A barren wasteland! Unfit to stand as a continent! The Sea God rages in the Divine Realm! Sea God Island merges into the Douluo Continent plate!

It had not placed last, nor fallen short by a hair-it had never even made the grade!

With a single verdict of "roadside rabble," it had hurled Sea God Island straight into a filthy gutter before the entire plane!

"Thud!"

Beside her, Sea Dragon Douluo staggered, nearly tumbling off the Moon Platform.

His towering, muscular frame trembled violently. "Road... roadside?! It called us roadside rabble?!"

"Absurd! The greatest absurdity under heaven!!"

Sea Dragon Douluo suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and howled until his voice tore:

"Lord Sea God is a supreme principal god who ascended to the Divine Realm! All within this Endless Ocean are his subjects! What right does it have... to say we don't even make the grade?!"

Behind the Moon Platform, Sea Witch collapsed to the ground, the jade flute in her arms slipping free; Sea Horse Douluo's face was ashen, as though every drop of blood had been drained from him.

After a brief, deathly silence.

Boom-!

The Chat Interface across the entire Douluo Continent erupted instantly, as though someone had dropped a depth charge into it!

Spirit City, the Papal Hall.

"Pfft-hahahaha!"

Dressed in luxurious robes, Bibi Dong had been struggling to keep her beautiful face stern, but she finally covered her lips and let out a deeply satisfied laugh:

"Roadside rabble... what a fitting description!"

Mockery and delight flashed through Bibi Dong's eyes as she sneered at Yue Guan and Gui Mei, who stood below her, equally dumbstruck:

"I truly thought that little island in the Endless Ocean was hiding some heaven-overturning trick, daring to stick its head out before anyone else on the continent!"

"After all that fuss, they couldn't even reach the Sky Screen's threshold. The Heavenly Dao simply kicked them out like stray dogs!"

Bibi Dong slowly paced to the railing, her beautiful eyes brimming with satisfaction:

"Bo Saixi, oh, Bo Saixi, you've spent your whole life priding yourself on divine favor and lofty purity, disdaining to set even half a foot on mortal land...

Now every living creature under heaven is watching you, watching to see what a joke your supposedly supreme sacred land really is!"

Meanwhile, inside the Worship Hall.

Leaning beside the Angel God Statue, Qian Daoliu suddenly relaxed his body, which had been taut to the breaking point.

He raised a hand and vigorously wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, then let out a long, shaky breath, still rattled:

"Thank goodness... thank goodness I stopped Golden Crocodile just now!"

As Qian Daoliu stared at the chilling verdict on the Sky Screen, his mouth twitched uncontrollably. He was both terrified in hindsight and unable to stop himself from wanting to laugh:

"If Spirit Hall had stepped forward in the name of 'the Angel God's favor' and been publicly denounced as 'roadside rabble that doesn't make the grade'...

I could have found a block of tofu and dashed this hundred-year-old face of mine against it to end it all today!"

"Sea God Island... truly took this resounding slap across the face on behalf of everyone under heaven!"

Outside Heaven Dou's Golden Throne Hall, Yu Xiaogang was so gleeful at their misfortune that he flung off his wet trousers, waving his arms and pounding the stone table:

"Rejected! Rejected on the spot! Without even giving a reason!"

"So what if they're ruled by a god? They still got humiliated! The Heavenly Dao is impartial, utterly impartial! Hahahaha!"

The Sky Screen's comments section was just as lively. Countless golden and silver messages bearing divine sense imprints burst forth in a dense torrent!

[Clear Sky Sect · Seventh Elder · Blazing Sun Douluo: You overestimate yourselves! Truly the greatest joke under heaven!

A mere isolated island overseas, living off a few scraps of cold leftovers left by an old deity tens of thousands of years ago, and you dare leap out to demand a seat from the Heavenly Dao?!

Even I, wielder of the Clear Sky Hammer, regard this new ranking with reverence. What the hell does Sea God Island amount to?!

Trash that cannot even pass the preliminary review dares compete with our supreme sects on land?!]

[Shrek Academy · Theoretical Grandmaster · Yu Xiaogang: Look, everyone! The Heavenly Dao shines clear, and my theories have proved flawless!

