The Peerless Emperor

"Everyone's here?" Upon hearing Yun Fan's question, Lin Qian shook his head repeatedly, "Of course not, they are merely a part."

"...A part?" After Lin Qian finished, Yun Fan fell silent, standing still as if carefully pondering his grandson's words.

After a while, a possibility emerged in Yun Fan's heart, and with a somewhat stiff tone, he asked Lin Qian, "Qian'er, just how many of these Transcendence Realm Ninth Level strongmen do you have under your command?"

"Regarding the eight hundred Transcendence Realm Ninth Level participants in the attack on the Yun family, merely eight hundred," Lin Qian replied subconsciously, continuing to look ahead.

In truth, he was fixated on the system framework that emerged after activating his Emperor's Eye, keenly observing the developments on the battlefield.

"Hmm!" Yun Fan clutched at his chest, feeling as if his heart were being wrung together. In his mind, a voice kept echoing,

"Merely eight hundred, merely eight hundred..."

Even with Yun Fan's seasoned fortitude and solid Heart Realm, it was still impossible for him to withstand such a psychological shock.

Even the most formidable Yun Rong, with her mighty Realm, was left standing speechlessly with her mouth agape.

Lin Di rubbed his forehead, at a loss for words, while Yun Yunyan forced a dry laugh, observing his son with mixed feelings.

As for Yun Qingfeng, he had already collapsed onto the deck, fainting from the sheer shock.

The Central Domain's population was substantial, hence the number of individuals in the Transcendence Realm was also noteworthy, but those in the Ninth Level of Transcendence Realm, just a step away from entering the Saint Realm, likely numbered only around a thousand throughout the entire Central Domain.

And here Lin Qian had, under his command for the assault on the Yun family, eight hundred such fearsome beings; it's no wonder they were so terrified.

"Seeing this, just keeping an eye on Yun Hu would make this war an easy victory," Yun Rong, having collected herself after a while, gently shook her head and noted with an exclamation.

Hearing his grandmother's words, Lin Qian also nodded in agreement, "Thus, the trouble is now on you, grandmother."

After that, Lin Qian looked towards the formidable fortress ahead and coldly commanded, "Fire!"

Whoosh!

Following the fall of Lin Qian's words, a piercing whizzing sound came from behind, and a blazing white beam of Soul Power suddenly shot across from the distant skies, hurtling towards its target.

Fast as a blink, the extreme.

The blazing white beam struck the center of the fortress ahead, ultimately penetrating into it and then soundlessly vanishing, as if it had been completely erased.

Suddenly, the white glow of the Soul Power violently expanded, and the explosive roar of the detonation reverberated instantly, a mushroom cloud rising into the sky.

And thus, the fortress was leveled before their very eyes.

As the dust gradually dispersed, nothing remained in front but a vast crater on the ground.

Yun Fan and the others, witnessing the scene before them, couldn't help but gasp for air and swallow hard.

Standing atop the Huaxia Imperial vessel, Yun Rong quickly turned around to look towards the direction from whence the Soul Power attack had come, her pupils slightly contracting.

With Soul Consciousness emerging, the surrounding scenery seemed to rapidly rewind, and on the mountaintop in the distance, the all-white structure equipped with a square muzzle was emitting thin wisps of blue smoke. Clearly, the attack that had obliterated the fortress into nothingness had been fired from this peculiar edifice.

Comparatively, this all-white structure was indeed much larger than an ordinary soul cannon, which initially made Yun Rong pay it much attention, observing it carefully for a long time.

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But she hadn't expected its power to be so formidable, nor its range to be so vast.

At this moment, their location was approximately at the very center of this state, which is to say, the device her grandson called the "Destructive Impact Soul Cannon" had spanned half the state, reducing the cities here to ruins.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

Just then, two more soul power attacks streaked from behind, whizzing over their heads and bombarding a distant point ahead.

Boom!

The thunderous explosion sounded from afar, and the powerful blast wave swept towards them, battering against their faces.

In the distance ahead, a faintly visible white pillar of soul power burst exploded skyward, as if it surged out from the bowels of the earth.

Hot on its heels, burning flames replaced the white light screen, blossoming in the distance, and dense black smoke formed a mushroom cloud rising up. Another city had vanished on the spot.

However, what was eerie was that, despite the city being reduced to nothingness, the array did not disappear; it remained intact in its original place, consolidating within the void.

The bright yellow dragon still hovered within the rising column of light, circulating endlessly. The Huaxia World Array was maintained and remained unbroken.

The Soul Cannon's attack failed to reach the units of the Huaxia Empire on Xuanhuan Star. The arrays, infected with a viral strain, could still utilize nature's spiritual energy as a medium to remain complete and present in this part of the world.

In the distant sky, people also spotted what seemed like shooting stars crossing the firmament.

In fact, they had noticed this before and were wondering what those things could be.

Now, they realized that those meteor-like objects were likely the instantaneous attacks that obliterated entire cities.

"Have you ever experienced despair?" Standing beside Lin Qian, Lin Di suddenly recalled what his son had once said in Ten Thousand Medicine Thousand Wood Valley.

At this moment, the Yun family was probably facing that very despair.

The astonishing capability demonstrated by the Huaxia Empire post-declaration of war was horrifying. The dynasties and Boundary Countries on the Soul Martial Continent were accustomed to training Soul Martial Artists into military forces for direct combat, orderly and powerful.

They had assumed that the military charges of the Huaxia Empire would not differ much from those forces.

But having joined Lin Qian at the frontline, they realized how utterly wrong they were.

From the beginning of the war, not a single person from Lin Qian's Huaxia Empire had been lost. The activation of the Huaxia World Array had left the enemy defenseless.

The wild bombardment of the Soul Cannon meant that the enemy never even had the chance to face them directly before dying miserably on the battlefield.

As for those towns and villages, those Soul Beasts—no, the War Beast Army, as Lin Qian called them—would be easily cleared out.

There was no resistance because the Yun family was incapable of resisting.

Faced with the Huaxia Empire, the Yun family was like an infant before a giant, utterly powerless to fight back.

The offensive was devastatingly efficient; as time went on, they hardly needed to lift a finger, for the cities that needed to be attacked had already been bombarded into rubble by the Destructive Impact Soul Cannon, leaving no survivors.

Standing at the very front of the Huaxia Imperial Ship, Lin Qian slowly closed his eyes, and a tear escaped from the corner, trickling down his cheek.

"I'm sorry, I must do this!" When Lin Qian opened his eyes again, his expression was resolute.

"But I will seek justice for you all."

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