Above the Blue Silver Life and Death Crown, Half a Step Beyond a God King into Creation! The Sun Moon Continent Stirs!

High above Douluo Star, a boundless curtain of light suddenly covered the clear sky for ten thousand miles. It hung beyond the nine heavens, enveloping heaven and earth.

Beneath that curtain, every living creature on the Blue Silver Continent, the Sun Moon Continent, and the Douluo Continent heard its echoing broadcast.

As the curtain stretched across the sky, this phenomenon beyond even a God King's power finally awakened Ye Qing's true spirit, which had slumbered within the Blue Silver Continent.

Ye Qing woke from his haze. His divine sense spread upward from deep underground and gently touched the curtain, only for him to discover that the power within it surpassed his current realm.

And his current realm was that of a God King!!

A hundred thousand years ago, he had left the land for the sea, drifting with the wind like floating duckweed.

As his body grew ever larger, his terrifying roots spread from the seawater until, eventually, they took hold in deep-sea trenches.

His gift allowed his body to grow without limit as long as it kept moving.

So his continent-sized body was only the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the sea, his roots had long since pierced the crust, passed through the mantle, and burrowed deep into the planet's core!

It was there that he devoured Douluo Star's Plane Core.

Already blessed with a unique gift, he saw his cultivation soar once more. The Plane Core had existed to suppress the continent's strongest beings, preventing their power from exceeding what the continent could bear.

Now that Ye Qing controlled the Plane Core, he was naturally exempt from that restriction.

With the help of the plane's will, he had become a god sixty thousand years ago, quietly and without the Divine Realm ever learning of it.

Ten thousand years ago, through the limitless growth granted by the Plane Core and his own gift, he had reached the realm of a Supreme God King.

The law he commanded was the Life and Death Law, which governed withering and flourishing!

Life and death revolved; heaven and earth turned in an endless cycle!

The power of life revived all things and brought the dying back with a healer's touch.

The power of death plunged worlds into silence and returned all things to nothingness!

What he had comprehended surpassed the bounds of ordinary laws. Two utterly opposed forces restrained and transformed into each other. His strength could now be called half a step from a Creation God!

If even Ye Qing, half a step from a Creation God, could not probe this power, it could only be the work of the power of creation.

Within Douluo Star's molten core, a palm-sized Blue Silver Grass swayed its leaves and transformed into a young man in white.

He was Ye Qing.

A crown rested on his head: his God King weapon, the Blue Silver Life and Death Crown!

It could turn every attack into life force to replenish him, or forcibly convert an enemy's life force into the power of death.

It governed life and decreed death: the Blue Silver Crown!

The young man's gaze seemed to pierce the planet's surface and reach the curtain above the sky.

"Interesting. Let's see what this curtain is up to."

Across the three continents, the deathly silence after the curtain's appearance lasted only an instant. Before anyone had fully digested the words upon it,

the images on the curtain continued to shift, opening into a clear aerial view—

At the far edge of the boundless blue sea, a slender black silhouette with sleek lines cut through the sky, burst through the clouds, and entered the airspace above the Sun Moon Continent's eastern coast with precision.

To help some viewers identify it, the curtain even displayed an explanatory caption beneath the image.

[Swift No. 1 unmanned Soul Tool reconnaissance craft—the core equipment of the Blue Silver Continent's advance scouts]

[Forged entirely from Deep Sea Black Iron, its slender body replicated the streamlined form of a swift. Fine, flowing patterns covered its surface, allowing it to draw power from sunlight.

A diamond-shaped Advanced Perspective Soul Tool Core was set in the center of its body, providing detection, scanning, imaging, and concealment. Its wings used a biomimetic design. In flight, it produced no firelight, no roar, and no Soul Power fluctuations. A high-precision transmission array sent all information back in real time.]

Throughout heaven and earth, countless people stared wide-eyed at the Soul Tool flying along the coast on the curtain, every bit like a real swift.

What was that thing?

Wasn't it an actual Sharp-Tailed Swift?

It looked exactly like one!

[Douluo Continent · Theoretical Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang]:

"A Soul Tool?! An unmanned Soul Tool that can fly by itself? Impossible. Absolutely impossible! Soul Tools require a Soul Master's Soul Power to operate. Flight without a Soul Master controlling it overturns every theory I know! It doesn't fit the laws of power on the Douluo Continent at all!"

