Soul Beast Extinction? Longcang's Bloody Slaughter! The Deep Sea Emptied! The Sea God Was Scared Witless!

Bo Saixi's voice had long lost the dignity of the Sea God's representative and turned shrill:

"The waters of the Four Seas of Douluo all bask in Lord Sea God's divine radiance! Since ancient times, the countless aquatic races and sea beasts have been divine servants and subjects under Sea God Island's earthly stewardship!"

"How dare they establish an independent power?! Why would the Heavenly Dao's ranking list name them a forbidden zone in their own right?!"

"If the deep-sea beasts rank tenth... then where does this Sky Screen place Sea God Island, which has ruled the oceans for ten thousand years and exercised divine authority on his behalf?!"

In the shadows beside Bo Saixi, Tang San huddled miserably beside a broken jade pillar.

The divine glow that had once marked him as a candidate for the Sea God's trials was completely gone.

During the heavenly punishment, the Sea God had been convicted, Ma Hongjun's martial soul had been stripped away on the spot, and the "Sea God's Nine Trials" Tang San had taken such pride in had been forcibly terminated by the Heavenly Dao!

"The will of the deep sea is fiercely xenophobic... no living being may enter..."

Tang San murmured the assessment on the Sky Screen. "The Sea God... never truly conquered this deep sea at all?!"

He had once heard the high priestess hint that, in the later stages of his god trial, he would need to use the Sea God's Light to hunt the nearly million-year-old Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, using his soul ring and soul bone to ascend to godhood.

Until now, he had arrogantly believed that, beneath Lord Sea God's suppressive authority-

A mere sea beast that had yet to become a god was nothing but fish on a chopping block, a stepping stone to godhood prepared expressly for him!

Only now did he finally see clearly-

"Lies... it was all made up..."

Tang San bit his lower lip, his nails digging deep into his palms until blood streamed out, while the depths of his eyes turned to the dead gray of despair.

Meanwhile.

In the heartland of the Douluo Continent, at the very core of the boundless Star Dou Great Forest.

Deep beneath the shimmering Lake of Life, a mighty figure had been cultivating in seclusion!

The instant the Sky Screen announced the "Douluo Deep Sea," he abruptly opened a pair of golden dragon eyes that blazed with boundless golden light, as fierce as the sun!

Boom!

Towering waves instantly surged across the Lake of Life for a hundred miles around!

A proud, straight-backed man with black hair draped over his shoulders stepped out of the subterranean void!

Pure draconic might roiled around him, powerful enough to make the nine heavens and ten earths tremble-

He was none other than the continent's foremost ferocious beast, the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King with eight hundred and ninety thousand years of cultivation, the true ruler of the Star Dou Great Forest: Beast God Di Tian!

Behind Di Tian, Bi Ji, the Scarlet King, the Myriad Demon King, and the other mighty ferocious beasts emerged from the void one after another, staring in horror at the deep-sea images on the Sky Screen.

"Di Tian... that's the power of the sea?"

Bi Ji covered her red lips, scarcely able to believe it!

"To think those sea beasts, muddling through their lives in the cold depths year after year, could amass such enormous reserves of strength."

Di Tian stood above the Lake of Life with his hands behind his back, divine light flaring in his golden eyes as he fixed his gaze on the Sky Screen and sank into prolonged thought.

At length, a chilling smile slowly curled across the Beast God's lips:

"Good... what a Douluo Deep Sea!"

"In the past, I remained here in the Star Dou Great Forest, my gaze fixed solely upon this continent.

"The so-called 'Ten Great Ferocious Beasts' ranked on the Douluo Continent were all land soul beasts like us...

"I even once believed those sea beasts living in salt water were nothing but mindless prey!"

Di Tian slowly clenched his dragon claws, draconic might weaving through his palms as he radiated domineering power:

"It seems my vision was too narrow!"

"Millions of sea beasts! Giant beast kings hundreds of thousands of years old! Such a vast army of soul beasts lies hidden in the deep sea!"

Di Tian's breathing grew slightly heated, and the ambitions of revival he had suppressed for hundreds of thousands of years were instantly set ablaze:

"They are soul beasts too! The blood of ferocious beasts flows through their bodies. Ultimately, they are all subjects of His Majesty the Dragon God!"

