Including that month on the road before arriving on the island, five years had passed since they won the championship of the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
Five years ago, he had only been fourteen or fifteen, yet he had led the Skywater Team and ruthlessly crushed Shrek's dream of becoming champions on the arena.
Now, at twenty, he stood beneath the banyan tree on Sea God Island. His Soul Power had already reached rank ninety, placing him at the level of a Quasi-Titled Douluo. He was only "quasi" because he had yet to obtain his ninth Soul Ring.
But soon. Once the sixth trial ended, the Sea God would bestow a second Divine-Bestowed Soul Ring.
He was not the only one who had changed over the past five years.
Shui Yue'er was now a rank sixty-five Soul Emperor. The little girl who had once chased butterflies through the courtyard until she fell now could climb three hundred steps of the Sea God's Light Stairway in one breath.
Her Jade Dolphin Martial Soul had been greatly nourished by the oceanic environment. The Speed Leg Bone she had obtained from the tournament had also been repeatedly tempered under the pressure of the Sea God's Light. Now, she moved as swiftly as the wind; even Feng Xiaotian sometimes could not catch her.
Huo Wushuang was a rank sixty-nine Soul Emperor, only one step away from becoming a Soul Saint.
His fire-attributed Martial Soul had suffered quite a bit on the island. The Sea God's Light was a power system heavily inclined toward water attributes, suppressing fire attributes more strongly than it did others.
Yet Huo Wushuang had gritted his teeth and endured it. Every day, he climbed two more times than everyone else. Over a year, he had forcibly raised