Two Divine Artifacts Shatter the Divine Realm's Defenses! Heaven Executes the Vast Sea Golden Dragon! Tang San Becomes a Laughingstock

Roar-!!

A shrill dragon cry thundered out from ten thousand fathoms underground, resounding across the entire ocean!

Under the stunned, breathless gazes of every living being in the plane,

the offerings of countless seafolk and the vast sea's fortune, accumulated on Sea God Island over tens of thousands of years, were forcibly uprooted from the depths of its earth veins by the divine chains filling the sky!

It was a [Vast Sea Fortune Golden Dragon], its enormous body blotting out the sky and sun, complete with scales and claws!

Pure, divine blue-gold radiance flowed through its body.

With every opening and closing of its scales, it breathed in and out the essence of the vast sea's waves. This was the true foundation that had sustained the sea god inheritance in the lower realm of Douluo for ten thousand years!

Yet before the cold, merciless laws of the Heavenly Dao, this majestic, sacred dragon was nothing more than a lamb awaiting slaughter.

Bound layer upon layer in iron chains of causality, it was dragged onto the bronze execution ground high above the heavens and forcibly pressed into the beheading groove of the Heaven and Earth Execution Shackles!

The celestial voice of the Great Dao became a cold, booming bell that resounded throughout the universe:

[Finding: Vast Sea's Sea God Island falsely declared its territorial boundaries, using flowing waters to steal the continent's lawful standing. Its crime constitutes defiance of heaven and deception of the world.]

[Heaven's law is manifest. Sever its ancestral roots, behead its legacy-]

[Execute!]

This was the previously announced sentence: to cut away a hundred years of Sea God Island's fortune! Until now, only Bo Saixi and the Sea God had been punished! This stroke of the axe finally fell upon Sea God Island itself!

Crack-!!!

The Chaos Heaven-Slaying Great Axe hanging upside down high above the heavens thundered down, wrapped in world-annihilating white radiance that severed all causality!

That stroke split the void and shattered ten thousand years of fortune!

Awooo-!!

A despairing death cry tore through the skies of the entire Douluo Plane!

The immeasurably vast Vast Sea Fortune Golden Dragon was cleaved in two at the waist by the great axe in midair!

Blue-gold essences of fortune filled the sky, pouring mournfully from the depths of the void like torrential rain.

But before they could reach the mortal world, they vaporized completely in the raging winds of annihilation high above, leaving not a trace!

[Severance complete! One hundred years of fortune belonging to the land of the sea god inheritance have been utterly erased!]

[Effective immediately, Sea God Island shall be beset by calamity for a hundred years. Its spiritual vitality shall sink into ruin, forever cut off from heaven's mandate!]

The earth veins of Sea God Island collapsed with a thunderous crash. Its spiritual springs ran dry in an instant, and its ten-thousand-year-old trees yellowed and withered.

The azure divine radiance that had once sheltered the entire sea region vanished like smoke. As far as the eye could see, a thousand miles of ocean became black, deathly still, foul water where nothing could grow!

Heaven's punishment was complete, and the great axe slowly faded.

Yet the Sky Screen high above did not disappear. Instead, it erupted with unprecedented golden-red divine radiance stretching ten thousand fathoms.

A decree of the Great Dao blotted out the sky and sun, every word branded like molten gold.

It swept inexorably across the skies of the entire Douluo Plane, proclaiming the judgment's final outcome to all living beings with the inviolable majesty of the laws:

[By decree, let the entire plane bear witness:]

[Vast Sea's Sea God Island arrogantly proclaimed its own standing and recklessly defied the continent's lawful order.]

[Its fortune golden dragon has now been beheaded, and a hundred years of its fortune stripped away. Calamity shall befall it to restore the order of the land!]

[Strip the Sea God's servant Bo Saixi of her 'body bestowed by a false god.' Disperse her demigod power, return her to mortal flesh, and forever cast her soul power down to level ninety-seven. Never again shall she enjoy divine glory!]

[Let this serve as a warning and proclaim the Sky Screen's supreme heavenly might!]

[Any being of this plane who dares again to exploit loopholes and scorn the rules of the Great Dao-]

[Heaven shall execute them!]

Those final words, "Heaven shall execute them," carried an icy, bone-piercing will to slaughter.

They echoed for a long time among the towering mountains and vast oceans of the Douluo Plane!

Heaven and earth fell deathly silent. All sound ceased.

On the Papal Hall's high platform, Bibi Dong's paper-white face no longer held the slightest trace of a pope's commanding majesty.

Only bone-deep awe and lingering terror of those instruments of heavenly punishment remained.

