Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 401 The Invasion of the Sun and Moon Empire

After instructing the new generation of Heaven Dou Royal Team members on their cultivation path, Tang San and the others bid farewell to Qin Ming and went to visit the three instructors. These three had also improved their strength over the past five years, especially Meng Shenji, whose soul power had reached level eighty-nine, and he was only one step away from becoming a Title Douluo.

He estimates that he can break through and reach level 90 within seven or eight years.

Finally, Tang San left a Blue Silver Empress at the center of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and then walked out of the academy gate with everyone, ready to have a good get-together.

Just three days later, two unexpected pieces of news shattered the tranquility of the mainland.

Firstly: Haotian Sect has made a high-profile announcement that it has emerged from seclusion!

According to the reports in "Martial Soul News" and "Heavenly Battle News", Tang Chen, the patriarch of the Clear Sky Sect, has returned to the sect!

Who is Tang Chen?

The younger generation is unaware, and the younger generation doesn't know much about it either. Only some of the older generation still remember that he was a peerless Douluo whose soul power reached level ninety-nine!

Tang San knew more, such as that Tang Chen had already returned to the Clear Sky Sect, but because of his illness, he had not yet recovered, so the Clear Sky Sect continued to maintain the status quo.

Is the Haotian Sect's announcement of their return to the public eye because Tang Chen has recovered his health?

It seems that the disciples of Haotian found some precious medicine, which allowed Tang Chen to recover from his injuries after taking it.

The second piece of news wasn't so pleasant—

The Star Crown Sect has discovered a new continent!

This should have been good news, but the only problem is that the other side came to invade, and the leader was none other than Xu Xing, who was piloting the Vast Ocean Sky Ship!

He became a traitor within the Douluo Continent!

After Xu Xing discovered the new continent and began exploring it, he was discovered and arrested by the local forces of the Sun and Moon Continent.

To Xu Xing's surprise, the Sun Moon Continent had already been unified during this period and was vigorously developing soul guidance technology. Moreover, the quality of advanced soul masters was no less than that of the Douluo Continent. The royal family possessed one peerless Douluo, eleven titled Douluos above level 95, four of whom reached level 98, and nearly fifty titled Douluos below level 95.

The emperor of the Sun Moon Empire possesses twin martial souls: the Purple Emperor Annihilation Dragon and the Sun and Moon Twin Wheels, making him quite powerful, reaching the level of a Soul Douluo.

Upon first meeting Xu Huang, Xu Xing knew that this guy was the same kind of person as him.

There are so many transmigrators on the Douluo Continent, how come there aren't any on the Sun and Moon Continent?

He was careless...

Then, he submitted to Xu Huang and offered up the Vast Ocean Sky Ship, as well as the sea charts recorded along the way.

This saved the Sun Moon Empire a lot of effort in exploring routes—after all, the sea is home to many sea spirit beasts, and there are hundreds or even thousands of 100,000-year spirit beasts. Without a suitable route, or by developing a sea-based soul-guided warship that can ignore 100,000-year spirit beasts, exploring the sea would only result in more deaths.

After unifying the Sun and Moon Continent, Xu Huang wanted to explore overseas continents.

It wasn't that he, as a transmigrator, had any particular desire for the Douluo Continent, but rather that after the empire was unified, with no external enemies, the various families and princes within the empire began to fight amongst themselves.

He was willing to govern, but his orders always went astray, and corrupt officials continued to emerge, making it impossible to eradicate them completely.

Although he unified the mainland, he did not unify the people's hearts.

Systemic reforms and institutional changes cannot be accomplished overnight, and even with one peerless master and three level-98 titled Douluo, there is no way to achieve them.

This will take time...

Therefore, the only option is to try to shift the blame outwards.

Perhaps it was fate that brought Xu Xing from another continent to this place, and he also brought with him an ancient soul tool that was said to have been obtained from the Golden Tree: the Vast Ocean Sky Boat.

This provided the Empire with new ideas for researching soul tools, and even led to significant progress.

Xu Xing and the others were unaware of most of the functions of the Vast Ocean Sky Ship, but the Sun Moon Empire had many experts in soul tool research who had analyzed 70% of its functions in just one year.

The remaining 30% requires analysis due to a lack of available data, and the timeframe might be measured in centuries…

This also fueled the Sun Moon Empire's desire for the Douluo Continent.

After all, according to Xu Xing and others, the Douluo Continent is not yet unified and has three major powers. There are even many kingdoms and duchies within the so-called Heaven Dou Empire.

That was clearly a relatively backward continent, but there were also relics of ancient civilizations there... Wouldn't that be a huge opportunity?

This should definitely be taken advantage of!

As for the natives on the Douluo Continent?

If they don't obey, we'll kill them!

Weakness is the greatest original sin!

Therefore, upon arriving at the coastal city bordering the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire, the commander of the Sun Moon Empire directly ordered a bombardment of the port with soul-guided cannons, causing hundreds of fishing boats to sink and thousands of fishermen to perish in the sea.

This show of force naturally alarmed the local Spirit Hall and the city lord, who hurriedly assembled their respective combat teams and rushed to the coast to prepare to repel the invaders.

But what awaited them was a second round of bombardment from soul-guided cannons.

The hall master and city lord of the Martial Soul Branch Hall all died in battle. Of the city's residents, no more than 10,000 were captured. The rest, except for those who had escaped beforehand and the Soul Masters who were willing to surrender, were all slaughtered.

The Sun and Moon Empire intends to establish a base here, and a steady stream of imperial soldiers and residents will arrive in the future. Therefore, it doesn't need too many native inhabitants, at least not initially as a burden...

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"What a devil!"

Yu Tianheng and the others were shocked and furious as they read the contents of the "Martial Soul Gazette." "To carry out such a large-scale massacre of a city! This is absolutely a provocation against the entire Douluo Continent!"

Sun and Moon Continent?

Empire of the Sun and Moon?

This beam can be regarded as knotted.

Tang San's heart was heavy. He said, "It seems our gathering will have to end early. The Spirit Hall, no, the entire continent, is facing an unprecedented challenge..."

"I clearly don't want to get involved in any conflicts on the mainland, but if I do encounter them, I can't just ignore them."

The gathering ended early, and Tang San and the others rushed back to Wuhun City.

That afternoon, Bibi Dong used her soul-guided communication device to conduct a video call with the Star Luo Emperor, the Qinghe Emperor, the leaders of two of the Upper Three Sects and the Lower Four Sects, as well as the Federal Emperor of the New Heaven Dou.

The emperor of the New Heaven Dou Federation is none other than Avalanche.

This guy was hailed as the new emperor by a large group of nobles, so he directly gave up his princely status, broke ties with Xue Qinghe, and happily ran off to the New Heavenly Dou Federation.

Xue Qinghe, mindful of "brotherly affection," did not pursue the enemy. In reality, he was planning to eliminate the last remaining bloodline descendant of Emperor Xue Ye after conquering the New Tiandou Federation.

As for the plan to use the "poisoning" of Emperor Xueye to smear Xuexing and Xuebeng, who were related to Poison Douluo, it was abandoned by Xue Qinghe after considering the relationship between Tang San and Dugu Bo.

Unexpectedly, this has now happened—the Star Crown Sect secretly explored the New World and even acted as "traitors," attracting foreign invasion and leading to the occupation of a coastal city within the Heavenly Dou territory…

(End of this chapter)