Douluo Continent: Starting with a Heavenly Fire Judgment

Chapter 431 Impenetrable

The reason why the original Douluo Three Kingdoms resolutely prohibited the flow of low-level Saint Marks into the Sun Moon Empire was because low-level Saint Marks were like a lifeline for the large number of low-level Soul Masters in the Sun Moon Empire.

How could the Sun Moon Empire, with the strength of a single nation, contend with the three kingdoms of the original Douluo Continent? One key factor was the large number of low-level Soul Masters.

Undoubtedly, the Sun Moon Empire is far ahead in terms of soul guidance technology and in terms of the concept of training soul masters.

In the Douluo Continent, besides the Sun Moon Empire, only the Spirit Hall from ten thousand years ago could provide free martial soul awakening for ordinary people and even offer subsidies.

Ten thousand years have passed, and the original Douluo Continent's ideology has not only failed to grow, but has actually regressed. The lives of ordinary people are not even as good as they were ten thousand years ago, when at least the Spirit Hall gave them hope.

Ten thousand years ago, the Spirit Hall helped commoners awaken their spirits for free, while also providing subsidies to low-level spirit masters, suppressing evil spirit masters, and overseeing various empires and kingdoms.

Ten thousand years later, commoners need to pay a fee to awaken their martial souls, and there are no subsidies. At the same time, evil soul masters are rampant. Shrek Academy, which replaced the Spirit Hall in supervising the continent, simply replaced the Spirit Hall's position but failed to shoulder the Spirit Hall's responsibilities.

According to general theory, with the progress of the times, the lives of ordinary people should be getting better and better, but the reality is the opposite.

Compared to the commoners of the original Douluo Three Kingdoms, the commoners of the Sun Moon Empire are actually happier and have more opportunities for upward mobility.

Of course, this is not something Ji Lin should concern himself with right now. His position was determined from birth.

However, Ji Lin did not mind implementing the policies of the Spirit Hall from ten thousand years ago in the new empire, awakening martial souls for commoners for free, and providing subsidies for low-level soul masters.

Doing so might offend some nobles, but it would earn the gratitude of all the common people.

But this is all for later.

Sunrise City is only a small to medium-sized city in the entire Sun and Moon Empire. It is far from being as grand and magnificent as Mingdu. It has only 100,000 permanent households and a total population of less than 500,000.

However, in recent months, the city has begun to change. On the city wall, which is about five zhang high, a large number of soul-guided searchlights and various soul-guided detectors have been installed. Outside Sunrise City, two entire soul-guided regiments of five hundred men each have been stationed.

Within the Sun Moon Empire, Soul Master Corps actually has different levels, with the most powerful being the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps. This is the strongest force in the entire Sun Moon Empire, and the entry threshold for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps is level 50, meaning that one must at least reach the Soul King level to have a chance of joining. The total number of members is approximately three hundred, and the three leaders, the commander and deputy commander, are all powerful level nine Soul Masters who obey only the Emperor and are loyal to the royal family.

Apart from the emperor of the Sun Moon Empire, no one can mobilize this powerful Soul Master Legion. They are also equipped with the finest Soul Guidance Weapons and enjoy the highest treatment in the entire Sun Moon Empire army.

Just maintaining this one Soul Master Corps requires at least the total annual tax revenue of two major cities.

But it was this very force that protected the capital, the emperor's most loyal and important fighting force, and together with the Imperial Palace, they were known as the two pillars of the royal family.

When these two forces combine, even a powerful organization like the Holy Spirit Cult will be wary, let alone other forces.

Besides the Sun and Moon Royal Soul Master Corps, there are four Beast King-level Soul Master Corps directly under the Empire: the Imperial Dragon Soul Master Corps, the Terror Claw Soul Master Corps, the Fire Phoenix Soul Master Corps, and the Evil Monarch Soul Master Corps.

These four Soul Master Corps are all named after famous and powerful Soul Beast Kings. Among them, Huanglong represents the Purple Emperor Annihilation Dragon, a powerful Soul Beast that has become extinct. The Sun Moon Empire's royal family has inherited the Purple Emperor Annihilation Dragon Martial Soul. How could Xu Tianran become the emperor of the Sun Moon Empire so simply? One very important reason is that he is the inheritor of this Martial Soul, rather than the Sun Martial Soul or Silver Moon Martial Soul inherited by other members of the royal family.

The Purple Emperor Annihilation Dragon and the Earth Dragon Gate's inherited martial soul, the Rouge Dragon, are somewhat similar, both possessing their own unique attributes.

The attribute of the Rouge Dragon is Annihilation, while the attribute of the Purple Emperor Annihilation Dragon is Destruction. It is said that its ancestor was the younger brother of the Dragon God, a sub-dragon that lived with the Dragon God and was known as the ancestor of sub-dragons. Later, it was personally exterminated by the Dragon God.

The representative spirit beast of the Terrorclaw Spirit Master Corps is naturally the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, a super spirit beast that is a legendary existence in any country.

The Fire Phoenix Soul Master Corps, as its name suggests, is named after the legendary soul beast king, the Fire Phoenix. All the soul masters recruited in the Corps are women, and the current leader of the Fire Phoenix Soul Master Corps is none other than Empress Ju Zi of the Empire.

The final Evil Lord Soul Master Corps borrowed the name of the only super ferocious beast in the Sun Moon Empire, the Evil Emperor, ranked second among the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, and the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler.

