An Unexpected System Binding; a Light Screen Strikes Douluo! Tang San: This Isn't Our World!

Every corner of the Douluo Continent—whether bustling cities, Soul Beast forests rarely visited by humans, or the lofty Divine Realm—saw the same thing at the same moment: a giant Light Screen covering the entire sky.

Silence. A deathly silence.

Then came an uproar that shook the heavens.

"'Mijia Universe'? What's that? Some powerful Soul Beast clan?"

"Spanning countless worlds? Are there other worlds besides our Douluo Continent?"

"Supreme rewards from beyond the myriad worlds, bestowed by the Light Screen itself! Good heavens! Could this be... a divine miracle?"

Countless questions and waves of shock erupted in every corner of the continent.

Shrek Academy, Sea God Pavilion.

"This is impossible!" Xuan Zi, an old man who usually spent his days dozing, now stared wide-eyed, his cloudy eyes filled with disbelief.

Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, Tang Ya, He Caitou, Xu Sanshi, Xiao Xiao, and the others had gathered in the pavilion. Shock was written across every face.

"Yuhao, can your Spiritual Eye see through the nature of this Light Screen?" Bei Bei furrowed his brow. As the leader of the new generation of Shrek Seven Devils, he instinctively sensed an unprecedented threat.

Huo Yuhao activated his Spiritual Eye. The ultimate ice and spiritual power intertwined as he tried to probe the Light Screen's secrets. Yet his spiritual power was like a stone sinking into the sea. The moment it touched the screen, it vanished without a trace, not stirring the slightest ripple.

"No," Huo Yuhao said, shaking his head. His face had grown somewhat pale. "The level of this Light Screen... is far beyond anything I can comprehend. My spiritual power can't penetrate it. I can't even sense the slightest thing about it."

"Even Yuhao's ultimate spiritual power is useless?" He Caitou sucked in a sharp breath, unconsciously rubbing his Cigar Soul Tool. "Th-this can't be some kind of super Soul Tool Technology creation, can it? But even a Rank 9 Soul Master from the Sun Moon Empire couldn't possibly make something that covers the entire continent!"

"What nonsense is this 'Mijia Universe'? It's all just smoke and mirrors!" Xu Sanshi pursed his lips, trying to mask his unease with his usual irreverence. "Why don't you come down here and fight me, then? Let's see if my Black Tortoise Shell can take you!"

But no one paid any attention to his taunts.

Worry filled Tang Ya's eyes as she clasped Bei Bei's hand tightly. "Is the appearance of this thing a blessing or a disaster for us?"

No one could answer her.

"The myriad worlds... the strongest experts..." Xiao Xiao murmured to herself, thinking of her Three-Life Soul-Suppressing Cauldron. "Could there really be beings stronger than Titled Douluo, stronger than Limit Douluo, even stronger than gods...?"

The question weighed on everyone's hearts like a massive boulder.

Meanwhile, far away in the Divine Realm.

This was the end point of the Douluo Continent's plane, the home of all the Deities. Yet now, the five God Kings of the God Realm Committee were just as shocked as everyone else.

"This is impossible!" God of Goodness Lieyan, a goddess usually as gentle as water, was now visibly shaken. "What could possibly... project an image directly into the Divine Realm?"

God of Evil Jidong stood beside her, his face dark. He could sense a Law within the Light Screen that he couldn't begin to understand—a supreme Rule that surpassed the Laws of the Divine Realm.

The Goddess of Life's eyes glowed green, but she could only shake her head helplessly. "I can't sense any fluctuations in Divine Power, nor can I trace its source."

God of Destruction furrowed his brow, his purple eyes flickering with violent destructive intent, but he didn't dare act rashly. He had a feeling that if his destructive Divine Power touched the Light Screen, it would be annihilated instantly.

"Tang San, what do you think?"

Everyone's gaze turned to Tang San, head of the God Realm Committee and the holder of both the Sea God and Asura God positions.

Tang San's expression was graver than ever.

His Divine Sense was the strongest in the entire Divine Realm. He could even briefly venture into the turbulent flow of space and time. But just now, the instant his Divine Sense touched the Light Screen, he had felt an immense force he couldn't resist.

It wasn't an overwhelming force on the level of energy. It was... a suppression of dimensions.

It was like a creature in a two-dimensional world, forever unable to understand the height of a three-dimensional one.

"This Light Screen... doesn't belong to any world we know." Tang San's voice was hoarse. "What it says about 'the myriad worlds above us'... may well be true."

"What?!"

At his words, all the gods were shocked.

Even God of Cookery Rong Nianbing, who was known throughout the Divine Realm for his culinary skills and usually took everything lightly, lost his smile.

"Old Tang, are you saying there are beings of an even higher order above our Divine Realm?"

Tang San didn't answer, but his silence was an answer in itself.

The Divine Realm wasn't the pinnacle.

That realization struck like a magnitude-twelve earthquake, overturning the worldview of every Deity. They were the ultimate destination of all who cultivated, supreme beings in the eyes of mortals. But now, a voice was telling them that they were merely standing on a slightly higher step.

"Interesting. This is so interesting!" Zhou Weiqing, the Heavenly Bead Master who had inherited the God of Devastation's position, had excitement shining in his eyes. "'Mijia Universe'? The strongest experts? I want to see just how powerful someone has to be to earn the title 'strongest'!"

On the eastern coast of the Douluo Continent.

Tang Wulin and Gu Yuena stood side by side, gazing up at the sky.

Golden Dragon Marks flickered beneath Tang Wulin's skin. He could clearly feel that when faced with the Light Screen, the Golden Dragon King Bloodline within him had begun to... tremble.

It wasn't fear, but an instinctive reaction to encountering a higher form of life.

"Na'er, do you feel it?" Tang Wulin's voice was low.

Gu Yuena's silver hair fluttered in the sea breeze. Her purple eyes held bewilderment and shock unlike anything she had ever felt.

As the Silver Dragon King, she had inherited the Dragon God's Authority over the elements, as well as some of his broken memories. In those fragments, she had once vaguely seen the Dragon God gazing up at the stars, unwilling to accept his lot.

Could what the Dragon God had gazed up at back then have been these so-called "myriad worlds"?

"I can feel... the presence of 'worlds.'" Gu Yuena's voice was distant. "So many different worlds. Their auras are intertwined, forming this... 'Mijia Universe.'"

Her understanding was closer to the truth than anyone else on the continent.

"Taking stock of worldviews, power systems, the strongest experts..." Tang Wulin repeated the words on the Light Screen, his fighting spirit rising. "If all of this is true, then it might be an opportunity for us."

An opportunity to learn the truth about the world, an unprecedented chance for the Soul Beasts to... truly rise again!