Douluo Continent: The Underworld Emperor Halosa Lets Three Fly

Chapter 255 Bombardment (Three-in-One)

Harosa's words were like a pebble thrown into a calm lake, creating ripples in the hearts of the gods.

The most direct and effective way to ascertain the true strength of a peak God-King is undoubtedly through actual combat. Only in a life-or-death struggle, where everyone gives their all, can one truly perceive the opponent's divine power reserves, the strength of their laws, their fighting style, and even their hidden trump cards.

However, this seemingly simple principle proved exceptionally difficult to grasp at this moment. Their opponent was Gu Yuena, the newly ascended Dragon God, a supreme being at the peak of the God-King realm.

To force her to use her full strength and obtain sufficiently valuable data, the person making the move must be at the same level as her, or even slightly stronger, in order to probe and observe her with ease.

Although Elex is also a God-King, as a God of Law, he is more adept at studying laws and providing long-range support. Direct attacks and enduring the Dragon God's unparalleled explosive power and devouring ability are not his strengths, so he is clearly not qualified to take on this task.

Therefore, the only remaining candidate is Harosa himself.

However, if Harosa were to personally engage in a full-scale battle with Gu Yuena, regardless of the outcome, this clash between gods of the highest order would be enough to alert the enemy and could even prematurely ignite a full-scale war between the two divine realms, completely contradicting the original purpose of this secret reconnaissance and intelligence gathering.

This is by no means what Harosa wanted.

A brief silence fell, broken only by the faint hum of the artifact and the slightly heavy breathing of the subordinate gods.

All the gods understood this dilemma, and their gazes unanimously focused on Harosa, who sat on his throne, his fingertips unconsciously tapping the armrests.

In Harosa's deep eyes, the Samsara runes swirled slowly like a nebula, clearly rapidly deducing various possibilities. He was not entirely ignorant of Gu Yuena's fighting style; back on Douluo Star, although they had never truly fought to the death, they had clashed and their auras had collided.

He had a general idea of ​​the Silver Dragon King's style, which combined elemental control with dragon combat techniques. Now that she had ascended to the status of Dragon God, the biggest variable lay in the extent to which the complete laws of creation, originating from the core of the Dragon God, could be utilized.

What is the upper limit of her power? This is related to whether she can truly unleash combat power beyond that of an ordinary peak God-King, or even touch the legendary realm of "beyond God-King".

"The strength of a law, especially a supreme law like the law of creation, has drastically different effects when used in passive defense versus active activation—" Harosa pondered. "A sufficiently powerful stimulus is needed to force her to use the laws of creation for a large-scale, high-intensity defense or counterattack, but without directly revealing that it was our doing—"

A moment later, his tapping on the armrest abruptly stopped, a knowing glint in his eyes. He raised his gaze, the light passing over Ilex in front of him and landing on Deng Fengqiao, who stood at the forefront of the Soul Masters' ranks, somewhat bewildered by the sudden shift in topic to his own side.

"Little Deng," Harosa's voice broke the silence, carrying a seemingly casual inquiry, "Old Yi just said that the Tianhe Clan in the Dragon Horse Galaxy has developed a technological strength that is probably superior to your Soul Guidance Technology. Do you agree with that?"

Deng Fengqiao was taken aback when he was suddenly called out, but then a strong, almost unthinking confidence immediately appeared on his face.

He stepped forward, bowed respectfully, and though his tone was respectful, the pride of a top technological authority was evident in his words: "Your Excellency! Elder Yi is knowledgeable and his words may have some basis. But when it comes to technology, I—I do not believe that the soul-guiding technology of my Reincarnation God Realm is inferior to that of any civilization!"

"Oh?" Harosa raised an eyebrow, seemingly intrigued, a faint smile playing on her lips. "So confident?"

"The fact that the He Clan was able to establish itself in the Dragon-Horse Galaxy, and that even Old Yi commented on its formidable technology, suggests that its reputation was well-deserved."

