Sun Moon kicked them while they were down! Golden Crocodile Douluo: Crocodile Ancestor, you're still alive?!

Rumble-!

The giant crocodile's four feet shattered the laws of the heavens, bearing the Great Dao Divine Stele with its weight of billions of tons!

Carrying the irresistible gravity of an epoch, it crashed down like a divine mountain plunging into the sea, striking the very heart of that eerie abyss's formation!

Primordial Black-Yellow Mother Qi transformed into endless chains reaching into the heavens, piercing every corner of the abyss!

No matter how violently the sinister and uncanny forces rampaged-forces that would drag even gods into oblivion at a touch!

The moment they struck the black-and-yellow divine radiance, they vanished like snow melting beneath a blazing sun, forcibly suppressed into utter silence, unable to stir even the slightest wave again!

One stele descended, suppressing the karma of all ages!

The breathtaking martial demonstration on the Sky Screen finally drew slowly to a close.

As the final wisp of black-and-yellow mother qi withdrew into the ancient stele, the abyssal rift was sealed completely.

The phantoms of the stele-bearing giant crocodile and the battle halberd spanning the sky did not linger in the heavens, but receded like clouds drawn away by an ebbing tide!

Silently, they withdrew into the sky far above Longcang Continent, beyond the distant oceans.

The sky regained its original color, but the entire Douluo Star could never return to its former peace.

In those brief minutes, the sheer volume of revelations had been overwhelming, so overwhelming that the continent's major powers did not even know which to digest first-

Should they first marvel at Longcang Continent's terrifying reserves, which had casually suppressed the abyss?

Or first examine the sorry state of Sea God Island after its fortune had been cut in half?

Or perhaps... properly admire those "geniuses" rolling around on the steps, along with that "theoretical grandmaster" trembling in terror inside the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace?

Messages from every faction swept across the firmament in rapid succession, like floodwaters bursting through a dam.

[Heaven Dou Empire · Commander of the Imperial Knights: Tsk, tsk, tsk. So this is the 'divine bearing' that grandmaster kept boasting about? This is the overseas God Trial Shrek is so proud of?!]

[Spirit Hall · Porcupinefish Douluo: Their true colors have simply been exposed. Drain away the divinity granted by the immortal herbs, and isn't that so-called fire phoenix really just a barnyard chicken that can't even flap its wings?]

Dense lines of text covered the Sky Screen, followed immediately by messages from the Sun Moon Empire across the ocean.

[Sun Moon Empire · Dean of the Imperial Soul Engineering Academy: Hahahaha! Why are the ones who barked the loudest earlier lying there whimpering now?

A single Mad Dragon Halberd of theirs can casually shatter all arts. Where exactly did you continental natives get the nerve to look down on soul tool technology?]

Sun Moon Continent was particularly enthusiastic in joining the conversation.

Although Longcang Continent had also overshadowed them earlier, after seeing Douluo Continent's hidebound Soul Masters fall and smash themselves to pieces!

The Sun Moon Empire's Soul Engineers immediately found a subtle sense of psychological balance!

It was as though merely stepping forward to praise Longcang's advanced soul engineering civilization a few times!

And cheering Longcang Continent's supreme might would naturally secure their own throne as the "second civilization"!

While letting them spit down from on high upon Douluo's primitive natives.

Although the Super Divine Artifact demonstration had ended, the phantom of that ancient dragon crocodile, spanning heaven and earth and bearing the immensely heavy divine stele, had not vanished with the abyss!

Like a primordial divine peak stretching across epochs, he loomed above the faintly visible Longcang Continent deep within the ocean!

Roar-!

Though no thunderous roar sounded aloud, an ancient dragon's cry rang out deep within the divine sense of every living being on Douluo Star, piercing straight into their marrow!

That dragon crocodile bathed in dazzling divine radiance, causing the surrounding void to collapse spontaneously into tiny, densely packed black holes.

It was not merely the ultimate extreme of physical flesh, but also carried the true intent of a Great Dao that devoured the stars of the heavens and refined the origins of countless worlds!

His majesty was that of the progenitor of all crocodiles, the supreme sovereign of every dragon in the nine heavens!

Every Soul Master and Soul Beast with reptilian, aquatic, or draconic blood flowing through their veins!

Felt their knees give weak, brittle cracks beneath an unbearable burden the instant they sensed that authority!

An instinctive urge to kneel and worship welled up from the deepest reaches of their souls!

Clang-!

Spirit City, the Worship Hall.

Golden Crocodile Douluo, the Second Worship, whose physical defenses had always reigned unrivaled and whose mind had stood steady as a solitary peak soaring ten thousand fathoms!

Suddenly felt his knees tremble and fell heavily to the floor!

"C-Crocodile Ancestor?!"

Golden Crocodile Douluo's hands spasmed, the finger he pointed at the Sky Screen shaking uncontrollably, his face filled with horror:

"That ancient Ferocious Beast carrying the Super Divine Artifact... those dragon markings on his spine, that world-encompassing vitality...

"He is unmistakably the divine ancestral manifestation at the ultimate source of my Golden Crocodile King lineage!"

He had lived for more than a hundred years, devoting his entire life to bitter cultivation, and believed he had tempered his Golden Crocodile King martial soul to the pinnacle attainable in the mortal world.

Yet before that true spirit overlooking the plane above the Sky Screen!

The cultivation and bloodline he took such pride in were as feeble as a hatchling fresh from its shell!

