On the golden sands of Sea God Island, a warm, salty wind was blowing fiercely.
Inside the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar Pool, dozens of Sea Soul Master dressed in yellow robes stared wide-eyed, as if struck by lightning, their chins nearly hitting their feet.
It was just ten steps away from them.
The twenty Demon Soul Great White Shark, exhausted, lay belly up in the shallows, their mouths bound by iron chains, foaming at the mouth. Behind them, a large three-masted black ship had its iron dragon head embedded into the marble steps, and half a dried salted fish dripping with butter hung from its gunwale.
"This... this is outrageous!"
Sea Horse Douluo was so angry that his magnificent black robe with gold patterns trembled. He pointed at the great white sharks, whose eyes were rolling back in their heads, and his voice cracked:
"The Demon Soul Great White Shark is a sacred beast, a close attendant of the Lord Sea God! You bunch of land-dwelling madmen, how dare you chain them up to pull a boat?! You... you are blaspheming the gods, you deserve to be Thunder!!"
"What are you yelling about? You're so old, yet your temper is worse than a fat man's diarrhea."
Ling Yun, his hands neatly tucked into his shorts pockets, strolled slowly up the steps to the edge of the pool. He chewed on a dry blade of grass, his eyelids drooping as he glanced sideways at Sea Horse Douluo.
"Old man, open your eyes and look carefully. Back in the Ten Thousand Demons Trench, if I hadn't casually put bridles on these twenty big, dumb fish and stretched them out, they would have been swallowed whole by the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and turned into excrement. I escorted them all to your doorstep, whole and intact, without asking you for any money for fodder or escort fees, and you're already bringing up past grievances with me?"
"You... you're just being unreasonable!!" Sea Horse Douluo almost choked on his own breath.
Before the words were even finished, the group of people who followed them off the ship had already started doing their own things.
Tai Long, shirtless and covered in dark, bulging skin, slammed a heavy 200-pound Agarwood box down on the white jade steps next to the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar with a thud, causing stone dust to fall from the base of the Sacred Pillar.
Oscar, clutching a handful of Big Sausage, scurried over to the foaming great white sharks, pried open their mouths, and shoved the sausages inside, muttering incantations as he did so:
"God-Level Recovery Big Sausage! Two for each fish! Rongrong, put it on the tab! This is for the Sea God's attendant's emergency medication. Each sausage is worth twenty Gold Soul Coin on the Black Market, totaling eight hundred gold coins. We'll have that old man in the black robe reimburse us later!"
Ning Rongrong sat cross-legged on the Agarwood chest, clicking away on her small gold abacus, and replied crisply without looking up, "Written down! Add it to the island's toll fee!"
Beside her, Zhu Zhuqing, dressed in a black leather bodysuit, her pretty face expressionless, held Deboning Curved Knife she had just seized from the pirates. She was deftly slicing dried mutton into pieces on a piece of fine Agarwood. Xiao Wu, on the other hand, was holding Ling Yun's arm, chewing on the meat slices Zhu Zhuqing offered while curiously kicking the water in the Sacred Pillar Pool with her toes.
Everyone's a villain!
These are hardly ascetics who came to Sea God Island seeking divine trials and blessings.
This is clearly a bunch of thugs who just finished robbing merchant ships at sea and are now dividing up the loot in their own backyard!
Having lived most of his life, Sea Horse Douluo had never seen anything like this before. When the Spirit Hall's two thousand elite troops stormed the island, weren't they all solemn and on high alert? And these brats who haven't even grown their hair yet are actually using the steps of the Sacred Pillar as a chopping board to cut mutton?!
"Enough!!"
Sea Horse Douluo, enraged, unleashed his immense power as a level 95 Titled Douluo. Nine Soul Ring —two yellow, two purple, four black, and one black-red—pulsated wildly beneath his feet! The entire Sea within the Sea instantly transformed into towering, raging waves that surged skyward!
"The rules of Sea God Island must not be broken!"
Sea Horse Douluo stared intently at Ling Yun, his voice so cold it could drip ice. "Anyone entering the island must first Sea Horse Sacred Pillar Platform and undergo the holy light test bestowed by the Lord Sea God! Only those who pass can remain on the island to cultivate; those who fail... die!!"
