Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 812 Xu Tianran's Rise from the Ashes

The following evening, inside the Sun and Moon Palace.

At this moment, Crown Prince Xu Tianran was lying on his bed in a strange position, groaning, but he could only take in a lot of air and not exhale much.

This is usually how a dying person behaves in bed. Logically speaking, given Xu Tianran's physical condition, he shouldn't be like this even after thirty or fifty years. Why is he like this today?
The reason is simple: I was so angry.

From the morning assembly onwards, one piece of bad news after another came from the border.

On the border of Xingluo, the frontier that had been painstakingly conquered was snatched back overnight. Not only were the ultra-high-altitude detection soul tools used for experiments gone, but an entire soul master regiment was wiped out, and even the Death God Tower was lost.

Ye Xishui, this so-called Limit Douluo, theoretically there is no human soul master on the continent who is qualified to challenge her. She fled back to Mingdu overnight with her hair in a mess and her eyes bloodshot.

While cautiously asking Ye Xishui what had happened, Xu Tianran frantically communicated with the border communication station until the sky began to lighten. Based on the intelligence about the attack in the middle of the night and the subsequent reports of soldiers being driven back from their attempts to scout the Mingdou Mountains, he deduced what had actually happened last night.

Ye Xishui was blasted back by a level nine fixed-position shell! Moreover, this level nine fixed-position shell was the very same Metal Storm produced by the Holy Spirit Cult, which was cleverly stolen by Chen Ping of Shrek Academy during the All-Continent Elite Soul Master Competition!
When Xu Tianran heard the news, his vision went black and he almost fainted. He had no idea how to explain this to the court.

The border breach that was painstakingly created by three level-nine fixed-position shells was reclaimed by the Star Luo Empire in the blink of an eye.

This is a Tier 9 fixed-load shell!

Xu Tianran wanted to shift the blame, after all, the Star Luo Empire used their Holy Spirit Cult's level nine fixed-mount artillery shells to bomb Ye Xishui and Ye Yulin's level nine soul tool, the Sun and Moon Divine Needle, to dismantle the Death God Tower. He, the wise and mighty Crown Prince, should theoretically be able to act as a non-stick pan.

However, just as Xu Tianran was saying this indirectly, Ye Xishui helped Xu Tianran add one last detail.

"That Soul Master who attacked me must be the rising star Chen Ping. That damned brat somehow got hold of a level nine invincible shield. Otherwise, even if he had a hundred lives, he wouldn't dare to take me down with him while holding a level nine fixed-position cannonball!"

At this point, Ye Xishui said resentfully, immediately shutting Xu Tianran's mouth.

Oh, I see. Then it's alright.

If it were just a setback for the Star Luo Empire's front, even if it meant losing a Soul Master Corps, the Death God Tower, and a batch of ultra-high-altitude detection Soul Guidance Devices, Xu Tianran could still barely accept it.

According to the information currently known about Douluo Three Kingdoms, there are only two level-nine fixed-position cannonballs. One was sent by Jing Hongchen, and the other was with Nangong Wan. Both are in Chen Ping's hands.

Now that Chen Ping has thrown out one, as long as we find an opportunity to trick Chen Ping into using his remaining level 9 fixed shell, it won't be a problem.

wrong.

Just as he was thinking this, Xu Tianran's heart skipped a beat as he realized he had overlooked a crucial detail. Ye Xishui had said that Chen Ping had used a spatial portal to teleport the Title Douluo and Soul Douluo from the Mingdou Mountains before engaging her in a mutually destructive tactic.

Space portal?

What the hell is that?
If Chen Ping is the owner of this strange ability, doesn't that mean the culprit who stole the sixteen level-nine fixed-position soul-guided cannon shells from Room Zero has been found?
In an instant, Xu Tianran realized this and began to tremble violently, like a patient with malaria, his body shaking uncontrollably.

Wrong, wrong! The murderer who stole the sixteen level-9 fixed shells from the Zero Chamber may not be a member of the Holy Spirit Cult!
Chen Ping now has more than one level-nine fixed-position soul-guided cannon shell. He most likely has seventeen more level-nine fixed-position cannon shells. If the Metal Storm hadn't exploded, that would have been eighteen!

No, that's not right either. If Chen Ping really had that many fixed-position shells, the other side would have revealed this card much earlier.

Unless the opponent is still wary of something else and cannot directly play this card, once he pulls out eighteen level 9 fixed shells, how many divisions in the Empire would dare to fight him to the death?
The more Xu Tianran thought about it, the more uncertain he became. All sorts of ideas arose in his mind, which he then overturned, leaving him in a state of turmoil.

Could it be that the sixteen fixed-mount artillery shells were actually stolen by members of the Holy Spirit Cult? But if they really did it, they would never admit it!
Xu Tianran was truly bewildered this time. The sudden change had caused even this ambitious and powerful ruler to hesitate, a rare occurrence for him.

About an hour after the court assembly, Xu Tianran lost all hesitation and lay on the bed groaning incessantly, as if possessed.

Well, to put it another way, Xu Tianran is actually not that different. No matter who was sitting in Xu Tianran's seat, if they heard Ju Zi say "the army is going to attack" and two Soul Master Corps were blown up right away, one of which was the Terror Claw Soul Master Corps, one of the Guardians of the Nation, they would probably be even more out of sorts than he is now.

But that's not the worst part. Two Soul Master Corps were ambushed and lost, so be it. Hundreds of tons of Soul Guidance Shells exploded at once. The Heavenly Soul Empire really went all out. At the same time, they anticipated Orange's plan, which is why they made this extremely targeted choice.

The attack on the Heavenly Soul Empire will continue. Without these hundreds of tons of soul-guided cannonballs, the Heavenly Soul Empire will find it increasingly difficult to resist.

What truly made Xu Tianran lose his composure was that the Holy Spirit Cult had once again deflated.

He sent those beasts from the Holy Spirit Cult with the army to fight against the top experts of the Body Sect and Shrek Academy, not to let them devour souls like vicious dogs.

When their own army was ambushed, they rushed forward to devour the souls, and most of them were the souls of their own Soul Master Corps soldiers. They ate them, but the other six Soul Master Corps could see it all clearly!
When Xu Tianran received this news, he almost fainted. He was rushed to the palace to meet the emperor, and when the old emperor berated him mercilessly, Xu Tianran was still dizzy.

That's not all. The key point is that after retreating, Ju Zi didn't stay put but instead rushed north to continue his march. It was obvious that he wanted to launch another invasion of the Tianhun Empire without orders, and to perform a feat of "a general in the field may disobey the emperor's orders."

It was precisely for this reason that, after grumbling for a while in his own Crown Prince's palace, Xu Tianran's eyes finally regained their sharpness.

He had figured out a way to break the deadlock.

(End of this chapter)