Sea God's Nine Trials

"Little Moon, give me the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud. I'll show you all what it really looks like."

Lin Yuan walked over to Little Moon, crouched down, and held out his hand.

Little Moon hugged the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud tighter. She tipped up her little face, looking utterly reluctant. "Do I have to give it back, guga?"

"Just let me borrow it. I'll give it back when I'm done." Lin Yuan coaxed her with a smile.

Little Moon dawdled for ages before handing it over, her little lips pushed into a pout.

Lin Yuan took it and stood, holding the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud on his palm. Everyone in the hall looked toward his hand.

The seven Gugas couldn't stay put either. They crowded around, little heads pressed together and eyes glued to the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud. They gugaed away, guessing what Lin Yuan meant to do with it.

Lin Yuan raised his other hand, slit a fingertip, and squeezed a drop of blood onto the azure tip.

The instant the blood touched it, the triangular pyramid trembled. Before everyone in the hall, it drew the drop inside. Rings of red spread across its azure surface, following the ripples outward.

In the next instant, everything changed.

The palm-sized pyramid swelled abruptly. Blue light shone through it, and waves of watery blue radiance poured from within, filling the hall until the entire place was washed in the color of seawater.

The hall fell silent. Dugu Bo, Yang Wudi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong—the four Titled Douluo—went pale at once, their eyes fixed on the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud suspended in midair. The aura within that light was so vast and ancient it pressed against their chests. It had long since surpassed all four of them.

Dugu Bo blurted, "What