The sudden collapse of the palace's defense formation caused those fighting on the outside to panic instantly.
Their mission is to defend the palace, but now that the palace's defense line has collapsed, they don't know what to do.
Should we continue to stick to the defense line, or retreat to the palace to resist?
Because they are Qin Wangjun from various places, they actually do not have a complete organization.
Instead, they each held a defensive area, and the ninth-level soul masters in the palace helped them block attacks from Titled Douluo and above, allowing them to deal with the large forces of the Holy Spirit Sect with peace of mind.
But now everything is useless, the palace defense formation has been breached.
The ninth-level soul masters had too much time to take care of themselves. How could they, without their great formation, block the Holy Spirit Sect's titled Douluo whose number was several times greater than theirs?
Therefore, as long as a few Titled Douluo free their hands and enter the defense line they maintain, their death toll will increase instantly.
Continuing to hold on is just meaningless persistence.
How could the palace defense array suddenly collapse?
There was no warning at all?
Huo Yuhao, who was on the defensive line, had no energy to investigate what was going on because his current situation was precarious.
"Everyone, don't be confused. The battlefield situation has appeared in your minds. Now it is up to me to command and retreat into the palace in an orderly manner. Once the defense line collapses, no one will survive! You have personally experienced the methods of the evil soul master!"
After realizing the current situation, Huo Yuhao only took a few seconds to immediately choose to maximize his value.
He used mental sharing to directly connect all the perimeter defenders, acting as a temporary commander.
As Huo Yuhao said, when the two armies collapse and retreat when the battle is getting intense, very few people will survive.
But if they retreat in an orderly manner, even if their defeat has been revealed, most of them will survive.
Perhaps they were shocked by the sudden appearance of a clear map in their own spiritual sea, or Huo Yuhao brought out the fear of evil soul masters. They really stabilized the situation that was about to completely collapse.
The battlefield situation is clearly visible. Even if King Qin's army wants to retreat, they will not wander around like headless flies.
At the very least, they would spend some energy planning a good retreat route for themselves based on the detailed map that appeared in their minds.
But before that, they must stabilize the situation in front of them before they have room to escape.
Anyway, Huo Yuhao's goal was achieved.
He didn't care what these people thought. Huo Yuhao calmly issued orders one by one, allowing King Qin's army to retreat to the imperial city slowly and orderly.
On the way back, there would be casualties from time to time, but in general, Huo Yuhao allowed most of them to return to the imperial city safely.
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Time goes back to before the defensive formation was broken.
Xu Tianran told Orange on the way to inform his people to destroy the defense. Xu Tianran did not want to wait any longer.
The palace was emptier than ever before. This was the best time. The only problem was that Emperor Ming seemed to know that there was a traitor in the court, so not only did he not receive any news.
Moreover, Emperor Ming placed all his ministers above the court and did not allow anyone to interfere with the defense.
This was not spying on them, and Xu Tianran couldn't find any reasonable reason.
Things will change later. Xu Tianran has already achieved this step. Now he has no hesitation. Even if he takes the risk of being exposed, he will destroy the defense and take control of the Sun and Moon Empire as soon as possible.
Like Xu Tianran, at this point, Orange has no way out. She must help Xu Tianran wholeheartedly.
The Sun and Moon Palace was very large, divided into two cities: the inner and outer cities. The inner city was where the daily court meetings were held, and the outer city was the defensive front line of the palace formation.
Of course, it is impossible for the defensive formation to wrap around the imperial city without leaving any strategic space, so the reach of the defensive formation is actually much farther.
King Qin's army and Mingdu's defense forces fought within the tentacles.
The people who control the formation are above the imperial city.
One is within reach of the outside of the formation, and the other is completely within the formation, controlling the formation.
The palace's defensive array is maintained by senior soul masters every year. It just so happens that after Xu Tianran was completely paralyzed, he spent the most time maintaining the palace array.
Emperor Ming was still in good health at that time, and he was also very sad that his son suffered such a catastrophe. After all, Xu Tianran was deeply in his heart, and he was very satisfied with both his character and ability.
But Xu Tianran happened to suffer this disaster.
Emperor Ming had always regretted that he had not protected his son, but what had happened had happened and there was nothing he could do.
