The ghost exuding the power of the Sea God caused a far greater shock to Sea God Island than Yu Xiaowei's pseudo martial spirit.
Apart from Poseidon's Sea God Martial Spirit, they had never seen another martial spirit with Sea God's power.
Until today, when they saw Godzilla.
The sea soul masters kneeling on the ground pressed their foreheads to the earth and shouted, "Long live the Sea God."
In this situation, neither Poseidon nor the seven guardians stopped them, as they were already in deep confusion.
Poseidon was a little better off since he already knew beforehand that there were two Sea Gods. But the seven guardians, the Sea Dragon Douluo and others, were unaware. Facing Godzilla, who was wantonly slaughtering sea soul beasts, their faith seemed shaken.
In the ring-shaped sea.
Massive chunks of sea soul beast corpses floated belly-up, their bodies split open. The remaining sea soul beasts, who had just been roaring wildly, fell silent, staring blankly at the fierce Godzilla phantom.
Only Xiaobai, the Great White Devil Shark King, sensed that something was wrong. Carefully sensing Godzilla's divine power, he roared angrily:
"False God!!!"
After shouting, he charged at Yu Xiaowei in a rage.
As a former mount of the Sea God, he was extremely familiar with the aura of the Sea God. Thanks to his beastly instincts, he quickly noticed that Godzilla's divine power was impure. Besides the Sea God's divine aura, it was also mixed with boundless tyrannical breath.
Such an aura would never appear in the Sea God, who treated the sea as his child. The only explanation was that Godzilla's divine power was fake—it was not the true Sea God's power.
However, although Xiaobai dared to act, the other sea soul beasts did not.
In the eyes of these lower sea soul beasts, Godzilla standing on the sea was the Sea God. Even if Xiaobai shouted "false god," they still didn't dare to move.
"False God?"
Yu Xiaowei sneered.
Buzz, buzz, buzz—
A faint humming echoed through the ring sea. Both the sea soul masters and soul beasts could hear the hum ringing in their ears.
The Godzilla shadow behind Yu Xiaowei tilted its head slightly back, and a huge blue light spread upward from its mouth. Dense and explosive Sea God power gathered around Godzilla's mouth.
"Those who believe in a false god, die!!!!"
Xiaobai's body swelled as he surged toward Yu Xiaowei with rolling waves.
At the same time, a thick blue beam blasted from Godzilla's mouth.
As the huge wave slammed into Yu Xiaowei, a vast amount of water vapor soared into the sky, momentarily obscuring even the sunlight.
"Ah——!"
Surprisingly, the one who screamed wasn't Yu Xiaowei, the weaker one, but Xiaobai, the 200,000-year-old Great White Devil Shark King.
Godzilla's blue beam was unaffected by the massive waves and blasted directly into Xiaobai.
"A spiritual attack!"
Poseidon, watching the battle, recognized it instantly. Godzilla's heat beam was a powerful mental attack.
He was puzzled and astonished.
How could a soul master clearly specialized in physical attack types wield such a strong spiritual attack?
But Yu Xiaowei was suffering at the moment.
Xiaobai's physical strike hit his body, while Godzilla's spirit attack consumed a great deal of his mental power.
The attack of a 200,000-year-old soul beast was no trivial matter.
Even after absorbing his sixth soul ring, raising his physical strength to the Titled Douluo level, Yu Xiaowei still struggled against an attack equivalent to a level 95 Titled Douluo.
Fortunately, this was a soul beast's attack.
If he were facing a real Titled Douluo right now, he might already be dead.
However, since soul beasts primarily cultivated their physical bodies, Yu Xiaowei could barely hold on.
And because his spiritual strength was much weaker than his physical body, Godzilla's radiation beam, enhanced by the Sea God's power, maximized its damage.
Now, it was a contest of who could withstand the other's assault longer.
Xiaobai kept screaming in agony, his huge body thrashing against the sea surface. The waves he created even killed many surrounding sea soul beasts.
Yu Xiaowei was in pain, but Xiaobai was suffering more.
After devouring the true Sea God's divine thought on Sea God Mountain, the Godzilla phantom evolved once again.
Originally, it would instinctively attack released spiritual energy without taking the initiative.
But after this evolution, it could unexpectedly leave Yu Xiaowei's body and launch independent attacks.
