174: Chapter 174 Tang San Arrives, Two Sea Gods Under the Nine Trials?

The arrow was on the string, and it had to be released. Su Ling's Primordial War Bow was fully drawn, yet Poseixi made no Move, just standing quietly fifty meters away from Su Ling.

Even with Su Ling's warning, Poseixi remained full of confidence.

He released his grip, and the arrow shot out. At almost the same moment, Poseixi waved one hand, and Su Ling's arrow seemed to encounter an obstruction.

Not only did its speed drop, but it also veered off course, and in the end, the arrow passed right by Poseixi, leaving her completely unscathed.

Poseixi was perhaps the strongest opponent Su Ling currently faced; even the Slaughter King of Slaughter City could not compare. After all, the Slaughter King was controlled by the Nine Headed Bloody Crimson Bat King and could not unleash the full strength of Tang Chen.

Of course, this arrow from Su Ling was just a normal one, nothing spectacular; it was merely a probe.

"There is no need for such simple Moves," Poseixi said with an indifferent expression. "Now, it is my turn."

Poseixi would not hold back. She immediately activated her fifth Spirit Ability, instantly summoning a large number of phantom Spirit Beast images that rushed toward Su Ling together.

There were quite a few of these Spirit Beast phantoms, charging at him in a dense swarm.

Seeing this, Su Ling remained exceptionally calm.

He flapped the wings behind his back, shuttling back and forth in the air at extreme speed. As his wings swept past, countless Spirit Beast phantoms were all sliced into fragments.

No matter how many Spirit Beast phantoms there were, they could not escape the fate of being sliced under Su Ling's sharp wings.

This Move from Poseixi might be useful against ordinary Spirit Masters, but for Su Ling, it had little effect.

While dealing with these phantoms, Su Ling found an opening and fired several arrows at Poseixi.

However, in front of Poseixi, the seawater barrier she created could always change the direction of the arrows, and every time, they would shoot past her.

Normal arrows would also change direction when shot into water, so it was extremely difficult to hit Poseixi with them unless one possessed absolute destructive power.

However, while Su Ling could fight Poseixi, he could not use his full strength, or it would be detrimental to the subsequent trials.

After the Spirit Beast phantoms rushing toward Su Ling disappeared, Su Ling took the initiative to charge at Poseixi. His wings swept past, opening a gap in the seawater barrier before him, but the gap immediately healed.

In an instant, the seawater engulfed Su Ling and began to rotate.

The ocean was Poseixi's home turf; every step Su Ling took seemed somewhat difficult, and he realized he seemed to be submerged in the water.

He could barely even see Poseixi's face; this was different from all his previous opponents.

Su Ling spun along with the water, forming a massive waterspout on the ocean.

This waterspout was at least fifty meters in diameter and hundreds of meters high, a truly spectacular sight.

Yet, in the next moment, the waterspout began to change.

Su Ling, inside, actually controlled his body to start rotating in the opposite direction of the waterspout.

"If you go clockwise, then I will go counter-clockwise."

Su Ling's physical strength and control over his body had reached a perfect level, and combined with his perfect water-based skills, he completed this maneuver inside the waterspout.

With a loud bang, the waterspout exploded.

At the same moment it exploded, Su Ling's arrow shot out. This arrow was different; Su Ling had increased the rotational force, making it the strongest strike among his normal arrow attacks.

This strike, it could be said, was something most Titled Douluo on the Douluo Continent might not be able to withstand.

The rotating arrow shot toward the seawater barrier created by Poseixi. It continued to spin at high speed, piercing through the Sea God barrier set by her in the blink of an eye, heading straight for her.

Previously, Su Ling's arrows had all been diverted by Poseixi, but this arrow shot through the barrier with almost no deviation. However, because it was delayed for an instant at the barrier, it gave Poseixi time to react.

She condensed her Soul Power, setting up layers of barriers before her. By the time the arrow reached her, ninety percent of its attack power had been neutralized, and she blocked it with the scepter in her hand.

"Continue!"

This time, Su Ling condensed two arrows, both with rotation, and released them together; the attack power was equivalent to the previous arrow.

Poseixi said indifferently, "It's useless."

Just like before, Poseixi prepared to use layers of seawater-condensed barriers to exhaust Su Ling's arrows.

For a long-range attack type Spirit Master like Su Ling, powerful attacks could not even get close, and even if they did, they would be exhausted by seven or eight tenths.

But this time it was a little different. When the arrows broke through the first barrier, Su Ling suddenly used a skill, accelerating the tail of the arrows.

A one-hundred-percent speed boost made the arrows extremely fast, and Poseixi was slightly caught off guard.

With a bang, when the arrows shot over, Poseixi could only activate a defensive Spirit Bone skill to barely block Su Ling's arrows.

Poseixi was not easy to deal with; in the original story, when fighting the Seven Devils, she was restricted too much.

If Poseixi were not restricted, she could easily resolve the Seven Devils; they wouldn't last a minute, let alone the time of an incense stick.

