An unknown space.
A dim domain, without a trace of light or a single sound.
All there was was cruel moonlight, illuminating this vast, ancient palace.
The palace was terribly dilapidated.
From its exterior alone, it resembled an ancient ruin.
It had lain desolate for at least ten thousand years.
Boom!
A flagship landed.
It stirred up a cloud of dust.
"He's back."
Inside the palace, a man with short purple hair stood with his arms folded across his chest.
Although he had not gone outside.
His terrifying divine sense had already detected it.
Lion King had returned!
Whoosh!
Below the steps.
Stood a man wearing blue armor.
And a slender woman in black armor.
All three had only equipped their integrated armor, leaving their heads exposed.
The man in blue armor glanced sideways.
Meanwhile, the Heavenly Screen also broadcast the scene of Lion King landing outside the Underworld's palace.
"The Underworld! The Underworld again!"
The Lake of Life.
Tang Hao stood guard over Ah Yin.
He saw everything on the Heavenly Screen.
A cold gleam appeared in his eyes. "I don't care where you come from. If you hinder Little San from becoming a Titled Douluo, my Clear Sky Hammer won't watch where it strikes!"
With that.
He crouched down, his gaze gentle as he watched a stalk of Blue Silver Grass swaying in the wind.
"Little San will soon set out to stop Hades's resurrection. If necessary, I'll clear every obstacle for him!"
Tang Hao clenched his fists.
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
"Grandfather, it's the Underworld! Is this the Underworld!?"
Yu Tianxin's eyes flickered, an indescribable shock filling his heart.
This desolate land was even more barren than the Far North!
Especially that atmosphere where the sun never shone.
Merely watching such a scene through the Heavenly Screen filled one's heart with boundless oppression.
"Look! Lion King is holding the Heaven Dou imperial family's supreme treasure, the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud!"
Suddenly.
A member of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan pointed at the Heavenly Screen, his tone utterly shocked.
Yu Yuanzhen, the clan master, sat in the seat of honor.
His pupils contracted at that same moment.
"It really is. It seems Hades is about to be resurrected!"
After he spoke.
The Heavenly Screen began broadcasting Lion King holding the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
He strode into Hades's temple with the bearing of a dragon and the steps of a tiger.
Inside the palace.
At the very top.
Where the throne had originally stood, a coffin forged from black iron now lay horizontally!
"What is that!?"
The Star Luo Empire.
Dai Mubai, who had returned to the empire with Zhu Zhuqing, had left the imperial palace.
At that moment, the two were atop a pavilion in his princely residence.
At a glance, Dai Mubai spotted the coffin lying across the upper part of the ancient hall on the Heavenly Screen.
"It looks like a coffin!?"
Beside him, Zhu Zhuqing had a cool, aloof disposition.
Yet at this sight, even her pretty face could not help changing.
"Could it be... Hades really exists!?"
It was not just the Star Luo Empire.
Tang San, Ma Hongjun, and the others at Shrek Academy in the Heaven Dou Empire.
All saw this scene.
"We're setting out tomorrow to search for traces of the Underworld. I never expected Lion King to be so fast!"
"Could Hades really be inside that coffin!?"
"Judging by the material, it should at least be forged from black iron!"
"Could a human body lie inside it and survive for ten thousand years!?"
"As someone who fought gods ten thousand years ago, it's only natural for his corpse not to decay for ten thousand years."
"Could Hades never have died at all!? Once resurrected, could he ascend directly to godhood!?"
Liu Erlong offered her view.
"No matter what, Fatty and I will soon set out. We'll represent Shrek Academy, and whatever happens, we must stop Hades's resurrection!"
Tang San saw that everyone was pessimistic, and even fear had arisen in their hearts.
He began rallying their morale.
With Tang San's confidence.
Flender, Liu Erlong, and the others no longer felt quite so heavyhearted.
After all, Tang San had brought them quite a few miracles along the way.
Everyone chose to believe in Tang San!
On the Heavenly Screen.
Hades's resurrection ritual began.
The Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud actually fits the central mechanism of my Xuanming Coffin so perfectly.
Although Lin Feng lay inside the coffin, unable to see the light of day.
He knew everything that happened in the outside world.
Am I finally going to be resurrected? After ten thousand years of tempering, Lion King's strength, in terms of Soul Power, has undoubtedly reached level one hundred and godhood. All he lacks is a position granted by the Divine Realm.
Lion King really does put my mind at ease when he handles things.
The Soul Power Level Lion King outwardly released was that of a level ninety-nine Limit Douluo.
But as for his actual combat strength, no one knew his limits.
"Hades, the Xuanming Key! I respectfully welcome Hades's revival!"
When Lion King faced Lin Feng.
The absolute confidence and composure on his face disappeared.
In their place were incomparable excitement and respect.
Click!
Without another word, he placed the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud directly into the triangular area at the very center of the Xuanming Coffin.
The triangular, prismatic Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud fit the black Xuanming Coffin perfectly.
After the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud was inserted.
The coffin emitted a sound like a mechanism activating.
Metallic clashing sounds crisscrossed.
Around the heavy iron coffin, layer upon layer of seals, amid the breaking and loosening of metal.
Unlocked one after another.
Layers of liquid Soul Power began flowing across the surface of the Xuanming Coffin.
That Soul Power was bluish-purple.
Boom!
Immediately afterward came a terrifying fluctuation of Soul Power powerful enough to shatter the entire palace.
With the Xuanming Coffin at its center, it rippled outward in every direction.
In an instant, it blasted Lion King and the others back.
Behind him.
Those in purple armor, blue armor, and black armor.
All immediately took defensive stances, using both hands to activate protective shields.
"What a powerful presence!"
"What terrifying Soul Power fluctuations!"
"Is this Hades's strength? He hasn't even been resurrected, yet the Soul Power fluctuations released from that iron coffin are enough to reach beyond the palace, even several kilometers away!"
On the Heavenly Screen.
The scene in the Underworld was being broadcast.
To everyone watching, Hades's Super Beast Energy fluctuations were Soul Power!
And these Soul Power fluctuations were extraordinarily powerful! From within the Xuanming Coffin, they instantly pierced through the palace, spreading several kilometers in every direction beyond the Gate of the Underworld.
"What terrifying Soul Power!"
"Judging by the way Lion King acts, once Hades is resurrected, the entire Douluo Continent will surely be plunged into war!"
"Stopping Hades's resurrection is imperative!"
Shrek Academy.
Yu Xiaogang delivered his judgment, slamming a fist against the railing.
His expression was more solemn than ever before.
The Underworld.
"We respectfully welcome Hades!"
"We respectfully welcome Hades's resurrection!"
Lion King.
And the other three.
All knelt in unison.
The blue-haired figure who had still been calmly wearing an eerie smile a second earlier, the haughty purple-haired figure with his arms folded across his chest, and the cold, proud woman with a voluptuous figure clad in black armor.
All three wore expressions of utmost respect.
With Lion King at their head.
They knelt before a coffin!
This eerie scene was transmitted by the Heavenly Screen.
The living knelt before a coffin!
At this scene, everyone watching the Heavenly Screen's broadcast.
Uttered no words of mockery.
Instead, it filled every heart with a chilling fear.
The legendary Hades.
Was about to be resurrected?