Sea God Trial!
Bo Saixi's deep eyes showed little surprise, as if he had already foreseen it.
She slowly withdrew her hand, looked at the mark on Ye Lingling's forehead, nodded slightly, and her ethereal voice carried a hint of approval.
"Nine Heart Begonia... a miracle of life. This test is with you. Strive hard."
Ye Lingling opened her eyes, feeling the heavy pressure and information emanating from the mark on her forehead. Her cool gaze turned to Bo Saixi, and she bowed respectfully.
"Thank you, Grand Pontiff."
She retreated to her companions' side, and Hu Liena and the others cast concerned glances at her, but all remained silent in tacit agreement.
Bo Saixi's gaze, like two tangible beams of ocean light, passed over the crowd and finally landed on Lin Xia was standing slightly in front.
From the moment this young man stepped into the temple, he gave her a strange feeling—calm, profound, and seemingly harboring a power within him that was both familiar and difficult to fully comprehend.
She recalled the faint yet clear resonance of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
"Your turn."
Bo Saixi's voice remained calm, yet carried a subtle Frisk of scrutiny.
Lin Xia took a deep breath, feeling the omnipresent pressure of the ocean within the temple and Bo Saixi's profound gaze, and stepped forward, standing in the spot where Ye Lingling had just been.
He met Bo Saixi's gaze calmly and bowed slightly.
"Thank you for your Grand Pontiff."
Bo Saixi said nothing, and just as she had done with Ye Lingling, she raised her hand again, which contained the power of the ocean, and placed it palm down on Lin Xia's forehead.
Her movements remained calm and graceful, as if she were performing a perfectly ordinary ritual.
However, just a moment before Bo Saixi's fingertips were about to touch Lin Xia's brow—
"Buzz--!!!"
A deep and sacred hum suddenly erupted from between Lin Xia's eyebrows!
It wasn't a fluctuation of Soul Power, but rather a resonance at a higher level, seemingly originating from the very source of the gods!
Immediately afterwards, a point of extremely pure, extremely deep, azure light, as if it were the concentrated essence of the entire ocean, suddenly shot out from between Lin Xia's eyebrows!
This light was not passively received, but actively manifested, instantly condensing into a clear, triangular pyramidal phantom made of the purest blue crystal—the very mark of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud!
The moment this mark appeared, the entire Sea God Temple was instantly enveloped by an indescribable, vast divine power!
That was not the oceanic pressure brought by Bo Saixi, but something much older, more primordial, carrying the aura of supreme creation and domination!
The soft blue light that permeated the hall seemed to be summoned by the king, and frantically converged towards the triangular pyramid phantom. The light surged, making Lin Xia look like Sea God's Descent!
Bo Saixi's movements abruptly stopped when her fingertips were only an inch away from Lin Xia's brow!
For the first time, a clear and discernible emotional fluctuation appeared on her stunningly beautiful face, which was usually calm and serene, as if it contained the weight of countless ages.
Those deep, starry eyes instantly narrowed to their limit, and an unprecedented shock and disbelief erupted from the depths of their pupils!
"This... this is...?!"
For the first time, Bo Saixi's voice lost its ethereal and composed quality, carrying a tremor that even she herself was Frisk of!
She gazed at the azure triangular pyramid mark that spontaneously appeared between Lin Xia's brows, resonating strongly with the entire Sea God Temple and even the core of Sea God Island, feeling the familiar, soul-deep Sea God aura within it, yet far more primal and vast than anything she could control...
She recognized her!
This is no ordinary assessment mark!
This is... the aura of the Sea God's Heart! It is the key to unlocking the true divine inheritance!
Sea God Trial?!
This young man... actually triggered the Sea God Trial?!
How is that possible?!
Bo Saixi stood frozen in place, her outstretched hand suspended in mid-air, as if she had transformed into a perfect sculpture.
Her eyes, which had seen through everything in the world, were now filled with extreme shock, Lock-On intently on the triangular pyramid mark between Lin Xia's eyebrows that shone with supreme divine power.
As the Grand Pontiff of Sea God Island, she had served the Sea God for decades, undergone the Top-Tier Seven Trials, and was the Sea God's representative on earth... But the scene before her eyes completely overturned her understanding!
The Sea God's Light actually recognized a young man from the land and directly bestowed upon him the Sea God Trial, which only the chosen ones could initiate!
The next second, something unexpected happened!
The entire Sea God Island seemed to be shaken by an invisible giant hand. The resonance caused by the crimson pillar of light that had shot into the sky had not yet subsided, and now it trembled violently once again!
Everyone could clearly see that seven equally powerful, blood-red pillars of light suddenly erupted from different locations on Sea God Island, piercing through the heavens and earth!
Seven pillars of light, symbolizing the power of the Sacred Pillar Guardian, converged at a single point atop the vast sky, like a divine scepter tearing through the heavens!
In an instant, all the blood faded!
As if purified by the purest divine power, at the point of convergence, a golden pillar of light, so brilliant that it surpassed all the brilliance of the world and contained supreme majesty and the will to create, crashed down like an inverted celestial river!
Time, space, and even the blue aura flowing within the Sea God Temple all fell into absolute stillness at this moment.
Only that golden stream of light connecting the sea and sky, seemingly becoming the center of the universe, with an undeniable trajectory, had only one destination— Lin Xia!
The moment the golden light touched her body, Lin Xia trembled violently!
It wasn't pain, but a resonance originating from the deepest part of his bloodline and soul that was completely ignited! The mark within his body, formed from the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, was like an awakened monarch, bursting forth with unprecedented azure divine radiance, fiercely merging with the golden divine light descending from the sky.
A strange, homecoming-like feeling swept over him—this feeling was exactly the same as the vastness and inclusiveness he felt when he first refined the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud Cover, and the cool majesty of the Sea God's residual divine will protecting him in the face of the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, but it was even more magnificent and more primal!
Before he could think it through, nine enormous square golden light screens, their edges swirling with sacred runes, appeared out of thin air without warning!
They were like nine inscriptions from the Divine Realm, suspended before him.
The first light curtain shone the most intensely, as if it were cast from molten gold of the sun god. Its patterns were mysterious and profound, exuding the aura of the supreme law that governs all seas.
The remaining eight pieces were somewhat dim, like sleeping stars, but the oppressive aura they contained was still suffocating.
Before Lin Xia could even use his Purple Demon Eye to capture any possible text on the light screen, the nine golden light screens had already transformed into nine dazzling golden meteors, ignoring the distance in space, and directly entered the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud mark between his eyebrows!
"Boom--!"
It was as if a sea of stars had exploded deep within my soul!
A massive, indescribable torrent of information, carrying the purest will of the Sea God, surged into Lin Xia's mind like a cosmic river bursting its banks!
This information was too vast and profound, far exceeding the limits of his current level of understanding. In an instant, it transformed into a blurry yet dazzling golden ocean, filling every corner of his consciousness.
Only one thought, as clear and distinct as Sea God, was imprinted within it—it was the call of mission, the shackles of responsibility, and the ultimate test on the path to divinity!