As the soldier's corpse quietly slid down, his chest that had been pierced through became completely black. In no time at all, his body had already turned into a pool of pus, seeping into the ground.
In the darkness, that figure revealed his face.
At this moment, many people behind him also darted out like ghosts and monsters, appearing and disappearing mysteriously. But their attire matched their behavior perfectly—after all, they were all dressed in black, with hoods covering their faces, only exposing their noses and eyes. Because of their outfits, the surrounding atmosphere seemed somewhat eerie.
Roughly counting heads in the darkness, after roughly confirming that everyone who completed this phase's mission had arrived, the person in black who finished killing last asked, "How did your side handle it?"
"All gate guards eliminated."
"No signals sent."
"..."
"Very good."
The person in black nodded, looking toward the outside of Nine Treasure City.
"Then next, it depends on the Evil Eye clan's methods. You go notify the Sect Leader and the others that our side's operation is complete. Next, we'll go guard those nodes we previously set up."
"Yes!"
As the voice fell, these black shadows quickly vanished.
Inside the city walls, it seemed nothing had changed, yet it seemed everything had changed. At least, two patrolling soldiers were missing.
Meanwhile, at the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's plaza.
"Come!"
With slightly flushed cheeks, Wu Feng lifted her skirt, stepped on a stool, and grabbed a wine jar. Ignoring the wine spilling on the table, and also ignoring that as a girl she should pay attention to decorum.
Anyway, the wine jar was thrust forward—just that one word!
"Cheers!"
Seeing Wu Feng thrust the wine jar over, Chen Junting didn't refuse, but instead raised his own wine cup and drank it down. What greeted him was Wu Feng's slightly teasing gaze, "Ooh ooh ooh, go sit at the kids' table. Drinking so little, trying to fool a ghost!"
Chen Junting didn't argue, only saying.
"There are no kids here."
"Tch—"
Then, Wu Feng brought the wine jar's opening to her lips, letting the wine pour down, even soaking her collar and collarbones.
The posture of a heroine among women instantly drew cheers.
But just at this moment, Chen Junting, who was originally watching this scene with a smile, suddenly changed his expression. Deep in his eyes, a trace of astonishment also flashed as he subconsciously touched his brow.
"Brother Junting, what's wrong?"
Originally, Ning Tian was watching Sister Feng's "performance" like eating melon seeds. But due to the Yearning Heartbroken Red from before, the two were connected in heart and spirit, clearly sensing something was off with Chen Junting.
"For some reason, I suddenly have a feeling of unease." Chen Junting's words carried confusion, but more importantly, solemnity. Because that feeling just now was like his third eye was warning him—that is, the power of destiny was...
At this moment, Ning Tian's hand grasped Chen Junting's.
With their hearts connected, she roughly understood Brother Junting's thoughts. Thus holding Chen Junting's hand, she walked toward Di Yao's direction, "Since it relates to the third eye, then let's ask someone who understands this. See what Sister Di Yao says."
Unexpectedly, almost simultaneously.
Di Yao raised her head, making eye contact with Chen Junting's group. Her originally calm and stern eyes couldn't help but flash with tension at this moment.
The moment she saw Chen Junting, her lips moved slightly, transmitting her words through voice compression into Chen Junting's ear.
Simply put, it was one sentence:
The power of destiny is warning of a fatal threat.
One must know, the profound mysteries of the power of destiny—even deities could only analyse one or two percent. Once it warned, it meant something major was definitely about to happen. And it was a fatal threat...
For a moment, Chen Junting's brows tightly furrowed.
He sensed it, and the Emperor Destiny Beast also sensed it—this meant under this crisis, they absolutely couldn't escape involvement. And during this recent period, it was impossible for him to leave the sect.
That meant...
The sect would encounter a major crisis, within the next two days!
Thinking to this point, Chen Junting's expression changed. He informed Ning Tian of Di Yao's perception and his own deductions.
Then he immediately pulled her along, rushing toward Ning Bowen and the others' direction. Regardless of anything, this matter must be taken seriously!
On Ning Bowen's side, he was currently entertaining guests from various major powers at the banquet. Seeing Chen Junting and Ning Tian walking toward him, he originally wanted to greet the two, but saw the urgency on Chen Junting's face. Instantly, he sensed something was wrong.
Thus after apologizing to the guests, he walked to their side.
"What happened?"
"Sect Master, the situation is wrong!"
Hearing such a formal address and such a serious tone, Ning Bowen immediately realized the severity of the matter.
Afterward, Chen Junting fully revealed the power of destiny.
...
Meanwhile, in various hidden corners of Nine Treasure City.
On the city walls, something began to continuously spread—large patches of demonic runes covered them, their purple-black light highlighting the eeriness.
