First Place Revealed! Longcang Continent! All Continents of the Same Age-No Intention of a Dimensional Beatdown! (1 / 2)

Rumble—!

High above the nine heavens, the surging tide of purple-gold radiance suddenly collapsed inward, becoming a golden river of stars that pierced the past, present, and future!

From within the sky screen, the united cheers of the Great Dao of heaven and earth could even faintly be heard. Endless divine radiance showered the entire Douluo Star, illuminating its deep, boundless oceans like an immortal paradise!

At that moment, billions of beings across the entire plane, including the gods of the Divine Realm, held their breath and stared fixedly at the supreme golden words about to appear at the center of the sky screen!

The next instant—

A magnificent voice of the Great Dao descended, mighty enough to cleanse the soul!

[Overall Strength Rankings of the Douluo Plane's Continents—1st Place!]

[Listed Name: Longcang Continent!]

[Territorial Extent: Extremely vast! Its area exceeds the combined total of the Douluo Continent and the Sun Moon Continent!]

[Civilization Level: Splendid beyond measure! Possesses era-transcending "soul guidance technology" across every field! Has mastered level-ten, level-eleven, and even level-twelve god-level soul tools! Has made cultivation methods available to all! Harnesses power through technology, ushering in an unprecedented golden age!]

[Vast lands and abundant resources, blessed with natural spiritual vitality! Powerful experts abound, and its foundations are unfathomable! Possesses the richest mineral veins and divine treasures in the entire plane, with a wealth of resources unrivaled among the five continents!]

[Overall Assessment: The pinnacle of the plane! An unsurpassed sacred land of civilization!]

Silence.

Deathly silence!

When those lines of gleaming golden words and utterly astonishing assessments appeared before the beings of the entire plane—

The whole Douluo Star and Divine Realm seemed to have been frozen in time!

Then!

The image at the center of the sky screen burst open! The view plunged straight down from the heavens, offering an incredibly clear panoramic close-up of the Longcang Continent!

Within the image—

Enormous soul guidance cities towered into the clouds, flourishing beyond measure. Crystal skyscrapers a hundred zhang tall stood in rows, while broad, immaculate hover lanes stretched across the ground.

Young soul masters rode soul guidance hoverboards through the clouds, accompanied by docile, obedient thousand-year earth dragons;

Along both sides of the streets, powerful human experts in exquisite armor patrolled shoulder to shoulder, chatting and laughing freely;

And across that vast sky, what blotted out the sun were not ordinary soul guidance airships, but "God-Level Soul Guidance Battleships" thousands of meters long!

Runes capable of destroying heaven and earth flowed across the battleships' surfaces. The pressure emanating from a single vessel alone was enough to bring an ordinary Titled Douluo to their knees on the spot!

The view even drew closer to the Purple-Gold Hall in the Longcang Imperial Capital, where, upon the lofty dragon throne—

A young man in imperial robes sat composedly, propping his chin on one hand, an unfathomable aura radiating from his entire body!

After a brief silence, towering waves of uproar instantly swept across the Douluo Continent!

The major factions of Douluo, which had just been shocked out of their wits by the Sun Moon Continent's "torrent of steel," erupted!

Yet the expected admiration never materialized. In its place!

Came the bewilderment, doubt, and even profound disdain of countless native soul masters and leaders of major factions!

"Longcang Continent? What sort of place is that? Why has it appeared out of thin air, just like the Sun Moon Continent?

I've lived for over a hundred years and studied countless ancient texts, yet I've never heard so much as a whisper of it!"

Inside the great hall of the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, Xue Ye knitted his brows tightly, staring fixedly at the words on the sky screen as he exclaimed:

"Larger than Douluo and Sun Moon combined?! This... how is that possible?!"

"There is... actually a continent so vast in this world?! And it commands soul guidance weapons even more terrifying than the Sun Moon Continent's?!"

"And its wealth of resources ranks first among all five continents? A joke! An utterly preposterous joke!"

"Our Heaven Dou and Star Luo empires occupy the continent's heartland, commanding endless mountains, rivers, mineral veins, and fertile fields stretching a thousand miles! How many dazzlingly talented Titled Douluo have our lands produced?

What gives some unknown land, hiding in who knows which desolate corner of the ocean, the right to stand above us?!"

Below him, many Heaven Dou nobles and ministers chimed in, their faces filled with disbelief.

Their arrogance, born of seeing themselves as a supreme celestial empire, made them stubbornly insist that the sky screen must have made a mistake!

Within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Yu Xiaogang's conviction had just crumbled after witnessing a "Fixed-Installation Soul Cannon" from the Sun Moon Continent shatter a mountain range with a single shot.

