The Sky Curtain, Emerald Swan

This is a world of fantasy. There is no magic, no battle qi, and no martial arts; there are only miraculous martial souls.

Everyone here undergoes a martial soul awakening at the Martial Soul Hall when they turn six. Martial souls can be animals, plants, or objects, and they can assist people in their daily lives. Some particularly outstanding martial souls can be used for cultivation and combat. This profession is the most powerful and glorious on the Douluo Continent—the Spirit Master!

At this moment, inside the Pope's Palace in Martial Soul City.

Hundreds of children who had reached the age of six were lined up under the guidance of various deacons, waiting for the Spirit Masters at the front to awaken their martial souls.

These children were orphans from within a two-hundred-mile radius of Martial Soul City. They typically lived in the Mercy Orphanage established by the Martial Soul Hall, and upon turning six, they were brought to Martial Soul City to awaken their martial souls within the Pope's Palace.

On a high platform with nineteen steps, Pope Bibi Dong sat upon her throne. She wore a purple-gold gown of extreme magnificence, layered and folded to outline her slender and proud curves. She wore the Nine-Curved Purple Gold Crown and held a scepter inlaid with a massive gemstone; her face was so perfect it did not seem mortal.

Her skin was fairer than snow, her lips were a faint cherry pink, and her violet eyes, which should have been romantic and mysterious, were instead like two bottomless, frigid pools.

I wonder if one or two geniuses worth looking at will appear among these brats this year? Bibi Dong thought as she looked down at the hundreds of children below.

"BOOM!"

Just then, a deafening roar suddenly erupted from the sky outside.

The expressions of everyone in the hall changed instantly. An enemy attack? Who could be so bold?

"SWISH!" Bibi Dong reacted instinctively, rising immediately and shooting out while gripping her scepter.

At the same time, two figures followed her out of the main hall.

Ghost Douluo Gui Mei.

Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan.

Both were elders of the Martial Soul Hall, their spirit power having reached level ninety-five. They were the two most active Title Douluos of the Martial Soul Hall.

The three arrived outside the hall together, each activating their martial souls and circulating their spirit power, their faces filled with caution. However, when they looked up at the sky, the caution on their faces instantly froze, replaced by intense disbelief.

"This... how is this possible?" Bibi Dong's brows furrowed, her lips parted slightly as she murmured.

The same scene was unfolding elsewhere.

In the imperial palace of Heaven Dou City.

Emperor Xue Ye was followed by Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, Prince Xue Xing, and Prince Xue Beng. All four looked up at the sky, their expressions trembling violently.

"Is this... a divine miracle?" Emperor Xue Ye's voice trembled.

Meanwhile, at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi was also looking up at the sky with Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.

The Clear Sky Sect.

Major sects, clans... and Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and the others at Shrek Academy, located on the outskirts of Suotuo City, all wore strange expressions as they cast their gazes toward the firmament.

The sky, which had been as clear as crystal, was being rapidly swallowed by ink-black clouds. Gale winds roared across the land, shaking great trees and causing the doors and windows of buildings to rattle. A heart-palpitating sense of oppression descended, as if the end of the world were at hand.

This state of the firmament lasted for about five or six breaths before it suddenly changed drastically!

"HUM~" A buzzing sound resonated across the continent. A seven-colored radiance emerged from the center of the firmament, spreading rapidly. Moments later, it drove away the dark clouds and shrouded the entire sky in their place.

A giant screen spanning the horizon unfolded.

Bibi Dong tightened her grip on her scepter, her brows furrowing even deeper. This was definitely not a human feat! Could it be... the work of some god?

At Shrek Academy, Tang San, who was practicing the Mysterious Heaven Skill, also furrowed his brows.

An omen in the sky—was it an opportunity or a danger?

Every force on the continent, regardless of their stance or strength, had become a tiny spectator beneath this "sky screen."

Astonishment, fear, greed, awe... countless emotions sprouted and spread in every corner.

Amidst this complex surge of emotions from all living beings, the screen suddenly turned dark, plunging the entire continent into pitch-blackness. Then, it flashed brightly, the piercing light causing everyone to squint instinctively.

Once their vision adjusted, everyone's gaze was as if caught by a magnet, unable to move even a fraction away from the miraculous image!

[Inside a majestic palace, a frail, young body knelt helplessly on the ground.

An angry shout erupted from the steps.

"You bold, rebellious son! How dare you show disrespect to this King, how dare you slander your mother for wanting to harm you.

Your mother is from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and is your stepmother. If she truly wanted to kill you, she only needed to tell this King, and this King would have granted it. Why would she need to use such filthy methods?

Rebellious son, this King does not have an unfilial son like you! Pass the order: strip Xue Hen of his status as a prince and drive him out of the Balaque Kingdom. Let him fend for himself!"]

[Subsequently, the scene shifted.

The young body was escorted out of Balaque City by soldiers in an ox cart, then escorted out of the entire Balaque Kingdom, arriving at a small city called Nuoding City within the Fasinuo Province.

The soldiers who escorted the boy left after dropping him off in the city. The boy was alone and helpless, wandering the streets, until he fortunately encountered Deacon Su Yuntao of the local spirit branch, who took him to live in the Mercy Orphanage established by the Martial Soul Hall in Nuoding City, finally giving him a place to stay.]

Bibi Dong's brows furrowed.

She asked the Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo beside her, "Tell me, what exactly is this? A charm-type soul... divine skill?"

"Your Excellency, it seems that fifteen years ago, King Kundera of the Balaque Kingdom did indeed order his youngest son to be demoted to a commoner and expelled from the country," Chrysanthemum Douluo suddenly recalled, bowing to answer Bibi Dong.

"Fifteen years ago?" Hearing this, Bibi Dong was stunned, then immediately looked up at the sky again.

Those images just now... were they things that actually happened fifteen years ago?!

Inside the Balaque royal palace.

King Kundera was holding his favorite concubine, Ning Pianpian, as he looked up at the sky, his entire being lost in a daze.

"Isn't this... what happened back then? How... could this thing possibly display events from the past?" Kundera muttered.

Hearing the man's murmurs beside her, Ning Pianpian suddenly felt a wave of panic.

She was a distant cousin of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Master, Ning Fengzhi. Relying on this status and her own striking beauty, she had firmly captured Kundera's heart, doing as she pleased within the Balaque Kingdom's harem. She had framed the Queen to her death and sought to eliminate all princes not born of her own womb, ensuring that her own son, the sixth prince Xue Tian, could inherit the throne in the future without any obstacles.

Now that such an image capable of displaying past events had appeared in the sky, what would she do if everything she had done were to be revealed?

Ning Pianpian was deeply worried.

Fortunately, the thing she feared did not come to pass, and the image shifted once more.

[Inside the Nuoding City Spirit Hall branch.

A young boy named Xue Hen had reached the age of six, and the branch head, Ma Xiunuo, was personally awakening the spirits for nine youths, including him.

In the end, the eight youths before him awakened spirits that were either gloves, wooden boards, or even Blue Silver Grass—all trash spirits without exception. Only he awakened a snow-white swan, but wait!

The moment this snow-white swan spirit was released, it underwent a mutation; its entire body began to shift from white to cyan, erupting with a dazzling emerald radiance.

This is...

The Emerald Swan spirit?!]