As the Grand Priest of Sea God Island, she was also fully equipped with Spirit Bones, so it was not surprising that she possessed Spirit Bone skills.

After sensing it, Su Ling also understood Poseixi's general capabilities; she was stronger than he had anticipated.

If she used the power of the Sea God, given his current Soul Power and combat strength, the probability of him defeating Poseixi was very low.

"Whew, it seems I still have more room for improvement."

"Time to go!"

Seeing this, pairs of wings appeared behind Su Ling; six pairs, twelve wings, were revealed at once.

Then, Su Ling faced Poseixi directly and rushed over rapidly.

"Your external Spirit Bone is very powerful; its age seems to be more than one hundred thousand years." Poseixi immediately prepared a Spirit Ability, but before she could use it, Su Ling vanished before her eyes.

"Where is he?"

Poseixi looked around but did not find Su Ling's figure. At this moment, Su Ling was already a thousand meters away. After teleporting a thousand meters, he teleported three more times in succession, and then his six pairs of wings operated at full speed.

By the time Poseixi discovered Su Ling, he was already ten thousand meters away.

"Teleportation?"

"Interesting. No wonder you dared to gamble with me. In that case, you don't need to follow the rules of Sea God Island." Poseixi said.

Su Ling had gotten too far away. If he were a bit closer—a few hundred meters—she could still take action to stop him, but after ten thousand meters, she had no way to deal with Su Ling at all.

Unless she used the Divine Power of the Sea God, but to use the Divine Power of the Sea God just for this, even if she kept Su Ling, it wouldn't be very honorable.

Watching the direction Su Ling left in, it was a long while before she disappeared from the sky and returned to Sea God Mountain.

On Su Ling's side, having flown ten thousand meters away, he had basically confirmed that he had escaped Poseixi's control.

Poseixi could use the power of the ocean, but she was not a god and could not control the entire ocean.

After flying tens of thousands of meters, Su Ling switched back to a single pair of wings.

A single pair of wings was not slow, and the Soul Power consumption was minimal.

After all, the purpose of his trip was to find the blood of a Spirit Beast that could allow Fish Transformation.

Regarding the target Spirit Beast, Su Ling actually already had a direction in mind, which was the Evil Spirit Orca King.

The Evil Spirit Orcas were enemies of the Devil Spirit Great White Shark tribe.

If he appeared disguised as the Evil Spirit Orca King during the trial, one might ask, could Xiao Bai still seriously stop the goddesses?

Even if she could stop them, what about the other Devil Spirit Great White Sharks?

But there was a difficulty right now: where was the Evil Spirit Orca tribe?

If he couldn't find them, it would all be in vain.

Recalling the plot in his mind, after a while, Su Ling found a piece of information. He seemed to remember that the Evil Spirit Orca tribe was five hundred kilometers, or perhaps five hundred nautical miles, away from Sea God Island.

Whether it was kilometers or nautical miles, Su Ling could not remember too clearly.

On the ocean, it should logically be a nautical unit.

He just needed to search within a five-hundred-nautical-mile radius of Sea God Island.

With this as his goal, Su Ling began to search around Sea God Island.

One day... two days...

...

Time slowly passed. Ten days later, Su Ling had circled the five-hundred-nautical-mile mark, but he had found nothing at all.

In fact, with a radius of five hundred nautical miles, the circumference was only over three thousand nautical miles; it shouldn't have taken ten days. The main reason was that Su Ling had spent a lot of time searching, thus reducing his speed.

Unfortunately, he hadn't found a single Evil Spirit Orca King.

Could it be five hundred kilometers?

"Damn it!"

Su Ling returned to the five-hundred-kilometer mark, and finally, after four days, he had a harvest.

He discovered several ten-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca Kings. Seeing this, Su Ling dropped into the water and then took out some Spirit Beast blood he had collected casually over the past few days.

Su Ling used his Fish Transformation skill to turn into a thousand-year Swordfish, just over three meters in length.

A thousand years was not very high, and a three-meter body size was not considered large in the ocean; the point was that it was fast.

Turning into a fish was also because he did not want to attract the attention of these Evil Spirit Orcas.

Su Ling followed them, thinking he should be able to find the Evil Spirit Orca tribe. Moreover, even if he were discovered, it wouldn't matter; a typical ten-thousand-year Evil Spirit Orca King could not catch up to him now.

Finally, two days later, Su Ling arrived at an area of the sea where he saw a large number of Evil Spirit Orcas.

At this moment, Su Ling's body transformed into a small fish less than thirty centimeters long; the thousand-year Swordfish was still not very convenient to Move around here.

"That is! An Evil Spirit Orca King?"

At a position about one hundred meters below the sea surface, Su Ling finally discovered his target.

This Evil Spirit Orca King was over thirty meters long, its gray-black skin shimmering with a faint metallic luster; it was definitely a hegemon among the group of Evil Spirit Orcas.

"The time has come!"

At this moment, Su Ling was an innocuous little fish, slowly swimming toward the Evil Spirit Orca King.

