As cold gave way to heat and spring yielded to autumn.
Over on Sea God Island, under Jiang Li's covert interference, Tang San and the others' divine trials were steadily advancing at a terrifying pace.
Having completed the fifth trial, the next thing they had to face was lasting the time it took for an incense stick to burn under Bo Saixi's attacks.
But evidently, that posed no difficulty at all.
Meanwhile, ever since Yu Xiaogang had fled back to Spirit City like a beaten dog and returned to Bibi Dong's side using a carefully fabricated tale of enduring humiliation for a greater cause, the atmosphere among the upper ranks of the Spirit Hall Empire had completely changed.
Especially after Bibi Dong learned from Yu Xiaogang that Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun were making astonishing progress in their divine trials, she found herself unable to sleep night after night.
What the hell were those three little brats, Dai Mubai and the others?
Likewise lacking the sacrifice and support of a divine high priest, those three immature ants had actually soared all the way to the Soul Saint realm through their divine trials in a mere two years or so!
And what about Bibi Dong?
Ever since she had begun the Rakshasa God Trial all those years ago, she had endured for decades upon decades on this dark and oppressive path to godhood!
It would have been one thing for her trial progress to be surpassed by Qian Renxue, who had Qian Daoliu, that old bastard, escorting her every step of the way. But now, were even three ants going to ride roughshod over her?
To Bibi Dong, proud to the bone, this was an utter humiliation she could never tolerate!
Thus, under the force of Bibi Dong's nearly obsessive