The summit of Mount Tai.
In the distance, on a mountain peak overlooking the entire Jade Emperor Peak, two figures stood silently.
Lin Hao, dressed in white, stood with his hands behind his back. His robes fluttered slightly in the invisible waves of energy stirred up by the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin, yet remained spotless.
His handsome face carried a faint trace of reminiscence and emotion, and his deep, Double Pupils shimmered with an indescribable, complex light.
"Finally... I've witnessed this scene again."
He murmured to himself, his voice barely audible, yet carrying a sense of déjà vu that transcended time and space.
After all, this scene is the prelude to the grand opening of the Shrouding the Heavens World," and the starting point for countless legends and tragedies.
Even with his current status and cultivation level, witnessing it again still stirred ripples in his heart.
"Grandpa, this... this is the ' Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin ' you mentioned before?"
Standing next to Lin Hao, Ji Ziyue's bright eyes were filled with shock and curiosity.
Born into the Ji Family, she had witnessed countless grand events and possessed some knowledge of the Void Emperor's legacy and the divine power of Emperor Weapon.
But the nine ancient black dragons before her, as majestic as mountains, pulling that colossal bronze coffin that seemed capable of suppressing all the heavens and myriad worlds, still exuded a sense of oppression that originated from her bloodline, her soul, and the very essence of "Tao" and "Law," causing her heart to tremble.
"What... what a terrifying aura! What exactly is buried in that coffin?"
Lin Hao did not explain immediately, his gaze remaining fixed on the Bronze Coffin that was slowly opening a crack.
And just then...
Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Li Dan, and the others were already being guided by the light of the Five-Colored Altar and rushed into the Bronze Coffin in a panic.
Then, the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin into the air, and the Five-Colored Altar emitted a divine light that pierced through heaven and earth...
"Now!"
Lin Hao's eyes suddenly changed.
"Open!!!"
His Double Pupils were already extraordinary, and now Lin Hao had pushed them to their limit.
Ordinary cultivators, even Great Sage or Quasi-Emperor, would suffer damage to their souls and have their Dao hearts shaken if they stared at this coffin;
In severe cases, one may be devoured by the supreme energy contained within, which buries heaven, earth, and all living beings, leading to death and the dissipation of one's spiritual essence.
But Lin Hao is different.
He possesses Double Pupils, which is an unparalleled talent for seeing through the very essence of things.
In addition, his own realm and profound understanding of the laws of the Shrouding the Heavens World gave him the qualification to briefly "peep".
In the vision of the Double Pupils, the form of the Three-Life Bronze Coffin underwent a tremendous change.
It was no longer just a huge Bronze Coffin, but a condensed, blurred, and ever-changing nascent universe, an extremely complex three-dimensional map woven from endless Dao patterns and chains of laws.
Even so, Lin Hao still couldn't grasp much of it.
Or perhaps he was simply using Double Pupils as a pretext...
In that fleeting moment, capture those outwardly manifested fragments of law that resonate with his own path.
"I see..."
Lin Hao's mind stirred slightly, and he fell into a strange daze.
Lin Hao finally came to his senses only after the Three-Life Bronze Coffin had completely disappeared.
"Alright, let's go."
He turned around and spoke to Ji Ziyue, who was staring blankly at the sky beside him.
Ji Ziyue exclaimed "Ah!" and snapped out of her daze. She immediately followed like a little tail, her eyes filled with lingering curiosity and shock. "Go? Great-Grandpa, where are we going?"
"To Mars, the Great Thunderclap Temple."
" Mars? The Great Thunderclap Temple?" Ji Ziyue blinked, not understanding, but her steps were already close enough to follow, her voice full of curiosity, "What are we going there for?"
Lin Hao offered no explanation, but simply flicked his sleeves, and an invisible spatial aura enveloped the two of them.
The next moment, their figures blurred like ink in a painting, disappearing silently from the side of Mount Tai.
Douluo Continent, Shrek Academy.
At this moment, as the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin soared into the air, Mount Tai gradually shrank to a dot, followed by the continuous mountain range, the vast plains, and the crisscrossing rivers...
Until, all that remained in sight was a deep, cold, and utterly silent darkness.
Against this boundless dark backdrop, countless points of light, some bright and some dim, floated and flickered silently.
And recently...
It is a huge, azure planet.
"Hiss--!"
Instantly, a chorus of gasps rose and fell across the Shrek Academy's plaza.
"What... what is that?!"
Ma Hongjun abruptly took a step back, his fat face drained of color, and his finger pointing at the Heavenly Screen trembled. "A... blue... big ball? Floating... floating in the pitch black... place?"
Oscar stared intently at the planet, his Adam's apple bobbing, his voice dry and strained. "That's... where Li Dan and Ye Fan are?"
"It's actually... a ball? Suspended in that darkness?"
"This... how is this possible?"
Ning Rongrong covered her mouth, her beautiful eyes wide open, her delicate body trembling slightly, "The earth... isn't the earth boundless? The sky... isn't the sky something that covers everything? How can it be... a sphere?"
As she spoke, she subconsciously looked down at her feet.
"We... were we also...?"
"Impossible!" Yu Xiaogang retorted instinctively, "How can a person stand on a ball without falling off? What about the water? This doesn't make sense!"
However, despite his rebuttal, Yu Xiaogang's voice sounded somewhat weak.
After all, the Heavenly Screen broadcast was right there, and they witnessed Li Dan being pulled out of the 'world' by the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin, and they also saw that the world was actually a blue sphere.
Inside the Spirit Hall, in the Pope's Palace.
Bibi Dong stared at the Heavenly Screen, remaining silent for a long time.
Yue Guan and Gui Mei stood behind, remaining silent.
"... A ball." Bibi Dong finally spoke, her voice tinged with self-mockery.
"A frog in a well!"
"Only today do I understand what those words mean."
"The few of us, and those people outside, are all..."
"The only difference is that some frogs squat in the mud at the bottom of the well, while others... squat on slightly higher rocks. But what's outside the well opening? I've never seen it, nor have I ever thought I'd see it."
Yue Guan sighed softly, "I used to think the world was vast, and the Spirit Hall knew almost everything. Now it seems that what we know is probably... nothing at all."
The Gui Mei nodded subconsciously. "Indeed!"
"Having lived this long, I still don't even know where I am. I thought I'd seen all the sights of the continent, but actually... I haven't even seen what my own home looks like."
Yue Guan her mouth as if to say something, but in the end she just lowered her head.
"... So now you see it. And then what?"
Upon hearing this, Bibi Dong stared at the blue planet in the Heavenly Screen, which was gradually shrinking as the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin away, for a long time.
"Then?"
She repeated Yue Guan's words, her voice soft but cold, "Then, either continue being that frog, pretending you saw nothing today, or..."
She paused.
"Think of a way to climb out and take a look."
"And this opportunity... Shrouding the Heavens World!"
"If we can go to the Shrouding the Heavens World, perhaps we can understand the truth of the world!"