Douluo Dalu 3: Legend of the White Fox

"I really want to crack open your head and see what's inside." Gu Yue massaged Xia Yi's temples while looking at his head, unable to stop herself from silently muttering in her heart.

What Xia Yi had just said didn't seem particularly difficult to figure out when he explained it.

But why had no one else thought of it? Why was Xia Yi the only one who did?

With Shrek Academy suffering such a catastrophe, shouldn't Xia Yi be celebrating? How did he still have the mind to think about all this?

More importantly, she had been with Xia Yi for the past few days and had never seen him racking his brain over anything.

"Yue'er!" Xia Yi's sudden call pulled Gu Yue out of her wild thoughts.

"What is it?" Startled by Xia Yi's abrupt shout, Gu Yue's hand instinctively applied more pressure.

She thought Xia Yi had somehow guessed what she was thinking.

Sneaking a glance at Xia Yi and seeing that everything seemed normal, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"How's your battle armor design coming along?" Xia Yi asked.

"I'm not in a hurry, so why are you?" Gu Yue lightly flicked Xia Yi's forehead with a playful but exasperated expression. Then, she wrapped her arms around his neck from behind, her tone turning soft with concern. "You shouldn't push yourself as hard as you have been in forging. What if your body can't handle it and something happens to you? My battle armor can wait until you've fully recovered."

"Hehe, I just want to see how you look in battle armor." Xia Yi chuckled. "Even though it's been exhausting these past few days, my soul power and spiritual power have both improved a lot through forging."

Seeing how imposing Zi Ji looked in her full set of two-word battle armor, Xia Yi was really curious to see what Gu Yue would look like in hers.

Unlike Wu Jin and Yuanen Yehui, who fought with their fists and thus prioritized different armor pieces, Wu Jin's first piece was a right-arm gauntlet, while Gu Yue's was a breastplate.

Wu Jin was currently designing his left-arm gauntlet as his next piece, whereas Gu Yue planned to move straight to the helmet.

If it weren't for the fact that the helmet was the most difficult piece to integrate, Gu Yue would have chosen it first.

The helmet would provide the greatest enhancement for her.

A breastplate was not like a gauntlet. A single piece of divine metal was enough for a gauntlet, but Gu Yue's breastplate required at least three pieces of metal.

She had already designed the blueprint for her breastplate, but she had yet to hand it over to Xia Yi.

She wanted him to take a few days off and fully recover before forging it.

There was no rush, after all.

"Even in training, you shouldn't rush things. Taking steady steps will get you farther." Gu Yue smiled. "Instead of imagining how I'll look in battle armor, why not think about your own?"

Xia Yi's abilities were too scattered and had no clear connection, making it a headache for Gu Yue to design his battle armor.

No matter how she structured it, it was difficult to create something that would enhance all of his abilities at once.

"If there's no better option, then I'll just focus on improving my soul power as much as possible," Xia Yi said seriously.

Gu Yue's breastplate was designed using an alloy of Natural Essence Gold and Dragon Marked Divine Gold.

The main soul circuit inscription would enhance her affinity with elemental power, making it easier for her to use soul skills.

For example, without battle armor, if she wanted to merge three elements at once, she needed time to prepare.

The more elements she merged, the longer the preparation took.

But with the breastplate, she could instantly unleash three-element fusion soul skills.

If she had a full set of one-word battle armor, she could likely cast four-element or even five-element fusion skills instantly.

No matter how her soul skills evolved, as long as she didn't fuse with Na'er, focusing on elemental affinity was the right choice.

Wu Jin's gauntlet, on the other hand, was forged from Extreme Ice Divine Crystal and Starfall Iron, resulting in a platinum-colored, dazzling piece.

The main soul circuit inscription enhanced all of his soul skills, including his self-created techniques.

But Xia Yi's three core abilities—Dou Zhuan Xing Yi (Divine Shift), Hu Nian Zhi Shu (Fox's Mind Technique), and Absolute Zero—had nothing in common.

Trying to enhance all of them at once was nearly impossible, leaving the only viable option as boosting his raw soul power.

"No way! Only support-type soul masters focus entirely on soul power enhancements." Gu Yue rejected the idea without hesitation, her tone filled with defiance. "I will design a battle armor that suits you."

"Take your time with it, then. I'm not in a rush," Xia Yi replied indifferently.

"That's more like it!" Gu Yue finally smiled in satisfaction. But then, her delicate brows furrowed as she asked in a serious tone, "What do you think about the Tang Sect situation?"

Gu Yue was referring to the incident that occurred yesterday morning when a Tang Sect fighter jet suddenly crashed within the North Sea Legion's defensive waters.

Because the waters around Devil's Island were filled with countless berserk sea soul beasts, the North Sea Legion had established a defensive perimeter along the coastline to prevent them from coming ashore.

Yesterday morning, while the entire Douluo Continent was focused on Yun Ming and Leng Yaozhu's wedding, a Tang Sect aircraft unexpectedly appeared over the North Sea.

Due to its radar-jamming device, the North Sea Legion's radar didn't detect it immediately.

It wasn't until the aircraft crashed and its jamming device was damaged that the North Sea Legion realized its presence.

The North Sea fleet quickly rushed to the scene, but they only found a few scattered wreckage pieces and an oil slick on the water.

Based on the Tang Sect insignia and the words "Blue Eagle" on the wreckage, the North Sea Legion identified it as part of the Tang Sect's Blue Eagle series of fighter jets.

The North Sea Legion immediately issued a formal notice and demanded an explanation from the Tang Sect.

However, instead of providing an explanation, the Tang Sect demanded that the North Sea Legion hand over the people aboard the aircraft.

According to the Tang Sect, the fighter jet had carried a total of ten sect members:

One Super Douluo Four Titled Douluos One Soul Douluo Two Pilots Two Maintenance personnel

With such a formidable lineup, they should have been able to escape even if the jet was downed.

Yet, not a single one had returned alive.

The Tang Sect believed that the North Sea Legion had shot down the jet and detained its members.

They were particularly anxious because the ten missing sect members had all come from the Tang Sect's Heaven Dou City Branch.

Losing so many high-level members at once meant that half of the branch's core strength had been wiped out.

Even worse, the Super Douluo aboard was none other than Zhao Xiongyi, the head of the Heaven Dou City Branch's Battle Soul Hall.

Other people might not know, but the Tang Sect was well aware of Zhao Xiongyi's true identity—he was the one overseeing the Tang Sect's underground weapons factory in Heaven Dou City.

The moment they heard of Zhao Xiongyi's disappearance, the Amorous Douluo panicked and immediately contacted Ruthless Douluo Cao Dezhi, who was stationed at the Blood God Legion.

Before Yun Ming and the Shrek Academy elders even left to attend the wedding at Spirit Pagoda, the Tang Sect had already begun making moves, using the Blood God Legion to pressure the Federation government into forcing the North Sea Legion to hand over Zhao Xiongyi and the others.

(End of Chapter)