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Chapter 110: Stirring Restlessly.
'Why the Sea God's Nine Trials?'
'This isn't what the system calculated, is it?'
Neptune's brows furrowed slightly; the current situation had clearly exceeded his expectations. In his original plan, knowing that the great sea would face a crisis in the future, he believed that out of expediency, the Sea God would casually grant him a single trial as a mere formality. He was supposed to pass the godhood directly to him. So why was he being fobbed off with nine trials now?
In truth, the reason he received the Nine Trials this time, instead of the single trial seen in the video, was not due to an error in the system's calculations, but mainly because the circumstances were different.
In the video, the situation Neptune faced was that more than half of the sea area was already shrouded by erupting underwater volcanoes, and the entire ocean had suffered catastrophic casualties. Under those conditions, the Sea God naturally hoped for a successor to inherit his godhood as quickly as possible to save the great sea. That was why he made an exception and granted a single trial, even forcefully rushing his development by directly expending divine power to raise his strength and compel him to accept the godhood inheritance!
But now, it was still unknown when that meteorite from outer space would arrive. Therefore, the Sea God felt that the current situation was far from dire enough to warrant making an exception, so he arranged the Nine Trials. After all, it was best not to violate the rules of the God Realm if it could be helped. Otherwise, once the inheritance of godhood was complete, he, as the former Sea God, could simply wipe his hands of the matter and leave.
But Neptune, the successor, would be in a miserable position. He would inevitably be given a hard time by his direct superior, the God King, or be ostracized by his fellow deities for having violated the rules and inheriting godhood after only a single trial, lacking proper justification.
Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, the Sea God would not violate the God Realm's rules. This was for the good of both Neptune and himself.
Of course, the Sea God was not an overly rigid person. If, in the process of undergoing the Nine Trials, the meteorite suddenly arrived, he wouldn't mind making an exception as seen in the video, allowing Neptune to directly inherit the godhood and save the ocean!
But for now, with the meteor's arrival time still uncertain, the Nine Trials were naturally what he was given. It wouldn't be too late to change plans on the fly when the disaster truly struck.
'Forget it. Although it differs slightly from the calculated result, I still received the Nine Trials in the end. My situation is different from that of Tang San and his group in the original story. I'm stronger, and there's nothing I need to make up for in any aspect. So the nine trials I receive should also be different. It shouldn't take that long, right?' Since it had come to this, Neptune could only accept his fate, trying to look on the bright side.
Just then, he suddenly sensed something and looked up in a certain direction.
In the distance, a red speck of light was slowly growing larger.
"You've arrived a little earlier than I expected."
A gentle, smooth voice drifted over, a sound so beautiful and pleasant it seemed to originate from the heavens, yet it was also filled with a sense of benevolence.
The surrounding space seemed to warp slightly. Neptune's gaze focused; he keenly sensed that this was not some spatial soul skill, but rather an illusion created by the newcomer's immense speed.
The next moment, a woman had appeared on the Sacred Pillar Platform.
Her entire body was enveloped in a bright red robe. Her sea-blue hair cascaded down her back, so long it nearly touched the ground. Her gentle and beautiful face looked to be no more than thirty years old, yet it possessed a beauty that could shake one's soul!
This woman's beauty stemmed more from her aura—noble, elegant, and gently warm. It created a sense of distance, making one feel she could only be admired from afar, not profaned.
In her right hand, she held a three-meter-long scepter. The scepter was golden, the same kind of gold that had appeared in the sky just moments before. Its entire body was carved with magic patterns, and at its head was a diamond-shaped point like a spearhead. Five inches below the spearhead, a rhombus-shaped golden gem was inlaid.
Judging by her appearance alone, she was an exceptionally rare beauty. Her aura was impeccable, and even her figure was magnificently curvaceous, perfect beyond words! But what truly captured Neptune's attention were her eyes. Her clear blue pupils seemed even more profound than the great sea itself, and the emotions within them seemed to tell a thousand stories.
It was as if she was perpetually waiting for someone to read them.
The newcomer was none other than Bo Saixi.
Looking at the woman who had appeared before him, Neptune's eyes couldn't help but light up. The love of beauty is inherent in all people. Anyone would naturally feel a greater degree of fondness for beautiful things.
Of course, he was a respectable person. Despite being stunned by Bo Saixi's beauty, he didn't go so far as to act like a lecher, nor did he entertain any sordid thoughts of using his future privilege as the Sea God to take this great beauty for himself.
