Douluo's Chance at a Comeback! Gangzi Got Drunk! Sea God Island Protested: That's It? Where Did the Heavenly Screen Put Us? (1 / 2)

"My Shrek may look shabby, but how profound are its foundations?!"

Yu Xiaogang was completely drunk, hopelessly immersed in the beautiful dream he had woven for himself:

"Flender, Erlong, and I form the Golden Iron Triangle, wielding the continent's Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill! Once unleashed, it's enough to clash head-on with an ordinary Titled Douluo!"

"And among the younger generation, there are the Shrek Seven Devils, whom I've poured my life's work into teaching!

Little San has twin top-tier martial souls and innate full soul power, while Ma Hongjun has the evil fire phoenix... Which of them isn't a godlike prodigy seen only once in ten thousand years?!"

"As for divinity, Little San has the guidance of the Sea God and Asura;

As for efficiency, all of Shrek stands united, with unrivaled battle formations! In terms of potential, who on the entire continent dares claim they can firmly stand above my Shrek?!"

The more Yu Xiaogang spoke, the more excited he became, nearly spraying spittle all over Xue Ye's face:

"As long as we secure one of the lower seats—even if we merely catch a whiff of the top ten's exhaust—the Heavenly Dao's rewards will let Little San become a god on the spot!

And I, Yu Xiaogang, will soar into the heavens, completely wash away the disgrace of my trash martial soul, and attain the honor of being the world's foremost divine master!"

"What the hell is that Longcang Continent anyway?!"

Yu Xiaogang swept his hand through the air, his face brimming with disdain and contempt:

"Nothing but a bunch of ordinary mortals huddling together and blindly tinkering with sheet metal!

And judging by that continent's appearance, soul beasts are in power! They're nothing more than savages who eat raw flesh and drink blood!

No matter how vast their land or how numerous their people, they must be a loose, chaotic federation of city-states!

Without martial soul resonance or divine protection, they'll be nothing but a tray of loose sand once war breaks out!"

"How could their inherited foundations possibly compete with our sects and empires, whose legacies stretch back ten thousand years?!"

"A comeback! This is the Heavenly Dao's gift to us, Douluo's rightful heirs—a comeback from the jaws of defeat!!"

It had to be said that Yu Xiaogang's machine-gun barrage of "theoretical deductions" struck precisely at the deepest fears and greed in Xue Ye's heart.

What people feared most was not despair, but a lifesaving straw extended to them amid despair.

The murky fear in Xue Ye's eyes instantly receded.

In its place came feverish greed, utterly consumed by the grand promise of a "Heaven Dou Divine Dynasty" painted by Yu Xiaogang!

"Excellent! What a Grandmaster! Your words have awakened a man lost in dreams!"

Xue Ye slammed his dragon desk so hard that the beads hanging from his crown rattled wildly, then roared at the top of his lungs:

"Send word to the entire army!! Send word throughout the nation! Keep your eyes fixed on the heavenly screen!"

"Every citizen of Heaven Dou shall circulate their soul power and pray to the Heavenly Dao! Of these ten supreme seats, my Heaven Dou Empire will claim one!"

After delivering his excited proclamation, Xue Ye dropped heavily back onto his throne and praised the Grandmaster:

"Grandmaster, your magnificent discourse laid bare the rules! Every word was a pearl, pointing straight to the essence of heaven and earth! Even if mundane, lifeless things run rampant for a time, how could they compare with ten thousand years of rightful heritage?!"

Xue Ye abruptly flung up the broad sleeves of his dragon robes!

Clap! Clap! Clap—!

The emperor was the first to applaud, the heavy, crisp claps bursting through the empty corridors.

In an instant, every minister before the throne responded with a thunderous surge!

Thunderous applause battered the hall like rain striking leaves, accompanied by wave after wave of flattery that instantly drowned the entire chamber:

"Grandmaster truly possesses the divine insight of our age! With far-reaching vision, a single sentence pierced the veil of confusion!"

"With Grandmaster here, Heaven Dou is truly blessed! The rightful heritage of Douluo's Heavenly Dao must lie with our dynasty!"

