"What is this?"
"Less than a month after you left, someone from Heaven Dou City delivered it," Shui Qingrou said. "It was the championship reward personally bestowed by Emperor Xue Ye. They said it was a treasure passed down through the imperial family for who knew how many generations, called the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud. The envoy said this was an honor reserved for the champion teams of every Continental Elite Tournament. Since Tianshui Academy won, this item belonged to you."
Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
Bing Yekong accepted the small golden pyramid. The instant his fingers touched it, the glowing patterns inside the pyramid suddenly began flowing faster, as though responding to his touch.
He vaguely sensed a strange aura seeping from within the pyramid, gentle yet vast. It was completely different from the murderous aura of Slaughter City, carrying the depth and boundlessness of the sea.
Without changing expression, he slipped the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud into his robes.
He knew its origins better than Shui Qingrou did.
The key to the Sea God's Nine Trials, one of the most important artifacts in Tang San's past-life storyline. Now that it had fallen into his hands, it meant that an opportunity from the Sea God had opened a crack of its door to him as well.
Of course, that was assuming he could activate it and earn the Sea God's recognition.
But this was not the time to think about that.
The sky had fully darkened, while the main hall of the Shui Family residence blazed with light. As expected, Shui Qingrou had summoned everyone she could.
From the Feng Family, Feng Tianlin had arrived early with Feng Xiaotian.
Feng Xiaotian was a full circle broader than he had been two years ago, and his aura had grown much steadier.