White Calamity's First Encounter with the Trailblazer, the Stellaron Hunter, and the Spirit-Joining the Trial of Strife!

"Damn it! I spent a thousand Gold Soul Coins on this outfit just yesterday! Anyone want it? I'll sell it for what I paid!"

"Six hundred Gold Soul Coins. Take it or leave it!"

"Phainon, you crooked shopkeeper! Give me my money back!"

Inside Phainon's Clothing Store.

Phainon picked up his teacup without a trace of expression and ignored the voices outside.

Not long ago, those same people had been singing his praises.

The clothes were still exactly the same!

Not even a day had passed, and he had become a crooked shopkeeper!

Crooked?

They clearly had not seen what Black Calamity could do!

Still.

As Phainon watched the Sky Curtain, he could not help feeling a little nostalgic.

Back then, his memories had not awakened. Life had been hard, but it had also been fulfilling.

Sometimes ignorance really was a blessing.

Once you saw through to the truth of the world, suffering followed!

But faced with Aya's accusation, Phainon could not resist protesting.

"That's outright slander! These clothes have been selling like crazy in Heaven Dou City."

Holding back a laugh, Qian Renxue pointed outside.

"Then what do you call that?"

Phainon looked solemn.

"I run a small business. There's no seven-day, no-questions-asked return policy here!"

Once the money was in his hands, there was no way it was coming back out.

He could only hope Aha would show something on the Sky Curtain that cleared his name!

The world of Douluo II.

Shrek Academy.

Without its two key members, Wang Dong and Huo Yuhao, Shrek Academy had suffered a crushing defeat in the finals.

After returning to the academy with the team, Xuan Zi had spent every day with a stormy look on his face.

He looked up at the Sky Curtain.

At this rate, he felt he might end up on the gloom rankings himself!

"Why does it feel like everything's gone wrong for me these past few years?"

Xuan Zi ground his teeth.

Every time he led a team out, he ran into trouble!

In this Soul Master Tournament, the Sky Curtain had whisked Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong away to who knew what time and space!

As a result, Shrek had won only one individual match: Ma Xiaotao's.

In every other match, Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy had ground them into the dirt!

Just seeing Jing Hongchen's smug face made his blood boil.

"It's all that damned Sky Curtain! If it hadn't taken Yuhao and Wang Dong away, how could Shrek have lost?"

So the moment Phainon appeared on the Sky Curtain, Xuan Zi turned all his anger on him.

To Xuan Zi, Phainon's performance in the army looked only a little better than an ordinary person's.

He grumbled.

"This top-ranked gloomy fellow doesn't look all that strong."

"At best, he's on the level of a Soul Grandmaster."

"What kind of savior is that?"

"He's just a slightly tougher ordinary man. Is the Sky Curtain biased toward aliens?"

Beside him, Sea God Pavilion Master Mu En merely gave him a cool glance.

"An ordinary person can become strong."

"Xuan Zi, you're too quick to judge."

Xuan Zi grunted and fell silent.

But inwardly, he clung to his view.

In this world, strength was everything!

Without strength, calling yourself a savior was a joke!

A parallel time and space.

The Divine Realm.

Ma Hongjun noticed a detail on the Sky Curtain and rubbed his chin.

"Third Brother, did you see that?"

"This Aglaea inherited this so-called authority of romance, and she'll lose her emotions too?"

"Looks like inheriting their divine authorities comes at a price."

Tang San nodded as well.

He looked toward his cousin, Bai Chenxiang.

"Xiangxiang, it seems your hunch may have been wrong this time."

"At least on Amphoreus, I doubt their demigods can match our divine officers."

"Phainon will probably reach the level of a quasi-god at most."

Bai Chenxiang was not so optimistic.

She spoke softly.

"Third Brother, I can't shake the feeling that we've only seen the tip of Amphoreus's iceberg."

The image on the Sky Curtain shifted, and the atmosphere turned grim in an instant.

[While Phainon traveled to Fate's Deep Abyss to rescue refugees, the Astral Express crashed down from beyond Amphoreus, and the Trailblazer and her companions descended from the sky.]

[Phainon felt sure he knew the young woman called the Trailblazer; she looked terribly familiar. After talking, Phainon, the Trailblazer, and the others agreed to fight the Titan of Strife together and drive back the followers of Castrum Kremnos.]

[In the end, Phainon successfully brought back the Titan of Strife's Core Flame.]

[He placed the Core Flame in the Genesis Vortex Core for the ritual and began the Divine Oracle's trial.]

[The Divine Oracle acknowledged Phainon's memories and character, but questioned his wavering heart.]

[He entered the trial's illusion and faced the Flame Reaver once more. He fought bravely, but was defeated in the end.]

[Only when his friend Mydei broke in was he saved from the Titan of Strife's divinity.]

At the sight of this.

Some began to question him.

"Someone at that level can be a savior?"

"Guess Amphoreus has nobody else left."

"Pick a few people from Douluo Continent at random and they could probably be saviors there."

The world of Douluo III.

Yun Ming was a little disappointed that the Sky Curtain had not shown the entire trial.

He gave a wry smile.

"I let my expectations get the better of me!"

"When Na'er comes back, I'll ask my Disciple herself."

The world of Douluo I.

Phainon's Clothing Store.

Phainon's defeat when he faced the Flame Reaver again played out on the Sky Curtain.

Qian Renxue knew it had reopened an old wound in his heart.

She understood that feeling all too well.

Back when she was in Spirit Hall, she had always felt as though her father were speaking to her.

Qian Renxue turned to comfort Phainon.

"Don't blame yourself too much. Some enemies, some parts of the past, can't be overcome just by fighting with all you have."

Phainon waved a hand, a faint smile touching his lips. "Don't worry. It's all behind me."

He had found the Trailblazer—the Stellaron Sprite—familiar because, when he had played Honkai: Star Rail in his previous life, he had picked the female Trailblazer.

He could not help it. That shameless girl had left such a deep impression on him that even after losing his memory, he had recognized her instinctively.

Sunset Forest.

The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

After overcoming countless obstacles, Tang San and the others finally made it over the cliff and reached the legendary treasure ground.

But when they looked down into the valley, they were all dumbstruck!

The ground around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was bare. Most of the Immortal Herbs had vanished without a trace.

Dugu Bo was nowhere to be seen either.

"Bastard!"

Tang San's face turned livid.

Dugu Bo had plucked all the Immortal Herbs clean! What a monstrous waste of heavenly treasures!

Dai Mubai clenched his fists and howled at the sky. "My Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum!"

Seeing Dai Mubai fall apart.

Tang San forced down his own frustration.

"Even a savior can suffer a crushing defeat in a trial. It's only natural for us to face a setback!"

"Dugu Bo may have taken the Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, but we can look for other opportunities!"

"Once Teacher makes it onto the TOP 0, the Sky Curtain's reward might be a hundred times better than these Immortal Herbs!"

At those words.

Yu Xiaogang felt much better about missing out on the Immortal Herbs.

He clasped his hands behind his back and raised his head proudly.

"Little San is right! Once I make the Sky Curtain's TOP 0, everything will be fine!"