"Why?! Why should the burden of resisting human hunters, defying the Divine Realm's oppression, and plotting the soul beasts' revival fall entirely upon us land soul beasts for hundreds of thousands of years?!"

"Human soul masters hunt us in the Star Dou Great Forest year after year, skinning us and tearing out our bones, while those fools in the deep sea eat, drink, and make merry ten thousand meters underwater, living peaceful lives?!"

Di Tian gave a cold laugh, his dragon eyes filled with an emperor's irresistible tyranny:

"All soul beasts beneath heaven are one family!"

"The sea soul beasts must shoulder half the demands of this great revival for me!"

"Pass down my command. Once I find an opening, I will journey into the ocean depths myself! That Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, those Evil Spirit Orca pods-I will incorporate every last one into my soul beast revival army!"

"With such numbers aiding us... let us see how much longer those hypocritical deities in the Divine Realm can suppress our Soul Beast Clan!"

Within the void of the Douluo Plane, the heartbeats of countless living beings nearly drowned out the roar of wind and waves.

The "Douluo Deep Sea" being named a forbidden zone in its own right at tenth place had stunned everyone! Now, all eyes were fixed on the Sky Screen, awaiting the rewards and the announcement of ninth place.

Yet-

The firmament above the nine heavens did not respond as everyone had expected!

Humm-!

An even more ancient and violent resonance of the Dao abruptly exploded from its depths!

The dusky purple screen spun violently, rippling with rings of light that spanned the river of space and time!

At that moment, the Sky Screen over the entire Douluo Plane extended into several star-tracked split screens that blotted out the heavens and the sun!

The divine voice of the Great Dao rose above gods and mortals once more, announcing with overwhelming force:

[In addition to the continental comprehensive strength ranking list and the Supreme Power Ranking, the Sky Screen will also broadcast real-time couples across the realms, eternal taboos, primordial ruins, god war simulations, and major developments across civilizations!]

[Detected: living beings throughout the plane harbor doubts and curiosity about the origins and rise of the first-ranked "Longcang Continent"...]

[Eternal taboo exposé, first installment: activated!]

[The foundation of the Longcang Continent's rise! The primordial end, the great Canghai expedition!]

Rumble-!!

This succession of heavenly declarations of the Laws struck every powerful being across the plane like divine thunder crashing down from the nine heavens!

"What?! It's broadcasting the movements of the major powers? Even forbidden secrets will be exposed?!"

"The history of the Longcang Continent's rise?! This Sky Screen is actually going to trace where that monstrous continent came from?!"

Soul masters across the continent went utterly wild!

Even the gods within the Divine Realm abruptly turned their gazes back toward the Sky Screen!

They desperately wanted to know just what the Longcang Continent-with its god-level soul tools, two Super Divine Artifacts, and even a suspected slumbering God King-had stepped over to reach the summit!

Boom!

Accompanied by a vast, ancient peal of thunder, the projection on the Sky Screen changed completely.

It no longer showed the bright, clear present, but traveled directly back to that desolate, savage, utterly ferocious ancient age!

As soon as the scene appeared, what met their eyes was no sacred, solemn cradle of civilization, but a hellish deathtrap... enough to freeze the life out of everyone!

Within the image-

An ancient ocean lay beneath a sky devoid of daylight.

There was no sunlight. Dense primordial thunderclouds, heavy as iron and lead, shrouded the sky year-round.

Upon the surface, layers of dark red bloody foam lay piled atop one another, thick as ink!

Across tens of thousands of miles of ocean currents, not even a single little fish could be seen swimming!

The view rapidly plunged beneath the surface and drew closer!

Through the supreme clarity of the Great Dao's projection, human soul masters and high-ranking soul beasts throughout the plane witnessed a gruesome spectacle they could never have imagined, even in their dreams-

Those were... corpses!

Hundreds of thousands, millions of enormous corpses!

