Far more than just the Star Dou Great Forest, people and Soul Beasts across the entire Douluo Plane saw it.
This miraculous sight.
In Spirit City, inside the Pope's Hall, Bibi Dong watched the four divine phantoms hanging in the firmament, utterly unaware that the scepter in her hand had dropped to the ground.
The Worship Hall possessed the most exalted status and remained permanently in seclusion away from the world.
Qian Daoliu, the chief enshrined of the Worship Hall known as the invincible of the sky, gazed at the Angel God Statue before him radiating surging golden light, bowing and kowtowing repeatedly.
In overseas lands, on Sea God Island, Bo Saixi, the ninety-ninth-rank Sea God great enshrined, watched the phantoms gradually dissipate in the sky, remaining silent for a long time.
In Slaughter City, Tang Chen, who was parasitized by the Nine-Headed Bat King, held the Asura Demonic Sword with a chilling murderous intent in his eyes, stirring up a monstrous sea of blood.
In the Star Dou Great Forest, beneath the barrier of the Lake of Life, a pair of weary silver-gray vertical pupils opened, a trace of panic flashing through the depths of his eyes.
"Investigate!"
"Even if you chase out of the Star Dou Great Forest, find out for me!"
With that command, several terrifying beings with humanoid beastly shadows bowed in submission to accept the order.
On this day, countless commoners and Soul Masters looked up at the figures in the firmament, living in panic and dread from which they could see no end.
On this day, a beast tide riot rarely seen in a century broke out in the Star Dou Great Forest.
"I am heading back to Spirit City. Coming along?"
Gazing at those two hundred-thousand-year soul rings on Chen Zhuo's body, Qian Renxue realized she was somewhat at a loss for how to face the person before her.
After his Body Martial Soul underwent a Second Awakening, aside from his eyes transforming into double pupils, Chen Zhuo's demeanor had also undergone quite a few changes.
If Chen Zhuo previously gave people a gentle feeling of harmony without striving with others.
The current Chen Zhuo possessed an added sense of ethereal divinity and overbearing dominance.
Even making eye contact with his pair of double pupils required a certain amount of courage.
Porcupinefish Douluo was completely numb.
What did it mean to already be a soul king at age thirteen, and furthermore have soul power as high as rank fifty-six?
Presently, the youngest soul emperor in the history of the entire continent was Tang Hao, and ranking second was a commoner soul master named Qin Ming.
When the other party went to the Spirit Hall for certification and registration, he was thirty-two years old.
Judging by Chen Zhuo's cultivation speed with his Innate Full Soul Power, at the latest within two years, his soul power would reach rank sixty.
A fifteen-year-old soul emperor! Thinking up to this point, Porcupinefish Douluo couldn't help but shiver.
Yet thinking that the other party had merely absorbed a fifth soul ring, while his first and second soul rings automatically upgraded into hundred-thousand-year soul rings.
Since such an absurd thing could happen, what else was there that couldn't be accepted.
Porcupinefish Douluo instinctively thought Chen Zhuo was some hundred-thousand-year soul beast in human form.
A hundred-thousand-year soul beast transforming and re-cultivating could self-condense its first six soul rings, but the corresponding age still followed the same set of logic as human soul masters.
Constrained by one's own physique and spiritual power, it was utterly impossible to exceed limits like Chen Zhuo did.
Thinking of the previous celestial anomaly, he dared not guarantee that this had to do with Chen Zhuo, but neither did he dare say it definitely had nothing to do with Chen Zhuo.
He felt somewhat jealous that that old fellow Snake Lance had actually managed to take in such a monstrous talent as a disciple.
He felt even more fortunate that such a heaven-defying prodigy belonged to their Spirit Hall faction.
As long as Chen Zhuo did not suffer an untimely demise halfway, why should Spirit City fear failing to experience a revival in the future.
Porcupinefish Douluo figured the young master probably thought the exact same way he did.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have risked potentially exposing her identity just to personally make a trip back to Spirit City.
"I've been out for over three years, and I want to go back and take a look too."
"Coincidentally, I have a major discovery here that I want to present to Spirit Hall."
Chen Zhuo's gaze was profound.
The matter of the whale rubber had been in preparation for so long, and it was time to put it on the agenda.
Just like that, Dugu Bo brought the three women back to Heaven Dou City first.
As for Chen Zhuo, he followed Qian Renxue and her party in secretly returning to Spirit City.
