Two years was neither long nor short.
To the soul masters of Sea God Island, it was merely over seven hundred cycles of rising and falling tides. To Deng Tianxin and the other two, it was enough to transform them completely.
Ever since they had simultaneously triggered the Ultimate Eight Trials, their names had spread like the sea wind across every island under the jurisdiction of the Seven Sacred Pillars.
Countless sea soul masters watched them in secret, some curious, some resentful, some waiting to see how they would retreat in the face of the Sea God's trials.
Yet two years had passed, and those waiting to laugh at them were ultimately disappointed.
Deng Tianxin had completed all eight trials in two years.
Each trial was like a whetstone personally tailored for him by the Sea God—from life-and-death pursuits amid deep-sea currents to trials of the mind within the Seven Emotions Maze, from another clash with the Sea Witch Douluo to infiltrating a ten-thousand-meter trench alone to retrieve the Sea God's Token.
Every time, it tore apart his limits, then forced him to push the Power of the God of Love to deeper levels in desperate circumstances.
Deng Tianxin's rank had soared. By the time he completed the eighth trial, he had steadily reached level ninety-six.
Xiao Wu was now a level fifty-three Soul King. Her movements were faster and more elusive than before.
Two years of sea winds and God Trials had stripped the childishness from her soft-boned grace. The decisiveness and fierceness in her waist and legs when she attacked had even earned public praise from the Sea Witch Douluo: "In close-quarters grappling, I am no match for her."
Di Qiu'er had also completed all eight trials. She did not seem particularly eager for the power bestowed by