[Teaching Panel] Name: Ye Xiao Soul Power: 10 Comprehension: 10 Martial Soul: Epiphyllum Sword People taught: 1 (hidden: 43964396) Sword Dao inheritance: Angel Sword Technique version 2.0 (60% increase in combat power)
"I'm invincible, invincible! I'm invincible!"
Ye Xiao couldn't contain his excitement as he watched his hidden count of people taught soar!
Every one of those hidden people represented someone with a strong desire to become his disciple and learn his Dao!
He had thought he would have to toil away, lying low and developing, improving his strength and broadening his horizons while swindling people into becoming his disciples and selling his skills...
Calm down, calm down...
I can't pop the champagne at halftime... Besides, this isn't entirely good news...
Before the heavenly screen exposed me, I could have improved my comprehension by quietly developing. But now that it's exposed me, I'll have to be much more careful. If my identity gets out, I'm afraid I'll never have another peaceful day.
Ye Xiao sank into thought as he watched the sister and younger brother teasing each other on the heavenly screen.
His horizons were too limited right now, so he could only apply his comprehension to pure combat skills.
His immediate priority was to improve his strength and read more, thereby broadening his horizons!
Besides, the Angel Sword Technique is a little difficult for ordinary people. Even Sister Guyi only managed to keep up with my innovations over three years because she had a solid foundation...
So I'll have to find a way to make a quick-learning version.
Ye Xiao's handsome red eyes darted around as he began pondering his future.
Yet just as Ye Xiao was thinking about his future, the ethereal voice of the heavenly screen rang out again!
[Ding-dong! Gods have been detected continuing to neglect their duties and attempting to interfere with the growth of the Douluo Plane!] [As punishment, the essence, Qi, and spirit levels of all living beings in this universe will be reduced to zero in twelve years, and the cultivation of the one who neglected their duties will be reduced to the equivalent of a level 99 Limit Douluo.]
"How is someone still so thickheaded?"
Ye Xiao's expression instantly turned strange.
A large part of the reason he had been so excited earlier was that the Divine Realm's interference after the heavenly screen appeared had been met with an early punishment.
Even thinking with his ass, he knew it was most likely Tang San or the Nine-Colored Goddess Ning Rongrong who had gotten ideas after seeing scenes on the heavenly screen of people opposed to them.
And that meant that, after this warning, the Divine Realm would never dare interfere with the lower realm again unless the entire institution went mad.
In that case, Ye Xiao was still very confident about dealing with a lower realm free of divine interference!
"That really is ridiculous..."
Ye Guyi's expression was strange too. Hadn't they already been punished once?
How was there still a god who didn't know whether to live or die?
In the Divine Realm, the Destruction God King glanced at Tang San, looking as though he wanted to speak but stopped himself.
"It really fucking wasn't me!"
"Just look at my strength and you'll know!"
Dark lines covered Tang San's face. They couldn't just dump every pot on his head, could they?
"Tang San's strength hasn't decreased. It really wasn't him this time."
The Goddess of Life frowned in puzzlement and glanced at the other sealed Shrek Seven Monsters. Their strength hadn't changed either...
"So, is this punishment mechanism random...?"
"Is it possible that sometimes the whole Divine Realm gets dragged into the punishment, while other times only the culprit gets punished?"
Ji Dong said thoughtfully.
That was quite good. It could effectively prevent certain disgusting gods from deliberately interfering with the lower realm just to drag down the entire Divine Realm.
"Maybe the heavenly screen only lowered that person's strength this time because he was thinking of dragging the Divine Realm down with him?"
Ji Dong said doubtfully, casting Tang San a thoughtful glance.
His guess might allow them to stop fearing they would smash the vase when attacking the rat where Tang San was concerned, but he couldn't force Tang San to turn against them over a bold guess alone.
"I'll investigate this. I won't spare the god whose level was lowered!"
Lie Yan nodded and said nothing more.
"Look on the bright side. That god's cultivation has fallen below the divine level, so does that mean he can interfere with the lower realm again without being punished?"
Ji Dong spoke with a teasing smile.
For a moment, the atmosphere in the Divine Realm grew a little more cheerful.
By contrast, the Star Dou Great Forest had sunk into an eerie solemnity.
The Soul Beasts looked at one another. At the very center of the Lake of Life, which they had gathered around,
a silver-haired woman stood with a deathly pale face. Judging by the water still rippling around her, she had most likely been struck by lightning.
"My lord..."
Di Tian dropped to one knee and cupped his fists in salute, his face full of apology.
"It doesn't matter!"
"I knew all along that the heavenly screen would punish me..."
"Just as I expected, this punishment lowered my cultivation, but it also erased the injuries in my body!"
"And my so-called cultivation will eventually dissipate in the future anyway!"
"In that case, why shouldn't I use my cultivation as a bargaining chip to buy a ticket to the new era?"
Gu Yuena spoke calmly, her expression unchanged.
But behind her back, where no one could see, her two little pink fists were clenched tight!
Her sharp nails had dug into her flesh!
"Di Tian, the rule that gods may not interfere with the lower realm will now become iron law!"
"In that case, why not leave Star Dou with me and bring back that future of the Soul Beasts?"
Gu Yuena took a deep breath. Now that things had come to this and she had already suffered the punishment, she couldn't give up halfway!
At the thought that millions of years of cultivation had vanished in an instant, Gu Yuena felt as though her heart was bleeding!
But to save face as the sovereign of the Soul Beasts, she had no choice but to force herself to keep up the act!
"Di Tian obeys!"
Di Tian respectfully saluted again, his blood burning with excitement!
This was his lord, a woman of world-shocking wisdom!
Who else could have burned their boats and cut off their own arm with such resolve?
"Really?"
Xiong Jun's face was full of ursine doubt. Why did he feel that his lord looked a little heartbroken?
Boom!
Before Xiong Jun could say another word, seven elements surrounded him, and he was instantly buried in the earth.
"Myriad Demon King, your Plant-type Soul Beast clan has the widest field of vision. I'll leave it to you to find the human who created the method of self-condensing Soul Rings."
"Once you've found him, I'll open a spatial rift myself and bring him back."
Gu Yuena withdrew her fist and spoke in an unhurried voice, not even glancing at the earthen mound on the ground.
"I respectfully obey your command, my lord!"
"I will not fail you!"
Myriad Demon King glanced at Xiong Jun struggling desperately inside the mound, then immediately gave Gu Yuena his assurance with renewed vigor.
For him, the Myriad Demon King, there was only one word: loyalty!
Gu Yuena nodded faintly and said no more, turning her attention back to the heavenly screen.
On the heavenly screen, after the young couple walked out of Qiankun Asking Love Valley in an intimate mood, they encountered some other people as well.
[Wang Qiu'er: the Emperor Auspicious Beast in human form, occupied by one-third of Tang Wutong's soul] [Huo Yuhao: son of destiny of the Douluo Plane] [Wang Dong: one-third of the soul of Tang Wutong, daughter of Sea God Tang San]