Xu Tianran was depressed for a long time at that time. Maintaining the palace's defensive formation was the only thing he was interested in after he first walked out of the room.
Maintaining the formation does require a lot of energy and concentration. Emperor Ming thought Xu Tianran used this as a way to vent his suppressed emotions, so he let him go.
Later, Xu Tianran regained his usual confidence, and Emperor Ming was happy for a long time. He left many affairs in the court to Xu Tianran, without revoking Xu Tianran's status as prince.
After Xu Tianran regained control of the crown prince's authority, he still did not give up his responsibility of maintaining the formation.
Emperor Ming had no doubt about this. Since Xu Tianran regained his confidence after being exposed to this matter, Emperor Ming would naturally not place any restrictions on him in this matter.
Xu Tianran can maintain it if he likes it. Anyway, he can have others do it again later.
It is precisely because of this experience that Xu Tianran has made a deep study of defensive formations. He knows very well where the core of the formation is, where it is weak, and where the attack can most effectively kill the formation.
Xu Tianran was very smart. He knew that it was impossible to do anything with the palace's defensive formation, so he was not stupid enough to do anything during maintenance.
Once you have mastered the weaknesses of the formation, it is not that difficult to break the formation from the inside.
Therefore, Xu Tianran's men immediately identified the fatal point of the formation.
There is a ninth-level soul master guarding here, but he is also fighting at the same time and does not focus all his energy on guarding the formation.
Now that we are short of manpower, how could he just sit back and watch.
Anyway, the imperial city was full of his own people, so how could he be attacked by someone when he was protected by a large formation.
But what he didn't expect was that the attack did come from behind him.
There are many trigger-type soul guides for ninth-level soul masters, and generally speaking, it is impossible for them to be killed by one blow.
But he did fall into trouble today. Xu Tianran's men were not ordinary people.
After he killed the ninth-level soul master who controlled this key node, he quickly broke through the entire defensive formation according to the tips Xu Tianran told him, and the previous scene appeared.
After doing all this, he went into hiding again, just like he silently sneaked behind the ninth-level soul master without alerting him.
This man is a top killer.
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Because the palace's defense collapsed suddenly, even the evil soul masters of the Holy Spirit Sect did not react at first, giving Huo Yuhao time to stabilize his army's morale and retreat calmly.
Xu Tianran acted very suddenly without notifying anyone, so not to mention the miscellaneous soldiers like them, even the evil soul masters above the title Douluo who had been desperately attacking the defensive formation did not react.
After they reacted, they had no time to worry about the soldiers below, so they rushed in and chopped up the old emperor.
After all, killing a few miscellaneous soldiers can have more merit than killing Emperor Ming first?
They can clearly distinguish what is light and what is serious.
Huo Yuhao, who returned to the imperial city, finally had a chance to breathe. Having a solid imperial city as a foothold could at least alleviate the anxiety of King Qin's army.
The imperial palace cannot be defended now, but they have to fight desperately if they want to survive. The imperial city should be able to defend it for at least a while.
"Yuhao, what should we do now?"
The teammates who had been staying in the imperial city to recover were anxious when they saw that Huo Yuhao had returned here safely, and hurried forward to ask.
They saw with their own eyes the sudden shattering of the formation, and did not see any extraordinary attacks.
Now that the palace is breached, the situation is extremely critical.
If you want to live, you must make a choice now.
"It must have been done by a high-level traitor. He didn't know what means he used to break the palace's defenses. He must be inside."
Huo Yuhao quickly analyzed the current situation.
Huo Yuhao has not made a decision yet. Although the situation has become like this, there is still the last line of defense in the inner city of the imperial city, which can at least withstand attacks for a while.
However, the defense of the inner city is not as strong as that of the entire imperial city, and the time it can last is very limited, so today's outcome is already doomed.
"The abominable traitor actually united with the evil soul master to besiege the palace. Now the palace is completely lost. We may be able to escape, but Ming doesn't know what kind of hell we will fall into."
Huo Yuhao's words made Xiao Hongchen's eyes turn red instantly, even though he had already known that there was a traitor in the empire.
But now that the palace was lost, he finally understood that the Sun and Moon Empire he represented had lost because of this traitor. He had never thought that the Sun and Moon Empire would lose before.
Mingdu was about to be under the rule of the evil soul master, and Xiao Hongchen didn't dare to think about what would happen here.
