A "Godslayer-Class" Level 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon? Tang Hao: Little San, Let's Go Find the 200,000-Year Blue Silver Emperor!
[Xuanwu Emperor Lu Ye: Yu Yuanzhen, a frog at the bottom of a well thinks the sky above its head is the entire world. If you refuse to accept this, once the barrier between the two worlds dissolves, I shall permit you to choose a 300,000-year Rift-Splitting Black Dragon King from my Xuanwu Empire and test yourself against it. The ancestral teaching handed down to us was that as heaven moves with vigor, a gentleman must strive unceasingly to improve himself. It never told you to cling to a trace of thin reptilian blood and wall yourselves into complacency.] [Yu Yuanzhen: **You bastard!** You dare insult the ancestors of my Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?!] [Yu Xiaogang: Father, calm your anger! This is absolutely a ploy to undermine our resolve! Everyone, do not let him lead you astray! Even if they can paper over the matter of Soul Beast lifespans with twisted reasoning and heresies, what about Soul Tools?]
As though he had seized his last straw of salvation, Yu Xiaogang immediately unleashed a frenzy of messages in the livestream chat:
[Yu Xiaogang: Ancient texts on the Douluo Continent clearly recorded long ago that the technology for manufacturing Soul Tools had been completely lost. All that remains today are some Storage Soul Tools and basic support Soul Tools! That is an unorthodox path, long since eliminated by history! The foundation of a Soul Master is their own Soul Power and the combination of their Soul Rings! Yet your Xuanwu Continent actually claims it can mass-produce "Level 9 Soul Cannons"? What an absolute laughingstock! A Level 9 Soul Tool is equivalent to a Titled Douluo's full-force strike. If they could be mass-produced, wouldn't the streets be full of Titled Douluos? This completely violates the law of conservation of energy in heaven and earth!]
Inside the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi rested his hand on his scepter, his brows slightly furrowed. He, too, found it inconceivable.
[Ning Fengzhi: Your Majesty Lu Ye, I am Ning Fengzhi of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Our sect has long studied and researched ancient Soul Tools. According to our sect's records, even during the most flourishing era of Soul Guidance civilization, manufacturing Soul Tools above Level 7 required several high-ranking Soul Masters to expend years of painstaking effort. Mass-producing Level 8 or even Level 9 Soul Guidance weapons truly defies conventional understanding. May I ask how your nation accomplished this?]
Faced with Yu Xiaogang's hysteria and Ning Fengzhi's cautious inquiry, Lu Ye gave a cold smile from his imperial throne.
[Xuanwu Emperor Lu Ye: Yu Xiaogang, it was not history that eliminated Soul Tools, but your backward productive capabilities and the rigid, selfish interests of your sects. You treat Soul Masters as supreme nobles and regard commoners as ants and weeds, treasuring your worn-out brooms as though they were priceless. When have you ever considered integrating the primal power of heaven and earth with precision machinery?] [Xuanwu Emperor Lu Ye: In my Xuanwu Empire, Soul Tools are no myth. The empire achieved modular engraving of Soul Guidance Core Arrays as early as thirty thousand years ago! Level 1 through Level 6 Soul Tools have long been universally adopted among the populace. Farming, transportation, communication, and medicine are all driven by Soul Power.] [Xuanwu Emperor Lu Ye: As for military Soul Tools, a Level 8 Soul Guidance Charging Gun can be fired by three Soul Kings working together with High-Energy Soulstones, instantly piercing a Seven-Ring Soul Sage's Martial Soul Avatar. And a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon contains a compressed, compressed extreme-yang core. A single shot leaves not a blade of grass alive within a fifty-li radius and shatters space, its might equivalent to a Level 99 Peerless Douluo's full-force strike! In the empire's main legions, the standard allotment of such weapons is one hundred and twenty cannons per legion!] [Xuanwu Emperor Lu Ye: And above Level 9, the empire also possesses "Godslayer-Class" Level 10 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons, strategic weapons forged from divine-grade adamantine, specifically intended to slay deities invading our plane! Yu Xiaogang, with your pitiful "Ten Core Theories of Martial Souls," you are not even qualified to compile textbooks for my Xuanwu Empire's imperial elementary Soul Guidance schools. Who gave you the gall to spout such nonsense here?]
