Dou Ling Empire, Lingdou City.
The Dou Ling emperor sat in the Imperial Study, his gaze fixed on the intelligence before him.
According to reports from the border, the Heaven Dou Empire seemed to have made substantial personnel changes along the frontier.
In the past, the Heaven Dou Empire had mostly treated the Dou Ling border as a training ground, so its troops had not been particularly strong.
But five days earlier, a new Soul Master army called Heavenly River Dustless, numbering around three hundred and forty-eight, had suddenly entered the border battlefield.
These people were all elites of the Heaven Dou Empire's younger generation.
Their exquisite equipment had, for a time, reminded the Dou Ling Empire of the terror of being chased down and beaten by the Sun Moon Empire over four thousand years ago.
What frightened them even more were the Soul Master powers represented behind Heavenly River Dustless.
All three hundred and forty-eight members were under thirty, encompassing geniuses from every top power in the Heaven Dou Empire, from clans to sects.
Led by Heaven-Splitting Spear Yunting, Heavenly River Dustless had torn savagely through Dou Ling's border defenses like a sharp blade.
In particular, Lan Shuang, who could command numerous Soul Beasts, had captured dozens of immensely powerful Soul Beasts from the Far North and tamed them into beast cavalry for Heavenly River Dustless, driving the Dou Ling Empire's border garrisons back again and again.
Lan Shuang was a wielder of Ultimate Ice who had recently emerged in the Heaven Dou Empire.
Had her Ice Demon Martial Soul not been a new Martial Soul never before seen in the history of Martial Souls, the Dou Ling Empire might have thought the Far North had already reached some sort of strategic cooperation with the Heaven Dou Empire.
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