Douluo Continent.
Outside Suotuo City, Heaven Dou Empire.
Within the dilapidated Shrek Academy, an entrance examination that had been far from easy had just concluded.
Tang San, Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong, the cherished pearl of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, among others, were each resting in the clearing.
That day, the sun shone brightly, and a gentle breeze swept past, carrying the fluctuations of Soul Power unique to this continent.
Yet in the very next second, a sudden upheaval struck!
Without any warning, a boundless curtain of light suddenly appeared above Douluo Continent.
The curtain of light descended from the highest heavens, forcibly enveloping all of Douluo Star.
It was not just Shrek Academy.
The Pope's Hall, the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Heaven Dou Empire, the Star Luo Empire...
At that moment, every living creature on Douluo Continent was forced to raise their head, then stare at the sky in horror.
As the mysterious curtain of light unfurled, a majestic voice rang out:
[Great Thousand World livestream activated!] [Exploration of the Myriad Heavens Planes ready. Current lower plane anchored: Douluo Continent.] [Target upper plane for exploration: Great Thousand World!]
As the voice faded, the entire Douluo Continent erupted into an uproar.
"The Great Thousand World?"
"An upper plane? What's that supposed to mean?"
"Exactly! What the hell is that huge screen in the sky?"
For a time, discussions raged across the continent, everyone finding the Sky Screen's sudden appearance unbelievable.
Just as this sudden phenomenon in heaven and earth was throwing the entire continent into panic.
The images on the Sky Screen suddenly began to shift.
Within the previously chaotic curtain of light, vast scenes of utterly unfamiliar sights gradually emerged.
There were divine mountains towering into the clouds and immense continents stretching without end.
Throughout the images, people could be seen treading through empty air, their steps light as though skimming across waves.
Some even blazed with golden light that stretched ten thousand yards from their bodies; with a single punch, even the stars in the sky seemed on the verge of falling.
As these images appeared, that majestic voice once again resounded in the minds of everyone on Douluo Continent:
[The Great Thousand World stands at the pinnacle of the upper planes.] [In this world, there are no Martial Souls, nor any Soul Rings.] [Ten thousand paths contend for supremacy; Spiritual Energy reigns supreme!] [The Great Thousand World is boundless, its lower planes as countless as the sands of the Ganges.] [And Douluo Continent is merely one of the tiniest, most remote among these hundreds of millions of lower planes.] [Here, the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth is extraordinarily abundant. So long as you can draw Spiritual Energy into your body and set foot on the path of cultivation, you can break the shackles that lower planes place upon your lifespan.] [If you can cultivate to the Supreme Realm, living a thousand years is nothing out of the ordinary.] [If you can ascend to the rank of Heavenly Sovereign, you can even live as long as heaven and earth, be reborn from a drop of blood, and obliterate galaxies with a turn of your hand!]
As those few statements ended, the entire Douluo Continent instantly fell silent.
No Martial Souls?
No Soul Rings?
A lifespan of a thousand years?
Living as long as heaven and earth?
Those few simple statements completely reshaped everyone's understanding of the world.
After all, on Douluo Continent, a Titled Douluo was practically the pinnacle.
Yet even a level ninety-nine Peerless Douluo had a lifespan of merely two or three short centuries.
As for living as long as heaven and earth, being reborn from a drop of blood, or obliterating galaxies with a turn of the hand, such things simply exceeded the limits of their comprehension!
This was no longer mere myth; it overturned everything!
Yet before everyone could recover from this tremendous shock, the Sky Screen's emotionless voice rang out again.
[The rules for this exploration of the Myriad Heavens are as follows:] [First: the laws of heaven and earth will automatically select five living beings at random from across Douluo Continent and forcibly transport them into the Great Thousand World.] [Second: everything the Explorers experience in the Great Thousand World will be projected onto the Sky Screen in real time as a livestream.] [All living beings on Douluo Continent may watch the Explorers' every move in the Great Thousand World from a first-person perspective through the Sky Screen.] [Third: conditions for returning.] [Selected Explorers who successfully survive for one year in the peril-filled Great Thousand World will receive one opportunity to return to Douluo Continent.] [They may also bring back any cultivation methods, pills, Heavenly Treasures and Earthly Precious Materials obtained in the Great Thousand World.] [Alternatively, cultivating and breaking through to the Supreme Realm in the Great Thousand World will also grant an opportunity to travel back and forth.]
If the earlier words had merely shocked them, the announcement of these three rules plunged the entire Douluo Continent into an unprecedented frenzy.
Survive for one year, and they could return with treasures from an upper plane?
And the process would be livestreamed across the whole continent?
For those old monsters nearing the end of their lifespans, and for those Soul Masters who had spent their entire lives trapped at a bottleneck they could not break through, this was nothing short of a supreme opportunity dropped from the heavens!
No matter how dangerous it was, so long as they survived a year and brought back one or two lifespan-extending pills or God Level cultivation methods from an upper plane, their sects and families would surely dominate all of Douluo Continent!
Meanwhile, on the border of the Heaven Dou Empire.
Shrek Academy, outside Suotuo City.
On the hard-packed dirt training ground.
The Shrek Seven Devils, Headmaster Flender, and the others had gathered together, looking up at the curtain of light in the sky.
"What a grand undertaking."
Flender reached up to adjust his signature Crystal Glasses on the bridge of his nose, then clasped his hands behind his back, assuming the air of an expert who had seen through everything.
"The Great Thousand World? An upper plane? And what's this about being reborn from a drop of blood and obliterating galaxies with a turn of the hand?"
Flender shook his head and said with a smile, "Illusion-type Soul Masters these days really are getting better and better at boasting."
"Creating a mirage this huge probably took a Martial Soul Fusion Skill from several Soul Saints, or even Soul Douluos, didn't it?"
In his view, Douluo Continent was the only world, and Soul Power was the strongest system of power.
This so-called giant livestream screen in the sky was definitely a deception created by some bored major faction, its sole purpose to spread panic.
After hearing the headmaster's words, Dai Mubai, standing nearby, nodded in wholehearted agreement.
He stood with his arms folded across his chest, his strange double-pupiled eyes filled with arrogance.
As a prince of the Star Luo Empire, he considered himself widely experienced and knowledgeable.
"The headmaster is right."
"The secret tomes of my Star Luo Imperial Family also record that certain extremely rare hundred-thousand-year mirage-type Soul Beasts can create illusions covering an entire city."
After speaking, Dai Mubai curled his lip, then looked at the images of people walking through the air on the Sky Screen with utter disdain.
"Look at those people in the images. They don't even have Martial Souls, and there aren't any Soul Ring fluctuations, yet they're flying through the sky? It's simply riddled with flaws!"
"And they claim the Great Thousand World has no Martial Souls. What a joke! Without Martial Souls, how could anyone absorb the power of heaven and earth? This forgery is far too amateurish."
Dai Mubai snorted coldly, the Soul Power fluctuations of a level thirty-seven Soul Elder involuntarily surging from his body, putting the White Tiger's domineering might on full display.
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