Third Trial, Passed! Preparing for the Continental Journey!

"Cough, cough~"

Haiming painfully moved his head, trying to clear his nearly exploding mind just a little.

His eyes were fixed tightly on the empty sea. Wave after wave battered his body, while the Mental Shock, as if the entire ocean were pressing down on him, kneaded and twisted Haiming's soul again and again.

Haiming bit down on his lip, his entire body trembling. Right now, he felt as though he were about to be torn apart.

"Am I stuck at the limit of what I can endure?"

Because he had prepared himself today, Haiming discovered that even though the waves carried terrifying Mental Shock, they had not completely crushed him. Instead, they pushed his limits further and further with every impact!

"You set up this inheritance—aren't you afraid of killing your inheritor?"

The golden figure vanished from his eyes. Haiming let out a soft breath, looked at the two-hundred-meter wave, and lost consciousness.

With each passing day, Haiming's endurance steadily increased. He found that his five senses were becoming more and more acute as well. Sometimes, even the faintest scent or sound made him feel incredibly uncomfortable.

After the first month had passed, Haiming's body had completely adapted to the rhythm of the waves. Even his movements carried a trace of a tsunami's momentum. Kyogre even joked that if Haiming had enough energy now, he could raise a tsunami himself.

Compared to the strengthening of his body, what truly delighted Haiming was the appearance of a golden particle within his mind!

This was a sign that his Divine Soul was beginning to condense!

Because of that golden particle, the amount of time Haiming could endure the waves' Mental Shock every day increased greatly. In the days that followed, he maintained a high-intensity endurance period to make up for the time he had previously missed.

Another two months passed. Haiming had made up for all the time he had lacked before, and his overall daily average had reached twelve hours. He only needed to wait for the time to run out to complete the trial!

"Whew~"

On the cross, Haiming frowned as he felt the waves' feeble impacts.

His sea of consciousness had become a dazzling expanse of gold. The surging spray represented the turbulence of his spiritual power. Even with his eyes closed, Haiming could now sense every single drop of spray!

"Still not enough? Without Godhood, I can't condense a Divine Soul."

After silently enduring the waves' assault for twelve hours, Haiming returned to the cliff using his own strength. He sat down cross-legged and stared thoughtfully at the churning seawater below.

The total amount of his spiritual power had fully met the requirements to condense a Divine Soul. However, he had never systematically studied how to control spiritual power. Furthermore, condensing a Divine Soul required Godhood. The condensation of a Divine Soul represented the birth of a god—something Sea God Poseidon had secretly told Bo Saixi.

This time, even Kyogre could not help Haiming, because it was a born god and did not need to undergo the transition from mortal to god.

On the one hundred and eighth day, Haiming had completely given up on condensing his Divine Soul during the trial. After being scoured by the strange energy carried by the waves, his body had become an indestructible yet extraordinarily flexible Divine Body.

Of course, that did not mean he had become a god. He merely possessed a faint trace of a god's qualities and effects.

When attacks below the god level landed on Haiming, they would first be weakened by fifty percent by his Divine Body, then weakened by another fifty percent by his Divine Bone. That meant Haiming would bear at most twenty-five percent of an attack's power. With his current forty-sixth Soul Power Level, along with the boosts from his Soul Bones and Soul Rings, he could even contend with a weaker Titled Douluo!

On the cliff, Bo Saixi smiled as she watched the expressionless Haiming use his spiritual power to clash against the waves.

"The fledgling eagle has grown. It can be released without worry now."

Bo Saixi's voice was so soft that even Haiming, with his spiritual power fully spread out, failed to hear it.

Twelve hours later, the five rings around Haiming vanished in an instant, and the stone pillar rapidly sank into the sea.

As though he had anticipated it long ago, Haiming did not panic when his foothold disappeared. A layer of golden light enveloped his body, allowing him to float above the sea out of thin air!

This was the use of spiritual power Haiming had figured out for himself!

