Azure Emperor! The Blue Silver Empire Adrift on the Ocean!

The azure ocean lay peaceful and still. Then, without warning, a wave more than a hundred meters high rose from its surface!

A ten-thousand-year-old orca had swum into the area. Before it could use a Soul Skill to evade, the wave slammed into its back, shattering its bones. It rolled belly-up and began to drift.

As wind and waves surged, a crimson Soul Guidance Mecha burst from the sea.

It stood about ten meters tall, its body gleaming with metal. With a Water God Cannon on its shoulder and a long blade in its hand, it hovered in the air.

"Third Prince's Crimson Typhoon really is the latest Soul Guidance Mecha developed by the Imperial Soul Guidance Institute. That strike rivaled a Titled Douluo's!"

"The championship in this year's Imperial Mecha Tournament is practically in Third Prince's pocket!"

Inside Crimson Typhoon's cockpit, Third Prince Ye Gucheng listened to his subordinates' flattery, the corners of his mouth lifting.

"Don't praise me too highly. My younger sister's Supersonic and the Mecha Academy's Optimus Prime are both latest-generation combat mecha. Neither is any weaker than my Crimson Typhoon!"

"Third Prince, you're too modest! The mecha may all be new, but you're the vanguard of the Empire Reconnaissance Corps. You have far more combat experience than they do!"

Ye Gucheng raised an eyebrow at their praise. He thought so too.

Their flattery had struck exactly the right note.

"Enough. Continue scouting ahead. If nothing unexpected turns up, return to the Mothership."

"Third Prince, Swift has sent word. There's a continent ahead. Its area is unknown, but it doesn't look much smaller than Blue Silver Continent."

Ye Gucheng opened the images transmitted by the Swift unmanned reconnaissance aircraft. They showed a continent entirely unknown to imperial records!

Worse, according to their projections, this continent lay directly in the path of Blue Silver Continent's drift!

In other words, the two continents would one day meet!

His eyes lit up. No achievement surpassed expanding the realm!

"Send the information back to the Wanderer Mothership. Based on Swift's distance from it, Blue Silver Continent will meet this continent in five days."

The news flew from the reconnaissance team to the Mothership, then onward to Blue Silver Continent behind it...

Blue Silver Empire, imperial audience hall.

On the dragon throne, Emperor Ye Wudi slowly opened his eyes. Cold light flashed from them, and nearly every sect representative, civil minister, and military officer present felt a chill in their heart.

"Your Majesty's strength has advanced again. Have you touched the Boundary of Man and God?"

"How could godhood be so easily attained? At my current quasi-god strength, advancing another step is harder than climbing to heaven."

Ye Wudi shook his head and looked at the assembled officials below.

"You should all know the news from the front. Tell me, how should Blue Silver Continent respond?"

"Imperial Brother, has our ancestor sent a divine decree?"

Prince Suppressing the South Ye Wushuang stepped forward and addressed Ye Wudi on the throne.

The ancestor they spoke of was the founder of Blue Silver Empire: the Blue Silver Grass that bore this continent as it drifted across the ocean—

Azure Emperor!

One hundred thousand years ago, Azure Emperor had left the land and begun drifting at sea. Back then, he had been no bigger than a palm.

Eighty thousand years ago, his true form had grown as large as an island, and people had gradually settled upon him.

Sixty thousand years ago, Blue Silver Continent had taken shape. But its many nations and sects were locked in chaotic strife. Azure Emperor's human incarnation emerged, swept across the six directions, unified the continent, and named his realm Blue Silver Empire. All under heaven bowed before him.

Blue Silver Empire had endured ever since.

The imperial Ye family were direct descendants of Azure Emperor's human incarnation.

Every Martial Soul passed down through their line belonged to the Blue Silver lineage.

Every generation of the Ye family produced dragons and phoenixes among men.

Emperor Ye Wudi, for instance, possessed the Blue Silver Overlord Spear Martial Soul, Innate Full Soul Power, and quasi-god strength at Level 99.

