Douluo Jueshi: Who made him a soul mentor?

"Assassin! Assassins!!"

"Protect the Crown Prince!!"

The guards were caught off guard by this sudden attack, but as the Crown Prince's guards, they possessed considerable strength and were well-trained.

They quickly organized a defense, setting up layers of soul-guided weapon defensive barriers to protect the Crown Prince in the middle of the convoy.

Soul-guided weapon masters might not necessarily be as formidable as soul masters in one-on-one combat, but in coordinated operations, their strength far surpassed that of soul masters.

Especially in defense, soul-guided weapon masters possessed a natural advantage.

Some soul-guided weapon defensive barriers were not of a high level, but their defensive capabilities were astonishing.

For example, the Invincible Barrier; a fifth-level Invincible Barrier could block the attack of a Soul Douluo-level expert for three seconds, making it extremely troublesome.

Fortunately, the rare metal raw materials used to create the Invincible Barrier were extremely precious and produced in very small quantities. Even the Crown Prince's guards did not have many on hand.

The five assassins were dressed in loose black robes, and their faces were covered with specialized soul-guided weapon masks that concealed their figures and auras. Each of them possessed the strength of a Soul Douluo.

These five people were Wang Yan, the patriarch of the Wang family; Song Zhan, the Second Prince's maternal grandfather; and Song Peng, his uncle.

The last two were Zhao Yuhang, Wang Yan's close friend, and Li Fei, Song Zhan's sworn brother.

Among them, Wang Yan, Song Zhan, and Song Peng had the highest cultivation and the greatest strength. Even the weakest, Song Peng, had a cultivation of eighty-five levels. Therefore, the three were responsible for the frontal assault.

Song Zhan's sworn brother, Li Fei, was an agility-type Soul Douluo expert with the fastest speed. In terms of pure speed, even ordinary Title Douluo experts might not be as fast as him.

He was responsible for assassinating Xu Tianran with lightning speed when the assassination plan was proceeding most smoothly. He was also responsible for quickly escaping with Wang Yan and the others after the assassination.

Wang Yan's close friend, Zhao Yuhang, was a Soul Douluo who excelled at concealing his tracks. He was responsible for assisting Li Fei in assassinating Xu Tianran and for cleaning up the aftermath to prevent the empire's experts from tracing them.

Beneath his loose black robe, Wang Yan wore a set of soul-guided weapon armor, wielding a close-combat soul-guided weapon longsword in one hand and an eighth-level soul-guided weapon cannon in the other, displaying terrifying murderous intent.

Song Zhan held an eighth-level soul-guided weapon halberd in his hand, the blade of which gleamed with a sharp cold light, as if it could cut through space itself.

Song Peng excelled at long-range attacks. With a clanging explosion, Song Peng transformed into a terrifying metal fortress in the blink of an eye, with hundreds of soul-guided weapon barrels coldly aimed at Xu Tianran's guards, unleashing a fierce barrage.

The agility-type Soul Douluo, Li Fei, moved like a ghost, attempting to find loopholes in the chaos, ready to break through the guards' defenses and directly assassinate Xu Tianran himself.

Zhao Yuhang, on the other hand, did not attack. At this moment, he was inserting metal pillars into the ground around them.

These metal pillars quickly formed a circle around Xu Tianran's convoy. Immediately afterward, Zhao Yuhang injected soul power, and in an instant, the metal pillars linked together, enveloping Xu Tianran's convoy, clearly to prevent anyone from escaping.

The five men had a clear division of labor and were powerful. As soon as they attacked, they put immense pressure on Xu Tianran's guards.

The layers of soul-guided weapon defensive barriers set up by Xu Tianran's guards were rapidly depleted under the violent offensive of Wang Yan and the others.

Within the layers of soul-guided weapon defensive barriers, the two Soul Douluo experts responsible for protecting Xu Tianran's safety, along with many guards, were fully activating various defensive soul-guided weapons to resist the attacks.

Looking at the terrifying attacks of the five assassins, the two Soul Douluo's expressions were extremely solemn.

