Even god kings stood worlds apart, the two continents traded insults again, and nineteenth place was revealed

The Holy Spirit Temple.

The group looked at Chrysanthemum and Ghost, who had just appeared on the Heavenly Screen's rankings, and instantly scoffed.

Holy War Gaia curled his lip, making no attempt to hide his disdain.

"So this is the caliber of their nineteenth and eighteenth places?"

"A flower and a ghostly shadow count as top-tier powerhouses? They can actually brag about that?"

Holy Eye Muse glanced over the two profile cards, utterly uninterested.

"Their bloodline evolution was nothing special, either."

"Over here, any random young beast could breathe a few more mouthfuls of Holy Spirit air and advance its bloodline by a whole tier!"

"And they acted as though they'd found priceless treasure just because they received a soul bone. Tsk, pathetic!"

Chaos Blake folded his arms and spoke coolly.

"At the end of the day, the gulf between the continents is simply too vast."

"The transformation they take such pride in is something that would happen naturally to us in the time it takes to draw a breath."

Dragon God Hamo frowned as he listened, then turned toward the throne.

"My lord, there's something I don't understand."

"Why are their limits locked at such a low level on that continent?"

Lin Yan set down his teacup, his tone as casual as though he were discussing some long-past event.

"Because that isn't their limit."

"It's a shackle."

"Above the old continent's heaven and earth hangs the Divine Realm. The gods in power now refuse to allow mortal soul masters to attain self-created godhood, much less let too many beings with divine strength emerge."

"The reason is simple."

"They're difficult to control, and the gods are afraid of trouble."

"So they deliberately imposed suppression between the planes."

"The higher a mortal creature's cultivation rises, the heavier its shackles become. Once it reaches the threshold, it cannot advance another inch."

"Want to become a god? You can."

"Get on your knees and receive your godhood as a handout."

"The number of gods has always been held firmly in their grasp."

Silence fell over the hall.

After hearing this, everyone looked back at the Douluo crowd cavorting merrily on the Heavenly Screen, a little more pity now in their eyes.

Tsk-

Were the gods on their side really that petty?

And then there was their own lord...

He had imparted soul guidance technology, established rules for coexistence between humans and beasts, and protected the growth of countless living beings.

He never imposed a ceiling, never bound them with shackles.

How far all living beings could travel depended entirely on their own feet.

Placed side by side, the difference was plain.

Only such a god king deserved to be called a god!

Meanwhile, the Douluo Continent's sneering had sent the Holy Spirit Continent's barrage of comments boiling over!

Countless soul masters rushed to connect to the Heavenly Screen and opened fire with everything they had.

[Meng Jiu: Enslavement, my ass! Yu Xiaogang, I honestly don't know how that brain of yours grew to let you say something like that!?]

[Old Wang: We've lived in peace with soul beasts for fifty thousand years! Soul beasts live peacefully on the same streets as us. Stop parading that pitiful knowledge of yours around and making fools of yourselves!]

[Xiao Tian: Look at the rankings! Our twentieth place is a whale, and your top nineteen combined couldn't withstand one slap from it! Yet you still have the nerve to yap every day?]

[Zhou Yueban: Trash really is trash. The Heavenly Screen handed you some garbage as a reward, and you still have the nerve to call yourselves top-tier powerhouses. The way you've never seen anything of the world is both hilarious and heartbreaking! You even said we don't have any Titled Douluos. Just wait-we'll show you what a real top-tier powerhouse looks like!]

[Wei Lai: Enough, stop wasting words on them! A bunch of frogs staring at the sky from the bottom of a well. Our turn will come soon. Let's see how they keep yapping then!!]

The Douluo Continent's comments soon surged back.

[Yu Xiaogang: Hahahaha! Is that all? When our people make the rankings, they get rewards, soul power increases, Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, and external soul bones! What about you? Oh, I forgot. You aren't even qualified to make the rankings! You can't reach the grapes, so you call them sour!]

