I'd Just Lain Low for a Million Years and Become a God King-Why Had a Heavenly Screen Appeared? (1 / 2)

Above the boundless, vast ocean, sea and sky shared a single hue, and the waters lay calm beneath a gentle breeze.

At the center of these waters stretched a continent so immense that it seemed to tear the ocean in two.

Mountains rose and fell like furious dragons rearing from the earth, and towering ancient trees pierced the clouds! Huge soul-guidance airships shuttled through the sea of clouds.

Here, human Soul Masters and high-level soul beasts lived together in peace! Civilization flourished!

This place was called the Longcang Continent!

None of the billions of living beings here could have imagined that this fertile land, stretching untold tens of thousands of miles...

Was not a naturally formed continent at all, but the disguise of a living Ten-Thousand-Mile Dragon Crocodile.

A hundred thousand feet beneath the sea, no daylight penetrated the darkness.

A pair of enormous golden eyes slowly opened, divine radiance born of laws flickering within them, frightening the nearby fish out of their wits and sending them scattering in every direction.

The Ten-Thousand-Mile Dragon Crocodile remained motionless. A single breath could conjure towering waves out of thin air, only for him to calm them with a thought.

This dragon crocodile, so enormous that his size inspired despair, was none other than Ye Canghai, who had transmigrated into the Douluo World a million years ago.

"I really fucking let my guard down..."

Ye Canghai sighed inwardly. He did not even dare release that breath for real, afraid he might accidentally trigger a tsunami and drown the empire on his back.

A million years ago, he had transmigrated into Douluo's primordial age!

Forget the plot starting! Even the founders of the Upper Three Sects and Spirit Hall, whose might would later shake the world, were not so much as sperm yet.

Even more damned frustrating, he had become neither a human nor a top-tier soul beast!

He was merely an ordinary little sea crocodile, barely thirty centimeters long, wandering the deep sea.

Fortunately, heaven never closed every path. He had bound himself to a system called "Devour to Become a God."

Its rules were brutally simple: the more he ate, the more fiercely he evolved, with no upper limit on size or strength!

To avoid attracting the attention of those lofty deities in the Divine Realm, Ye Canghai decisively chose the safest survival strategy—lie low!

He built his foundation on the lowliest little fish and shrimp, eventually moving on to ten-thousand-year deep-sea monsters...

Following the ironclad rule of "make a fortune without making a sound," Ye Canghai ate, ate, and ate like mad beneath the sea!

He kept lying low for a full million years!

From an insignificant little crocodile, he had devoured and evolved all the way into the heaven-swallowing, earth-consuming Divine Beast Dragon Crocodile he was today.

Thanks to the system's conceptual ability of "evolution without limits," he had even relied on his terrifying accumulation to tear apart this world's restrictions of law!

He had condensed his own unique supreme godhood and stepped into the realm of God Kings in one leap!

But just when he thought he had finally brought everything to a perfect conclusion and could assume human form to enjoy life among mortals...

An incredibly awkward problem confronted him!

He had fucking... eaten himself too big!

The system had never mentioned that his size would grow uncontrollably as he devoured things.

Was this what they meant by, I got fatter, but I got stronger too?

By the time Ye Canghai noticed, it was already too late.

His God King-level physique, combined with the immense energy devoured over a million years, had swollen his true body to an outrageous extent!

Both his length and width exceeded a hundred thousand miles, making him larger than the future Sun Moon Continent and Douluo Continent combined!

"Other people become gods in a blaze of glory. I became a god and turned straight into a tectonic plate..."

Hiding was definitely out of the question!

With such an enormous pile of flesh sitting in the ocean, even someone half-blind could spot him at a glance from the Divine Realm, couldn't they?

But Ye Canghai thought quickly. If he could not hide, why not simply pretend to be a piece of "land"?

He got straight to work, creating a disguise of soil, rivers, and mountains over the scaled armor of his back!

He even wielded his God King power to alter the ecosystem on his back, releasing endless life divine power.

Afterward, he took in human refugees left adrift by shipwrecks.

He also lured in large numbers of high-level ferocious beasts who had been hunted by the Divine Realm during the catastrophe of the War of the Divine Dragons and had nowhere left to turn.

In just a few tens of thousands of years, this "Longcang Continent" had developed a uniquely flourishing civilization!

Here, Ye Canghai passed down soul tool technology far ahead of its time, developing it straight to Level 13.

He also pioneered the "divine ring" cultivation method, replacing soul rings with rings of divine power!

Under his guidance, a great host of unwaveringly loyal Titled Douluos and hundred-thousand-year ferocious beasts emerged!

On the Longcang Continent, everyone cultivated using the divine power Ye Canghai released and left behind, which was inherently stronger than Douluo's soul power.

What they condensed were divine rings, too! These stood many levels above so-called soul rings!

For convenience, Ye Canghai simply continued calling them soul power, Soul Masters, and soul tools.

After all, he was already used to those terms.

