MTLNOVEL Chapter 75: Ju Zi
Not only had Spirit Hall begun to take action, but the Heaven Dou Empire, the Star Luo Empire, the Upper Three Sects, and the Lower Four Sects, except for the secluded Clear Sky Sect, had all started making their own moves.
As time passed, the major figures on both sides of the worlds came to understand that a new world was about to merge with their own.
For the people of the Douluo Continent, where Liuxing and his companions resided, this was an event even more shocking than when the Sun Moon Continent collided with Douluo Continent four thousand years ago.
However, they already had experience with such an event.
Before the collision happened, wasn't the Sun Moon Continent considered a foreign world to the people of Douluo Continent?
And the same was true for the Sun Moon Empire.
They lost four thousand years ago, but this time, they would not allow themselves to be defeated again.
A planar fusion was nothing more than the addition of another continent and some new opponents.
Compared to the worried mid-tier soul masters and the lower-tier soul masters who were kept in the dark, some Titled Douluo who had been stuck in bottlenecks, unable to make any further progress, were full of anticipation for this planar fusion.
As the fusion intensified, not only did the peak existences of the continent, Limit Douluo, sense the changes, but even Super Douluo began to notice that the strength of the Douluo Plane itself was increasing.
Time passed silently.
From the moment the mist first appeared until now, a year and a half had already gone by.
During this time, the interdimensional passage hidden within the mist had gradually stabilized enough to allow lower-ranked soul masters to pass through.
Half a month ago, a fifth-tier soul engineer from the Sun Moon Empire, equipped with a full set of soul tools custom-made for him by the Illustrious Virtue Hall, infiltrated the world on the other side.
During this period, both the Sun Moon Empire and the three original nations of Douluo had captured spies who had infiltrated their world, as well as ordinary people who had accidentally wandered into the interdimensional passage.
Due to the overlapping and fusion of the two planes, many misty passages appeared at random, making it difficult for any major power to control them immediately.
This was why they sent spies to the opposing world, otherwise, sending people in blindly would be akin to sending sheep into the tiger's mouth.
Of course, whether or not the spies could successfully infiltrate depended on their luck.
When facing an unfamiliar world, intelligence was of utmost importance. What kind of world was it?
How many powerful beings did it have? How strong was its strongest individual?
All these details needed to be gathered.
In this regard, the Sun Moon Empire's development of long-range communication soul tools proved to be a great success.
Even the Sun Moon Empire itself had not expected that their long-range communication soul tools would still function across different planes.
According to the head of the Royal Worship Hall, the Sun Moon Empire's most hidden and powerful soul engineer, Silver Moon Douluo Kong Deming, the reason was likely that the opposing world, like their own, was also dominated by soul power.
After all, the medium for the transmission of information via long-range communication soul tools was soul power.
If ordinary people could pass through the merging worlds, then there was no reason why the omnipresent soul power in the air could not.
This explained why they were able to receive transmissions from the other world within the Sun Moon Empire.
Because of this, the Sun Moon Empire immediately established contact with the spies who had successfully infiltrated the new world.
Through them, they gathered intelligence on the other side.
However, as the information poured in, the Sun Moon Empire's intelligence analysis department fell into complete chaos.
The reason?
The world on the other side was also called "Douluo Continent."
It had a Star Dou Forest, two major empires, Heaven Dou and Star Luo, standing in opposition, and even a Spirit Hall located at the intersection of the two empires, holding immense influence and prestige.
Furthermore, the names of the Seven Great Sects had also reached the ears of the Sun Moon Empire, leaving them dazed and bewildered.
After their defeat four thousand years ago, the Sun Moon Empire had rigorously studied the history of the Douluo Continent.
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Though history naturally fades with time, certain names, Spirit Hall, the two empires, and the Seven Great Sects, were not ones the Sun Moon Empire could possibly mistake.
"You mean to say that the world on the other side is very similar to the Douluo Continent from our world's past ten thousand years ago?"
At this moment, the Crown Prince of the Sun Moon Empire, Xu Tianran, sat in a wheelchair.
Though his expression remained as gentle and calm as ever, the aura he exuded sent chills down the spines of the intelligence analysts before him.
A black-haired girl with waist-length hair, delicate skin, and a graceful figure, appearing to be no more than fourteen or fifteen years old, silently pushed Xu Tianran's wheelchair.
Like the others, she was equally shocked by the intelligence presented before them.
"Y-Yes, Your Highness. Based on our analysis, the world on the other side is indeed about eighty percent similar to what the Douluo Continent was ten thousand years ago in our history."
The head of the intelligence department, a middle-aged man with the cultivation of a seventh-tier soul engineer, bowed respectfully as he spoke.
"I see. You've done well. Continue your analysis."
Xu Tianran nodded slightly, and the girl behind him understood his intent.
She pushed his wheelchair out of the intelligence department without another word.
"Juzi, what do you think?"
Xu Tianran suddenly asked the girl behind him.
"Your Highness, the intelligence should be accurate. Aside from our spies, we've also gathered information from those captured from the other world. The details match exactly."
The black-haired girl named Juzi answered respectfully.
"Is that so? Interesting. Juzi, organize the historical records of the Douluo Continent and bring them to me later."
Xu Tianran's face revealed a look of interest, but the moment his eyes fell on his legs, covered by a blanket, his expression instantly darkened.
Juzi stole a glance at the sudden change in his expression, but she did not dare show any reaction.
She had personally witnessed what had happened to the last maid who failed to manage her facial expressions properly in front of Xu Tianran.
That scene was something she never wanted to see again in her life.
Nor did she ever want to experience such torment herself.
Even though she was Xu Tianran's savior, the person he trusted most, she dared not show any abnormalities in her expression.
The Xu Tianran who first took her in had been so gentle and noble.
In Juzi's heart, he was a natural-born ruler, a monarch worthy of her lifelong loyalty.
But ever since that assassination attempt six months ago, when he lost his legs and, more importantly, his manhood, he had changed.
He became ruthless, he became unscrupulous.
After exacting a cruel revenge on the mastermind behind the attack, he used iron-fisted tactics to eliminate his political enemies.
Despite being abandoned by nearly everyone, he managed to turn the tide, not only securing his position as Crown Prince but even strengthening his influence by gaining the military's support.
At the same time, he caught the attention of a powerful figure and became her adopted son.
With the backing of a group of mysterious individuals, he now held absolute dominance in the Sun Moon Empire's court.
However, the betrayal that had cost him his legs and his manhood had left him with no trust in anyone, except for Juzi, the girl who had risked her life to shield him from a fatal blow during the attack.
As a result, he entrusted her with many important matters, despite her being just a teenage girl.