Spirit City, Pope Palace.
When the Sky Screen appeared, Bibi Dong was reviewing official documents.
Light spilled in from outside the hall. It was not blinding, yet it illuminated the entire Pope Palace. She set down her papers and walked outside.
The square was already filled with kneeling stewards. Everyone had their heads raised, the same bewilderment written across their faces.
Chrysanthemum Douluo hurried to her side and said in a low voice, "Your Holiness the Pope, there is an anomaly in the sky. It has been confirmed that it can be seen not only in Spirit City, but across the entire continent."
"I can see that," Bibi Dong said.
She stared at the Sky Screen.
It showed a forest. She recognized the Star Dou Great Forest beneath the night sky at a glance. Yet it was not the Star Dou Great Forest she knew.
Countless Soul Beasts exploded at once within the image. Soul Rings rose like fireworks, then went out like candle flames. She saw more than one red Soul Ring. Even those Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts had not been spared.
Bibi Dong said nothing. But Chrysanthemum Douluo saw the fingers hidden in her sleeve slowly curl tight.
"Where is this place?" Bibi Dong asked.
"The Sky Screen says it is a Parallel World," Chrysanthemum Douluo replied cautiously. "Another Douluo Continent."
"Another Douluo Continent," Bibi Dong repeated, with no emotion discernible in her voice.
The scene continued.
Sunset Forest was empty. The Far North Ice Plains were silent. The deep sea lay in endless darkness. Not a single Soul Beast corpse remained; only motes of light left behind by dissipating Soul Rings drifted everywhere like ash.
Then the Soul Power of heaven and earth began to surge. Every Soul Master cultivated amid confusion and alarm, not one of them