The Xuanwu Continent's Soul Tool technology had developed at an accelerated pace under Lu Changqing's personal arrangements as a deity.
After tens of thousands of years of development, it had also reached, to a certain extent, the standard of Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King.
[Sword Douluo Chen Xin: Annihilating everything within a fifty-li radius in one strike... and deploying one hundred and twenty of them?!] [Dugu Bo: Hiss... I'm afraid the coverage of my Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor poison cannot compare to even a fraction of a single one of their shells! How could we fight this war? If a dozen or so legions fired together, wouldn't the entire Heaven Dou City be reduced to ashes in an instant?] [Ning Fengzhi: Unbelievable... truly inconceivable! If these words are true, the wealth and Hidden Weapon purchases that our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect takes such pride in would be nothing but children playing house before the Xuanwu Empire...]
The Douluo Continent section fell utterly silent.
No matter how highly those sect masters ordinarily thought of themselves, as they looked at the cold information and descriptions on the light screen, a chill rose from the soles of their feet and instantly shot through their entire bodies.
If the Xuanwu Continent truly existed, if their lands truly met...
What would the Soul Master legions that the Douluo Continent took such pride in amount to in the other side's eyes? Living targets lining up to die?
Meanwhile.
On the rugged ancient road leading to the Star Dou Great Forest.
The atmosphere was so heavy it could almost drip water.
With the Clear Sky Hammer over his shoulder, Tang Hao halted his iron-tower-like, burly frame, his murky yet domineering eyes fixed on the screen in the sky.
Beside him, Tang San's face was deathly pale, his hands trembling faintly.
Tang San stared fixedly at every description Lu Ye gave of "Soul Guidance Technology," his chest heaving violently. His pride as a Tang Sect disciple in his previous life seemed to have been trampled into mud in that instant.
"Impossible... absolutely impossible!"
Tang San gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot, and could not help growling:
"The art of mechanical hidden weapons is the pinnacle of using another's force against them!
"The Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus, the Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles, and the Peacock Plume are the culmination of centuries of the Tang Sect's painstaking effort, enough to defy and slay gods!
"What are these Soul Cannons but crude outpourings of Soul Power? How could they compare to the exquisite intricacy of Tang Sect Hidden Weapons?!"
Hearing Tang San muttering to himself, Tang Hao came back to his senses, glanced down at Tang San, and said gravely:
"Little San, do not let your state of mind fall into turmoil."
"Dad..."
Tang San looked up at his father.
An exceedingly dangerous gleam flashed through Tang Hao's eyes. He did not dwell on those astonishing Soul Cannons.
Instead, he locked his gaze firmly on the fourth news flash that had just scrolled past in the Xuanwu section!
[4. The ruler of the "Blue Silver Forest," the 200,000-year Blue Silver Emperor "Silver Emperor," was defeated by a 100,000-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear fighting above its age rank!]
"Little San, look closely at the fourth news flash!"
Tang Hao's voice trembled slightly with extreme excitement, and he even pressed his large, rough hand directly onto Tang San's shoulder:
"Two hundred thousand years... a Blue Silver Emperor!
"Code name, 'Silver Emperor'!"
Just moments ago, Tang Hao had told Tang San about his origins.
This had allowed Tang San to learn that there was actually a hidden Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline within him.
Tang San froze slightly, then his gaze fell upon that name:
"Blue Silver Emperor?
"Silver Emperor?
"Dad, is that also a... Blue Silver Emperor?"
"That's right!
"There can be no mistake!"
A feverish, greedy gleam burst from Tang Hao's eyes, and his breathing grew exceedingly heavy.
"I originally thought that your mother, Ah Yin, was the only Blue Silver Emperor in the world!
"After all, for the Blue Silver Grass Clan, no two emperors can coexist in one lifetime!
"But from the looks of it now, the Xuanwu Continent has completely broken free of the restrictions of Douluo Star's rules. A Blue Silver Emperor with a cultivation of two hundred thousand years has actually been born there!"