Chapter 399

Two days later, He Caitou sat quietly in the top-floor room of the inn, his rough large hand occasionally stroking the soul tool placed before him, his face showing a chilling smile.

At that moment, a familiar voice exploded in his mind.

"Start!"

Instantly, a flash of fervent light crossed his eyes; he kicked open the window, lifted the soul tool, and pressed the button on it.

In an instant, countless fireworks rose into the sky of Risen Sun City, exploding.

"What's happening?!"

With such a commotion, the garrison of Risen Sun City was naturally alarmed.

Fortunately, their reaction was swift; soon the light of the soul shield lit up, and countless cannons roared in unison, intercepting those shells.

Yet they were given no time to catch their breath before the barrage of the second round of Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannons erupted.

"How could it be so fast?"

The commander of the garrison regiment was dumbfounded.

He could not fully identify the types of the soul tool shells just fired, but he recognized most of them; clearly many were fixed-type soul tool shells.

Logically, after firing fixed-type soul tool shells, a soul tool cannon would mostly enter overload mode, making it impossible to fire a second round so quickly.

How did the enemy do it? He had never encountered mechanism-type soul tools, let alone spirit-forged metal, so naturally he had this question.

In fact, all the Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannons controlled by He Caitou were forged from thousand-refined metal, with only the core parts using a small piece of spirit-forged metal; even so, the quality of these cannons had been greatly enhanced.

According to Xuan Ziwen's assessment, this device could already be considered a seventh-level soul tool, and one that ordinary people could use, marking an epochal significance.

No matter how bewildered they were, they still had to find a way to intercept; however, after the city guards finally managed to block the second wave of fixed-type soul tool shells, a third wave erupted.

"Holy shit..."

The commander finally couldn't help but curse.

This time, he ultimately failed to stop the shells from detonating.

"Boom—boom—boom—boom—boom——"

A splendid fireworks display thus unfolded above Risen Sun City, and the high-altitude detection soul tools in the city's sky instantly all failed.

At the instant the artillery blossomed, the soul masters in the water prison all opened their eyes.

Just now, they heard that voice from two days ago, which told them: "You can act now."

Upon hearing this exhilarating news, they simultaneously released their martial souls.

"What's happening?!"

The evil soul masters on the bank were all startled; they instinctively wanted to release their martial souls to block them, but in an instant they were shot full of holes by a barrage of soul skills.

Besides the competing team members imprisoned here for months, there were also team instructors and sect elders; their cultivation levels were hardly below six rings, with many at seven rings, and even Soul Douluo-level experts were plentiful.

Having been suffocating these days, now seeing freedom within reach, they held nothing back, unleashing their full power.

Such evil soul masters could hardly withstand this eruption—let alone them, even if a few Titled Douluo-level evil soul masters were present, they would struggle to survive this wave; moreover, Tang Wulin had deliberately avoided the patrol times of the Third Elder and other Titled Douluo, picking a moment when the guards were weakest. At that very moment, the earth shook violently, and some lower-ranked auxiliary soul masters even fell over.

"What's going on!"

"What happened?"

Their hearts leapt instantly, but fortunately Huo Yutong's voice soon echoed again in their minds.

"It's fine, the plan proceeds steadily, continue."

Only then did they relax, rushing out of the water prison one after another.

As soon as they emerged from the water prison, their eyes widened in disbelief.

What did they see? They saw the city walls of Risen Sun City already blasted into ruins...

Ice Explosion Technique—this is a soul skill Huo Yutong rarely uses in daily combat, as it requires advance preparation, whereas she usually engages in encounter battles.

But this time was different; she had ample time to set up the battlefield, so she directly infused a large amount of ice-attribute soul power into the moat's water.

The result exceeded expectations, almost instantly paralyzing half of Risen Sun City's garrison; originally the city struggled to resist these rioting genius soul masters, and now it had no capacity for resistance at all.

After a moment of stupor, the liberated people all became excited; freedom was right before their eyes, and if they got this far only to be recaptured, that would be unbearable.

Under the influence of this mood, they all surged forward at full speed, sprinting wildly toward the outside of the city.

At that moment, several figures rose suddenly from the city center, flying swiftly toward them—those were the high-level evil soul masters.

At this point, their expressions were somewhat flushed with frustration; the Third Elder's body crackled with blue-black lightning as he prepared to unleash his own ninth-level soul tool to block those fleeing.

However, at that instant, a cyan streak shot up from the ground, attacking them at a speed they could barely react to.

"Bang!"

In the nick of time, the Fourth Elder blocked the attack with his Netherworld Sword, then his whole body was flung backward, his complexion worse than before.

"Super Douluo?!"

After blocking that strike, his entire arm trembled uncontrollably; only a Super Douluo-level powerhouse could deliver such force.

Moreover, considering that astonishing speed just now, this suddenly appearing enemy is likely among the top tier of Super Douluo.

As Song Lao launched his assault, the Golden Peng also rose from the ground, a faint glow appearing on its torso as it coldly regarded the several evil soul masters whose expressions had drastically changed.

His and Song Lao's mission was simple: to block these high-ranking members of the Holy Spirit Sect here, and if conditions allowed, kill them.

So far in this rescue operation, they have contributed nothing; all the credit has been taken by a few youngsters from Shilake Academy, and if they cannot fulfill their task here as well, they will lose all face.

Driven by this thought, their fighting spirit reached an unprecedented high.

Being stared down by them like tigers, the several evil soul masters began to sweat on their foreheads.

Although they outnumbered the enemy, they nevertheless felt surrounded.

Before these two top-tier Super Douluo, they felt an immense pressure that almost made it hard to breathe.

(End of chapter)