Soul Land: Top Comprehension-Chapter 371 - 238: Xu Tianran, Die!

The system of the Xingluo Empire is inherently flawed.

The excessive concentration of imperial power prevents it from addressing real, specific issues.

The foundational problem of ordinary citizens not even being able to awaken their Martial Souls has evolved into a severe drawback.

In the face of external pressures, they still can’t accomplish the task of Soul-less Awakening for the entire populace, failing to infuse new blood. This flaw has decayed to the extreme.

Even under the threat of national extinction, they can’t complete the task of universal Martial Soul Awakening.

It’s important to realize that the difference between with and without Martial Soul Awakening is enormous.

To the people on the Douluo Continent, a Martial Soul is practically another part of their body, even more essential than hands or feet.

Even without awakening Soul Power, just the mere existence of a Martial Soul can significantly enhance a person’s overall quality.

Even something like a hoe, once recognized as a Martial Soul, can be summoned directly or attached to the weapon in hand, boosting combat strength.

Moreover, once Soul Power is awakened, this augmentation becomes even greater.

Yet, the Xingluo Empire still cannot achieve universal awakening.

When Su Yu first came to this world, being able to start with a Martial Soul was already an ultimate blessing.

His former village, located in the southeast of the Xingluo Empire and farther from the Sun and Moon Empire, did not experience the same tension, making life relatively stable.

Although universal Martial Soul Awakening was not achieved, they could invite a Soul Master to the village through a stable channel to help the new generation awaken their Martial Souls.

Like the village where Su Yu was, they could afford to invite a Soul Master from Wangyue City every three years to help with Martial Soul Awakening.

Su Yu happened to be part of that batch.

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The Xingluo Empire dispatched three Titled Douluos; residual forces of the Celestial Soul Empire and the Douling Empire each sent one Titled Douluo, making this an impressive lineup.

It’s crucial to recognize that even a sect like the Iron Blood Sect having a Soul Saint holds significant status in a historic city like Tiandou City.

A Soul Douluo would be the city lord in such a grand city as Tiandou City.

Other than unique cities like Shrek City, there’s indeed no city lord who is a Titled Douluo.

Of course, the City Lord of Celestial Sea City, whom Su Yu encountered, was an exception.

That was part of Xu Tianran’s scheme.

Five Titled Douluos erupted simultaneously.

Meanwhile, two-digit numbers of Soul Douluos charged from all directions.

Around their bodies were layers of light shields, at least Soul-guided Protective Shields of the same level, with one or two golden shields, clearly Invincible Shields.

For this operation, the Xingluo Empire and the remnants of the two empires paid an immense price.

After all, a soul-guided protective shield of the same level implies five Ninth-Level Soul-guided Protective Shields!

These could be described as the Ninth-level Soul-guiding Devices obtained over nearly a century by the Three Great Empires from various channels leaked by the Sun and Moon Empire’s Mingde Hall.

It was precisely the presence of these Soul-guided Protective Shields that allowed these Titled Douluos to break through the Soul Guide Team’s attacks while sprinting at full power.

Boom!

A Titled Douluo from the Xingluo Empire held a sharp longsword, flickering with starlight, with seven shining star points on its blade.

Seven-Star Sword!

The Ye Family of Xingluo City.

During Su Yu’s first participation in the Soul Fighting Competition, Shrek, having suffered heavy losses in its competing team, urgently assembled students, including Ye Wushuang from the Ye Family.

It was after that competition that the Martial God Douluo attacked the Sun and Moon Royal Team. A charged Sun and Moon Divine Needle from Kong Deming, dodged by the Martial God Douluo, landed on the Xingluo Empire’s military camp miles away.

The strongest leader of that camp, a Soul Douluo, reportedly died on the spot.

This Soul Douluo was from the Ye Family, the strongest among them.

Now, a Titled Douluo with a Seven-Star Sword appearing indicated that the Xingluo Empire concealed the fact back then. Even though this person was gravely injured, the Medical Immortal Douluo of Xingluo healed him, and after the crisis, he made a breakthrough to Titled Douluo, concealed under the guise of death by the Xingluo Empire.

The Seven-Star Sword shone with dazzling starlight, the starlight connecting, and a brilliant sword light slashed down.

The soul-guided protective shield that was instantly triggered over the platform was breached with a small opening by this sword.

This opening quickly mended, but the five Titled Douluos exploited the opportunity to break into the platform.

The soul-guided protective shield closed after their infiltration.

A panicked Xu Tianran’s expression began to calm.

"Not good!"

The Titled Douluo wielding the Seven-Star Sword’s face changed, realizing something was amiss.

Boom!

An oppressive force descended abruptly, halting the five’s advance.

This was not the most deadly.

What truly brought despair to the five wasn’t the two Ninth-level Soul Guides beside Xu Tianran activating the Ninth-level Soul-guiding Devices.

Because as they charged, they were constantly on guard against these two Ninth-level Soul Guides’ soul-guiding device strikes.

However, the two Soul Guides did not launch an attack.

Instead, Xu Tianran, seated in a wheelchair, remained incomparably calm, his eyes harboring infinite cold intent.

Four purple and five black, a total of nine Soul Rings slowly rose from beneath his feet.

Nine Rings!

Titled Douluo!

Xu Tianran is a Titled Douluo!

How is that possible?

No way!

Even Poison Undying, disguised as a child and ready to intervene, cried out internally that it was impossible.

A cripple, yet a Titled Douluo?

Xu Tianran concealed it perfectly!