Lu Ye blasted Yu Xiaogang: Grandmaster? Your theories are utter bullshit! Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu coveted the spoils
Sensing the several empty Soul Ring slots remaining on her Second Martial Soul, Bibi Dong was already drooling with desire!
She did not know why this Xuanwu Continent had so many Soul Beasts with a hundred thousand years of cultivation, or even more.
But that was perfect!
As long as she found Xuanwu Continent, she could go there to hunt Soul Rings and add them to her Second Martial Soul!
[Yu Xiaogang:
Fake!
It is all fake!
This violates the laws of Martial Soul development!
A hundred thousand years is already the limit of a Soul Beast's lifespan. The laws of heaven and earth could never permit a six-hundred-and-eighty-thousand-year existence!
Just what kind of place is this Xuanwu Continent?]
Beneath the ten-thousand-zhang abyss on the ocean floor, the serpent head flicked its tongue, its fierce scarlet eyes brimming with mockery:
"Old turtle, they seem to have been scared witless."
Lu Changqing smoothly paddled his foreclaws, stirring up towering ocean currents, and smiled faintly:
"Creatures watching the sky from the bottom of a well naturally think it an illusion when they first glimpse the heavens' vastness.
The Divine Realm has locked their upper limits, so they believe the universe is no more than a tiny patch of ground."
The serpent head reared up and said impatiently:
"That brat called Lu Ye is in there too, isn't he?
Have him come out and say hello. Give those natives a proper lesson!"
Deep beneath the ocean, a thought stirred in Lu Changqing's mind, and his divine sense plunged straight into the Xuanwu Empire's Taiji Divine Hall.
"Lu Ye, now that the Sky Screen has opened, there is no need to keep hiding.
Go into the livestream chat and wake those mortals trapped on their lonely island."
Seated upon the Xuanwu Dragon Throne, Lu Ye trembled slightly, then respectfully lowered his head and received the decree within his sea of consciousness:
"Your descendant Lu Ye humbly obeys the Ancestor's Divine Oracle."
The next instant, golden light blazed in the center of the immense screen across the heavens!
A chat message wreathed in black and dark-gold dragon Qi, shimmering with supreme divine might, carried dazzling full-screen effects.
It forcibly drowned out every chaotic argument in the Douluo Continent section:
[Emperor of the Xuanwu Empire · Xuanwu Great Emperor · Lu Ye:
You so-called sects and imperial families of Douluo Continent, if you have never seen the true starry sky, do not presume to measure Xuanwu Continent's heavenly might with your narrow knowledge from the bottom of a well.]
The moment this message bearing special honorifics and planar pressure appeared, the uproar in the Sky Screen livestream chat abruptly choked to a halt.
[Yu Xiaogang: Xuanwu Great Emperor?
Laughable!
I, Yu Xiaogang, am the foremost Grandmaster of Martial Soul Theory, versed in the origins and rules of every Martial Soul under heaven!
From ancient times to the present, the limit of a Soul Beast's lifespan has been no more than a hundred thousand years. Only by surpassing level one hundred and becoming a god can one attain eternity!
Your so-called six-hundred-and-eighty-thousand-year Ferocious Beast and two-hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor are nothing but turning black into white and spouting nonsense!
Does calling yourself a great emperor let you rise above the fundamental laws of Martial Souls?]
[Xuanwu Great Emperor · Lu Ye: The fundamental laws of Martial Souls?
Grandmaster?
Truly, the ignorant know no fear.
Your so-called hundred-thousand-year limit is nothing more than planar shackles and lifespan-stealing restraints deliberately imposed by those false gods in the Divine Realm to prevent mortal beings from threatening their divine authority.]
[Xuanwu Great Emperor · Lu Ye:
On Xuanwu Continent, a hundred thousand years is merely the starting point at which Soul Beasts shed their bestial forms and truly enter the realm of Ferocious Beasts!
After a hundred thousand years, they must endure a Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Tribulation every hundred thousand years.
If they survive, their strength increases exponentially, tempering their Divine Cores.
If they fail, they are reduced to ash and smoke.
The six-hundred-and-eighty-thousand-year Ice Prison Xuan Chi has already endured five great tribulations of heaven and earth. Its might can freeze a thousand li of ocean and freeze the void itself.
Yet in your eyes, this has become an inconceivable tall tale?]
These words were like a heavy hammer, smashing viciously into the hearts of every top expert on Douluo Continent.
Within Spirit Hall's Papal Hall.
