The Douluo Soul Masters React! The Gods Remain Arrogant!

Yu Xiaogang's frozen hands were still raised in celebration. On his leering, whisker-covered face, a rare flicker of self-doubt appeared.

Around him, every member of the Shrek Seven Devils stood stunned by the Sky Screen's words.

One thousand four hundred and fifty-eight!

The staggering number lingered in their minds, refusing to fade.

A number dozens of times greater than the average lifespan of mortals on Douluo Star—how could it not shock them, or even make them doubt it?

"Fake! It has to be fake! Impossible! How could it be so high?"

Yu Xiaogang snapped out of his stupor. In a knee-jerk reaction, he leaped up and pointed at the Sky Screen, condemning it like the sternest of fathers.

His face twisted into an exaggerated grimace, and each sentence came out more venomous than the last!

"It's a lie. It's here to deceive us all."

"Favoritism! I bet this so-called Sky Screen is behind it."

"I, Yu Xiaogang, saw through you long ago!"

Yu Xiaogang changed his tune and struck the pose of a righteous judge, delivering his verdict to the Sky Screen.

Among the Shrek Seven Devils, Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun followed Grandmaster without a second thought, voicing the same doubts.

"Exactly! Grandmaster is right. What world could let ordinary people live more than a thousand years on average?"

"Even a Titled Douluo might not live past a thousand. What, are they all Titled Douluo?" Ma Hongjun joked.

Little did he know that his words gave Zhu Zhuqing an idea. Beneath her cool expression, she asked a question that cut to the soul.

"Why couldn't every one of them be a Titled Douluo?"

Her question was like a blow shattering the ice on a lake frozen for ten thousand years. It brought a clownish grin straight to Yu Xiaogang's face.

Still mocking the Sky Screen for its unfairness, he turned to lecture Zhu Zhuqing, putting on the air of a scholar.

"Zhu Zhuqing, you don't understand. If everyone could become a Titled Douluo, wouldn't the whole world be thrown into chaos?"

Look at him: Yu Xiaogang was stuffed with learning, yet he was only a Soul Grandmaster. How could becoming a Titled Douluo be so easy?

Yu Xiaogang was firmly convinced that he was not useless; advancing through the Soul Master ranks was simply too difficult!

But Ning Rongrong, the proud little fairy who had always liked to push back, had a different opinion of his words.

"Does Grandmaster believe in his own theories that much? What if things really are different on another planet?"

Question Yu Xiaogang?

That would never do. Yu Xiaogang, who always looked down his nose at others, allowed no one to challenge his authority.

He crossed the distance to Ning Rongrong in a few hurried strides.

"Who gave you the right to question my theories? Not even Ning Fengzhi has the standing to question them!"

"I am Grandmaster, the foremost researcher of Martial Souls on the Douluo Continent!"

"If I say the Sky Screen fabricated it, then it fabricated it!"

"Our Douluo Star is the most perfect planet!"

As his last words fell, the Sky Screen began mercilessly stripping away the beautiful image of their world held by countless people on Douluo Star.

[In-depth comparison begins: analyzing why ordinary people on Douluo Star have such short lifespans!]

The Sky Screen's voice rang out again, drawing the eyes of Soul Masters and ordinary people across Douluo Star.

"I'd like to see what explanation it can come up with!"

"Lifespans over a thousand years? What an obvious lie!"

In countless regions, Soul Masters and ordinary people cursed fiercely and glared at the Sky Screen. Unless it gave them a satisfactory explanation, they would never accept its authority.

Boom!

The image on the Sky Screen changed with a roar, and its analytical voice sounded.

Even Spirit Hall's previously smug leaders widened their eyes, trying to find a flaw in what the Sky Screen said!

[On Douluo Star, beneath the surface of a seemingly beautiful world, dark currents have long been stirring. The power of Soul Masters keeps ordinary people firmly under its heel!]

[In the eyes of Soul Masters, ordinary people are expendable. The higher a Soul Master's rank, the more strongly they believe this. Oppressing ordinary people is only natural to them!]

[As a result, Soul Masters often wreak havoc across the continent. Ordinary people cannot resist them, and their risk of death rises sharply!]

As those words sounded, the Sky Screen showed scene after scene from the Douluo Continent of Soul Masters oppressing ordinary people!

One Soul Master wiped out an entire family because an ordinary person had shown him disrespect!