Prince Suppressing the South Ye Wushuang possessed the Blue Silver Storm Sword Martial Soul, Innate Full Soul Power, and the strength of a Level 99 Limit Douluo.

Known as the empire's twin pillars, the two had utterly eclipsed everyone else of their generation!

At his younger brother Ye Wushuang's question, Ye Wudi looked rather embarrassed.

"Only Little Nine's bloodline has reverted to our ancestor's, giving her the ability to communicate with him. You know how restless that child is. I haven't managed to reach her yet."

Everyone burst out laughing.

Who didn't know that Emperor Ye Wudi doted on his daughter?

In his determination to have a daughter, he had fathered eight children in a row—all sons. Fortunately, the ninth time was the charm. The long-awaited Little Nine was finally a girl.

And Ninth Princess Ye Qingqiu had lived up to expectations. Her bloodline was almost as pure as the ancestor's, and she had awakened the Ye family's true god-tier Martial Soul—the Blue Silver Emperor—with Innate Level 20 Soul Power!

Only a clansman with the purest bloodline could communicate with Azure Emperor through divine sense. Even Ye Wudi, for all his quasi-god strength, could not do it.

While the assembled officials were still laughing together, the roar of a mecha echoed outside the hall.

The next moment, a blue-and-white flying mecha charged straight inside. It held a massive saber, and four cannons hung beneath the blue-and-white wings of its fighter-jet configuration.

"Daddy, I'm back!"

A girl's clear voice rang from inside the mecha. The next moment, the cockpit in Supersonic's chest opened, and a stunning young woman brought the machine down to land.

"Uncles, make way! I can't stop my mecha!"

Fortunately, the audience hall was spacious enough to accommodate the new Supersonic mecha.

And apart from Ninth Princess Ye Qingqiu, no one would have dared drive a mecha straight into it.

Ye Qingqiu jumped out of the cockpit, gave her second uncle Ye Wushuang's beard a tug in passing, and skipped up to Ye Wudi.

"Daddy, don't be angry. Our ancestor sent a divine decree! I was in such a hurry to report it that I drove my mecha right in~"

As she spoke, Ye Qingqiu blinked her wide eyes, her lashes fluttering like butterfly wings.

What could Ye Wudi say? He had only been pretending to be angry in the first place.

"Tell us. What are our ancestor's instructions?"

Ye Wudi rose from the dragon throne and descended to stand before the others. Together, they turned toward Ye Qingqiu, who stood in front of the throne.

It was a mark of respect for their ancestor. Only Azure Emperor's direct descendants knew that he had never ascended. He was still alive, and his strength was unfathomable!

Ye Qingqiu's expression grew solemn. Her bright eyes swept over the crowd.

"Our ancestor's divine decree!"

"The continent ahead is called Sun Moon Continent. Blue Silver Continent has always cherished peace. Send an advance fleet ashore to hold friendly talks with Sun Moon Continent's imperial family."

"If friendly talks prove impossible, Blue Silver Continent fears no challenge."

"Remember: Blue Silver Continent will never fire the first shot, but neither will we give an enemy the chance to fire a second!"

Below the steps, Ye Wushuang's gaze turned cold.

Their ancestor's instructions were perfectly clear: courtesy first, force afterward. If words failed, they would fight!

Ye Wushuang turned to the officials behind him and declared:

"Appoint Third Prince Ye Gucheng as vanguard. Have him lead the Wanderer Fleet and prepare to land."

As Blue Silver Empire prepared to land on Sun Moon Continent, a golden light stretching from heaven to earth spread across the sky.

A vast screen unfurled across the heavens, covering all of Douluo Star.

[Douluo Star Canopy Live Broadcast has begun. All beings with intelligence may connect to the broadcast through mental power.]

[The live broadcast has three sections: Douluo Continent Section, Sun Moon Continent Section, and Blue Silver Continent Section.]

[Today's first bulletin: Blue Silver Empire's vanguard will land on the west coast of Sun Moon Continent today for the first friendly talks between the two continents.]