"None of us can stop what will happen in Ming Dynasty. If Emperor Ming makes no arrangements in the palace, then the outcome of this battle will have been declared a failure."
"But that doesn't mean we don't have a chance to make a comeback."
Huo Yuhao said very calmly.
"Yuhao, what did you say?"
Xiao Hongchen seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, staring at Huo Yuhao, expecting him to create a miracle and save Mingdu.
"His Majesty has arranged such a small number of guards around himself, which shows that there are many forces to pursue the Douluo coalition. We will break out to find them now and combine the power of the three major soul master groups to return to Mingdu."
"It is difficult for the Holy Spirit Sect to completely control Mingdu in such a short period of time. We will still have a chance to take back Mingdu by then."
Huo Yuhao expressed his thoughts.
This means that they gave up the imperial city and the Ming emperor.
But even if that's not the case, what can they do on such a battlefield? If a Super Douluo comes randomly, without the protection of a large formation, they will be unable to fight with him.
Moreover, it is impossible for one or two Super Douluo to change the current situation.
Unless a team of soul engineers comes back, it will be possible to defeat the Holy Spirit Sect with the remaining power of the Imperial City.
However, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the frontline war, Emperor Ming sent out all three major soul mentor groups.
Otherwise, Xu Tianran would not choose to take action now.
After Huo Yuhao finished speaking his thoughts, he didn't say anything anymore. He didn't need to worry about Emperor Xue and Wang Qiu'er because they were originally outsiders in Mingdu.
If it weren't for him, these two people might not have even set foot in Mingdu in their lives. Their feelings for this city are not to the point where they can't give up. Moreover, this is not giving up completely, but breaking out to find reinforcements and return the favor. Will be back.
So the main thing is whether the Hongchen brother and sister will accept his suggestion, give up defense, and temporarily give up Mingdu to the evil soul master.
The war has once again entered a brief stalemate here in the Imperial City, but everyone knows that evenly matched enemies cannot last forever, and it is only a matter of time before the Imperial City defenders are destroyed.
Breaking through the encirclement required some preparation, so Huo Yuhao did not urge them anymore and gave the two of them some time to make a choice.
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The sun and the moon are in the court.
After the imperial city's defensive formation was defeated, the court fell into complete chaos.
This is the first time that the imperial city has been breached since its establishment. Even the holy war between the Sun and Moon Continent and the Douluo Continent ended with the failure of the Sun and Moon Empire. Mingdu has never been in such a critical situation.
All the troops and high-level forces in Mingdu have been devoted to the task of guarding the imperial city, but they were still captured.
Now it is only a matter of time before the evil soul master reaches where they are standing. How can they not panic? The enemy is the evil soul master, a group of people who kill without blinking an eye.
There should be no such thing as prisoners among evil soul masters, right?
But Emperor Ming still looked calm, as if the evil soul master outside didn't exist.
"Quiet!"
The majesty of Emperor Ming sitting on the throne still calmed down the chaos among the ministers.
This man's confidence, which he didn't know where to come from, gave everyone a shot in the arm.
After all, the palace's peripheral defense was arranged by His Majesty. Could he have a back-up plan?
All the ministers looked at Emperor Ming with hopeful eyes.
Xu Tianran, who had just commanded his subordinates who were loyal to him to destroy the defensive formation, was very worried. Could it be that his father really had a back-up plan and he had been testing himself before?
With Emperor Ming's great talent and strategy, this was not impossible.
If this is the case, then his risky move may have been discovered by his father. Is he waiting for me to apologize?
Emperor Ming's majesty burst out now, and Xu Tianran couldn't help but think wildly.
There was no way. In the past, he could act arbitrarily only because Emperor Ming, the tiger, was sick and his ambitions began to emerge.
But in recent years, his father has always been so strong, and Xu Tianran's inner conflict became more and more serious day by day.
He wants to sit on the throne.
But his father's health suddenly improved, so he had to risk rebellion if he wanted to be the emperor.
But also because of his father's majesty, Xu Tianran was afraid of everything. He had always been afraid that his wise and powerful father would discover his little actions.
Therefore, in the past few years, he did not dare to continue to develop at all, and only dared to continue to contact the allies he had attracted before.
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(End of chapter)
