Whether it was the competition venue or the minaret-shaped building, during the construction and arrangement, the surrounding area was tightly sealed by the Sun and Moon Empire, and outsiders had no way of knowing their specific regulations. But everyone present knew that the Sun and Moon Empire must have a deep intention in spending a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to build that magnificent spire-shaped building near the competition venue, and I believe that the Sun and Moon Empire officials will reveal the answer to everyone soon.

Just as the crowd around the stadium was bewildered, a clear and loud chirp suddenly came from the back of the spire-shaped building. Immediately afterwards, hundreds of birds in red, blue, gold, black, white and other colors appeared in the distant sky, and quickly flew towards the direction of the playing field.

If it was just an ordinary bird, even if hundreds or thousands appeared at the same time, it would not be taken into account by the many soul master powerhouses present at all. But although the birds that were approaching were slightly illusory, they all had obvious soul power fluctuations. What's even more bizarre is that on their backs all stand humans. To be precise, they are members of the Sun and Moon Empire's Soul Master Group, and each of them is equipped with a well-equipped and sophisticated soul guide.

Five hundred birds carrying five hundred soul masters surrounded the spire-shaped building, and the high-level soul masters present at this time had already noticed that those birds were not real soul beasts, and their bodies were completely condensed by energy. But the eyes of each bird shone with a smart light, not at all like a pure energy body with no sense, but like a living life. Many soul masters who knew more about soul beasts had already recognized the prototype soul beasts of these birds, realizing that they must be special lifeforms transformed from soul beasts, but they had never heard of any precedent before.

After the group of soul masters riding strange birds appeared, hundreds of cavalry crowded around the chariot and horses and marched towards the spire-shaped building, and at the front of the convoy was the emperor's golden dragon chariot.

The cavalry who were in charge of escorting around them were not riding precious horses, but strange lifeforms similar to birds in the sky. Cows, horses, wolves, pigs, deer, and other species were included, but no one dared to laugh at the apparent comical nature of this cavalry, for the majesty exuded by these mounts and the soul masters riding them was far from being comparable to that of any known cavalry team.

The cavalry procession escorted the convoy of the Emperor, the Crown Prince, and the Princes and Ministers of the Sun and Moon Empire to a grandstand located in front of the giant minaret building. A beautiful woman in a long golden dress pushed a golden wooden wheelchair out of the dragon chariot, and the person sitting in the wheelchair was undoubtedly the contemporary emperor of the Sun and Moon Empire, and it was the emperor's young daughter Princess Naïve who was responsible for pushing the wheelchair to move with the emperor.

Xu Tianzhen pushed the wheelchair to the royal viewing platform through a special passage, and the emperor, who had been closing his eyes to recuperate, also opened his eyes and raised his hand to the innocent princess standing beside him.

Xu Tianzhen, who had received the emperor's instructions, raised his right hand, and a burst of fire rose into the sky and exploded at the same height as the giant spire, and the crimson sparks swept the surrounding area of more than ten zhang, even in the daytime, it was still extremely eye-catching.

In the next moment, among the five hundred birds in the air, a bird with a red feather and a flame all over its body opened its mouth at the same time to spew out a red fireball, which struck the black curtain wrapped around the surface of the giant spire. The flames scorched and spread, and the black curtain instantly turned into smoke and drifted away. The true appearance of the giant minaret building is revealed.

The tower is divided into ten floors, and each layer has a pattern carved on its outer wall, which is enough to make anyone who knows about it immediately react. Because those patterns depict the top ten fierce beasts of the continent that humans have arranged, they are:

The Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King - Emperor Tian

Evil Eye Tyrant - The Evil Emperor

Ice and Snow Girl - Snow Emperor

Emerald Swan – Brigit

Demon Eye Demon Tree - Ten Thousand Demon King

Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear - Xiong Jun

Bingbi Emperor Scorpion - Ice Emperor

Three-headed Red Demon Mastiff - Red King

Stygian Celestial Phoenix - Phantom Dream

Hell Demon Dragon - Zi Ji

Any country will take the lead in applying a key technology to the military field after mastering it, and Huo Yuhao has only now realized the true meaning of this sentence. You must know that at this time, less than three years have passed since the first soul fusion experiment, and the Sun and Moon Empire has actually been able to fuse at least five hundred soul masters with bird-like souls to form such a soul master air force. According to Jing Hongchen, who was stroking his palms and laughing beside him, the emperor had already given a name to this soul mentor group, which was called the Air Combat Soul Mentor Group.