Qian Renxue went to the Worship Hall.
She had always been at odds with Bibi Dong, so how could she possibly go to see her.
Chen Zhuo went to the Pope's Hall.
Reason and sentiment both dictated that it was Bibi Dong who had promoted him.
If he bypassed Bibi Dong regarding the whale rubber matter, that would mean he lacked tact.
In the workplace, this was a major taboo.
"That brat wants to see me again?"
Sitting high upon the papal throne, Bibi Dong fully displayed a queen-like majesty.
She still retained some impression of Chen Zhuo.
"What, he came back together with the Heaven Dou Crown Prince?"
A trace of complex emotion flashed through the depths of Bibi Dong's eyes.
As the pope, she was burdened with myriad responsibilities and had an endless stream of affairs to handle every day.
Originally, she hadn't particularly wanted to see him right away, intending to just have the other party queue up and wait.
Yet Qian Renxue's arrival made her change her mind.
This time meeting him, the changes in Chen Zhuo's appearance and demeanor caused Bibi Dong to feel a certain inward surprise.
What truly shocked her was the true usage of whale rubber for soul masters that Chen Zhuo presented.
"This matter is of grave importance! I will have the elders form a specialized evaluation panel."
"If things prove to be true, Spirit Hall will not forget your contribution."
Bibi Dong closed her eyes and waved her hand, signaling that Chen Zhuo could withdraw first.
Yet deep within her heart, it was far from as calm as her face appeared.
Any secret technique capable of altering a soul master's capacity to accommodate soul ring age was sufficient to stir up massive ripples across the entire soul master world!
"Many thanks, His Holiness the Pope!" Chen Zhuo's expression remained calm.
Figures like Bibi Dong, whom he once had to look up to, no longer seemed so terrifying after his martial soul underwent its Second Awakening and he became a soul king.
Today's him was no longer someone Bibi Dong could casually manipulate at will.
The other party presumably wouldn't be foolish enough to privately hoard the method for using whale rubber to increase soul ring age purely for selfish gains.
Of course, if Bibi Dong truly dared to do such a thing, or tried to embezzle his credit, he had ways to deal with her.
Upon leaving Spirit Hall, Chen Zhuo went to find the Golden Generation trio: Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan.
"You brat, you've grown this tall now?"
Upon meeting, Yan rushed forward in a single stride, giving him a bear hug.
"Mmph..."
Feeling his head buried within a vast expanse of muscular chest, Chen Zhuo hurriedly struggled to pull himself free.
This spectacle caused Xie Yue and Hu Liena to burst into endless laughter.
"Not bad, little Zhuo. You haven't even written many letters over these past two or three years."
"If you hadn't called out to us, we wouldn't even have recognized you," Hu Liena complained.
Though she hadn't explicitly stated it when Chen Zhuo left back then, she had still felt quite heartbroken inside.
Now, they were both on the verge of becoming soul kings.
She wondered whether this fellow's cultivation realm had fallen behind.
"Let's go, to our usual spot for a meal!"
"This time, I've brought good stuff for you all."
When Chen Zhuo produced three pieces of whale rubber over fifty thousand years old, the expressions of the Golden Generation trio could only be described as utterly magnificent.
"Little Zhuo, you've turned bad!"
A trace of feigned anger flashed across Hu Liena's face as she chased after Chen Zhuo, threatening to hit him.
Yan and Xie Yue also felt that Chen Zhuo had acted improperly.
Such items should have been secretly given to them in private.
How could he just hand them over openly like this?
"Hahaha!"
Chen Zhuo was simply teasing the three of them on purpose.
He begged for mercy, saying, "Allow me to explain the true uses of this whale rubber in detail."
These three still didn't know that half a year later, the price of whale rubber would change by the day.
Even the most ordinary ten-year whale rubber would rival gold in value.
And those three pieces of whale rubber over fifty thousand years old in their hands would fetch an even more astronomical price.
"It's really useful?" Hu Liena and the others were half-skeptical.
"Why would I lie to you? I've already reported this matter to His Holiness the Pope."
Hearing Chen Zhuo put it this way, Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan suddenly lost all appetite for their grand meal.
They couldn't wait to rush right back and try it out.
The three of them shared a deep bond of friendship, yet they were also secretly competing against one another.
Each of them harbored the desire to be the first to break through to the soul king realm so they could show off in front of the other two.
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