The first purple spirit ring of "Mental Probing" began to radiate dazzling light.
The black-haired, black-eyed boy's eyes seemed to hold an entire starry sky; his spiritual power protruded from his spiritual sea, capturing all movement within a hundred meters.
This was a spirit skill bestowed upon him by the hundred-year-old spirit spirit, Xiao Xie, a spirit-attribute evil eye, a gift from his parents for his sixth birthday.
His martial spirit, the Spirit Eye, was inherited from his father, Huo Yuhao.
In his memory, his father, Huo Yuhao, and mother, Tang Wutong, were an ordinary couple in Star Luo City.
Aside from his father being somewhat afraid of his mother, there was nothing special about them.
He vaguely remembered that when he was very young, his father cooked and did housework, but later, for some reason, his mother began to take over his father's duties.
Using Mental Probing, Huo Zhanji cautiously headed towards the distant official road.
According to the descriptions in the Douluo World, the wilderness during the Douluo Continent era was extremely dangerous; a mere level 30 spirit master like him could easily die outside.
"This writing?"
"Familiar yet strange."
"Never mind, hurry up, mental appraisal!"
The third soul ring surrounding the boy emitted a noble purple glow, and all the information from a wooden road sign on the official road entered his mind.
This soul skill was called mental appraisal, which could consume mental power to appraise all things.
It was a soul skill given to him by a thousand-year-old ice silkworm soul spirit.
Although he was somewhat disappointed when he first received this soul skill, he later found it to be very useful.
"Great, it's Star Luo City."
"No matter when, that's always been one of the top cities on the continent."
"I can definitely gather a lot of information."
The black-haired boy quickly headed towards Star Luo City.
The travel speed of a Soul Master was very fast.
Huo Yuhao, with tenth-level soul power, could travel a hundred miles a day, let alone a Soul Master.
He soon arrived at the ridiculously high and wide city wall of Star Luo City, hundreds of meters high and hundreds of meters wide, and his eyes revealed shock.
"The wisdom of the ancients is truly not to be underestimated."
"How exactly was this kind of city wall built?"
The "Star Luo City" he lived in and this Star Luo City were two different places, located on different continents.
The timeline of Huo Zhanji's world dates back to after Lan Xuanyu became the Dragon God, long after the interstellar era.
In his world, such city walls are like paper in front of soul tools, easily broken with a single poke, utterly meaningless.
Apart from a few cities in the original Douluo Continent that retain city walls as tourist attractions, nowhere else uses such an outdated design.
Huo Zhanji arrived at the gates of Star Luo City, nervously looking at the guards ahead.
At this time, he was a genuine unregistered resident, completely vulnerable to scrutiny.
"If you're not a Soul Master, please show your identification."
"If you are a Soul Master, inject a little Soul Power into the crystal ball on the table."
Fortunately, the Douluo Continent at this time wasn't strict about household registration; as long as you weren't an evil Soul Master, you could freely live in Star Luo City.
Huo Zhanji breathed a sigh of relief, injecting a wisp of Soul Power into the crystal ball, which emitted a white light.
The guard nodded and said,
"Please come in."
Huo Zhanji felt a bit like he was in a dream; he hadn't expected the city to be so lenient!
They were only testing his Soul Power characteristics; they hadn't asked his name, age, or even his Soul Power level.
But he didn't care about all that; being able to enter Star Luo City so easily was the best he could hope for.
"Is this the ancient Star Luo City?"
"How wondrous!"
Huo Zhanji walked through the streets of Star Luo City with a face full of curiosity, looking at the backward shops, the simply dressed residents, and occasionally a few powerful auras passing by.
After all, this was Star Luo City, not comparable to Shrek City, but still teeming with powerful individuals.
"Mmm~"
A silver eyeball the size of a bayberry, with tiny tentacles around it, timidly peeked out from between the boy's eyebrows, seemingly surveying the unfamiliar new world around it.
Huo Zhanji hurriedly covered Little Evil with his hand, returning it to his spiritual sea, and whispered to it:
"I'm sorry, Little Evil, you can't come out."
"At this time, soul spirit technology shouldn't have appeared yet."
"If you come out, you might cause big trouble."
Huo Zhanji knew that not only could he not release the Evil Eye, but he couldn't even easily release his soul rings.
Three purple soul rings were absolutely anomalies in this era, and if discovered, he might encounter danger, especially since he didn't know anyone here.
"This is definitely not a game!"
Huo Zhanji looked at the residents coming and going around him and came to a conclusion in his heart.
He secretly probed the bodies of the residents without soul power with his spiritual energy.
Everyone's spiritual energy was extremely unique, no different from that of the normal world.
