Chapter 191 Faith
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The Myriad Demon King's expression was gloomy. His relationship with the other ferocious beasts wasn't particularly good, but seeing his former colleagues transformed into human Soul Rings and spirit bones in the blink of an eye, he couldn't help but feel a sense of loss and anger.
A faint green light emerged behind him, and thousands of slender, chain-like branches appeared, reaching towards Yan Jin like tentacles.
A bolt of lightning flashed, severing the extended branches. The Myriad Demon King raised his hand in defense, taking a slight step back and moving his slightly numb arm. He looked at Lei Yin, who seemed even more formidable after fusing with the Amon avatar spirit, his eyes slightly narrowed.
When fusing with the Amon spirit, the appearance and aura displayed would be slightly different depending on who was in control. If Lei Yin was in control, the feeling would be closer to Lei Yin.
At this moment, Lei Yin's body crackled with electricity, enveloped in a silvery-white light with hints of blue, looking like a god controlling lightning.
Lei Yin's first Soul Ring was soul power solidification, the second was energy storage, the third was elementalization (pseudo), and the fourth, fifth, and sixth Soul Rings all enhanced voltage, which maximized his attack power. The disadvantage was that his soul power was consumed very quickly, and he couldn't last long on his own.
But in contrast, if Amon provided soul power assistance, then he could display extremely astonishing destructive power, which even the Myriad Demon King had to treat with caution.
The three-headed hellhound and the hell dragon wrestled together, with scorching magma and dark purple dragon breath constantly colliding, sharp teeth embedded in bodies, and fangs tearing flesh.
The constantly surging soul power stirred up gusts of wind, and the two giant beasts rolled from one end of the battlefield to the other, and then back again.
After Yan Jin bit the hell dragon to death, she finally fell into a state of soul power exhaustion. She gasped slightly and said in her heart, "Spirit Fusion."
This time, Amon didn't refuse her. The Worm of Time, which had long been parasitic in her body, merged into her spirit, rapidly replenishing her exhausted soul power.
Another hell dragon, originally intended as a mount for the Devil Monarch, landed on the city wall to assist the Star Luo army in attacking the city after the Myriad Demon King and Lei Yin began fighting. It was trapped by Amon in a sphere formed from materialized soul power.
After the external spirit bone was upgraded to a million years, Amon's materialized soul power had become unbelievably tough. No matter how the hell dragon struggled and tore, it was difficult to break through that thin barrier.
Bibi Dong, watching the battlefield from the walls of Spirit Hall City, frowned slightly. She found that her second spirit's sixth spirit skill, "Eternal Creation," was missing again.
Scanning the somewhat chaotic crowd coming and going, she didn't see a certain infuriating bastard, but she knew he was hiding in the crowd.
After Amon stole Bibi Dong's spirit skill, Amon, who was far away in Liuyun City, stole it through the connection of fate. He quickly killed the hell dragon trapped by him with a few strikes and returned "Eternal Creation."
"Thank you, it's really useful," Amon's voice echoed in Bibi Dong's ear.
Damn it, I'll kill you sooner or later… Bibi Dong thought hatefully in her heart.
This wasn't the first time. After ending their transaction, Amon would occasionally steal her spirit skills, and then immediately return them not long after.
This kind of unannounced, seemingly whimsical, and baffling act made Bibi Dong once think that Amon was teasing her.
While Lei Yin and Yan Jin were displaying their great power on the battlefield, Amon also felt a power as illusory and elusive as "fate" gathering on them.
Although it was so weak that it was almost imperceptible, it did exist.
This was "faith."
War and disaster, the more painful and desperate they are, the more dazzling the light of salvation becomes.
Originally, the Liuyun City garrison had already felt despair when the wyvern groups launched their attacks. They simply couldn't compete with those powerful spirit beasts.
Amon's previous announcement that Shangyun City had been slaughtered completely deepened this despair, because there was no option to surrender.
But Lei Yin and Yan Jin brought them hope like light piercing through the darkness.
Things took a turn for the better. Lei Yin and Yan Jin bore most of the pressure head-on and greatly interfered with the Star Luo army's organization and deployment.
They gave the Heaven Dou garrison and the people of the city a chance to survive. Therefore, the two became the spiritual sustenance of the Heaven Dou garrison.
The White Tiger Army had already begun to scale the city walls, and the Heaven Dou army was also resisting desperately. After actually engaging with the White Tiger Army, they realized how elite the other side was, and also understood how much pressure Yan Jin and Lei Yin had relieved for them, and their faith became more and more devout.
The power of "faith" should have only been discovered and contacted by Limit Douluos, but Amon relied on the special nature of the "Worm of Time" to perceive it in advance.
Although he couldn't use it for the time being, he could collect and store it.
He had already vaguely noticed something when he promulgated the "Theft Act." However, due to its rarity and looseness to the point of being difficult to grasp, Amon didn't collect much.
When Di Tian chased him to Spirit Hall City, and he was severely injured by him and Qian Daoliu, Amon let him leave. Besides the fact that Di Tian could be his eighth Soul Ring, it was also because he temporarily had a new plan.
