The Jingming.
The VIP Lounge.
Rey and Soronson sat idly in the room.
With a casual wave, Soronson opened the window, and the air of the Douluo Continent washed over him.
His brows furrowed on the spot.
"The soul power here is so thin."
"Let's finish up and leave. If I stay any longer, I feel like even I'll grow weaker."
"It's much more comfortable by the Lord's side."
Rey leaned against the back of his chair and shook his head as well.
"Indeed, the soul power here... sigh!"
That single sigh laid bare the two God King Level experts' disdain for this barren land.
Just then, someone knocked.
"Come in."
Lingxiao pushed the door open and reported.
"My lords, we've arrived."
Rey rose at her words and looked at Soronson.
"Coming?"
Soronson did not move. His eyes, wreathed in black mist, narrowed slightly with languid indifference.
"I'll wait."
"Let's see whether there's anyone worth my taking action."
"You go."
"All right, I'll go take command."
Then the two of them headed to the Jingming's Control Room, one after the other.
Inside, Ao Che and Jun Mowen were already waiting. At their entrance, both bowed in greeting.
Rey waved away the formalities and walked straight to the porthole, standing with his hands behind his back.
His gaze passed over the churning sea toward what lay ahead.
There.
Eight figures stood against the wind.
Sea Dragon, Sea Spear, Sea Maiden, Sea Ghost, Sea Horse, Sea Illusion, and Sea Star.
The Seven Sacred Pillars had all arrived!
And at the head of the seven stood none other than the Great Enshrined, Bo Saixi!
Both continents witnessed this scene.
Hundreds of millions of eyes fixed on the stretch of sea where battle was about to erupt.
On one side stood Holy Spirit's Ironclad and its many experts.
On the other stood Sea God Island's Seven Sacred Pillars, the Great Enshrined, and the Sea God, who had yet to arrive.
The first direct clash at the level of deities was about to begin!
The Douluo Continent's live comments instantly boiled over.
[Yu Xiaogang: Damn, we finally get to see the Holy Spirit Continent get humiliated!]
[Yu Yuanzhen: Go, Sea God Island!!]
[Bibi Dong: Sea God Island, don't disgrace our lands of inheritance!]
[Ning Fengzhi: Win back every last shred of our dignity!!!]
The entire continent had pinned its hopes on Sea God Island.
But the people of the Holy Spirit Continent merely sneered at the sight.
[Meng Jiu: Humiliated? Us? Are you kidding?]
[Old Wang: Did you manage to say that without laughing?]
[Xiao Tian: Anyone who can keep a straight face through that must be a veteran at holding it in!]
Above Sea God Island.
"Boom!"
The Jingming's forward compartment slowly opened from the center!
Three figures stepped out into the air.
Jun Mowen bore a sword on his back, Ao Che held a spear, and components swirled around Lingxiao.
The three hovered above the massive ship, overlooking all of Sea God Island.
Lingxiao swept her gaze across the eight, and her very first words went straight to the point.
"Which one is the Sea God?"
Standing at the head of the Seven Sacred Pillars, Bo Saixi slowly smiled at the question, her exquisite face filled with mockery.
"Lord Sea God hasn't arrived yet."
"What, are you that eager to die?"
"Hahahaha!"
The Seven Sacred Pillars laughed together, their voices shaking the four seas.
Lingxiao was not angered. She merely gave a cold laugh.
"I was worried you were getting impatient."
As her words fell.
Hum!
The soul tool components around her flew out on their own, fitting together, interlocking, and unfolding before her palm to form a control panel.
Her slender finger descended and pressed down.
The next second!
"Clack, clack, clack, clack, clack!!"
Across the Jingming's thousand-meter hull, three hundred and sixty secondary cannons began turning.
One barrel after another rose, rotated, and locked on.
The densely packed, dark mass of cannon muzzles all aimed at Sea God Island!
Killing intent blanketed the sky and earth!
The laughter stopped dead.
Bo Saixi's pupils contracted.
"What are you trying to do?!"
Looking down from above, Lingxiao spoke in a tone so calm it was almost gentle.
"What am I doing? Doing you in, of course!"
"You've been mocking us all this time."
"Naturally, I have to collect a little interest on behalf of the Holy Spirit Continent."
"This is bad!"
Bo Saixi's pupils shrank sharply, and she shouted!
All eight figures shot backward at once!
Sea Dragon, Sea Spear, Sea Maiden, Sea Ghost, Sea Horse, Sea Illusion, Sea Star, and Bo Saixi unleashed their martial souls almost simultaneously!
Eight terrifying surges of soul power soared into the sky, intertwining, overlapping, and converging to construct a Combined Soul Power Barrier behind them that blotted out the heavens and the sun!
The Seven Sacred Pillars joined forces, with the Great Enshrined anchoring their defense.
Such a defense could withstand a deity head-on without breaking!
Unfortunately, they were facing the Holy Spirit Continent's soul tools!
From high above, Lingxiao looked at the barrier embodying all of Sea God Island's accumulated strength and uttered only a few indifferent words.
"You think you're enough?"
"Let me show you a higher civilization's dimensional-reduction strike!"
Her fingertip slammed down!
"Hummm-!!"
In an instant, all three hundred and sixty secondary cannons fired together!
Countless Level Fifteen Soul Cannon Shells trailed eerie blue flames, crashing toward Sea God Island like a meteor shower pouring from an overturned sky!
"Boom!!!"
"Boom!!!"
Just one second.
It took only a single second!
The Combined Defense the eight had constructed with every ounce of their strength cracked inch by inch like thin ice, then crumbled apart!
"Aaaah!"
"My hand!"
"A despicable sneak attack!!!"
"No!!"
"Lord Sea God won't spare you when he descends!"
"I surren..."
The raging cannon fire swallowed the eight figures. The entire stretch of sea was blasted into rolling, surging upheaval, sending curtains of water hundreds of feet into the sky!
At last, for their earlier trash talk.
They paid their first tangible price!
And the entire center of Sea God Island had already been engulfed by cannon fire.
The Divine Temple's dome collapsed amid the explosions, the Sacred Pillars' light flickered in the flames, and vast swathes of buildings were overturned and pulverized like cardboard boxes.
Sea God Island's ground split open, ravines crisscrossed everywhere, and the island broke apart.
"Run!!"
"Head for the edge of Sea God Island!"
"The cannon fire hasn't reached there!!"
Countless soul masters fled toward the edges of Sea God Island, sobbing and scrambling on their hands and knees.
And on the Heavenly Screen.
This scene was laid bare, exactly as it happened, before everyone in both realms.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!!"
"Aah-"
The unbroken explosions and screams reached the ears of both continents.
Yet the same thunderous roar evoked two utterly different experiences in the hearts of the two realms.
The Holy Spirit Continent.
Mockery flooded the live comments like a tide.
[Meng Jiu: Why hasn't your Sea God shown up yet? Is he unable to come?]
[Old Wang: He's just watching the people who worship him get bombed? What restraint. What a turtle of a man!]
[Zhou Yueban: Forget the Sea God. Just listen to those cannons. Every boom feels better than the last. That sound really melts the stress away! It'd be even better if they were bombing the Douluo Continent, hahahaha!]
Meanwhile, everyone on the Douluo Continent was red-hot with rage.
[Yu Xiaogang: Despicable! Absolutely despicable!! If you've got the guts, wait for the Sea God to arrive! What's so impressive about bullying weaklings like us?!!]
[Yu Xiaogang: You're absolutely finished! You dared to kill the Seven Sacred Pillars and the High Priest, and you dared to bombard Sea God Island. Lord Sea God will never spare you. You've enraged a lion!!!]
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