Douluo Continent: We agreed on a simulation, but they've come to life?

The three youths from the Clear Sky Sect exchanged glances, and two of them split up, while seven from Shrek Academy sorted through the metal. At this point, the alliance between Shrek and the Clear Sky Sect was already on the verge of collapse; they had only been forcibly united by Tang San's name.

In reality, they had already been glared at by Lu Cheng, but now they were banding together purely to escape Mingdu.

Xu Jiujiu's beautiful eyes lit up, and she swallowed hard like a greedy person. She then instructed three members of the Star Luo team following closely behind to carry the items into the storage soul guide diamond ring.

Everyone silently followed the rules set by Lu Cheng, and did not touch many expensive metals.

They could only take some of what the Tang Clan hadn't had time to take, and that was already quite a generous amount. The entire warehouse was so vast that it seemed to stretch endlessly.

"Next floor."

Looking at the team members whose eyes were already shining and who couldn't move, wishing they could all be assigned to carry things here, Lu Cheng smiled. In fact, the next floor was more than ten times the size of this floor because it was filled with soul tools, making it a veritable steel forest.

Clearly, even though countries had prepared themselves mentally, they did not expect this arsenal to be so vast.

I'm really terrified of being poor.

Sure enough, upon reaching the third floor, Xu Jiujiu's eyes widened in astonishment. Soul tools, densely packed with them, resembled a steel forest...

With a somewhat complicated look, he glanced at Lu Cheng, who was leading the group and had a smile on his lips as if everything was going according to plan. He reminded himself to allocate the lineup reasonably when he came, because what the Star Luo Empire lacked most was not rare metals, but soul tools.

Look at Shrek next door, they're completely dumbfounded.

The second level had seven people left, but Haotian Sect and he were not of one mind, so only four reserve team members remained. In contrast, Xingluo only had three people left on the previous level, leaving a total of eleven people.

They picked up the sesame seeds but lost the watermelon!

Before the Shrek disciples could feel frustrated, Lu Cheng waved his hand, and Long Aotian instantly understood. He led the twelve people into the pile of soul tools and began to collect them frantically.

Ahead was a large square, piled high with countless level four and five long-range soul-guided cannons, roughly estimated to be over a thousand. Lu Cheng slowly walked to a cannon barrel, gently stroking the dark metal, which still smelled of rust, indicating that they were all new.

The Sun and Moon Empire was built, but it probably didn't even have time to be deployed on the battlefield before they wiped it all out.

This thing has a range of about 500 meters. One unit is indeed ordinary, but if it is combined with a soul-guided ray gun at a distance, it becomes an all-terrain self-propelled soul-guided cannon.

Even boxes of sealed, fixed-position soul-guided shells and baby bottles completely change their nature.

The entire third floor's soul tools were enough to arm four elite soul master regiments, so elite that they were comparable to beast soul master regiments. The only pity was that they couldn't take them all with them.

At least one-third of them are destined to be destroyed here.

And of course there's... the very bottom layer.

Lu Cheng's lips curled up.

His ultimate goal for this trip.

……

The fourth level is extremely hidden, and even Jing Hongchen doesn't know about it. However, he does know that finding the entrance to it is quite difficult.

"Brother Tianmeng!"

However, the one thing Lu Cheng doesn't lack is cheat codes.

"Got it!"

Tianmeng Ice Silkworm chuckled, transforming into a golden worm that condensed on its shoulder. Its boundless spiritual power, as vast as the ocean, swept out and seeped into the ground.

Just a few minutes later, the location found was shared with Lu Cheng.

"found it!"

Lu Cheng nodded, bent down, and used the Blade of Life again. After completely absorbing the life force of the metal floor, he smashed the floor and leaped downwards.

The fourth floor was even smaller than the first, but it contained sixteen level-nine fixed-position soul-guided cannon shells. This was the true culprit behind the Mingdu explosion. Back then, Huo Gua had prepared fixed-position soul-guided cannon shells powerful enough to blow up the entire armory, but he forgot about them...

"Om..."

The level-nine fixed-position soul-guided cannonballs looked somewhat "bulky and fat," but the complex soul power fluctuations emanating from them made Lu Cheng's heart tremble. If these things were detonated, he would die on the spot.

"Take them and run. I can't handle the alarms here." Lu Cheng pondered for a moment, estimating that the people above had looted enough, before waving his hand and stuffing the level nine fixed-position soul-guided cannon shells, which emitted a scarlet light, into a high-grade storage diamond ring.

"Om..."

The next instant, the surrounding walls flashed red, and the alarm blared through the sky.

"go!"

Lu Cheng leaped up from the bottom, and Long Aotian and the others followed him without hesitation.

……

Mingdu.

Tonight is destined to be extraordinary.

The once quiet night sky was filled with the sound of alarms. Many disciples of the Mingdu Hotel were still asleep when they were awakened. They went downstairs in their pajamas to check, but they did not expect that the area was already on full alert.

"go back!"