The two Soul Douluo experts responsible for protecting Xu Tianran, one tall and thin, the other short and fat.

The short, fat Soul Douluo gritted his teeth and said, "Five eighth-level soul-guided weapon masters with the cultivation of Soul Douluo, what a grand scheme. Have they gone mad? They actually dare to assassinate the Crown Prince, this is a crime punishable by the extermination of nine generations!"

The tall, thin Soul Douluo cursed, "Damn it, let's not worry about how grand the scheme is. We two should think about what to do first.

The number of soul-guided weapon defensive barriers is limited. These five assassins are too strong, and their attacks are too fierce. We won't be able to hold on for long.

Once all the soul-guided weapon defensive barriers are used up, we're finished. The entire team, apart from us two Soul Douluo experts, are all Soul King-level ordinary guards.

Even if we include His Highness the Crown Prince and that Soul Sage woman, they are no match for five Soul Douluo. I'll say it in advance, if we really can't stop them, I won't risk my life."

The short, fat Soul Douluo said, "It won't come to that. As long as we can hold them off, this is the outskirts of Mingdu. Such a large soul power fluctuation will definitely be detected by Mingdu's soul power detectors. Presumably, experts from Mingdu will come to support us soon."

After discussing, the two Soul Douluo experts responsible for guarding Xu Tianran felt slightly relieved. As long as they held on for a while, they would be saved.

By then, whether it was the soul-guided weapon master corps of the Five Great Protector Hands or the ninth-level soul-guided weapon grandmasters of the Palace Enshrinement Hall.

As long as one of them came, these five assassins would die without a burial ground.

At this moment, in the center of the convoy, inside a carriage that resembled a small palace, Xu Tianran was embracing a beautiful Soul Sage he had met half a month ago.

Several maids stood respectfully to the side with their heads lowered, their eyes fixed on their feet.

Hearing the sounds of fighting outside, Xu Tianran was suddenly startled. He pushed the Soul Sage woman away, his eyes cold and his face extremely ugly.

Assassination? Is it Second or Third!

Xu Tianran's soul power erupted, and he immediately activated his martial soul. Seven soul rings rose one after another, and a purple dragon appeared behind him.

The Violet Blaze Extinguishing Heaven Dragon martial soul was extremely powerful. Although Xu Tianran was only a Soul Sage, with this powerful martial soul, he could fight against a Soul Douluo expert.

Therefore, Xu Tianran was extremely confident in his own strength and did not panic when encountering an assassination attempt.

Anyway, the Sun Moon Empire only had so many Rank 9 Soul Engineers; they wouldn't come to assassinate him. At most, those who assassinated him would only be at the Soul Douluo level.

Xu Tianran immediately walked out of the chariot. Through layers of Soul Tool defensive shields, he looked at the five assassins wearing black robes and masks, their figures blurry and their auras extremely strange and difficult to identify. For a moment, he couldn't recognize their identities.

Xu Tianran was shocked, thinking, "Five Soul Douluos, and all of them are Rank 8 Soul Engineers. Two of them are even quite powerful among Rank 8 Soul Engineers. This formation is somewhat dangerous.

Hmph, my good brothers are truly eager to kill me."

Xu Tianran stared coldly at Wang Yan and the others, his heart filled with murderous intent. He didn't even ask the identities of these assassins or who was behind them.

He knew that asking would be pointless; these assassins definitely wouldn't say anything.

And there was no need to ask. Xu Tianran didn't need to guess; he knew it must be his good brothers.

It's either the second or third. In the future, he would kill both the second and third, and then wipe out all the forces behind them. That would be enough, why waste words?

But the premise was that he could protect his life during the assassination.

For the sake of his own life, Xu Tianran immediately offered a generous reward to the guards protecting him, "Today, Tianran's life rests on everyone's shoulders.

Your loyalty and bravery, Tianran will remember in his heart. If Tianran returns safely today, the living will be promoted three ranks, each rewarded with a high-level pill, plus 500,000 gold soul coins. The dead will be granted a title, hereditary and perpetual, and I will raise your families!!"

