Douluo: The True Eye

The Sun Moon Empire, Mingde Hall.

These days, things haven't been peaceful at all.

In the past six months, Soul Masters, assassins, and death squads from various forces have been making numerous small moves in the dark.

Although their actions cannot actually harm Mingde Hall or the Soul Engineers within, their level of nuisance surpasses even mosquitoes and flies.

Their disgusting nature is even worse. They can't be ignored, and they dare not be ignored. Mingde Hall has dispatched a large amount of manpower and resources each time.

But all they've caught are clueless pawns. It's like being trapped in smokescreens laid by someone unknown, trailing behind the enemy and eating dust in frustration.

"Damn it, haven't you found out which forces are behind this?" Mirror Hongchen roared, looking at his trembling subordinates. At this moment, he also felt somewhat weary.

One day they couldn't find them, one week they couldn't find them, one month they couldn't find them, one year they couldn't find them.

How could this past year be considered a year for humans? He was harassed daily by these unknown villains, yet he couldn't figure out where they came from.

As the saying goes, one can be a thief for a thousand days, but one cannot guard against a thief for a thousand days. Which power could possibly produce so many death squads, and all for useless efforts? It was truly bizarre and strange, almost making everyone in Mingde Hall rack their brains.

What Mirror Hongchen didn't know was that this was all thanks to the Body Sect. Under the mental control of the Body Sect's powerful Spiritual Body martial soul users, they could have as many death squads as they wanted.

Anyway, they weren't using their own people, so the Body Sect certainly wouldn't feel any heartache.

As for the other forces, the people they sent out were either cannon fodder or members of opposing factions within the organization. Even if they all died, it wouldn't matter.

"Hall Master, fortunately, the group of people from unknown origins seems to have restrained themselves a lot recently. In this subordinate's opinion, they are probably running out of resources," one of Mirror Hongchen's subordinates said tentatively.

"Hmph! Idiots! Worthless! If you had paid such a great price, and achieved nothing, would you still be willing to give up?" Mirror Hongchen glanced at his disappointing subordinates and stormed off.

"Everyone in Mingde Hall, brace yourselves! These villains will definitely take action next. Mingde Hall must not suffer any losses, or I will make sure you regret it!"

At this moment, Mirror Hongchen truly felt the pain of being able to only passively defend.

If the war had already begun and Mingde Hall had entered a state of full-scale war, no matter how many of these people dared to provoke Mingde Hall, they could kill them all!

However, in order to conceal the Sun Moon Empire's war potential, neither ninth-level Soul Tools nor ninth-level Soul Engineers were retained in large numbers in Mingde Hall.

The defensive measures within Mingde Hall also couldn't be fully deployed at all times, which gave these people an opportunity.

In addition, without the pressure of a full-scale war, the original Three Kingdoms of Douluo Continent were able to muster so many forces willing to come to Mingde Hall to probe its strength.

Moreover, in order to protect the safety of Mingde Hall's headquarters, Mingde Hall's defenses needed to cover both the front and the rear, ensuring complete safety, which made it seem so overwhelmed and exhausted.

In fact, as Mirror Hongchen had expected, the Treasure Plundering Alliance, led by the Body Sect, now believed that they had probed Mingde Hall's strength enough, and it was time to launch a strong attack.

This was a blatant conspiracy. Before the mastermind behind the scenes truly revealed themselves, Mingde Hall could only passively defend and could not retaliate.

Openly repairing the plank road while secretly crossing the Chencang pass, in addition to the strong attack route planned by the Treasure Plundering Alliance.

The experts of the Body Sect used tunneling to bypass Mingde Hall's defense system from deep underground, without anyone noticing, and arrived below Mingde Hall.

As for the 'manpower' provided by the Body Sect in the strong attack route, they were all Soul Engineers and Soul Masters captured in the Sun Moon Empire during these days, who were used as cannon fodder to attract frontal firepower.