Around these demonic runes, two people stood guard each.
With soul rings rising, they were all Soul Saint level powerhouses.
Before them stood a pagoda-like soul tool. And the runes below the small pagoda were even more complex. Moreover, looking at the situation, these runes below seemed to be connected with the small pagoda.
If Xuan Ziwen were here, letting him roughly observe for a moment, he could probably determine that this small pagoda soul tool's function had similar marvelous effects to the soul ring storage device and sealed milk bottle he invented.
As time passed minute by second, the night grew darker. The runes on the walls and below the small pagoda seemed to begin spreading inward, seemingly intending to encompass the entire Nine Treasure City.
And inside the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the banquet had already entered its final stages, but Chen Junting's heart felt increasingly uneasy. A strong sense of foreboding also rapidly rose from Chen Junting's heart.
"How is the situation?" Chen Junting grabbed Xuan Ziwen, who was quickly walking past him, asking with a serious tone.
Since informing Ning Bowen of the situation, as sect master he immediately summoned Xuan Ziwen, having him use soul tools to increase surveillance outside the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Nine Treasure City, while also having sect disciples continuously search the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Nine Treasure City.
But for the moment, the sect disciples couldn't finish searching.
However, soul tools were different—results would come quickly.
It's just that...
"No abnormalities." Xuan Ziwen shook his head, "Could it be you're overthinking? Probably no one would attack the sect, right?"
Those with the ideas and capability to attack were only two parties.
One was the Sun-Moon Empire, the other was the Holy Spirit Cult.
But today was not only their engagement ceremony—the Sun-Moon Empire was also currently celebrating Xu Tianran's grand wedding. So whether it was the Sun-Moon Empire or the Holy Spirit Cult, they probably wouldn't send people to attack, right?
"Not man-made? Could it be a natural disaster?"
Chen Junting's brows tightly locked, always feeling something was wrong.
It's just that when he looked up toward the horizon, he suddenly discovered a firework had actually shot very high, then exploded with a boom!
"Wrong!"
The moment his shout fell, a bizarre scene appeared. In the sky, masses of light dragged dazzling and brilliant tails, breaking through the air. The light grew increasingly intense, clearly heading toward the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and Nine Treasure City's direction. With such close launch distance, once they used fixed soul guide shells to intercept, the successive explosions' power would be even greater than the power caused by pure bombardment! Even greater!
This scene instantly stunned many people.
"Activate defense!"
Ning Bowen suddenly stood up, immediately ordering!
At this moment, a defensive shield suddenly rose outside the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. However, the Nine Treasure City defensive shield that should have risen simultaneously was delayed and failed to rise—clearly, it had malfunctioned.
Boom— Boom— Boom—
One explosion after another rang out. In the sky, brilliant fireworks bloomed one after another. Countless attacks instantly landed on Nine Treasure City, its original prosperity instantly buried in the flames of war.
Chen Junting's group had no time for sorrow, because even more ferocious attacks were falling toward their side. Those were three Class 9 fixed soul guide shells, nine Class 8 fixed soul guide shells, and over ten Class 7 fixed soul guide shells. Clearly, the attackers' goal was to exterminate the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect!
"Uncle Bai!"
"Old Gu! Little Tian!"
Successive shouts came from Ning Bowen's mouth and Chen Junting's mouth. They saw Bai Sheng treading through the air, his nine soul rings instantly merging into one. Immediately after, an enormous Sky Star Furnace appeared in the heavens!
Soul ring fusion! Martial soul true form!
Gu Tianchen lit up his seventh soul ring, suddenly transforming into an enormous bone dragon, roaring as it charged into the clouds.
Simultaneously, a brilliant golden light appeared on his body surface.
Spirit soul—Golden Black Tortoise.
In the next second, a golden shield was immediately propped up under the Golden Black Tortoise's control. At the same time, an enormous shield with a circling bone dragon also blocked above the Nine-Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's plaza!
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At this moment, numerous pagodas slowly rose. Among them, an eight-layer pagoda and a nine-layer pagoda shone most brilliantly in the pagoda cluster.
"Seven Treasures emerge with glazed light..."
"Eight Treasures emerge with glazed light, Fourth: Defense!"
"Nine Treasures emerge with glazed light, Third: Defense!"
Several streams of light instantly entered Bai Sheng and Gu Tianchen's bodies. For a moment, their defense appeared even more indestructible!
Boom boom boom—
Terrifying attacks exploded, but were intercepted by the two one by one. But facing the three Class 9 fixed soul guide shells following closely behind...
