Chapter 369: Huo Yuhao Who Overslept
"Cough, cough..."
Jing Hongchen struggled to stand up from the devastation, feeling as though something was blocking his throat. He coughed forcefully a few times before realizing it was a large mouthful of dark, foul blood.
A strong sense of weakness spread throughout his entire body. As one of the strongest Level 9 Soul Engineers in the Sun Moon Empire, he could now barely even manage to stand steady.
Screech--
An ear-piercing sound of shattering metal rang out as countless tiny metal fragments flew out from before Jing Hongchen's chest.
That was one of his proudest creations, the Red Dust Protection. This Level 9 Defensive Soul Tool possessed a special triggering method that could instantly generate a powerful protective barrier exceeding the user's cultivation by three times. With Jing Hongchen's rank-93 cultivation, its defensive power even surpassed that of a Super Douluo.
Back when he personally visited Shrek Academy and met the unfathomable Dragon God Douluo Mu En, he had felt confident he could retreat unscathed entirely because he relied on the protection of the Red Dust Protection.
Yet facing the center of the armory's explosion, this masterwork of Jing Hongchen's that brought him the utmost satisfaction had turned into fragments after granting its master its final protection.
Standing atop the ruins and surveying the devastation all around, Jing Hongchen's heart filled with profound sorrow.
"Xiao Ze, what a fine revenge you've exacted! Are you satisfied now?"
Jing Hongchen cried out toward the heavens, questioning that soul which had already returned to the netherworld, his voice shrill and miserable.
Only a single thought occupied his mind: despair.
The Central Armory was located a hundred meters underground. Even with a hundred-meter-thick stratum and the armory's built-in protective measures blocking it, the might of the explosion