Douluo: I am the outer demon

Chapter 170: Chaos!
A Soul Saint from the Spirit Hall sneered, and in just a moment he caught up with Lu Hu, who had already run hundreds of meters away. He was actually a Soul Saint of the Agility Department.

"Sixth Soul Skill, Eagle Strike the Sky!"

The Soul Saint used a soul skill to attack Lu Hu's back, aiming at his vital points.

"Fifth soul skill, Tiger's Fury."

Seeing that he was being caught up, Lu Hu had to stop and turn around to fight back. A ferocious tiger head formed by soul power instantly collided with the soul power eagle cast by the Soul Saint.

boom!
In just a moment, the ferocious tiger head shattered, and the eagle crashed directly into Lu Hu's body without any hindrance, blowing half of his body apart.

Lu Hu fell heavily to the ground, and the sound of crisp footsteps gradually approached.

"Haha, run, why don't you run anymore?"

The Soul Saint walked towards Lu Hu step by step, his face full of contempt.

Heitui
Using up his last bit of strength, Lu Hu spat out a mouthful of saliva. He stared at the Soul Saint with red eyes full of unwillingness.

However, no matter how unwilling and resentful he was, he could not overcome the gap in strength. The Soul Saint stepped lightly on Lu Hu's head and suddenly exerted force. The scene suddenly became like a bursting watermelon, with red and white scattered all over the ground.

The so-called loyalty is ultimately destroyed in death.

At this time, the rest of the Spirit Hall staff had already killed or captured the remaining men in black and dealt with them all.

In order to give a big gift to the Star Luo Empire, Shang An took out part of the Spirit Hall's assets.

With the help of Shang An's artificial soul bones, various cultivation resources he has researched, and a new version of meditation method that combines the cultivation methods of his previous life, the overall strength of the Spirit Hall has long exceeded the imagination of the two empires.

Soul Saints are not everywhere, but they are not rare either, and Soul Emperors are countless.

It can be said that every branch of the Spirit Hall in the Xing Luo Empire, even the smallest one, has at least two Soul Saints and ten Soul Emperors stationed there.

As for why so many people were sent right under the nose of the Star Luo Empire and still not discovered, this has to do with the extent of Spirit Hall's infiltration into the Star Luo Empire.

Under the pervasive espionage plan of the Central Intelligence Agency, which is under the command of His Majesty the Saint Son and is affiliated with the Spirit Hall, the lower and middle classes of the Star Luo Empire have become a sieve, and even many people in the upper class have secretly chosen to defect to the Spirit Hall, either through coercion or inducement.

With just one opportunity, the Spirit Hall can change the Star Luo Empire to a completely new level.

And now, the Xing Luo Empire has handed the opportunity to the Spirit Hall.

The sky gradually brightens.

A ray of morning glow shone through the clouds and hit Xingluo City.

Dai Tianfeng felt more and more uneasy. Up to now, not a single White Tiger Secret Guard had returned, and not even a single piece of news had been received.

It would be fine if the secret guards in other remote areas were far away and had no news, but it was a bit abnormal that even the several big cities near Xingluo had no news.

Could it be that something unexpected happened during this operation?
Dai Tianfeng really couldn't think of any possibility of accidents in this operation. You know, his White Tiger Secret Guards could be said to be out in full force, and even the smallest branch hall had sent out Soul Emperors to attack.

Moreover, this operation was extremely covert, and the only people who knew about it were his elder brother-in-law and the secret guards involved in the operation. His elder brother-in-law would not betray him, and those secret guards had also been screened through layers to ensure their loyalty, so it was impossible for the Spirit Hall to know about this operation in advance.

So what exactly is the problem?

He looked at the guards outside, his eyes full of hesitation. Could it be that there was a traitor among him who secretly eavesdropped on his conversation with Zhu Aiqing?

"Your Majesty, what's wrong?" Zhu Hongyuan asked hurriedly when he saw Dai Tianfeng's expression.

Dai Tianfeng narrowed his eyes and whispered, "Lord Zhu, I suspect there is a traitor around me."

"Traitor!" Zhu Hongyuan's expression sternly stood up and said sternly, "Your Majesty, who is the traitor?"

Dai Tianfeng shook his head, rubbed his head and said: "I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be so troubled." Although there might be traitors around him, he couldn't kill all the guards and maids. That was unrealistic. Those who could serve him were almost all loyal people, and those guards were his confidants. If he killed them indiscriminately, it would chill the hearts of many people.