In other words, facing Yu Xiaowei now meant facing the combined attacks of Yu Xiaowei and Godzilla.
Godzilla's spiritual attacks were terrifying. Back when Yu Xiaowei only had the Soul King level, he could easily destroy the Blue Silver King, which specialized in spiritual attacks.
Now, his mental attacks had surpassed the Titled Douluo level. With the Sea God's power blessing it, the radiation beam inflicted doubled damage on Xiaobai.
If Yu Xiaowei faced Tang Hao again, he wouldn't even need his Red Lotus Mode to kill him easily.
His small goal of reaching the Titled Douluo's power was achieved within two months of arriving on Sea God Island.
This was why Yu Xiaowei dared to challenge the second trial early.
But he didn't expect that the second trial, which was non-lethal in the original story, would now be filled with murderous intent.
He suspected the old Sea God gave Xiaobai some kind of order.
However, Poseidon hadn't received a prophecy. Maybe it was because Xiaobai had once been the Sea God's mount and had a closer bond with him.
The tug-of-war continued.
Under the enhanced Red Lotus Godzilla form, Yu Xiaowei struggled to withstand Xiaobai's attacks, while Xiaobai's cries grew sharper.
As the radiation beam continued, Yu Xiaowei's mind went blank, and waves of dizziness washed over him.
This feeling was a sign that his mental power was being drained drastically.
But to complete the second trial, he could only grit his teeth and endure.
The eyes of the sea soul masters on Poseidon Island changed when they looked at Yu Xiaowei. Fear, awe, jealousy, and all kinds of emotions spread among the crowd.
Yu Xiaowei's power was astonishing.
With only Soul Emperor-level strength, he was fighting against a 100,000-year-old beast without being at a disadvantage.
"I finally understand why Lord Poseidon chose him as his successor."
Sea Dragon Douluo sighed, and Sea Horse Douluo and the others nodded beside him.
Chen Xin was so excited that his whole body trembled. He wanted to return to Heaven Dou City right now and tell Ning Fengzhi to come see how incredible their future son-in-law from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was.
After an unknown amount of time, Xiaobai's screams stopped, and the mist obscuring the sky and sun gradually dissipated, revealing Yu Xiaowei's figure.
At this moment, Xiaobai's eyes were dull, drool dripping from his mouth, his body floating weakly on the sea.
The Godzilla phantom had vanished, and Yu Xiaowei had also deactivated his martial spirit, standing on the sea, gasping for breath like a bloodied man.
Even so, the sea soul beasts still bowed their heads in reverence, not daring to move.
After panting for a while, Yu Xiaowei began to walk slowly across the sea. Wherever he went, the soul beasts parted to make way for him.
When passing by Xiaobai, Yu Xiaowei didn't hide his greed, and his naked gaze made Poseidon and the others twitch.
But it was human nature for a soul master to pursue a 100,000-year-old soul ring, as long as he didn't indiscriminately slaughter soul beasts.
When Yu Xiaowei finally walked to the other side of the ring sea, the light curtain in his mind suddenly shattered, and Godzilla above his head exploded into dazzling golden light.
Under the shining golden light, he clearly felt closer to the sea and even found the once-hostile soul beasts somewhat endearing.
"Is this the Sea God's affinity?"
"Heh."
Yu Xiaowei couldn't help but laugh.
No wonder the Sea God wanted to kill him at first, yet the Divine Trial continued.
Turns out, once it started, the Sea God couldn't stop it. He could only increase the difficulty and reduce the rewards but couldn't stop the Divine Trial at all.
Yu Xiaowei could already imagine the look on the Sea God's face in the Divine Realm now.
The Sea God's throne was being inherited by the continent's biggest heretic.
Truly unexpected, a major change beyond all previous ones!
Sea God Island, Ring Sea
Xiaobai in the ring sea finally regained consciousness at this moment.
After all, it was a soul beast that had lived for over 200,000 years. Although Godzilla's spiritual attack was strong, it wasn't enough to completely destroy it.
Xiaobai shook its still-dizzy head forcefully and looked around. When it saw that Yu Xiaowei had already landed, anger suddenly surged in its eyes.
"Follower of a false god, I will kill you!"
"Hehe, when I become the Sea God, I'll definitely turn you into my soul ring!"
"Come and take me now if you dare!"
