If You Have the Guts, Compare Martial Souls and Soul Master Levels! Our Douluo Continent Is No Weaker Than Yours!

With Yu Xiaogang and Yu Yuanzhen taking the lead, the rulers of the Douluo Continent began coming forward one after another.

[Bibi Dong: Yes, I admit that we are indeed inferior to you in soul tools. You truly have talent.]

[Bibi Dong: But-from beginning to end, our Spirit Hall has focused on cultivating ourselves! Refining our bodies and tempering our martial souls! If we compare soul power levels and martial soul quality alone, you are absolutely no match for us!]

[Ning Fengzhi: Indeed, indeed, that is well said! We on the Douluo Continent follow the great and righteous path, seeking answers within! If we were like you, neglecting our own cultivation and throwing ourselves entirely into soul tools-we might not be any worse than you!]

[Yu Xiaogang: We simply disdain taking that path!]

For a time, voices of agreement flocked across the Heavenly Screen.

Now, they had begun making excuses en masse.

When they failed to get the technology, they started putting on airs!

When they could not compete overall, they declared themselves invincible in a single category!

When their technology fell short, they emphasized the purity of their cultivation.

What a spectacular change of face!

The very people who had just said, "We humbly seek your guidance; please do not withhold your instruction," turned around and declared, "We simply disdain taking that path."

Who could keep a straight face?!

Holy Spirit Temple.

Not one of those present managed to keep a straight face.

Chaos and Holy Land Cassius folded their arms, exchanged a glance, and let out a faint sneer as they watched the Heavenly Screen.

"Heh."

"The sore losers have started changing the events again."

Holy Eye Muse covered her lips and chuckled, her eyes brimming with mischievous amusement as she watched the show.

"Was that humility when they begged for guidance also part of cultivating themselves? How ugly!"

Meanwhile, Holy War Gaia and Dragon God Hamo were already roaring with laughter, making the entire hall hum.

"Hahahahaha! They must be so desperate they're crying! And even while crying, they're still making excuses!"

"Compare martial souls? Compare soul power levels?"

Gaia laughed so hard he slapped his thigh.

"Any one of us could crush the whole lot of them on the Douluo Continent!"

Holy Thunder stood with his hands behind his back and shook his head, his tone almost pitying.

"Out of all the fields we excel in, they chose the one we excel in most."

"Heh!"

Upon the throne.

Lin Yan lightly tapped a finger against the armrest.

"Soon, they will understand just how insignificant they are before us, before the Holy Spirit Continent, no matter the field."

Holy War Gaia grinned and chimed in.

"I just wonder how they'll keep talking tough then."

"I'm looking forward to it."

Soronson narrowed his eyes. The black aura around him rippled slightly as he bowed toward the throne.

"My lord, if they still dare to talk tough-"

"I request permission to descend upon the Douluo Continent myself."

"And crush them to death, one by one."

"Especially that Yu Xiaogang."

Meanwhile, the Douluo Continent's section of the Heavenly Screen still showed no sign of stopping.

[Tang Xiao: Grandmaster is right. We simply disdain it! And as for martial souls, the Clear Sky Hammer is the world's greatest tool martial soul! In might, purity, and weight, the Clear Sky Sect's lineage has endured for a thousand years, and we believe no one on the continent can surpass us! In this respect, you could not catch us even if you whipped your horses!]

[Tang Hao: A hammer is a hammer. Sheer strength shatters ten thousand techniques. We don't use those flashy little components. Our strength grows from our own bones. In a head-on clash, you don't measure up.]

[Yu Xiaogang: Exactly. The Soul Masters of the Holy Spirit Continent certainly have no martial souls this overbearing!]

The Soul Masters of the Holy Spirit Continent laughed at the sight.

No more comparing soul tools, then? Now they wanted to compare martial souls? Soul power levels?

What a joke.

These losers could not even compete in soul tools, yet they dared compare martial souls and soul power levels?

They probably had no idea.

