Xiao Bai swam a circuit of the Ring Sea, making sure every group of Sea Soul Beasts could keep moving with the tide, then slapped the water with her tail fin.
"Eight months, and not one killed." She looked at the six people sprawled on the rocky shore. "You made it through this trial with clean hands."
Golden light from the sea descended from the mountaintop, and Bo Saixi walked across the water to the edge of the curtain of light. Tang San pushed himself up and looked first at the fish in the sea, then at the five beside him. All six trial marks had begun to burn, but the words did not fully unfold in the light until Bo Saixi raised her hand.
Second Trial: Break through the Ring Sea Lockdown. Complete. Sea Soul Beast deaths during the trial: zero.
Bo Saixi inspected all six trial marks, then looked toward Xiao Bai in the water. "The trial's guardian has checked each one. From the first time you entered the water to the day you came ashore, not one Sea Soul Beast died because of you. You have completed the Second Trial."
The golden trident on Tang San's forehead gained a distinct halo. His Sea God Affinity increased by five percent, but it did not raise his Soul Power. Seven months of training in the sea and today's reward were now settled: Tang San had reached Level 78 through training, while the other five's current levels included the one-level Soul Power reward from the Second Trial. Dai Mubai was level seventy-four, Ning Rongrong level seventy-three, Oscar and Zhu Zhuqing level sixty-nine, and Ma Hongjun level sixty-six. The golden light faded, and the Soul Power they had forged in the waves settled firmly within them.
Their dimmed Soul