Moreover, all of this was just his guess, with no evidence. Maybe Spirit Hall learned about it through other channels, such as some special spirit.

You should know that there was once a predictive martial spirit in Douluo Continent. Although it was only a flash in the pan, the Xingluo Empire still has a record of that martial spirit.

Gradually, the sky became completely clear, and Dai Tianfeng's heart gradually fell to the bottom.

Things may be more serious than you think.

really,

In the end, he did not receive a reply from the secret guards, but instead received strong condemnation and a declaration of war from the Spirit Hall.

The Spirit Hall's newspapers also began to report extensively that in order to seize the statue of Taiyi God and block the way for the majority of spirit masters to obtain adaptive spirit rings, the Xingluo Emperor Dai Tianfeng openly dispatched spirit masters to attack the various branches of the Spirit Hall.

A total of nearly 5,000 soul masters were dispatched, causing serious property and personnel losses to the Spirit Hall. Even the statue of Taiyi God was damaged. Therefore, soul masters who want to exchange for adaptive soul ring crystals must wait for two months and wait for the new statue to arrive before they can exchange again.

Now all the attackers have been captured and will be tried soon. At the same time, the Spirit Hall will officially declare war on the Star Luo Empire to avenge the nearly 3,000 Spirit Hall soul masters who died at the hands of the Star Luo Empire.

As soon as this news came out, the people of the Xingluo Empire were excited for a while, because the adaptive spirit ring was something that was closely related to them, and they didn't expect that they would have to wait for two months.

The people of the neighboring Tiandou Empire have already begun to use adaptive spirit rings, and they can only watch helplessly.

The one who caused all this was the Emperor whom they once loved.

Suddenly, the prestige of the Xingluo royal family dropped greatly, and there were many dissatisfied remarks among the people. Some people even openly expressed their dissatisfaction with Emperor Dai Tianfeng and listed 81 of Dai Tianfeng's crimes.

This made the officials in Xingluo exhausted. They arrested batches of rumormongers, but still failed to suppress the impact of the incident. Emperor Dai Tianfeng even executed five palace maids in succession in anger.

The power of public opinion began to emerge in Douluo Continent. The reason why people were willing to believe the news in newspapers was also because of the good reputation and extensive influence that the Spirit Hall Press had accumulated over the years.

It is precisely because of the support of the Spirit Hall behind them that these newspapers dared to judge the Star Luo Empire so harshly, causing the Star Luo Empire to be in great trouble.

Otherwise, Xingluo could simply ban these newspapers from operating and fundamentally control public opinion.

In fact, Xingluo also wants to do it now, but unfortunately they can't do it. Because the sphere of influence covered by the Spirit Hall is really wide, every city has a branch of the Spirit Hall, and with the strong people sent by Shang An, even the Xingluo Empire can't do anything about these newspapers.

In fact, as the Spirit Hall was well prepared, the property damage was probably just a few broken doors. As for casualties, only a few people had some scratches on their skin, if scratches on the skin can be considered an injury.

The deaths and injuries of the three thousand soul masters were even more illusory, and the statues were all intact.

But how could this alone arouse the anger of the people and find a more suitable reason for starting a war? Of course, they had to lie!

Sure enough, when it came to their own interests, even the people chose to stand on the side of the Spirit Hall and accuse the Xing Luo royal family.

Soon after, officials in twelve major provinces and cities rebelled one after another, all claiming that the Xingluo royal family was unjust, and they launched uprisings at the same time under the banner of punishing the unjust and the tyrant.

In the past, these uprisings would not have been taken seriously by the Xingluo royal family. Most of the troops were controlled by the royal family, which controlled the army and high-end combat forces. These uprisings were nothing more than a prank and would be quickly quelled.

But the key is that the timing was too good. This was just when the Spirit Hall announced the war on Xing Luo, the Spirit Hall's Soul Master Corps had already begun to deploy troops on the border, and these rebellious officials hooked up with the local Spirit Hall branch, greatly increasing their strength.

At this time of internal and external troubles, the country was in turmoil, and for a time, the originally stable rule of the Xingluo Empire seemed a little shaky.

"A bunch of traitors, they deserve to die, all of them!"

Dai Tianfeng broke several antique vases that he cherished so much.

Although he had anticipated that the Spirit Hall's revenge would come, he did not expect it to be so violent and sudden. Officials from the twelve provinces rebelled at the same time, and he did not believe that the Spirit Hall had no hand in this.

(End of this chapter)