An elderly man with white hair coldly looked at the many participating disciples.

"What does your Sun Moon Empire mean? Do you want to imprison us?" A sect disciple stepped forward arrogantly, pointing at the white-haired old man and angrily rebuking him.

"Heh, you guessed right." Xu Jiangliu chuckled and stared coldly at the disciple.

His aura as a Title Douluo was clearly visible, pressing down on everyone. The members of the Sun Moon Empire's Royal Soul Master Corps who surrounded him took out their Soul Guidance Rays, and beams of infrared light fell on the faces of the unsuspecting participating disciples and teachers.

"Starting now, a complete ban! Go back to your original location!!"

Only now did all the participating disciples realize that none of the established powers of the continent, such as the Body Sect, the Star Luo Empire, and Shrek Academy, were present.

"Captain, what should we do?"

Among the Heavenly Dragons, one disciple, his face pale, looked at the core figure with a gurgling throat.

Yu Tianlong's eyes twitched suddenly, and he gritted his teeth.

"The Earth Dragon Gate isn't there either..."

……

Mingdu, the Imperial Palace.

A series of booming sounds could be heard continuously.

Poison Undying manifested his Martial Soul True Form, and the enormous dark green giant was clashing with Long Xiaoyao. Meanwhile, Xuanzi was being brutally beaten by Kong Deming. The two sides were clearly at a disadvantage due to the imbalance of power.

After all, there was still a Limit Douluo watching the show on the other side.

"Does the Imperial Advisor think we should keep them here?" Xu Tianran asked with a smile.

He really enjoyed the feeling of having the big picture under control.

To control the fate of everyone and dominate the continent.

Let the sun and moon be great again.

But... something still feels off.

"Perhaps, if you can accept that old bastard self-destructing over your Mingdu." Ye Xishui curled her lips, full of mockery.

We have a cooperative relationship, not a life-or-death alliance.

If they were confident that they could keep the Body Sect members here, they wouldn't have gone to such lengths to set up traps outside Mingdu. If they wanted to keep Poison Undying, they would have to fight to the death.

But how much money? Their Holy Spirit Church comes to earn "souls," not to send people to their deaths.

"Heh, the Imperial Advisor is joking." A barely perceptible hint of annoyance flashed in Xu Tianran's eyes, clearly indicating that he was growing increasingly impatient with this Imperial Advisor.

Last time in the competition, when Xuanzi was thrown over, she could have blocked it immediately, but she watched like a spectator until she was forced to reveal her trump card before she made her move.

The cooperation between the Sun Moon Empire and the Holy Spirit Cult was inherently risky.

Now... the crack is getting bigger and bigger.

"Boom!!!"

But in the next instant, Xu Tianran's pupils suddenly contracted, and he turned to look at the location of the Sun Moon Empire Royal Academy, where alarms blared across the sky, and at the same time, thick smoke rose.

"No, it's the location of the weapons depot! Something happened there!" Xu Tianran's face turned ashen.

"A bunch of useless trash."

The armory is guarded by a prince of the royal family, Xu Guozhong, who was one of the instigators of the palace coup that he launched with his father, and is now the person Xu is trying to win over.

but now……

Xu Tianran was filled with rage. He himself was unharmed, but his backyard was on fire.

"Get back on defense! Get back on defense!"

Xu Tianran said angrily.

But the next moment, the attack from the Body Sect and others intensified, holding back the large force stationed in the palace.

"Damn it, die!"

Xu Tianran couldn't hold back any longer and pressed the button. Instantly, the entire palace transformed into a massive armory, with even a level nine soul-guided cannon appearing within it.

……

Evening Water Alliance.

Competition area.

Lu Cheng, dressed in a long black robe and concealing his face with a mask, twirled his fingers rapidly, gripping a dark cyan carving knife. Like a dragon in motion, metal shavings flew everywhere, and a core array gradually took shape.

Pick up the metal mold on the table and assemble it.

A standard level eight soul-guided cannon appeared in the eyes of the judges, especially Ye Yulin, whose eyes lit up as he rubbed the fixed-installation soul-guided cannon back and forth.

In his eyes, this level-eight fixed-mount soul-guided cannon was at most well-made, something only an extremely experienced level-eight soul master could make, but... the problem was...

This was made by a young man in his mid-twenties.

If he hadn't seen the carving and making process with his own eyes, he probably would never have believed it.

Even if he relied on taking drugs to reach his current cultivation level, it's still terrifying, okay? After all, the Sun Moon Empire has tested it and found that the human body has a limit to its tolerance for drugs.

Next comes the showdown.

Lu Cheng remained calm as he glanced at the spectator stands. A woman in black robes sat there, and upon seeing Lu Cheng's gaze, the corners of her lips curved slightly, as if carrying a touch of girlish charm.

That's right. He came to participate in the competition not only to take away the championship prize, but also, of course, to remain in the Holy Spirit Church in another capacity.

Anyway, they're all old acquaintances.