"And on Longcang Continent... an ancestor worthy of being worshipped as a god by Douluo Continent actually bears a stele to suppress the infernal depths?!"

Every word of Golden Crocodile Douluo's murmured whisper weighed a thousand tons, and the hall fell utterly silent.

On the raised dais, Great Enshrined Qian Daoliu gripped the Angel Holy Sword's hilt tightly in his right hand!

Yet upon that holy sword, which had once bathed in the Divine Realm's radiance and supposedly represented all light and justice in the world!

The sacred flames that should have burned eternally gave a soft "pfft" beneath the invisible crushing pressure of the dragon crocodile's devouring Great Dao.

They went out outright! Only a few faint wisps of smoke remained!

Qian Daoliu swayed, pressing hard against his violently spasming chest.

That sacred domain guarded by the dragon crocodile's imperial phantom over the distant ocean reflected in his clouded eyes, and his pale lips trembled as he murmured, almost speechless:

"Just what kind of terrifying abyss... are they suppressing?!"

"This Longcang Empire... stationed at the very limits of the Douluo Plane, are they establishing a mortal state, or are they guarding... an eternal primordial divine court on behalf of the entire plane?!"

The hall was silent as a tomb.

Douluo God Realm, the God Realm Committee's grand hall.

The magnificent Divine Temple that normally floated at the pinnacle of the Divine Realm now resembled a lone boat tossing amid a raging tsunami!

Clang-!

Another sharp, heavy sound of metal striking the floor suddenly broke the deathly silence.

Clad in flaming divine armor, the First-Level God who governed the source of all flames-the Fire God-dropped the staff flowing with divine fire from his hand.

His knees abruptly buckled, and before dozens of assembled gods, he landed heavily on his backside upon the divine-metal floor!

This noble Fire God, normally the fiercest and most explosive of them all, who would burn everything to ashes at the slightest provocation, now shrieked:

"Super... Super Divine Artifacts? I... what the fucking hell!!"

The Fire God's uncontrollable roars echoed wildly through the solemn committee hall!

"A lower plane... a continent that drifted in the sea for tens of thousands of years without guidance from the Divine Realm, conjured up two Super Divine Artifacts out of thin air?!"

"How is that possible?! Has the Heavenly Dao gone mad, or am I hallucinating?!"

The Fire God clawed neurotically at the collar of his divine armor with both hands, his voice hoarse and trembling:

"Since our Divine Realm was shattered in the ancient Dragon God War, who knows how many epochs have passed? And how many Super Divine Artifacts have we managed to accumulate in all that time?!"

"The Asura Sword, the Destruction Scepter... even counting every last one, you could tally them on two hands!"

"Which of those Super Divine Artifacts wasn't a supreme treasure that only barely took shape after being tempered through countless epochs and nurtured by the Divine Realm's origin?!"

"But their Longcang Continent?!"

The Fire God pointed a trembling finger at the Sky Screen's projection, his eyes bulging as though they might split:

"How the fuck is that some lower-world empire... it's clearly a divine court of slaughter wearing a continent as its shell!"

Those lofty First-Level Gods and divine officials who had even been discussing how to put Longcang Continent in its place!

Now all had icy hands and feet, with layer upon layer of fine, cold sweat seeping down their backs.

They had styled themselves creators in the heavens, treating mortal beings as lambs in a pasture.

Yet now, somehow, a giant crocodile with razor-sharp teeth and claws had been lurking in that pasture!

In the grand hall deep within the distant ocean, interest in the chaotic frenzy of comments on the Sky Screen had long since faded.

Longcang Imperial Capital, the Purple-Gold Hall.

Ye Canghai gently stroked the jade cup in his hand, the faintest hint of a smile resting at the corner of his mouth.

The reward for first place on the Continent Ranking had just poured down upon him, and since the entire Longcang Continent was an ecological barrier formed from the vitality of his divine body!

Eighty or ninety percent of that vast, boundless plane origin fruit and fortune had naturally gathered within him!

At this very moment, a brand-new ancestral dragon vein condensed from Primordial Origin Mother Qi!

Lay firmly coiled deep within the great dragon of his spine, breathing in and out the laws of the heavens.

The barrier to the ultimate realm of "Supreme God King," which had obstructed him for untold epochs, was now riddled with cracks, already half a step from being broken through!

Joyful occasions lifted the spirit. Watching a swarm of ants flounder in the mud and torment themselves once or twice could serve as a little after-dinner amusement;

But watching for too long would only lower his own standing.

He slowly rose, the hem of his imperial robes brushing across steps fashioned from deep-sea dragon jade.

"Let's go."

Ye Canghai spread his sleeves slightly, his tone casual and devoid of the slightest pressure, yet every civil and military official in the hall felt their hearts tighten:

"Let's take a look at the Worship Hall. Some time has passed since the heavenly dao blessing descended. Those two old fellows should have filled their bellies by now."

"We obey Your Majesty's decree!"

Beside him, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and Golden Crocodile King, both in towering humanoid forms, turned solemn and bowed to accept his command.

Together with the chief Soul Engineer and the empire's core officials, they followed the emperor into the spatial translocation formation deep within the hall.

Hum-!

Silver radiance rippled through space like water, and in an instant, they stood before a towering hall situated at the heart of the Longcang Ancestral Vein, floating above divine mountains amid a sea of clouds.

-The Longcang Worship Hall!