The New Continent Must Lack Depth? Yu Xiaogang Gets a Slap in the Face! Longcang's Might Revealed!

The shock brought by the sky screen was far from over.

Although the major powers of the Douluo Continent had been shaken to their cores by the unimaginably vast rewards bestowed on "first place,"

the pride of "traditional Soul Masters" deep in their hearts still made them grit their teeth and refuse to bow.

Heaven Dou Empire, the imperial palace's main hall.

Xue Ye sat high upon the Dragon Throne, an unmistakable gravity between his brows.

On either side of the hall, the Heaven Dou Empire's nobles, ministers, and senior officers of the Imperial Knights stood in ranks. The atmosphere was somewhat oppressive.

Just then, accompanied by steady footsteps, Ning Fengzhi, Sect Master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, entered the hall. Beside him stood a middle-aged man with his hands clasped behind his back and his chin slightly raised.

The middle-aged man wore an arrogant expression, his eyes holding the confidence of someone who had seen through the ways of the world—none other than Yu Xiaogang, respectfully called the "foremost Grandmaster of theory," and commonly known as "Gangzi."

"Your Majesty, I have brought the Grandmaster to seek an audience." Ning Fengzhi cupped his hands slightly, his tone carrying undisguised admiration.

Xue Ye's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly raised a hand. "No need for formalities, Sect Master Ning! Grandmaster, please take a seat! Now that the sky screen has descended and a foreign continent eyes us like a tiger watching its prey, I have been at a loss. Your arrival is truly a blessing for Heaven Dou!"

Yu Xiaogang nodded slightly, his movements composed, showing not the slightest flattery despite Xue Ye's exalted status.

He walked to the center of the hall, turned slightly, and raised his head toward the projection of the "Longcang Continent" within the sky screen. Though silent, it remained imposing. A faint, knowing smile curled at the corners of his mouth, as though he had seen through everything.

"Your Majesty need not worry unduly."

Yu Xiaogang spoke slowly, his voice low and hoarse, carrying the certainty of a "sage":

"In my opinion, this supposedly 'first-place' Longcang Continent... is merely gold and jade on the outside, rotten stuffing within, putting on a hollow show!"

At these words, many of the civil and military officials in the hall froze.

Marshal Ge Long could not help stepping forward and cupping his fists. "Why do you say that, Grandmaster? The sky screen's blessings genuinely included 'plane origin' and 'god-level ore veins'!"

Yu Xiaogang chuckled, slowly turning around, his hands still clasped arrogantly behind his back as his gaze swept across the hall:

"You have only seen the heavenly treasures bestowed upon them by the sky screen, while overlooking the most fundamental logic of combat."

He raised one hand, extended a finger, and spoke with easy confidence:

"First, the path of Soul Engineers is inherently a minor, unorthodox pursuit! True powerhouses must rely on their own Martial Souls and Soul Power, climbing step by step. That alone is the proper path. Relying on firearms and tin boxes is putting the branches before the roots!"

Everyone nodded. That seemed to make sense!

"Second, and most importantly—"

A confident gleam flashed through Yu Xiaogang's eyes as he declared decisively:

"You all saw those so-called 'battleships' floating above the Longcang Continent just now.

They were certainly enormous and imposing, but did any of you see them display any offensive soul-guidance weapons?

Did you see any terrifying instruments of slaughter like the Sun Moon Continent's 'Level 9 Fixed Soul Guidance Cannons'?"

He sneered and shook his ponderous head:

"No! None whatsoever!"

"By all reasonable logic, even the Sun Moon Continent displayed theirs. If Longcang truly possessed weapons capable of destroying heaven and earth, the sky screen would surely have manifested their power during its review to demonstrate its underlying strength.

The fact that it showed none means... those colossal things that seem to blot out the sky and sun are nothing more than 'flying tin shells' lacking any core means of attack!"

"They may possess astonishing defenses and carry people, but before a truly peerless Titled Douluo, they are merely dead targets floating in the sky, incapable of maneuvering nimbly!"

