The audience of Douluo Continent held their breath, captivated by the beautiful scene.
However, just as Wang Ergou's fingers were about to touch the butterfly,
it kept flying gracefully, only giving its wings a gentle flutter.
"Buzz—"
The next second, an almost imperceptible ripple spread out, and Wang Ergou's outstretched arm was severed cleanly in an instant!
But that wasn't all. The seemingly gentle pressure of the wind continued forward.
"Pfft!"
Wang Ergou didn't even have time to scream. The force of the wind sliced him cleanly in half, like a knife through tofu!
Blood instantly stained the grass red.
The butterfly continued to flutter gracefully into the distance, as if it had merely happened to swat a bug while passing by.
[Wang Ergou, deceased!]
[Cause of death: Slain by the airflow from a Void-Rending Demon Butterfly hatchling in flight.]
Utter silence!
Everyone in Douluo Continent was so shocked by what they had just witnessed that their jaws nearly hit the floor.
How old was a butterfly hatchling, anyway? It had just been born, and it had already sliced someone apart?
Sure, Wang Ergou was only a mortal, but this was still unbelievable.
However, before everyone could recover, the second scene began.
[Second perspective: Soul King Meng Li]
Meng Li was a Level 52 Soul King, after all, and his physical abilities far surpassed those of ordinary people.
Though the gravity forced him to hunch over, he could still move.
"Hahaha! That farmer really was useless!"
"The pressure here is immense, but the Spiritual Energy is so dense! I feel like I'm about to break through!"
Meng Li greedily breathed in the air.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
A bright-red fruit hung from a bush not far ahead, giving off an alluring fragrance.
"A heavenly fruit! It has to be a heavenly fruit!"
Overjoyed, Meng Li warily looked around. Only after confirming there were no beasts nearby did he release his Martial Soul and cautiously approach.
If he ate that fruit, he might even become a Titled Douluo!
The next second, he reached out and snatched the red fruit.
"Got it!"
The audience of Douluo Continent stared wide-eyed. He'd gotten it just like that?
But the instant Meng Li plucked the fruit, it suddenly split open, revealing a mouth full of sharp teeth.
"Crunch!"
Meng Li's hand was bitten clean off!
"Ah!!!" Meng Li screamed and tried to retreat.
But that wasn't a fruit at all.
It was the tail lure of a crimson venomous snake, disguised as a plant stem!
The real hunter—a tiny snake no thicker than a pair of chopsticks—was coiled around a branch, coldly watching him.
"Whoosh!"
A flash of red.
Fast!
Far too fast!
It was too quick to leave even an afterimage. Meng Li felt only a chill at his brow as the little snake pierced through his skull and emerged from the back of his head, his brain dangling from its mouth.
A Level 52 Soul King had been killed instantly without even using his first Soul Skill!
[Meng Li, deceased!]
[Cause of death: Eaten by a juvenile Red-Refining Snake.]
After seeing that, everyone in the Douluo World swallowed hard, then looked in unison toward the last of the three.
[Third perspective: Soul Douluo Huyan Zhen]
As the strongest of the three, Huyan Zhen's performance was indeed extraordinary.
"Roar!!!"
The moment he landed and felt the crushing gravity, Huyan Zhen immediately activated his Martial Soul Avatar!
In an instant, the phantom of a massive Diamond Mammoth appeared behind him.
Its terrifying defense let him withstand the gravity and straighten his back!
"Hahahaha!"
Huyan Zhen looked around and burst into raucous laughter.
"See that? That's what I'm capable of!"
"You think this little bit of gravity can crush me?"
He strode through the forest, unaware that he couldn't leave so much as a mark on the ground.
Suddenly, Huyan Zhen stopped. A little black dog was sprawled atop a boulder ahead.
The dog looked no bigger than a palm, with sparse fur. It was lazily basking in the sun, chewing on a bone.
But that wasn't the point. The bone in the dog's mouth was crystalline and translucent, glowing with a faint golden light!
"A Soul Bone?! And judging by its luster, it's a top-grade Soul Bone at least fifty thousand years old!"
Huyan Zhen's eyes turned bloodshot. Greed instantly clouded his mind.
To him, it was just an ordinary stray dog, squandering a treasure like that!
"Beast! Hand over the treasure!"
Huyan Zhen roared as his Eighth Soul Ring suddenly lit up!
"Eighth Soul Skill: Infinite Diamond!"
He held nothing back, unleashing his strongest single-target attack.
He became a massive diamond meteor, barreling toward the little black dog with the force to destroy heaven and earth!
That one blow could shatter a small mountain in the Douluo World!
The audience of Douluo Continent grew excited, too.
"As expected of Sect Master Huyan! What a powerful attack!"
"That dog's done for! The treasure is ours!"
"I knew it! How could our Douluo World be so weak? How could this so-called Perfect World be so strong?"
Yet in the face of this terrifying attack, the little black dog lying on the boulder merely raised its eyelids and glanced at Huyan Zhen.
There was even a trace of humanlike disdain in its eyes.
The next second, the little black dog didn't get up. It simply raised a forepaw and gave Huyan Zhen a casual swat as he charged in, as if shooing away a fly.
"Smack!"
A crisp sound rang out, and the scene seemed to freeze.
Huyan Zhen's Diamond Mammoth Avatar, renowned for its unrivaled defense, was like paper before that tiny paw. It shattered instantly!
Then his Eighth Soul Skill crumbled, followed by his physical body.
"Boom!!"
Huyan Zhen didn't even have time to regret it. The single slap drove him deep into the ground!
Boulders shattered, and the earth split apart.
When the dust settled, the once-mighty sect master of the Elephant Armored Sect had been reduced to a bloody pulp, no longer recognizable as human.
The little black dog merely blew the dust off its paw, then lowered its head and continued chewing on the bone.
It was as if the thing it had just slapped to death really had been nothing more than an annoying fly.
[Huyan Zhen, deceased!]
[Cause of death: Provoked the village gatekeeper (a descendant of the Black Empress Clan's bloodline) and was slapped to death.]
At that moment,
in Heaven Dou City, at Shrek Academy, in Spirit Hall, and across the entire Douluo Continent,
everyone's mouths hung open, their eyes nearly popping out of their heads.
Yu Xiaogang's expression froze. A strange, croaking sound came from his throat, but he couldn't manage a single coherent sentence.
Tang San felt ice-cold all over. A chill shot from the soles of his feet straight to his scalp.
A Level 87 defensive Soul Douluo...
He had activated his Martial Soul Avatar...
And a dog had slapped him into a bloody pulp?!
"So this is the Perfect World?"
Bibi Dong slumped onto her throne. The scepter slipped from her hand and struck the floor with a crisp clink.
Despair.
Profound despair.