Star Luo in crisis, the White Tiger destroyed
The border between the Star Luo Empire and the Holy Spirit Empire, the Ming Dou Mountain Range
Amidst the flames of war and the smoke of battle, the Ming Dou Mountain Range, originally formed by the collision of the Sun Moon Continent and the Douluo Continent, have been completely occupied by the Holy Spirit Empire.
The armies of the three original kingdoms on this border fought back fiercely, but faced with the high-tech Soul Tool inherited from the Sun Moon by the Holy Spirit Empire, as well as the strange methods of the Evil Soul Master, the armies of the three original kingdoms were defeated one after another.
Even a portion of the Star Luo Empire's territory was seized in the process.
At this time, the military camps on the Star Luo Empire border of the Ming Dou Mountain Range were also in a state of chaos.
The tattered tents swayed in the wind, the groans of wounded soldiers filled the air, and many soldiers trudged through the mud, their faces etched with exhaustion and pain.
Although there are still many heavily armed guards and people in mechs constantly on guard, it is clear that they have suffered heavy losses.
When Xu Xingyu, Ma Xiaotao, Jiang Nannan, and other members of the Spirit Contract Pagoda arrived at the camp, they thought they had come to an army medical camp when they saw this scene.
Xu Jiujiu was in charge of welcoming them. Before the Holy Spirit Empire's sudden attack, she had served as the representative of the Spirit Contract Pagoda and the original Douluo Three Kingdoms, responsible for negotiating the acquisition and transportation of mechs and mass-produced Battle Armor.
On the one hand, considering that the military camp in the Ming Dou Mountain Range is Star Luo Empire territory, and the commander-in-chief of the Star Luo Empire army who has been Zheng Zhan on the border for many years is White Tiger Duke, and considering that Xu Jiujiu Star Luo Empire princess, there should not be too much of a problem in communicating with her.
After all these years, Xu Xingyu can be sure that his wife will no longer show excessive favoritism towards the country. She belongs to him, Xu Xingyu, body and soul, and her thoughts naturally prioritize the interests of the Spirit Contract Pagoda.
On the other hand, there was Xu Jiujiu, the person most familiar with the battle situation in the Ming Dou Mountain Range from the Spirit Contract Pagoda.
The Sun Moon Empire and the Star Luo Empire are separated only by the Ming Dou Mountain Range, which has always been a source of worry for the Star Luo Empire. It is normal for a former princess of the empire to know this information.
Xu Xingyu and the others learned the whole story from Xu Jiujiu.
We've talked about the Holy Spirit Empire's attack on the Star Luo Empire border before. In that war, the Holy Spirit Empire led tens of thousands of Evil Soul Master to attack their allied forces.
Under normal circumstances, with mechs and the high-tech Soul Tool provided by the Spirit Contract Pagoda, the Allied Forces would not have ended up in such a miserable state.
However, the Holy Spirit Empire invested too much in this battle, with every soldier wearing the Soul Guidance Armaments they acquired after conquering the Sun Moon Empire.
Admittedly, the Sun Moon Empire's Soul Guidance Technology may not be as advanced as the Spirit Contract Pagoda's, which is backed by mechs and Battle Armor. However, in terms of large-scale mass production, the Sun Moon Empire is temporarily ahead of the Spirit Contract Pagoda, after all, they have thousands of years of accumulated knowledge and resources.
This allows the Evil Soul Master on the battlefield to fire countless fixed-position soul missiles as if they were free. If they were only low-level ones, it wouldn't be so bad, but the problem is that they fire high-level ones without any restraint either.
They used at least a hundred seventh and eighth-tier cannons, and even fired three Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Shell! To be honest, the fact that they didn't annihilate the entire army and only lost 40% is already a very good result!
But the most terrifying one is the Holy Spirit Emperor Huo Yuhao, the current commander of the Holy Spirit Empire.
For some reason, in just two short years, Huo Yuhao advanced from Soul Saint to Titled Douluo, and even reached Level 95 of Super Douluo cultivation.
If that were all, it would be fine, but Huo Yuhao's combat power far exceeds that of a normal Super Douluo. On the battlefield, he is like a killing demon, wielding a black scythe to slay any enemy that appears before him.
