"Sure enough, it worked."
Deep within an uninhabited forest a hundred li outside Ming Capital.
Xia Ming stood quietly beneath the shadow of a towering ancient tree, his calm gaze fixed on the area ahead.
There, Di Ruiqiu had her eyes closed in concentration.
A layer of pale golden, misty radiance swirled around her.
The golden vertical eye marking on her brow, symbolizing fate, flickered in sync with that glow, producing an inscrutable resonance.
A fluctuation filled the air—neither Soul Power nor mental power, yet far grander than either.
Just moments earlier, Xia Ming had used the authority of the controller of the God of Love's God Position to guide Di Ruiqiu.
He had attempted to draw down a secondary God Trial specially suited to her.
The process had gone unexpectedly smoothly, even more smoothly than when Huo Yuhao and the others had received their trials.
This once again confirmed her unique affinity with the Law of Love.
The God Trial had successfully descended and become bound to her.
A trace of almost imperceptible anticipation and satisfaction flashed through Xia Ming's eyes before deeper contemplation covered it.
He knew clearly that for Di Ruiqiu—
Although such a trial could not directly lead to a God Position—
It was itself an extraordinary opportunity enough to drive any Soul Master, or even Beast Lord, in the world mad.
Ten thousand years ago, the Shrek Seven Devils on Sea God Island had relied on the trials and generous rewards of God Trials to achieve true leaps forward.
It had not merely been a surge in Soul Power, allowing a few short years to rival decades or even centuries of ordinary cultivation.
Their constitutions, mental power, and Soul Ring quality had all undergone complete elevation as well.
It could be said that, aside from