"Hey, is your brain filled with water?"
After exchanging a few words with Xiaobai, Yu Xiaowei ignored it and frowned at the third light screen in his mind.
It was the same Tidal Body Training,
But the required duration was 730 days, and he had to endure it 24 hours a day!
Damn it, that meant he had to be tied to the Sacred Sound Pillar for two full years, constantly being pounded by the tides?
Old bastard, do you have any shame at all?
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Spirit Hall, Spirit Hall's Temple
Bibi Dong was sitting cross-legged in a secret room, cultivating.
Unlike her usual dignified and beautiful appearance, Bibi Dong, during cultivation, had blood-red eyes. Her fingers were tipped with five-inch-long black claws.
Her beautiful face was now distorted with terrifying bloodstains covering the floor.
Behind her, a terrifying black shadow loomed, its face indistinct.
Her once golden soul power had also turned purple-black, and a sticky, evil aura filled the secret room.
Suddenly, her steady breath quivered, and sweat immediately covered her forehead. In just a few seconds, her entire body was soaked, as if she had just been pulled from a tank of water.
It took a long time for her to recover.
She lay weakly on the floor, her hair disheveled and her face pale, gasping for breath for a long time before calming down.
This situation had persisted for more than a month. Every time she cultivated, she suffered uncontrollable heart pain, forcing her to stop.
Bibi Dong didn't understand what was causing this.
But in this condition, her progress in the divine trial had completely stalled.
No one knew when the eighth trial would be completed.
After tidying up her appearance, she stood up gracefully. Golden light flashed as the Pope's robe draped over her body, and she slowly walked out of the secret room.
Just as she arrived at the Elder Hall, she heard a voice that made her heart burst with joy.
"Mom."
"Xue'er is here."
"Alright, I made some food and brought it for you."
"Okay, okay."
Amid the laughter and joy, Bibi Dong herself did not realize that as she enjoyed this mother-daughter relationship, the shadow of Rakshasa behind her seemed to become much fainter.
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Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect
Ning Fengzhi looked at Ning Rongrong, who was kneeling before him, with a bitter face.
Gu Rong, standing beside him, couldn't help but sigh.
He had no idea which shameless person leaked Yu Xiaowei's whereabouts. As a result, when the young lady heard that Yu Xiaowei had gone to the dangerous Sea God Island, she immediately jumped up and wanted to follow him.
Yu Xiaowei had a complete soul bone, was level 57, and could even fight full-strength soul douluo. He might not die going to Sea God Island—in fact, he might gain great benefits.
But what about Ning Rongrong? She was still only a soul master, and a support-type soul master at that. What could she possibly do there? Was she going there just to die?
"Father, I want to find Brother Xiaowei."
Ning Rongrong raised her head stubbornly, staring firmly at Ning Fengzhi.
"Rongrong, the place Xiaowei is going is too dangerous for you."
Of course, Ning Fengzhi refused to agree.
Gu Rong also tried to persuade her sincerely.
"Rongrong, Xiaowei has your Grandpa Jian with him, so his safety will be fine. If you go there, you'll only burden him. Be good, and let's train well at home."
"Then Grandpa Bone, you come with me, and I'll be safe."
"No!!!"
"Then I'll go find Uncle Yu and ask him to take me there."
Ning Rongrong's stubborn words made Ning Fengzhi rub his temples hard.
Such a headache!
When did this girl become so headstrong?
Just as he and Gu Rong exchanged glances, ready to forcibly lock Ning Rongrong up—
"Wuwuwuwu——"
Ning Rongrong, still kneeling on the ground, suddenly pursed her lips and sobbed, "Brother Xiaowei is my fiancé, and now he's gone to a dangerous place. If anything really happens to him, I don't want to live either."
"Don't talk nonsense!!!"
Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong shouted at the same time.
Ning Rongrong didn't say anything, just stiffened her neck and stubbornly stared at Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong, letting tears stream down her face.
Facing such a stubborn Ning Rongrong, Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong opened their mouths several times but couldn't speak.
Aside from tough methods, they really couldn't think of any other way to persuade Ning Rongrong to give up this idea.
After a long silence, Ning Fengzhi sighed heavily.
"If you want to go, then go."
After saying this, he suddenly seemed ten years older and collapsed weakly in his chair.
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