Meanwhile, in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, Yu Xiaogang, already collapsed in a limp heap, was frightened out of his wits by that boundless heavenly might!

He clamped his filthy hands over his mouth, his teeth chattering wildly as he curled into a ball!

Only now did he truly wake to the realization: had he actually submitted an appeal to the Sky Screen in his earlier frenzy,

the great axe that had cleaved ten thousand years of fortune would now have been chopping off his head!

The sea breeze no longer carried the sacredness and grandeur of the Sea God's former favor.

Upon the shattered Sea God Stairway, the [Sea God's Light] that Shrek's members had once worshipped as a miracle and regarded as a stairway to heaven

had already collapsed completely into wisps of murky smoke.

Without divine protection, that mighty power which had once tempered their bodies and bestowed god-granted soul rings

turned in an instant into crushing filth, pressing savagely upon every limb and bone of Shrek's members like mountains of rotten, stubborn iron!

"Thud!"

Tang San's knees slammed onto the rubble. The stones pierced his flesh, and blood instantly stained the steps red.

But he felt no pain.

For three full breaths, his bulging eyes barely moved!

He stared at his right hand, caked in mud and blood and convulsing uncontrollably.

In his palm lay the blades of grass upon which he had always placed his mother's bloodline and the majesty of the Blue Silver Emperor!

Now their leaves were covered in dry, blackened scorch marks, shrinking helplessly in the cold, sinister wind!

More terrifying still, Tang San raised a trembling hand and slowly reached for his forehead.

The moment his fingertips touched the space between his brows, a searing pain like molten iron poured straight into his brain sent his entire body into uncontrollable spasms!

The golden trident brand that had once shone brilliantly and radiated the majesty of the vast sea...

had lost all its light and grown murky, looking exactly like the humiliating criminal brand burned onto a condemned prisoner's face!

Whenever his divine sense tried to reach the Sea God, what answered was no longer Poseidon's grand, merciful gaze!

Instead came waves of nauseating backlash pain, and the bone-chilling deathly stillness left behind when the Heavenly Emperor's great axe had cleaved the golden dragon!

A joke.

An enormous joke!

"The Sea God's Nine Trials... ascending to godhood..."

Tang San forced those words from deep in his throat. Each was a blade, slicing apart the pride he had cherished across two lifetimes!

He, Tang San, had crossed the boundless ocean, escaping death countless times amid raging waves.

He had severed his ties to the mainland and crawled up the stairway like a dog, coughing blood with every step...

He had thought he had obtained the ultimate authority of the Divine Realm, the power to rule over countless living beings!

He had thought he was heaven's chosen savior, destined to stand above everything!

And what had come of it?!

Before Longcang Continent's Super Divine Artifact, which casually tore through ten million miles of sky and pierced a God King's divine soul with a single halberd thrust;

before those thirty-six thousand nuclear weapons, piled in warehouses where they were considered a nuisance, capable of casually scouring the land eight hundred times over...

the "sea god godhood" for which he had staked his life, in the eyes of the Heavenly Dao,

was nothing more than a gatekeeping beggar scavenging the leftovers of mortal offerings in the cracks between planes?!

More ironic still, the sole inheritance that beggar had left in the mortal world had just been cleaved at the waist by the Heavenly Punishment Shackles and drained of a hundred years of fortune!

What he, Tang San, had inherited was no crown that would let him ascend to the summit!

It was a coffin lid covering a corpse already rotten and stinking!!

"Hah... hah, hah..."

Tang San hunched over, prostrate on the cold stone steps, and began retching violently.

Mouthful after mouthful of foul, blackened blood spilled from the corners of his mouth, dripping onto the mark of his Clear Sky Hammer, which had likewise retreated into his body and grown pale as dead ash.

His Purple Demon Eye flickered wildly. Extreme mental turmoil split the corners of his eyes into fine bloody cracks, sending two horrifying trails of blood-tears down his face!

"Fake... it was all fake..."

"Hidden weapons... nuclear weapons... the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record... Super Divine Artifacts..."

"I've fought for this my entire life... what was I even fighting for?! What am I?! What the hell am I?!!"

Boom!

Deep within his mind stood an invincible Dao Heart, built upon "the Tang Sect Secret Arts are unrivaled beneath heaven" and "ascend to godhood, reach the summit, and look down upon all heroes"!

At that moment, it shattered with a sharp, piercing crack, collapsing into desolate ruins of despair!

The entire Douluo Plane sank into an ash-gray silence.

Countless sect elders and royal sovereigns had been frightened into silence by this heavenly punishment, not daring even to breathe loudly.

Yet beneath their utter horror, a lingering haze of bewilderment and absurdity still hung over the hearts of many powerful figures.