Ye Canghai released divine power for them to cultivate, granting them strength an entire dimension higher, but this was not purely an act of charity.

At the same time, every human and beast on the Longcang Continent who cultivated divine power fed power back to him. In effect, an entire continent was sustaining him!

Not only that, through the faith of all living beings, he had directly condensed a humanoid God King projection from his dragon crocodile essence!

Seated high upon the imperial throne of the Longcang Empire, he had become the "Longcang Divine Emperor," supreme across the entire continent and worshipped by all its people.

At the center of the Longcang Continent, in the Longcang Imperial Capital, stood the majestic Purple-Gold Hall.

Upon a resplendent dragon throne, Ye Canghai lounged lazily with his chin propped on one hand, feeling thoroughly bored.

He wore an exquisite, eye-catching blue-silver imperial robe. Though he looked young, his entire being radiated a transcendent aura that stood above this heaven and earth!

Below the dais stood two rows of figures, human and beast alike, with terrifying presences.

Leading the left row was a burly man two meters tall, built like an iron tower, his vital energy blazing like a rainbow. He was clearly an eight-hundred-thousand-year deep-sea beast in human form!

Leading the right row was a refined elderly man in white robes, wearing a medal on his chest that marked him as a "Level 13 Soul Engineer"!

His aura revealed that he, too, was one of the greatest experts of the age—a Level 99 Limit Douluo!

"Your Majesty!"

The elderly man bowed and presented a shimmering scroll with both hands, his tone utterly respectful:

"The proportion of Soul Masters reported by the provinces this year has reached eighty percent.

"In addition, every member of the empire's Thirteenth Soul Guidance Legion has been equipped with a Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannon.

"Together with the ferocious beast vanguard, our military preparations are ample, and the continent's defensive barrier is impregnable as a fortress with metal walls and a boiling moat!"

"Even if we eventually border the Douluo Continent or Sun Moon Continent you mentioned, our accumulated strength would allow us to instantly execute a Dimensionality-Reduction Strike and sweep aside every enemy!"

The iron-tower-like burly man beside him flexed his enormous fists and chuckled:

"Your Majesty, I say we shouldn't bother waiting for the drift. With the soul-guidance equipment you bestowed on me back then...

"I could lead a force over there myself and beat those brats fighting with cold weapons and primitive soul skills until they called me Grandpa."

Listening to his subordinates' reports, Ye Canghai's lips curved into an amused smile. He raised one hand slightly, and the hall instantly fell so silent that not even a crow or sparrow could be heard.

"What's the hurry?"

Ye Canghai spoke mildly, his voice carrying boundless divinity! Anyone who heard it could not help feeling the urge to bow in worship.

"The Douluo Continent is currently only in the age of cold weapons, and the Sun Moon Continent's soul tools remain primitive. Rather than resort to force, we should quietly observe how things develop."

"What I want is not slaughter! It is faith and resources!"

Yet what Ye Canghai truly thought was, Fight, my ass! I'm going to keep lying low!

He intended to break through the threshold of Supreme God King in one push. Then he would be able to assume human form and shrink himself with a thought, before taking the fight straight to the Divine Realm.

Who has nothing better to do than fight a bunch of natives? Wouldn't that cheapen my standing as a God King?

However, ideals were plump and full, while reality often liked to play jokes!

Just as Ye Canghai was about to wave his hand to dismiss the court and return to the rear palace for another eighty or hundred years of sleep...

BOOM—!!!

A terrifying explosion that pierced past, present, and future and resounded throughout the entire Douluo Plane and Divine Realm erupted without warning high above the heavens!

Immediately afterward, the sky across the entire Douluo Plane changed.

The once-azure sky faded away in waves, like a painting being torn apart.

In its place came boundless radiant clouds, rolling like a tide, instantly enveloping the Longcang Continent, the Douluo Continent, the Sun Moon Continent, and even the endless waters on the far side of the ocean.

Every living being throughout the Douluo Plane raised their head at the same moment.

Even the deities seated upon their divine thrones in the Divine Realm abruptly rose, horror and disbelief appearing in their eyes.

"What... is this power?"

Inside the Longcang Hall, the arrogant ferocious beast in the form of a burly man paled at the radiant clouds filling the sky! He actually felt an oppressive force sweeping toward him, blanketing heaven and earth!

The Limit Douluo cried out involuntarily:

"A celestial phenomenon! One unseen for a thousand years! This pressure surpasses the limits, even those of ordinary deities. Could some God King have caused this?"

The radiant clouds in the sky finally transformed into an enormous screen that enveloped the entire Douluo Plane.

The heavenly screen appeared!

Rows of golden words traced by the laws of heaven unfolded across the heavenly screen, radiating immortal divine light.

[Presenting the Supreme Rankings of the Douluo Plane, revealing hidden, forbidden existences!]

[All who appear on the rankings, whether continental factions, humans, soul beasts, or even deities, may receive rewards!]

[Generous rewards include, but are not limited to, divine artifacts, Super Divine Artifacts, and opportunities to break through to a divine rank!]