Douluo Unrivaled: The Beginning Materializes the Black Abyss and White Flowers

Faced with Liu Ying's words, Blood Scythe Douluo and the others shook their heads repeatedly, revealing a bitter smile that was even more unsightly than crying.

Fight you? Are you kidding me?
Recalling the silver-white mech burning with emerald green flames, the oppressive feeling, as if a natural disaster had struck, still left them with lingering fear.

The oppressive aura emanating from Liu Ying after her transformation was overwhelming; even the titled Douluo were powerless to retaliate. Although they were powerful, they dared not confront her directly.

They knew very well that they had survived not because they were strong, but because they were still useful.

If they resist, the fate of Tianwu Douluo and others will serve as their example.

Their newly appointed, terrifyingly young leader, Huo Yuhao, never intended to let the direct descendants of the Holy Spirit Cult's evil soul masters live.

This is a cleaning.

A purge targeting incorrigible elements within the Holy Spirit Cult.

The reason these so-called worshippers were spared was simply because they were not yet pure, incurable evil spirit masters.

Like Zhang Peng, although his cultivation method is wicked, he mainly relies on the blood of animals or soul beasts, rather than harming humans.

Most of the worshippers are powerful figures who walk the line between right and wrong, recruited by the Holy Spirit Cult to expand its power. Although their hands are stained with blood, they at least retain a shred of humanity. Unlike those true evil soul masters, they do not completely distort their humanity for power, taking pleasure in torturing and killing mortals and devouring souls.

They were indeed a little better than those inhuman lunatics.

It was precisely this small favor that earned them the right to be recruited by the government.

The Holy Spirit Cult... is finished.

Blood Scythe Douluo understood.

From this day forward, they will no longer be worshipped by any Holy Spirit Cult.

Their fate will belong to the Department of Impermanence.

They will become a hidden knife in Lu Jingming's hands, used to handle things that he cannot handle personally.

This is a deal: trading their freedom and loyalty for the rest of their lives in exchange for a chance to live.

They have no choice.

……

Without the Holy Spirit Cult, a force most adept at harassment, assassination, and creating chaos, the Star Luo Empire's army surged forward like a flood bursting its banks.

Ye Wuqing's army of 300,000 men conquered cities and fortresses with almost no resistance.

The Sun Moon Empire's garrison along the way crumbled almost instantly when faced with the Star Luo army, which was equipped with the latest technology from Sea Abyss City and even included a small number of Molten Knights.

Their defenses, their spiritual guidance positions, were as fragile as paper in the face of those unheard-of, more advanced weapons of war.

Just three days.

The vanguard of the Star Luo Empire's army had already reached the gates of Xinming Capital.

Closely following behind was the true ace force of Haiyuan City.

Clad in silver-white mechs and engulfed in crimson flames, the Molten Knights, like a divine legion descending from the heavens, occupied the eastern sky.

The Fools' Legion, whose every member exudes a dangerous aura, silently blocked all the passages to the west.

The Night Return Army, on the other hand, was stationed to the south.

Four distinct armies, each exuding a powerful presence, surrounded the capital of the Sun Moon Empire—New Mingdu—from four directions, leaving it completely surrounded.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the mainland.

Orange, the Grand Marshal of the Sun Moon Empire, also ended another war with the same astonishing speed.

The main force of the Sun Moon Empire, which she led, demonstrated what it meant to be utterly devastating on the land of the Douling Empire.

Faced with the terrifying Soul Master Legion armed to the teeth and the inhuman antimatter legion, the already weak army of the Douling Empire could hardly organize any effective resistance.

Their strongest, the Heavenly Sun Douluo who had just broken through to level 98 and was known as the guardian god of the empire, could only hold out for less than half an hour under the personal attack of a level 9 soul master and the combined assault of mechs before his body shattered and his soul scattered.

With the fall of Tianyang Douluo, the Douling Empire's will to resist completely collapsed.

The army of the Sun Moon Empire marched straight in, breached Douling City, and destroyed the Douling royal family, which had been passed down for ten thousand years.

