Douluo Continent: I, Huo Yuhao, am the Master of Spirit

Chapter 339 I have arrived, I have seen, I have conquered

Following the O5 meeting, the Star Luo Empire's First Soul Master Legion and First Soul Instructor Legion successfully crossed numerous mountains and arrived at the Lower Hekm Plain of the Douling Empire.

They engaged in a major battle with the Douling Empire's army, which had been incorporated into the Sea God family.

The Lower Hekm Plains are close to the sea, and the Sea Spirit Beasts and Sea Spirit Masters, combined with the army of the Douling Empire, dealt a heavy blow to the two legions.

The titled Douluo of the Sea God Clan suppressed the powerful figures of the Star Luo Empire. Countless sea spirit beasts in the ocean, led by ten beast kings, unleashed a thousand-meter-high tsunami that sent the Star Luo Empire's army reeling.

Even a Soul Saint would have to think twice about a tsunami of this magnitude, as one wrong move could lead to their demise at sea.

Unable to land, the sea spirit beasts devised a wicked plan: to first create a tsunami, then use it to lure the sea spirit beasts ashore and attack the Star Luo Empire's troops who had fallen into the water.

In a short time, the aggressive offensive of the Star Luo Empire's First Soul Master Legion and First Soul Instructor Legion was directly suppressed by the Dou Ling Empire.

The Soul Master Legion, composed of thousands of Soul Masters, along with the Soul Master Corps and over 100,000 ordinary army groups, were locked in a protracted war.

This protracted war is the last thing the Star Luo Empire wants to see. Their domestic finances have already suffered a severe blow, and now they are mired in the quagmire of the protracted war, forcing them to invest a large amount of their finances into the bottomless abyss of war.

It's only because the Star Luo Empire hasn't experienced a major civil war or division in the past ten thousand years that its foundation is solid enough; otherwise, with this series of combined attacks, Xu Jiawei could have already announced his repentance to the whole world.

The Heavenly Soul Empire dispatched three Soul Master legions totaling three thousand men, which, together with a large army group, entered the Snow Spirit Province from the Ling Mountain Range.

The Spirit Pagoda and Shrek Academy also rallied a large number of Soul Masters to join them in stepping into the territory of the Spirit Empire.

Soul-guided aid from the Sun Moon Empire also arrived at the front lines of the war through the Spirit Pagoda.

The allied forces were terrified of the current situation as soon as they entered the Snowling Province.

The original lord of Xueling Province was Xueshan. After the Douling royal family was wiped out by the Sea God family, Xue Leng from the neighboring Tianhe Province immediately sent troops to annex Xueling Province, claiming that Xueshan had been assassinated by the Sea God family.

Xue Leng was an arrogant and domineering young man with great ambitions. After the Allied Forces arrived, he plundered rare items from the people and even stole their winter clothes, sending these supplies to the Allied Forces and their high-ranking officials.

His goal was simple: to win the favor of the Allied Forces' leadership. Once he had the support of the Allied Forces and drove out the Sea God Family, he would become the new Emperor of the Fighting Spirits.

Currently, besides Xue Leng, there is another powerful provincial force in the Douling Empire: Xue Kui of Luo'an Province.

This middle-aged man has a rather dull appearance, but his methods can be described as ruthless.

Taking advantage of the chaos in the Douling Empire, he had one of his subordinates, a Title Douluo-level agility-type Soul Masters, assassinate a high-ranking officer of the border army and forcibly take control of the border army.

Then, instead of confronting the Sea God family, he secretly made contact with them and together they divided up the Tianling Province.

Without the emperor to restrain him, he made no attempt to conceal his true nature in his own territory. When he was in a good mood, he would slaughter a village for fun; when he was in a bad mood, he would slaughter two villages to relieve his boredom.

He was a complete executioner, with three Title Douluo under his command, none of whom were high-level, ranging from level 91 to 93.

According to the intelligence reports, Xue Kui and Xue Leng are father and son.

When Xue Kui was traveling in Tianhe Province in his early years, he slept with the Duchess of the former Tianhe Province and gave birth to Xue Leng.

Then Xue Kui had his assassins kill Yuan Tianhe, the Duke of the province, and his other sons, so that his illegitimate son Xue Leng could successfully take over.