A beautiful shell was ultimately temporary; Ye Cheng valued an interesting soul.
"Greetings, Grand Priest," the Sea Demoness beside him said, bowing slightly.
Bo Saixi nodded with a faint smile, and in that instant, even the Sea within a Sea seemed to ripple in response. Her beauty was dazzling enough to make one swoon. It was no wonder she had once been able to captivate two of the era's supreme powerhouses, Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen, leaving them utterly bewitched.
Neptune struggled to suppress the lecherous impulse pounding wildly in his chest. On the surface, he spoke as calmly as possible, "By achieving godhood a little earlier, I'll be able to save more people when the natural disaster arrives and keep the ocean's losses to a minimum! If I wait until the meteor descends to come here, I'm afraid countless innocent lives will perish. The ocean will also suffer irreparable damage. It will be too late by then."
His words made Bo Saixi and the Sea Demoness recall the scene from the video: the sea surface covered in floating corpses, the seawater dyed a murky white by the boiled bodies, and the entire great sea transformed into a giant cauldron, cooking all living things.
If a Sea God had acted immediately after the meteorite fell, it was true that countless lives could have been saved. The damage to the ocean could also have been minimized. After all, at the end of the video, he had used his boundless divine power to freeze a vast part of the ocean into solid land. While that scene was certainly shocking, the price was a severe reduction in the ocean's area. It was, without a doubt, a devastating loss!
If the source of the eruption could have been sealed with ice right after the meteorite hit, preventing the fissure of the underwater volcano from spreading, the ocean's losses would have surely been kept to a minimum, confining the impact of this natural disaster to a small, acceptable range.
"You are right."
Bo Saixi fell silent for a moment before nodding in agreement. Her gaze then shifted to the Sea Demoness beside her. "Lorelei, before he completes the Sea God's trials, let him stay in your Sea Maiden City. Also, summon the other six. There will be a meeting in the Sea God Temple tomorrow."
"Yes."
The Sea Demoness responded with utmost respect.
On this Sea God Island, Bo Saixi, as the Grand Priest, was a supreme existence. Only the Sea God himself, should he personally descend, could rank above her. Of course, now one had to add Neptune to that list.
After all, he was practically the designated Sea God.
(end of chapter)
'Why the Sea God's Nine Trials?'
'This isn't what the system calculated, is it?'
Neptune's brows furrowed slightly; the current situation had clearly exceeded his expectations. In his original plan, knowing that the great sea would face a crisis in the future, he believed that out of expediency, the Sea God would casually grant him a single trial as a mere formality. He was supposed to pass the godhood directly to him. So why was he being fobbed off with nine trials now?
In truth, the reason he received the Nine Trials this time, instead of the single trial seen in the video, was not due to an error in the system's calculations, but mainly because the circumstances were different.
In the video, the situation Neptune faced was that more than half of the sea area was already shrouded by erupting underwater volcanoes, and the entire ocean had suffered catastrophic casualties. Under those conditions, the Sea God naturally hoped for a successor to inherit his godhood as quickly as possible to save the great sea. That was why he made an exception and granted a single trial, even forcefully rushing his development by directly expending divine power to raise his strength and compel him to accept the godhood inheritance!
But now, it was still unknown when that meteorite from outer space would arrive. Therefore, the Sea God felt that the current situation was far from dire enough to warrant making an exception, so he arranged the Nine Trials. After all, it was best not to violate the rules of the God Realm if it could be helped. Otherwise, once the inheritance of godhood was complete, he, as the former Sea God, could simply wipe his hands of the matter and leave.
But Neptune, the successor, would be in a miserable position. He would inevitably be given a hard time by his direct superior, the God King, or be ostracized by his fellow deities for having violated the rules and inheriting godhood after only a single trial, lacking proper justification.
Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, the Sea God would not violate the God Realm's rules. This was for the good of both Neptune and himself.
Of course, the Sea God was not an overly rigid person. If, in the process of undergoing the Nine Trials, the meteorite suddenly arrived, he wouldn't mind making an exception as seen in the video, allowing Neptune to directly inherit the godhood and save the ocean!
But for now, with the meteor's arrival time still uncertain, the Nine Trials were naturally what he was given. It wouldn't be too late to change plans on the fly when the disaster truly struck.