"Worthy indeed of the title of the world's foremost divine master! With just a few words!

You tore the false mask of those overseas barbarians to shreds! Such divine mastery has cleared the weeds from our minds!"

The civil and military officials clapped until their palms turned red, each face shining with wild joy and tears.

It was as though the Heaven Dou Empire and Shrek Academy had already entered the universe's top ten together and ascended to godhood on the spot!

Amid this all-encompassing ocean of feverish cheers and applause.

Yu Xiaogang felt as though he were soaking in a vat of peerless nectar, so blissful that every pore trembled and moaned!

Conceit!

An unprecedented, swelling conceit swallowed him whole in that very second!

He thrust his chest forward with all his might, lifted his chin high, and curled his lips into an arrogant sneer that looked down upon all living beings.

Even though...

The lower half of his robe still bore the stains from when overwhelming terror had made him lose control of his bladder;

Yu Xiaogang paid it no mind whatsoever!

At that moment, in the heavenly screen's livestream, Yu Xiaogang could no longer suppress his wild joy and pride.

He drew a deep breath and forcibly stirred the pitiful level-twenty-nine Soul Grandmaster soul power within him.

He managed to squeeze a comment carrying his "grandmaster's dignity" into the heavenly screen's rolling pool of golden comments:

[Shrek Academy · Yu Xiaogang: Everyone, remain calm! Our previous contest was a disparity in the scale of our worlds, not a failure in battle!

Now the faction rankings have descended upon the world! Our Douluo Continent possesses an unbroken lineage of ten thousand years, the rightful heritage of martial souls, and countless talented heroes!

There is Heaven Dou's vast might, the sharp edge of the Upper Three Sects, and rising talents blessed with divine potential! The outcome remains undecided, and the gods are watching. Why should we abandon hope?!]

Immediately afterward, Xue Ye's large golden comment pushed its way in, sweeping across the screen with imposing majesty:

[Heaven Dou Empire · Emperor Xue Ye: Grandmaster is absolutely right! A nation's mountains and rivers rest upon its people!

Heaven Dou boasts a trillion common people and a million armored cavalry, revering heaven and honoring the gods! Among these ten supreme seats, there must be a place for Heaven Dou's overwhelming heavenly might!]

[Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect · Sect Master · Ning Fengzhi: Those who follow heaven shall prosper, and the nine treasures shall return to their rightful places! Under the Heavenly Dao's witness, the flame of our sect's heritage will forge still greater glory!]

Heaven Dou's declaration lit the fuse, and the silent livestream comment section erupted like a volcano that had been suppressed for far too long!

The Douluo powerhouses, who had been silent as cicadas in winter, found a spiritual opium called "Heavenly Dao rewards" in their desperate straits.

Golden comments frantically flooded the screen as they struggled to salvage their dignity!

[Spirit Hall's Great Enshrined · Qian Daoliu: The Heavenly Dao shines clearly and will deliver a just verdict! No matter how many forms your clever tricks take, before truly supreme factions and the mighty power of gods, you must ultimately bow your heads and submit!]

[Clear Sky Sect · Sect Master · Tang Xiao: The pinnacle of offensive power beneath heaven! Mortal weapons shatter easily, but Clear Sky is eternal! With the blessing of a super divine artifact, why would our Clear Sky Sect fear visitors from beyond the heavens?!]

Longcang Imperial Capital, the purple-and-gold hall.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

The teacup lid tapped against the rim with a calm, unhurried rhythm.

On the dragon throne, Ye Canghai propped his chin on one hand, browsing with interest through the comments pouring out of the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace and the great sects.

When his gaze passed over Yu Xiaogang's seemingly meticulous analysis,

And the declaration that even subtly placed himself and the Shrek Seven Devils among those with "divine potential and rightful heritage."

Ye Canghai could not help laughing softly.

"Pfft..."

Below him, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King rubbed his stomach, his entire face turning dark purple as he struggled to contain his laughter, nearly tumbling off the golden pillar before the throne:

"Hahahaha! I can't take it! This guy named Yu Xiaogang is going to make me laugh myself to death!"