Soul tools were merely a new discipline introduced after the Holy Spirit God King unified the continent, with only fifty thousand years of development in total.

The Holy Spirit Continent's Soul Master system, however, had developed for a hundred thousand years!

For a hundred thousand years, nurtured day and night by the Holy Spirit God King's seven divine powers.

Their martial souls had long since risen through entirely new realms with each step, undergoing a complete qualitative transformation and evolving constantly!

As for soul power levels.

The Holy Spirit Continent's soul power ceiling had indeed once been locked at the Titled Douluo level.

But as the Holy Spirit God King's divine power blessed all living beings and was absorbed and refined into the bodies of generation after generation of Soul Masters.

That so-called ceiling had long since existed in name alone.

On the Holy Spirit Continent, anyone could reach Titled Douluo.

Deities had long ceased to be legends; their ranks branching and flourishing was commonplace!

To put it in the Douluo Continent's terms.

Their starting point was the finish line the people of Douluo spent their entire lives battering themselves bloody to reach.

From the very beginning, this contest had never been between creatures competing on the same track.

[Meng Jiu: What? Now that you can't get it, you're saying you don't want it? You were the ones humbly seeking guidance and asking us not to withhold instruction, and now you're also the ones saying you simply disdain it. The more you crave it inside, the harder you pretend to despise it, is that it?]

[Old Wang: What a joke. A bunch of big shots who've lived for decades, playing the sour-grapes game. Have you no shame? Isn't that right, Useless Gang?]

[Xiao Tian: You actually want to compare martial souls with us? Soul power levels? Hold on, let me finish laughing first. Hahahahaha! You can't even match our soul tools, which we've developed for only fifty thousand years. Where do you get the nerve to challenge our main discipline, which we've developed for a hundred thousand?!]

[Zhou Yueban: Oh, right, one more thing. That martial soul, whatever Sky-whatever Hammer it's called-does that even count as a martial soul? A hammer? We've seen the world. Tool martial souls come in every bizarre shape imaginable, but treating a blacksmith's hammer as a family heirloom and even calling it the world's greatest... did your continent have nothing else to choose from?]

Douluo Continent, Spirit Hall.

When Bibi Dong saw Zhou Yueban's comment mocking the Clear Sky Hammer, she actually smiled.

For once, the Holy Spirit Continent had said something she agreed with wholeheartedly.

The Clear Sky Sect wasn't worth a damn.

If Tang Chen had not emerged, if not for Tang Chen's secret techniques, the Clear Sky Sect?

It would have been nothing!

Whatever sect Tang Chen appeared in would have soared to the heavens in a single step.

He was a heaven-sent genius. Wherever he landed, that place took flight.

The Clear Sky Sect had merely been lucky enough to catch him.

Yet they had the gall to keep boasting about their thousand-year legacy and how no one could surpass them.

They wore someone else's face while puffing themselves up!

Clear Sky Sect, main hall.

Tang Xiao lost his temper and slammed his palm onto the table, sending the teacups bouncing.

"You've gone too far! Too far!!"

At that moment, Tang Hao was alone somewhere deep in an ancient mountain forest.

When he heard the Heavenly Screen's remark about "treating a blacksmith's hammer as a family heirloom," Tang Hao said nothing.

He swung the Clear Sky Hammer-

Boom!

With one blow, a century-old pine beside him exploded, splintered wood swirling like snow.

Birds and beasts scattered through the forest in fright.

After venting their anger, the brothers connected to the Heavenly Screen together, though a thousand miles lay between them.

[Tang Xiao: You!!!]

[Tang Hao: You don't know a damn thing!]

[Yu Yuanzhen: Don't get too angry, you two. Since they say a hammer is unworthy of being a martial soul, what about mine?]

[Yu Yuanzhen: I am the patriarch of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, possessing the Douluo Continent's greatest beast martial soul, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon! Supreme among beast martial souls, with a noble bloodline unrivaled across the continent! What do you have to say about that?!]