Soon, Wu Wei's level plummeted from level 84, all the way down to level 0.
Wu Wei was only eighteen or nineteen this year. To possess such a high cultivation at his age would scare a great many people to death if word got out.
Unfortunately, one step behind meant falling behind at every step.
His cultivation had never been able to catch up to Tang San and the others, and he hadn't managed to snatch a single opportunity.
Every level of his Soul Power had been earned through his own cultivation.
The reason Wu Wei possessed such terrifying cultivation at his age was that after awakening his Martial Soul, he had also awakened heaven-defying comprehension.
Over the years, he had relied on that heaven-defying comprehension to continually create and improve cultivation methods and create Soul Skills of his own. That was how he had cultivated so quickly.
And now, in a single day, he was back to square one.
What Wu Wei didn't know was that the scene of him laughing wildly even after receiving divine punishment was being broadcast live through a sky screen to a past spacetime.
The past spacetime.
Wu Wei was in a first-year class at a junior Soul Master Academy when a thunderous boom rang out overhead. The sky looked as though someone had split it down the middle.
Everyone was frightened.
Then a screen of light emerged from the crack in the sky, occupying a vast stretch of it. All anyone had to do was look up to see it.
"A sky screen?"
As a transmigrator, Wu Wei immediately guessed that what had appeared in the sky was most likely the legendary sky screen.
"The sky split open?"
"What's that?"
"Is the sky falling?"
"...No! I only just became a Soul Master!"
"What's happening?"
"Did a Titled Douluo do that?"
"Surely only a Titled Douluo could do something like this?"
"That's incredible. It feels like the world's about to be destroyed!"
"Titled Douluo really are terrifying!"
"..."
Wu Wei knew it was a sky screen, but most people didn't.
When they saw it, they felt as though the sky was falling, and every one of them was gripped by fear.
Some also thought a Titled Douluo had caused it.
Yet the Titled Douluo themselves were no less shocked than anyone else.
"What on earth is that?"
Even the Peerless Douluo Qian Daoliu, standing above the Worship Hall and gazing at the split sky, wore a look of shock and disbelief.
Qian Daoliu pressed his palms together and devoutly communicated with the Angel God Statue, hoping to ask whether the Angel God, whom the Qian Family had worshipped for generations, knew what was happening.
But the Angel God was off doing who knew what at the moment and gave him no response at all.
Bo Saixi on Sea God Island was in the same situation.
"Something on this scale couldn't possibly have been caused by a powerful human..."
"This is the work of a god, but aren't gods forbidden from actively interfering with the lower realm?"
Bibi Dong, too, gazed at the sky screen in shock, her face extremely grim.
Many of her plans were still unfinished, and she had no wish for anything to disrupt them.
But all she could do now was worry. She was powerless to stop the sky screen from appearing.
"What on earth is that?"
"The sky split open?"
"Could a Titled Douluo have done that?"
At Shrek Academy, Tang San and the others were also staring at the crack in the sky in utter shock.
"No, there's no way a Titled Douluo could have done this!"
The dean, Flender, spoke with complete certainty.
"That's right. Even a Titled Douluo couldn't do something like this. I'm afraid it might be gods fighting!"
Yu Xiaogang spoke up next, making a very bold guess.
Although he was only level 29, his father was a Titled Douluo, and he had met other Titled Douluo as well. Thus, he knew that the split sky couldn't be the work of a Titled Douluo.
"Gods?"
"Do gods really exist in this world?"
"Aren't they just legends?"
Dai Mubai and the others all cried out in surprise at Yu Xiaogang's words.
Hum-
At that moment, the sky screen overhead also began to change.
The previously blank screen began to form an image, and a view of another world gradually appeared upon it.
[The sky screen has descended! The world shown on the sky screen is a scene from thirteen years in the future.]
Then, in the minds of every living being on the Douluo Continent beneath the sky screen, those words appeared.
Only then did everyone realize that it was a sky screen!
"A sky screen? What's that?"
"How did I suddenly know what it was?"
"Me too. Looks like it's the same for everyone..."
"Is it going to show us the world thirteen years from now?"
"What's so interesting about that?"
"..."
People cried out in surprise once more.
Even the Soul Beasts roared repeatedly.
Amid their shock, everyone breathed a sigh of relief for the moment.
It was good as long as the sky wasn't falling.
Since the sky screen was going to show them scenes from thirteen years in the future, they would just watch obediently.
"Thirteen years from now?"
"I'd like to see whether I've unified the continent by then!"
At Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong put aside her worries after learning the truth about the sky screen and prepared to enjoy the show.
"Thirteen years from now... I wonder whether Xiao Xue will have accepted the Angel God's inheritance, and how it will turn out..."
Qian Daoliu, high above the Worship Hall, also began to look forward to it.
"I wonder whether our Sea God Island will have found an inheritor by then?"
"And Tang Chen... surely he'll have come back to see me?"
Bo Saixi murmured to herself on Sea God Island.
"So it's showing the world thirteen years from now. I wonder how we Shrek Seven Devils will be doing then..."
"We'll definitely have made names for ourselves!"
"That's true. We're the Shrek Seven Devils!"
Dai Mubai and the others at Shrek Academy also grew curious.
"I wonder if Sister Xiao Wu will have cultivated to the Titled Douluo realm thirteen years from now!"
"Sister Xiao Wu definitely will!"
Da Ming and Er Ming in the Star Dou Great Forest also looked forward to seeing how their Sister Xiao Wu would be doing thirteen years in the future.
Everyone beneath the sky screen was curious about the world thirteen years from now.
Naturally, that included our transmigrator, Wu Wei.
"So it's a spoiler-type sky screen. Too bad it's not a quiz or a golden ranking, or I might have been able to snag some rewards!"
After understanding how the sky screen worked, Wu Wei was somewhat disappointed.
Even so, he was genuinely curious about how the world thirteen years from now would turn out with him thrown into the mix.
Although he had only just awakened his Martial Soul, a full six years later than Tang San and the others,
he believed he could catch up to them.
Soon, the image on the sky screen fully formed, revealing an overhead view.
It showed a battlefield, with both sides resting for the time being.
Far from the battlefield, a young man stood atop a mountain, seemingly waiting to enjoy the show.
The image gradually revealed the young man's appearance.
Then a transparent status card appeared above his head, plain for everyone beneath the sky screen to see.
[Name: Wu Wei] [Age: 19] [Cultivation: level 84 Soul Douluo] [Soul Ring Configuration: black, black, black, black, black, black, black, red]