That cur Bo dared! Mu and Mystic requested battle: "Your subjects request permission to annihilate Sea God Island!"

The Sea God's voice trembled, his eyes vacant:

"Before I became a god all those years ago... I traveled through the deep sea and always wondered why the ocean's heart was utterly empty,

without even a single ancient ferocious beast over two hundred thousand years old... I even thought rather highly of myself, believing my majesty as the Sea God had cowed all four seas..."

"So... so long before I became a god..."

"The ancient overlords there... had already been eaten clean by these monsters?!"

The Sea God felt a chill shoot up his back, straight to the crown of his head!

If he had accidentally swum into the waters of the Longcang Continent back when he was becoming a god... would he ever have attained godhood?

The Asura God and the God of Destruction were also deathly pale, the demonic swords in their hands wailing madly.

By all rights, the horrific sight of millions of ancient sea beasts lying dead across ten thousand miles should have shattered any faction's psychological defenses.

Yet once the initial suffocating shock subsided, the self-important Sea Soul Masters and fanatical believers on Sea God Island began entertaining strange thoughts again.

"Wait... everyone, don't panic! They merely slaughtered soul beasts!"

At the foot of Sea God Mountain, a worship elder drew a deep breath, forcibly steadied his wildly trembling Dao Heart, and bellowed:

"Sea beasts are ultimately just stupid animals without awakened intelligence! No matter how large they grow or how many there are, without the blessings of divine stations and divine skills, they're nothing more than living meat targets packed together!"

"Exactly!"

The Sea Soul Masters beside him exchanged glances, then chimed in like drowning men clutching at a lifesaving straw:

"When Sea God Island hunts ten-thousand-year and hundred-thousand-year sea soul beasts, we rely on the Sea God's protective glory, coordinated domains, and combat formations!"

"Those Longcang people in the images were clearly relying on a few offensive super divine artifacts left over from ancient times, or wide-area divine-grade soul tools!

They're carrying out mindless bombardments of destruction! Against a genuine legion of human Titled Douluos with divine inheritances and skills honed to the pinnacle, would that brute force of theirs still work?!"

Sea God Island had lorded over the ocean and received the worship of all beings throughout the four seas for ten thousand years.

The arrogant conviction that "the Sea God reigns supreme over all waters, Sea God Island is the ocean's holy land, and sea soul beasts are mere ants and fodder" had long since seeped into the marrow of every Soul Master on Sea God Island.

In their eyes, no matter how ruthlessly someone slaughtered soul beasts, that did not mean they could shake Sea God Island, with its complete Sea God Inheritance and the divine formation of the Seven Sacred Pillars!

You merely slaughtered some deep-sea animals. Do you think Sea God Island couldn't do that? We simply don't want to!

On Sea God Island, before the Sea God Hall.

Huff... huff...

Bo Saixi breathed as heavily as a wild beast. Her face, once as exquisite as a pearl from the deep sea, was now twisted and hideous!

"Why... why should they?!"

"Why should they have a Level 13 Soul Tool?! Why should they possess super divine artifacts capable of tearing the deep sea apart?!"

Long suppressed by Longcang, then tricked by Divine Punishment!

After this extreme humiliation, her pent-up resentment finally turned into madness and venom.

In Bo Saixi's disintegrating, chaotic mind, every misfortune she had suffered was entirely the fault of the Longcang Empire possessing super divine artifacts!

"If only I weren't left with a damaged Sea God Scepter...

If Sea God Island also possessed a genuine offensive super divine artifact...

How could the Sky Screen's Divine Punishment have harmed me in the slightest?!"

"They were merely lucky! They probably stumbled over some God King's remains and picked up a few divine artifacts!

A pack of overseas upstarts swaggering around on dead men's bones-what gives them the right to ride roughshod over me?!"

Her deranged obsession utterly swept away her reason.

Bo Saixi's eyes were blood-red. Her berserk, disordered level 97 Sea God soul power rampaged around her, shaking the foundations of the entire Sea God Hall until they cracked inch by inch!

"High Priestess! You mustn't!"

