Little One, Watch Closely, Your Master Will Scout Ahead!

Yu Xiaogang, shrouded in golden light, felt utterly triumphant at this moment.

He slowly looked around, his gaze sweeping over those who had once looked down on him, before finally resting on Tang San. He gave a slight nod, assuming the dignified air of a master.

"San, watch closely."

"This time, your master is heading to a higher-dimensional world to pave the way for you."

"There are no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters."

"Even in that so-called Battle Through the Heavens World, I will prove with facts that wisdom is the most powerful force of all!"

After speaking, he even reached out toward the sky, his face filled with confidence and arrogance.

At this moment, countless people across the entire continent were watching him.

Some were expectant, some were jealous, and others wore complex expressions.

"Xiaogang..." Bibi Dong watched the familiar yet strange figure in the light screen, her heart clenching as she whispered to herself, "That world is likely not as simple as you think."

[Personnel selection complete!]

[Teleportation initiated!]

The sky screen descended as quickly as it had appeared, leaving no time for reaction. Following a violent distortion of space, the five individuals enveloped in golden light vanished into thin air.

Immediately after, the images on the screen shifted, splitting into five independent perspectives to begin a live broadcast of their encounters in the Battle Through the Heavens plane.

In an instant, everyone across the Douluo Continent held their breath.

They were desperate to know what this higher-dimensional world, which had made the Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang so brimming with confidence, actually looked like!

Above the Douluo plane, in the firmament.

The spatial ripples caused by the teleportation gradually subsided, and the five massive split-screen feeds finally became crystal clear, revealing even the dust floating in the air with perfect clarity.

Thus, countless eyes across the continent remained glued to these first-hand images transmitted from the higher-dimensional world.

Even before the exploration had truly begun, the environment displayed in the background was enough to plunge the entire Douluo Continent into a deathly silence.

Then, a collective gasp of shock erupted.

The screen showed a vast, primeval forest with towering ancient trees, each so thick it resembled a city wall, their canopies piercing the clouds and blotting out the sun.

Most shocking of all was the faint, visible mist drifting through the air.

It was not water vapor, but spiritual energy so concentrated that it had liquefied!

"Hiss, is this a fairyland?"

"Even through the screen, I can feel that terrifying energy making my martial soul tremble!"

Meanwhile, on the light screen, Perspective One.

Heaven Dou Empire villager, Wang Er Mazi.

Wang Er Mazi was currently lying in a bush, trembling all over.

But he soon stopped shaking, for he caught the scent of an exotic fragrance.

He looked up and saw, beside an unremarkable weed in front of him, a fruit that was entirely bright red, resembling a ruby.

Though only the size of a thumb, it radiated an alluring luster.

"Gulp..."

Wang Er Mazi swallowed hard. Recalling the sky screen's earlier mention of longevity treasures being found everywhere, he was suddenly emboldened by greed. He snatched the fruit and shoved it into his mouth, dirt and all.

"Is that a Vermilion Fruit? No, the quality is even better than a thousand-year Vermilion Fruit!"

Inside the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, Dugu Bo, who had been intently watching the broadcast, suddenly widened his green eyes and exclaimed.

However, the next second, Wang Er Mazi's eyes bulged, and his skin instantly turned as red as a branding iron.

"Ah! Hot, so hot!!"

Following that, he let out a shrill, miserable scream, his entire body swelling rapidly like an inflated balloon.

"Bang!"

Only a few seconds later, Wang Er Mazi was blown into a mist of blood with a dull thud, not even leaving behind a complete corpse.

Wang Er Mazi, deceased!

Less than three minutes after landing, the first explorer had died from a ruptured body due to his greed for a single fruit!

Meanwhile, on the Douluo Continent.

Inside the main hall of the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, the atmosphere was heavy.

Emperor Xue Ye, whose face had been flushed with excitement just moments before, turned deathly pale at the sight. He gripped his armrests so tightly that his knuckles turned blue.

"It... it exploded?"

"Just a single fruit? It could make a person explode?"

At this moment, Emperor Xue Ye's voice was trembling. "Just what kind of terrifying medicinal power is this? If it could be diluted a hundredfold for Us to consume, wouldn't it truly be able to extend Our life by a hundred years?"

Hearing this, Dugu Bo, the Poison Douluo, who was standing to the side, also wore a grave expression, his eyes—usually filled with gloom—now brimming with shock.

"Your Majesty, that fruit placed before us is likely a ten-thousand-year-level immortal herb... no, perhaps even stronger!"

"That ordinary person had no soul power to guide it and simply couldn't withstand such overbearing energy. It seems that while this higher-dimensional world is filled with treasures, it is also filled with death warrants!"

Meanwhile, over at Spirit Hall.

Inside the Pope's Palace, Bibi Dong, who had been sitting majestically, stood up abruptly the moment she saw that mist of blood explode, her scepter nearly crushed in her grip.

Following that, her stunningly beautiful face turned deathly pale.

"How could it be like this? Is the energy of that world truly so overbearing?"

As this thought crossed her mind, Bibi Dong's gaze locked firmly onto the fifth screen, onto Yu Xiaogang.

"Xiaogang, you only have twenty-nine levels of soul power. If you were to accidentally consume something like this..."

She dared not think any further. Although she claimed to the outside world that she would destroy everything, and even appeared cold and heartless toward Yu Xiaogang, the obsession and love deep within her heart had never dissipated.

"Elder Chrysanthemum! Elder Ghost!"

"Watch Yu Xiaogang's screen for This Seat! If there are any changes, notify This Seat immediately!"

Even though she knew she could not interfere across planes, this heart-wrenching feeling made it impossible for her to sit still.

"Damn it, why were you chosen! With your meager strength, isn't going there just throwing your life away!" Watching Yu Xiaogang on the light screen, Bibi Dong bit her red lip, her fingernails digging into her palms.

The scene shifted, then quickly turned to another glowing live-stream screen; it was Cuihua, the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Heaven Dou City.

Cuihua's luck seemed quite poor; she had not descended into an uninhabited forest, but had landed directly beside a dusty mountain road.

Before she could even react, a burst of noisy hoofbeats and boisterous laughter reached her.

"Whoa—"

"Look, Big Brother, there's a woman here!"

At this moment, seven or eight burly men wearing beast-hide armor and sporting scarred faces rode on creatures that looked like horses but were not—unicorns—instantly surrounding Cuihua.

These people exuded a fierce, bloody aura, and each of their fists was wrapped in a faint, pale yellow glow—the manifestation of Dou Qi.

"Yo? Soft skin and tender flesh, and the clothes she's wearing are quite strange, too."