The Peerless Emperor-Chapter 658 - 659: Open Fire

"Young Master, you mustn't speak so carelessly," the homely, burly man hastily waved his hand upon hearing the valiant young man's words. "I merely muttered something casually, but my grandfather beat my buttocks to a pulp."

As he said this, the burly man, with lingering fear, touched his rear and felt a chill down his spine.

He had indeed never seen his grandfather so furious before, scolding him for being heartless and saying that the Emperor cared for them, yet he failed to recognize the good intentions.

The valiant young man, named Yuan Tianxia, was the only son of Yuan Wudi. At just thirty, he had reached the Life and Death Realm. With his extraordinary talent, he was regarded as the inevitable next Family Head of the Yuan family.

"I don't understand what got into grandfather and father, as well as the other Yuan family elders. After arriving at the frontline, they actually claim our Yuan family should join the Huaxia Empire and serve that young Emperor! Why should we, just for these pieces of iron?" The valiant young man furrowed his brows in anger, slapped his own knee, and snapped louder.

With that, the valiant young man glanced at the huge metallic structure atop the nearby mountain peak: "Can this thing even kill members of the other races? And does that so-called Emperor know how much blood, sweat, and tears our Yuan family has poured into this place? Now he wants to buy us with what? Some broken scraps? He even said it was an order from our ancestors, what a joke."

Speaking of this, Yuan Tianxia's chest heaved with indignation.

At that moment, he felt utterly disrespected, feeling that the so-called Emperor looked down upon the Yuan family too much!

The Yuan family had been fighting and dying here, shedding innumerable tears of blood, enduring great hardships. The battles here weren't something a few metallic structures could change. In Yuan Tianxia's eyes, Lin Qian tossing these useless things over as a reward was nothing but an insult.

"But Young Master, what if these things really are useful?" the cautious woman spoke up at that moment.

Yuan Tianxia snorted coldly and glanced at the destructive impact soul cannon: "This thing probably serves as a hub for a defense Array. There are buried soul ore pipelines throughout the entire mountain wall, inscribed with runes, and there are also some on top of these peaks, likely nodes of the Array. Is the Emperor setting up this Array to make us cower, as if we were afraid of death?"

"If this isn't an insult, then what is!"

"Shh, quiet down a bit, don't let the people housed in that iron scrap hear you," a refined youth who had suddenly appeared quickly covered Yuan Tianxia's mouth, "Have you forgotten how last time a young member who insulted the Emperor of the Huaxia Empire had their cultivation completely destroyed?"

"And moreover, you guys just know how to fight the other races and have no idea what's happening in the Central Domain." This member of the Yuan family moved agilely and came to sit beside them.

Seeing the refined youth's arrival, everyone was overjoyed: "Yuan Zhi, where have you been all this time?"

"I went to gather information, to find out what this Huaxia Empire is all about." Yuan Zhi sat next to Yuan Tianxia, looking in the direction of the destructive impact soul cannon. "The Emperor of the Huaxia Empire is the Yun Monarch's grandson, the idol of the Young Master, and the sole son of Lin Di, the pride of the Central Domain's scorching sun!"

"What!" Upon hearing this, Yuan Tianxia looked shocked and quickly asked Yuan Zhi, "You're not lying to me?"

"Why would I lie? You are also aware of the Yun family's predicament. The moment this Emperor of the Huaxia Empire appeared, he swept through the former Yun family's territory, claiming it all for himself and sealing off the surroundings. Furthermore, our ancestor highly reveres this Emperor. Father mentioned to me that grandfather said these things called soul cannons are personally sent by the Emperor to alleviate our pressure and casualties."

"But as to how these things are useful, I have no idea."

Hum!

Just as Yuan Zhi's words ended, a prolonged, muffled rumble suddenly resonated from afar. Upon hearing this sound, the expressions of all the Yuan family members present changed.

Every one of them knew what that sound meant—it heralded the arrival of the exotic tribes, prepared to attack this place!

Yuan Tianxia quickly rose to his feet and hovered in the air, gazing into the distance. The other members of the Yuan family also hurriedly took to the sky, looking toward the front.

At this moment, they could clearly see that on the snowy plains ahead, there was a dense mass of dark spots, like a tide of black water, rushing toward their checkpoint.

And in that half-sky, there was also a dark, oppressive mass, so far away that it couldn't be seen clearly. Nevertheless, the younger members of the Yuan family knew for certain that those shadowy, cloud-like figures must be the people from the exotic tribes.

Yuan Tianxia's eyes sparkled with Soul Power as he stared intently into the distance, his tone ominous, "They are the Invisible Clan and the Devouring Ghost Clan!"

Upon hearing Yuan Tianxia's words, everyone understood the situation before them—the mass of darkness on the ground was certainly the Soul Beasts controlled by the Invisible Clan.

As for those of the Invisible Clan, they each occupied the formidable bodies of the Blue Stone Clan and were not lacking in combat power.

The Devouring Ghost Clan, exceedingly fond of consuming the flesh of the Human Clan, moved with agility and deception, their forms capable of hiding in snowstorms, mist, and shadows—utterly troublesome to deal with.

Looking off into the distance, the Invisible Clan and the Devouring Ghost Clan, along with the enslaved Soul Beasts, numbered at least in the hundreds of thousands.

With Yuan Tianxia's vision, he couldn't make out all the enemy's numbers, but judging by the trembling of the ground and the formation in the distance, it feared that this was indeed the scale of the force.

"No, I can't sit here and wait for death, get ready to move out." Taking a deep breath—Ice Cold spreading in his lungs—Yuan Tianxia's eyes were filled with a lethal resolve as he spoke to those around him.

The young members of the Yuan family at his side nodded silently to themselves.

"Hey, look over there!" Just then, one of the female descendants of the Yuan family suddenly cried out in alarm, pointing to the side.

Yuan Tianxia and the others followed the direction the woman pointed—in the mountain peak above them, the snow covering their "iron lump" was melting, with the scorching heat starting to spread.

At that moment, from within the massive white building, a man from the Fire Department burst into the sky: "You kids, get back quickly, don't stand at the front, we're about to attack."

As his words ended, the air of the Life and Death Realm within this Fire Department man surged forth, his Soul Power vibrating, taking Yuan Tianxia and the others to the side of the destructive assault soul cannon situated at what had originally been the rear of their encampment.

"Target straight ahead, A37, B4."

"Soul Power charging complete, the Huaxia Empire's C-level destructive assault soul cannon is ready."

"Fire!"

Boom!

Terrifying Soul Power burst forth from the muzzle of the destructive assault soul cannon, the beam of Soul Power shooting forward at a speed difficult for the naked eye to follow, striking at the dense mass on the snowy plain far ahead.