Primordial giant whales hundreds of yards long floated belly-up, their vast abdominal cavities ripped open by immense force, their entrails drifting through the seawater like waterfalls;

Giant turtles as massive and thick as city walls had been bitten into two, mangled flesh falling from their severed bodies into the sea and splashing up filthy waves a hundred yards high;

An entire stretch of deep-sea waters was filled with Deep-Sea Demon Sharks, Ancient Great White Sharks, Elder Mosasaurs, and even the highly intelligent Deep-Sea Merman Royal Family, all lying torn to pieces in heaps on the seabed tens of thousands of feet below!

There were no bare bones, only severed limbs and mangled bodies shattered by immense biting force!

The dense aura of death and the stench of blood seemed to pass through the Sky Screen's projection, pouring directly into the minds and souls of countless living beings throughout the plane!

In that instant, the entire Douluo Plane fell into deathly suffocation!

[Spirit Hall · Bibi Dong: This... what is this?! A mass extinction of sea soul beasts?! Was the entire ocean's ecosystem slaughtered clean?!]

[Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect · Ning Fengzhi: Where is heaven's justice... even when we soul masters hunt soul beasts, we follow the principles of sustainability and merely take their soul rings...

What kind of deranged monster could have... slaughtered everything across tens of thousands of miles of deep sea?!]

Though the god trials had tormented Tang San beyond recognition, the horror on the Sky Screen made him momentarily forget his own suffering!

Remembering his promise to Xiao Wu never to hunt innocent soul beasts without cause, he was immediately filled with indignation:

[Shrek Academy · Tang San: This defies heaven's justice... this is outright slaughter! You should not destroy the deep-sea races without cause like this, hunting innocent soul beasts!]

Because of his reckless remarks, Gangzi had already been sent back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's encampment by Xue Ye, the emperor of Heaven Dou!

Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo had also felt too ashamed to remain in the palace and returned with him.

But once Yu Xiaogang entered Liu Erlong's tent, he never came back out! Now, watching the Sky Screen, even from bed he could not help exclaiming in sudden realization:

[Heaven Dou Empire · Yu Xiaogang: Impossible... no ancient text ever recorded this!

Did the Douluo Deep Sea suffer such a devastating catastrophe in ancient times?! Who was the culprit?! Who did this?!]

The soul masters were frightened ashen.

And above the Lake of Life at the very heart of the Star Dou Great Forest, Beast God Di Tian, who had just been planning to incorporate the sea soul beasts into his forces, now wore a proud draconic face so pale it held not a trace of color!

"This... this wasn't predation..."

Di Tian's golden dragon eyes trembled violently, and every black dragon scale on his body stood on end:

"This was genocide! A bloody purge targeting all ancient deep-sea soul beasts!"

Just as the horror and fury throughout the plane reached their peak-

Within the Sky Screen, the churning sea of blood suddenly erupted into towering waves tens of thousands of feet high that pierced the heavens!

The culprit finally strode out from the depths of the bloody curtain, exposed by the Sky Screen!

Line after line of supreme golden text, scarlet as blood, smashed through the Sky Screen with boundless killing intent:

[Ancient secret · The great Canghai expedition!]

[Tens of thousands of years ago, Ancient Deep-Sea Beasts abounded. The Sea Soul Beast Royal Family, arrogant in its noble bloodline, repeatedly invaded the Longcang Territory!]

[The Lord of Longcang, Ye Canghai, accompanied by the Demon Whale King, the Crocodile King, Dragon God Douluo, and other generals, personally led the Primordial Army into the deep sea!]

[Battle results: over one hundred sea beast kings more than a hundred thousand years old slain, the savage ancient deep-sea races slaughtered to the last, blood drunk across ten thousand miles. The remains and source essence of a million ferocious beasts forged the Longcang Continent's undying foundation!]

Silence.

At that moment, it was as though all the air had been sucked out of the entire Douluo Star!

Inside the God of Law Enforcement Temple in the Divine Realm.

Thud!

The Second-Level God, Sea God Poseidon, felt his legs give way and dropped onto his backside, utterly bereft of a deity's dignity!

Cold sweat instantly drenched him. The Sea God's teeth chattered violently as he sank into terror bordering on madness:

"That... that was where I underwent my trials to become a god back then..."