As the weakest of the original Douluo Three Kingdoms, the Douling Empire has never had a high profile.

If it weren't for its unique geographical location, not directly bordering the Sun Moon Empire, and with the Star Luo and Heavenly Soul Empires always holding it back, it would probably have been the first to be destroyed.

Today, the wheels of history roll ever onward, and it has ultimately not escaped the fate of being crushed.

On the day Douling City was captured, Ju Zi received an order from Xu Tianran—to immediately abandon all the gains and lead all the main forces back to Xinmingdu at full speed.

However, Ju Zi simply glanced calmly at the light screen projected by the soul tool, and then extended her slender finger, gently swiping it to the left.

The light curtain disappeared.

Her face was expressionless.

It was as if it weren't an urgent order from the emperor, but rather a trivial piece of junk information.

She simply turned around and gave the order to her adjutant:

"Order the entire army to rest on the spot, take stock of the spoils of war, and take control of all military fortresses of the Douling Empire. No one shall act without my new orders."

Now, she no longer needs to act.

Her betrayal is now out in the open.

What gave her the confidence to do this was not just the military power she held.

More importantly, she knew that she was not fighting alone.

Almost simultaneously with her ignoring the orders, the most elite Beast King-level Soul Master Corps of the Sun Moon Empire, which were theoretically not under her direct command but were controlled by the Great Monarch Xingxiao, as well as the most terrifying antimatter legion, also chose to remain inactive.

They received the same order and made the same choice—to ignore it.

Clearly, Xingxiao has also given up on Xu Tianran.

When this news reached Xinmingdu through various secret channels, Emperor Xu Tianran was completely plunged into a desperate situation of being betrayed and abandoned by everyone.

……

The Empire of the Sun and Moon, the New Ming Capital.

A siege that will determine the future of the continent has begun.

Like the former Ming capital, this newly built, even more magnificent metropolis has no walls in the traditional sense.

Its defense relies entirely on soul-guided technology.

Layer upon layer of energy shields, linked by countless level-nine soul guide generators, thick and almost tangible, enveloped the entire city like an inverted, multicolored giant bowl.

Beneath this main shield are dozens of secondary shields with different functions, each responsible for deflecting physical attacks, absorbing energy impacts, reflecting mental interference, and so on.

Inside the city, there are hundreds of thousands of fully automated soul-guided turrets linked to the defense system.

There are no theoretically defensible blind spots, whether in the sky or on the ground.

This defensive system, named Aegis, is Kong Deming's masterpiece and is synonymous with absolute defense in the hearts of all Soul Masters in the Sun Moon Empire.

They believed that this system was sufficient to withstand the relentless bombardment of a Limit Douluo for several days. However, today, they were not facing a Limit Douluo.

At the forefront of the allied forces' positions outside the city, Lu Jingming's figure appeared out of thin air.

He didn't say a single word of pre-battle mobilization, nor did he issue any complicated instructions.

He simply raised his hand, pointed at the empty sky, and gently snapped his fingers.

"Snapped."

The crisp sound was barely audible amidst the clamor of the battlefield.

But with that snap of his fingers, the space above his head began to distort violently and silently, like the surface of water tossed with a stone.

A dark, irregular crack tore open at the twisted center.

Behind that crack lies a deep, breathtaking universe, twinkling with starlight.

Immediately afterwards, a huge foot made of strange emerald green metal slowly stepped out from the shattered void.

Then came the legs, the torso, and the other foot…

A gigantic humanoid mecha, tens of meters tall, entirely emerald green, and with a design brimming with futuristic and unknown technological flair, emerged step by step from the starry sky.

It lacks the burning flames of the Molten Knights and the bulkiness of traditional mechs.

Its lines are smooth and elegant, full of life-like vitality.

Behind it float twelve uniquely shaped floating swords that spread out like wings.

"Then...what is that?!"

New Mingdu, the central command center for the defense system.

Commander Lin Gong, a level nine Soul Master, was staring intently at the images transmitted back to the main screen, his eyes filled with shock and confusion.