Sea Dragon Douluo and Sea Spear Douluo were horrified and rushed forward to stop her.

But Bo Saixi could no longer hear any advice!

Dazzling blue-gold bloody light rose from her entire body. She brazenly tore space apart and connected directly to the Sky Screen's laws!

Buzzz-!

A line of golden text slammed straight into the center of the Sky Screen's comment section, like the snapping jaws of a rabid dog!

[Sea God Island's High Priestess · Bo Saixi: What use is merely possessing divine artifacts?! You slaughtered a few ignorant deep-sea brutes, and you think that entitles you to trumpet your martial virtue here?!]

[Sea God Island's High Priestess · Bo Saixi: Soul beasts are ultimately nothing but lowly fodder!

Even a million-year beast is merely a heap of rotten meat before a true deity!

If the Longcang Continent truly possesses heaven-reaching power, why not test yourselves against Sea God Island's Sea God Formation?!

Slaughtering living creatures with a few shoddy soul tools makes you nothing but capering clowns desperate for attention!]

Boom-!!

The instant those rapid-fire comments rolled across the heavens, the entire Douluo Plane erupted!

[Hiss... has the Sea God's High Priestess gone mad?!]

[She actually dared to openly provoke the Longcang Continent on the Sky Screen?!]

[As expected of the Sea God's spokesperson in the mortal world! Could Sea God Island truly possess some supreme trump card that counters those super divine artifacts?!]

Meanwhile, in Spirit City's Papal Hall.

Bibi Dong was seated upon the raised dais when she saw Bo Saixi's rabid-dog provocation!

She froze at first, then a flash of delight burst into her beautiful eyes! That shrew of the Sea God had actually voiced her thoughts for her!

At the same time, a scheme flickered through her mind. Since that shrew was so impatient, why not fan the flames and let the Sea God serve as her scouting hound?

Test the depths of the Longcang Continent! Find out exactly how formidable it was! Clear the road for Spirit Hall's great conquest!

Win or lose, attacking Sea God Island would bring nothing but profit!

"Sea God Island's High Priestess always acts so high and mighty, refusing even to acknowledge His Holiness the Pope!"

Beside her, Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan covered his mouth, mockery gleaming in his eyes:

"Who would have thought that after Divine Punishment took a slice out of her, she would lose her mind outright and turn into such a shrew?"

Ghost Douluo nodded in agreement. Bo Saixi truly seemed to have gone mad! She actually dared to provoke people with super divine artifacts!

"Fools often make the finest pawns."

Bibi Dong sneered and elegantly smoothed her sleeve, her eyes brimming with the venom of one borrowing another's blade to kill:

"The Longcang Continent's depths are unfathomable. We were just fretting over having no bird willing to stick its head out and test their true strength.

Since Sea God Island is so eager to die, why shouldn't I send them on their way?!"

Bibi Dong tapped the void with her delicate hand. Spirit Hall's golden comments followed close behind, instantly dominating the screen as they fanned the flames:

[Spirit Hall's Pope · Bibi Dong: Every word from the High Priestess is a pearl of wisdom! Such divine pride commands my admiration! Deep-sea ferocious beasts have thick hides and tough flesh, but indeed possess neither intelligence nor martial skills!

Sea God Island has ten thousand years of foundations, and Senior Bo Saixi stands at the very pinnacle of this age's demigods. Why fear those bluffing barbarians?]

[Spirit Hall's Elder · Yue Guan: Exactly, exactly! The High Priestess's divine might is unrivaled!

If you cannot bear the sight of them, you can personally lead the Seven Sacred Pillars through wind and waves and flatten that overseas wilderness!

Spirit Hall's million Soul Masters will surely beat the drums and cheer you on from the rear!]

This combination of lethal flattery was seamless!

When Sea God Island's already arrogant Sea Soul Masters saw even their formidable rival, Spirit Hall, bowing its head and praising them!

They grew still more inflamed, their blind conceit reaching its peak, placing Sea God Island directly above the blazing fires of the nine heavens!

However.

In the eyes of true titans, the mortal world's clamor and schemes were merely capering clowns reveling inside a crematorium.

