Darkness Grading, All Useless Lives Erased

The Blood-Red Sky Screen dimmed without light, while icy black mist shrouded the entire sky of the Douluo World.

After the Outer Dark Envoy descended, a deathly pressure spread across thousands of miles of mountains and rivers.

Gods were merely servants of another race, the continent was originally an Eternity feeding ground, and the truth of the Plane Prison was completely exposed.

For the first time, all the original powerhouses and countless living beings faced a terrifying existence beyond the level of the heavens. They could not even summon the thought of resisting.

High in the sky, the Dark Envoy floated silently above the center of the continent, its hollow black eyes sweeping the land with cold indifference.

The Blood-Red Sky Screen simultaneously lit up with frigid words, ruthlessly announcing Douluo's final fate.

[Dark Plane Judgment begins]

[All living beings on the continent will undergo unified bloodline grading]

[Superior nourishment: survival retained, continued cultivation]

[Medium nourishment: left to live or die, no intervention]

[Inferior waste: immediate eradication, soul annihilation]

There was no humanity, no morality, no right or wrong, no good or evil.

In the eyes of the Outer Darkness, the beings of Douluo were not divided by race, goodness, or righteousness and evil.

There was only the quality of nourishment, only usefulness and uselessness.

The countless blood-red comments fell into dead silence, and bone-piercing cold seeped into every viewer's heart.

[Grading? They're directly sorting people into ranks and killing the useless ones?]

[Gods at least played with schemes. Darkness only knows pure annihilation!]

[Kindness is guilty, evil is innocent. It only cares whether your bloodline is valuable!]

[Struggling through a chaotic lifetime, only to end up unqualified even to be feed!]

[Douluo's billion-year deception ends with garbage being cleared out in batches!]

An invisible curtain of darkness spread out, covering the entire continent.

Humans, Soul Beasts, the Sea Clan, the elderly, children, villains, and evil cultivators—none were overlooked.

A blood-red grade mark appeared on every person, clearly labeling the value of their origin.

Low-ranking commoners, elderly people, those with weak Innate Soul Power, and ordinary people with incomplete bloodlines.

The vast majority of ordinary beings were immediately assigned the waste rating.

In an instant.

Entire towns perished in silent extinction.

There were no screams, no bloodshed, no struggle.

Those judged useless turned directly into flying ash, their souls annihilated on the spot.

In that brief instant, hundreds of millions of ordinary people vanished from the continent without a trace.

Heaven and earth became terrifyingly silent.

Above the ruins of Spirit City, Bibi Dong's entire body turned icy cold, and her black robes trembled violently.

As one of the plane's strongest beings, her bloodline was rich and her origin powerful, so she had been classified as superior nourishment.

Yet as she watched countless innocent commoners vanish into ash in an instant, a tide of freezing horror surged through her heart.

She had spent her life opposing the injustice of gods and resisting the oppression of fate.

But in the end, darkness could not even be bothered to disguise its injustice.

Weakness was the original sin. Uselessness was a capital crime.

"Gods schemed for eternity, but at least they gave living beings a chance to live."

"When darkness descends, it will not even grant us the right to struggle."

Bo Saixi stood upon the frozen sea, Azure Sea Divine Power throughout her body frozen in place.

Huge numbers of low-ranking Sea Clan members were instantly annihilated, and entire deep-sea tribes vanished into thin air.

More than ninety percent of the vast Sea Clan population was categorized as inferior waste.

The inheritance of races spanning tens of millions of years was reduced to ash at a single word from darkness.

The sea she had guarded all her life, the people she had protected all her life—

were nothing more than dust darkness could erase at any time.

Within the mountain ranges of the Clear Sky Sect.

Tang Chen raised his head to watch living beings vanish across the sky, his aged body trembling violently.

The Haotian bloodline was uniquely blessed and belonged to the superior grade.

Yet countless innocent mortals at the foot of the mountains turned into nothingness in waves.

He had spent his life pursuing the martial path, safeguarding peace across the continent, and believing that strength and weakness each had their Heavenly Dao.

Only now did he understand that this world had no Heavenly Dao at all.

There was only cold, brutal plunder and selection without any bottom line.

"Ancient ancestors fought against the gods for freedom."

"Now, even our right to live depends on darkness's favor."

Within the Star Dou Great Forest, horrific scenes continued to unfold.

Vast numbers of low-ranking and weak Soul Beasts perished. Races with inferior bloodlines, short lifespans, and thin origins were directly exterminated.