The two had no apparent connection and often went against each other, even managing to fool the former Emperor of Douling.

But behind the scenes, the two of them kept in touch frequently, and their normal communication was no different from that of an ordinary father and son, presenting a scene of filial piety and parental love.

Meanwhile, in the original timeline, after the Sun Moon Empire wiped out the Douling Royal Family, Xue Kui and Xue Leng marched towards Lingdou City under the pretext of serving the emperor. They even sent five Title Douluos and more than twenty Soul Douluos to kill Xu Sanshi, who had just become regent, and the former princess Xue Lingxun.

The two Beast King-level Soul Master Corps dispatched by the Sun Moon Empire to annihilate the Douling Royal Family—Huanglong and Xiejun—were also let in by these two guys.

They had long since pledged allegiance to the Sun Moon Empire, agreeing that after ascending the throne, the Douling Empire would become a vassal state of the Sun Moon Empire.

Right now, Xue Kui and Xue Leng are playing the roles of good cop and bad cop in front of the Allied Forces.

Xue Kui fiercely resisted the arrival of the Allied Forces, completely disregarding their various strategies, and even dispatched troops to clash with them.

Xue Leng, on the other hand, kept trying to curry favor with the Allied Forces, willing to cooperate with all their actions, and proactively providing them with supplies, even if those supplies were plundered from the people in her own territory.

Because of the suddenness of the event, the O5 meeting of the Spirit Pagoda had to send a member to serve as the Supreme Inspector of the Allied Forces to oversee the use of aid and restrain the behavior of the supporting Soul Masters.

Di Tian and Xue Di are naturally unsuitable, and Otto, as the Prime Minister of the Sun and Moon Kingdoms, is not someone the Douluo Three Kingdoms trust.

Mu En is physically disabled and needs to stay behind to oversee things. Moreover, the fact that a Limit Douluo would personally go to the Douling Empire could very likely trigger a stress response from the Sea God family.

They may not maintain the current intensity of the war and go straight to a decisive battle.

Therefore, the most suitable candidate is Su Tong. Poor Su Tong is now not only burdened with passionate affairs, but also serving as the Supreme Inspector of the Douling Empire.

Fortunately, Gu Yuena, the Water Dragon King, and the Snow Empress helped share the workload; otherwise, when Huo Yuhao returned, he might have found Su Tong dead, which would have been a tragedy of a parent outliving their child.

Huo Yuhao could only go to the underworld with tears in his eyes and retrieve the person.

The current situation in the Douling Empire can be described as a heated civil war. The battle between Su Tong and Amon is also being overseen by Ye Guyi, the sixth evil soul master.

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"Marquis Xuekui!"

Do you know what you're doing?!

"You're selling out your country! You're betraying the nation! You want to become a traitor!"

Li Guozhong, formerly a military marshal, was angrily confronting Xue Kui, his eight spirit rings shining, his aura as a Soul Douluo sweeping across the entire area.

Because Amon deliberately allowed this guy to successfully escape from Lingdou City, he ran all the way to the border army camp of the Douling Empire.

Upon arriving here, they discovered that Xue Kui had assassinated all the high-ranking officers of the border army he had trained over the years, and that the entire border army was now completely under Xue Kui's control.

From his former subordinates, Li Guozhong also learned that this madman wanted to collude with the Sea God family, intending to cede the entire southeastern region of the Douling Empire as a condition for signing a peace treaty with the Sea God family. Xue Kui sighed, lightly stroking the marshal's desk in front of him, and coldly said to Li Guozhong:

"Drought traitor?"

"I'm preserving the seeds of the Douling flame. Do you really think the Douling Empire, along with its so-called allied forces, can defeat the Sea God Family?"

"Li Shuai, you should know that Di Tian will not intervene in this war, right?"

"Without Di Tian, ​​who can stand against the Sea God Douluo? He's a being capable of triggering a divine descent."

"And I also want to ask you, as the Grand Marshal carefully trained by the Douling Royal Family, when the entire royal army was wiped out, you didn't fight the Sea God Family to the death but instead ran back to the border army camp."

"Can I assume that you are either a deserter or have reached some kind of secret agreement with the Sea God family?"

"Heh, Marshal Li, you are a marshal. You should know very well how deserters and traitors are dealt with in the army, right?"

