Chapter 2 Listen up, mistress! I'll pave the way for you!
Enveloped in golden light, Yu Xiaogang felt exhilarated.
He slowly looked around, his gaze sweeping over those who had once looked down on him, and finally looked at Tang San, nodding slightly and adopting a dignified demeanor befitting a teacher.
"Mistress, watch out."
"My purpose in going to the higher dimensions this time is to pave the way for you."
"There are no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters."
"Even in that so-called Battle Through the Heavens world, I will prove with facts that wisdom is the most powerful force!"
After saying that, he even reached out his hand towards the sky, his face full of confidence and pride.
At this moment, countless people across the continent are paying attention to him.
Some were expectant, some were envious, and others had mixed feelings.
"Xiao…Xiao Gang…" Bibi Dong looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar figure on the light screen and felt a pang in her heart. She muttered to herself, "That world is probably not as simple as you think."
[Personnel selection complete!]
[Teleportation activated!]
The curtain of light descended quickly and disappeared just as fast, giving people little time to react. After a violent distortion of space, the five people shrouded in golden light vanished into thin air.
Immediately afterwards, the scene on the screen shifted again, splitting into five independent perspectives, and began to broadcast their encounters in the Battle Through the Heavens dimension in real time.
For a moment, everyone on the entire Douluo Continent held their breath.
They were eager to know what this high-dimensional world, which even the master Yu Xiaogang was so confident in, looked like!
...
Douluo Continent, above the heavens.
The spatial ripples caused by the teleportation gradually subsided, and the five huge live broadcast split screens finally became crystal clear, even revealing the finest details of the dust particles floating in the air.
And so, countless eyes across the continent were glued to these firsthand images transmitted from the higher-dimensional world.
Even before the exploration has begun, the environment depicted in the background alone is enough to plunge the entire Douluo Continent into a deathly silence.
A collective gasp erupted immediately.
The scene depicts a vast, ancient forest with towering trees, each as thick as a city wall, its canopy reaching into the clouds and blocking out the sun.
What's most striking is that a faint mist, visible to the naked eye, was floating in the air.
That wasn't water mist, but spiritual energy that had liquefied after reaching an extremely high concentration!
"Wow, is this a fairyland?"
"Even through the screen, I can feel that terrifying energy that makes one's martial soul tremble!"
...
Meanwhile, on the light screen, perspective one.
Wang Ermazi, a villager of the Heaven Dou Empire.
Wang Ermazi was lying in a bush, trembling all over.
But he quickly stopped shaking because he smelled a strange fragrance.
Looking up, he saw a bright red fruit, like a ruby, growing next to an inconspicuous weed in front of him.
Although it is only the size of a thumb, it has an alluring luster.
"Plop..."
Wang Ermazi swallowed hard, remembering what the sky screen had said about longevity treasures being found everywhere. Suddenly, a wicked thought crossed his mind. He grabbed the fruit and stuffed it, mud and all, into his mouth.
"That's a Vermilion Fruit? No, its quality is even better than a thousand-year-old Vermilion Fruit!"
Inside the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, Dugu Bo, who had been watching the live broadcast, suddenly widened his green eyes and exclaimed in surprise.
However, the next second, Wang Ermazi's eyes suddenly bulged out, and his skin instantly turned bright red like a branding iron.
"Ah! It's hot, so hot!!"
Immediately afterwards, he let out a shrill scream, and his whole body swelled up rapidly like an inflated balloon.
"Bang!"
Just seconds later, Wang Ermazi was blown into a cloud of blood mist with a muffled thud, leaving not even a complete body behind.
Wang Ermazi is dead!
Less than three minutes after landing, the first explorer died from an explosion after greedily eating a single fruit!
...
Meanwhile, in Douluo Continent.
The atmosphere inside the main hall of the Heaven Dou Empire's palace was extremely solemn.
Emperor Xue Ye, whose face was flushed with excitement, turned pale upon seeing this scene. He gripped the armrest tightly, his knuckles turning blue.
"Exploded...exploded?"
"Just one fruit? It can cause a person to explode?"
At this moment, even Emperor Xue Ye's voice trembled: "What terrifying medicinal power must this be? If it could be diluted a hundredfold and I were to take it, wouldn't it truly extend my life by a hundred years?"
Upon hearing this, Poison Douluo Dugu Bo, who was standing to the side, also looked solemn, and his usually sinister eyes were filled with horror.
"Your Majesty, if that fruit were here, it would probably be a ten-thousand-year-old immortal herb... no, even stronger!"
"That ordinary person, without the guidance of soul power, simply couldn't withstand that domineering force. It seems that while this higher-dimensional world is full of treasures, it's also full of death traps!"
Meanwhile, on the other side is the Spirit Hall.
Inside the Papal Palace, Bibi Dong, who had been sitting solemnly, suddenly stood up the moment she saw the blood mist explode, and the scepter in her hand was almost crushed.
Immediately afterwards, her stunningly beautiful face turned deathly pale.
"How could this be? The energy of that world is so domineering?"
Thinking of this, Bibi Dong's gaze was fixed on the fifth image, Yu Xiaogang.
"Xiao Gang, you only have level 29 soul power. What if you also accidentally ingest this kind of thing..."
She dared not think any further. Although she publicly declared that she would destroy everything and even appeared indifferent and ruthless towards Yu Xiaogang, the obsession and love deep in her heart never faded.
"Elder Yue, Elder Gui!"
"Keep a close eye on Yu Xiaogang's footage! If anything changes, notify me immediately!"
Even though she knew she couldn't interfere from across dimensions, the anxiety she felt made her restless.
"Damn it, why were you chosen! With your meager strength, going there is just suicide!" Looking at Yu Xiaogang on the screen, Bibi Dong bit her red lips, her nails almost digging into her palms.
...
The screen shifted and then quickly switched to another live stream screen that was still lit up, showing Cuihua, the daughter of a wealthy merchant from Heaven Dou City.
Cuihua seemed to have bad luck; she didn't land in an empty forest, but instead landed directly beside a dusty mountain path.
Before she could react, a cacophony of hoofbeats and boisterous laughter erupted.
"Whoa—"
"Brother, look! There's a woman here!"
At this moment, seven or eight burly men dressed in animal skin armor, with faces full of scars, rode a unicorn that resembled neither a horse nor a unicorn and instantly surrounded Cuihua.
This group of people exuded a fierce, bloodthirsty aura, and each of their fists was enveloped in a faint, pale yellow light—a manifestation of their fighting spirit.
"Oh? She has delicate skin and is wearing rather strange clothes."
[end of the chapter]