"Your method requires Xiao San's power?" Tang Hao frowned and stepped forward, saying, "Can't I replace Xiao San?"
If he could, he did not wish for his children to be hurt.
Sensing Tang Hao's misunderstanding, Tang Sui explained, "No, Brother's role here is irreplaceable. Didn't I just tell you all that Brother is undergoing the Sea God's heir assessment on Sea God Island?"
"The content of Brother's seventh trial is to pull out the divine artifact, the Sea God Trident. If my prediction is correct, once the Sea God Trident is in Brother's hands, combined with the Sea God's divine light he can control, it will definitely accelerate Mother's cultivation, allowing her to leap to a hundred thousand years and transform back into human form."
As soon as she finished speaking, Ah Yin and Tang Hao exchanged a glance, seeing shock and surprise in each other's eyes.
The Sky Green Ox Python and the Titan Giant Ape also sighed, "I didn't expect such a swift method. If Tang San wished, could his Sea God's divine light also instantly increase the cultivation of other spirit beasts by tens of thousands of years?"
"How is that possible?" Tang Sui poured cold water, "The balance of rules cannot be easily broken, and an equivalent price in power must still be paid. This is essentially no different from consuming other spirit beasts to enhance one's own cultivation. The only difference is that with my addition, there's no need to kill. But the vast power I can supply is not free, so now we need to wait for Brother's return, and by the way..." she paused, then added, "In the meantime, I wish to complete my ninth spirit ring and stabilize my strength at the Titled Douluo realm."
"Ninth spirit ring?" Ah Yin was startled, then her delicate eyebrows furrowed, and she hesitated, "That requires hunting spirit beasts, doesn't it?"
"That's not necessary. I am now different from ordinary human spirit masters or humanoid spirit beasts. The power of faith from the City of Slaughter, combined with previous power reserves, is enough for me to condense a new hundred-thousand-year spirit ring with much left over. I only need Father to guard me." Tang Sui looked at Tang Hao.
Finally able to help his daughter, Tang Hao agreed without hesitation, "No problem. When do you plan to start?"
Tang Sui pondered, "Time is precious, and complications arise easily. Tomorrow, then. Tomorrow, we'll find another secluded place to condense the spirit ring."
Tang Hao nodded, then looked up at the Sky Green Ox Python and the Titan Giant Ape, "Da Ming, Er Ming, while I'm away, I entrust Ah Yin to the two of you."
"Alright, go with peace of mind. You have me and my second brother watching here." The Sky Green Ox Python nodded its huge ox head.
...
On the other side, on the distant Sea God Island.
Tang San was unaware that Tang Sui had already made all the arrangements for him.
However, even if he knew, he would think it was a tacit understanding between siblings.
From the seventh trial until now, nearly seven months had passed.
The Sea God's divine light, obtained from the first six trials, which reached a staggering seventy percent, played a significant role in Tang San's attempt to pull out the trident.
"Crack—"
The brilliant radiance of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda dimmed. Ning Rongrong, whose spirit power could no longer support her continued activation of the Nine Treasures Absolute Body, collapsed onto the ground, utterly exhausted. Her beautiful face was covered in fine beads of sweat, and she looked as if she had just emerged from water, drenched.
Bo Saixi, holding her scepter, calmly watched Tang San, whose body was increasingly covered in blood. Her gentle gaze flickered with an inorganic light.
As a qualified referee and witness, Bo Saixi had seen too many of Tang San's failures over these seven months. Her expression had changed with each of Tang San's setbacks and the alterations to the Sea God Trident.
It wasn't that she felt Tang San would fail, but rather that she still felt the hope was slim.
Now, Ning Rongrong's spirit power was depleted, unable to provide further assistance to Tang San.
Without the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's aid, Tang San let out a muffled groan. Single-handedly, he endured the Sea God Trident, which he had been tilting for seven months, without ceasing the output of his spirit power, internal energy, mental energy, and Sea God's divine light.
The energy within Tang San's body repeatedly depleted, only to be reborn like a spring breeze, undergoing transformation and breakthroughs, being tempered and refined in extreme pain.
After a short rest, Ning Rongrong raised her head and looked at Tang San standing on the offering platform. She let out a soft breath, reactivated her spirit power, and cast a ray of auxiliary light onto Tang San.
"Nine Treasures are named, the sixth is: Enhance!"
Ning Rongrong's voice had become hoarse.
With Tang San's unyielding effort, the long handle of the Sea God Trident slowly rose.
The blood flowing from his palm covered the increasingly exposed demonic patterns on the trident's handle, mingling with the golden light to form a golden-red radiance.
Every muscle in his body strained as Tang San's arms trembled, continuing to pull the Sea God Trident.
Gradually, Tang San saw the connection between the long handle and the trident's head.
They were circular connections, a tightly interlocked structure.
The closer he got to the head, the thicker the circular structure became.
As Tang San's spirit power broke through once more, he gritted his teeth and let out a great shout.
"Hiss—"
A piercing friction sound erupted. Under Tang San's immense strength, the Sea God Trident slowly ascended.
As the connecting part lifted off the ground, a crescent-shaped pattern appeared on both sides of the triangular head of the trident.
As torrents of brilliant auxiliary light fell upon Tang San, the blood flowing from his torn flesh and ruptured meridians, which were repeatedly broken and healed, spread to the head of the Sea God Trident, dyeing those two crescent moons red.
The trident's head was massive, and the higher he pulled, the heavier the handle in his grasp felt. In such a short time, he was already feeling weak.
At the same time, he felt as if his palms, which were previously bleeding, were now being sucked dry, greedily siphoned by the patterns on the handle.
He... he could not give up!
Almost there, he was almost going to pull it out!
Tang San repeatedly brainwashed himself.
Even though his palms were bleeding profusely and his arms had become numb from prolonged use, Tang San did not let go.
He understood that if he wanted to reach this level again, it would be exceedingly difficult.
Lost in self-hypnosis, Tang San did not notice that the fresh blood continuously flowing from his palms was nourishing the demonic patterns carved on the Sea God Trident's handle.
Under the nourishment of the crimson blood, it seemed to come alive, shining brilliantly. The golden patterns were much more luminous than their previous unadorned appearance.
"Hum hum—"
Golden light gathered, becoming more and more concentrated. The radiance, as brilliant as the morning sun, gilded Tang San.
That golden light also shone upon Ning Rongrong and Bo Saixi.
The next second, Ning Rongrong, whose spirit power was on the verge of depletion, suddenly felt the soreness in her limbs and the dizziness and nausea disappear.
Her condition instantly returned to its peak. Even the sweat on her body vanished in the golden light, and her clothes became dry again.
Although unclear about the situation, Ning Rongrong, with a surprised expression, quickly regained her senses. Realizing this was a golden opportunity, she immediately activated the Nine Treasures Absolute Body state, maximizing her enhancement for Tang San.
Ning Rongrong, focused intently, failed to notice that Bo Saixi, standing not far away, looked at the increasingly dense golden light, a peculiar gleam appearing in her eyes.