In the sky, dark clouds were dense. On Sea God Mountain, it seemed like a storm was coming.
On the somewhat dark Sea God Mountain, the Sea God's Light covering the mountain surface became particularly obvious.
The absence of bright sunshine indeed made people feel uncomfortable. Losing the warmth and nourishment of the sun, one's mood could easily become depressed.
Since the beginning of the second test, Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong had never seen sunshine again. The sky was always covered with dark clouds.
Second Test: Breakthrough, Ring Blockade. Under the premise of not harming any sea soul beast, break through the blockade on the ring sea without using any soul ring skills, and reach the opposite shore.
With a few flashes, the two had already arrived at the edge of the ring sea. Xu Sanshi suddenly released the Xuanwu Domain, enhancing his own senses, and at the same time leaped up, pouncing straight into the ring sea.
The moment his body leaped out, the vigorous Mysterious Heaven Skill internal force circulated rapidly, making his body shoot out like a cannonball, heading straight for the sea.
Boom—
Just as Xu Sanshi's body leaped out less than five meters from the land, the entire ring sea suddenly boiled. The already turbulent waves erupted almost in an instant, bombarding heavily on the golden light barrier ten meters above the sea level.
Strangely, this rising seawater did not splash out of the ring sea at all. It neither impacted the ground outside the ring sea nor rushed onto Sea God Mountain.
Xu Sanshi's body was completely shrouded in the seawater at this moment. And what Tang Wutong could see was that he was in a strange deep blue water world.
Being instantly submerged by seawater, Xu Sanshi immediately discovered the problem. Immersed in the seawater, there seemed to be a special energy existing in the seawater, delaying his figure and accelerating the consumption speed of his soul power.
Even the range extended by the Xuanwu Domain was greatly reduced by the resistance of the seawater. Streams of undercurrents constantly impacted Xu Sanshi's body. Coupled with the strong buoyancy in the seawater, his figure immediately became unstable.
"Third Brother, be careful." Tang Wutong showed a worried look and reminded Xu Sanshi. The latter gave her a thumbs up from afar.
Although Xu Sanshi had strong control over his body, being suddenly submerged in water, it was still somewhat difficult to stabilize his figure.
He clearly felt that the seawater in this ring sea was different. Besides that seemingly restrictive energy, the resistance in the seawater was also surprisingly great.
Before Xu Sanshi could start adapting, he was already in danger.
Countless arrow-shaped fish appeared without warning in all directions around Xu Sanshi's body. Their speed in the water was extremely fast. Almost in an instant, a circle of more than a hundred arrow-shaped fish surrounded Xu Sanshi's body. Blue-purple light surrounded their bodies, and rich soul power fluctuations wove into a big net in the seawater, sealing off all of Xu Sanshi's advancing and retreating paths.
Xu Sanshi had faced countless crises in the Sea God's test, and he didn't panic at all facing this sudden encirclement. He had faced situations much more dangerous than this.
Holding breath underwater was nothing for Xu Sanshi, whose cultivation had long broken through the level of a seventy-level Soul Sage. The Tang Sect Mysterious Heaven Skill internal force circulated rapidly in the unobstructed extraordinary meridians, forming a wonderful internal breathing state. In this state, he could persist for more than half an hour without feeling suffocated.
A black light flashed on Xu Sanshi's hand. The Xuanwu Shield shining with faint magic patterns had appeared in the palm of Xu Sanshi's left hand. Having evolved with the improvement of Xu Sanshi's strength, the Xuanwu Shield now weighed over a thousand jin. Suddenly appearing in his grasp, it immediately drove his body to sink rapidly towards the bottom of the sea.
As his body moved, those arrow-shaped fish also moved instantly, launching a charge towards him simultaneously. For a time, hundreds of arrow-shaped fish sea soul beasts shot towards Xu Sanshi like countless sharp arrows attached with soul power. Looking at that posture, they wouldn't stop until they pierced through Xu Sanshi's body.
Tang Wutong on the shore could clearly see that when these arrow-shaped fish launched a charge, their whole bodies turned into that blue-purple color previously permeating around their bodies, like streams of flowing light, extremely dazzling.
Being in the ring sea, Xu Sanshi had no possibility of dodging so many arrow-shaped fish in this shelterless seawater.
Tang Wutong's heart tightened unconsciously. Of course, she didn't think these arrow-shaped fish could hurt Xu Sanshi.
After passing the Sea God's first test, Xu Sanshi's strength could now be described as completely transformed.
These arrow-shaped fish looked only at the thousand-year level. Although numerous, they were not enough to threaten Xu Sanshi's life.
But importantly, their second test bad an important restrictive condition—that is, during the assessment process, no sea soul beast in the ring sea was allowed to be harmed.
This meant that Xu Sanshi holding the Xuanwu Shield absolutely could not kill them. Judging from the charging speed of these arrow-shaped fish, even if Xu Sanshi didn't attack, just letting them hit the Xuanwu Shield would result in tragedy.
The attacks of these arrow-shaped fish were clearly like suicidal attacks. How would Xu Sanshi respond?
Xu Sanshi quickly gave the answer. He moved the Xuanwu Shield in his hand as if it weighed nothing, his body rotating a circle in the seawater. Even that resistance-filled seawater couldn't affect the speed of his Xuanwu Avatar.