At the beginning, in order to prepare for the soul experiment, Jing Hongchen specially transferred dozens of soul master prisoners to serve as experimental subjects. Soul masters in prison can't get soul rings, and many soul masters who have been imprisoned for a long time are in the integer bottleneck of soul power, which is very suitable for use as experimental subjects. In addition to prisons, there are also a large number of soul masters and soul masters in the army whose soul power is at the bottleneck of an integer number. After all these people are extracted and fused with souls, they can indeed gather a sufficient number of air forces, but where do the soul beasts that fuse souls with those armies come from?

The answer lies in the ninth of the top ten fierce beasts, the Dark Water Heavenly Phoenix Dream, the ruler of all the bird soul beasts in the Cloud Mountain Range. And the number and quality of the bird-like soul beasts gathered in the Youyun Mountain Range can be called the highest in the continent. Even if it is the Star Dou Great Forest, because the forest landform is not suitable for the survival and reproduction of bird-like soul beasts, the quantity and quality of bird-type soul beasts alone are far less prosperous than those of the Youyun Mountain Range.

The body of the Stygian Celestial Phoenix's Dream is a dark phoenix, and her attribute is not dark or evil, but water, the ultimate water of incomparably pure purity.

Youmeng was able to dominate all the birds and soul beasts in the Youyun Mountain Range, relying not only on her strong strength and noble bloodline, but also on an extremely important innate ability - Traveling Clouds and Rain.

As long as the cultivation reaches the level of a Title Douluo or a 100,000-year soul beast, it can affect the control of celestial phenomena to a certain extent. For the top powerhouses of the water attribute, the clouds and rain are not particularly powerful abilities. But Dream's talent for clouds and rain is terrifying, because the rain she falls is black rain, a kind of rain of extreme water level.

Water is the source of life, and the extreme black rain that falls from the phantom dream is a great gift for most soul beasts. Whenever the black rain falls, all the soul beasts within its enveloping range will rush out of their nests and let the black rain fall on their bodies, allowing the power of the extreme water to nourish their bodies and heal their injuries in various battles.

The power of the Extreme Water can also nourish all kinds of plants in the mountain range, improve the leylines of the Youyun Mountain Range, and make the entire Youyun Mountain Range full of vitality, thus optimizing the soul beast living environment of the Youyun Mountain Range in disguise. Although the quantity, duration, and frequency of rainfall are very low, the rainfall range is far from enough to cover the entire Youyun Mountains, and can only be taken into account by changing the area of each cloud rain. However, she was willing to spend her strength to use her natural abilities to benefit all the soul beasts of the Cloud Mountain Range, and the support she won for this practice was far from comparable to that of other soul beast rulers.

For example, among the bird-like soul beasts under Youmeng's command, several 100,000-year-old soul beasts have broken through to a cultivation of more than 200,000 years, and once they unify the strength of their own race, it will be enough to challenge Yumeng's status. However, Youmeng was still able to control the 100,000-year-old soul beasts in the Youyun Mountain Range that were second only to her in cultivation, because they had been more or less helped by Youmeng when they broke through, and even the clansmen under their command supported Youmeng. When dozens of high-level soul masters from the Sun and Moon Empire entered the territory of Youmeng to negotiate with her, the number of bird-like soul beasts guarding Youmeng's side was so strong that all the human powerhouses who came here had a numb scalp. Fortunately, the ghost dream itself does not exclude contact with humans, and the display of the spirit even makes the ghost appear for a short period of joy and excitement. The human soul master led by Ye Yulin and the 100,000-year soul beast led by Phantom Dream jointly agreed on a cooperation plan based on soul fusion, and the terms are roughly as follows:

The Sun and Moon Empire promised to gradually reduce the hunting of soul beasts in the Youyun Mountain Range, planning to halve the number of hunts in ten years, and immediately legislating a ban on the killing of more than ten species of bird soul beasts that were the core of Youmeng's subordinates in the name of the military

Ghost Dream needs to organize soul beasts with high intelligence to search for the soul beasts in the Youyun Mountain Range that are old and dying, seriously injured, and incapacitated, and after persuasion, transfer them to the Sun and Moon Empire as the object of soul fusion

After the completion of the Spirit Transmission Tower and the announcement to the world, the Dream can send a soul beast that has cultivated for more than 200,000 years and has the ability to transform to supervise the operation of the Spirit Transmission Tower, ensuring that the original intention of mutual benefit and maintaining ecological balance between the two parties will not be shaken

As long as any cultivated soul beast has spiritual intelligence and voluntarily merges with humans, the soul beast side cannot stop it for any reason

The Sun and Moon Empire provides high-level soul beasts in the Youyun Mountain Range with soul guides that can preserve soul rings, and high-level soul beasts should take the initiative to collect and store them when they encounter ownerless soul rings formed by soul beasts that are not killed by humans, so that the human soul masters can exchange the ownerless soul rings for materials useful to the soul beasts

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The Youyun Mountain Range is a gathering place for bird-type soul beasts, and soon after the contract is concluded, the number of bird-type soul beasts provided reaches the standard for forming an air force. As for the souls that those cavalry were riding, they were from the Qinglan Grassland in the northwest of the Sun and Moon Empire. The Sun and Moon Empire officially concocted the same method, and signed a contract with the 100,000-year-old soul beasts there, and the soul fusion objects needed to form hundreds of cavalry were quickly assembled.

Of course, the role of the soul is much more than just acting as a mount, but for the military, the significance of the soul mount is very great. When Huo Yuhao conducted the first soul fusion experiment, he found that compared with the ability of attack and defense, the speed of the soul is often closer to the peak level before death, and the speed can be improved compared with the life under some special circumstances. This is because the life forms of the souls, as spiritual and energetic life forms, are very little affected by factors such as weight and air resistance, but the instinct to act and fight is completely preserved.

If that cavalry of soul knights charges another cavalry, the speed and combat power of the spirits will undoubtedly crush the mounts of the enemy cavalry.

Not to mention the strength of the Bird Soul Mount, although a Soul Master above Level 4 can use a Flying Soul Guide. However, the linear speed of the Flying Soul Guide may not be much worse than that of the Soul Mount, but it is difficult to match in terms of flexibility and reflexes. The soul power consumed by the use of the Flying Soul Guide is also several times more than the soul power supplied by the Soul Master to the Soul Mount, not to mention that the soul itself has the ability to replenish its own energy, but it is slower than the host.

The Emperor of the Sun and Moon Empire stared at the people in the audience who were still in a state of shock, and took the amplified soul guide from Xu Tianzhen's hand and prepared to speak.

"Silence!" An old cheering sound echoed between heaven and earth, and for a moment, the crowd that was still talking was silent under the terrifying coercion that permeated the body and mind, and the heavy and solemn atmosphere suddenly filled the audience.

Well! Is this a realm? Huo Yuhao's heart sank and he couldn't help but think about it, even with his tangible and intangible spiritual realm, he couldn't find the source of the coercion just now at this time. Because the source of its deterrent power is not the energy of a soul master himself, but the general trend of heaven and earth that is induced, this kind of oppression formed by the height of the realm that echoes heaven and earth is as indisobedient as the will of heaven for the vast majority of people on the scene.

The news that the Emperor of the Sun Moon Empire was terminally ill had already spread on the mainland, but although the emperor's physical state at this time was definitely not healthy, there was obviously still a big gap between him and his checkmate state.