Deep within the ocean, on the Longcang Continent.

Within the magnificent, towering Worship Temple that pierced the clouds, ancient draconic breath of the Great Dao cascaded from the vaulted ceiling like waterfalls, rising in a shimmering haze.

At the very beginning, when the Sky Screen first exposed the Longcang Continent's expedition, sovereign and subjects alike had laughed inside the Worship Hall!

"Why is this damned Sky Screen digging up such ancient, stale business?

Still, all of it was buried in history, scarcely known to anyone. Exposing it now just about qualifies as revealing a taboo!"

Crocodile King rubbed his bald head and could not help grumbling.

"To be fair... we ate damn well back then. But that megalodon's meat was seriously tough! It stayed stuck between my teeth for days!"

The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King folded his arms and nodded in profound agreement, reminiscence gleaming in his single eye:

"That battle back then was damn satisfying! I followed His Majesty and ate all the way from the eastern sea to the southern sea!

We turned all those bullying old loaches into grilled dried fish.

If that buffet hadn't filled me up, how could I have condensed a demigod soul core so quickly?"

On the right side of the hall, the chief Soul Engineer, the Great Sage, also stroked his beard with a soft laugh:

"Hahahaha! Back then, the deep-sea races were wild and unruly, trying to raise monstrous tsunamis to sever the continent's sea routes.

Had His Majesty not led the generals in sweeping everything aside, how could the Longcang Empire have enjoyed ten thousand years of peace afterward?"

The assembled officials chatted and laughed freely, their tone as relaxed as though they were reminiscing about some year when the entire village went down to the river to catch fish.

Yet-

Ye Canghai's face had turned so dark it was almost dripping ink!

He roared madly inside, even wishing he could smash the Sky Screen overhead to pieces with a single swipe:

"Holy shit!!!"

"I'd just broken through to a God King's body size back then, and every day I was so hungry my belly stuck to my spine! Didn't I just take a few underlings into the sea for a few extra bites of a seafood buffet?!"

"You damned Sky Screen call that the 'Great Canghai Expedition'?! And you even gave me background music fit for the destruction of an era and the descent of a demon king?!"

Ye Canghai inwardly vomited blood.

As the mighty Longcang Divine Emperor, he had finally managed to establish an image before his continent's subjects as an unfathomable holy emperor, compassionate toward all life, supreme and transcendent!

Yet to grab attention, this damned Sky Screen had gone straight for his vicious younger days!

It had replayed his "glutton's dark history" of chasing sea beasts around the ocean floor and gnawing on their thighs for the entire plane in high definition!

"Now the whole world thinks I'm some world-destroying archfiend who kills without blinking..."

"Don't tell me those gods in the Divine Realm think I'm about to start dining on deities next?!"

Just as sovereign and subjects were chatting and laughing, Bo Saixi's comments appeared and utterly spoiled the mood!

Instantly, everyone lost their composure!

Upon seeing that mocking comment, Ye Canghai, whose face had been black with towering rage, actually failed to suppress a derisive laugh, then shook his head!

Why does Sea God Island keep haunting me like a lingering ghost?! You really are begging to be put in your place!

While the emperor could remain unruffled, the generals serving below the dais could no longer contain their sky-high ferocity!

"That cur Bo dares!!"

A savage roar suddenly thundered through the Divine Temple!

It came from two men-the pillars who held the top two seats of the Longcang Worship Hall!

The level 99 Peerless Douluo-Dragon God Douluo, Mu Tianji!

The level 98 Super Douluo-Taotie Douluo, Mystic Godson!

Back when Longcang was first founded, barbaric races across the four seas stirred up trouble, and powerful foes stood everywhere.

The two had followed Ye Canghai to expand his territory, flatten natural barriers, and slay countless ancient taboos, finally forging the Longcang Dynasty that now towered over an entire world!

Now they were accompanying His Majesty in the Worship Hall, watching the Sky Screen!

Having witnessed mortal madmen dare to sully Longcang's heavenly majesty so, how could these two worship titans, with their illustrious achievements, possibly remain seated?