Moon Federation had naturally led the Star Luo Empire to form a tacit alliance of sorts with the even weaker Heaven Dou Empire, the two empires were simply too far apart.
On top of that, the Star Luo Empire leaned more toward the Tang Sect, so it had little reaction upon learning of the attack on the Spirit Pagoda, offering only the customary condemnation of such attacks.
The strongest reaction naturally came from the Heaven Dou Empire. When its emperor, Xue Yuntian, learned of the incident, he immediately offered his sympathies to the Spirit Pagoda branch in Lingbo City while strengthening security in the surrounding area.
Of course, this was only a courtesy meant to reassure them. After all, the entire Heaven Dou Empire could not stop a force capable of attacking a Spirit Pagoda branch. And when Xue Yuntian learned of the losses from the branch, he was still utterly shocked.
The branch's stock of soul spirits had been plundered clean, and its Spirit Ascension Platform had been wrecked outright. Branch master Hua Tao and another Titled Douluo had died on the spot, while the other five Titled Douluos had suffered grave, near-fatal injuries. Although their lives had now been saved, only one Titled Douluo could barely move about and keep the branch running.
Around a hundred other Soul Masters had been injured, and even ninety percent of the mechas had been wrecked. The entire Spirit Pagoda branch had even developed a visible tilt.