Legend has it that when the Sun Moon Continent and the Douluo Continent clashed, the Evil Eye Tyrant once went to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek out the Beast God Di Tian, ​​the leader of the current Ten Great Ferocious Beasts.

The outcome of the battle between the two sides is unknown, but after the Evil Eye Tyrant returned to the Sun and Moon Continent, he disappeared without a trace, while Di Tian remained the Beast God and the leader of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts.

However, the fact that the Evil Eye Tyrant was able to escape unscathed from the Star Dou Great Forest, where Di Tian was stationed, also earned him the formidable reputation of being the second most ferocious beast.

Each of the four Soul Master Corps has its own characteristics. For example, the Fire Phoenix Corps consists entirely of female Soul Masters, the Terror Claw Corps consists entirely of strong men, the Imperial Dragon Corps has the strongest combat power, and the Evil Monarch Corps is composed entirely of Soul Masters who are skilled in speed.

Their unified standard is a soul power of level 40 or above, which is equivalent to a Soul Master or above. Each Beast King-level Soul Master Corps has a total of 300 members. Apart from Orange, the leader of the Fire Phoenix Soul Master Corps, the leaders of the other three Beast King-level Soul Master Corps are all level 9 Soul Masters, and the deputy leader of the Fire Phoenix Soul Master Corps is also a level 9 Soul Master.

Together with the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Corps, they are known as the Guardians of the Nation, like the five pillars supporting the Sun Moon Empire.

Besides these five Soul Master Corps, the requirements for the remaining Soul Master Corps are lower. They each have a strength of 500 members, and anyone with a Soul Power exceeding two rings can join. Currently, there are six such Soul Master Corps with a strength of 500 members each, totaling 3,000 members, stationed in different locations within the Sun Moon Empire.

In addition, each of the major military regions of the Sun Moon Empire has its own Soul Master Corps composed of Soul Masters recruited by them. The composition of these corps is somewhat uneven, and their combat strength is far inferior to that of the six regular Soul Master Corps of the Sun Moon Empire.

Many Soul Master Corps members are private soldiers of nobles in the Sun Moon Empire, and even the royal family cannot completely control them.

The small group of Soul Masters that Ji Lin destroyed when he saved Ju Zi was one that the Brilliant Duke had been privately raising.

On the battlefield, even the lowest-ranking Soul Master Corps is far more effective than a 10,000-strong cavalry regiment. Of course, this refers to a cavalry regiment composed of ordinary people. They possess immense destructive power and are extremely agile due to their small numbers and expertise in using Soul Tools, often having the power to sway the course of a war.

Of course, the true source of the Sun Moon Empire's confidence in dominating the world lies in its five powerful Soul Master Corps, which are hailed as the guardians of the nation.

Therefore, two of the six five-hundred-person Soul Master Corps are stationed around this inconspicuous and historically unimportant Sunrise City. This shows how much importance the Sun Moon Empire attaches to Sunrise City. Moreover, this is only the arrangement outside the city.

Outside Sunrise City.

On the open plains, thousands of Soul Masters set up positions, with rows of Soul Guidance Cannons, though not of high level, but in astonishing numbers, arranged like a forest. Among them were also high-level Soul Guidance Cannons. It could be said that the defense of Sunrise City was absolutely impenetrable.

If these two Soul Master Corps were willing, they could raze Sunrise City to the ground in no time.

For Ji Lin and his group, the two Soul Master Corps were not the most troublesome thing. What was more troublesome was the numerous Soul Detection Devices on the entire Sunrise City Wall. Ji Lin did not rashly use his mental detection to scan them. What if there were Soul Detection Devices among them that detected mental power? Wouldn't that alert them?

Looking at the various soul-guided detection devices with different effects, Ji Lin also had a bit of a headache.

It can be said that in Sunrise City now, even a fly would be detected by the Soul Masters responsible for monitoring these Soul Guidance Devices.

At this time, a long queue had already formed outside the gates of Sunrise City. Now, whether entering or leaving the city, Sunrise City requires strict checks. Foreign caravans cannot enter the city immediately. Sunrise City has even stricter checks on these foreign caravans, which often take one or two days. Helpless, the caravans can only camp outside the city.

Ji Lin and his group are now mixed in with the many caravans. There are so many people in the caravans that few people notice them. Even if they do, Ji Lin can use this opportunity to practice his Word Magic.

"Ji Lin, what should we do?"

Looking at the line of pedestrians queuing to enter the city, Ye Guyi frowned and asked.

"This is troublesome. There are too many soul-detecting devices here, making it virtually impossible to sneak in. Going through the city gate is also difficult. The ones at the city gate over there are soul-power detection devices, specifically for checking the soul power level of soul masters. As soon as we get close, we will be exposed."

Ji Lin rubbed his temples helplessly. He and Ye Guyi were both Soul Saints, and the others were Soul Emperors. A group of high-level Soul Masters entering the city at this time was obviously suspicious, not to mention their identities couldn't stand scrutiny.

"It's been several months already! And they're still guarding it so tightly. If we can't even get into the city, how are we supposed to rescue people? Besides, there are at least five hundred people from the participating sects and academies who have been captured. Even if we can get in, how are we going to bring them out? Those two Soul Master Corps outside are not to be underestimated."

Wang Dong'er was dumbfounded; she hadn't expected it to be this difficult when she came.

(End of this chapter)