The escaped Di Tian would most likely start a beast tide. Beast tides would bring fear and despair, and the deepest fear and despair could bring the most devout faith when redeemed.
Amon originally planned to "perform on stage" when Spirit Hall City was besieged, trying to collect some, and then study the differences between "faith" in the Douluo world and "faith" in the Mysteries world.
But Di Tian and the Star Luo Empire's actions turned the beast tide into a war that swept across the entire Douluo Continent.
This was something Amon couldn't have predicted, but it didn't matter. Seize the opportunity, find a place that is beneficial to yourself, and then seize the benefits from it.
So he went with the flow and pushed Yan Jin and Lei Yin to conspicuous positions, making them the most shining stars on the battlefield.
When the "Worm of Time" fused with Yan Jin or Lei Yin's spirit, the faith directed at them was to some extent also directed at Amon.
Yan Jin and Lei Yin had not yet reached the level of Limit Douluo and could not perceive and absorb faith, so all the gathered faith fell into Amon's hands.
The battlefields in several directions were showing a stalemate, and the war was at a standstill.
Di Tian didn't directly confront Qian Daoliu in Spirit Hall City, but kept driving spirit beasts to harass, dragging down most of the Spirit Hall's power.
Bear King played guerrilla warfare with Sword Douluo, Walter, and Marshal Goron in the Häagen-Dazs Kingdom. He constantly moved with the main force of spirit beasts, attacking human cities when he encountered them, and withdrawing when the army arrived.
At the same time, he also abandoned leadership and control over some spirit beasts, allowing them to scatter and attack villages and small towns with weak defenses everywhere, making the Häagen-Dazs Kingdom miserable.
Goron organized teams of Soul Masters to clean up the scattered spirit beasts. This caused the human side to lose the advantage of organizational power on the main battlefield.
Soul Master teams often suffered casualties when hunting spirit beasts. Walter was surprised to find that the number of Soul Masters who died in the cleanup operation was more than the sacrifices made when colliding head-on with the Soul Master army.
Amon, Yan Jin, and Lei Yin blocked the attacks of the Myriad Demon King and the White Tiger Army in Liuyun City.
A few days later, shocking news spread throughout the world: the Star Luo Empire officially declared war on the Heaven Dou Empire.
The reason was that Amon seized the Blue Dragon Territory and assisted the fugitive Javed in killing the nobles of the Star Luo Empire.
Dai Chenghua mobilized the power of the entire country, gathering a million-strong army, passing through the Star Brilliance Principality, and heading straight for the Blue Dragon Territory, which had been renamed Tudor Territory.
In the Star Luo Empire's official documents, the Blue Dragon Territory had always been the Blue Dragon Territory. They did not recognize Amon's Duke status, nor did they recognize the name "Tudor Territory."
A large number of troops were being held back in the Häagen-Dazs Kingdom by spirit beasts, and the Heaven Dou Empire, which was caught in multi-line operations, could hardly mobilize an army sufficient to contend with the Star Luo army.
Emperor Xue Ye summoned his ministers to discuss countermeasures. He vaguely revealed a compromising attitude towards the Star Luo Empire, asking the ministers if handing over the person would cause the Star Luo Empire to withdraw its troops.
"Xue Qinghe's" answer was: no. He believed that the Star Luo Empire was ambitious and would not stop even if it lost its justification for war.
While Xue Beng and Xue Xing believed: yes. As long as Amon was handed over and the Tudor Territory was returned, the Star Luo Empire would cease its operations and restore good relations between the two countries.
The two sides argued endlessly, and after arguing for a long time, they did not reach a unified opinion.
Emperor Xue Ye felt particularly headache and hesitated to make a decision, but ordered the mobilization of available troops to prepare for the expedition.
That night, Emperor Xue Ye "suddenly fell ill" and fell into a coma.
Crown Prince "Xue Qinghe" strongly took over the power, suppressed various dissenting voices, and resolutely expressed that he would not yield to the Star Luo Empire.
She demanded that the nobles of the Heaven Dou Empire take out their private soldiers to form an army and fight a decisive battle with the Star Luo Empire's army.
Marquis Ilya Fickris of the Northern Territory took the lead in expressing support for "Xue Qinghe."
Count Rose, Earl Ironheart, Earl Lionsheart, and a series of other northern nobles followed closely behind.
After someone took the lead, the other nobles did not dare to defy the general trend and had to express their positions.
"Xue Qinghe" decided to personally lead the army to the battlefield. She had confidence in herself and believed that she could repel the Star Luo Empire's attack.
At that time, with the great prestige in the army, she could directly ascend the throne and become emperor. Even if Xue Ye recovered his senses, he would not be able to stop her.
There was an Amon clone in Heaven Dou City. After the changes in the palace, the Amons in various places knew the news as soon as possible.
Liuyun City, after a little thought, Amon summoned Yan Jin and asked her to go to the Tudor Territory to assist the upcoming "Xue Qinghe" in resisting the Star Luo army.
On a battlefield without excessively powerful experts like the Myriad Demon King, Yan Jin could perform more strongly and shine more brightly… and bring more faith to Amon.
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