But despite his shock, his professionalism allowed him to quickly calm down.

"Attention all systems! Ultra-high energy reaction detected. Increase the energy output of the main defensive shields in areas A-3 to A-7 to 120%. All linked turrets, lock onto targets and fire freely."

He issued orders methodically, his heart still filled with absolute confidence in Kong Deming's masterpiece.

'No matter what kind of monster you are, in front of the S.H.I.E.L.D. system, you'll only be blasted to smithereens.'

Outside the city, Lu Jingming looked at the mecha that had completely emerged from the void, a faint smile playing on his lips.

This is the Star Destroyer, which he "borrowed" from Vita to play with.

He raised his hand and gave the Star Deliverer his sole command.

"Fire."

The Starduster's cold, jewel-like electronic eyes flickered.

A completely emotionless, standard, mechanically synthesized female voice resounded simultaneously inside the mecha and in Lu Jingming's mind.

"Instructions received. Restrictions... lifted."

The next moment, the world lost its sound.

The twelve floating swords on the back of the Starduer mech, with their intricate emerald green patterns, instantly lit up, emitting a dazzling light.

At the very center of the mecha's chest, a circular energy core began to change from a ghostly green to a dazzling pure white at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Streaks of emerald green lightning, like attracted dragons, converged from all directions and coiled around the energy core on his chest.

“Buzz——!!!”

A visible energy shockwave spread out in a ring from the Starduer.

The sand, gravel, and dust on the ground were instantly vaporized by this shockwave.

Then, a burst of light erupted.

A beam of emerald green light, over ten meters in diameter and composed of pure, highly condensed energy, shot out fiercely from the chest of the Star Diver.

At the same time, the twelve floating swords adjusted their angles and each shot out a slightly thinner but equally powerful beam of light.

Twelve beams of light spiraled around the central main cannon, forming a complex torrent of energy powerful enough to destroy stars.

At that moment, it seemed that only that emerald green light, representing absolute destruction, remained between heaven and earth.

Inside the command center of New Mingdu, all the Soul Masters were stunned at this moment.

Lin's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of a pinhead.

He stared at the emerald green beam of light on the main screen, which was growing larger and larger and soon filled his entire field of vision, his mind blank.

His prized shield system, capable of withstanding the onslaught of a Limit Douluo, appeared so insignificant, so... laughable, before that pillar of light.

"No...impossible..."

His lips moved unconsciously, but no sound came out.

Time seemed to stretch out at that moment.

He saw that the emerald green torrent of energy finally collided with the multicolored, mountain-like energy shield of Xinmingdu.

In that instant, all sound in the world disappeared.

Instead, there was an extremely piercing, high-frequency tearing sound, like glass being frantically rubbed by diamonds.

The point where the shield touched the beam of light emitted a pure white light that was a hundred times brighter than the sun.

The white light was so dazzling that everyone inside and outside the city who looked directly at it, regardless of their soul power, experienced a sudden stinging pain in their eyes, tears streaming down their faces, and temporary blindness.

The surface of the shield began to fluctuate violently and wildly.

Visible ripples of energy, like waves on water, spread outwards from the point of impact in all directions.

The entire massive energy shield trembled violently, like a jelly being struck by a heavy hammer.

"Warning, warning! The main shield's energy threshold has exceeded 300%, 500%, and 1000%."

"The energy core is overloaded, and all backup energy pools are instantly emptied."

"System crash countdown... three... two..."

Inside the command center, the piercing alarms and mechanical countdowns sounded like a death knell, striking the hearts of every soul master.

Lin felt a chill run through his body. He stared at the warning on the screen, which had turned blood red and indicated a system crash. His legs gave way, and he collapsed to the ground.

"Click..."

A crisp sound, like a mirror shattering, was transmitted clearly through soul power and reached everyone's ears.

The seemingly indestructible "divine shield" finally reached its limit after withstanding the destructive beam of light for less than three seconds.

Centered on the point of impact, a thin, spiderweb-like emerald green crack appeared.

Then came the second, the third, and countless more… (End of Chapter)