With a loud boom, the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar shone brightly with golden light, transforming into a pillar of light that shot straight into the sky.
However, faced with the overwhelming pressure of this level 95 Titled Douluo, Blue Tyrant and his gang didn't even blink.
Dai Mubai sneered, took a step forward, and unleashed the chilling white killing intent emanating from the Hell Road without any concealment. The icy Divine Slaughter's Domain instantly condensed a layer of white frost on the sea surface, forcefully pushing back the huge waves stirred up by Sea Horse Douluo!
"Let's test him then, who are you trying to scare?" Dai Mubai rubbed his fists, then turned to Ma Hongjun: "Fatty, you go first, show this old man what you're made of."
Alright!
Ma Hongjun stepped onto the stone platform in two strides.
Drawn by Soul Power, the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar's originally azure light suddenly began to flicker!
White, yellow, purple, black!
The beam of light surged forward relentlessly without stopping for a moment, and in the blink of an eye, it soared to the deepest peak of black!
Buzz!
Six black light curtains lined up neatly in mid-air and landed on Ma Hongjun's forehead!
Black Level Six Trials!
Sea Horse Douluo's eyes widened instantly, his eyelids twitching violently. "Black... Black Level Six Trials?! How is this possible?! How could a land-based Soul Master be faced with such a deadly trial right from the start?!"
In the rules of Sea God Island, the Black Level Six Trials are almost always the most dangerous and have a very low success rate. Over the centuries, very few people have been able to pass them!
But Ma Hongjun touched the six black streaks on his forehead, and instead of being happy, he spat on the ground with a look of disgust:
"Pah! It's all black and grimy, like a piece of rotten Charcoal, not even a big red flower on it. It looks ominous! Old man, has the color of this pillar faded? Can't you replace it with a brighter one?"
Sea Horse Douluo nearly Spit Up out a mouthful of blood. Black Level Six Trials? This fat guy actually thinks it's unlucky?!
"Rongrong, it's your turn," Dai Mubai called from below.
Ning Rongrong tucked the abacus into her bosom, patted the dirt off her bottom, and skipped onto the stone platform.
Buzz--!
A faint nine-colored light flickered beneath Ning Rongrong's feet, and the illusory image of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda vanished in a flash.
The Sea Horse Sacred Pillar erupted like a cast iron pot doused with boiling oil, bursting into a complete frenzy!
The black light couldn't even hold out for a moment, and was instantly shattered by a blindingly bright blood-red beam of light!
Blood shot into the sky, staining half the sky red!
Seven crimson light curtains, carrying immense Divine Pressure, condensed into a vibrant, Blood-Red Seven-Pointed Star between Ning Rongrong's brows!
Top-Tier Seven Trials!
The exclusive test for the successor to the High Priest of Sea God Island!!
"Thump!!"
Sea Horse Douluo's legs went weak, and he Sturdy knelt heavily on the Plate ground in front of all the Sea Soul Master. His old face was deathly pale, and his whole body trembled like a leaf. "Top... Top-Tier Seven Trials... The Lord Sea God has manifested... The Lord Sea God has chosen the next High Priest?!"
The dozens of yellow-clad Sea Soul Master around them were so terrified that they all knelt down and kowtowed frantically.
Standing in the holy light, Ning Rongrong reached out and touched the red star between her eyebrows, then looked down and flipped through her large ledger. Her brows furrowed into a deep frown.
Seven test questions? How much pay do I get for each one?
Ning Rongrong stood with her hands on her hips, looking down at the kneeling Sea Horse Douluo, her face full of dissatisfaction as a small merchant:
"No Gold Soul Coin as dividends, no top-grade ore as compensation, and you're just going to stamp my forehead with a red seal? Our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect won't take this job that's all for free!"
Sea Horse Douluo knelt on the ground, completely petrified. The chosen successor to the High Priest of the gods... was here haggling over wages?!
"Alright, stop embarrassing yourself, step back."
Ling Yun, with his hands in his pockets, finally strolled slowly up the steps.