External release, object control!

With Haiming's current spiritual power, he could sustain high-speed flight in the air for five minutes!

If he only floated, he could even last for half an hour!

Tidal Body Tempering, trial passed! Endure suffering that ordinary people cannot endure, wear the crown of thorns, sit upon the throne of thorns, and become the strongest! Sea God Third Trial passed! Reward: Sea God Affinity increased by ten percent! Total affinity: thirty percent!

The Sea God's majestic voice sounded in Haiming's mind. As his Sea God Affinity increased, a blue-gold point of light suddenly appeared within his golden sea of consciousness. Just like when the golden particle had appeared, it instantly doubled Haiming's spiritual power!

"Whew! So this was the reward for the Third Trial?"

Haiming shook his head. That voice had not been a preset program. The real Sea God had descended, using the trial's process to help Haiming complete the most crucial first step in condensing his Divine Soul!

Everything was difficult at the beginning. Once there was a point, a line could be formed. Once there was a line, a beautiful painting could be created!

"Teacher, I may need to rest for a while before participating in the next trial."

Haiming bowed slightly to Bo Saixi. During this final stretch, he could be said to have spent all his time undergoing Tidal Body Tempering. After all, he had owed too much time earlier. The exhaustion he felt over these one hundred and eight days was even greater than when he had spent more than six years beneath Sea God's Light!

Moreover, he was now at level forty-six and about to break through to level forty-seven. Haiming planned to wait until level fifty before beginning the next trial.

"Even if you hadn't said so, I wouldn't have asked you to begin the next trial anytime soon." Bo Saixi shook her head. The scepter in her hand flashed with blue light, and then a crystal-clear Soul Bone landed in Haiming's hand.

It felt warm and smooth like jade, with a faintly slick sensation in his palm.

"This is a Soul Bone produced by an eighty-thousand-year Sea Soul Beast. Because of its special nature, the boost it gives you will not be weaker than that of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast." Bo Saixi gently tapped Haiming's forehead, sending a stream of information into his mind.

Fortunately, Haiming's spiritual power had soared by now, so it did not give him a headache.

"A Soul Beast that only knows how to run—the Deep-Sea Void Whale?!" A strange expression appeared on Haiming's face. He hesitated over whether to fuse with the Soul Bone in his hand.

It was a right leg bone, extremely complete. Judging from the fluctuations it produced after Soul Power was injected into it, this Soul Beast must have been exceptionally powerful while alive.

According to the information Bo Saixi had given him, the owner of this Soul Bone had indeed once dominated an entire sea region without equal. However, that was entirely because it had developed its innate ability to the extreme, tormenting its enemies until they were too exhausted to chase it!

The Deep-Sea Void Whale was a miraculous kind of Soul Beast. Though classified as a whale, it had the smallest body of all its kin, measuring less than one meter in length.

Without a massive body, the Deep-Sea Void Whale had difficulty not only defeating powerful enemies, but even escaping.

Thus, over time, the Deep-Sea Void Whale developed an innate ability!

Spatial Movement!

They could freely pass through spatial nodes, escaping predators' pursuit. They could even use it to toy with enemies, then defeat them with their pitifully weak attacks once those enemies had been exhausted.

Any enemy defeated by a Deep-Sea Void Whale would feel incredibly humiliated!

An eighty-thousand-year Deep-Sea Void Whale had probably toyed so many opponents to death that Haiming did not even know all their species!

"Teacher, isn't this Soul Bone too valuable...?"

The Deep-Sea Void Whale possessed only one innate ability. Unless his luck was unbelievably terrible, this Soul Bone could grant only one ability: Teleportation!

"The upcoming trials will not be simple. You may need to leave Sea God Island. I cannot stay by your side to protect you, and even Sea Dragon and the others cannot leave Sea God Island. Therefore, you must have the ability to protect yourself."

"Leave Sea God Island?"

