Boom boom boom!
The sound of soul tool artillery fire suddenly sounded. It was the army of the Sun Moon Empire that had arrived.
A group of Holy Spirit Cult elders' attention had immediately shifted to this group of uninvited guests. Here, there were no less than ten Titled Douluo-level evil soul masters. How could they be afraid of an army composed of mere Soul Ancestors and Soul Elders?
As described in the original novel, evil soul masters, compared to Shrek and the Body Sect, were more inclined to traditional soul masters. Their rejection of soul tools was almost unparalleled on the continent. So they had all underestimated this soul tool master division.
In the Sun Moon Empire, the soul tool master divisions also had different levels. The most powerful was the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Division. This was the most powerful strength of the entire Sun Moon Empire. The entry threshold for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Division was level fifty. That is to say, one had to at least have a Soul King-level cultivation to be able to join.
The Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Division had a total of about three hundred members. Among them, the three chief and deputy division leaders were all formidable level-nine soul tool masters, loyal solely to the imperial family.
Only the emperor of the Sun Moon Empire could mobilize this powerful soul tool master legion. They were equipped with the most advanced and sophisticated soul tool weapons and possessed the highest treatment in the army of the Sun Moon Empire. Just the financial resources required to support such a legion were at least the total annual tax revenue of two large cities.
Besides the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Division, there were also four Beast King-level soul tool master divisions directly under the imperial family. They were, respectively, the Imperial Dragon Soul Tool Master Division, the Terrorclaw Soul Tool Master Division, the Fire Phoenix Soul Tool Master Division, and the Evil Lord Soul Tool Master Division.
These four great soul tool master divisions were all named after famous soul beast kings. Among them, the Imperial Dragon represented the Purple Brilliance Annihilation Sky Dragon. This was a powerful soul beast that was already extinct. And in the imperial family of the Sun Moon Empire, on the contrary, there was an inheritance of this powerful martial soul.
In the original world line, one of the very important reasons why Xu Tianran had been able to become the emperor of the Sun Moon Empire was because he was a successor of this martial soul, and not the other imperial family members who had inherited the Sun martial soul. The Purple Brilliance Annihilation Sky Dragon and the inheritance martial soul of that Earth Dragon Gate, the Rouge Dragon, were a bit similar. They both had their own special attributes.
The attribute of the Earth Dragon Gate's Rouge Dragon was annihilation. The attribute of the Purple Brilliance Annihilation Sky Dragon was on the contrary destruction, even more domineering than the Rouge Dragon. It was said that its ancestor had once been an Asian dragon that had been born with the Dragon God and was also known as the ancestor of the Asian dragons. Later, because the destructiveness of its lineage was too great, it had been personally exterminated by the Dragon God.
The representative soul beast of the Terrorclaw Soul Tool Master Division was naturally the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear King. An existence as terrifying as Xiong Jun, no matter what country it was in, was an absolute legend.
The Fire Phoenix Soul Tool Master Division, as its name implied, was named after the legendary soul beast king, the Fire Phoenix. Among them, the soul tool masters recruited were all female. In the original world line, the one who had commanded the Fire Phoenix Soul Tool Master Division was precisely the empress of the empire, Ju Zi.
And the final Evil Lord Soul Tool Master Division was, on the other hand, named after the only ferocious beast that the Sun Moon Empire possessed, the one who ranked second and whose ferocious name was well-known, the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Lord.
And these four great soul tool master divisions all had their own characteristics: the Fire Phoenix were all female soul tool masters; the Terrorclaw Soul Tool Master Division were all burly men; the Imperial Dragon Soul Tool Master Division's combat power was the strongest; and the Evil Lord Soul Tool Master Division was all composed of soul tool masters who were good at speed.
Their uniform standard was a soul power of level forty and above, that is, the strength of a Soul Ancestor and above. The total number of members in each Beast King-level soul tool master division was three hundred. The division leader of a Beast King-level soul tool master division was also a level-nine soul tool master.
The four of them, plus the Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Division, were known as the Hand of the State Protector. Like the five pillars that supported the Sun Moon Empire, these five powerful soul tool master divisions could completely transform into a soul tool allied army. Their many years of training had made their cooperation tacit, their fighting will tenacious, and they even more so had top-tier soul tool master commanders. This power was the source of the Sun Moon Empire's confidence in dominating the world.
