Chapter 43

In the main universe, as the new dimensional transmission activated, the audience inside the virtual live-streaming spheres was utterly astonished.

What was even more shocking was that once all the supreme warrior candidates had been successfully transported into the new dimension and the new dimension's live streams began broadcasting one after another, everyone discovered that only Live Stream Room 001 remained in a state of a snowy screen with a missing signal.

No matter how Green-skin Maka-maka, acting as the host on the main stage, writched his brain to come up with all sorts of excuses, the audience inside the virtual live-streaming spheres knew something was terribly wrong.

So, why was that?

Had something happened to the little cub?

Yet it was obvious that right before the live stream was suddenly cut off, the cub had been completely safe.

Even after the cub's live stream was severed, the audience was still able to catch glimpses of the distant interactions between the cub and that "monster" from the viewing perspectives of other live streams.

Yes, apart from the cub's Live Stream Room 001, the remaining live streams had not been interrupted. Therefore, from the perspectives of some live stream rooms belonging to supreme warrior candidates who were extremely curious about "the monster and the chieftain," one could see from afar that the cub and the monster were still interacting.

And the production team of "Super Warrior II" had not cut off these particular viewing perspectives, which clearly indicated that the interaction between the cub and the monster was not the real reason why the signal of the live stream room had been deliberately severed.

Everyone was immensely curious about all these changes unfolding before their eyes.

However, the damn variety show production team of "Super Warrior II" treated them like fools, insisting on claiming that nothing was wrong and that it was merely a malfunction in the cosmic signal transmission technology of the Dark Universe Corporation.

What a completely amateurish and foolish excuse!

Yet, this very amateurish foolishness kept the mental bodies of the audience present in a state of restless itching. Consequently, they began continuously sending messages to their friends, informing them about a strange "puzzle-solving show" taking place here, which in turn attracted a new wave of viewers.

Of course, that was the reaction of that batch of audience mental bodies on the main stage.

Meanwhile, inside the subspace of Room 001, those simple-minded, polarized fanatic fans of the cub supreme warrior had completely gone bonkers by now!

[Yoyou baby!!]

[Give me back my Yoyou baby!!]

[QAQ Where is my Yoyou baby? Where did such a big, adorable baby of mine go?!]

These polarized fans were jumping up and down inside the subspace of Room 001, exploding with rage over and over again. Yet, precisely because they knew this was their most beloved Yoyou baby's live stream room, they couldn't bear to spew negative review slime in this room and affect Yoyou's rating.

Originally, if things had continued like this, these polarized fans would have at most exploded inside Su You's live stream room and left it at that.

However, some audience members from the main studio happened to curiously wander into Live Stream Room 001, and then let these polarized viewers in the room know the fact that "except for Yoyou's live stream signal being interrupted, the signals of all other subspaces are absolutely perfect."

Once these polarized fans learned this news, they completely exploded—

[This is discrimination!!]

[This is bullying our cute Yoyou baby!]

[Damn Dark Universe Corporation, give Yoyou baby back to us!!]

Driven by extreme anger, the frantic polarized fans began pouring out of Subspace 001.

They couldn't bear to cause trouble inside Su You's Live Stream Room 001, but they could certainly bear to wreak havoc in the subspaces of all the other contestants!

And so, all of a sudden, the audiences in the other subspaces were driven to bitter complaints by the commotion raised by this group of polarized fans.

Green-skin Maka-maka on the main stage had, of course, also received this news from the director's team, instructing him that if he encountered such a situation on the main stage, he must try his best to pacify this segment of the audience.

However...

Poor Green-skin Maka-maka looked at the polarized fans who had already rioted into the main stage audience area, and began screaming in silent terror inside his heart—How on earth is he supposed to pacify them?!

How could he possibly pacify these damn polarized fans?!

Unless you immediately start broadcasting Su You's footage!

Idiots!

Those idiots on the director's team, did they not know to play some video clips and highlights of Su You in Subspace 001? As long as there was playback footage showing Su You, these polarized fans would have been instantly hard-controlled and kept inside Subspace 001, so how could they possibly have come out to cause trouble?!

...

But now everything was too late!

On the main stage, poor Green-skin Maka-maka watched the polarized fans running amok throughout the audience area, feeling as though his skull was about to burst open—

So, if gods truly existed, could someone please save him?

...

While the virtual live-streaming spheres of the main universe were plunged into chaos, Dimension No. 25838 presented an unprecedented peace and tranquility.

The Myriad Underworld Demon Venerable had already carried Su You to that very lake where he had first met him, and all the Underworld clansmen across the entire Underworld Domain had, at his summons, gathered before this lake wreathed in ethereal immortal mist.

If the live stream had still been active at this moment, the audience mental bodies inside the live stream room would undoubtedly have erupted into screams—because from their perspective, the entities gathered here were groups upon groups of viscous monsters.

They possessed the most disgusting appearances in the entire main universe; the skin of their bodies was astonishingly sticky and viscous, as though dirty saliva were continually dripping from them.