'Forget it. Although it differs slightly from the calculated result, I still received the Nine Trials in the end. My situation is different from that of Tang San and his group in the original story. I'm stronger, and there's nothing I need to make up for in any aspect. So the nine trials I receive should also be different. It shouldn't take that long, right?' Since it had come to this, Neptune could only accept his fate, trying to look on the bright side.
Just then, he suddenly sensed something and looked up in a certain direction.
In the distance, a red speck of light was slowly growing larger.
"You've arrived a little earlier than I expected."
A gentle, smooth voice drifted over, a sound so beautiful and pleasant it seemed to originate from the heavens, yet it was also filled with a sense of benevolence.
The surrounding space seemed to warp slightly. Neptune's gaze focused; he keenly sensed that this was not some spatial soul skill, but rather an illusion created by the newcomer's immense speed.
The next moment, a woman had appeared on the Sacred Pillar Platform.
Her entire body was enveloped in a bright red robe. Her sea-blue hair cascaded down her back, so long it nearly touched the ground. Her gentle and beautiful face looked to be no more than thirty years old, yet it possessed a beauty that could shake one's soul!
This woman's beauty stemmed more from her aura—noble, elegant, and gently warm. It created a sense of distance, making one feel she could only be admired from afar, not profaned.
In her right hand, she held a three-meter-long scepter. The scepter was golden, the same kind of gold that had appeared in the sky just moments before. Its entire body was carved with magic patterns, and at its head was a diamond-shaped point like a spearhead. Five inches below the spearhead, a rhombus-shaped golden gem was inlaid.
Judging by her appearance alone, she was an exceptionally rare beauty. Her aura was impeccable, and even her figure was magnificently curvaceous, perfect beyond words! But what truly captured Neptune's attention were her eyes. Her clear blue pupils seemed even more profound than the great sea itself, and the emotions within them seemed to tell a thousand stories.
It was as if she was perpetually waiting for someone to read them.
The newcomer was none other than Bo Saixi.
Looking at the woman who had appeared before him, Neptune's eyes couldn't help but light up. The love of beauty is inherent in all people. Anyone would naturally feel a greater degree of fondness for beautiful things.
Of course, he was a respectable person. Despite being stunned by Bo Saixi's beauty, he didn't go so far as to act like a lecher, nor did he entertain any sordid thoughts of using his future privilege as the Sea God to take this great beauty for himself.
A beautiful shell was ultimately temporary; Ye Cheng valued an interesting soul.
"Greetings, Grand Priest," the Sea Demoness beside him said, bowing slightly.
Bo Saixi nodded with a faint smile, and in that instant, even the Sea within a Sea seemed to ripple in response. Her beauty was dazzling enough to make one swoon. It was no wonder she had once been able to captivate two of the era's supreme powerhouses, Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen, leaving them utterly bewitched.
Neptune struggled to suppress the lecherous impulse pounding wildly in his chest. On the surface, he spoke as calmly as possible, "By achieving godhood a little earlier, I'll be able to save more people when the natural disaster arrives and keep the ocean's losses to a minimum! If I wait until the meteor descends to come here, I'm afraid countless innocent lives will perish. The ocean will also suffer irreparable damage. It will be too late by then."
His words made Bo Saixi and the Sea Demoness recall the scene from the video: the sea surface covered in floating corpses, the seawater dyed a murky white by the boiled bodies, and the entire great sea transformed into a giant cauldron, cooking all living things.
If a Sea God had acted immediately after the meteorite fell, it was true that countless lives could have been saved. The damage to the ocean could also have been minimized. After all, at the end of the video, he had used his boundless divine power to freeze a vast part of the ocean into solid land. While that scene was certainly shocking, the price was a severe reduction in the ocean's area. It was, without a doubt, a devastating loss!
If the source of the eruption could have been sealed with ice right after the meteorite hit, preventing the fissure of the underwater volcano from spreading, the ocean's losses would have surely been kept to a minimum, confining the impact of this natural disaster to a small, acceptable range.
"You are right."
Bo Saixi fell silent for a moment before nodding in agreement. Her gaze then shifted to the Sea Demoness beside her. "Lorelei, before he completes the Sea God's trials, let him stay in your Sea Maiden City. Also, summon the other six. There will be a meeting in the Sea God Temple tomorrow."
"Yes."
The Sea Demoness responded with utmost respect.
On this Sea God Island, Bo Saixi, as the Grand Priest, was a supreme existence. Only the Sea God himself, should he personally descend, could rank above her. Of course, now one had to add Neptune to that list.
After all, he was practically the designated Sea God.
(end of chapter)