"Nine Treasures emerge with glazed light—"
Ning Tian held up her Nine-Treasure Glazed Pagoda, spreading her external soul bone Tearing Wind Wings as she charged out from Bai Sheng and Gu Tianchen's defense, facing the three Class 9 fixed soul guide shells head-on, "Eighth: Nine-Treasure Divine Light Protection!"
Instantly, nine-colored glorious light covered her.
Boom—
Boom—
Boom—
Three attacks exploded successively, instantly dyeing the originally dark night sky as bright as day. But immediately following, an utterly astonishing scene also occurred as the smoke and dust dissipated.
Ning Tian stood in the heavens, yet was completely unharmed.
Not only that, her entire body was also filled with dense golden light, as if she had transformed into an indestructible golden person.
And this was her eighth soul skill—Nine-Treasure Divine Light Protection. Effect: Can immune any attack below Super Douluo level, hard block Super Douluo level and above, god-level attack and below 9 times without dying, while simultaneously absorbing the attack's soul power and converting it into defensive power.
"Sun-Moon Empire! Holy Spirit Cult!"
Seeing that the fixed soul guide shell attacks had all landed, the ferocity in Chen Junting's current gaze was already utterly terrifying.
Everyone present had the same expression.
Because anyone could see that only the Sun-Moon Empire and Holy Spirit Cult could produce such a grand scheme. Presumably, the fixed soul guide shells launched this time were either taken from the legion, newly manufactured during this period, or funded by the Holy Spirit Cult on behalf.
Facing this sudden attack, the minds of everyone present worked quickly. Since the Sun-Moon Empire took advantage of this time to attack the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, naturally they wouldn't let such a good opportunity pass to only attack one party. In that case, other powers...
Thinking to this point, everyone was suddenly shocked, like cats encountering danger, their hair standing on end. Among them, people like Yan Shaozhi and Shrek Academy's students were even more mentally unsettled, "Not good!"
At this moment, Shrek City.
Bang bang bang bang—
Dull attack sounds continuously echoed in the room.
Sweat had already soaked his golden hair, making it cling tightly to his scalp. But even so, it couldn't erase the anger in his eyes.
"Ah—"
A furious roar, a fist swung out!
Bang—
A piece of carefully forged refined iron was forcibly broken.
Just at this moment, "Huabin, rest for a while first."
The door was pushed open. Zhu Lu, whose figure was increasingly fiery and mature, walked in carrying steaming hot food. Clearly, she had now also become a Shrek Academy inner court student.
Seeing Dai Huabin panting heavily, Zhu Lu's eyes showed concern.
"You didn't even eat lunch today..."
"Who let you in!?" But before she could finish speaking, Dai Huabin suddenly turned his head. A murderous appearance, as if he didn't see Zhu Lu as his girlfriend at all.
"Huabin..."
Zhu Lu's lips lightly pressed together, a trace of grievance flashing in her eyes.
But quickly, this trace of grievance was forcibly suppressed by her.
To be honest, she was used to it.
Ever since the news of the White Tiger Duke's wife being killed arrived, Dai Huabin became his current self. And after Huo Yuhao came to Shrek Academy, Dai Huabin seemed to have sealed himself off even more.
All day was just cultivating, training, training to death!
"Then pay attention to eating."
After silence, Zhu Lu placed the food on the table.
Just as she wanted to exit the room, outside, a thick voice had already sounded on Sea God Island, spreading throughout the entire Shrek. "Inner court disciples, assemble at the south city wall!"
This voice was too familiar for the vast majority of Shrek Academy's inner court disciples. It came from Elder Xuan.
Meanwhile, a jade-green firework shot up from Sea God Island, exploding in the high sky and transforming into Shrek's exclusive emblem. The unique poop-green light spread, exceptionally eye-catching.
Seeing this unique firework, the faces of those from Shrek Academy immediately changed. Because this signal represented not only danger, but also meant powerful enemies were invading on a large scale.
But how was this possible?
One must know, Shrek Academy was located in the core region of the original Douluo Continent's interior, with good relations with the three empires—where would large numbers of powerful enemies come from?! Could it be a beast tide!?
After all, in nearly a hundred years, only when Great Star Dou Forest launched a beast tide did Shrek Academy issue a gathering order.
But this shouldn't be either!?
After all, since the spirit soul system was introduced, their Shrek Academy and Great Star Dou Forest's relationship was in a relatively harmonious stage—the soul beasts had no reason to launch a beast tide.
What exactly happened!? Many people could faintly hear that although Elder Xuan was steady, he also contained a trace of anxiety.
"Huabin!"
A trace of panic flashed in Zhu Lu's eyes.
"Let's go!"
Dai Huabin's eyes showed ferocity, but also stepped out the door.
But the moment the two of them walked out of their inner court residence, they were completely shocked by the scene happening in the sky!
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