Deng Fengqiao straightened his back even more, and his voice rose a few decibels: "My lord, you are wise! My Soul Guidance Technology, from its very inception, has been closely integrated with the Soul Master system and the laws of heaven and earth. Later, it was nourished by the high-level energy and environment of the God Realm, and with your constant guidance, it is no longer the ignorant fool it once was! No matter how strong the Tianhe Clan's technology is, it is nothing more than relying on external objects and creating things in a rigid manner. How could they know that my Soul Guidance Technology integrates the laws into its artifacts..."

The profound mystery of transforming energy for one's own use? This is no small boast; in the same field, my Soul Guidance Technology is undoubtedly superior—"

He paused, seemingly realizing that his words had been too boastful, and quickly added a flattering remark tinged with official jargon: "Of course, all of this is inseparable from your cultivation and guidance, sir! If we Soul Masters, having experienced such favorable conditions, still haven't achieved anything, wouldn't we be letting down your high expectations and wasting the resources of the divine realm?"

These words were spoken tactfully and confidently, both expressing an attitude and elevating Harosa, causing several veteran deities familiar with Deng Fengqiao's personality to twitch their lips slightly.

Harosa chuckled upon hearing this, seemingly quite pleased. He turned his gaze to Electrox, a hint of mockery in his eyes, as if to say, "See, your kid's not convinced," before returning to Deng Fengqiao, his tone a persuasive, guiding probe: "Confidence is a good thing. Since you're so confident, I'll now give you a task—"

He drew out his voice slightly, watching Deng Fengqiao instantly focus and prick up his ears, and slowly said, "I'm ordering you to lead your Soul Master Corps to find a way to blast those Dragon-Horse Twin Stars, One Dragon Star and Pegasus Star, to smithereens. Can you do it?"

"Boom—it shattered?!" Deng Fengqiao's confidence froze instantly, replaced by astonishment and hesitation. His mouth was slightly open, almost as if he had misheard.

He scratched his head subconsciously, a flush of embarrassment rising on his face, and stammered, "M--Sir, this--is certainly possible. By combining the power of all our large strategic soul tools and launching a saturation attack regardless of cost, shattering a planet is not impossible, it's even quite easy—but, but isn't this--the carnage a bit too heavy? There are countless lives on those two planets—"

He wasn't a pure war fanatic after all. As a researcher, he saw the destruction of a vibrant planet, especially one that might contain countless unknown mysteries, as a huge waste and a sin.

Seeing this, Harosa deliberately frowned, feigning displeasure, and snorted, "What? You were full of confidence just now, but now you're making excuses? You think the killing is too heavy? Do you think Gu Yuena is just for show? She is the Dragon God, who wields the laws of creation. Would she just stand by and watch her lair be destroyed without any defense?"

Deng Fengqiao was taken aback at first, then suddenly realized what was happening. He slapped his forehead with a sharp "smack," his face instantly brightening into a silly grin of sudden realization: "Oh dear! Look at my brain! I was so focused on the technical implementation that I forgot about this! So, sir, you wanted to use this method to test the upper limit of the Dragon God's strength! To see how large an area she could protect with the laws of creation, and what kind of attack she could withstand! Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!"

He figured out the key point and immediately became excited, all his previous psychological burden vanishing. Since it was just a test, there was no need to actually destroy the planet; the focus was on how Gu Yuena would respond.

Harosa gave him a dismissive tap: "You only understand now? Of course!"

Deng Fengqiao chuckled sheepishly, rubbing his hands together, and said, "Yes, yes, I'm so stupid. But sir, since this is just a test, shouldn't we control our firepower? After all, according to your previous plan, these Dragon-Horse Twin Stars are going to become a supplement for our God Realm in the future. It would be such a waste to just throw them away like this. If we destroy them, we'll have to go through the trouble of rebuilding them. It's not worth it."

His words were indeed honest, immediately resonating with many of the surrounding deities, who nodded in agreement. Devouring the essence of a planet was far more efficient than devouring fragments of the starry sky.

Harosa looked at him with a half-smile: "Don't you feel the killing is too excessive now?"

