"Reconnect the voice transmission devices. Everyone, check your communication status and personal equipment."
High in the sky, a figure fully clad in fiery red armor descended from above. The folding wings of the flight soul guidance device on its back slowly retracted, and the fiery red tail flames behind it gradually faded.
"Report to Captain, signal is good."
In just a moment, voices rang out one after another from the captain's helmet.
"This is Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion Team 1, requesting connection to the high-altitude surveillance soul guidance device."
"This is headquarters, request received, preparing to receive signal."
Several thousand meters high in the sky, several massive high-altitude surveillance soul guidance devices slowly moved through the cloud layers. The enormous wing-like devices above continuously absorbed sunlight and converted it into soul power without interruption.
Even though they were thousands of meters apart, these surveillance soul guidance devices could still penetrate the thick cloud layers to sense countless soul power fluctuations on the ground below, then transmit them to the members of the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion who had invaded Heavenly Brightness City.
Although the Sun Moon Empire lagged slightly behind the three great empires in terms of soul masters, it was unmatched in soul guidance device research.
Back when Lin Xiao had simply mentioned the coordination between soul engineer legions and high-altitude surveillance soul guidance devices after watching the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion's drill, it was now already being implemented across several major soul engineer legions.
Moreover, voice transmission soul guidance devices were now used for communication among all soul engineer members. Even when divided into several small teams, they could still coordinate with one another.
The mental detection and mental sharing that Huo Yuhao could achieve only with his million-year soul rings could now produce similar effects through the Sun Moon Empire's advanced soul guidance technology.
Although the effect was not as outstanding as mental detection, the coverage range of soul guidance devices far exceeded Huo Yuhao's individual mental sharing. Through soul guidance device communication, the entire Sun Moon Empire army could function as one unified entity; this was something the three great empires could not compare to at all.
The difference between soul engineers and soul masters was displayed vividly in this battle at Heavenly Brightness City.
Perhaps the gap between a single soul engineer and a soul master was not huge; a soul master could approach and defeat a soul engineer through various means, but when countless soul engineers formed an army, their combat power was not something soul masters could contend with.
The soul masters in Heavenly Brightness City hadn't even fully seen what the attackers looked like before the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion's attacks had already landed on the city walls.
The defensive arrays set up in the city only held for a moment before being completely shattered under the combined assault of the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion's array soul guidance devices.
The city gates were breached. Some defending troops still thought to use the city's terrain for ambushes, but what awaited them was not the passing Sun Moon Empire forces, but waves of soul cannon attacks.
The Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion seemed to have completely seen through the Star Luo Empire's arrangements in Heavenly Brightness City. Countless buildings collapsed amid successive explosions.
Other armies advanced into the city alongside the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion. Chaos erupted within the city, soul guidance device roars, sounds of battle, and faint cries mixed, spreading from the city gates all the way to the center of Heavenly Brightness City.
The roads were piled high with tiles fallen from rooftops. On both sides, not a single intact building remained; only ruins everywhere met the eye. Soon, the Sun Moon Empire forces had already pushed close to the center of Heavenly Brightness City.
At the already collapsed city gate, a figure slowly walked through, yet the Sun Moon Empire soldiers left on alert seemed completely unable to see the person before them.
Lin Xiao looked at the street ahead, where there was almost nowhere to set foot. His body rose slightly into the air, and he walked forward step by step like that.
Countless remnant souls rose from the surrounding ruins, surging toward Lin Xiao in places others could not see. For a moment, the surrounding temperature seemed to drop several degrees.
Though he had long grown accustomed to death, the pungent smell in the air still made Lin Xiao frown slightly. Looking around, broken corpses were visible everywhere beneath the ruins.
Occasionally, a few faint breaths came from behind the broken walls; someone was desperately holding back their breathing, refusing to let themselves cry out.
Lin Xiao continued walking forward, pretending not to notice. Soul power surged within his body. The "soul core" in his dantian seemed to have absorbed too many remnant souls and was trembling faintly, causing his entire body's soul power to vibrate along with it.
Suddenly, as if an invisible shackle had silently shattered, even thicker soul power surged outward from within him. His body uncontrollably released an intimidating aura.
Level ninety-two.
The power of the Snow Empress had fused with the undead plane and was continuously absorbed by Lin Xiao. Now, stimulated by the aura of death throughout Heavenly Brightness City, his soul power rank had broken through once again.
"Who's there?"
It seemed someone had detected the aura Lin Xiao had leaked. But as Lin Xiao's cloak billowed and space fluctuated slightly, his figure quickly vanished once more.
The soldier who had spoken was about to approach when he suddenly stopped, lifted his head, and looked up into the sky.
A single star lit up lonely directly above Heavenly Brightness City. Though it was still daytime, that star remained clearly visible, its dazzling light almost seeming to overshadow the sun's brilliance.
"Warning! Enemy attack!"
The piercing sound rang in the ears of everyone in the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion. Nearly a thousand soul engineers reacted almost simultaneously, and layers of soul guidance protective shields rose around them.
However, this lone star was merely the beginning. At the same time, another beam of light shot in from afar. Everything along its path turned into specks of starlight and vanished under this beam.
"Hold on! It's the empire's offerings coming to reinforce us!"
In the areas of the city not yet fully occupied by the Sun Moon Empire, the surviving Star Luo Empire soldiers suddenly showed renewed spirit.
Far away, near the city gates, Lin Xiao also raised his head to look into the sky. Two powerful auras were clearly distinct in his perception; clearly, those launching the attacks both possessed Titled Douluo cultivation.
After receiving Xu Jiawei's order, several of the Star Luo Empire's offerings naturally did not dare delay. They had rushed toward Heavenly Brightness City almost without stopping along the way.
They had only just approached when they saw that there were no longer any defending troops on Heavenly Brightness City's walls. In an instant, they understood what had happened. Before even reaching the base of Heavenly Brightness City, their attacks had already come first.
Lin Xiao watched the incoming attack from afar. His foot subconsciously took a step forward, but he quickly stopped and turned back to look in the direction of the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
He did not believe that with Juzi's abilities, she would fail to anticipate that the Star Luo Empire would send reinforcements. Recalling Juzi's words before he left the command tent, her meaning between the lines clearly indicated she had other plans.
Sure enough, in the next moment, a fiery red blade tore through the sky toward that star in the air. And to the east of Heavenly Brightness City, a soul engineer legion suddenly appeared, blocking the Star Luo Empire's path of retreat.
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