Of the 40% of casualties suffered by the allied forces, at least half were killed by Huo Yuhao.
That wasn't all. After several attacks, this guy infiltrated their military camp and kidnapped the commander of the border coalition, White Tiger Duke, as well as his sons Dai Yueheng, Dai Huabin, and even Dai Luoli.
In other words, Xu Jiujiu hurriedly took over the position of White Tiger Duke, otherwise the allied forces, having lost their commander-in-chief, might have suffered even greater losses.
Xu Xingyu could only sigh helplessly. Huo Yuhao's hatred for the White Tiger Clan would inevitably lead him to take action against the White Tiger Clan sooner or later.
There's no way around it; the White Tiger Clan brought this upon themselves. Unless you're a saintly hypocrite or like Huo Yuhao from the original story who was tamed like a dog, no one would go unpunished after experiencing something like that.
However, what puzzled Xu Xingyu was that Huo Yuhao did not choose to let Dai Luoli go. After all, in the original novel, Dai Luoli was the only person in the entire White Tiger Family who was not hated by Huo Yuhao.
This is because his mother had helped Huo Yuhao and his mother, which is why he was not seen as a target of hatred.
So Huo Yuhao isn't even sparing Dai Luoli here? It seems the resentment Huo Yuhao felt after being amplified by Rakshasa has made him unable to calmly view hatred.
It's not surprising that Bibi Dong was like this back then, and Huo Yuhao is the same way.
The only thing that Xu Xingyu found somewhat regrettable was the lack of a talent capable of commanding a large army.
While it's true that White Tiger Duke wasn't a great father, and perhaps not a very good person either, it's undeniable that his military command abilities are top-notch compared to other talents in the Douluo Continent.
So, to express her respect, Xu Xingyu paused for a second to mourn for White Tiger Duke before continuing to inquire about the battle situation.
Xu Xingyu frowned Xu Jiujiu upon hearing Xu Jiujiu's next description.
According to her, after taking the White Tiger Duke's family away, Huo Yuhao did not continue to attack their allied forces, but instead stayed in the Ming Dou Mountain Range without moving.
At first, many soldiers believed that this was because the Holy Spirit Empire had consumed too many advanced Soul Tool and Evil Soul Master soldiers in the previous war, which had left them in a state of shortage of supplies and they needed to wait for supplies to be replenished in the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
If it were the original story, Xu Jiujiu might have thought the same way, but after following Xu Xingyu for so many years, her strategic thinking has improved a lot. At least she wouldn't make the mistake in the original story where she was used to discover the enemy's empty city ploy and went straight up to attack, only to be caught off guard by the Soul Tool deployed by the enemy.
In the end, they had no choice but to hand over the military power that the Star Luo Imperial Family had so painstakingly grasped back to White Tiger Duke.
After careful consideration, he did not Xu Jiujiu agree to the ideas of the soldiers and strategists. Instead, he first dispatched a small team to carry the most advanced high-altitude detectors of the Spirit Contract Pagoda to scout the enemy's military camp.
You wouldn't believe it until you see it; it's quite a surprise.
For some reason, the Holy Spirit Empire was entirely huddled in a fortress in the Ming Dou Mountain Range. Countless soldiers patrolled outside, wielding high-level Soul Tool, but the most terrifying thing was the tall tower that occupied the fortress.
Without a doubt, that was Ye Xishui's Level 10 Soul Tool, also known as the Death God Soul Tool, the Death God Tower.
It seems that the Holy Spirit Empire has retrieved the fragments of the Death God Tower that Xu Xingyu destroyed and then rebuilt it.
This is not surprising. According to intelligence, the Holy Spirit Empire seems to have forcibly converted Kong Deming, a former worshipper of the Sun Moon Empire, into Evil Soul Master.
The Death God Tower was originally completed by Ye Xishui with the help of Kong Deming. It can be said that Kong Deming understands the Death God Tower even better than Ye Xishui, after all, he is the only true level Level 10 Soul Engineer in the Douluo Continent.
Knowing that the Holy Spirit Empire had the Death God Tower stationed there, Xu Jiujiu could only order his soldiers to stay put and wait for Xu Xingyu's reinforcements to arrive.