[Yu Xiaogang: And you live on the same streets as soul beasts? I'd say those soul beasts are taking you out on leashes for a walk, and you have to wag your tails to beg for food! Hahahahaha!]

[Chen Xin: Peace between humans and beasts? Absurd! I have devoted my entire life to the sword, hunting soul rings and taking soul bones. My path is one of humanity triumphing over beasts! To us, soul beasts are merely the most ordinary nourishment on the road of cultivation. Spare us your sophistry. Do you not need soul rings and soul bones to cultivate? If you all must kill beasts for their rings and strip their bones to temper yourselves, what peace can there be? Hypocrites!]

[Yu Yuanzhen: You say we're frogs at the bottom of a well? Ha, what a joke. The greatest joke under heaven! Our Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan has a thousand-year legacy. What storms haven't we weathered? You know perfectly well who's staring at the sky from the bottom of a well! You, on the other hand, are ruled by a pack of animals and have somehow developed a sense of superiority over it. Truly pathetic and pitiful!]

[Bibi Dong: I am Bibi Dong, Supreme Pontiff of Spirit Hall, ruler of this continent's greatest power. Every so-called "peace" I have witnessed has been nothing more than submission in the face of an overwhelming difference in strength! Peace between humans and beasts? Impossible! You do not even realize you are enslaved, yet dare to spout blatant lies on the Heavenly Screen. Laughable, pitiful, lamentable!]

The Holy Spirit Continent.

Reading these words, the soul masters laughed in sheer fury.

[Meng Jiu: Fine! Fine! Whatever you say! We won't argue with you useless trash! You'll soon learn what a real gulf looks like, understand?]

[Old Wang: Just wait until the rankings are revealed! Then we'll see who's taking whom out on a leash!]

[Xiao Tian: No more wasted words. Just wait!]

[Yu Xiaogang: Then we'll wait! We're just waiting to watch you make fools of yourselves. Hahahaha!]

At that same moment.

The golden Heavenly Screen over the Holy Spirit Continent's section suddenly blazed with light!

[Holy Spirit Continent section]

[Nineteenth strongest powerhouse-Heavenly-Flame Phoenix Bird]

[Race: Phoenix Bird Tribe, Ancient Fire Phoenix bloodline]

[Territory: Right side of the Holy Spirit Continent · Heavenly-Flame Mountain Range]

[Cultivation age: Two-million-two-hundred-thousand-year soul beast]

[Bloodline: Bears the primordial essence of the Ancient Fire Phoenix and has undergone three nirvanas. With each nirvana, its bloodline grew purer. Its entire body is now crimson-gold, with liquid-like glazed flames flowing beneath its feathers. When its wings spread, the fiery trails drawn by its tail feathers can span the entire mountain range, burning year after year without going out!]

[Abilities: Commands the heavenly fire of its domain. A single clear cry can set ten thousand miles of clouds ablaze! One beat of its wings unleashes heat waves that steam rivers into white mist. Its fire does not burn vegetation, but instead burns the forms of all things! Wherever its flames pass, mountain rock turns molten and refined iron undergoes nirvana. Within its domain, it neither dies nor perishes, burning fiercer the longer it fights.]

[Signature skill: Heavenly Flame Nine Heavens: Phoenix Descends]

[Introduction: Sovereign of the Holy Spirit Continent's skies, it roosts atop the Heavenly-Flame Mountain Range and has not emerged for ten thousand years. Every creature on the continent knows that if a second sun rises during the day, it is not sunset-it is the Phoenix Bird preening its feathers!]

[Reward: Its bloodline evolves once more into the phoenix bloodline of the legendary phoenix!]

The moment Yu Xiaogang saw the Holy Spirit Continent's section, he began commenting.

[Yu Xiaogang: Look! What did I tell you! Their rankings are nothing but soul beasts from start to finish! Human soul masters have no place there at all! This is ironclad proof of their enslavement!]

Before anyone could even rebut Yu Xiaogang's mockery!

Golden light swirled across the Heavenly Screen, and a second profile card had already swept into view!

The Holy Spirit Continent's eighteenth place also began to be revealed...