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Chapter 141: Betting on Both Sides
Ye Cheng and Sun Zhongjing had a very pleasant conversation and quickly finalized the specific details of their cooperation. White Cloud City would provide a large area to serve as the Medicine King Sect's residency. This sect would then officially integrate into White Cloud City, becoming a part of it.
Once the agreement was tentatively settled, to show his sincerity, Ye Cheng personally led Sun Zhongjing and his two companions, flying over to the sect residency allocated to them.
The place was located in the Inner District, occupying a vast area. Upon it stood several palace-style buildings, and all sorts of living facilities were fully equipped. It even included a medicine garden specifically for planting medicinal herbs. It could be said that everything was perfectly prepared.
If Sun Zhongjing wished, he could move in at any time. He could even open the sect gates and start recruiting disciples immediately. He expressed great satisfaction with this arrangement.
Thus, the matter of Sun Zhongjing joining White Cloud City was settled.
Throughout the entire process, only Ye Cheng and Sun Zhongjing conversed. Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, the grandfather-granddaughter duo, had no room to interject at all, silently serving as the backdrop.
After all, to put it bluntly, they were merely subordinates. When the boss was talking, what place did a subordinate have to speak?
...
Meanwhile, as the continent was developing vigorously, far away on Sea God Island in the great sea...
Neptune had already passed seven trials, completing seven of the Sea God's Nine Trials. As long as he completed the final two, he would inherit the Sea God's position and ascend to godhood.
The process was very fast because his strength was different from that of Tang San and the others in the original story. Some trials were not difficult for him at all. The Sea God arranging these trials seemed more like a formality.
As a reward for passing the trials, Neptune's current soul ring configuration had changed from two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red, to an exaggerated configuration of five black and four red. Those seven trials and their seven rewards all increased the age of his soul rings. It was clear that even the Sea God believed what he lacked for ascending to godhood was the age of his soul rings. Thus, his first four soul rings all transformed into ten-thousand-year soul rings. The remaining three rewards were applied to his eighth, seventh, and sixth soul rings.
Although his current soul ring configuration was slightly inferior compared to his main body, Ye Cheng, and Sun Zhongjing, who both possessed nine all-red 100,000-year soul rings, his soul power level, with the boost from so many soul ring age increases, had naturally reached the realm of a level 99 Limit Douluo!
After all, even Grand Priest Bo Saixi, who was also a Limit Douluo, only had eight black and one red soul rings.
Neptune had successfully reached the realm of a Limit Douluo by fleecing the Sea God and leveraging the rewards of the divine trials. At this point, including his main body, Ye Cheng now possessed three Limit Douluo-level powers.
The Sea God's Seventh Trial was to pull out the divine weapon, the Sea God's Trident!
Neptune naturally succeeded with ease, not only obtaining a divine weapon but also drawing one step closer to inheriting the Sea God's position.
Immediately after, the Eighth Trial followed.
[Sea God's Eighth Trial: Retrieve the Sea God's Heart!
Details: Go to the continent, find the lost Sea God's Heart, and obtain its recognition. This will be considered completion of the trial.]
After reading the trial's details, Neptune, whose eyes had been tightly closed, slowly opened them. The exquisitely beautiful figure of the Sea God Douluo, Bo Saixi, came into view. Judging by her appearance alone, no one could possibly imagine that this woman, as ripe as a peach, was actually over a hundred years old.
One could only say that women, regardless of their age, cared immensely about their appearance.
He lowered his head and looked at his hand, where he tightly gripped the Sea God's Trident. Its massive shaft, approximately twelve feet long, exuded a profound sense of weight!
At this moment, faint golden patterns spread throughout the entire Sea God Temple, including the Sea God Platform beneath his feet and the other seven platforms surrounding it. This made the originally simple Grand Hall appear exceptionally magnificent. It was obvious that the scene of pulling out the divine weapon from the previous video had played out once more.
"Neptune, congratulations. You have passed the Sea God's Seventh Trial. You have truly begun to gain the Sea God's recognition," Bo Saixi said to him with a smile. Yet, the bitterness in her heart was something she could not confide in anyone.
*‘Two more trials, and it will be time... Tang Chen, am I really not going to be able to wait for you?’* she sighed inwardly, feeling utterly disheartened.