After all, unlike in the original work, this time, it was not only the Body Sect that was responsible for the frontal strong attack. With a choice, the Body Sect would naturally not expose its own strength, nor would it let its own experts take risks.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Four loud explosions sounded simultaneously from the four directions outside Mingde Hall: east, south, west, and north.

The terrifying explosions caused powerful shockwaves. Although they were not as earth-shattering as in the original work, they were definitely enough to shake the foundations of Mingde Hall.

Unlike the explosions set by the Body Sect inside Mingde Hall in the original work in order to kill as many Soul Engineers as possible, these four explosions were detonated outside Mingde Hall.

The people of Mingde Hall did not expect that someone would actually take action right under their noses. Caught off guard, accompanied by the violent shaking of the ground, collapses occurred everywhere in this huge underground base for manufacturing Soul Tools.

However, the tunnel dug by the Body Sect was deep enough and solid enough, so there was no collapse.

Although they had full confidence in Mingde Hall's defense capabilities, they were unwilling to risk their lives.

However, the room they were in was located directly above the tunnel dug by the Body Sect. This was also the best location chosen by the Body Sect after several calculations!

Mingde Hall's external defense measures were several times stronger than its internal defenses. After all, hundreds of meters underground, many methods could not be used rashly, otherwise, Mingde Hall would easily be buried underneath, and those precious research results would be completely destroyed.

Under the command and arrangement of Mirror Hongchen, coupled with those high-level Soul Engineers who joined forces to kill the enemy, the external offensive launched by the Treasure Plundering Alliance would probably be completely disintegrated before long.

Only, at this time, the members of the Body Sect were all ready.

Along with another earth-shattering tremor beneath Mingde Hall, the ground at the bottom was directly broken open in a place unexpected by the people of Mingde Hall.

One by one, experts at least at the Soul Sage level, wearing black clothes to conceal their facial features, rushed directly towards the Soul Engineers who remained here, who had also lowered their guard.

Led by Titled Douluos, even Poison Undying personally arrived. The terrifying Soul Power pressure and Spiritual Power instantly swept the entire area, suppressing it in an instant!

The soul engineers in the laboratory were mostly only at the eighth level, or even eighth-level soul engineers who had achieved that level with extremely superficial foundations as Soul Douluos.

Their strengths did not lie in combat but in research and creation; their fighting will and combat awareness were extremely weak.

Although they all possessed defensive soul tools, they couldn't make even a ripple in front of a group of Titled Douluo experts and Du Busi, a Super Douluo with ninety-eighth-level soul power.

Soon, a large number of soul engineers were knocked unconscious and taken away to the underground passage below, where they were controlled, ready to be taken away together later.

Meanwhile, the soul tools, materials, tables, and chairs here were wildly plundered by the ravenous Body Sect soul masters, like locusts devouring everything in their path. They put these things into their storage soul tools and took them away directly, leaving only a blank space.

If it weren't for the fact that the metal materials used to construct this area were difficult to transport, they might have even emptied the entire laboratory. After all, the materials used to construct the Mingde Hall laboratory were also extremely rare.

Besides the Body Sect members responsible for kidnapping people, there was also a branch in the underground passage leading to the innermost internal laboratory of Mingde Hall.

Because the operation was covert, it could only accommodate one person, but this also made it difficult to detect.

Among the soul tools, there were also those that could transmit information. After learning that the interior of Mingde Hall had been invaded, Jing Hongchen's eyes were bloodshot: "Damn beasts! Who is it? Who is it?!"

At this moment, even if he wanted to go back to support, reducing his strength would give the Treasure Snatching Alliance a sense of confidence.

That is, the defensive strength of Mingde Hall was weakening, and they still had a chance to break into its interior. Therefore, the fighting of the Treasure Snatching Alliance would become even more fierce.

After all, the bold would starve the timid. Since they dared to come here, they were all crazy for the True Dragon Egg without exception.

Although their strength was weak, their numbers were large. Under the circumstances where large-scale destructive soul tools could not be used casually, they actually managed to hold back the Mingde Hall people for a while, making it difficult to attend to both ends.

Jing Hongchen could only curse while activating the internal defense system of Mingde Hall and speeding up the clearing of the Treasure Snatching Alliance.

