Mountains and Rivers Diagram Appears, the Sky Screen Descends!

In the depths of the sea, ten thousand fathoms down, all was dead and dark. Almost no creature could reach this place.

Even Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts rarely made it this far, for fear of being torn apart by the crushing water pressure—or used as speed bumps by some indescribable creature.

Yet in this deep sea, where scarcely a beast had ever ventured, an immense body floated silently.

The creature was so vast that neither head nor tail could be seen. No one knew how broad its back was. Mountains and plains, rivers and lakes, forests and houses all rested upon it, forming the Northern Underworld Continent.

Suddenly, a deep-blue eye slowly opened, lighting up the pitch-black waters around it.

The immense power of the golden scroll above had awakened Bei Mingyuan.

"Now that was a deep sleep."

Bei Mingyuan slowly swayed his tail and let out a soft breath.

In an instant, the surrounding seawater surged. His enormous body set the ocean in motion, brewing tsunamis and undercurrents.

But in the blink of an eye, the sea grew calm again, as though nothing had happened.

That was Bei Mingyuan's power. If he could not manage even this much, he would be a sorry excuse for a newly ascended God King.

Otherwise, a casual movement could overturn the continent, and every living being on his back would meet a watery grave.

"It's been so long... I've actually reached the God King Realm?"

Bei Mingyuan was clearly pleased. Rising from First-Level God to the God King Realm after sleeping for only a few tens of thousands of years was remarkably fast.

He had the Evolution System within him to thank for that.

[Ding! The host has awakened. Beginning periodic summary report.]

Hearing this, Bei Mingyuan listened closely to the system's report.

[It has been 35,333 years since the last report. Congratulations, host, on completing your evolution!]

[Current realm: God King Realm!]

[Current stage: Juvenile.]

[Innate Super Divine Artifact: Northern Underworld Pearl.]

[Congratulations, host, on comprehending the Space Law, Wind Law, and Water Law.]

"Oh?"

At the last line, Bei Mingyuan's eyes brightened. He had comprehended three laws in all. Though he had only scratched their surface, they would bring him endless benefits.

After thirty thousand years, he had finally risen from First-Level God to the God King Realm. It had not been easy.

"System, open my personal status panel."

[Host: Bei Mingyuan]

[True form: Kunpeng (innate divine bird from the dawn of the Primordial World)]

[Realm: God King Realm.]

[Growth stage: Juvenile (early).]

[Power of laws:

Space Law: Devour All Things, Swallow Heaven, Swallow Earth, Swallow the Stars.]

[Water Law: Northern Underworld Water, Dissolve All Things.]

[Wind Law: Roc's Wingbeat, Rend the Heavens, Beyond All Rivals.]

[Super Divine Artifacts: Northern Underworld Pearl, Demon Master Sword.]

Bei Mingyuan looked over the panel, reasonably satisfied. "Not bad. I've come a long way since ten thousand years ago."

"Ten thousand years ago, I had reason to fear Asura God and the others. Now? Hah. They might as well stick a sign in their heads and offer them up!"

"But I'm still in my juvenile stage. I can't make any big moves."

Bei Mingyuan gradually calmed himself. Nothing on the Douluo Continent frightened him, but if those mighty figures from the Primordial World came over...

Don't think about it. Don't think about it! He did not want to die yet!

Bei Mingyuan hurriedly pushed the thought aside. Those were not matters for a little nobody like him to worry about. Any one of those figures could turn him into sashimi.

"Oh, right. What was that golden light just now? Let's take a look."

In the next instant, Bei Mingyuan spread out his divine sense, bringing all of Douluo Star into view.

On the Douluo Continent, Spirit Hall, the Star Dou Great Forest...

Everything lay before his eyes.

"Hm?"

Bei Mingyuan sensed several divine auras.

"That island out at sea must be Sea God Island. Is that woman Bo Saixi? If so, it's easy to place this point in time."

"And that must be Spirit Hall. Its pope looks like a woman—Bibi Dong? Then the Douluo Continent must be in the era of Yu Xiaogang and Tang San."

Bei Mingyuan continued probing and soon understood the whole situation.

"The Soul Master Tournament is over. Tang San is with Tang Hao, and Spirit Hall hasn't made any major move to wipe out the various sects and seize control of the entire Douluo Continent."

"Interesting."

Bei Mingyuan loved a good spectacle. At such an exciting point in time, he ought to stir up some trouble and make life difficult for Great God King Tang.

It had nothing to do with his cultivation. He simply liked causing trouble. He could not stand being lonely, which was why he had slept through almost all of the past several hundred thousand years.

He might be hundreds of thousands of years old, but mentally he was only a few thousand—just the age to develop a taste for mischief.

His true body could not easily go out, but he could send an avatar. It amounted to the same thing.

Before long, however, the enormous scroll in the sky caught Bei Mingyuan's attention. More startling still, his divine sense could not penetrate it to see what it truly was.

"What in the world is that thing?!"

A single glance put Bei Mingyuan on guard. Something was wrong with it. It did not look like a product of the Douluo World!

"What a formidable Mountains and Rivers Diagram. Its owner may well be stronger than I am!"

Bei Mingyuan's playful mood vanished at once. He had thought he had no rivals left on the Douluo Continent, yet now something had appeared that he could not see through.

By rights, that should have been impossible. Even if the God Kings of the Divine Realm joined forces, they could not make his divine sense vanish into the sea like a clay ox, leaving not a ripple.

In other words, this thing might be a manifestation of Douluo's heavenly laws—or the work of an even higher being.

Just then, a ray of light spread from the Sky Screen scroll.

[Sky Screen resonance beginning...]

[Connecting to intelligent life-forms on Douluo Star...]

"So it's a Sky Screen?"

Bei Mingyuan had heard of such things. It seemed to be something used for comparisons, like a ranking: the higher the rank, the greater the rewards.

Bei Mingyuan was not the only one. People and Soul Beasts across the Douluo Continent and the Northern Underworld Continent received the message from the Sky Screen scroll at the same time.

The imperial palace of the Northern Underworld Empire.

"What exactly is this thing?"

Bei Mingxue's expression was grave. She was one of the few Limit Douluo alive today, yet even she could not make sense of the Sky Screen.

"Your Majesty."

Beside her, Elder Di held a Soul Tool shaped like a screen of light. "Even with the Level 9 Soul Tool, the Light Spirit Detection Instrument, I can't analyze any information about this screen."

"How can that be?"

Everyone was shocked. Could this thing be a creation of the gods?

"Everyone, stay calm."

Compared with the others, Bei Mingxue was far more composed. "This thing is highly unusual. Don't touch it unnecessarily. Let's see what it intends to do first."

"Elder Di, notify every region not to panic or act rashly. I'll contact the ancestor and seek his guidance."

"Yes."