Douluo Continent, Sea God Island.
Sea Spear Douluo watched the insults flying between the two regions on the sky screen, his expression instantly darkening.
Wasn't this blatantly saying...
He was worse than some breakfast vendor on the Holy Spirit Continent?! Not even as good as a security captain!
He had cultivated his entire life, been hailed as a genius by everyone, and believed he had done the name of the Seven Sacred Pillars proud.
Yet in the Holy Spirit Continent's eyes, he had become trash inferior even to a security captain!
"You've gone too far!!"
Boom-!
Terrifying soul power erupted around him, crushing the surrounding waves down dozens of feet and shaking fine cracks into even the reef rock atop the Sacred Pillar.
Amid the surging pressure, Sea Spear Douluo spoke in fury.
"A bunch of nobodies unfit for polite company! I, Sea Spear, have cultivated for a hundred years and guarded the Sacred Pillar. How dare you wilderness savages pass judgment on me!"
"If you've got the nerve, bring out that breakfast-selling Titled Douluo of yours and let us see what he's made of!"
The others hurried forward to soothe him.
Sea Horse Douluo patted his shoulder.
"Old Sea Spear, there's no point getting angry over people running their mouths! Think about it. What respectable experts could come from a continent whose name doesn't even appear in our records?"
Sea Maiden Douluo covered her lips with a smile.
"Exactly. You can tell they're making it up just by listening. If they really had that kind of strength, would they need to hide behind the sky screen and flap their tongues?"
Sea Star Douluo gave a broad, guileless grin.
"That's right! Once their people make the rankings and their profile cards go up, we'll lead them out for a trot and see whether they're mules or horses! Let's see where those braggarts can hide their faces then!"
Sea Spear Douluo snorted heavily, the fury in his chest easing a little.
"Forget it. It's beneath me to stoop to the level of those savages staring at the sky from the bottom of a well."
"We're on different levels. It's nothing more than playing a lute to a cow."
The Sacred Pillar Guardians nodded in agreement.
Beside them, Great Enshrined Bo Saixi stepped slowly forward with her hands folded, her gentle voice carrying a soothing note.
"There's no need to be angry with them."
"In my opinion, it won't be long before someone from their side appears on the ranking of experts."
"I've guarded the sea for a hundred years. I know exactly how many experts there are within these waters and beyond!"
"If the Holy Spirit Continent truly had so many top-tier experts, there's no way I would have heard nothing of them."
"Once their profile cards appear on the sky screen, they'll slap their own faces."
"Arguing with ignorant weaklings like these is simply a waste of breath."
Just as the two sides stood with swords drawn and bows bent, arguing fiercely with no end in sight...
The golden sky screen began to change!
The golden light filling the sky gathered inward, and the once-noisy livestream section slowly faded away.
Lines of new golden lettering appeared one after another across the heavens!
[Holy Spirit Continent section] [Twentieth strongest-Azure Abyss Ancient Whale] [Race: Ancient Whale Tribe, Primordial Sacred Whale bloodline] [Territory: Holy Spirit Continent's outer seas · Azure Abyss Sea Eye] [Cultivation age: Two-million-year soul beast!] [Bloodline: Bears a trace of the Primordial Sacred Whale's primordial essence. After twice receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit God King's seven divine powers, its bloodline has long since reverted to its ancestral purity. Its entire body gleams white as jade, with pale golden primordial markings flowing across its back.] [Abilities: Commands an expanse of ocean. A single whale cry can set ten thousand miles of sea boiling. Can assume the form of a kunpeng and soar through the nine heavens; its true body stretches a thousand miles, with the sea as its flesh and the waves as its armor; it can swallow the sea in a single breath, cutting off the flow of rivers; within the Azure Abyss Domain, all waters obey its commands.] [Signature soul skill: Azure Abyss Unity: Whale Fall] [Description: Guardian of the Holy Spirit Continent's outer seas. Slumbers deep within the Sea Eye, not emerging for ten thousand years. So long as it sleeps, the outer seas remain without wind or waves. Should it awaken, the sea embraces a hundred rivers.] [Reward: Further ancestral bloodline reversion and another evolution!]
Holy Spirit Continent, the outer seas.
Deep within the Azure Abyss Sea Eye, amid darkness unchanged through the ages.
A pillar of light from the sky screen pierced the sea, plunging straight into the gloomy abyss on the ocean floor.
An enormous, lustrous white figure slowly opened its eyes.
There was no roar, no jubilation.
The ancient being merely stretched its body slightly, pale golden primordial markings lighting up one after another along its thousand-mile-long form.
It had not awakened in a very long time.
Now, for this recognition!
It awoke.
Immediately afterward, the golden streak of light bearing its reward descended from the sky screen as well, sinking into its towering body.
In an instant.
The pale golden primordial markings on its gleaming white body suddenly blazed with light!
Brilliant radiance shone outward from within. Its immense body, imperishable for a thousand years, seemed to become a divine statue cast from crystal, translucent throughout, with luminous flames flowing across it.
Even the surrounding sea, tens of thousands of feet deep, was illuminated in the finest detail, bright as day!
Rumble-!
Its ancestral bloodline reversion advanced once more!
Ancient imprints sealed in the deepest reaches of its bloodline shattered layer by layer, and a power more profound than any it had experienced before surged forth from the very source of time.
Its weighty two million years of cultivation steadily carried it across this barrier at that moment.
Tiny gleams of scales condensed from the void upon its ancient body-one, then two...
Within moments, a layer of natural scale armor flowing with sacred radiance covered the spine of its gleaming white body.
Undercurrents surged along the seabed. Waves rose without wind across ten thousand miles of outer seas, their crests all turning toward the Sea Eye, as though bowing in worship...
The Holy Spirit Temple.
The assembled experts watched the sky screen, their interest piqued.
Dragon God Hamo, commander of one of the soul beast lineages, laughed heartily.
"Oh-ho, not bad, not bad! This little whale is doing well!"
"After sinking down there for so many years, all that sleeping finally paid off!"
Beside him, spiritual light flowed around Qilin as Qilin slowly nodded.
"This little whale has always been the most diligent, taking one steady step at a time and never slacking off!"
"Receiving such an opportunity today is heaven rewarding hard work."
Malefic Star folded his arms, watching the reward on the sky screen as a smile curled his lips.
"His strength has probably improved quite a bit again!"
"If we meet next time, he should be qualified to fight me, unlike before, when one slap from me made him cry..."
Holy Thunder gazed at the sky screen, a hint of emotion in his voice.
"In the end, it's all thanks to our lord."
"If our lord hadn't slumbered through the ages, blessing this world with his divine power, it probably would never have broken through a million years in its lifetime."
"It was our lord who gave this sea a chance to awaken!"
Upon the throne, Lin Yan set down his teacup and spoke slowly.
"Since it was born in my world, it is a subject of my Holy Spirit Continent."
"Since I am the king of this world, I must shoulder a king's responsibilities. Protecting my subjects is the very reason this throne exists."
"Its growing stronger benefits us as well."
"At the very least, no being can invade our outer seas anymore."
He paused, his gaze passing through the great hall toward the endless distance. His tone remained calm, yet carried the indifference of one looking down upon all creation.
"Besides-"
"One day, when the banner of the Holy Spirit points elsewhere, it too will be the sharpest sword suspended beneath the deep sea."
"When that time comes, someone will sweep clean those defiant specters lurking beneath the ocean for us."
Every expert in the hall bowed.
"Our lord is wise!"
Yet behind all this laughter and cheer...
Everyone on the Douluo Continent had fallen silent...
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