"The tome stated that a sacrifice of 10,000,000 has to be made to create this array!" Zang Xin closed his eyes with a pained expression as he spoke.

"10,000,000?!" Tang Wulin exclaimed.

Zang Xin nodded in confirmation. "That's right. The blood and souls of 10,000,000 people have to be offered up as tribute as a prerequisite to creating the Blood River Godslayer Array. On top of that, it needs to be overseen by an extremely powerful Evil Soul Master. This array uses a special core formation to exacerbate the resentment of the dead souls, then convert this resentment into energy to support the formation. As for the blood, it acts as a medium using which they can control the souls."

Tang Wulin's eyes immediately widened as something dawned on him. "Then doesn't that mean the residents of Shrek City..."

He couldn't bring himself to finish his sentence.

During the Shrek City bombing, millions of people had perished, and the Holy Spirit Cult had been the main perpetrator.

Those millions of souls had all been harvested and injected into this Blood River Godslayer Array!

In addition to that, there was also the Heaven Dou City bombing; that was the city with the highest population density on the entire continent!

These Evil Soul Masters had gathered over 10,000,000 souls from these disasters to complete this formation!

In the beginning, Tang Wulin had thought that the abyssal plane had created the Blood River Godslayer Array, but it was the Holy Spirit Cult instead!

Tears of fury and grief began to well up in everyone's eyes. How many of the souls in that Blood River Godslayer Array had come from the past Shrek City? Just the thought of this was driving daggers into their hearts.

"Those bastards! They don't deserve to be human!" A'Ruheng roared.

Tang Wulin's fists were tightly clenched as he asked, "Aside from its defensive prowess, what other ability does this Blood River Godslayer Array have?"

Zang Xin replied, "It's capable of devouring souls. All life forms that perish within the array will immediately have their souls devoured by the array to strengthen it, and that'll happen until the array reaches its tolerance limit. Furthermore, the most fearsome thing about this array is the 'Godslayer' part. This doesn't mean that it's capable of killing a god. Instead, it can create a god through slaughter. By killing a huge number of life forms and devouring their souls, the person overseeing the array will have their powers elevated to the godly level, and if I'm not mistaken, the overseer of the array should be Demon Sovereign, the true leader of the Holy Spirit Cult."

 Indeed, there was no way that Demon Sovereign wouldn't be involved in such a major event.

"But their Blood River Godslayer Array was activated in the abyssal passageway and can only encompass that area, so all it can do is passively defend. We can't break through it, but how will they be able to do anything about it?" A'Ruheng asked.

A wry smile appeared on Zang Xin's face. "If only it were that simple. Following the formation of the array, its core is its overseer, and the array will move alongside its core. Hence, we're going to be facing a direct assault from the abyssal army and the Blood River Godslayer Array. The most terrifying thing about all of this is that if we suffer too many casualties, there's a very good chance that Demon Sovereign will be able to forcibly elevate themselves to godhood through slaughter!"

Everyone's expressions changed drastically upon hearing this.

The prospect of the Holy Lord potentially descending upon the Douluo Plane was already extremely concerning; if Demon Sovereign could elevate themselves to godhood as well, then this battle would be as good as lost.

"Report!" 

Long Yuxue quickly made her way into the room, and she heaved an internal sigh of relief upon catching sight of Tang Wulin. "The control center is inviting Sect Master Tang and the esteemed Heartless Douluo for a meeting."

Tang Wulin and Cao Dezhi exchanged a glance upon hearing this, and both of them had an inkling of what this meeting was going to be about.

However, there was no time for speculation, and the two of them immediately made their way to the control center without delay.

The atmosphere inside the control center was very heavy, and all of the military officials in the room wore grim expressions.

The battle had only just begun, yet they had been forced to cease their assault due to the astonishing defensive might of the Blood River Godslayer Array. Even 10 ninth-grade soul missiles had been unable to breach it.

There was no way to stack the explosive power of soul missiles, so they could only attack the array from different angles, but that clearly wasn't going to work.

Furthermore, ninth-grade soul missiles were already the most powerful weapons normally allocated to federal legions.

"The situation is very dire. If I'm not mistaken, there's a very good chance that the light barrier is something known as the Blood River Godslayer Array," Chen Xinjie said with a grim expression.

The fact that Chen Xinjie was aware of this array indicated that all of the military officials in the room were most likely already aware of the Blood River Godslayer Array's power.

Sure enough, Chen Xinjie gave everyone a description of what the array was capable of, and his description was even more detailed than the one provided by Zang Xin.

"The Blood River Godslayer Array will become more and more powerful the more souls it devours, and that power will be reciprocated to its overseer. If that person is Demon Sovereign, then there's a very good chance they'll ascend to godhood with the array's assistance. Even if they don't succeed, they'll be infinitely approaching the godly level, and with current technology, there won't be any way to stop them."

Chen Xinjie's expression had become very grim. No one wanted to face such a fearsome enemy, and just as he had said, the situation was indeed very dire.

Yu Guanzhi sighed, "I didn't think that the destructive capabilities of our weapons would be so sorely lacking."

"What if we use heavy ion laser weapons?" Guan Yue asked.

"Extensive calculations have been made, and the conclusion is that heavy ion laser weapons may be able to pierce through the array to strike some of the abyssal creatures inside, but it won't be able to break the array. On top of that, high intensity heavy ion lasers have a very limited range, and the amount of damage they can inflict is also rather lackluster."

Ninth-grade soul missiles were already the most fearsome of the regulation weapons. Even though soul weaponry had diversified significantly over the years, not many improvements had been made when it came to the peak destructive weapons.

Developments in this area had been attempted during the creation of the godslayer missiles, but all projects of this nature had to be terminated due to excessive resource expenditure.

The research in source positive circulation cores was heading in the right direction, but it required too much uncommon metals to sustain; even the Tang Sect was only able to craft a single divine-grade mecha with this technology.

Yu Guanzhi turned his gaze toward Tang Wulin as he spoke. "We'll only be able to break this Blood River Godslayer Array if we can deploy an even more powerful soul weapon, and we must do this as soon as possible."

Tang Wulin's expression remained unchanged, but he knew that he had guessed right. Yu Guanzhi was clearly implying that the deployment of Eternal Heaven was necessary, and that was why Tang Wulin and Cao Dezhi had been invited to attend this meeting.

The Tang Sect and Shrek Academy had gone to great lengths to obtain Eternal Heaven, and it was the key to their steady development. With Eternal Heaven in their possession, neither the federation nor the Spirit Pagoda would dare to do anything to them, so Tang Wulin was very reluctant to offer the weapon to the military.

However, if he refused, how were they going to break the Blood River Godslayer Array? It was simply far too difficult to break the array through the power of individuals. With that in mind, Tang Wulin turned to Cao Dezhi, who was also looking back at him, and their eyes met.

Tang Wulin pursed his lips and gave a reluctant nod. "There will be a sufficiently powerful weapon soon."

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