Moreover, this world had an inexplicable feeling, completely different from the Douluo Continent!
Especially with the disappeared panel and electronic notification sounds, Huo Zhanji, a voracious reader of online novels, guessed that he might have transmigrated.
"It's over, time travel."
"Can I go back?"
The thought that he might never see his father, mother, and sister Dai Ying again filled Huo Zhanji with immense despair, but not enough to make him cry.
He randomly found a curb nearby and plopped down, pondering life with melancholy.
Huo Zhanji was penniless, and he couldn't easily use either of his martial souls; even eating was a problem for him now.
His second martial soul was the Fallen Angel, a dark attribute.
At this time, the definition of an evil soul master was very crude, and the dark attribute was seen by many as a potential evil soul master.
Just then, a strange fluctuation connected to Huo Zhanji's spiritual sea.
His body trembled violently, and before he could react, a light screen appeared before him.
"Verification successful! Race: Human."
"Douluo Continent race, connection allowed."
"Please enter your Magic Network username: ()"
After successful registration, this name will be bound to you. Enjoy your internet browsing!"
Huo Zhanji was stunned. He stared at the light screen, not realizing what had happened for a moment.
When he finally came to his senses, his trembling fingers entered the username "Spirit Eye Boy" in the username field.
Then the magic network completed its binding, and the colors on the screen rapidly intertwined, finally leading to the magic network forum.
Huo Zhanji, his face filled with disbelief, swiped through the forum with his finger, looking at the posts and videos that were almost indistinguishable from modern ones, even including some exciting late-night novels.
"This...is this right?"
"How could there be a network in this era?!"
"What is this magic network?!"
"Who created it?"
"Wait, is this Douluo Continent? Where did I end up?!"
Huo Zhanji realized the seriousness of the situation.
The magic network was clearly the modern internet, but wasn't it too far ahead of its time?
Moreover, the screen in front of him didn't seem to be created by a soul tool.
How could soul tool technology at this stage possibly support a network?
He had seen it when he entered the city; the surrounding streets looked very backward.
If soul tools had developed to the point of supporting a network, Star Luo City, as one of the top cities, wouldn't be in such a state.
Just then, a friend request appeared on Huo Zhanji's screen.
"'Dai Ying' requests to establish a friend relationship with you."
Huo Zhanji's pupils contracted, his body straightened, and he immediately clicked "accept."
"Spirit-Eyed Boy": "Sister? Is that you?"
"Dai Ying": "It's me."
Huo Zhanji was incredibly excited, struggling to analyze the input method of this era, painstakingly inputting the text, and then typing it in.
"Spirit-Eyed Boy": "Sister, how did you find me?"
"Dai Ying": "Your online name hasn't changed in centuries, it's always accurate."
"Where are you? We're in big trouble."
Huo Zhanji quickly replied, his fingers even trembling, completely unaware that a figure had appeared in the shadows behind him.
A white-robed priest with short golden hair and clear golden eyes silently watched Huo Zhanji from behind.
Passersby seemed unable to see the man, but instinctively avoided him.
Adam remained silent, simply watching.
The moment he connected to the magic network, Adam was already beside him, quietly observing the boy before him.
...
A city near the White Tiger Duke's Mansion in Star Luo City, Douluo Continent.
Dai Ying sat on a roadside chair, her long black hair and black eyes strikingly beautiful, like a female version of Huo Yuhao.
One can't help but marvel at the power of the Huo family's genes.
Dai Ying rubbed her temples, feeling utterly helpless.
She had been looking after her younger brother in the God Realm through the Douluo World, and had just modified his third Douluo World mission at her mother's request when a massive error suddenly occurred in the Douluo World.
A spatial-temporal turbulence that terrified countless gods instantly appeared, pulling her and Huo Zhanji into it.
Even with the God King's all-out rescue, it was to no avail; they were both simultaneously submerged by the spatial-temporal turbulence in different locations.
Upon arriving in this world, she connected to the magic network, gathered a lot of information, and realized something was very wrong with this world!
She tried to connect to a godhood, but found that the godhood completely ignored her.
She understood that at this time, her godhood was still in the hands of its original owner, and the godhood wouldn't care about her.
Her strength had also been severely eroded by the spatial-temporal turbulence, as she had forcibly protected herself and Huo Zhanji.
Upon arriving in this world, she didn't know why she was being rejected by it again, and her strength had been reduced to only level eighty.
The black-haired girl was completely focused on contacting her younger brother, unaware that a blonde, blue-eyed girl was silently watching her from behind, colorful ripples spreading gently in the air.
(End of Chapter)
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