As the system began to act.
Lin Yue could clearly sense a terrifying, invisible wave of containment covering the entire Douluo Planet. Centered on him, it swept out in an instant!
There were no earth-shaking booms or dazzling phenomena. Everything happened silently, without a trace.
Star Dou Great Forest, the most central Soul Beast habitat on Douluo Continent, was filled with towering ancient trees and the cries of countless beasts.
Soul Beasts had once been everywhere here. Hundred- and thousand-year Soul Beasts could be seen at every turn, while Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts occupied the core region, their roars shaking the forest and filling it with vitality.
But at this very moment, every beast's roar and insect's chirp abruptly fell silent.
The Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent slithering through the woods, the little deer Soul Beasts drinking by the lake... From Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts down to the lowest-level Soul Beasts that had only just awakened their Soul Power, they all vanished without a trace in the same instant, as if an invisible giant hand had snatched them away.
The once-boisterous forest fell utterly silent, leaving only the rustle of wind through the leaves. It was so eerily empty that not even a hint of a Soul Beast's presence remained.
"What's going on?"
"Where's that Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent?"
"Did it run away?"
Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang and her granddaughter Meng Yiran were confronting the people from Shrek when the dying Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent suddenly disappeared.
Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang immediately turned a suspicious gaze on Zhao Wuji. "Tell me, was this your doing? Where did you hide that Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent?"
"Old woman, what nonsense are you spouting?"
"I should be asking if you did it!"
"What makes you think I had anything to do with it?"
At Chao Tianxiang's accusation, Zhao Wuji immediately sprang up and shouted angrily.
"Even if it wasn't you, then one of those brats behind you did it!"
"Otherwise, how could that Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent have disappeared?"
Seeing that Zhao Wuji didn't look like he was lying, and knowing she'd been watching him the whole time—leaving him no chance to tamper with anything—Chao Tianxiang shifted her gaze to Tang San and the others.
"Senior, look at our cultivation levels. How could we make such a huge Soul Beast disappear without a sound?"
Tang San stepped forward and replied calmly.
"Could that snake have the ability to turn invisible?"
"Maybe it went invisible and ran off while we weren't paying attention?"
Dai Mubai stepped forward as well and offered his theory.
"We should hurry and look for it, or it might really get away!"
Oscar was more anxious than anyone.
Hearing this, Chao Tianxiang came around.
Right now, they should find the Soul Beast first. If it escaped, there was no point in arguing.
So Chao Tianxiang promptly said, "In that case, this old woman will search with you. Once we find it, we can discuss who gets the Soul Beast."
"Fine. Let's find that Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent first!"
Zhao Wuji had no objections.
And so both sides set off together.
There were many others across Douluo Continent who had encountered the same thing as Tang San and his companions.
They had all watched helplessly as the Soul Beasts they were tracking, fighting, or preparing to strike down for their Soul Rings abruptly vanished before their eyes.
Every Soul Master who witnessed it was stunned.
They still didn't know that it wasn't just the Soul Beasts in front of them that had disappeared. Every Soul Beast was gone.
If they had known, they would have been even more devastated.
As the one responsible for all this, Lin Yue didn't need to see it with his own eyes to predict that many Soul Masters would be alarmed when the Soul Beasts disappeared.
He hadn't expected this to happen right in front of the Shrek Seven Devils, too!
But that had nothing to do with him for now, and Lin Yue wasn't paying attention to any of it.
At that moment, his entire mind was immersed in his Containment Space.
The Containment Space was its own world.
The more Soul Beasts it contained, the larger the space became.
Now that Lin Yue had contained every Soul Beast, the entire Containment Shelter had undergone a complete transformation.
Before today, Lin Yue's Containment Space had been nothing more than a forest.
But now?
Not only had the forest grown, but several more forests had appeared, along with countless mountains, plains, lakes, deserts... It now had every kind of terrain.
The largest region was an ocean.
That was because the Sea Soul Beasts made up the largest number of creatures contained.
The Containment Space had truly become its own world—perhaps "world" was the more fitting word. It was about half the size of the entire Douluo Planet!
Immersed in the Containment Space... or rather, the Containment World, as it was more aptly called, Lin Yue could clearly sense everything within it and knew which Soul Beasts he had contained.
The Silver Dragon King was still asleep. The system really was amazing; it had placed her directly in a secluded space so she could continue sleeping.
The Silver Dragon King probably didn't even know she had been contained.
There were also Xiao Wu's two younger brothers, Daming and Erming; the Ferocious Beasts who wouldn't emerge until ten thousand years later; the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King in the ocean; and the Ice and Snow Emperors from the Far North...
Even the low-level Soul Beasts that had only just awakened their Soul Power, with a cultivation of just one year, had all been brought inside.
The most numerous of them were Blue Silver Grass!
"Roar—"
"Who's there?"
"Show yourself!"
"Who brought us Soul Beasts here? Come out..."
"..."
Unlike the low-level Soul Beasts, who only looked around in surprise after being forcibly brought inside before going back to whatever they had been doing, the powerful Soul Beasts immediately sensed something was wrong and grew furious.
Some hid themselves, some roared in anger, and some went berserk. Their reactions varied.
"Holy crap, it really did bring every last one of them in..."
"This is going to make the Soul Master World come crashing down!"
Lin Yue couldn't stop swearing inwardly, his heart surging with excitement.
He really wanted to know how the Soul Master World would react once it discovered that every Soul Beast had disappeared.
It would surely be quite a spectacle.
He didn't respond to the Soul Beasts trying to find the culprit behind it all.
He wasn't about to appear in front of those powerful Soul Beasts. He was no match for them right now.
He had simply used the system's powerful containment ability to bring them all inside at once.
He still needed to think carefully about how to use and tame the Soul Beasts in the Containment Shelter.
[ Ding~ The Containment System has successfully brought every Soul Beast in the world into the Containment Space.]
[ Ding~ None of the Soul Beasts contained by the system this time have been tamed, so they cannot provide feedback to the host. Please tame them yourself!]
The system's notification sounded in Lin Yue's mind once again.
Lin Yue ignored it, then asked directly:
"System, is Blue Silver Emperor Ah Yin in here?"