Another coveted someone else's beautiful wife and daughter and wanted to claim them for himself!

Others even killed simply for pleasure!

Under such conditions, ordinary people could hardly expect to live long.

Even after becoming Soul Masters, they still found themselves in a world where big fish ate little fish!

Living a long life would have been the strangest thing of all!

Those scenes of cruel reality silenced Spirit Hall's leaders.

Qian Daoliu was the first to break the silence. "This shows we haven't done enough. Spirit Hall is still too weak!"

"Exactly. If Spirit Hall were strong enough, this would never happen!"

Bibi Dong followed Qian Daoliu, expressing the same view.

At that very moment, Spirit Hall's leaders were fuming over their lack of strength and their inability to restrain Soul Masters across the continent.

But the Sky Screen offered another, less expected answer.

[Second factor: there is only one path to advancement on the continent. Local Soul Master families and noble factions wield immense power, making survival difficult for commoners!]

[Because Douluo Star's society remains underdeveloped and aristocratic, its commoners inevitably suffer exploitation from all sides, especially from the nobility!]

[If Soul Power and the overwhelming might of Soul Masters did not exist, all of Douluo Star would likely have fallen into war long ago!]

Yu Xiaogang could not have disagreed more!

He called it absurd and launched into a merciless denunciation!

The earlier scenes of Soul Masters oppressing ordinary people had made Yu Xiaogang hesitate for a moment. This time, he had no hesitation at all!

He let loose at full blast!

"What utter nonsense! Nobles are a wonderful institution, and Soul Master families are the cradle of countless powerful Soul Masters!"

"How dare it slander them? This is ridiculous."

As Yu Xiaogang poured out his objections, Oscar stood nearby, staring blankly as if something had come back to him.

Born a commoner, he had not had an easy upbringing. As a child, he had witnessed oppression by Soul Masters like the scenes on the Sky Screen.

His parents had even died under the nobles' exploitation!

That was why he now longed so desperately to join the nobility.

Yet the Sky Screen was telling him it was all wrong—that these things were calamities blighting Douluo Star!

Oscar's thoughts were on the verge of collapse. His understanding of the world was being rebuilt from the ground up!

And it was not just Oscar, a commoner. Even Zhu Zhuqing, the rebellious young lady who had once belonged to the nobility, was shaken by the images on the Sky Screen!

The nobles' cunning and deceit, and all the excuses and methods they used to exploit commoners, immediately reminded Zhu Zhuqing of her own tragic fate!

"Can the fate arranged for me really be changed?"

"Could it be that Huaxia Star has none of this?"

In Zhu Zhuqing's heart, clear and cold as ice, a final thread of hope remained.

Some were deeply moved. Some doubted everything. Others thought it was only natural.

Outside the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang San watched every scene on the Sky Screen, his face calm.

Having lived two lives, he saw nothing remarkable about any of it.

In his previous life, there had been far more exploitation than this—and that world had not even had Soul Power!

I'm a proud Tang Sect disciple and a genius Soul Master of the Douluo World. If I take a little of what belongs to them, isn't that only natural?

"The Sky Screen is making a fuss over nothing. Maybe those commoners gave everything willingly," Tang San said, untouched by ordinary concerns. His even tone and unusual words made Xiao Wu admire him all the more.

So young, yet he had already grasped the essence of a ruler!

Even Tang Hao could not help giving him a thumbs-up. "Exactly, Little San. As noble Soul Masters, we shouldn't be lumped together with commoners!"

Like father, like son!

In the Divine Realm, the gods were even more set in their ways.

The Evil God King watched scene after scene on the Sky Screen without the slightest change in expression.

Mortals were nothing but insignificant dust in their eyes. Why should they care whether mortals were exploited?

"And they dare complain that the continent has too few paths to advancement. How absurd. The Divine Realm doesn't have that many divine seats to spare for them."

"Exactly. This Sky Screen is too naive. Don't tell me Huaxia Star solved all these problems, and that's how its people came to live over a thousand years on average?" the God King of Goodness said thoughtfully, a hint of curiosity in her voice.

Whatever the answer, nothing the Sky Screen showed would stir any feeling in them now.

Only on the Douluo Continent did countless ordinary people and weaker Soul Masters ask from the depths of their hearts:

"Is this really how the world should be?"

"Could Huaxia Star truly be different?"