Fear Shatters Illusions, Love Endures; With a Resolute Heart, He Refuses a God and Overcomes the Final Barrier

The golden divine light had yet to fade when the surroundings shifted into the battlefield of Jialing Pass. Dai Mubai, Oscar, and the others were bound to the ground by pitch-black vines, their faces pale. Standing before them was Bibi Dong, dressed in the Pope's robes and wearing a cold sneer.

"Tang San, want to save your friends?" "Bibi Dong" raised a hand, gathering purple-black Soul Power and pointing it directly at Oscar's head. "Kneel and beg for mercy. Perhaps I'll spare their lives." A frigid aura spread outward, identical to the pressure Bibi Dong had left in Tang San's memories.

"Fourth trial: Fear. Submit, or lose your closest friends." The voice of the rules rang by his ear. Tang San's heart abruptly tightened at the sight of his friends' suffering, yet his gaze upon "Bibi Dong" grew sharper and sharper—he had fought Bibi Dong several times and knew that although she was ruthless, she would never use an enemy's loved ones as leverage. This was not her way of doing things. More importantly, though the other party's Spirit Power Fluctuation was almost perfectly imitated, it lacked the corrupt, murky aura unique to the Rakshasa God's divine power.

"You are not her." Tang San slowly raised the Sea God Trident, and golden divine power erupted. "Senior Sea God, testing me with a false illusion is truly underestimating me." As his words fell, the Trident swept out. The moment the golden blade severed the vines, Bibi Dong and his friends before him vanished like bubbles. "Fourth trial, passed." As the voice of the rules fell, the divine light around Tang San grew even brighter, and his understanding of the true nature of "fear" deepened.

The scene shifted again, and he entered a valley filled with Blue Silver Grass. Countless "Xiao Wus"