Now, seeing the sky screen praise the Longcang Continent's soul guidance technology, he seemed to have had a mortal wound prodded and began roaring wildly!

"Fake! The sky screen absolutely got this wrong!"

Yu Xiaogang's face was pale as paper, his eyes bloodshot, and the finger he pointed at the sky screen trembled violently:

"It was bad enough that the Sun Moon Continent relied on external objects... why should this so-called 'Longcang Continent' also be able to reach first place through soul tools?!"

"Absurd! Utterly absurd!"

"According to the 'Martial Soul Core Competitiveness' I've spent years researching, soul tools are merely relics of ancient times, discarded by the march of progress!

Aside from storing things, they're of no real use! A soul master's cultivation must ultimately be founded on their own martial soul and soul power, supplemented by soul skills!"

"Martial souls are the foundation of soul masters! Martial souls are the true orthodox path of heaven!"

He clutched his hair tightly, his eyes filled with the madness of a man whose world had collapsed:

"This golden sky ranking must have judged incorrectly! It only saw those flashy steel contraptions, without recognizing the true might of martial souls!"

"In terms of individual strength and the pinnacle of martial souls, our Douluo Continent should be first! This ranking... cannot be trusted at all!"

As though trying to convince others as well as himself, Yu Xiaogang turned toward the somewhat hesitant Ning Fengzhi beside him and added with a cold snort:

"Abandoning the foundation of martial souls to rely instead on the petty path of clever gadgets and frivolous tricks...

That so-called first-place continent is nothing but a backward place that forsakes the roots to chase the branches! This golden sky ranking is grossly inflated!"

Beside him, Ning Fengzhi was also deathly pale. The god-level battleships in the sky screen had frightened him to the marrow.

But as he watched Yu Xiaogang, who seemed possessed by madness, he sought to preserve the dignity of his own ten-thousand-year-old sect.

He could only swallow and force himself to agree, deceiving both himself and others:

"You are absolutely right, Grandmaster. Our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect possesses wealth unrivaled beneath heaven and holds no small number of ancient soul tools. They are merely objects that make everyday life more convenient.

Making such things the core of a civilization is indeed rather laughable."

"Soul tools are ultimately only external objects, a lesser path. Even if they can be built on an enormous scale, how could they rival the heaven-reaching divine might of a Titled Douluo?

This sky screen... has probably exaggerated the power of external objects far too much."

Unlike the panic that gripped the two great empires and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Within the secluded Clear Sky Sect, which styled itself the greatest sect under heaven, the atmosphere was oppressive to the extreme!

In a great hall deep in the mountains, Sect Master Tang Xiao gathered with five senior elders, every face so gloomy it seemed water might drip from it.

"Utterly absurd!"

A hot-tempered elder of the Clear Sky Sect slammed his palm onto the table, smashing the refined-steel table to pieces with a thunderous crash!

"What soul guidance technology of clever gadgets and frivolous tricks? What first place in the entire plane?!"

A flicker of stubbornness and forced ferocity passed through the elder's eyes as he sneered:

"Our Clear Sky Sect possesses the world's greatest tool martial soul, the 'Clear Sky Hammer'! We also have the storm-and-thunder might of the Chaotic Cloak and the supreme Great Sumeru Hammer technique!"

"Whatever tin-clad flying ships or bizarre cannon shells that Longcang Continent possesses... one blow from our Clear Sky Hammers will smash them all to dust!"

Tang Xiao gripped the Clear Sky Hammer in his hand, the corner of his eye twitching violently.

He had seen those images of heaven-and-earth-destroying power from the Sun Moon Continent and the Longcang Continent.

But his deep-rooted arrogance and blind worship of the Clear Sky Hammer left him utterly unable to accept that his side had fallen behind.

"Seventh Elder is right!"

Tang Xiao drew a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the tremor in his heart, and declared in a low voice:

"The sky screen favors external objects and cannot be trusted! True experts have never needed to rely on outside power!"

"One mighty hammer of our Clear Sky Sect can shatter ten thousand arts! If that Longcang Continent truly dares to reveal itself...

Then I, its sect master, would like to see which is harder: their tin-clad ships, or our Clear Sky Sect's Clear Sky Hammers!"

For a time, after enduring wave after wave of shocks, the top factions of the entire Douluo Continent.

Actually sank into a bizarre state of "collective self-deception"!

They would rather believe that "the sky screen's judging criteria were wrong" or that it "favored clever gadgets and frivolous tricks."

Than ever admit that their martial soul system had long since fallen behind the times!