The Legendary Unlucky Black Swan Gets Taken Down at the Start!

Yu Xiaogang stared at the Sky Curtain, utterly dumbfounded.

My life's been miserable enough. How could I possibly lose to Phainon?

The Sky Curtain and Phainon must have stolen my TOP 0 reward!

Yu Xiaogang seethed. He wanted to take his grievance all the way to the Aeon Universe and demand an explanation!

He would make the Aeons of the Aeon Universe answer for this!

My talent's limited here. Maybe if I go to the Aeon Universe, I'll set foot on a Path and become powerful!

Meanwhile, Chrysanthemum Douluo sneered, his voice dripping with sarcasm:

"Such a shame. Someone didn't make the list and got beaten for nothing."

Yu Xiaogang's face hurt even more at those words. The others stayed silent.

After all, if Yu Xiaogang failed to make the list, they wouldn't gain anything either.

Star Dou Great Forest.

The Silver Dragon King's eyes widened when she saw Di Tian on the list.

What did it mean, calling Di Tian the unluckiest wretch?

Had Di Tian really suffered that much?

For the first time, she wondered whether the Sky Curtain was making things up.

No matter what, Di Tian was the highest leader of the Soul Beasts, second only to her. Surely he couldn't be that miserable?

Phainon's Clothing Store.

Di Tian was dumbfounded too.

He pointed at himself and said blankly:

"The Di Tian the Sky Curtain's talking about... that's me, right?"

Everyone turned to Di Tian at once and nodded sympathetically.

At that moment, Di Tian hardly seemed like the Beast God!

He looked like nothing more than an unlucky wretch.

If the Sky Curtain said so, Di Tian was bound to run into plenty of misfortune in the future.

Under everyone's pitying gaze,

Di Tian began to doubt himself. Even if I suffer setbacks, surely I haven't had it bad enough to make the list?

Am I really that unlucky?

The Stellaron Sprite sidled up to Di Tian, curiosity written all over her face.

"You're unlucky enough to go head-to-head with Miss Black Swan? You must have terrible luck all the time, mister!"

At the thought, the Stellaron Sprite couldn't hold back a laugh.

Seeing her laugh,

Di Tian's expression darkened.

Where are your manners?

If he could have beaten her, he really would have lost his temper!

Di Tian wanted to snap, but all he could do was grumble inwardly. Is it really that funny?

Phainon took a sip of tea.

He thought to himself:

Those two really are evenly matched. But when it comes to suffering, Di Tian does have it worse.

Once that famous scene comes up, I don't even know if Di Tian himself will be able to keep it together!

The Sky Curtain refreshed.

[Black Swan, a Memokeeper of the Garden of Recollection, presented herself as a mysterious, elegant fortune-teller.]

[With long white-and-purple hair and obsidian eyes, Black Swan often wore a purple veil, a V-neck strapless top, and black skintight leather pants with knee-high boots. A gentle smile usually graced her face.]

[Everyone who saw her took her for a sultry, mature beauty. In truth, she was an outright magnet for misfortune.]

The moment the Sky Curtain refreshed,

a mysterious woman who had stepped off the Astral Express somewhere in the Aeon Universe sneezed.

She had the nagging feeling someone was bad-mouthing her, but she had no proof.

Thinking back on everything she had done lately, Black Swan felt a little guilty.

The boss won't do anything to me, will he?

At first glance, everyone agreed that Black Swan did look like a sultry, mature beauty.

But remembering that this was a ranking of the unluckiest people, they couldn't help seeing her as a hapless sucker instead!

They were dying to know just how unlucky Black Swan was.

Yu Xiaogang glared at the Sky Curtain, seething.

"Dressing that revealingly? Has she no shame?"

"Someone like that gets on the list?"

"Sky Curtain! What are you playing at?"

Tang Hao frowned. Earlier, he too had thought he might make the list.

He hadn't, but he hadn't complained.