Deng Fengqiao, thick-skinned as ever, immediately retorted righteously, "How can that be the same! For Your Excellency's grand ambitions and for the eternal foundation of the divine realm, their sacrifice was worthwhile! But if it's just meaningless destruction, then we've committed too much slaughter, violating the principles of Heaven and Earth!"

These self-righteously blatant double standards immediately caused the gods present to burst into suppressed laughter. Even the usually serious Electrox seemed to have a slight, almost imperceptible upward curve at the corners of his skeletal mouth. This guy is a master at scientific research, and he's also a master at being silly.

Harosa chuckled at his words and shook his head: "Alright, enough with the nonsense. Since you think you can do it, then let me see just how far your soul-guided technology has progressed over these thousands of years. We'll see what it's really made of."

Upon hearing this, Deng Fengqiao immediately thumped his chest, his face radiating absolute confidence: "Rest assured, sir! It's absolutely a horse! And a top-tier steed capable of traveling ten thousand miles a day, excelling in battle! It will absolutely not let you down!"

Harosa's gaze swept across the crowd. Without deliberately searching, those with gleaming eyes, rubbing their hands together, and whose auras were the same as Deng Fengqiao's, were naturally the core members of the Soul Master camp.

Seeing the mixture of excitement, pride, and eagerness on their faces, Harosa felt satisfied.

"Very well!" He suppressed his smile, his voice turning solemn. "Since you have such confidence, then proceed according to plan. Our first step is to quietly occupy Tianhe Star, where the Tianhe Clan resides."

He pointed to the point of light representing the heavens and stars in the star map drawn by Electrolux.

"After the occupation, your Soul Master Corps, on Tianhe Star, freely deploy all the large and super-large strategic Soul Guidance Devices you deem powerful enough to pose a threat to planetary targets, and set them up in the direction of the Dragon Horse Twin Stars!"

"At that time, heed my command and launch a salvo! There is no need to aim for a one-hit kill, but you must demonstrate a strength sufficient to threaten the survival of the planet!"

"I want to see how Gu Yuena and her dragon clan will cope with this sudden and devastating attack from their 'ally'!"

Harosa's intentions were clear: to use the fact that the Tianhe race was also a technological civilization to disguise themselves as a Tianhe rebellion or being manipulated by some force, and to launch an attack on the Gemini.

This would both test Gu Yuena's strength and reaction, and also conceal the existence of the Samsara God Realm to the greatest extent possible, avoiding premature exposure and gaining the initiative for subsequent actions.

At this moment, Deng Fengqiao and all the Soul Masters behind him had burning fighting spirit and the fervor unique to scientific researchers in their eyes.

Being able to test the limits of a god-king in a completely new galaxy, using the results of their life's research, is itself an unparalleled honor and challenge!

"We will follow your orders, sir!" Led by Deng Fengqiao, all the Soul Masters responded in unison, their voices loud and clear, filled with eagerness.

A special "test," using cutting-edge technology as its spear and the power of a god-king as its target, quietly began in this desolate star field far from the core of the Dragon Horse Galaxy.

Harosa sat firmly on his divine throne, his gaze deep and unfathomable, as if he could already see countless soul-guided cannons tearing through the starry sky, bombarding the two vibrant planets, and how the silver-haired dragon god would use the power of creation to hold up the heavens and save the world.

Once the plan was set, the action began quietly, like precisely meshed gears.

Under the personal leadership and cover of the two god-kings, Harosa and Elex, this elite squad from the Samsara God Realm, like ghosts merging into the deep sea, silently traversed the relatively weakly defended star field on the outer edge of the Dragon Horse Galaxy, heading straight for Tianhe Star.

As the core home planet of the Tianhe Clan, traces of its technological civilization can be glimpsed even from beyond the galaxy. Countless artificial star rings, like exquisite silver ribbons, encircle the planet, and its orbit is dotted with space stations and monitoring satellites of various functions, with energy signals as dense as a spider web.

Its technological level is indeed impressive; conventional infiltration methods would be almost impossible to evade its layers of electronic eyes and energy sensors.