Bibi Dong, who had been reclining on the papal throne, suddenly sat bolt upright. Towering waves surged through the purple eyes in her stunning, cold face.
"Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Tribulation?
The Divine Realm's shackles?"
Bibi Dong's fingers clamped tightly around the Angel Scepter as stormy waves rose in her heart.
She was undergoing the Rakshasa God Trial and could not have been more sensitive to the presence of the Divine Realm.
Hearing Lu Ye speak so openly of the Divine Realm's suppression, her first reaction was not to find it absurd, but an unprecedented sense of heart-pounding alarm.
Bibi Dong took a deep breath, turning her spiritual power into a chat message and sending it into the Sky Screen:
[Bibi Dong: Great Emperor Lu Ye, is it?
I am Bibi Dong, Supreme Pontiff of Spirit Hall.
I will not ask about the causes and consequences involving the Divine Realm. I ask only this: do the Ferocious Beasts several hundred thousand years old that you speak of truly exist?]
[Xuanwu Great Emperor · Lu Ye:
Naturally.
But Bibi Dong, I advise you to put away that little bit of greed.
A six-hundred-and-eighty-thousand-year Ferocious Beast can contend against three Level 98 Peak Douluos single-handedly.
Even if it stood still and let your Spirit Hall elders besiege it for three days and nights, you would not break through its Origin Profound Ice Astral Qi.]
Behind the Papal Hall, deep within the Worship Hall.
The Great Enshrined, Qian Daoliu, who had been sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them, his face filled with shock and gravity.
"One Soul Beast can fight three Level 98 Peak Douluos?
How is that possible..."
Qian Daoliu immediately used his divine sense to connect to the Sky Screen:
[Qian Daoliu: I am Qian Daoliu of Spirit Hall.
Your Excellency Lu Ye, your words contain much exaggeration.
Though Soul Beasts have powerful bodies, human Soul Masters possess Hundred Thousand Year Soul Skills and Martial Soul Avatars, as well as the protection of divine inheritances.
The might of our Douluo Continent's Peerless Douluos is enough to overturn rivers and seas. How could we possibly be helpless against a mere Soul Beast?]
[Yu Yuanzhen: Enshrined Qian speaks the absolute truth!
I am Yu Yuanzhen, clan head of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!
My Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon is the world's foremost Beast Martial Soul. In its true dragon incarnation, its flesh tears heaven and earth apart, and nothing can withstand it!
Even if some serpent several hundred thousand years old truly exists, it can only submit to execution beneath my blue lightning dragon might!
You of Xuanwu Continent, stop bolstering Soul Beasts' spirit while diminishing humanity's prestige!]
In response to Qian Daoliu and Yu Yuanzhen's doubts, tens of thousands of mocking messages instantly streaked through the Xuanwu Continent section.
[Dean of the Xuanwu Empire Imperial Academy · Mu Xuan:
Pfft!
Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon?
The world's foremost Beast Martial Soul?
Am I seeing this correctly?
A hybrid lizard subspecies that has not even touched a god-tier bloodline dares to proclaim itself number one?]
[Commander of the Xuanwu Empire's Southern Suppression Legion · Wang Teng:
Didn't the newsflash just say it?
Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragons and Golden Sacred Dragons are everywhere on our Xuanwu Continent. Even the imperial patrol captains' mounts are uniformly eighty-thousand-year Earthclad Tyrant Dragons.
Where does this old man get his sense of superiority?]
Indeed!
On Xuanwu Continent, because of Lu Changqing.
Humans and Soul Beasts lived together in harmony.
It was commonplace for Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to sacrifice themselves to human Soul Masters.
And there was naturally nothing wrong with Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts serving as mounts.
Of course, the main reason was that the Xuanwu Empire Imperial Family were Lu Changqing's descendants!
The entire Xuanwu Continent rested on Lu Changqing's turtle shell.
Lu Changqing was the supreme deity worshipped by every human and Soul Beast across Xuanwu Continent!
Whatever Lu Changqing told the Soul Beasts to do, they had to do!
At the same time, there was a reason Xuanwu Continent could have so many hundred-thousand-year and several-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts despite having formed far more recently than Douluo Continent and the other continents.
It was also because, while Lu Changqing slept and continually grew stronger through the system.
The Soul Beasts on his shell could also rapidly grow stronger by directly absorbing the energy that escaped from Lu Changqing as he slept.
This was also one of the important reasons the Soul Beasts did not dare resist, and even sincerely accepted any arrangements.