"Once this kind of fate awakened, he was destined to soar into the heavens."
"But who knew that a favored daughter of heaven with a phoenix fate in that plane would set her sights on his fortune?"
"That woman had a powerful faction behind her and used its might to bully him. Not only did she torture him until he was better off dead, she even tried to forcibly strip away and devour his profound python fate to perfect her own supreme Phoenix Dao!"
At this point, everyone on the Douluo Continent held their breath.
"What happened after that?" Beside Ning Rongrong, the young master of the Profound Ice Sect could not help asking.
"After that?"
The gray-robed old man's voice suddenly rose, and he declared with a fanatical expression:
"After that, just when everyone thought he was certain to die, when his fate was about to be drained dry..."
"This Divine Lord actually defied heaven and changed his destiny in that desperate situation!"
"Instead of retreating, he advanced. With unimaginable willpower and ruthlessness, he not only turned the tables and killed that favored daughter of heaven..."
"He even forcibly swallowed that lofty phoenix fate in one gulp, performing the timeless miracle of Profound Python Swallowing Phoenix!"
"A lowly python forcibly devouring a noble phoenix! What dominance and defiance!"
"From then on, this Divine Lord broke through realm after realm, unstoppable!"
"He borrowed no outside power and relied on no background."
"With nothing but his own iron fists, he swept aside everything in his path!"
"Super sects? Hidden clans? Whatever dared block his path, he uprooted them all, leaving not even a chicken or dog alive!"
"In the end, just like the Martial Ancestor, he faced the countless millions of Otherworldly Demons from a branch that had invaded his lower plane, all alone."
"With his strength alone, he actually slaughtered the entire Otherworldly Demons Army!"
"He even smashed the terrifying Otherworldly Demons Emperor's physical body apart!"
At this point, not only the old man but even the surrounding experts of the Great Thousand World felt their blood boil as they listened, their entire bodies trembling.
"Ultimately, he united the entire lower plane."
"The profound python fate within him underwent its ultimate transformation-a profound python transforming into a dragon!"
"In that battle, he became a chaos true dragon and shattered the plane barrier with one punch."
"Bathed in tribulation lightning from the nine heavens, he ascended to our Great Thousand World through that invincible dominance alone!"
"He then founded today's Great Desolation Divine Realm, which stands alongside the Endless Fire Domain and the Martial Realm!"
As the gray-robed old man finished his account, no other sound could be heard anywhere across the Douluo Continent.
Everyone seemed to have had their souls drained by that heaven-piercing dominance. They stared blankly at the sky, unable to recover for a long time.
Inside the Pope's Hall in Spirit City.
Bibi Dong's stunningly beautiful face was now filled with dazed dejection.
The twin martial souls she took such pride in, the death spider emperor and soul-devouring spider emperor, were worse than mud on the ground before those terrifying fates of "Profound Python Swallowing Phoenix" and a "profound python transforming into a dragon."
"Sweeping aside everything in his path, slaughtering his way through a plane..."
Bibi Dong murmured to herself, the untouchable pride in her heart shattered to pieces.
To unify the Douluo Continent, she still had to scheme in the shadows and painstakingly lay plans for decades.
But him?
A pair of fists-those who obeyed him prospered; those who defied him perished!
One man slaughtering an army of countless millions of Otherworldly Demons!
This was true invincibility, the true dominance of a sovereign!
Meanwhile, on Sea God Island.
Bo Saixi, who had just declared that she would borrow the Sea God's power to suppress the experts of the Great Thousand World, was now deathly pale. Even the delicate hand holding her scepter trembled slightly.
"That's impossible..."
Bo Saixi bit her red lip, her eyes filled with shock she could not accept.
"How could a mortal body possibly slaughter an army of countless millions?"
"Even when Lord Sea God subdued the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King back then, he could never have wielded power of that level so cleanly and decisively!"
After hearing Su Changqing's feats, which sounded like a mythic epic, Bo Saixi's rigid worldview finally began to waver uncontrollably.
Inside Shrek Academy.
Tang San likewise lowered his head, his fists clenched tight.
Resentment!
Jealousy!
He was also a transmigrator, and he likewise considered himself a genius.
Yet he was still congratulating himself over how to defeat a few Soul Masters his own age.
Meanwhile, that man named Su Changqing had already punched through a plane and established a supreme faction that even gods had to look up to.
"Profound Python Swallowing Phoenix? Sweeping aside everything in his path?"
Tang San gritted his teeth, a deep gloom flashing through his eyes as he said:
"Those people from the Great Thousand World must be exaggerating again!"