Once Sea Soul Masters leave the water, they become water without a source. They possess an inherent, fatal weakness. How could they compare to land-based Soul Masters?!

Furthermore, Sea God Island has nothing but a primitive tribe's sacrificial system. A well-deserved rejection!

The foundations of Sea Soul Masters fall far short of those of land-based Soul Masters! The words 'roadside rabble' are the finest ironclad proof of the supreme theory of Martial Soul orthodoxy!]

[Sun Moon Empire · Xuan Hongchen: Utterly laughable! A closed-off fishing village that cannot even draw up a basic Soul Tool blueprint, where the entire island relies on a few hundred charlatans burning incense and begging for protection!

And you dare call yourselves 'supreme within the plane'? The Sky Screen already spared you a little dignity by not classifying you as 'wilderness savages'!]

The mighty figures of Douluo and Sun Moon had only just been fretting over their own rankings.

But after seeing the self-important Sea God Island slapped by the Sky Screen until its Dao Heart shattered.

The humiliation of being suppressed by Longcang transformed in an instant into wild delight at someone else's catastrophe!

"I refuse to accept this!!"

Atop Sea God Mountain, Bo Saixi's face twisted completely with humiliation and fury.

She glared fixedly at the Sky Screen high above the heavens, her voice hysterical:

"You think the word 'roadside' can erase the prestige of my Sea God Sacred Land?!"

"Sea God Island commands the Endless Ocean! Tens of millions of Sea Soul Beasts bow as our subjects, and hundreds of millions of living beings revere the Sea God! Who can rival the breadth of our territory?!"

"Sky Screen! If you truly possess the Great Dao's impartiality, then explain why Sea God Island cannot hold an independent seat! Why are we not even qualified to enter the ranking?!"

Bo Saixi roared at the firmament!

She had to fight!

If she did not fight to reclaim this shred of dignity, Sea God Island would become the entire plane's favorite laughingstock from this day onward!

The sacred faith she had served all her life would also sink completely into the mire!

Faced with Bo Saixi's nearly deranged challenge, the Sky Screen high above the heavens did not grow angry.

Instead, it presented exhaustively detailed, ironclad evidence-a public execution of Sea God Island!

The majestic, utterly cold voice of the Heavenly Dao broadcast throughout the Douluo Plane:

[Sea God Island's objection has been received! The ironclad evidence for its classification as beneath the grade will now be published:]

[First, Sea God Island's actual land area is small. In essence, it is merely an isolated, barren wasteland offshore.]

[To seek a place alongside vast continents spanning tens of thousands of li with a mere impoverished island spanning a hundred li is sheer arrogance.]

[Furthermore, your attempt to count the 'Endless Ocean' as Sea God Island's 'territory' is nothing but sophistry!

The waters are a flowing, boundless sea, not a landmass that supports civilization. How could they qualify for the continent ranking?

By that fallacious reasoning, any ten-thousand-year Sea Soul Beast roaming the ocean could claim to command tens of thousands of li! Every one of them could enter the ranking!]

[Second, the boundless seas span tens of thousands of li, with tens of thousands of deep-sea ancient lineages and ancient ferocious beasts.

Sea God Island's actual control extends only within a thousand-li radius of Sea God Sacred Mountain!]

[Your supposed 'dominion over all seas and reverence from all living beings' is purely a title Sea God Island bestowed upon itself behind closed doors, grossly divorced from reality!

In the eyes of the true deep-sea overlords and million-year ancient lineages, Sea God Island is, at most, a solitary outpost of human faith!]

[Third, Sea God Island consists only of the Seven City-States guarded by the Seven Sacred Pillars and the Ring Sea around Sea God Mountain!

Its total permanent population numbers only a few tens of thousands, with fewer than two thousand Sea Soul Masters!]

[Its population and land area fall far short of even a small, remote city in the Heaven Dou Empire! Moreover, its level of civilization development is low, remaining in the city-state era!]

Every word was a blade, flaying skin and stripping bone!

Every line struck like a sledgehammer, smashing the sacred disguise Sea God Island had worn for ten thousand years!

