Douluo: Purple Brilliance Shines, Sun, Moon, Mountains and Rivers Are Forever

Chapter 29 Breaking the Ice, Shooting at the Fiancee

Seeing Xu Tiance holding a huge cannon, Meng Hongchen was slightly stunned. She thought this would be a thrilling hand-to-hand fight, but she didn't expect Xu Tiance to choose to take out a long-range soul guide cannon.

"Your Highness, I thought you would engage in close combat with me."

"I'm not stupid. You're good at using poison. If I engage you in close combat, won't that give you countless opportunities to poison me?"

"Your Highness, you are truly wronging me by saying this. How could I possibly poison you, Your Highness?"

"Don't give me that. In the fighting arena, there are only opponents, not His Highness. Meng Hongchen, you want to seduce me, so I'll let you taste my "Purple Brilliant Dragon Spine Cannon" first."

Meng Hongchen smiled sweetly, raised her jade hand slightly, and pointed the tip of the Bingpo Zhuqing sword directly at Xu Tiance.

"Your Highness, be careful."

Before he finished speaking, Meng Hongchen turned into a swift shadow and quickly closed the distance with Xu Tiance.

"You are the one who should be careful."

Xu Tiance pointed the muzzle forward, and the roar of the Purple Dragon Spine Cannon tore through the air.

A brilliant ballistic trajectory was reflected in his pupils. Twelve annihilation light bullets roared out continuously, accompanied by dragon roar sound waves, interweaving into a rotating cage, and shot towards Meng Hongchen.

Boom! ——

Boom! ——

Boom! ——

Soul-guided shells were fired one after another. Every time a light shell landed on the ground, it would explode into terrifying purple lightning thorns, just enough to block Meng Hongchen's movement and prevent her from getting close for a while.

Meng Hongchen was wearing black combat boots, and there seemed to be ice blades under her feet that could allow her to slide. At this moment, she was like a dancer on ice, dodging the artillery attacks nimbly and agilely.

The Bingpo Zhuqing sword formed twelve sword flowers in her hand, splitting the heat wave and rushing out from the roaring artillery fire. The purple lightning thorn jungle became her backdrop.

Xu Tiance used the soul guide cannon to block her movement, but could only delay Meng Hongchen's offensive rhythm, and could not completely stop her from approaching.

Seeing that Meng Hongchen was about to tear through the dense artillery fire and approach, Xu Tiance immediately leaped into the air on the spot, and the Dragon Spine Cannon roared and pushed him towards the dome.

He was like an eagle hovering in the sky, firing his cannons continuously from a high position, attacking Meng Hongchen while constantly adjusting his position with the help of the recoil.

Xu Tiance's amazing move stunned everyone in the audience.

"What is this? Can you use a handheld soul cannon like this?"

"Firing a cannon in mid-air, with such a strong recoil, can Your Highness still aim at the enemy?"

"Your Highness not only aimed, but also struck with pinpoint accuracy every time."

"More than that? His Highness even took advantage of the recoil to adjust his position and create distance between himself and Meng Hongchen."

Xiao Hongchen looked worriedly at Meng Hongchen who was engulfed in the artillery fire. Under Xu Tiance's outrageous operation, she obviously had not found an effective way to break the deadlock.

"This time, Meng has truly met her match. The artillery fire has blocked Meng's movement, preventing her from getting close. Meng, what will you do next?"

The girl's sword tip stirred up an ice tornado, but the moment she jumped up to counterattack, she was locked in place by three cross-trajectory bullets.

She suddenly thrust the Bingpo Zhuqing Sword into the ground, and the "Ice Poison Ring" instantly exploded into a sky-high ice curtain.

Xu Tiance immediately distanced himself to a safe distance and fired at the ice wall.

By the time the fourth shell pierced the ice wall, Meng Hongchen had already activated his third soul skill, "Ice Refraction," allowing him to flex light and shadow to change positions at will. Simultaneously, leveraging the recoil, he transformed into an icy blue afterimage, darting into the three-meter zone surrounding the cannon's muzzle. The cold light concentrated on the sword's tip collided with the scorching heat of the cannon barrel.

"Your Highness, you are truly more slippery than a loach. But fortunately, I finally caught you."

Xu Tiance smiled brightly at her, "You're talking about me, but you're just as slippery. Even this can't stop you. Not bad, not bad. You're really capable, worthy of being one of the Twin Stars of the Empire."

"Surrender, Your Highness. Once I get close to you and use poison, you will quickly become poisoned and lose your fighting ability. However, I don't want to do that."

"Forget it." Xu Tiance threw the Purple Brilliant Dragon Spine Cannon in his hand with a dull sound. "There's no point in playing long-range games with you."

"Your Highness, you are already very impressive."

"Oh? Compared to your brother, who's better?"

Meng Hongchen gently stroked her chin with her jade hand and pondered for a moment, "We each have our strengths. My brother is better at controlling metal, and during combat he usually uses soul guide arrays for suppressive fire. As for you, Your Highness... you always have some unusual and special operations."

"That's because you don't know me well enough, so you can't adapt to these different combat methods."

"Can I understand that our opponents don't know Your Highness well enough, so Your Highness's actions will be a surprise attack for us?"

"If you want to understand it that way, it's not a bad idea."

"Your Highness~" Meng Hongchen put her hands on her slender waist, unconsciously revealing a girlish and coquettish attitude.

Xu Tiance scratched his head in embarrassment. He couldn't help being narcissistic again. "Well...how about we practice again? This time, we'll fight in close combat."

"Your Highness, you are bullying me. You first used ranged attacks to observe my attack patterns, and then immediately proposed to engage me in close combat. Your Highness, even if you don't give me a little leniency, you can't try to trick me."

"This isn't a routine; this is knowing yourself and your enemy."

"It's not impossible to fight in close combat, but I have to win this round."

"You just got close and you ruled me the loser. Is that fair?"

Meng Hongchen smiled sweetly, with an exceptionally delicate face, and playfully approached Xu Tiance, "That makes sense!"

As they got closer, he could see the cinnabar mole at the corner of the girl's eye particularly clearly, and the faint fragrance of her virginity seeped into his nostrils, causing the young man's heart to beat faster for some reason.

"Meng Hongchen, do you always like to get so close to others when you talk to them?"

Seeing Xu Tiance's nervous and shy look, the girl's face also flushed.

"That's not the case."

She tossed her cascading wine-red hair, turned around and took a few steps to distance herself from him. Then she turned back to face Xu Tiance, "Your Highness, if you wish to continue the competition, I am willing to accompany you to the end."

The girl opposite was graceful and elegant, with the tip of her ice-blue sword pointing diagonally at the ground, and her beautiful ice-blue eyes staring at him without blinking.

Xu Tiance took out his Tang Hengdao from the storage soul guide and drew it out. The inky black blade faintly emitted a bloody smell.

This sword was custom-made for Xu Tiance by the Imperial Court. He personally designed the exterior of the Tang Horizontal Sword, while a ninth-level soul master crafted the core magic array within. Anything produced by the Imperial Court is a masterpiece.

"Okay, you win that round. But if you want to beat me again, it won't be so easy."

"Your Highness, there is no shame in losing to my poison."

"Whether we win or lose is not important. What's important is that I want to see you kneel down and sing 'Conquer'."

(End of this chapter)