"How could anyone in this world possibly reach that level with nothing but mortal flesh?"
"Even if he really did go to the Great Thousand World, he must have obtained some tremendous opportunity!"
"If that opportunity were given to me, Tang San..."
"If I obtained the Great Thousand World's method of cultivating spiritual energy..."
"With my Tang Sect's Mysterious Heaven Skill and supreme hidden weapons, I, Tang San, could absolutely reach his level, or even surpass him!"
Meanwhile, on the deck of the Profound Ice Sect's flying palace in the Great Thousand World.
After hearing the terrifying legends of these Three Great Giants, Ning Rongrong, who had been so arrogant and domineering, constantly proclaiming herself the princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect...
Now slumped on the ground like a puddle of mud, her eyes empty.
She finally understood how laughable her earlier remarks had been.
Before these ruthless figures who could casually blast apart heaven and earth, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect she took such pride in, and the Super Douluo grandfathers she took such pride in...
Truly amounted to less than a speck of dust beneath their feet!
Just as the terrifying legends of the Great Thousand World's Three Great Giants left countless people across the Douluo Continent with tingling scalps and shattered spirits...
That grand, emotionless voice rang out from the Sky Screen once more.
[Survival status of the first batch of Explorers: one alive, four dead.] [Due to the excessively low survival rate, random selection for the second batch of Explorers will now begin ahead of schedule!] [Slots: five!]
As that voice fell, the entire Douluo Continent instantly erupted.
Inside the main hall of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Sword Douluo Chen Xin abruptly raised his head, his eyes blazing.
"Choose me! You must choose this old man!"
Chen Xin gripped the Seven Kill Sword in his hand tightly, sword qi raging wildly around him.
"As long as I can get there, I'll cleave that old dog from that so-called Profound Ice Sect in half with one stroke and bring Rongrong back unharmed!"
On Shrek Academy's training grounds.
Tang San's breathing grew exceedingly rapid. He could hardly wait to be selected.
"If I can be chosen..."
"If I can obtain the Great Thousand World's cultivation resources..."
Tang San clasped his hands behind his back, inwardly making a fierce vow.
"With the secret arts of the Tang Sect of my previous life, along with my twin martial souls..."
"I, Tang San, will surely surpass that so-called Great Desolation Divine Lord, Flame Emperor, and Martial Ancestor, and trample this Great Thousand World beneath my feet!"
Beside him, Ma Hongjun rubbed his hands together excitedly, his face filled with impatience.
"This fatty wants to take a look too!"
"I'd like to see whether the fire of that so-called Endless Fire Domain is really stronger than my mutated evil fire phoenix!"
Of course, far more people across the continent trembled all over, desperately kneeling and praying that they would never be chosen.
After all, the sight of those four cannon fodder being killed instantly without any chance to resist had been far too horrifying.
Boom!
And so, beneath the gazes of countless millions of living beings, each harboring different thoughts, whether anticipation or fear...
Five brilliant beams of golden light descended from the sky once again.
[Selection of the second batch of Explorers complete!] [First: Heaven Dou Empire merchant, Qian Duoduo!] [Second: Spirit Hall deacon, Su Yuntao!] [Third: Shrek Academy vice dean, the Immovable Wisdom King, Zhao Wuji!] [Fourth: Shrek Academy student, Ma Hongjun!] [Fifth: Heaven Dou Empire crown prince, Qian Renxue!]
The moment the list appeared, the entire continent exploded into an uproar!
This selection's results truly left everyone dumbfounded.
Aside from one unfortunate ordinary person, a full four Soul Masters had actually been selected!
Among them were not only a Spirit Hall deacon, but also Zhao Wuji, a Soul Saint renowned throughout the continent, and Shrek's genius monster, Ma Hongjun!
Most shocking of all was the final person, the Heaven Dou Empire's crown prince!
"Hahaha! Good! What a fine selection!"
Inside Shrek Academy, Flender slapped his thigh fiercely, so excited that tears even streamed from his old eyes.
"With Wuji there, along with Hongjun's top-tier evil fire phoenix beast martial soul, the two of them can absolutely establish themselves in this so-called Great Thousand World if they work together!"
"Even if they can't defeat those old monsters, protecting themselves will certainly be more than manageable!"
Elsewhere, inside the Pope's Hall in Spirit City.
Bibi Dong abruptly rose from her papal throne, her stunningly beautiful face filled with surprise.
"Xue'er was actually chosen?!"
Whoosh!
However, the Sky Screen gave them no time to react or say goodbye.
The five beams of golden light instantly swept up the five people, and they vanished completely from the Douluo Continent.
