Atop the walls of Heaven Gate City.
After Zhongli Wu used Soul Devouring on the soul of the eight-ring general defending the city, a trace of satisfaction appeared in his eyes.
His Martial Soul was the Soul-Devouring Demon Puppet. The more souls he devoured, the more he could strengthen himself.
In the past, he had feared being hunted down by Shrek and had not dared to slaughter wantonly within the Three Great Empires. Meanwhile, the Sun Moon Empire sheltered the Holy Spirit Cult, and directly hunting its experts would provoke its anger, so he could only force himself to endure.
Now that the war of invasion had erupted in full, the various restraints placed on experts across the Douluo Continent were crumbling ever further, giving Zhongli Wu a means to hunt experts at will and strengthen himself.
By now, he had begun to appreciate the strategy Xu Tianran had proposed through Keke as his mouthpiece: take Tiansong City first, then divide the six Soul Engineer Corps into two columns to envelop and attack Heaven Gate and Heaven Gate City, isolating Heaven Dou Imperial City.
At least this gave the Holy Spirit Cult's experts a genuine opportunity to unleash a massacre, rather than remain bound hand and foot as they had before the war.
However, the smile on Zhongli Wu's face did not last long. Soon, a secret telegram from the Holy Spirit Cult made his world spin. He staggered, nearly fainting.
The Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters was gone. The rare metals inside had all been lost, and everyone except the Sixth Consecrated Elder, Scorpion Tiger Douluo, had died. Most importantly, the altar built with untold quantities of materials, which allowed the Holy Spirit Cult to receive divine grace, had also been blasted apart by a strike from the Evil Emperor!