Su Yunlin had already left the soul engineer tournament grounds and was flying toward another place. It was night now. Under the darkness, Su Yunlin was like a fish in water. He could easily use the night to hide his figure.
"Hmm? They're fighting pretty fiercely. But my target isn't there. The Sun Moon Empire's treasury is the real key!"
Su Yunlin flew swiftly and arrived at a hidden location. Su Jinming had already been waiting there for some time.
"Son, let's go."
Su Jinming had long wanted to empty out the Sun Moon Empire's national treasury.
After meeting up with Su Jinming, Su Yunlin headed toward the Sun Moon Empire's treasury.
Ji Juechen and Jing Ziyan were standing guard there, so Su Yunlin and Su Jinming entered smoothly.
From time to time, they could still hear the fluctuations of battle from the powerful experts high in the sky.
Su Yunlin soon saw Huo Yuhao's spiritual body, Di Ruiqiu, and the others. This operation was being led by those two.
At this moment, Di Ruiqiu was using the Golden Dragon Spear to absorb the life force of the metal walls. By draining the metal's life force, she disabled the alarm.
They quickly broke through the second-layer warehouse's defenses and saw many valuable metals inside.
Su Yunlin nodded. "Ning Tian, you and Xiao Xiao stay here. You Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Spirit Masters have strong treasure appraisal abilities. Pack up and take away all the rarest things.
"After you've taken the good things here, have Xiao Xiao enter the third-layer warehouse!"
"Yes!"
Ning Tian and Xiao Xiao nodded, then immediately began working.
Ning Tian had been specially brought along by Su Yunlin. Her appraisal ability was perfect for this mission.
Su Yunlin directed Xiao Xiao, helping her avoid touching those soul tool traps.
Very soon, the third-layer warehouse was opened as well, and everyone from Shrek was stunned. This third-layer warehouse was filled entirely with soul cannons and shells!
"This is truly astonishing. Just how much has the Sun Moon Empire prepared? The soul cannon platforms here are enough to form an extremely elite soul engineer legion."
Su Jinming sighed, then took out several soul tools that resembled Wishful Hundred Treasure Purses. These were large storage soul tools made by Su Jinming. Their internal space was enormous, enough to empty all the soul cannon platforms here.
The reason Su Yunlin brought his father along was so they could empty the Sun Moon Empire's treasury. In the future, if he wanted to unify the entire Douluo Continent, these things would be essential.
At the same time, elsewhere.
The elites of Body Sect, the Star Luo Empire, the Heavenly Soul Empire, and Shrek Academy's experts had already broken into the Sun Moon Empire's imperial palace.
Although the experts attacking the palace had not reached Titled Douluo level, they were all powerful fighters above Spirit Sage.
Their goal was to assassinate Xu Tianran. The main attacker for this assassination was Zhang Lexuan.
But Zhang Lexuan knew this assassination could not possibly succeed. Su Yunlin had already detected that Xu Tianran's own cultivation had reached Titled Douluo, and he definitely had multiple Class 9 defensive soul tools protecting him. Killing him would be extremely difficult.
However… Shrek had another plan. What Zhang Lexuan needed to do was create momentum, clearly telling Xu Tianran, the Holy Spirit Cult, and the Sun Moon Empire that she was the main attacker of this assassination.
"Amplification!"
Zhang Lexuan shouted softly, then rose into the air. Her entire body radiated silver-white light, like a bright moon.
Her hands quickly formed seals, making a strange gesture. On her body, her most eye-catching scarlet Spirit Ring was slowly rising. Very soon, the silver moon was stained by that bloody light and turned into a blood moon.
Just as Zhang Lexuan unleashed her strongest eighth Spirit Ability, several beams of light landed on her body. They were amplification Spirit Abilities from support-type Spirit Masters!
"Eighth Spirit Ability, Blood Moon Eclipse!"
Xu Tianran's pupils shrank. He had not expected a Spirit Douluo to possess a 100,000-year Spirit Ring. She had to be one of Shrek Academy's heavenly talents.
Among the Titled Douluo experts of the Sun Moon Empire, aside from the Hall Master of the Worship Hall who guarded the imperial family, no one possessed a 100,000-year Spirit Ring. Even Xu Tianran himself, who possessed the powerful Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul, did not have one.
That Hall Master had twin Martial Souls. After breaking through to Titled Douluo, while cultivating his second Martial Soul, he had luckily obtained a 100,000-year Spirit Ring. However, because of that, conflict appeared between his Martial Souls, causing his Spirit Power to stagnate at level 94.
Seeing the attack about to land on Xu Tianran, Juzi immediately stood in front of him.
Crack.
A Class 9 defensive soul tool shattered. At that moment, Xu Tianran suddenly stood up.
A bowl-shaped soul tool was now hovering above Xu Tianran's head, enveloping both him and Juzi, blocking Blood Moon Eclipse's attack.
Zhang Lexuan understood when she saw this. She had known the assassination would not be that simple. Su Yunlin was right. Unless it was an Ultimate Douluo, assassinating Xu Tianran would be extremely difficult. Her mission was already complete. Next, it was time to retreat.
"Die!"
A Spirit Douluo from Body Sect released an extremely powerful attack.
Xu Tianran's expression was cold. He raised his hand, and a dragon claw filled with destructive power crushed that attack apart.
Only then did the Douluo Alliance see Xu Tianran's Martial Soul. Behind Xu Tianran appeared a giant dragon, deep purple all over and filled with an endless aura of destruction.
Two yellow, two purple, and five black. Nine Spirit Rings appeared.
The Sun Moon Empire's inherited Martial Soul, the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon. Legend said that the ancestor of the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon had once been the ancestor of sub-dragons, the Dragon God's companion dragon. Because the Dragon God feared its power of destruction, it was killed.
Even though Zhang Lexuan had known Xu Tianran's cultivation in advance, she was still somewhat shocked when she saw it. How old was Xu Tianran? At most, he was only a few years older than her, yet he had already cultivated to Titled Douluo.
As the eldest senior sister of the inner courtyard, Zhang Lexuan was not confident she could reach Titled Douluo within a few years. Without this 100,000-year Spirit Ring, her cultivation speed would have been even slower.
To Zhang Lexuan, her 100,000-year Spirit Ring was both a painful experience and an opportunity. The 100,000-year Spirit Ring had fundamentally transformed her body, granting her tremendous benefits and making her future breakthrough to Titled Douluo much easier.
Sea God's Pavilion's evaluation of Zhang Lexuan was that in the future, she would at least become a Super Douluo, and a powerful one at that.
"Activate Steel Forest!"
Xu Tianran shouted coldly. Countless soul cannon platforms rose from every corner of the imperial palace. The palace, which had previously looked somewhat damaged, instantly transformed into a steel fortress.
"As expected!"
Zhang Lexuan understood, but they had prepared for this long ago.
Boom!
Suddenly, a firework rose behind the Douluo Alliance. Everyone who had charged into the palace understood. This was the signal to retreat.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
The Titled Douluo in the sky all moved, taking away the elites inside the palace.
Would Xu Tianran let them leave? Clearly, he would. After all, these were all elites of the three Douluo nations. If he forced them to stay here, who knew whether the old fellows in the sky would go mad.
Xu Tianran still cared greatly about his own safety.
Whoosh.
Just after the Douluo Alliance withdrew, a pillar of fire suddenly shot into the sky and rushed straight toward the palace.
"Hmm?"