The smile at the corner of Haiming's mouth froze. Hadn't he only returned a few months ago?

And...

Could the next trials possibly take place on the distant continent?

"Hurry and absorb it."

Bo Saixi lightly tapped her scepter. A layer of blue light enveloped Haiming, and she blocked out all outside interference. Absorbing a Soul Bone from a Soul Beast that had died who knew how long ago would not bring any accidents.

Whew~

Haiming took a deep breath, sat down cross-legged, and used his Soul Power to guide the Soul Bone into his right leg.

Pale blue light enveloped Haiming's right leg. Only five minutes later, he opened his eyes, and a glint of gold sank into their depths!

That fast?

Haiming was somewhat surprised. He had not felt the slightest resistance. He had absorbed the Soul Bone with ease, while his Soul Power Level, already on the verge of a breakthrough, silently rose to level forty-seven. Only three more levels remained before level fifty!

"How does it feel?"

Bo Saixi did not seem surprised at all, though there was a trace of curiosity in her tone.

Haiming thought for a moment and understood.

His spiritual power was exceptionally strong now, and the limit of what his body could bear was even more difficult to describe. Five minutes to absorb a nonresisting eighty-thousand-year Soul Bone was already showing it plenty of respect.

"My luck isn't bad."

Haiming gave a thumbs-up. It seemed he was not the kind of person with unbelievably terrible luck.

Buzz!

Haiming's figure distorted in front of Bo Saixi, and a fist shot toward her shoulder.

Bo Saixi lightly turned aside. The fist that had been aimed at her shoulder slammed heavily into the scepter in her hand. After the impact, Haiming appeared behind her.

"Voidwalking: teleport anywhere within one hundred meters. As long as I have enough Soul Power, there are no other restrictions. If this Deep-Sea Void Whale had been given a little more time, it might have reached the hundred-thousand-year level!"

"This was obtained when the Sea God conquered the oceans. However, his Soul Bones were already full at the time, so he did not absorb it. After Sea God Island was established, it was kept in Sea God's Temple and passed down until now."

Bo Saixi quietly explained. There was more than one Soul Bone in Sea God's Temple, but after finding one compatible with Haiming and receiving the Sea God's approval, Bo Saixi decided to give this Soul Bone to him.

"Left behind from when the Sea God conquered the oceans?" Three question marks slowly appeared over Haiming's head.

How many years had that been?

Several tens of thousands of years, at least!

If that Deep-Sea Void Whale were still alive, it would have reached the hundred-thousand-year level just by sleeping!

No more words were needed. A huge "tragic" for it!

Like a child who had received a new toy, Haiming frantically tested his Teleportation ability, darting and leaping around the cliffside.

Buzz!

His phantom flickered. Haiming withdrew the spiritual power around his body and leaped straight off the hundred-meter cliff. Feeling the fierce wind howl past his ears and the thrill brought by the acceleration of gravity, Haiming shouted, as though venting all his pressure at once.

He grinned and laughed. Just as he approached the reefs on the sea surface, he vanished with a teleport.

"Awesome!"

Haiming rolled his neck. While he had been testing his Soul Bone skill, Bo Saixi had already disappeared.

She was going to prepare the things Haiming would need for the Fourth Trial. Other than the Ninth Trial, every remaining trial would take place away from Sea God Island.

Inside a house in Hailong City, Haiming took a sip of tea and stared silently at the blue light screen before him for a long time.

Sea God Fourth Trial, King of Slaughter!

Enter Slaughter City, defeat the King of Slaughter, and obtain Divine Slaughter's Domain. Time limit: ten years.

Good heavens!

Haiming raised his head, as though he could see a miserable, bitter face.

What exactly was the Sea God in the distant God Realm trying to do?

How could the Fourth Trial involve such a test?

Was he trying to provoke the Asura God, or...

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Only one chapter today. Tomorrow is the final day my shop will be open. I need to start processing things in the backend, and after that, I'll devote myself fully to writing.