After promising a heavy reward, Xu Tianran also felt a pang of pain. Don't underestimate 500,000 gold soul coins per person, but he had fifty guards with him this time, which added up to 25 million gold soul coins.

This amount of gold soul coins could buy a high-quality ten-thousand-year soul bone without any problem.

And the high-level pills, needless to say, although far less precious than spirit pills, each one was worth hundreds of thousands of gold soul coins.

Even though the Sun Moon Empire had a special garden for cultivating high-level medicinal materials, the annual output was fixed. It's not like they had everything they needed, and could get as much as they wanted.

However, compared to his own life, these things that could be measured with money were not worth mentioning.

As for the two Soul Douluo guards, there was no need to say much. Their fates were already intertwined. When he ascended the throne, they would naturally have wealth, glory, and high-level resources.

Hearing Xu Tianran's words, the guards were immediately as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and the Soul Tool shields became even more dazzling.

Seeing the guards' high morale, Xu Tianran's original anger at being assassinated subsided a lot.

In another five minutes, reinforcements would definitely arrive.

Xu Tianran estimated the consumption speed of the defensive Soul Tool shields and the strength of himself and his guards, and believed that holding on for five minutes would not be a big problem.

A cold smile appeared on the corner of Xu Tianran's mouth. He made a neck-cutting gesture to Wang Yan and the others, "Dare to assassinate me, you will all die afterwards!"

Wang Yan and the others looked at Xu Tianran inside the Soul Tool defensive shield, their eyes bursting with cold killing intent.

Immediately, they attacked the Soul Tool defensive shield even more frantically. For a time, the breaking speed of the Soul Tool defensive shield became even faster.

However, the Soul Tool defensive shield was really troublesome. If it weren't for the Soul Tool defensive shield, with the strength of Wang Yan's five Soul Douluos, they would have already killed Xu Tianran's guards and Xu Tianran himself.

But the gap in hard power still existed. Three minutes later, Xu Tianran's guards had few defensive Soul Tools left.

Seeing this situation, Wang Yan transmitted his voice, "Their Soul Tool defensive shields are almost exhausted, Brother Song, it's time for us to take action."

Only to see Xu Tianyu's maternal grandfather, Song Zhan, and Wang Yan each take out a cannonball emitting a terrifying aura of destruction from their storage Soul Tools.

This cannonball was none other than the most powerful and most difficult to manufacture fixed-mounted Soul Tool cannonball among all Soul Tools.

The difficulty of manufacturing it was so high that it could even be said that Soul Engineers could hardly create a fixed-mounted Soul Tool cannonball of the same level.

And the fixed-mounted Soul Tool cannonballs in Song Zhan and Wang Yan's hands were of Rank 8!

Fixed-mounted Soul Tool cannonballs were the most terrifying weapons of the Sun Moon Empire.

Among them, a Rank 9 fixed-mounted Soul Tool cannonball was even more powerful enough to destroy the heavens and the earth, and even destroy a city.

The power was so great that a Titled Douluo would die without a doubt if touched, and even a Super Douluo would be severely injured.

Although the power of an Rank 8 fixed-mounted Soul Tool cannonball was not as good as Rank 9, it still had a huge killing power against Title Douluo level powerhouses. One shot would inevitably cause injuries, and two shots would cause serious injuries even if they didn't die.

How could Wang Yan and the others not prepare some large-scale destructive Soul Tools when they came to assassinate Xu Tianran?

The short, fat, and tall, thin Soul Douluos and Xu Tianran suddenly turned pale when they saw the two Rank 8 fixed-mounted Soul Tool cannonballs in the hands of the assassins.

The short, fat, and tall, thin Soul Douluos immediately dispersed and ran away. They knew too well how terrible the power of this thing was.

Although they supported Xu Tianran, it was impossible for them to support him with their own lives. In the face of a life-and-death crisis, wealth, glory, and resources were all nonsense.

When Xu Tianran saw the two Rank 8 Soul Engineers running away, he was about to burst into a rage.

But before he could open his mouth, two small mushroom clouds resounded through the sky...