He walked step by step across the wet marble to the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar.
Sea Horse Douluo cautiously raised his head, looking at the dark blue-clad boy who hadn't even spared his Martial Soul and whose hands were always in his pockets.
In that instant, the entire Sea Horse Sacred Pillar seemed to sense something extremely terrifying, and the originally sacred and stable pillar of light began to tremble violently!
Ling Yun stood before the Sacred Pillar, with no intention of passively receiving any divine light baptism.
Deep within his brow, the Divine Sense nurtured to the peak of the Spirit Connection Realm by the Head Soul Bone, along with the Dark-type origin and Pure Water Law of the Greninja within his body, rippled slightly!
It wasn't a prayer for divine intervention, but an extremely domineering Sheer Force collision!
Rumble rumble rumble--!!
The towering Sea Horse Sacred Pillar, several tens of feet high, emitted a sickening metallic scraping sound!
Golden light, red light, black light, blue light... hundreds and thousands of divine rays of different colors flashed wildly and crackled and popped above Ling Yun's head like neon lights that had short-circuited!
The entire surface of the Sea within the Sea was pressed down and sank by three feet!
The white jade Sea Horse statue on the Sacred Pillar, under the terrifying backlash of Ling Yun's Divine Sense, cracked open with a crisp "crack" at its neck, leaving a hideous gap the width of a thumb!
Sea Horse Sacred Pillar got short-circuited!
The divine consciousness left by the Sea God in the pillar completely crashed—give the Sea God Nine Trials? This young man exudes pure Dark-type and high-dimensional water control laws, utterly disdaining to be anyone's follower! Giving too little? This terrifying Divine Sense could uproot the entire Sacred Pillar and shatter it on the spot!
"Click, click."
A plume of black smoke billowed from the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar, and the divine light that had soared into the sky "whooshed" back into the pillar, extinguishing completely.
Ling Yun patted the large crack that had just appeared on the Sacred Pillar, took out a wooden skewer from his pocket and picked his teeth, glancing sideways at the Sea Horse Douluo who was terrified out of his wits:
"Old man, the pillar in your house isn't very sturdy. It can't even withstand the noise of me washing my hands."
Sea Horse Douluo lay sprawled on the ground, his eyes rolled back, too weak to even speak.
At the highest point of Sea God Island Sea God Temple.
The ninety-ninth level Peerless Douluo, High Priest Bo Saixi, who had been sitting on the throne in the main hall, holding the Sea God Scepter in meditation, suddenly opened his eyes!
Her bright red robe fluttered without wind, and her exquisitely beautiful and noble face was filled with shock and disbelief.
The Divine Restriction Bell of Sea God Island is ringing wildly! The divine power of the entire island is spiraling into chaos!
"Has Qian Daoliu attacked? Or has the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King come ashore?"
Bo Saixi's figure blurred, instantly transforming into a streak of red light and appearing on the high platform in the Sea God Hall. Her vast, ocean-like Divine Sense rapidly spread out, instantly sweeping towards the direction of Seahorse City.
However, when Bo Saixi saw the scene before the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar, this Sea God High Priest, who had lived for over a hundred years and was renowned throughout the world, froze on the spot.
The Sea Horse Sacred Pillar was cracked in half and was hissing black smoke.
Sea Horse Douluo knelt on the ground like a dead dog, gasping for breath.
Twenty great white sharks rolled their eyes and foamed at the mouth in the shallow water.
Beneath the broken Sacred Pillar, a group of young men dressed in shorts were gathered around several Oak crates, cooking salted fish and dried meat in a boiling hot pot.
The dark blue-haired boy leading the group, hands in his pockets, was even gently tapping the base of the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar with a small hammer while loudly shouting:
"Boss Dai, the marble for this base is nice, high density. Pry off a couple of pieces to take back and use for Fatty's stove!"
At this moment, Bo Saixi's slender, jade-like hand, which held the Sea God Scepter, began to tremble violently.
It's been hundreds of years!
Sea God Island has stood in this deep sea for hundreds of years!
Who can tell her who put this bunch of heartless bandits... on the sacred Sea God Island?