"Shadowbringer, send the Grand Marshal on his way!"

Li Guozhong lived up to his reputation as a marshal who commanded a region. He almost instantly possessed his martial spirit, his muscles bulged, his thick white fur moved without wind, and his huge wolf howl shook the entire marshal's tent.

The sharp wolf claws gleamed with silver light, carrying ice-attribute soul power as they sliced ​​through the air and collided violently with a dark purple light.

"Clang!"

A crisp collision sound rang out, and layers of air surged out beneath Li Guozhong's feet, causing the ground to crack.

However, Li Guozhong's strength was clearly inferior to that of the attacker. After a brief stalemate, he began to vomit blood. The icy blue claw light was slowly suppressed by the dark purple blade light, which went straight for his heart.

Li Guozhong gritted his teeth, ignited his source energy, and forcibly unleashed his soul power to force back the dark figure.

He knelt on the ground, panting heavily. In the distance, a dark figure appeared. An old man holding a dark purple dagger stood quietly next to Xue Kui, with nine soul rings—two yellow, two purple, and five black—surrounding his body.

"Clap! Clap! Clap!"

Xue Kui clapped his hands with an appreciative expression and said softly:

"As expected of the Imperial Marshal, his strength is truly formidable. He was able to successfully force back a Title Douluo of the Agility-type attack style who was ambushed by him."

"If only you were one of my people."

“Look around, at your former subordinates, they don’t seem to have any intention of rescuing you.”

The clash between the Title Douluo and the Soul Douluo caused quite a stir, and a large number of border soldiers began to surround them.

They watched as their once beloved marshal knelt on the ground, covered in blood, their hearts filled with extreme pain. Their hands, gripping the weapon, trembled uncontrollably, and they closed their eyes, unable to meet the marshal's disappointed gaze.

However, Li Guozhong did not look at the soldiers with disappointment. In his view, this was normal. Facing a titled Douluo, it was already a great courage for these soldiers, who might not even have soul power, to come and see him off.

Li Guozhong closed his eyes, began to ignite his source energy, and then opened the magic network, preparing to borrow money from the magic network bank.

This time, he planned to collect enough Dream Coins to reach level 94 in one go, then burn them all at once and explode with Xue Kui.

Even if I die, I'll still have to work for that 'Ye Ge' (a nickname for a pigeon).

As long as this traitor is taken away, he'll have a smile on his face even if he's just doing odd jobs.

"Stop, Ice Wolf Lord."

"Sword Banner Lord, kill him."

"Yes, Caesar."

A dark purple, sword-shaped bow made of pearl shells, carrying a sharp sword light, slashed towards the head of the Shadow Douluo.

The Shadow Douluo was startled and hurriedly retreated, only to find that a strange power suddenly enveloped him, and his fighting spirit and will to survive were all reduced to nothingness in this power.

He suddenly felt that life was meaningless and that he might as well just die. Even the sensation of moving no longer existed, and the meaning of his existence was being stripped away little by little.

Even as the dark purple bow severed his head, he did not retreat an inch. His head, rolling to the ground, bore an indifferent expression, even a hint of relief, which sent chills down the spines of everyone present.

"Who are you?!"

Xue Kui could no longer sit still. As the sharpest blade under his command, he knew very well the strength of the Shadow Douluo. He never expected that the Shadow Douluo would be killed instantly by an unknown being.

"who am I?"

"You don't deserve to know."

Hathaway stepped aside, placing one hand on her chest and bowing slightly to make way for Krydella.

A petite girl wearing a crown with burning blue flames slowly approached him.

Xue Kui's pupils contracted, and he retreated continuously, speechless with shock.

"Blue hair, a crown with flames, a titled Douluo guard."

"You, you are the last royal family of the Fighting Spirits?!"

He plopped down on the ground, staring in disbelief at the person who had just arrived.

News from the Sea God family had spread throughout the continent, and with the added support of enthusiastic intelligence, no one doubted the authenticity of Cerberus's identity.

"No, even if you are from the Douling royal family, you have no right to kill a marquis or a noble without authorization!"

Krystra raised the blue scepter in her hand and said in a calm tone:
"For I have come, I have seen, I have conquered."

(End of this chapter)