They could not understand. How could these two transcendent-divine-level artifacts crush the Sea God? How could that prove that even the Sea God was inferior to Longcang?

On this continent, imprisoned for tens of thousands of years by the legends of Titled Douluo and gods,

the greatest weapons anyone could imagine amounted to "the Sea God Trident weighs one hundred and eight thousand jin" and "the Angel Holy Sword bears the sun's sacred flames."

Within their understanding, so-called "transcendent-divine-level" weapons were, at most, swords and blades that were "a little heavier" or "a little sharper."

They had no way to grasp the awe demanded by such an ultimate concept!

Hum-!

As though it had detected that hollow, barren blind spot in the understanding of the continent's living beings,

the purple-gold Sky Screen spanning the heavens rippled with layer upon layer of utterly cold waves of the Great Dao.

The cold, magnificent cadence of the laws struck mercilessly against every person's sea of consciousness like a decree from the Heavenly Emperor:

[Detected: a plane-wide barrier to understanding.]

[All inhabitants of the Douluo Plane are constrained by the shackles of heaven and earth, gazing at the sky like frogs from a well. For ten thousand years, they have mistaken the crude iron of incomplete divine officials and weapons weighing ten thousand jin for the ultimate heights of 'divine artifacts.']

[They know neither the vastness of the boundless void nor the rise and fall of epochs.]

[To dispel their blindness and correct the plane's understanding, the Sky Screen hereby activates-'Transcendent Divine Aspect: Origin Manifestation'!]

Rumble-!

The instant the voice fell silent, the Sky Screen's static text shattered completely, transforming into a chaotic sea of stars that spanned the skies of the entire planet!

At the center of the image, the first thing magnified without limit and revealed in absolute clarity was a ferocious weapon piercing the universe's primordial horizon-

-[Super Divine Artifact: Heaven-Splitting Mad Dragon Halberd]!

Countless bolts of destructive divine lightning coiled around its shaft. With every leap of an arc,

space for hundreds upon thousands of miles around shattered like brittle glass, annihilated into pure nothingness!

Where the halberd's tip pointed, there was no wind, no light, only an absolute deathly stillness that would grind even "time" and "causality" to pieces!

Then chaotic storms surged, and the towering phantom of a giant emerged from a rift in the void with great strides, blotting out the sky and sun!

Supreme imperial majesty wreathed in dragon patterns flowed over the giant's entire body. With one hand, he grasped the Mad Dragon Halberd, which exuded an epoch's worth of killing intent.

He used no elaborate soul skill, nor did he even chant to invoke divine power.

He merely held that peerless weapon of slaughter and, along the vast sky-casually swept it forward!

Riiip-!!!

It was not the ordinary sound of tearing cloth, but the wail of an entire plane's barrier!

The entire sky truly became like a fragile sheet of rice paper,

forcibly sliced open by that incomparably sharp black-gold halberd radiance, leaving a colossal heavenly chasm spanning ten million miles!

On either side of the chasm, matter, light, and the laws of souls evaporated completely, exposing the raging, icy void of the World Sea beyond the plane!

Even the rules of the Heavenly Dao, attempting to mend that wound, suffered backlash the instant they touched the lingering halberd intent and disintegrated into ash!

Before its edge, the very concept of "resistance" did not exist!

One sweep of the halberd, and the Heavenly Dao wept blood!

Beneath this halberd, nothing could stand. All laws perished!

Before anyone could recover from the crushing despair of that sky-rending stroke, the scene shifted like wheeling stars and plunged straight into depths where even light could freeze.

There lay a bottomless abyss, as though it led to the darkest point of origin in the universe!

Within the abyss churned an uncanny mist, thick as ink.

Waves of primordial aura laden with ill omen, decay, and filth battered the seal like countless venomous snakes.

Only a faint glimmer of that aura seeped through the screen of light, yet it sent the soul power of every Soul Master with an evil attribute on the Douluo Continent into violent chaos, nearly making their bodies explode on the spot!

"That... what kind of infernal place is that?!"

The hearts of countless Titled Douluo clenched, and cold sweat streamed down their spines.

Yet just as that eerie, ominous black mist was about to tear through the boundary and gush forth-

"Roar-!!"

A savage beast's roar exploded from the far end of the void, making the earth veins of the entire Douluo Plane resonate!

A peerless colossal beast, as enormous as a mountain range and covered in dazzling dragon scales, strode through the air from the storms high above!

It was an immense crocodilian Ferocious Beast of unfathomable antiquity!

Upon its broad back, as vast as a cliff ten thousand fathoms high, it steadily bore an ancient divine stele suffused with primordial black-and-yellow mother qi-the [World-Suppressing Dragonspine Stele]!