However, they were facing two god-kings who wielded supreme laws.

Harosa didn't even use the Gates of the Underworld for large-scale teleportation, lest it cause excessive spatial fluctuations. He simply stood in the void, the Samsara runes in his deep eyes slightly swirling, and an invisible force of law, involving the boundary between the essential nature of space—"existence" and "nothingness"—spread out.

Wherever he went, space seemed to actively "forget" the existence of these uninvited guests. All detection beams, energy scans, and even the most basic optical observations were quietly distorted, detoured, or led into nothingness before they even touched them.

Electrolux then unleashed a large-scale group concealment spell. His gray mage robes fluttered without wind, and the gem at the top of the Staff of Eternity emitted a soft yet absolutely isolating light, perfectly enveloping everyone, along with all the aura, energy fluctuations, and even causal lines emanating from them.

This is not a simple visual invisibility, but a higher-dimensional "information erasure".

With this double protection, the gods of the Samsara God Realm walked as if they were in the cracks of the real world, swaggering through the three-dimensional defense network that Tianhe Star was so proud of, and even passing directly by several busy spaceport docks, while the Tianhe Clan staff nearby were completely unaware of this and remained immersed in their work.

Upon entering the atmosphere of Tianhe Star, Harosa subtly activated his divine sense, locking onto the location of the Tianhe Clan's Supreme Council and several key global defense and control hubs. The next moment, he and Electrox appeared like ghosts directly in these core areas.

There was no fierce battle, no sirens blaring. Faced with the sudden arrival of the two God-Kings, the Tianhe Clan's guards and councilors, who relied on technological equipment and whose strength was at most equivalent to a Title Douluo, didn't even have time to react.

With just a glance from Harosa, the oppressive aura containing the will of the God-King swept across the entire space like an invisible tide. All the Tianhe people, regardless of their position, were instantly captivated, their consciousness went blank, and they stood frozen in place, as if a pause button had been pressed.

This is an absolute crushing defeat on a level. The Tianhe Clan's technology may be able to create weapons that threaten god-level powerhouses, but when the God-King who wields the laws descends in person and appears directly in the command core without warning, they don't even have the chance to activate those weapons.

The entire process was faster than imagined, almost as if time stood still. In just a dozen breaths, the highest authority and defense core of Tianhe Star were completely paralyzed, falling into an unconscious state of stagnation.

Harosa did not harm their lives, but merely temporarily "frozen" their minds and abilities to ensure that no unexpected interference would occur during the execution of the plan.

"Control complete." Harossa's calm voice echoed in the minds of Elex and the subsequent subordinate gods.

Deng Fengqiao and his Soul Masters, who had been unable to contain themselves any longer, instantly unleashed a green light in their eyes, like hungry wolves eyeing their prey. Without needing any orders, they immediately dispersed with astonishing efficiency, as if they had been trained a thousand times.

"Quickly! Act fast! Group One, Group Two, immediately take over the global energy network nodes and implement access control and energy diversion according to the third backup plan!"

"Groups three to seven, begin setting up the Dragon Tooth bases according to the predetermined coordinates! Pay attention to concealment and energy resonance rate!"

"Groups eight and nine are responsible for building the core energy-concentrating array. The materials will be taken from space folders number three and seven. Be careful, they're all precious!"

"Calculation team, immediately recalibrate the firing parameters based on the latest star map data. Target: the area one-third north of the equator on Draco, and the south polar ice cap on Pegasus! Observations indicate that this is one of the key nodes in the dragon energy circulation!"

Deng Fengqiao's voice was transmitted clearly and quickly to the minds of every Soul Master through the divine sense network. The entire Tianhe Star instantly transformed into a gigantic open-air workshop.

Countless metal components, shimmering with various colored soul guide runes and featuring intricate and complex structures, poured out of the soul guide masters' spatial soul guides like flowing water.

They traversed the "frozen" Tianhe tribal cities, atop the technologically advanced buildings and in the center of the squares.