Besides these five soul tool master divisions, the requirements for the remaining soul tool master divisions were lower. Their establishment was five hundred people. As long as one's soul power exceeded two rings, one could join. At present, this kind of a five-hundred-person-establishment soul tool master division had six, with a total number of three thousand, respectively stationed in different places.
On the battlefield, even the lowest-level soul tool master division's role was far superior to a ten-thousand-person cavalry division. They had a powerful destructive power and, even more so because of their small numbers and their proficiency in using soul tools, they often had the powerful ability to sway the situation of a war.
The soul tool master division that was stationed at the edge of the Evil Demon Forest, although not in the ranks of the Hand of the State Protector, on the contrary also had a level-eight soul tool master to hold the line. Its strength was not insignificant.
The moment the two sides came into contact, a great battle had immediately broken out.
The matter of the Crown Prince Xu Tianran colluding with the Holy Spirit Cult was still a secret at present and was not known to the outside world. So when this soul tool master division had discovered that there was such a force of an unknown origin on the outskirts of the Evil Demon Forest, they had at the first moment issued a warning and had requested the other party to accept an inspection.
How could an evil soul master organization possibly accept an inspection by the imperial army? So they had made a move without another word.
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With Zhongli Wu and the Evil Lord successively being defeated and killed, their entire body of an exquisite soul power cultivation and life primordial power had all been absorbed by Huo Yuhao. The external soul bone, the Evil Eye, that the Evil Lord had dropped had also been integrated into the Eye of Destiny on Huo Yuhao's forehead, which had laid a solid foundation for the birth of this future super-divine weapon.
Huo Yuhao had named it, the Eye of the Demon King.
Whether it was the Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, or the Kamui, King Authority, and Kotoamatsukami, they were all soul skills that Bibi Dong had, according to Huo Yuhao's memory of his past life, used her divine power to carve and bestow upon the soul rings. Although their uses were endless, they were still limited by the framework of this world. And they all relied on Huo Yuhao's spiritual power to be displayed. Things like the Kamui were also just another dimension that Huo Yuhao had quickly connected with his spiritual power. The result was that it had been easily broken by Gu Yuena using her spatial element control.
Although these abilities were good to use, their upper limit was not enough to fight against a Douluo god. Just like the King Authority and Kotoamatsukami, which had to be on the premise of suppressing the other party in terms of spiritual cultivation realm to be able to be smoothly displayed. Perhaps in the future, Huo Yuhao's spiritual power and divine sense would be the number one in the Divine Realm. But the current him couldn't even use these abilities to fight against the likes of Tang Hao, Ah Yin, and the other second-level gods.
In other words, Huo Yuhao had to possess the ability to continuously grow and to sustainably evolve. This was also the original intention of him at that time to have both the Ice Empress and the Ten Thousand Demon King transform into his external soul bones. After all, the growth potential of an external soul bone was by no means something the basic six great soul bones could compare to.
And this third eye, which had been opened up by the Life Carving Knife, had received the destiny's blessing, and had fused with the external soul bone of the Evil-Eyed Tyrant Lord, was precisely one of Huo Yuhao's sources of confidence in fighting against a god in the future.
His consciousness had returned. Huo Yuhao had finally regained control of his own body. After examining his current situation for a bit, he couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh.
Good grief! My own flesh and blood has been almost completely occupied by the demonic puppet's factor. My whole body is sticky. It is clear that it is the trace left by the vice pontiff when she was at high tide.
The pair of pupils that had been closed for three years had once again opened. Huo Yuhao only felt that the world that had entered his eyes was as if infinitely beautiful... good, huh?
A soul tool cannonball was continuously enlarging before his eyes—
What is this situation? Huo Yuhao was so scared his soul was about to leave his body. He was just about to escape into another dimension to avoid it. Fortunately, the Holy Spirit Cult's Tribute, Wu Yun, who had been paying attention to the situation here all along, had made a move to block it. Only then had he dispelled this crisis.
"What happened?" Huo Yuhao was still unable to control his body at will at the moment. He could only ask in Zhongli Wu's tone, feigning his appearance.
The Crow Douluo, Wu Yun, had thought it was Zhongli Wu who had successfully possessed the Holy Son, Huo Yuhao's, body. His face was immediately filled with joy. He respectfully reported to him the things that had happened just now.
A soul tool master division? A jolt in Huo Yuhao's heart. He had received the auspicious qi of the Auspicious Beast. An ominous premonition immediately welled up in his heart.