As an ancient supreme ferocious beast, Di Tian possessed an extremely high bloodline rating and stood firmly among the superior ranks.

Yet he watched his own kind continuously disappear, his massive body suppressing endless grief and fury.

Races had reproduced and endured without cease for hundreds of millions of years.

Before the Outer Darkness, they were fragile beyond measure and utterly worthless.

Xiao Wu's entire body went cold as she curled tightly amid a sea of flowers.

Her bloodline was pure, and her rating was relatively high, allowing her to survive.

But countless gentle little Soul Beasts around her vanished one after another, and the once-lively forest became empty and deathly still.

She yearned for peace and freedom, hoping all things could coexist.

Yet reality was that the weak did not deserve to live in this world.

The evil soul masters, villains, and murderers who ran rampant through the chaotic age unexpectedly received a reversal of fortune.

Many evil cultivators who had committed countless crimes, possessed dense killing aura, and had violent origins instead contained ample killing aura and high nourishment value, earning medium or even superior classifications.

Good people died miserably, while evil people survived.

Good and evil were completely inverted, and morality no longer existed.

The surviving members of Shrek were deathly pale, plunged into utter despair.

Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing had passable bloodlines and barely remained alive.

Oscar and Ning Rongrong relied on their sects' foundations to escape eradication.

Ma Hongjun's Phoenix Fire Seed was special, placing him among superior nourishment.

But the ordinary companions around them and the refugees traveling with them turned into flying ash in waves.

The Shrek that had once valued justice, friendship, good, and evil—

seemed tiny and laughable before darkness's grading.

The Sky Screen mercilessly revealed the truth behind the classifications:

Darkness only devoured origin energy. The heavier one's killing aura, the more slaughter one had committed, and the richer one's bloodline, the greater one's value.

Those who were kind and pure, peaceful in temperament, weak and ordinary, possessed no nourishment and were directly eradicated.

Killers were allowed to live, while the kind were wiped out completely.

These were the new rules the Outer Darkness had set for Douluo.

Within an Eternal Restriction on a remote Barren Mountain.

Tang San knelt silently among the jagged rocks, raising his head to watch the extinction filling the sky.

A blood-red grade suddenly appeared on his body—

[Special-grade supreme nourishment, among the top three in bloodline value across the entire plane]

As an artificial prodigy carefully cultivated by gods, condensed from Divine Blood and responsible for slaughtering countless members of his own kind,

his origin was rich to the extreme, making him darkness's highest-quality, most exceptional food.

Others feared being erased, but he alone, because his sins were too deep and his slaughter too great,

instead possessed the greatest qualification to remain alive.

How ironic.

He had committed countless evils throughout his life, massacred living beings, betrayed his own kind, and stained himself with blood.

The world despised him, the continent judged him, and the Heavenly Dao imprisoned him.

Yet in darkness's eyes, he was the most precious and valuable treasure on this continent.

"I am covered in sins, so I deserve to live."

"All living beings are kind and simple, so they deserve to die."

The hoarse murmur scattered in the wind, and the last trace of humanity in Tang San's eyes was completely ground away.

He finally saw clearly that this world had never possessed justice or fairness from beginning to end.

There was only plunder, only strength and weakness, only the value of nourishment.

Deep within the sea of clouds high above.

Li Xuan stood in white robes, cold and detached as he looked down upon the grading and batch extermination of all beings.

He did not intervene, did not shelter the living, and did not oppose the Dark Envoy.

The system panel coldly reorganized the cruel information.

[Darkness grading complete: fewer than thirty percent of the continent's living beings remain]

[Inferior waste eradication complete, Plane Origin depletion has intensified]

[Dark Envoy reports to the alien race: Douluo is damaged, nourishment insufficient]

[Darkness's final decision: the plane will be completely destroyed in seven days]

[Host's sole authority: may reverse the ending and break the prison of the heavens]

The red light of the Blood-Red Sky Screen dimmed, and the Dark Envoy slowly raised its hand.

A strand of Dark Law descended, reinforcing the Plane Barrier and sealing off every chance of escape.

Douluo no longer had a future.

The old deception came to an end, and the old gods died.

The weak were erased, while evil was preserved.

All that awaited the entire continent was complete annihilation into Chaos seven days later.

Above the heavens, a scarlet, icy announcement slowly appeared:

[Next chapter: Ultimate Choice, the Heavens-Breaking Prison Battle begins]

[Only Li Xuan can oppose the Outer Darkness and save the eternal prison]

All beings despaired as darkness pressed down from above.

The survival or destruction of Douluo would be decided in this battle.