They even hovered directly in mid-air and began to build soul-guided devices of various shapes, all of which emitted dangerous energy fluctuations.

Some resemble giant metallic flowers, their petals composed of countless energy conduits, with a deep, energy-gathering crystal at their center; others look like ferocious dragon heads, their gaping maws brimming with terrifying, destructive energy; still others are purely geometric structures, such as obelisks and polyhedra, their surfaces engraved with flowing soul-guiding circuits, constantly drawing upon the immense energy forcibly diverted from the Tianhe Star energy network.

These powerful soul tools, each capable of serving as a national treasure, were not independent entities, thanks to the meticulous design of Deng Fengqiao and his team.

They are connected to each other by thick energy cables made of liquid soul power, and their locations also correspond to some kind of mysterious array.

Countless streams of energy surged and circulated among these soul tools, gradually forming a massive three-dimensional energy network—the Soul Guidance Matrix—that covered a specific area of ​​the entire Guanhe Star!

At the core of this matrix, located at the original highest peak of Tianhe Star, it has now been transformed into a massive platform.

At the center of the platform is not a cannon barrel in the traditional sense, but a chaotic energy singularity that is constantly rotating, contracting, and expanding. It beats like a heart, greedily devouring the massive amount of energy gathered from the global matrix with each contraction, and causing ripples in the surrounding space with each expansion.

This is one of the pinnacle achievements of the Soul Guidance Technology of the Reincarnation God Realm, as mentioned by Deng Fengqiao. It has a simple and direct name that is enough to make any living being who knows its meaning tremble with fear: Star Annihilation Cannon!

Despite its name, "Cannon" is actually an extremely complex, colossal composite soul guidance matrix.

It does not rely on a single destructive energy burst, but rather on matrix coordination to superimpose, compress, and transform the attacks of thousands of large soul tools at a specific point in space, ultimately forming a "Light of Law Returning to Nothingness" that is powerful enough to physically dismantle planetary structures and destroy the origin of stars.

The setup process took a considerable amount of time; after all, such a massive project required extremely precise operation and adjustments, even for a god-level soul master.

But all of this was taking place under the super concealment barrier that Harosa and Elex had jointly set up, covering the entire planet Tianhe.

From the outside, Tianhe Star was operating as usual, satellite signals were normal, and although the energy readings were somewhat abnormally active, they were still within an acceptable range of fluctuation, as if the Tianhe Clan were conducting some kind of large-scale energy experiment.

Other forces in the Dragon-Horse Galaxy, including the nearby Dragon-Horse Twin Stars, remained completely unaware of anything amiss. Gu Yuena might possess immense divine power, but it was impossible for her divine sense to meticulously scan every corner of the entire galaxy at all times, especially when she had just emerged from seclusion and was busy consolidating her realm and receiving the homage of the dragons.

When the last auxiliary soul tool was activated and successfully completed its energy docking with the main matrix, the entire planet-destroying cannon matrix emitted a deep and harmonious hum, like a sleeping behemoth that had finally completed its preparations and opened its cold eyes.

Standing on the main control platform, Deng Fengqiao wiped away non-existent sweat from his brow, his face filled with the satisfaction and excitement of creating a magnificent feat. He took a deep breath and reported to Harosa, who stood silently in the void, through his divine sense: "My lord, the 'Star Destroyer Cannon's' soul guidance matrix has been fully deployed and debugged. The energy pathways are smooth, the law resonance is stable, and the target coordinates are locked—the operation to bombard the Dragon-Horse Twin Stars is ready! We await your command at any time!"

Harosa stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze seemingly piercing through the planet's atmosphere, locking onto the two twin stars of the dragon-horse galaxy that shone brightly in the night sky. Electrox stood silently to the side, his Eternal Staff pausing slightly to ensure the concealment barrier was foolproof.

A test using the stars as a firing range, an indirect measurement of the peak strength of a God-King—the arrow is nocked, ready to be released.

Looking at the now-systematic star-destroying array, Harosa felt a sharpness, a killing edge.

"fire!

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