"He actually said... Longcang Continent is a federation of city-states scattered like loose sand?!"

"And he's counting seats on his fingers? He really thinks that shabby 'Shrek' of theirs, where three people have to scrape together just to barely stand in for one Titled Douluo, can reach the threshold of the top ten?!"

The chief Soul Engineer, the Great Sage, stroked his beard. In a rare departure from his usual refinement, he spoke his mind bluntly:

"Your Majesty, if you ask this old minister, these natives have truly been frightened into hysteria! They've only just wet their pants, yet they turn around and think they're the greatest beneath heaven!"

"Never mind that broken-down academy. Even if Spirit Hall and both empires were tied together, they wouldn't be enough to fill a gap between my Soul Guidance Institute's teeth!"

Ye Canghai took a sip of fragrant tea, his gaze piercing the void.

It settled on the crimson-gold vortex rapidly gathering around the tenth seat on the heavenly screen, his lips carrying pity and coldness:

"They mistake ignorance for confidence and luck for bargaining chips."

"The sweeter the dream, the louder their shattered bones will crunch... when it comes crashing down."

Ye Canghai set down his teacup and lightly flicked his fingertips:

"Since every one of them is so eager to be a winner..."

"Heavenly Dao, stop hiding it. Reveal this tenth place... and let these frogs at the bottom of a well take a good look."

"What bullshit Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empire? What garbage Shrek gets to make the rankings too?..."

On the other side of Douluo Continent, Sea God Island.

Gales raged, and furious waves raised white foam a hundred zhang high before smashing it against the reefs at the foot of Sea God Mountain.

The heavenly screen's golden light high above dimmed slightly. Although the continent rankings had concluded, the atmosphere inside Sea God Hall atop Sea God Mountain remained deeply oppressive.

Whoosh—

A noble scarlet priestess's robe snapped in the sea wind.

Sea God Douluo Bo Saixi stood silently at the cliff's edge, her brilliant azure hair whipping wildly in the wind.

Her exquisite face, normally noble and otherworldly like a goddess of the deep sea, was now coated in frost.

Deep within her eyes, clear as the ocean, fury twisted and churned.

It... it was already over?!

Before Bo Saixi could speak, a rough, heavy roar suddenly exploded behind her!

Sea Dragon Douluo, the most hot-tempered and burly of them, abruptly stepped forward, his violent soul power making everything around him crack.

He pointed at the gradually fading continent rankings in the sky, his face filled with disbelief and the rage of being slighted:

"Absurd! This is the biggest joke under heaven!"

"Five whole places! That damned heavenly screen even ranked those two barren patches out in the open sea fourth and fifth—mud islands where birds won't even shit, filled with nothing but wild beasts and mongrels!"

Sea Dragon Douluo's eyes blazed, his chest heaving violently:

"But what about our Sea God Island?! What about our Sea God's heritage, with its magnificent seas stretching tens of thousands of li, ruling over tens of millions of sea soul beasts and hundreds of millions of sea dwellers?!"

"Does the heavenly screen even understand the rules of this Douluo Plane?!

Our Sea God Island may not cover much land, but our true domain encompasses more than seventy percent of this entire plane's vast oceans!

All the other lands, including Douluo, are nothing but a few clumps of mud floating in the water!"

"It ranked this piece and that piece, and in the end... it treated our Sea God Island like invisible air?!"

Behind the terrace, Sea Horse Douluo and Sea Witch also wore livid expressions.

Sea Witch bit her thin lip and gently stroked the smooth jade flute in her arms, echoing him in a trembling voice:

"High Priestess... Brother Sea Dragon is right!

Our Sea God Island possesses the Sacred Pillars bestowed personally by Lord Sea God, and Sea God Hall's might towers over the world!

In the spiritual richness of heaven and earth or the vast abundance of living beings, where are we not ten times stronger than those ordinary mortals on Douluo Continent?"

"Watching the heavenly screen demonstrate those metal firearms earlier was indeed frightening...

But from beginning to end, these continent rankings never even mentioned our Sea God Island!"

"That's the end of it? Where exactly does the heavenly screen place our Sea God's lineage?!"