"Damn, awesome."

A Body Sect Soul Douluo expert, looking at the unusually tall and magnificent humanoid metal body in this already empty laboratory, could fully realize the power of such a creation, even if he disliked soul tools.

The whole body was cast from metal, with a huge body of fifteen meters, and on the outside of its metal body, it was covered with dark red crystals, like armor protecting the humanoid within.

Its chest was open, hiding a seat, and on the head of the metal humanoid was embedded a small piece of crimson crystal, surrounded by dark red crystals, like blood vessels connecting the whole body.

As a Soul Douluo, he could naturally feel the terrifying energy contained in this huge metal humanoid soul tool, and these dark red crystals, could it be that Mingde Hall had really researched the secret of the True Dragon Egg?

But time was of the essence, and good things naturally had to be taken away. Since Mingde Hall had created it, there must be a way to store it. After some searching, a storage soul tool appeared in his eyes.

"This isn't a trap, is it? Are the people of Mingde Hall really this stupid?"

Although he was somewhat suspicious, this Body Sect Soul Douluo, relying on his strength, still took the storage soul tool without hesitation.

A palm-sized starlight blue crystal was made into a storage soul tool similar to a heart-protecting mirror, and in the very center of the crystal was embedded a crystal exactly the same as the crimson crystal embedded on the head of the huge metal humanoid soul tool.

Because of this, this storage soul tool also contained unimaginable power, almost surpassing all ninth-level soul tools under the impetus of huge energy, infinitely approaching the next level.

Originating from the same source, only this storage soul tool could store this huge metal humanoid soul tool.

After trying it out and finding that it was not a trap, this Soul Douluo expert no longer hesitated, stored the huge humanoid soul tool, and left here without looking back.

Just kidding, no matter what stupid things the Mingde Hall people were doing, the damage that their Body Sect had caused to Mingde Hall today was absolutely difficult to estimate with gold soul coins, and it could even be said to be shaking the foundation of the country!

Quickly taking these things back and transforming them into the strength of their Body Sect, transforming them into the strength of the Heavenly Soul Empire, was the top priority.

After the devastation of the Body Sect, the entire underground experimental base of Mingde Hall was already in a mess, and at this time, the rabble of the external Treasure Snatching Alliance had also been cleared out. Jing Hongchen rushed down with a dark face.

"Hahaha, little ones, let's retreat!"

Du Busi laughed loudly, ignoring Jing Hongchen in the distance who was releasing an aura as if he wanted to devour people, and quickly evacuated this place with his Body Sect subordinates.

With him present, the hastily deployed defensive devices of Mingde Hall could hardly have any substantial killing effect, and most of the soul engineers gathered here were captured by them.

As for the rest that could not be captured, he would naturally not be soft-hearted, and all of them were killed on the spot by the Body Sect, never leaving them to the Sun Moon Empire.

Because of this, Mingde Hall's actual losses were much greater than in the original story, and low- and mid-level soul engineer talents were almost wiped out by the Body Sect.

Although there were still many of the most important high-level soul engineers, it would definitely be impossible to re-cultivate grassroots scientific research personnel in the short term, even in the Sun Moon Empire, which had extremely abundant soul engineer human resources.

Fighting and retreating, Du Busi covered the retreat of the Body Sect members in the tunnel, collapsing a section of the tunnel every time they retreated a certain distance.

Destruction was always much easier than creation. Even if the Mingde Hall people used ninth-level soul tools, their excavation speed could not match the escape speed of the Body Sect, ultimately leaving Jing Hongchen in a frenzy on the spot.

He could sense that the cultivation of the strong man whose true face was unknown was definitely above his, but he never thought that this person would be so shameless that he was unwilling to fight him even for a moment.

Now Mingde Hall had suffered heavy losses. Although those members of the Treasure Snatching Alliance had been killed, the real mastermind was still at large.

Thinking of this, a mouthful of old blood spurted directly from Jing Hongchen's mouth. At this moment, he was extremely depressed!