Listening to Yu Xiaogang's "lofty analysis," each layer fitting snugly into the next like interwoven threads, many civil and military officials in the hall immediately brightened and nodded in agreement!

"That makes sense! The Grandmaster truly deserves his title—he struck the heart of the matter in a single sentence!"

"Exactly! The Sun Moon Continent even demonstrated the power of its fixed soul guidance cannons just now. Other than being big and impressive-looking, the Longcang Continent never showed any offensive Soul Tools!"

"Then they're just a 'big, fat pig' with countless divine-grade resources but no matching fangs?"

The gloom in Xue Ye's heart was swept away as well. Stroking his beard, he laughed heartily:

"Hahahaha! Listening to the Grandmaster is worth ten years of study! If the Longcang Continent truly lacks offensive capabilities as you say, then once the Two-World Passage opens and our Douluo Continent's greatest powerhouses pounce on them, won't victory be ours for the taking?!"

Watching Yu Xiaogang shine so brilliantly, Ning Fengzhi's eyes gleamed with admiration, and he could not help sighing sincerely in his heart:

Everyone calls Yu Xiaogang a useless man, little knowing that the theories and vision within his mind are worth a hundred thousand mighty soldiers!

The ancients said that whoever gains the wise gains the world... but seeing him today, it is clearly "whoever gains Gangzi gains the world"!

Ning Fengzhi stepped forward with a smile and cupped his hands. "Your Majesty, the Grandmaster's theories surpass all others, past and present. With him serving as our Heaven Dou Empire's Imperial Advisor, why should we fear the shifting winds and clouds of the two worlds?"

The atmosphere within the hall immediately turned harmonious, with praise and agreement ringing out without end.

Yu Xiaogang stood proudly with his hands behind his back, his eyes filled with the calm assurance of one whose calculations left nothing unaccounted for, fully displaying the elegant bearing of a great theoretical Grandmaster.

However—

Before Gangzi could maintain that elegant pose for even three seconds!

Rumble—!!!

High above the nine heavens, the sky screen, which had already finished distributing its rewards and gradually fallen silent, suddenly began to tremble violently!

A dimension-crushing wave of sound, a hundred times grander than before and laden with supreme destruction and slaughter, crashed into the void throughout the entire plane like divine thunder from the nine heavens!

[Supplementary sky screen revelation: a display of the Longcang Continent's military might and underlying strength!]

[Warning: the following content includes extremely dangerous plane-destroying weapons. All living beings, please prepare yourselves mentally!]

Buzzz—!

That mighty broadcast was like an invisible hand that instantly seized the throats of everyone in the Heaven Dou imperial hall!

The smiles of Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, and every civil and military official, who had been immersed in laughter and merriment, instantly froze on their faces.

Yu Xiaogang, his hands still behind his back, shuddered even more noticeably and instinctively raised his head toward the sky.

Within the sky screen, the previously tranquil sea of purple-and-gold clouds exploded apart!

The view abruptly zoomed in, plunging deep into the airspace above the heart of the Longcang Continent—

At that moment, the images manifested!

In the first image, the main cannon muzzle of the Longcang Continent's sky-blotting "God-Level Soul Guidance Battleship" slowly opened, revealing rune-lined rails within, as deep and dark as a black hole.

Beneath the hull, an enormous metal launch silo thundered open, and a black-and-gold missile hundreds of meters long, radiating an aura that could destroy heaven and earth, slowly rose along its rails!

The missile's surface was engraved with divine-grade formations so intricate that even a Limit Douluo's soul would be torn apart by a single glance!

The sky screen's icy narration followed, resounding throughout the entire plane:

[The Longcang Continent's ultimate conventional strategic weapon—the 'God-Slaying Soul Guidance Nuclear Bomb'!]

[Introduction: employing Spatial Compression and Microscopic Soul-Power Fission Technology, it contains pure spatial annihilation law. A single strike can instantly reduce all land within a radius of ten thousand li to absolute nothingness!

The destructive radiation and law storms it produces can permanently eradicate level 99 Peerless Douluos, and even... directly inflict grievous damage upon and annihilate the divine bodies of Lower-Realm Divine Officials and Deities of the Divine Realm!]