Upon hearing that this was actually the Lord Sea God's plan, the Sea Dragon Douluo dared not be negligent at all. He slowly raised his hands, his face full of piety. He brought his hands to his chest, palms facing each other with a half-foot gap between them. A faint blue light slowly appeared in the center of his palms. The blue light was then released from his hands and injected into the Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar.
The next moment, the entire Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar shone with a blue light, and a blue halo appeared from it, enveloping Qian Xunfeng. The Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar began to change.
The blue light gradually intensified, its color changing from yellow to purple and then to black. Finally, black light densely covered the entire Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar, shooting straight to the highest point of the Sacred Pillar.
A roar like the sobbing of the ocean resounded from the Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar, and the Sea within a Sea boiled. At that moment, the entire Sea within a Sea suddenly surged with giant waves hundreds of meters high, rising vertically upwards. Within the giant waves, intense, misty blue light erupted.
Centered on the Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar, six enormous crimson pillars of light shot into the sky. The seven pillars converged at a single point in the air, and the crimson color faded away. From that point of convergence, an extremely brilliant golden light descended from the sky.
Such a magnificent and grand scene attracted the attention of everyone on Sea God Island. The five members of the Spirit Hall who were climbing the steps of the Sea God Hall also stopped and turned their heads to look in the direction of the Sea Dragon Sacred Pillar, not understanding what had happened.
Nine square golden light screens appeared out of thin air in front of Qian Xunfeng. The light on the first screen was the brightest, while the other eight screens were somewhat dim. Before Qian Xunfeng could think much about it, these light screens floated directly into his brow like golden meteors, and the blue inverted triangle mark on his brow turned into Golden Trident Mark.
A massive amount of information flooded into my mind, but it was all blurry and unclear, with only one thing clearly discernible.
Bo Saixi's face lit up with immense joy. Although she had somewhat anticipated it, the sheer excitement of witnessing the Sea God's Nine Trials nearly made her faint.
In stark contrast to Bo Saixi's attitude, a roar filled with boundless rage resounded within the Sea God Hall.
The giant water sphere in mid-air was completely shattered, and an incomparably enormous, heavy, and domineering aura emanated from the hall. The one who released this aura was naturally Tang Hao.
The moment Tang Hao witnessed the golden light soaring into the sky, his eyes instantly turned bloodshot, and he gasped for breath. As the High Priestess of the Sea God, how could he not know what that golden light represented? The Sea God's Nine Trials! He was about to become a sacrifice!
Tang Hao was completely unable to suppress his anger. Upon seeing the golden light, he immediately understood that he had been tricked! Why didn't that bitch Bo Saixi let him leave Sea God Island like she did with his elder brother? Instead, she took good care of him, restored his broken arm, helped him return to his peak, and enabled him to pass the top-level assessment.
So that was the purpose all along—to make him a substitute, a scapegoat, to sacrifice himself and initiate the Sea God's Nine Trials!!
What a beautiful Sea God Island! What a beautiful Bo Saixi!!
Tang Hao slammed his fist heavily into the wall of the Sea God Hall, but the wall didn't even crack. The Sea God Hall was a product of the Sea God's construction, and like the Sea God's own creation, it was filled with the Sea God's Light, making it impossible to be damaged by attacks other than those of a god level.
For Tang Hao to damage the Sea God Hall, he must summon the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul to Ring Detonation.
But Tang Hao knew that even if his destructive power was unmatched, even if his grandfather Tang Chen regained consciousness and his body returned to its peak condition, he was still no match for him. However, his strength was completely useless. The mark of the Sea God was imprinted on his forehead, and his body had been transformed by the Sea God's divine power. He was completely the Sea God's servant. If the Sea God had a single thought, he would lose the right to use his body.
Tang Hao stared at Qian Xunfeng, his bloodshot eyes growing even redder, practically bloodshot with rage. His beloved wife, Ah Yin, had sacrificed her soul; her Soul Ring, Soul Bone, and soul were all in this kid's body! Was he going to follow in his wife's footsteps, sacrificing himself to open the Sea God's Nine Trials for this kid, only to end up as a couple sacrificed to the heavens?
"You mistress, you've ruined Daddy's life!"
Afterwards, Qian Xunfeng also began the First Trial of the Sea God, traversing double the Sea God's Light and climbing the Sea God Staircase. Before that, he could also receive a reward. Sea God Island Sea God Trial Testers, Soul Master who pass the Black Level or higher test and reach the bottleneck of cultivation have a chance to absorb God-Given Soul Ring.
God-Given Soul Ring can grant Soul Master the Soul Ring most suitable for their Martial Soul, and the quality of God-Given Soul Ring is unmatched even by Soul Ring produced by top-tier Soul Beast like the Titan Giant Ape.
The one who distributed the God-Given Soul Ring in place of the Sea God was the High Priestess of the Sea God. Tang Hao was naturally unwilling to distribute the God-Given Soul Ring, so he pretended not to see this so-called reward.
The High Priestess of the Sea God does indeed need to make a sacrifice to open the gates of the Sea God's Nine Trials, but the High Priestess of the Sea God wields considerable power on Sea God Island. Not only is his status supreme, second only to the Sea God, but he can also exempt Soul Master who fail the Black Level Assessment from the punishment of death.
It is also possible to agree to allow Soul Master who have passed the four levels of the Sea God Hall Sea God Trial (white, yellow, purple, and black) to leave Sea God Island and not have to stay on Sea God Island for their entire lives to serve Lord Sea God.
As the High Priestess of the Sea God, Tang Hao could easily find an excuse to confiscate the God-Given Soul Ring of these six people from the Spirit Hall, which was naturally within his authority.
However, the fact that Tang Hao, the current High Priest, withheld the divinely bestowed God-Given Soul Ring from the six members of the Spirit Hall who had reached their bottlenecks does not mean that Bo Saixi, the previous High Priestess of the Sea God, could not issue God-Given Soul Ring.
Tang Hao's eyes turned bloodshot, his breathing became labored, and his hatred and killing intent surged to the heavens at Bo Saixi's hastening his death!
Qian Xunfeng already had experience absorbing God-Given Soul Ring and knew that the longer one endured the absorption, the higher the age of the divinely bestowed God-Given Soul Ring would be. However, he was unaware that the maximum age of God-Given Soul Ring was only 100,000 years.
Therefore, after Qian Xunfeng obtained the God-Given Soul Ring, he did not choose to crush and absorb it immediately. Instead, he planned to climb the Sea God Staircase and use the pressure of the Sea God's Light to temper his body and increase his physical strength before crushing and absorbing the God-Given Soul Ring.
With Qian Xunfeng's Soul Ring Configuration two purple, three black, and one red, and four Soul Bone — the Blue Silver Emperor Left Leg Bone, the Spirit Concentration Wisdom Skull, and the Titan Giant Ape Right Arm Bone —all these enhancements make it no problem for him to absorb a God-Given Soul Ring and condense a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring. Climbing the Sea God Staircase and using the Sea God's Light to temper his body wouldn't allow him to further increase the age of his Soul Ring. Absorbing God-Given Soul Ring now and breaking through to the Soul Saint realm sooner is clearly better from a cultivation speed perspective.
However, the stronger the body, the faster it can absorb a 100,000-year-old God-Given Soul Ring, and the sooner it can awaken and cultivate. After all, in the original story, it took Tang San a full 100 days to absorb his 100,000-year-old Seventh Soul Ring.
So, with this addition and subtraction, the result was roughly the same, and Bo Saixi went along with Qian Xunfeng's idea.