Such was the appearance of the Underworld clansmen after being cursed. Not only had their appearances become so disgusting and terrifying, but even their dispositions had undergone irreversible transformations due to these horrific looks.

Just as the Myriad Underworld Demon Venerable had surmised—if they continued to maintain this form, all his clansmen would successively begin to truly collapse due to mental overload and psychological unbearable pain.

And once the minds of all the Underworld clansmen collapsed, even if there were a cub capable of helping them break the curse by then, the Underworld clan would, in reality, have already been destroyed.

Therefore...

It was fortunate indeed that they could encounter the cub before their true mental collapse.

At this very moment, even though he had already broken his own curse, the heart of the Myriad Underworld Demon Venerable remained heavy as he looked upon the clansmen gathered here.

He silently tightened his embrace around the cub in his arms, hovering above the mirror-like lake, and said to the little one: "...Yoyou, it is them. These are all my clansmen."

To be more precise, those who were able to come here were the members of the Underworld clan who could still manage to maintain their sanity.

Aside from them, many original Underworld clansmen throughout the entire Underworld Domain had long since completely given up resistance due to their inability to endure the mental toll and their own ugly forms, thereby turning into "true monsters" of the Underworld Domain.

When the Myriad Underworld Demon Venerable spoke of this to Su You, although he did not spell everything out bluntly, looking at his clansmen whose numbers were now far fewer than before, his tone was still laden with profound grief and sorrow.

The cub held in his arms did not actually understand the words of the Myriad Underworld Demon Venerable, but he sensed the heavy and sorrowful aura emanating from him. Thus, the little cub reached out to hug the Demon Venerable, earnestly rubbed his head against him, and then said: "Mingming, are you sad? Don't be sad anymore! Yoyou is here to help you right now, oh!"

The Myriad Underworld Demon Venerable, who had been immersed in anguish, finally revealed a trace of a smile upon hearing this comforting remark from the cub.

He tightened his hold around the cub a bit more, then raised a hand to gently pinch the little one's earnest-looking cheeks, his previously heavy and solemn mood finally easing somewhat.

Not far away by the lake shore, Wanyou gazed from afar at the chieftain who was hovering in the air holding the cub, feeling as though his very heart were being corroded by jealousy.

Damn it—all of this was because he wasn't strong enough!

If he were powerful enough, then it would be him holding the adorable cub and interacting intimately with him!

And the Myriad Underworld Demon Venerable, hovering over the lake not far away, naturally perceived Wanyou's jealousy and envy at the shore. He paid no heed to these emotions, instead sweeping his gaze over all the clansmen gathered along the lake bank, and then issued a command:

[Enter the water.]

On the lake shore, the Underworld clansmen who had already gathered there fell into an immediate commotion upon hearing this command.

Enter the water?!

No... not that!

In truth, all things in the universe have causes and effects.

Although the Underworld clan suffered the most vicious curse in the world, this curse also had a method of resolution—and that was this Mirror Lake within the Underworld Domain.

This Mirror Lake appeared wreathed in ethereal mist, but for the cursed Underworld clansmen, it was nothing short of purgatory.

If one could endure this purgatory, it would cause their curse to fade away—yet within this purgatory, the curses and evil thoughts deep inside their bodies would be magnified ten-fold or even a hundred-fold.

Only by persisting in this purgatory for eighty-nine days, as the eighty-one minor tribulations and the ultimate nine-nine tribulation were weathered, could they break through the curse and restore their former appearance.

Throughout these eighty-nine days, each passing day would cause the lake water to amplify the curse and evil thoughts within their bodies even further. Upon reaching the ultimate nine-nine tribulation, the internal curse and evil thoughts would be magnified another ten to a hundred times over.

No matter how resolute an Underworld clansman's willpower might be, none could persist to the very end in such lake water.

In the distant past, various elders of the Underworld clan had all entered the Mirror Lake for the future of their people, yet even the elder who persisted the longest among them failed to survive the third-nine tribulation.

As for why the cub had encountered the Myriad Underworld Demon Venerable by the lake shore, it was because the latter had been perpetually lingering by the water's edge, preparing to step into that lake himself when he could no longer hold on, in order to seek a final glimmer of hope for his clansmen.

Fortunately—he truly did wait by the lake shore and encounter the hope of life.

At the lake bank, the Underworld clansmen stirred in an initial commotion under the command of the Myriad Underworld Demon Venerable. But following the commotion, all the "monsters" seemed to have abandoned all resistance, ceasing their howls.

At last, the first monster stepped into the Mirror Lake.

Following closely behind, came the second, the third...

As these monsters successively entered the Mirror Lake, the Myriad Underworld Demon Venerable slowly descended from his hovering posture onto a lotus leaf floating upon the lake. He then gently placed the cub he had been holding onto the lotus leaf as well, softly stroking the little one's head: "Yoyou, next... I leave it all to you."