Crack, crack—!
With a string of snapping bones, seven or eight of the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign's main tentacles were smashed clean off at the base.
Scarlet blood sprayed through the air.
The enormous eyeball that had once looked down on everything was swatted away by a casual swipe of the Rainbow Divine Dragon's claw, like a deflated ball. It tumbled wildly through a muddy forest pool, letting out shrill, wretched cries.
"This... this is impossible..."
"Lord Evil Emperor... was crushed without a chance to fight back?"
"He couldn't even withstand one move?"
The people and Soul Engineers of the Sun Moon Empire felt as if their minds had stopped working. One after another, their faces turned deathly pale, and they stood like wooden chickens.
Meanwhile, deep in the Evil Demon Forest...
The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign watched the Sky Screen show him being swatted away like a fly. He was so humiliated and furious that he wanted to crawl into a crack in the ground.
Damn it!
How damnable!
That cursed Sky Screen actually exposed the darkest chapter of my life—the one I least wanted mentioned—to the entire continent!
"Hmph!"
The Evil Emperor gave a low snort of wounded pride. Forcing his spiritual power into a message to the Sun Moon Empire's leaders, he offered a stubborn explanation:
"I simply wasn't in good condition at the time. I had just finished fighting a formidable enemy, and my Soul Power and spiritual power were both severely depleted. That was the only reason that wicked dragon caught me off guard!"
"If I had been at my peak, how could I have lost so miserably?"
The Evil Emperor's voice rang with self-righteous excuses.
The Sun Moon Empire's leaders worshipped the Evil Emperor down to their bones. Once they heard his explanation, they seized on it like a drowning man clutching a straw.
They hurried to flood the Sky Screen's comments and steer the discussion.
"Don't let the footage fool you! Lord Evil Emperor just told us he wasn't in good condition. He had less than a tenth of his Soul Power left, and that's why he lost!"
"Exactly! If they'd fought when he was at his peak, who knows which of them would have won?"
Watching the comments defend him on the Sky Screen, the Evil Emperor's mouth twitched violently.
These idiots...
I only meant for you to know! Why post it on the Sky Screen?
What if you anger that Rainbow Divine Dragon and he actually comes looking for me? Do you want me dead?
The Evil Emperor cursed them inwardly. At the same time, he prayed in silence.
Thank goodness. Thank goodness.
That terrifying Rainbow Divine Dragon left right after teaching me a lesson. He should have been long gone from the Douluo Continent by now.
And... as long as they don't show the part where I begged for mercy, I can still salvage a scrap of my authority.
But then...
The Sky Screen seemed determined to work against him.
Instead of ending, the footage gave the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign a clear close-up.
On the screen...
The dark-red eyeball, hundreds of meters across, had lost every trace of its former arrogance and majesty.
He lay bleeding on the muddy ground, his dozen or so remaining tentacles comically pressed together.
Like a human bowing desperately before a god, he waved them back and forth through the air in supplication.
A miserable spiritual plea, thick with sobs, rang clearly across heaven and earth.
"Mercy, my lord!"
"Little Ball knows he was wrong! Little Ball will never offend you with his spiritual power again!"
"Please, have mercy and let Little Ball go as if he were just a fart! I beg you, my lord, spare me!"
That ridiculous, pitiful scene appeared clearly before everyone on the Douluo Continent.
At that moment...
Everyone in the Sun Moon Empire was left reeling in the wind.
The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign watched himself lying in the mud, pressing his tentacles together and bowing frantically for mercy.
His entire enormous eyeball became bloodshot in an instant, turning bright red.
At last, the image on the Sky Screen slowly faded and ended.
But in that instant, the Evil Emperor died inside.
"No—!"
"No—!"
The Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign's roars echoed through the Evil Demon Forest, making countless Soul Beasts tremble.
His vast body shook. His enormous eyeball was streaked with blood, the color of humiliation and rage tangled together.
"Cursed Sky Screen! The authority I built over eight hundred thousand years has been destroyed today!"
The Evil Emperor roared in anguish deep within the forest. Watching himself wave his tentacles in the mud and bow desperately for mercy, he wished he could tear the Sky Screen apart.
But he could not. Worse, he had to watch helplessly as the entire continent saw every detail.
Still, the Evil Eye Tyrant Sovereign was a top-tier Ferocious Beast who had lived for eight hundred thousand years.
After that crushing humiliation, a fervent light gradually kindled in his enormous eye.
No. I still have the Sky Screen's reward!
Once I receive the next reward, I'll be even stronger in the future!
What is Di Tian to me? And what is that damned Rainbow Dragon?
I'll use the Sky Screen's reward to break through to that legendary realm and wash away this disgrace!
The Evil Emperor stared at the Sky Screen, longing written across his enormous eye. As long as the reward was generous enough, he felt his future could still be bright!
By then, the comments on the Sky Screen across the Douluo Continent had already erupted.
"Hahahaha, I can't take it! I'm dying laughing!"
"Little Ball? 'Let me go as if I were just a fart'? Is this really an eight-hundred-thousand-year-old Ferocious Beast sovereign? He's awfully practiced at begging!"
"Weren't those Sun Moon Empire people acting so arrogant just now? Why have they all gone quiet?"
After their brief shock, the Soul Masters of the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire flooded the comments with mockery.
The Ferocious Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest were especially delighted.
"Hmph. All talk. I thought you had more backbone than that. Turns out that, before a truly powerful opponent, your future self was utterly pathetic."
Xiong Jun, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, posted a comment dripping with scorn.
A hint of disdain also entered Di Tian's golden dragon eyes. He snorted beside the lake and posted a comment of his own:
"I thought you were capable of more. It seems that, before a truly powerful opponent, your future self was utterly pathetic. But..."
"What the Sky Screen showed really did happen in the future."
The moment Di Tian's comment appeared, the once-noisy comments fell into an eerie silence.
"What? Something that happened in the future?"
"How is that possible? Can the Sky Screen predict and reveal things that haven't even happened yet?"
At that moment, Soul Masters across the continent felt their entire understanding of the world crumbling.
In the Heaven Dou Empire's palace, Xue Ye slammed a hand onto his imperial desk, his expression grim.
"The future... Does that mean the continent called the Sun Moon Empire will come into contact with us, perhaps even go to war with us?"
"This information is too important!"
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