"Wait, how did my thoughts appear on the curtain?!"

[Douluo Continent · Tang San]:

"Grandmaster is right. Soul Tools are for storing things. This so-called Soul Guidance Technology behind Swift No. 1 is probably just a stunt to draw attention."

[Sun Moon Continent · Ling Hongchen, dean of the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy]:

"Unmanned, automated Soul Guidance Technology... Terrifying. Absolutely terrifying! We've studied Soul Guidance Technology on the Sun Moon Continent for who knows how many years, yet even our most advanced Flying Soul Tools must be worn and operated by Soul Engineers. They're still bulky and consume enormous amounts of energy! Has the Blue Silver Continent's technology truly reached this level?!"

[Blue Silver Continent · Lu Renjia, student at the Blue Silver Imperial Academy's Mecha Institute]:

"Heh. Ignorant, backward natives. An unmanned reconnaissance craft is nothing more than the most basic scouting equipment of our Blue Silver Empire, and this rudimentary technology has you gaping? If you caught a glimpse of our empire's top frontline Soul Guidance Mecha or its Star-Class Soul Guidance Battleships, your entire understanding of the world would probably collapse!"

As everyone grew more familiar with the curtain, they quickly figured out its live-comment feature. Being able to send comments simply by connecting their mental power to it was incredible.

Even so, they remained skeptical of the Soul Guidance Technology behind Swift No. 1 that the curtain had shown them.

Meanwhile, in an office at the Royal Soul Engineer Academy in the Sun Moon Continent's imperial capital,

countless high-ranking Soul Engineers and imperial nobles had gathered. They watched Swift No. 1 cruise freely across the curtain, their eyes burning with eagerness and concern.

This unmanned Soul Tool reconnaissance craft was future technology beyond their reach. If they could take it apart, study it, and reverse-engineer a copy, Soul Guidance Technology on the Sun Moon Continent would take a giant leap forward!

"Dispatch two Douluo who guard the nation to the eastern coast at once. Capture that unmanned Soul Tool!"

"Bring it back intact. Its core components must not be damaged!"

The senior officials quickly approved the order. The instant it went out, two terrifying surges of Soul Power shot skyward from the imperial capital, tore through the clouds, and headed for the nearby sea.

The first figure wore a black robe that whipped in the wind. Dark-purple draconic might swirled around him, and his fierce, domineering pressure swept in every direction. He was the level-ninety-five Power Attack System Titled Douluo, Heaven-Destroying Douluo. His Martial Soul was the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon, and his fearsome reputation shook the entire Sun Moon Continent.

The second figure wore plain white robes, with tiny points of Silver Moon light hovering around him. Cool and ethereal, with deep reserves of Soul Power, he was the level-ninety-four Agility Attack System Titled Douluo, Silver Moon Douluo. His Martial Soul was Silver Moon.

The two top-tier Titled Douluo reached the coastline in short order. At the same time, their figures appeared on the curtain.

With the curtain to guide them, they locked onto the Soul Tool disguised as an ordinary swift almost instantly.

Heaven-Destroying Douluo stood with his hands behind his back, arrogant disdain filling his eyes. As his draconic might churned, he scoffed:

"It's just an unmanned, lifeless Soul Tool. Does it warrant both of us taking action? Watch from the side, Silver Moon. I can capture it in an instant by myself. There's no need to make a mountain out of a molehill."

Silver Moon Douluo nodded slightly. His gaze settled on the small, agile Swift No. 1. Its Soul Power fluctuations were practically nonexistent, so he paid it little mind.

"Very well."

Before the words had faded, Heaven-Destroying Douluo raised a hand toward the sky. Vast purple-black Soul Power took the shape of a dragon behind him, and the shadow of an enormous purple-black claw formed almost instantly. A heartbeat later, it lunged at Swift No. 1 with blistering speed!

But in the next instant, something happened that left everyone slack-jawed.

Swift No. 1, which had been flying at an unhurried pace a moment before, suddenly blazed with brilliant blue light at its tail. Its tiny body darted sideways without warning, moving so fast it seemed to teleport clear of the claw.

Heaven-Destroying Douluo's aging face reddened. The miss had embarrassed him.