[Ding~ The Divine Punishment of Equality for All Beings... descends!]
That voice rang out from the sky once more.
Dai Mubai stood at the front, and his attribute card appeared.
[Name: Dai Mubai] [Age: 28] [Cultivation: Level 95 Titled Douluo... level 94... level 93... level 92...]
In the sky, Dai Mubai's face turned deathly pale in an instant.
He looked down at his hands, his whole body trembling violently.
"No... my Soul Power... it's draining away..."
Level 90... level 85... level 78...
Dai Mubai dropped to one knee and slammed his fist into the ground, sending broken stones flying.
"No! No! No-!"
He could only watch helplessly as his Soul Power plummeted from the Titled Douluo level.
Then the view pulled back, revealing the entire Heaven Dou Empire camp.
The Shrek group were all losing levels.
Oscar's attribute card flickered.
[Name: Oscar] [Age: 27] [Cultivation: Level 92 Titled Douluo... level 89... level 83... level 74...]
"My Soul Power... my Soul Power..." Oscar collapsed on the ground, clutching his hair with both hands as he screamed hoarsely, "I worked so hard to cultivate to level 92! I'm a food-type Soul Master! A food-type Titled Douluo! How many years did it take me to get this far..."
"What are you yelling for?! You think you're the only one losing levels?!" Ma Hongjun kicked at him, but the levels on his own attribute card were plummeting too.
Level 93... level 87... level 79...
"I don't want to be reset to zero! I don't want this...!" Ma Hongjun squatted on the ground, holding his head and howling.
Ning Rongrong stood at the back, her attribute card flickering.
Level 93... level 88... level 80...
"My cultivation..." Ning Rongrong stared at her hands, tears bursting from her eyes. "I worked so hard to cultivate to Titled Douluo... Grandpa Bone... Grandpa Sword... I worked so hard to make it..."
"Damn it!"
Zhu Zhuqing cursed through gritted teeth. Her legs were going weak too, and her Soul Power Level was plummeting.
It was the same for Xiao Wu.
Level 96... level 92... level 85...
"Brother!" Xiao Wu collapsed to the ground, her face deathly pale and tears streaming down her cheeks. "My Soul Power... Brother... the Soul Power inside me is disappearing..."
She struggled to get up, but her legs gave way and she fell to her knees again.
"Third Brother... Third Brother, wake up, please... sob..."
Her voice was thick with tears.
Throughout the Heaven Dou Empire camp, wails rose and fell.
Countless Soul Masters collapsed to the ground, their levels dropping wildly as their Soul Rings went out one after another.
Yellow rings shattered.
Purple rings shattered.
Black rings shattered.
Red rings shattered.
Soul Ring after Soul Ring burst apart around them, turning into specks of light that vanished into the air.
"My Soul Rings!"
"My cultivation..."
"No..."
"I cultivated for thirty years..."
Screams joined together into a continuous chorus, and the entire camp was like a purgatory on earth.
Dai Mubai knelt on the ground, looking up as his Soul Rings shattered one after another, his dark purple eyes bloodshot.
He threw back his head and roared at the sky.
"Why...?! Why?!"
No one answered him.
His level fell to zero.
All his Soul Rings shattered.
A lifetime of cultivation came to nothing.
Oscar lay sprawled beside him, no longer able even to cry out. He merely stared with empty eyes, mumbling, "My Soul Rings... my cultivation... they're all gone..."
Ma Hongjun pounded the ground with his fists again and again until they were bloody and mangled, letting out a beastlike roar.
Ning Rongrong leaned in Zhu Zhuqing's arms, weeping silently, her whole body convulsing.
Zhu Zhuqing held her, her lips bitten bloody and her eyes red, but she did not make a sound.
In the sky, the Shrek Seven Devils had all been reset to zero, except for Tang San.
Beneath the sky, in the past, the Shrek group, who had been so excited just moments ago, were now pale-faced.
"The divine punishment has descended..."
"All of us in the future were hit too..."
"Why? We worked so hard to cultivate to Titled Douluo. Why take away our cultivation?"
"Why is this happening?"
Ma Hongjun roared, his eyes red. He refused to accept such a future.
"That's right, why?"
"Who on earth provoked the divine punishment?"
"If I find out, I'll kill him right now, before it happens..."
Dai Mubai spoke up in anger too.
The Shrek Seven Devils, as well as Flender and the others, were all furious.
None of them could accept such a future.
At the thought that this would happen thirteen years from now, they were all anxious and angry, wishing they could kill whoever had brought the divine punishment down on them right now.
"Did... did my eyes deceive me just now?"
"Why did I see my Soul Power Level start falling from Soul King?"
Yu Xiaogang looked doubtful. He had appeared in the sky just now too, but the image had flashed past, and he wasn't sure whether he had seen it wrong.
"Xiaogang!"
Flender patted Yu Xiaogang on the shoulder and said with a smile, "You didn't see it wrong. Your cultivation really did start falling from Soul King! It looks like your future self solved the problem that kept you from cultivating any further. That's just like you, Xiaogang!"
He cared a great deal about Yu Xiaogang, which was why he had noticed.
"Really?"
At those words, Yu Xiaogang immediately began trembling with excitement. The discovery made him feel wonderful from head to toe.
Although his level would be reset to zero in the future, he could continue cultivating!
"Everyone, don't worry too much. Although our future selves have all been reset to zero, as long as Xiao San is still around, we can all cultivate back to our former levels!"
"Xiao San in the future is the Sea God!"
"He'll definitely find a way to help us!"
His spirits lifted, Yu Xiaogang immediately stepped forward to reassure the others.
"That's right!"
"Third Brother is the Sea God!"
"Third Brother will definitely help us..."
Hearing Yu Xiaogang's words, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
But in the next second, the view in the sky returned to the Shrek group.
"Brother!"
Xiao Wu, who had been lying over Tang San, suddenly cried out, having noticed something.
As Tang San lay on the stone slab, his attribute card appeared.
[Name: Tang San] [Age: 25] [Cultivation: Level 100 (Sea God)... level 99... level 98... level 97...]
Tang San had been sleeping peacefully in the sky, but his face turned visibly pale.
His level was dropping too.
Level 96... level 94... level 91...
With every level he lost, his Sea God Divine Ring dimmed a little.
The blue-and-gold divine-level Soul Ring flickered, trembled, and cracked wildly.
Level 90... level 85... level 78...
Boom-
The blue-and-gold Divine Ring exploded.
Fragments flew, turning into specks of blue-gold light that vanished into the air.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Then all the red Soul Rings around him exploded too.
The level 100 Sea God had fallen from his pedestal.
Level 70... level 60... level 50...
Tang San lay on the stone slab, his body convulsing. Every time he lost a level, he twitched.
Level 40... level 30... level 20...
Level 10... level 5...
Finally, his attribute card stopped changing.
[Name: Tang San] [Age: 25] [Cultivation: Level 0] [Soul Rings: None]