[The Sky Screen's final classification:]

[Since ancient times, Sea God Island has been an outlying island attached to the Douluo Main Continent Plate. It is not qualified to constitute an 'independent continent'!]

[For an offshore barren wasteland spanning a mere hundred li to seek equal standing with continents spanning tens of thousands of li is ignorant presumption. The rejection stands!]

The moment the Sky Screen's verdict fell, the entire plane's Chat Interface boiled over in near madness!

Sea God Island had just shouted loud enough to shake the heavens, declaring again and again that it "ruled the Endless Ocean"!

Yet once the Sky Screen stripped away its underwear, it turned out to be inferior to even a remote little city in the Heaven Dou Empire?!

[Sun Moon Empire Emperor · Xu Tianhuang: Hahahaha! I was just wondering how many millions of elite troops this supposed ruler of the boundless seas had hidden away. After all that fuss...

Even with every old and young islander counted together, you have fewer people than a single Logistics Battalion of my Royal Soul Engineer Corps?

A mere offshore barren wasteland dares call itself a continent? What a laughingstock! You truly do not know your limits!]

[Star Luo Empire · Dai Tianfeng: A few tens of thousands of people? Fewer than two thousand Soul Masters? Is Sea God Island trying to make me die laughing?

With those meager assets, who gave you the damned nerve to call yourselves sacred?! Bo Saixi, if you have the guts, bring those two thousand fishermen of yours to my Star Luo Empire and try us!

One casual charge from my million-strong army could trample your entire wretched island into gravel!]

[Heaven Dou Guest Official · Dugu Bo: Hiss... although I dislike passing judgment, when faced with this Sea God Sacred Land that holds its nose in the clouds and constantly sneers at land-based Soul Masters...

Even I cannot resist spitting today! I thought you were a mighty dragon of the ocean! It turns out you are merely a loach coiled on a reef! You have me laughing myself sick!]

[Heaven Dou Empire · Xue Ye: Ahem! I thought Sea God Island was unfathomably powerful, but it turns out you cannot even compare to a little mountain village in my empire!

With such meager substance, you actually had the arrogance to seek separation from the Douluo Main Continent Plate and establish a ranking of your own?

Why don't you piss a puddle and take a good look at yourselves first!]

Dense streams of mocking comments from emperors, overlords, and Titled Douluo rolled across the center of the Sky Screen.

Every word stabbed the heart!

On Sea God Mountain, the seven Sacred Pillar Douluo, who had been brimming with murderous intent, now turned from pale green to purple, then from purple to black, trembling like chaff in a sieve!

"Pfft-!"

At the words "inferior to a remote little city," rage surged into Sea Horse Douluo's heart, and he spat a mouthful of blood onto the ground!

Overcome with shame and fury, he covered his face and plunged headfirst from the thousand-zhang cliff into the sea, diving stubbornly to the bottom. He would rather be a turtle hiding its head than dare glance at the Sky Screen again!

Sea Spear Douluo's bones crackled all over. His spear clattered onto the stone slabs, and he squeezed his eyes shut, wishing he could gouge out his eyes and destroy his ears on the spot!

It was too humiliating!

Before every living being in the entire plane, his old dignity had been stripped bare-not even his underwear remained!

The wind howled. Bo Saixi's nails had sunk deep into her flesh, and blood stained the Scepter red.

Watching the Sacred Pillar Douluo below dive into the sea to hide, then looking at the rigid, lifeless faces of those on the steps, Bo Saixi's eyes flashed with madness.

She abruptly raised her head and, screaming herself hoarse, threw down her final trump card:

"Even... even if our land is small, so what?!"

"Sea God Island has Lord Sea God himself watching over it! We possess a true god's legacy! The Sea God Trident stands guard over us!"

Pointing at the towering blue-gold radiance atop Sea God Hall, Bo Saixi roared, almost completely losing her composure:

"A god's mighty power stands above all mortal things! No matter how much scrap iron mortal empires manufacture or how much territory they occupy!

Before a true deity, they are still nothing but dust to be crushed beneath a single finger!"

"Sea God Island is protected by Lord Sea God's divine power... how will you explain that, Sky Screen?!"