At least at this time, the emperor was still able to speak steadily: "This year's Continent-wide Senior Young Soul Master Elite Competition was held in my Sun and Moon Empire, and it was an honor for my Sun and Moon Empire for the elites of the academies and sects from the four major empires of the continent to gather in Mingdu, and I am also very excited to be able to enjoy this grand event. But now, the country must postpone the official start of the competition, and first announce a major discovery that will affect the fate of the continent, that is, the souls of the knights around me and the soul masters of the sky. ”

When it comes to the word soul, most people don't know anything about it, but this novelty has aroused the curiosity of almost all the soul masters in the field, and everyone is quietly waiting for the emperor's next words. The Sun and Moon Empire dared to announce the existence of the soul before the competition, and it must have been fully prepared, and what the emperor said about the fate of the continent was not an exaggeration.

Sure enough, the emperor then began to explain the significance of the appearance of the soul to the entire continent: "As we all know, the cultivation of the soul master is indispensable for the absorption and fusion of the soul ring, and the source of the soul ring is the soul beast. With the growing group of human soul masters, the number of soul beasts hunted by humans is also gradually increasing. Especially in the past thousand years, the internal ecological balance of many soul beast settlements has been seriously damaged due to the killing of soul beasts by human soul masters, so that the overall number of soul beasts has intensified and decreased, and this phenomenon has a tendency to intensify. Every soul beast settlement is conceived by the essence of heaven and earth, and the ecological balance of a large number of soul beast settlements is gradually collapsing, which essentially means that the overall ecological environment of the mainland is deteriorating day by day.

Those who have studied the history of the continent often find that although the number of human soul masters continues to expand with the increase of the total population of the continent, the proportion of the number of soul masters in the total population of the continent is declining significantly. Because the probability of soul power being associated with the awakening of six-year-old children when they awaken their martial souls is getting smaller and smaller, this is the best proof of the deterioration of the mainland's ecological environment. For this reason, many knowledgeable and far-sighted soul masters have tried to find a way to replace the soul ring, but unfortunately all of them have failed without exception.

The newly discovered soul in the country is also an idea of replacing the soul ring, and it is the only way to replace the soul ring that has been proven to be effective in practice so far. The source of the soul is still the soul beast, but it can really reduce the soul master's hunting of soul beasts and provide greater help to the soul master. In order to prove that the idea of soul fusion was true, more than a dozen students of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy did not hesitate to risk their lives to cooperate with the first experiment, and I am proud to have such a student with a common heart. ”

As soon as the emperor said this, the location of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy suddenly attracted the attention of almost everyone present. Huo Yuhao knew that the emperor attributed the first round of soul fusion experiments to the cooperation of the students of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy, which was actually expressing his reliance on the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy. The emperor's words of appreciating the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy also made everyone present at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy look a little excited, even Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen, who knew the truth of the matter.

After waving his hand slightly in the direction where everyone in the Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy was, the Emperor continued: "Soul souls are the spiritual and energy lifeforms produced by the fusion of soul beasts and soul masters, they can not only provide more than one soul ring for soul masters, but also retain the wisdom and instinct before death, and have the ability to fight with soul masters. The use of spirits as mounts that you have seen is only one of the wonderful uses of spirits. The soul itself has good combat power, and the soul skills it gives to the soul master can also be used by the soul on its own. After fusing with the host, the soul can also grow and evolve with the improvement of the host's strength to a certain extent, and has some characteristics that belong to the host's martial soul.

Speaking of which, I felt that all the soul masters present should understand that the benefits that souls bring to soul masters are much greater than just soul rings. But the premise of soul fusion is that soul beasts must voluntarily cooperate, and the soul beasts that can be willing to cooperate with soul fusion are undoubtedly those soul beasts whose longevity is approaching, serious injuries are difficult to recover, or soul beasts that have lost their ability to survive due to other reasons.

Finding these soul beasts undoubtedly requires the assistance of high-level soul beasts, and many high-level soul beasts in the country, including the Stygian Heavenly Phoenix Dream, which ranks ninth among the top ten fierce beasts, have reached an agreement, hoping to gradually reduce the hunting of normal soul beasts by human soul masters by means of soul fusion and other means, so as to maintain the ecological balance within the soul beasts as much as possible and maintain the stability of the overall ecological environment of the continent. Next, the country will demonstrate to you ten soul fusions on the spot to prove that what I have just said is true. The first person to fuse souls is my beloved daughter, Princess Innocence, and I am looking forward to the performance of the princess after merging souls in this competition. ”