Need Two Tests? Dream On!

"Teacher... is it really going to be okay here...?"

Looking at the hard black rocks beneath his feet, Hai Ming involuntarily swallowed.

No matter how strong humans were, they still had to fear the power of nature.

And what stood before him now was nature's divine craftsmanship!

"I'll be watching over you the entire time."

Bo Saixi smiled faintly. A powerful blue glow flashed in her eyes, and the roaring sea became incomparably calm in an instant.

Then, from the now-suppressed calm surface, a thick gray pillar slowly rose.

At the top of that pillar was a smaller horizontal pillar, fused together with the main body.

From a distance, the top looked like a cross. There were five gray rings on it, and Hai Ming could guess with his toes that they corresponded to the four limbs and the head.

"So I have to play Jesus for a while."

Hai Ming's mouth twitched. He did not like being tied to a cross.

"Shall we begin?"

Rarely, Bo Saixi asked for Hai Ming's opinion. After all, he had just completed the second trial and had mentioned wanting a little free time.

"Forget it. Let's begin."

Hai Ming shook his head. He had originally planned to go trouble the Bloodrays, but seeing the circumstances of the next trial, it would be more enjoyable to finish it sooner.

Blue light flickered in Bo Saixi's eyes and wrapped around Hai Ming in an instant. The next moment, the light flashed, and Hai Ming felt his body grow weightless as he silently floated upward. Then he drifted back down and landed on the pillar.

Hai Ming felt his entire body tighten. He was bound spread-eagled to the stone pillar's cross, five stone rings tightly locking his body in place. His neck and limbs were all secured, and the moment he landed on the cross, a force pressed his body against the pillar, ensuring that he would not slip and put pressure on his neck.

Bo Saixi withdrew her hand, and the blue energy vanished. Without her suppression, the roaring waves surged up again. The waves beneath Hai Ming's feet were drawing closer and closer!

With a deafening boom, a massive wave a hundred meters high swallowed Hai Ming whole. The same suffocating feeling from the first and second trials washed over him. Hai Ming held his breath and felt the impact of the waves!

"Hm? This impact..."

To Hai Ming's surprise, when the hundred-meter wave crashed into him, although it was powerful and suffocating, it was not as unbearable as he had imagined.

Could it be that the third trial was less effective than the previous two, so its difficulty had been lowered?

Hai Ming pondered silently. If every wave was only this strong, then aside from eating, he would have no problem hanging up there for all twenty-four hours of every day.

The sea did not care about Hai Ming's thoughts. Again and again, the waves receded, then surged back to crash against him!

Twice... three times... four times...

By the twentieth time, Hai Ming involuntarily entered Meditation, because the force of the waves had reached the point where he needed soul power to resist it.

Numb!

That was Hai Ming's only thought right now. It was like suddenly waking after sleeping with his arms folded on a desk, when both arms and legs had lost all sensation, forcing you to raise yourself on your toes and making you want to chop off your hands and feet from the numbness!

That numbness spread through his meridians, muscles, and even his bones and blood, which had already entered the Deification Realm!

Bo Saixi sat at the edge of the cliff, watching Hai Ming endure the waves while maintaining Meditation. With her insight, she could clearly see that Hai Ming's body had already gone numb. He was only holding on through sheer use of soul power.

Buzz!

A blue light entered Hai Ming's body. He convulsed, and all the Soul Rings around him turned gray-black. The Meditation enveloping him vanished as well!

The third trial did not permit the use of any support-type soul skills, or its effectiveness would be greatly reduced!

Damn it!

Hai Ming gave the sea a middle finger in his heart and began tensing his body to endure the waves. Before long, most of the soul power in his body had been depleted. After just over an hour, his whole body lost sensation, and Bo Saixi rescued him.

The numbness gradually faded as Hai Ming collapsed onto the ground, only to be replaced by pain like ten thousand arrows piercing his heart!

"Hiss!"

Even though he had endured the pressure of Sea God's Light and been gnawed on by Bloodrays, Hai Ming still could not bear this pain, like needles forcing their way through every crack!

Under Bo Saixi's watchful gaze, Hai Ming struggled to sit cross-legged and began meditating. It took several hours before he felt even slightly better.

"Phew..."

That evening, Hai Ming dragged his exhausted body home. After throwing himself onto the bed, he did not want to move even a finger.

If the first trial tested his soul power and physique, then the second tested his endurance. But this third trial... tested the kind of willpower that could be understood but not explained!

After more than an hour, he was still over ten hours short of the requirement for completing the third trial. He would have to make up that time later!

After resting for a night, Hai Ming still felt his heart tremble when he returned to Raging Waves Peril.

Bo Saixi sent him onto the cross. Hai Ming took a deep breath and endured the waves crashing over him again and again. This time, he lasted two hours!

And so, Hai Ming began a day-after-day life worse than death. The feeling of ten thousand arrows piercing his heart after each day's end did not weaken in the slightest.

"The third trial is already this difficult. How terrifying will the later trials be...?"

Lying on his bed, Hai Ming was completely drained. Today was the thirtieth day of his trial. He had finally held on for five and a half hours, and to his delight, the pain after the numbness faded seemed to have weakened slightly. Though according to his teacher, it was not that the pain had lessened, but that his tolerance for it had increased!

Furthermore, as he held on longer and longer, he discovered that his breathing had begun to develop a rhythm. He no longer made the mistake of using ten parts strength to resist one part of the waves' impact. At the same time, his body had become tougher. Divine Blood seemed to be deliberately or unconsciously cooperating with the waves to strengthen his body.

"The third trial is undoubtedly training my muscles, so will the fourth trial be mental power? But is there anywhere on Sea God Island that can train mental power?"

Hai Ming turned over, then sharply inhaled. The numbness in his feet had not completely faded, and he had accidentally pressed on a numb nerve while turning!

The fourth trial?

Kyogre smiled with faint malice as it sank within Hai Ming's sea of consciousness.

It did not answer Hai Ming aloud. Some things were better for him to comprehend on his own.

Especially since... tomorrow, he would most likely have to endure more than six hours!

Kid, the thoughts of a god are beyond your grasp. You think the remaining body and spirit of the Deification Realm need two separate trials?

Dream on!

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