Yu Xiaogang, meanwhile, had kept yammering beside him. It was getting on his nerves.

[Black Swan was practically misfortune incarnate!]

[Wherever she went, trouble followed.]

[Penacony was a cluster of interstellar hotels built around dreams.]

["Waiting for someone? Would you care to dance with me?"]

[Black Swan extended an invitation to a purple-haired woman.]

[The woman claimed to be a Galaxy Ranger.]

[Black Swan judged that this Galaxy Ranger, Acheron, had come to Penacony with some purpose in mind.]

[Full of confidence, she invited Acheron to dance, hoping to seize the chance to peer into her memories.]

[Black Swan brimmed with confidence. "So I made my move."]

[But Black Swan had no idea that Acheron was no Galaxy Ranger. She was an Emanator of the Path of Nihility.]

[And so, the confident Black Swan had every last feather plucked in an instant.]

[The bloody scene was strictly for adults.]

Everyone on Douluo Continent was stunned by what they saw.

Wasn't Acheron way too damn brutal?

They had seen the earlier rankings. They knew what an Emanator was capable of.

An Emanator of Nihility, coupled with those brutal images, was terrifying!

To them, the concept of Nihility seemed powerful enough to go toe-to-toe with Destruction!

Yet Black Swan had been confident she could handle Acheron easily. She had even invited her to dance!

Then, in the next moment, Acheron turned the tables on her.

Luck like that was in a league of its own.

Of all the people she could have picked, she had picked one of the strongest!

Inside Phainon's Clothing Store,

Qian Renxue drew a sharp breath.

"An Emanator of Nihility is countless times stronger than a God King, and she dared to provoke one!"

The sight reminded the Stellaron Sprite of Acheron's slash that had cleaved through heaven and earth!

It had looked powerful enough to split an entire galaxy!

She knew Black Swan was bold.

But she had never imagined Miss Black Swan would be bold enough to peer into Acheron's memories!

Respect!

The Stellaron Sprite couldn't help giving Miss Black Swan a huge thumbs-up.

If Acheron had used her true strength, Black Swan would never have known what hit her.

Nearby, a chill ran down Di Tian's spine.

Picking a fight with an Emanator? Black Swan must have had eight lifetimes of rotten luck!

Di Tian swallowed hard. What have I ever done to deserve being compared to someone that spectacularly unlucky?

Phainon couldn't help finding it funny.

Black Swan may have been unlucky, but at least she got out alive.

And every time Black Swan gets involved, it's in something huge!

Either the Philosopher's Fetus!

Or an Emanator of Nihility!

And there's an even bigger shock coming.

She's truly one of a kind.

[Later, Black Swan became a temporary passenger aboard the Astral Express.]

[As the Astral Express headed toward its next Trailblaze destination, Black Swan suggested an option: the Eternal Land, Amphoreus.]

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Staring at the Sky Curtain,

everyone nearly lost their composure.

The people inside Phainon's Clothing Store looked at one another.

Even the usually calm Huo Yuhao almost had his eyes pop out.

So that was it!

The Astral Express—and the Stellaron Sprite and the others—had crash-landed on Amphoreus because of Black Swan!

He had thought the variables Phainon had awaited for more than thirty million cycles were the Astral Express and the Trailblazer's group.

Now it seemed possible that, after more than thirty million cycles of waiting, all Phainon had been waiting for was a single Black Swan!

[When the Astral Express warped near Amphoreus, everyone aboard was baffled. They couldn't see Amphoreus at all.]

[It seemed the suspicious passenger Black Swan had coaxed the Astral Express into an unknown region.]

[Black Swan explained that Amphoreus was difficult to observe from outside. Only the Mirror of the Garden of Recollection could reveal it.]

[Black Swan reached out and wiped the train window.]

[Before everyone's eyes appeared a figure-eight-shaped ring of stars, symbolizing Amphoreus's endless cycles.]

[They called it: a swan's webbed foot parting the clear waves!]