Defeating you took less than a tenth of my power.

Meanwhile, beneath the Heavenly Screen, both continents saw everything.

On the Holy Spirit Continent, spirits soared, and mockery surged like a tide.

[Meng Jiu: Holy shit! Lord Rey was that ruthless? I never thought he'd hit that hard! That was so satisfying!]

[Old Wang: Sigh, we're all the same age. I never intended to crush you from a whole different dimension!]

[Xiao Tian: This Sea God isn't much good, huh? That pathetic?]

[Zhou Yueban: Still talking tough while lying in the water? All mouth and no skill!]

[Wei Lai: Exactly, exactly! Hahahaha! Douluo Continent, what else have you got to say?]

Meanwhile, the Soul Masters of the Douluo Continent began to feel humiliation seep into their very bones.

After all!

They really had lost!

Lord Sea God, who had burned through all his divine power, had nearly been hacked into charcoal by a single sword strike!

How could they argue their way out of that?

They could find no reason, no excuse.

The final trump card they had taken such pride in had been crushed to pieces before their eyes.

This time, they lacked even the strength to keep talking tough.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong shot to their feet almost simultaneously!

"This... how is this possible?!" Ning Fengzhi cried involuntarily. "How could Lord Sea God lose?!"

Chen Xin stared fixedly at the Heavenly Screen, his sword heart trembling as he murmured.

"I watched carefully just now... when that lightning strike fell, Lord Sea God didn't even have a chance to block it..."

Gu Rong's mouth hung open. Only after a long while did he squeeze out a strained sentence.

"Earlier... we were even mocking that fellow named Rey... who knew he was this terrifying!"

Once those three remarks had been spoken.

None of the three looked at the others again.

Their faces lost all color, and they sank dejectedly back into their seats.

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

Everyone was so frightened they nearly wet themselves.

Yu Yuanzhen was utterly dumbfounded!

The Sea God they had pinned their hopes on.

Had lost just like that?!

He hadn't lasted even a single exchange. What a disgrace to the Douluo Continent!

Yu Yuanzhen's heart pounded with terror as he slumped limply in his chair, muttering to himself.

"I'm done for... holy shit..."

"I just mocked Rey in front of both realms, saying he couldn't handle lightning as well as me..."

"If that walking calamity comes to the Douluo Continent-"

"Won't he fry me alive?!"

Everyone below swallowed in unison.

No one dared respond.

After all, their clan leader had hurled the loudest insults, and now he was the most terrified.

They ought to be able to stay alive, right?

Meanwhile, in the Clear Sky Sect, Spirit Hall, and the Worship Hall.

Everyone was the same.

Fear, unease, panic.

Those emotions spread like a plague through every hall, every sect, and every heart.

Because they all understood one fact.

The Sea God was the Douluo Continent's final barrier.

Even when their sects were mocked, even when the entire continent was called worthless, they had never truly panicked!

Because there had always been a god above their heads.

As long as the Sea God was there, the sky over the Douluo Continent would not fall.

But now.

The barrier had shattered.

Even their god had been cleaved into the sea.

The sky had fallen.

Inside the main hall, Tang Xiao of the Clear Sky Sect was deathly pale, his fingers trembling so badly he couldn't even hold his teacup.

In Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong squeezed her phoenix eyes shut, her fingertips digging deep into her scepter, yet she couldn't stop the cold sweat in her palms.

Inside the Worship Hall, the Enshrined looked as though lightning had struck them. For the first time, their clouded old eyes revealed a panic bordering on despair.

"Even a god lost... we... what do we have left..."

Someone murmured those words. No one answered.

Because no one had an answer.

Shrek Academy.

Yu Xiaogang collapsed limply to the ground.

He was too terrified to utter a complete sentence, merely repeating the same few words over and over.

"Impossible... impossible... this is impossible..."

Yet the truth lay glaringly before their eyes.

The Sea God had lost.

Tang San, beside him, did not look at that charred crater.

His gaze remained fixed on the figure standing atop lightning in the Heavenly Screen.

Holy Thunder.

A god of the lower realm could crush a god of the upper realm!

It seemed this wasn't merely about Soul Tools.

That place held countless opportunities!

It held fortunes that could allow one to break through and reach a higher level, with a ceiling no lower than the legendary Divine Realm!

Tang San's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

Just then, Yu Xiaogang suddenly burst into laughter.

His laughter was abrupt and shrill, carrying the frenzy of a drowning man clutching a piece of driftwood.

Tang San froze, thinking his teacher had been frightened out of his mind.

Then he looked over.

Yu Xiaogang sprang up from the ground, his eyes shining as he clamped down on Tang San's arm.

"San! We haven't lost! We haven't lost!"

"I remember now! Lord Sea God just said it! Above him are the Five Great God Kings!"

"The Divine Realm won't stand by and let him die! It won't!"

"We still have a chance!!"

With that, he scrambled toward the Heavenly Screen, connected to it with trembling hands, and roared those words to the entire continent.

[Yu Xiaogang: Don't panic, anyone! I didn't notice just now. I was scared senseless by the fact that the Sea God had lost-but we haven't been defeated!]

[Yu Xiaogang: Didn't the Sea God just say it? Above him are the Five Great God Kings! They won't stand by and let the Sea God die! Don't you remember?!]

At that moment, the people of the great sects instantly shook off their fear.

That's right!

They had been so frightened that no one had noticed.

Thinking it over carefully, it was true!

[Bibi Dong: Xiaogang, you're so clever!]

[Yu Yuanzhen: Exactly! God Kings, the kings of gods! Just the name sounds powerful. That Rey fellow definitely can't match them!]

[Ning Fengzhi: Phew... I was scared to death. Thank goodness Yu Xiaogang reminded us, or I really would've forgotten!]

[Tang Xiao: Heaven has not forsaken our Douluo Continent!!]

At that moment, the spirit they had just lost returned.

Overwhelming cheers swept across the entire Heavenly Screen once more.

Yet the countless Soul Masters of the Holy Spirit Continent merely showed disdain at the sight.

God Kings?

Five God Kings?

That was it? That was it?

They had a full fifteen God Kings like those!!!

Sea God Island.

Rey also saw the revelry on the Heavenly Screen. Then he turned toward the Sea God, who was still carried away with smug delight, and smiled helplessly.

"So your confidence comes from those so-called Five Great God Kings?"

He walked slowly closer, lightning rippling with every step.

"Sorry."

"Even God Kings are nothing but passing clouds before my eyes!"

The Sea God's laughter stopped abruptly.

Rey looked down at the Sea God Poseidon, arcs of electricity revolving silently in his eyes.

"You don't actually think defeating you cost me much divine power, do you?"

He raised his hand and casually flicked a finger.

A tiny spark of lightning danced at his fingertip, as faint as a firefly.

"I merely unleashed less than a tenth of my strength, that's all."

The Sea God's pupils suddenly contracted.

What he had said... was true.

The Sea God forced himself to calm down, closed his eyes, and carefully recalled and examined every detail of their exchange.

Scene after scene replayed in his sea of consciousness. The more he replayed them, the colder his divine soul grew.

Because from beginning to end, that golden figure's aura had remained as steady as ever.

Not a single fluctuation.

Not the slightest sign of exertion.

He truly hadn't used much of his strength...