In an instant, terrifying force poured out through the little boy's fist like an avalanche toppling mountains and overturning seas.
"Bang!"
The next second, before the utterly horrified eyes of everyone across the continent.
Wang Mazi did not even have time to scream before his burly body exploded in midair, turning into a cloud of bloody mist!
The little boy, only five or six years old, merely shook the blood off his fist, then picked up the fruit from the ground and went on eating.
Alongside this extremely bloody and visually shocking scene, words appeared on the Sky Screen:
[First Explorer: Wang Mazi. Deceased.] [Cause of death: attempted to seize an ordinary spiritual fruit from a native of the Great Thousand World and was killed by a single punch.] [Survival time: thirty seconds.]
At this moment, the entire Douluo Continent erupted into an uproar.
On the sports field at Shrek Academy.
Dai Mubai's sinister eyes were stretched wide, his eyeballs almost bulging out, and his entire body trembled violently beyond his control.
"O-one punch?"
"How is that possible!"
"That was just a brat who hasn't even awakened his martial soul and looks like he's still nursing!"
As a prince of the Star Luo Empire and a rank thirty-seven Battle Soul Elder, even with his proud White Tiger Vajra Transformation active, he probably could not punch an ordinary person into bloody mist!
Yet in that world, a random five-year-old passing by could do it effortlessly, without even using anything!
"Gulp..."
Beside him, Flender likewise swallowed hard, feeling his legs grow somewhat weak.
He finally understood what the Sky Screen had meant by no martial souls and spiritual energy reigning supreme.
This was absolute domination through physical strength alone!
At this point, even Tang San, who always prided himself on his composure, was pale, unable to believe everything he had seen.
"This is impossible. This kind of strength completely defies the principles of cultivating the human body..."
Yet the people of Douluo were given no time to catch their breath or react.
The image on the Sky Screen instantly switched to the second Explorer's perspective.
Li Si, a commoner blacksmith from the Heaven Dou Empire.
He had been transported into an immensely vast and magnificent city.
The city walls stood hundreds of zhang tall, stretching between heaven and earth like mountains and radiating an ancient aura.
From time to time, enormous spirit beasts of various kinds, exuding terrifying pressure, flew across the sky pulling luxurious carriages.
Li Si was utterly awestruck by this scenery that resembled an immortal realm.
He walked trembling down the broad street, every passerby around him radiating a pressure that left him feeling suffocated.
Just then, cries of alarm suddenly came from farther up the street.
Two youths from the Great Thousand World, who looked only seventeen or eighteen and wore luxurious brocade robes, seemed to be fighting over some object and began exchanging blows right above the street.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Neither of them even used any profound spiritual arts; they simply released spiritual energy as their fists and feet clashed.
Yet even this casual exchange produced spiritual energy shock waves that stirred up violent storms visible to the naked eye!
"Get out of the way!"
Seeing this, the natives on the street raised spiritual energy barriers and gave them a wide berth.
But how could an ordinary person like Li Si have ever witnessed such a battle between immortals?
His legs gave way in fright, and he collapsed onto the ground, scrambling and crawling to hide behind a nearby stone pillar.
However, just as he was crawling.
One of the youths in midair was knocked back, and with a casual wave, he dispersed a tiny, insignificant strand of spiritual energy.
"Hiss!"
That faint strand of spiritual energy, too weak even to tickle a cultivator from the Great Thousand World, happened to strike Li Si.
"Aah!"
Li Si did not even have time to let out a full scream before he was killed on the spot.
[Second Explorer: Li Si. Deceased.] [Cause of death: unable to withstand a faint trace of the spiritual energy shock waves spilling from a clash between Spirit Wheel Realm cultivators of the Great Thousand World, his body disintegrated and vaporized.] [Survival time: one minute and twenty seconds.]
The second image went black!
Inside an upscale hotel in Suotuo City.
Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang, who had just been making wild pronouncements and preparing to write a theoretical article to refute the Great Thousand World, dropped his quill onto the desk with a clatter, ink staining a large stretch of parchment.
"Just a trace of the shock waves, residual energy released without even unleashing a martial soul, actually vaporized an adult?"
Yu Xiaogang fiercely grabbed his hair and shook his head frantically.
"The Spirit Wheel Realm? What is the Spirit Wheel Realm!"
"This is impossible! This violates the law of conservation of energy!"
"Even the shock waves from a Titled Douluo's soul skill couldn't do something like this!"
Meanwhile, the scene on the Sky Screen shifted.
Zhao Liu, an ordinary beggar from the Balak Kingdom.
He had been transported into a valley where the spiritual energy was so dense it had almost become white mist.
Zhao Liu, who had endured hunger year after year, smelled a strange, refreshing fragrance the moment he landed.
In a crevice between the rocks not far ahead of him lay a small pool of milky-white liquid.
The liquid radiated an extraordinarily enticing vitality and vigor.
"Water, such fragrant water..."
Zhao Liu's throat was parched as though smoking, and he could not concern himself with anything else.
He scrambled over, sprawled on the rocks like a dog, and gulped down the small pool of milky-white liquid.
"Delicious! So delicious!"
Zhao Liu wiped his mouth, an immensely satisfied smile appearing on his face.
However, that smile lasted less than three seconds.
"Aaaargh!"
Zhao Liu suddenly clutched his stomach in agony, falling to the ground and rolling around frantically.
His skeletal body suddenly began swelling like an inflating balloon at an extraordinarily bizarre speed!
His skin stretched until it was translucent, and even the blood vessels and meridians beneath it could be seen rupturing inch by inch, unable to withstand the terrifying spiritual energy!
That was no ordinary water at all. It was Hundred-Year Spiritual Marrow, naturally condensed from the Great Thousand World's spiritual energy of heaven and earth after it reached an extreme concentration!
For cultivators, it was a powerful tonic.
But for a mortal without any cultivation, who had never even come into contact with spiritual energy, it was equivalent to swallowing a potent explosive!
"Bang!"
Soon, a deep, thunderous boom rang out, and beneath the gazes of countless people on the Douluo Continent whose scalps prickled in horror, Zhao Liu's body exploded on the spot!
Blood and flesh flew everywhere, staining the white mountain rocks around him crimson.
[Third Explorer: Zhao Liu. Deceased.] [Cause of death: with a mortal body devoid of cultivation, he presumptuously attempted to consume Hundred-Year Spiritual Marrow, one of the Great Thousand World's heavenly treasures and earthly precious materials. Unable to digest its violent spiritual energy, his body exploded, killing him.] [Survival time: eight minutes.]
At this sight, countless powerhouses of the Douluo Continent sucked in cold breaths, feeling chills run down their backs.
Inside the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
Bone Douluo Gu Rong, who had been worrying about Ning Rongrong, now wore an utterly grave expression.
"What an overbearing energy system..."
"Although those heavenly treasures and earthly precious materials can extend one's life by a thousand years, without sufficient strength and special absorption methods, never mind gaining a fortuitous opportunity-they're deadly poison!"
This also completely dispelled the thoughts of some weaker soul masters on the Douluo Continent who had hoped to go to the Great Thousand World and pick up overlooked bargains.
Fortuitous opportunities belonged only to the strong.
If the weak went there, even a puddle of water by the roadside could take their lives!
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