Where the Xuanwu black light reached, the seawater surged violently. Tang Wutong, who had run to the shore, clearly saw the seawater around Xu Sanshi's body distort violently. All the attacks charging to his body were swept up by an invisible great force, scattering in all directions.
Their charging speed was fast, but the speed of being swept away was faster, flying away rapidly like countless blue-purple lights shooting out from Xu Sanshi.
However, the attack of the arrow-shaped fish sea soul beasts had just begun. After being shaken away suddenly, they quickly adjusted their bodies in the ring sea and launched a charge towards Xu Sanshi again.
Only this time they didn't attack simultaneously. More than a hundred arrow-shaped fish intelligently divided into ten groups, launching nearly seamless wave-like assaults towards Xu Sanshi.
Every group had more than ten sea soul beasts charging. After the first group was shaken away by the Xuanwu Shield, the second group pounced immediately.
These sea soul beasts seemed to be certain that Xu Sanshi dared not hurt them. The waves of impact became fiercer and faster one after another, stirring the seawater to constantly appear with distorted halos.
Facing the arrow-shaped fish sea soul beasts changing their attack method, the expression on Xu Sanshi's face was as calm as an ancient well. The Xuanwu Shield flew up and down in his hands.
Every time he used force to shake away these arrow-shaped fish, it was just right. He neither let them rush in front of him nor hurt them while using the undercurrent brought up by the Xuanwu Shield to flip them away.
"Great job, Third Brother!" Tang Wutong cheered for Xu Sanshi excitedly on the shore.
Just then, a huge shadow came from afar. Before Xu Sanshi could see its appearance clearly, an irresistible giant force came from the seawater.
Xu Sanshi only had time to protect his chest with the Xuanwu Shield. Before he could make the next move, his whole person was blown away by that surging undercurrent.
With a puff, Xu Sanshi broke out of the water and crashed straight towards Sea God Mountain.
"Third Brother!" Tang Wutong's exclamation came from beside his ear.
Although the Sea God's Light would no longer bring pressure to the two who passed the first assessment, the mission of protecting Sea God Mountain had not disappeared.
Xu Sanshi only felt his whole body go soft, as if falling into a pile of cotton. In the next moment, his person seemed to be embedded in the Sea God's Light, slowly falling while sticking to the mountain body.
Only at this moment did Xu Sanshi clearly feel his qi and blood churning suddenly. His whole body felt indescribably uncomfortable, as if every meridian had suffered shock injuries.
"Third Brother, how are you?" Tang Wutong hurriedly reached out and pressed on his back, transmitting gentle soul power to him.
"My injury is not serious." Xu Sanshi shook his head, feeling like the arrow-shaped fish before. He shook them away, and now he was also shaken away by that sudden giant force. His whole body felt numb and soft. Only after the soul power circulated a cycle in his whole body did this feeling of weakness gradually disappear.
Failure was not terrible. Xu Sanshi didn't think he could pass the assessment directly in a short time. He was just probing this time.
But what depressed him was that he didn't even know what blasted him out of the ring sea.
"Damn it, what was that thing just now? Wutong, did you see clearly?" Xu Sanshi couldn't help asking anxiously.
Tang Wutong said indignantly: " Although I guessed this assessment was abnormal, I didn't expect it to be abnormal to this extent. I observed carefully. Apart from those arrow-shaped fish attacking you at the beginning, another kind of sea soul beast appeared, which was the sea soul beast that attacked you last."
"What kind of thing was it?" Xu Sanshi asked curiously.
"A hundred-thousand-year Devil Spirit Great White Shark." Tang Wutong pursed her lips, her tone somewhat helpless.
She remembered that legend had it that in the waters outside Sea God Island, there had always been a King of the hundred-thousand-year Devil Spirit Great White Sharks guarding the sea area.
"Why is our test also her?" Xu Sanshi smiled bitterly: "Isn't this exactly the same as the assessment encountered by Ancestor Tang San ten thousand years ago?"
While Xu Sanshi and Tang Wutong looked at each other with bitter smiles, completely unable to think of any way to break through in front of the Devil Spirit Great White Shark King, suddenly, in the rising seawater, the huge white figure quickly went towards the distance.
With its speed, in basically just a few blinks of an eye, it had arrived near the place where Huo Yuhao landed on the island.
At this time, Huo Yuhao was observing Xu Sanshi and the other's assessment through Spiritual Insight. That huge Devil Spirit Great White Shark King actually leaped out of the seawater just like that, jumping into mid-air. Its gray-blue body presented a perfect streamline.
Strangely, its body actually shrank rapidly in this light. Under the Snow Empress's vigilant gaze, it soon transformed into a tall young girl appearing in front of Huo Yuhao and the others.
Discovered?
Huo Yuhao's eyes drifted to the Sea Princess mother and daughter beside him. Unless a God King came in person, no existence on the continent could see through the Simulation Soul Skill. Since they were discovered by this Devil Spirit Great White Shark, there was only one explanation left—
When the Sea Princess mother and daughter tried to rescue Mermaid Princess Liya back then, a special mark was left on their bodies.
The girl's height was surprisingly similar to Huo Yuhao's. An outfit like white leather clothes outlined a perfect figure. Beautiful curves made her look full of temptation. Gray-blue long hair draped over her back. Her eyes were also gray-blue. Her fair skin had a layer of faint gray-blue luster. Her nose bridge was high, giving a moving exotic amorous feeling.
"Sea Princess, how dare you come to my Sea God Island alone."