"Great Priest," Neptune asked, seeming somewhat doubtful, "why was I able to pull out the Sea God's Trident just like in the video, even though I don't have the Sea God's Heart?" As he spoke, his gaze fell upon the head of the Sea God's Trident. There was an empty socket there, where the crucial object was not embedded.
In the future video shown previously, he was ultimately able to pull out the Sea God's Trident because the Sea God had actively recalled the Sea God's Heart and embedded it within the trident, allowing him to finally pull out the divine weapon.
But this time, the Sea God did not recall the Sea God's Heart. So why was he able to pull it out?
Hearing his doubt, Bo Saixi smiled slightly and said calmly, "To pull out the Sea God's Trident, the Sea God's Heart is certainly important, but it is not necessary. You can still pull out the Sea God's Trident without it. It's just that the difficulty increases significantly. To be honest, I didn't expect that you would be able to pull out the Sea God's Trident without relying on the Sea God's Heart. It seems your power is far greater than I imagined."
"So that's how it is."
Neptune wore an expression of sudden realization. Then, recalling something else, he continued to ask, "Great Priest, my Eighth Trial is to go to the continent and retrieve the Sea God's Heart. But I've always had a question. Why is the Sea God's Heart, the greatest treasure of Sea God Island, not enshrined here, but has instead been lost on the continent? Could it have been lost for some reason?"
He had wondered about this ever since reading the novel in his previous life.
"It's not what you think."
Bo Saixi shook her head and explained, "The Sea God's Heart is the core of the Sea God's Trident and also the core of the Sea God's inheritance. Lord Sea God's divine sense resides within it, used specifically for screening successors. Therefore, it cannot remain in one place for long; it will continuously drift far away with the ocean waves, searching for fated ones."
*‘So what you're saying is... if it can't find a successor in the sea, it just decides to go looking elsewhere, right?’*
After listening to Bo Saixi, Neptune's expression became a bit strange. He got it. So it turned out the Sea God, seeing that no successor had been found in the great sea for a long time, simply controlled the Sea God's Heart to head towards the continent. A bet on both sides had a better chance of succeeding than just one.
Just how badly did this Sea God want to relinquish his position? Was the God Realm really that miserable?
(end of chapter)
Ye Cheng and Sun Zhongjing had a very pleasant conversation and quickly finalized the specific details of their cooperation. White Cloud City would provide a large area to serve as the Medicine King Sect's residency. This sect would then officially integrate into White Cloud City, becoming a part of it.
Once the agreement was tentatively settled, to show his sincerity, Ye Cheng personally led Sun Zhongjing and his two companions, flying over to the sect residency allocated to them.
The place was located in the Inner District, occupying a vast area. Upon it stood several palace-style buildings, and all sorts of living facilities were fully equipped. It even included a medicine garden specifically for planting medicinal herbs. It could be said that everything was perfectly prepared.
If Sun Zhongjing wished, he could move in at any time. He could even open the sect gates and start recruiting disciples immediately. He expressed great satisfaction with this arrangement.
Thus, the matter of Sun Zhongjing joining White Cloud City was settled.
Throughout the entire process, only Ye Cheng and Sun Zhongjing conversed. Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, the grandfather-granddaughter duo, had no room to interject at all, silently serving as the backdrop.
After all, to put it bluntly, they were merely subordinates. When the boss was talking, what place did a subordinate have to speak?
...
Meanwhile, as the continent was developing vigorously, far away on Sea God Island in the great sea...
Neptune had already passed seven trials, completing seven of the Sea God's Nine Trials. As long as he completed the final two, he would inherit the Sea God's position and ascend to godhood.
The process was very fast because his strength was different from that of Tang San and the others in the original story. Some trials were not difficult for him at all. The Sea God arranging these trials seemed more like a formality.
As a reward for passing the trials, Neptune's current soul ring configuration had changed from two yellow, two purple, four black, and one red, to an exaggerated configuration of five black and four red. Those seven trials and their seven rewards all increased the age of his soul rings. It was clear that even the Sea God believed what he lacked for ascending to godhood was the age of his soul rings. Thus, his first four soul rings all transformed into ten-thousand-year soul rings. The remaining three rewards were applied to his eighth, seventh, and sixth soul rings.
