The Sky Screen Footage appeared once more.
What puzzled all living beings was that the figure appearing on the screen was not a "whale."
Instead, it was an incomparably majestic being.
He wore an Azure Golden Crown, held a trident, and stood upon the Great Sea with a compassionate expression.
"???"
Wasn't this supposed to be the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King? Why did he not look like one at all?
The person in the footage truly was not the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King...
"Se... Sea God!!"
Everyone on Sea God Island, along with the Sea Soul Masters and most Sea Soul Beasts, either knelt if they could or looked up in reverence if they could not.
The Sea God was the faith of Sea Soul Masters and Sea Soul Beasts!
The footage shifted, pulling from near to far.
On the sea not far from the man, a colossal creature appeared, startling everyone.
It was a whale that looked several hundred meters long. Before it, the majestic figure seemed tiny, like an ant.
"Deep Sea, you are far too powerful. If this continues, the Sea Soul Beasts will be devoured by you until none remain!"
Poseidon spoke, compassion and sorrow on his face, though a trace of killing intent showed in his eyes.
"Poseidon, I merely devour the living creatures within my waters. You have no right to judge me!!"
"If I do not devour them, do you want me to starve to death?"
"If my existence is wrong, then why did the Great Sea give birth to me?"
"Poseidon, you Hypocrite!! You do not deserve to be the Sea God. My faith lies only in the Great Sea, not in any god!!"
"I am not afraid of you. Do not dream of making me submit!"
The great whale did not speak, yet its furious roar resounded through the heavens.
After hearing those words,
all living beings fell silent.
They had only seen the terror of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, but the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King...
"The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King... it really does seem to have always stayed within its own waters."
A fisherman spoke.
That was a forbidden zone for fishermen. Not only were there no fish, but entering it could cost them their lives.
Fishermen would not travel to the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's waters to fish. It was a recognized forbidden zone of death among fishermen and Sea Soul Masters.
"If it was only eating..."
On the Sky Screen, the footage and voices continued.
"Deep Sea, you are twisting words."
After hearing this, Poseidon did not waver in the slightest. There was not a ripple on his face.
His grip around the trident tightened involuntarily.
"Poseidon, you want to control me when I eat, sleep, and cultivate?"
"Those lackeys who follow you hunt Sea Soul Beasts everywhere, and they even enjoy torturing them to death. Why do you not act against them?"
"Is it because they provide you with faith? You hypocritical god!"
"I, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, do not acknowledge you as a god, much less acknowledge you as the Sea God!"
"A hypocrite does not deserve my acknowledgment or faith!"
The Demon Soul Great White Sharks who followed the Sea God were no good creatures.
When they hunted, they enjoyed torturing Sea Soul Beasts to death.
Yet the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had never done such things!
Ever since it became aware, it had always swallowed its prey in one bite and never done anything unnecessary.
Poseidon fell silent, but his eyes grew brighter and brighter.
"I will restrain them, but you will destroy the peace of the Great Sea!"
"Bullshit!!"
"I am the Great Sea's choice. I am the Great Sea's guardian god!"
"You are merely an Outsider. You are the one who will destroy the Great Sea's ecology!"
"Big fish eat little fish, little fish eat shrimp. When one whale falls, all things flourish!"
"That is the rule of the Great Sea!"
"You have destroyed the Great Sea's rules. You conquered the Great Sea through force only because you wanted the power of faith to help you become a god. You are a complete and utter Hypocrite."
"They cannot see through you because they are ignorant, but I will never compromise with you!!"
"Poseidon, fight me!"
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King roared, gathering a mass of dark-blue energy mixed with seawater in its mouth before blasting it toward Poseidon.
"Stubbornly refusing to repent!"
Poseidon gripped the trident, raised it high, and hurled it at one of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's eyes.
At that time, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King was only a little over two hundred thousand years old. How could it possibly withstand an attack from Sea God Poseidon?
With a casual strike, Poseidon blinded one of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King's eyes.
What surprised Poseidon was that the core on his trident had actually separated from it!
"Could it be that even the Great Sea believes I was wrong?"
Poseidon stood where he was and did not pursue the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, sinking into deep thought.
After a long while, he cast the Sea God's Heart toward the continent and planted the Sea God's Trident within the Sea God Palace.
The Sky Screen Footage ended.
All living beings fell silent, deep in thought, as though they had understood something.
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King seemed not to have done anything wrong.
Sea God Poseidon had not been wrong either.
Yet the conflict between them had become completely irreconcilable.
The exposed Deep Sea Demonic Whale King did not possess nine hundred and fifty thousand years of cultivation, but no one said it did not deserve to be TOP4!
It was a being that had escaped from the hands of a god!
It was a being that dared to face a god, even challenge one!
Not everyone possessed such courage.
The people of Sea God Island fell into thought, and the Demon Soul Great White Sharks did as well.
How could they not know the Demon Soul Great White Sharks' own situation?
Every word from the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King struck home, leaving them somewhat ashamed.
"So there was such a story between the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and the Sea God."
"Lord Sea God cannot be wrong!"
Even if the Sea God had been wrong, they could not admit it. He was their faith.
God Realm.
Within the endless Great Sea stood a palace, and inside it, a middle-aged man sat cross-legged.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes.
"Why has the power of faith wavered?"
Poseidon was confused and unable to understand.
From time to time, he issued Oracles, and from time to time, he bestowed white, yellow, purple, black, and even red trials.
Under such circumstances, his faith should not have wavered.
Yet now, that faith had suddenly shaken and was no longer as firm as before.
This left Poseidon utterly baffled!
"What change has occurred on Douluo Continent?"
Poseidon turned his gaze toward Douluo Continent.
"???"
The current Douluo Continent seemed to be shrouded by something, making it impossible to see what was happening within.
"This is bad. Something has happened to Douluo Continent!"
[TOP4 review complete.] [Obtained: Successful Dragon Transformation.]
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had not received some amount of cultivation measured in years.
Instead, it had successfully undergone Dragon Transformation!
It did not need to endure the Heavenly Tribulation of Dragon Transformation to break through to one million years and become a god!
It had truly ascended in a single step!
Countless streams of dark-blue energy erupted across the Great Sea, and an aura that pressured heaven and earth spread throughout Douluo Continent at that moment.
"I, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, become a god today. I shall become the guardian god of the Great Sea, the true Sea God! The Sea God Dragon!"
"Poseidon, it is time to settle our debts!"
This reward delighted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King greatly. It had become a god directly!
If the reward had been cultivation, it would still have needed to survive the tenth Heavenly Tribulation.
But direct Dragon Transformation skipped that entire process!
Now, it was the "Sea God"!
At that moment, Sea God Island fell into dead silence!
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