Accompanied by a ripple in space, new images appeared on the Sky Screen once again.
In the first image...
The ordinary merchant named Qian Duoduo had just landed in a desolate desert.
Before he could open his eyes and take in his surroundings, a savage spatial astral wind unique to the Great Thousand World howled past.
Sshk!
There was no suspense whatsoever. Qian Duoduo's mortal body did not even have time to let out a scream before the raging astral wind reduced him directly to a skyful of bloody mist.
[First Explorer, Qian Duoduo, deceased.] [Survival time: three seconds.]
At this sight, the people of the Douluo Continent merely twitched at the corners of their eyes. They had long since grown accustomed to it.
In that world, ordinary people were ants without even the right to breathe.
Now, everyone's gaze across the entire continent fell upon the other four.
The image lit up, revealing that Ma Hongjun had been transported to an extremely unusual territory within the Great Thousand World.
He stood at the edge of a boundless crimson sea of fire.
The air temperature was absurdly high. Even space was severely warped by that terrifying heat.
In the distant Void, magnificent divine temples burning with dazzling divine flames of various colors stood faintly visible, like the dwellings of gods of flame.
This was none other than the supreme giant among factions, founded single-handedly by the Flame Emperor, whose might shook the Great Thousand World.
The Endless Fire Domain!
"Good grief, it's so hot..."
The moment Ma Hongjun landed, he felt the fat all over his body sizzling, and he hurriedly wiped the heavy sweat from his forehead.
Yet not only was he unafraid, his face was instead filled with excitement.
"Hahaha, this place is a treasure land tailor-made for this fatty!"
Ma Hongjun planted both hands on his hips and, looking at the sea of fire ahead that could burn even space, actually began passing grand judgments.
"The fire attribute here certainly is dense, but as far as this fatty is concerned, it's nothing special!"
"How could these ordinary mortal flames possibly compare to my mutated evil fire phoenix!"
Ma Hongjun snorted coldly, let out an exceedingly arrogant roar, and directly summoned his martial soul.
Hum!
A phantom of a fat barnyard chicken burning with purplish-red flames instantly appeared behind him.
Yellow, yellow-two soul rings rose beneath his feet.
"What Endless Fire Domain! What Flame Emperor!"
"Before this fatty's evil fire, they're all nothing but small fry!"
Utterly ignorant of the danger, Ma Hongjun shouted and yelled, even spreading his arms as he attempted to use his martial soul to absorb the terrifying fire spiritual energy around him.
Yet the instant his so-called Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul released that faint trace of aura, weak and riddled with impurities...
Far away, atop a massive boulder deep within the sea of fire, an Endless Fire Domain Outer Sect disciple in crimson robes, who had been meditating with his eyes closed, opened them with a frown.
"Hm? Where did these Lower Plane impurities come from?"
The Outer Sect disciple covered his nose, his face full of disgust.
"You actually dare release this foul, heaven-stinking garbage flame within the territory of our Endless Fire Domain?"
"You're sullying this very world!"
Hearing those merciless insults, Ma Hongjun, who had spread his arms to absorb Spiritual Energy, abruptly froze.
Immediately afterward, anger surged across his chubby face.
He was a monstrous genius of Shrek Academy!
Dean Flender's personal disciple!
On the Douluo Continent, who didn't praise his Evil Fire Phoenix as a top-tier Beast Martial Soul?
"What did you say, you bumpkin in red?!"
Ma Hongjun abruptly turned around, pointed at the Outer Sect disciple, and unleashed a torrent of abuse.
"You actually dare call my top-tier Evil Fire Phoenix a garbage flame?"
"This fatty is going to show you what real fire is today!"
"First Soul Skill! Phoenix Fire Line!"
Ma Hongjun roared, and the hundred-year Yellow Soul Ring beneath his feet instantly lit up.
He violently opened his mouth, and a pillar of purplish-red flame, mingled with an intense, foul, bloody stench, blasted straight toward the Outer Sect disciple!
Seeing this, everyone at Shrek Academy on the Douluo Continent clenched their fists.
"Nicely done, Fatty!" Dai Mubai cheered loudly.
"Hongjun's Evil Fire is extremely adhesive and corrosive. Even if the people of this Great Thousand World are a little strange, they definitely wouldn't dare take it head-on!" Flender pushed up his glasses with utter confidence.
Yet what happened next in the Sky Screen instantly froze the smiles on the faces of everyone across the continent!
Just as that seemingly formidable pillar of purplish-red flame charged to within three feet of the Outer Sect disciple...
The disciple did not even lift a finger.
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