Although his current soul ring configuration was slightly inferior compared to his main body, Ye Cheng, and Sun Zhongjing, who both possessed nine all-red 100,000-year soul rings, his soul power level, with the boost from so many soul ring age increases, had naturally reached the realm of a level 99 Limit Douluo!
After all, even Grand Priest Bo Saixi, who was also a Limit Douluo, only had eight black and one red soul rings.
Neptune had successfully reached the realm of a Limit Douluo by fleecing the Sea God and leveraging the rewards of the divine trials. At this point, including his main body, Ye Cheng now possessed three Limit Douluo-level powers.
The Sea God's Seventh Trial was to pull out the divine weapon, the Sea God's Trident!
Neptune naturally succeeded with ease, not only obtaining a divine weapon but also drawing one step closer to inheriting the Sea God's position.
Immediately after, the Eighth Trial followed.
[Sea God's Eighth Trial: Retrieve the Sea God's Heart!
Details: Go to the continent, find the lost Sea God's Heart, and obtain its recognition. This will be considered completion of the trial.]
After reading the trial's details, Neptune, whose eyes had been tightly closed, slowly opened them. The exquisitely beautiful figure of the Sea God Douluo, Bo Saixi, came into view. Judging by her appearance alone, no one could possibly imagine that this woman, as ripe as a peach, was actually over a hundred years old.
One could only say that women, regardless of their age, cared immensely about their appearance.
He lowered his head and looked at his hand, where he tightly gripped the Sea God's Trident. Its massive shaft, approximately twelve feet long, exuded a profound sense of weight!
At this moment, faint golden patterns spread throughout the entire Sea God Temple, including the Sea God Platform beneath his feet and the other seven platforms surrounding it. This made the originally simple Grand Hall appear exceptionally magnificent. It was obvious that the scene of pulling out the divine weapon from the previous video had played out once more.
"Neptune, congratulations. You have passed the Sea God's Seventh Trial. You have truly begun to gain the Sea God's recognition," Bo Saixi said to him with a smile. Yet, the bitterness in her heart was something she could not confide in anyone.
*‘Two more trials, and it will be time... Tang Chen, am I really not going to be able to wait for you?’* she sighed inwardly, feeling utterly disheartened.
"Great Priest," Neptune asked, seeming somewhat doubtful, "why was I able to pull out the Sea God's Trident just like in the video, even though I don't have the Sea God's Heart?" As he spoke, his gaze fell upon the head of the Sea God's Trident. There was an empty socket there, where the crucial object was not embedded.
In the future video shown previously, he was ultimately able to pull out the Sea God's Trident because the Sea God had actively recalled the Sea God's Heart and embedded it within the trident, allowing him to finally pull out the divine weapon.
But this time, the Sea God did not recall the Sea God's Heart. So why was he able to pull it out?
Hearing his doubt, Bo Saixi smiled slightly and said calmly, "To pull out the Sea God's Trident, the Sea God's Heart is certainly important, but it is not necessary. You can still pull out the Sea God's Trident without it. It's just that the difficulty increases significantly. To be honest, I didn't expect that you would be able to pull out the Sea God's Trident without relying on the Sea God's Heart. It seems your power is far greater than I imagined."
"So that's how it is."
Neptune wore an expression of sudden realization. Then, recalling something else, he continued to ask, "Great Priest, my Eighth Trial is to go to the continent and retrieve the Sea God's Heart. But I've always had a question. Why is the Sea God's Heart, the greatest treasure of Sea God Island, not enshrined here, but has instead been lost on the continent? Could it have been lost for some reason?"
He had wondered about this ever since reading the novel in his previous life.
"It's not what you think."
Bo Saixi shook her head and explained, "The Sea God's Heart is the core of the Sea God's Trident and also the core of the Sea God's inheritance. Lord Sea God's divine sense resides within it, used specifically for screening successors. Therefore, it cannot remain in one place for long; it will continuously drift far away with the ocean waves, searching for fated ones."
*‘So what you're saying is... if it can't find a successor in the sea, it just decides to go looking elsewhere, right?’*
After listening to Bo Saixi, Neptune's expression became a bit strange. He got it. So it turned out the Sea God, seeing that no successor had been found in the great sea for a long time, simply controlled the Sea God's Heart to head towards the continent. A bet on both sides had a better chance of succeeding than just one.
Just how badly did this Sea God want to relinquish his position? Was the God Realm really that miserable?
(end of chapter)
