War Comes Early, the Terrifying Holy Spirit Empire
The days of war came so suddenly and unexpectedly.
To be honest, many people had already anticipated that the Holy Spirit Empire would break its previous oath and launch an attack.
The credibility of Evil Soul Master is quite low. Even if some powerful ones keep their promises due to their arrogance, they will still play word games and exploit loopholes.
What's puzzling is why the Holy Spirit Empire has incorporated so many new Evil Soul Master into its army? Many of these new Evil Soul Master Evil Soul Master are complete novices; two years, or even the originally planned three years, wouldn't be enough for them to grow.
Is it planning to rely on the power of the Abyss creatures? Although the Holy Spirit Empire and the Abyss creatures are allies, they will inevitably be wary of each other and will definitely not put all their chips on the aid of the Abyss creatures.
The answer to this question was found when the Holy Spirit Empire launched its formal attack: they had allies other than the Abyss creatures.
Contrary to plan, the Holy Spirit Empire did not attack the nearest Star Luo Empire first. Instead, it traveled by sea to the North Sea, and then led its army to attack the Heavenly Soul Empire.
If it were just an attack from the Holy Spirit Empire's army, the Heavenly Soul Empire, even if caught off guard, wouldn't face too many difficulties, since they had the Body Douluo Du Busi, whose strength had already broken through to the Limit Douluo, stationed there.
However, the Holy Spirit Empire's army consisted not only of Evil Soul Master, but also a large army of Sea Soul Beast. It was with the help of these Sea Soul Beast that they were able to reach the coastal cities of the Heavenly Soul Empire at the fastest speed and with the least amount of resources.
This army of Sea Soul Beast is mainly composed of Sea Soul Beast like the Evil Spirit Orca, which hate the First Generation Sea God. Leading this army of Sea Soul Beast is a Deep Sea Demon Whale whose cultivation level is close to a million years.
This is the Demon Empress who appeared in the Legend of the Dragon King ten thousand years later in the original work. She is the wife of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King who was killed by Tang San ten thousand years ago.
In the original story, she went mad because of the loss of her husband and her hatred for Tang San. In order to gain the power of revenge, she did not hesitate to join forces with the Holy Spirit Cult and become their Demon Empress. She also killed the most loyal and most obedient Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan of the First Generation Sea God.
Ultimately, under the Holy Spirit Cult's array where countless lives and wronged souls were sacrificed, the Demon Empress broke through the limitations of the plane and became a level 100 True God. Unfortunately, he was ultimately defeated by Tang Wulin from the original story, and his body was later devoured by the Abyssal Sage King as a vessel.
The current Demon Empress has not yet reached the level of a level 100 True God, but in terms of cultivation, she is already almost on par with her husband from ten thousand years ago. As long as the battlefield is the sea, and as long as the Sea God does not appear, almost no one can contend with her.
Du Busi could deeply understand this. When the Heavenly Soul Empire's sea area was attacked, he immediately used his Power of Space to reach the scene to see who dared to attack their Heavenly Soul Empire.
As a result, once the Demon Empress appeared, Du Busi could only rely on her powerful physique and her innate poison to hold her back; if she took the initiative to attack, she would only be the one getting hit.
Fortunately, the Heavenly Soul Empire was not immediately defeated by this sudden attack.
It was thanks to the mechs and mass-produced Battle Armor provided by the Spirit Contract Pagoda that the Heavenly Soul were not defeated immediately.
Even so, the Holy Spirit Empire still managed to occupy some important coastal cities in the Heavenly Soul Empire.
Therefore, after the battle, Heavenly Soul immediately sought support from the other two countries, Shrek Academy, and Spirit Contract Pagoda through the established alliance, and requested permission to withdraw the troops they had dispatched to the Star Luo Empire.
In response to Heavenly Soul's request, Xu Xingyu, as the leader of the alliance, agreed to provide support, but did not agree to the request to withdraw their troops from the Star Luo Empire.
This is because Xu Xingyu knew that the Holy Spirit Empire's attack was more of a feint, since their main force attacking the Heavenly Soul Empire was composed of Sea Soul Beast.
Even excluding the Demon Empress, a Demigod- level powerhouse, these Sea Soul Beast have a large number of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and Ferocious Beast as their backing.
With such formidable military support, why hasn't the Holy Spirit Empire been able to conquer the Heavenly Soul Empire yet? The answer is simple: the Sea Soul Beast Sea Soul Beast were both its strength and its weakness.
The power of Sea Soul Beast is indeed excellent, but all Sea Soul Beast have a fatal flaw: their combat power cannot be separated from the ocean. Once they leave the water, their combat power will drop sharply.
Some Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast can't even unleash their full combat power as Titled Douluo once they're on land.
Only a rare number of sea Sea Soul Beast Sea Soul Beast, whether they are found on land or in water, or those that have taken human form, do not have this concern.
This has resulted in the Holy Spirit Empire's attacks on the Heavenly Soul Empire remaining confined to coastal cities, without any further offensive. Xu Xingyu even suspects that the Heavenly Soul Empire's ability to remain undefeated for so long is largely due to the Holy Spirit Empire's lack of any real intention to conquer it; at this stage, it's merely putting on a show.
Therefore, Xu Xingyu did not dare to provide too much support to the Heavenly Soul Empire. At most, he allowed a portion of the Heavenly Soul troops to return to Heavenly Soul to provide support, and then let Xu Yanxue coordinate the personnel and Soul Beast of the Spirit Contract Pagoda in the Far North to assist the Heavenly Soul Empire in its war.
After all, the Holy Spirit Empire's attack route this time went through the Ice Sea, which is extremely close to the Far North. Therefore, it was just right to send Xu Yanxue, the successor of the Ice God and the former ruler of the Far North, to command the Soul Beast and the Spirit Contract Pagoda personnel there.
At most, the Ice Empress needs to remain in the Far North to prevent the Holy Spirit Empire from choosing the Far North route to launch a sneak attack on Heavenly Soul or Dou Ling.
After learning of the Demon Empress's existence, Wang Dong'er and Bai Xiuxiu also applied to Xu Xingyu to go to the Heavenly Soul Empire to help him.
Bai Xiuxiu's main reason for her status is the feud between her races. Although Bai Xiuxiu has transformed from Demon Soul Great White Shark into the new Ice Dragon King by accepting the power of the Water Dragon King (also known as the Ice Dragon King), she is ultimately of the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan.
Therefore, upon learning that the Demon Empress, Deep Sea Demon Whale with nearly a million years of cultivation following the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, knew that she had to kill him at all costs during this battle.
Because given the chance, this Demon Empress would never let go of her family on Sea God Island. In fact, that's exactly what he did in the original story, which led to Bai Xiuxiu becoming the Demon Soul Great White Shark that propelled her to Douluo status.
Wang Dong'er's reasons were much more complicated. She knew from Xu Xingyu about the hatred between the Demon Empress and her father, Tang San, so she knew that the Demon Empress's descent into madness was all her father's fault.
Although she hated having Tang San's blood in her veins, as his bloodline successor and the future new Sea God, she had an obligation to stand up, bear this hatred and responsibility, and then bring it to a close.
Xu Xingyu knew that the two had given up on each other, so she agreed to their request to follow Xu Yanxue to support the Heavenly Soul Empire.
After Xu Xingyu arranged support for the Heavenly Soul Empire, something expected finally happened: Spirit Emperor Huo Yuhao led his army to start another war with the Star Luo Empire in the Mingdu Mountain Range.