The sparkling seawater reflected countless colorful lights under the setting sun, and right in the embrace of that seawater, a small island sat in the center of the ring-shaped water area.
The terrain on that island was very high, about five hundred meters high. The most peculiar thing was that the small island was shrouded in a layer of faint golden light.
Although the light on the island was not intense, Huo Yuhao could tell that it absolutely did not come from the sun, but was the island's own radiance.
To ascend Sea God Mountain in the center of the island, one had to step over one thousand and one steps. Even Huo Yuhao was no exception.
At the top of the island, there was a building that looked like it was carved from white jade. It was square with a dome. From where Huo Yuhao stood, he could only see the outermost part of the building composed of huge white stone pillars.
The Snow Empress looked in the direction of the foot of the mountain. Sure enough, directly in front of the Sea God Temple, stone steps extended downwards. Under the illumination of the evening glow, the white stone steps reflected light, lightly draped over Sea God Mountain like a jade belt.
On this only road leading to the Sea God Temple, the Sea God's Light was extremely vigorous, and could even be said to be truly pervasive. If Huo Yuhao rashly rushed through this Sea God's Light, he would inevitably be discovered by Sea God Tang San.
"Here, there seem to be the laws of a deity." Huo Yuhao was almost certain that Qian Renxue was imprisoned deep in the Sea God Temple, but to go up, he first had to pass these one thousand and one steps.
Of course, he could also fly up, or use spatial shifting to reach the top instantly, provided that he used the bloodline power of the Dragon King soul bones to suppress the Sea God's laws.
But doing so would have no other outcome than attracting the projection of the Buddha.
Huo Yuhao separated a spiritual clone to stay in place, and turned to instruct the Snow Empress and the Ice Bear King Little White: "You two stay here and be ready to support me at any time. I will go up alone to investigate."
With his spiritual clone present, the spiritual simulation on the Snow Empress and Little White, as well as the Spiritual Insight link with the Sea Princess mother and daughter, would not fail.
"Stay safe." The Snow Empress nodded. The laws on these steps had a quite exaggerated rejection of soul beasts. If she forced herself to follow, it would instead cause unnecessary consumption to herself.
For this trip, Huo Yuhao not only had to isolate the pervasive Sea God's Light from bathing him but also withstand the powerful repulsive force generated by the Sea God's laws themselves.
Therefore, regardless of whether Huo Yuhao had the trials of Sea God Island on him, he had to pass through the Sea God's Light like the vast majority of land soul masters who came to train.
It just so happened that Huo Yuhao also wanted to test what level his current physical strength had reached.
As soon as he arrived at the foot of Sea God Mountain, Huo Yuhao immediately felt a majestic and solemn atmosphere permeating the surroundings, as if some special energy was suppressing him, giving him a heavy feeling in his heart.
Huo Yuhao came to the stairs and slowly raised his right leg, stepping towards the first step.
When his right leg just entered the range of the stairs, he immediately felt a strong resistance appear in front of his leg, forcefully pushing back against his advance.
Huo Yuhao's judgment was completely correct. When his whole person stood on it, he instantly felt huge pressure coming from all directions, squeezing his body hard, just like the feeling of pressing a finger into a balloon where the dented balloon wants to pop the finger out. A layer of golden mist appeared around his body, and Huo Yuhao clearly felt that his soul power began to consume rapidly.
Withstanding the pressure, he took his second step. Just as Huo Yuhao expected, when he stepped onto the second step, the pressure increased again, about ten percent stronger than when he stepped onto the first step.
"Indeed somewhat strange." Huo Yuhao sneered. If it was only to this extent, this Sea God Mountain couldn't stop him.
The Mountain Dragon King Torso Bone seemed to be stimulated by something. An unprecedented sense of power flooded into his limbs and bones, giving Huo Yuhao an instant impulse to roar to the sky.
Then, under the shocked gaze of the Snow Empress, Huo Yuhao strode up with large steps against the incomparably vigorous Sea God's Light.
Huo Yuhao simply made a powerful leap, directly crossing a hundred steps. When he landed, he stepped out a footprint of moderate depth on the ground.
"Hmph!" He snorted coldly. The Dragon King soul bones all over his body seemed to come alive. How could a mere test of the Sea God stop the dominance of the Nine Great Dragon Kings?
As the Dragon King soul bones showed their power, Huo Yuhao finished climbing these one thousand and one steps almost without any pause and arrived in front of the magnificent Sea God Temple.
The huge stone pillars in front of the Sea God Temple were carved with various patterns. Some were sea soul beasts that Huo Yuhao and the others had seen before, but more were creatures never seen before. presumably, they were also existences with considerable heritage in the ocean.
Walking invisibly into the Sea God Temple, it was pitch black inside. There was actually not a single window in the entire hall, so naturally, it could not get any light from the outside, giving people a depressing feeling, just like the Holy Spirit Cult under the Evil Spirit Forest.
The hall appeared very empty, and no buildings were seen. This hall could be described as primitive, or simply simple.
The world might not expect that inside the dignified Sea God Temple, there were actually no decorations, and it was so pitch black.
Inside this hall, there were no superfluous buildings, only eight platforms. The outer seven platforms formed a circle. The style of each platform was different, matching the appearance of the seven platforms where the Sea God's Seven Sacred Pillars were located.
In the center of these seven platforms, there was also a huge platform. Huo Yuhao could see it from between the two outer platforms in front. This platform had a total of three layers, several meters higher than the seven outer platforms.
This platform also presented a circular shape, and the area of the platform became smaller the higher it went. Due to the darkness in the hall, one could only vaguely see a vertical culture tank in the very center of the highest platform.
Undoubtedly, that was a high-level soul tool not inferior to the Sealing God Platform. But what surprised Huo Yuhao the most was not its grade, but a beautiful figure inside.
In this culture tank, a mermaid girl was sleeping. Her appearance was very similar to that Mermaid Princess, but her figure was petite. Blue long hair, golden fish tail, even in sleep, she still exuded amazing beauty.
It was just that her life aura at this time was already weak to the point of being almost inaudible. Her face was also pale, even carrying a bit of grayish defeat color, looking like she was about to reach the end.
Although Huo Yuhao had decided to rescue her, the surroundings of the container were covered with the Sea God's divine thought. If he acted now, in case he attracted Sea God Tang San's attention in advance, that would be putting the cart before the horse.