"As you say."
The corners of Qian Daoliu's mouth curled up. With a raised hand, a triangular object appeared in his palm.
It was an exceedingly strange item, entirely a crystalline, translucent blue and shaped like a three-dimensional triangle. It seemed to have been carved from sapphire and was only palm-sized. Within its gleaming blue radiance, treasure light swirled as strange energy fluctuations continuously emanated from it. Water-ripple-like patterns undulated across the blue triangular object. They did not seem carved into it, but rather as if they were alive. Rings of blue light flashed, bathing even the palace in a faint treasure glow. The gentle blue light rippled with dazzling beauty.
"The Heart of the Sea God!"
The instant the triangular object appeared, Bo Saixi's gaze immediately fixed upon it, and she cried out in alarm.
The Heart of the Sea God was a sacred relic of Sea God Island, the core of the Artifact Sea God Trident that Lord Sea God had left behind on Sea God Island. It had vanished from Sea God Island many years ago, and Sea God Island had been searching for it ever since. How could it be in Qian Daoliu's hands?
When she was young, she had been favored by Lord Sea God and bestowed with the Sea God Martial Soul. The Soul Masters of Sea God Island had all regarded her as the Sea God's successor, and she had believed so herself. She had cultivated diligently without the slightest slackening. Yet when she took the Sea God's assessment at eighteen, she had received only the Top-tier Eight Trials.
She believed that she was already outstanding enough and had cultivated with exceptional diligence. The reason she had received the Top-tier Eight Trials rather than the Sea God's Nine Trials was because she had