Ordinary fish would not dare to approach such a behemoth at all.

And Su Ling's approach did, in fact, attract the attention of the Evil Spirit Orca King.

It even glanced at Su Ling, while Su Ling just swam around aimlessly.

Discovering it was just an ordinary Spirit Beast fish with a cultivation age of less than a hundred years, the Evil Spirit Orca King ignored it.

After all, it could not see through Su Ling's identity after his Fish Transformation.

Furthermore, Su Ling was too small, less than thirty centimeters long. If he had been the three-meter-long Swordfish from before, this Evil Spirit Orca King might have treated him as food and eaten him in one bite.

For someone like Su Ling, who wasn't even enough to get stuck between its teeth, the Evil Spirit Orca King couldn't be bothered to open its mouth.

Just like that, Su Ling swam little by little to the side of the Evil Spirit Orca King. Even though he was less than half a meter away from the Evil Spirit Orca King's body, the other party did not pay him any mind.

In the eyes of the Evil Spirit Orca King, a small fish like Su Ling could not possibly break its defense.

Suddenly, Su Ling deactivated his Fish Transformation skill, raised his dagger, and stabbed it forcefully into the Evil Spirit Orca King's body.

The Evil Spirit Orca King felt the sharp pain, and blood flowed out. Su Ling immediately collected it, using Soul Power to wrap the blood and store it in his System space.

While collecting it, the Evil Spirit Orca King had already discovered Su Ling.

"Human, you actually disguised yourself as a Spirit Beast! Damn it!" How could the Evil Spirit Orca King swallow this insult?

In the ocean, it opened its huge mouth, intending to swallow Su Ling.

But Su Ling had been prepared for a long time and released an Ice Shield, a defensive skill comparable to a hundred-thousand-year one!

The moment the Ice Shield appeared, it blocked the Evil Spirit Orca King's huge mouth.

With a bang, it collided with it, but could not break it.

Using the Ice Shield in the ocean was a very good choice; the Ice Shield successfully blocked the Evil Spirit Orca King's counterattack, allowing Su Ling to successfully leave the water surface.

When the Evil Spirit Orca King came out, Su Ling had already flown into the sky; the Evil Spirit Orca King could do nothing to Su Ling.

"Evil Spirit Orca King, goodbye!" Su Ling flew away directly.

"Abominable human, don't let me meet you again." The Evil Spirit Orca King was a bit angry. What did this human come here for?

Lurking by its side, giving it a stab, and then leaving?

It had injured him, but this injury had no effect on him whatsoever.

After thinking for a long time, the Evil Spirit Orca King could not think of a reason and had to give up.

After flying for a while, Su Ling slowed down and took the Evil Spirit Orca King's blood out of the System space. When he took it out, it was still wrapped in Soul Power.

If he didn't use Soul Power, letting it dilute in the seawater would not work.

Fortunately, in the previous ten-plus days, Su Ling had already acquired more than twenty types of Spirit Beast blood of different cultivation ages and sizes, accumulating experience and mastering how to promptly wrap the extracted blood in Soul Power while in the seawater.

A small ball of blood, the size of a ping-pong ball.

And since a single drop of blood could be used for the Fish Transformation skill, this much could be used at least twenty times or more.

With the Evil Spirit Orca King's blood in hand, Su Ling thought it was time to go back.

But he had only flown a few hundred meters before stopping again.

There were still more than nine months until the goddesses' second trial.

"How about I go to the west of the ocean and see if the Sun Moon Continent really exists there?"

According to the subsequent plot of Douluo, the Sun Moon Continent would collide and fuse with the Douluo Continent in six thousand years; it stood to reason that this continent was not too far away.

Moreover, since the Snow Empress and Ice Empress already existed, the Sun Moon Continent might really exist.

Thinking of this, Su Ling determined the direction and flew away rapidly!

The Sun Moon Continent was also a good place; Su Ling also wanted to experience goddesses with exotic flair.

...

Unknowingly, it was the third day after Su Ling flew away!

On the beach of Sea God Island.

Seven young men and women boarded the island, crossed the beach, and entered the jungle.

"Brother San, that was really dangerous just now. Fortunately, there were no powerful Spirit Beasts." Ma Hongjun said.

"Yeah, coming here really wasn't easy." Oscar said.

These seven people were exactly Tang San, Dai Mubai, Tai Long, and others; five men and two women walked into the forest together.

Not long after they entered the forest, they soon met a pair of Sea God Island Spirit Masters, and these Sea Spirit Masters took them straight to Sea Horse Douluo.

The seven of them also stood one by one before the Sea Horse Holy Pillar to accept the Sea God's trials.

Luo Sha: White-level First Trial

Xu Yanyan: White-level First Trial

Tai Long: Purple-level Third Trial

Oscar: Black-level Sixth Trial

Ma Hongjun: Black-level Sixth Trial

Dai Mubai: Black-level Sixth Trial

Tang San: Seagod Nine Trials

If Su Ling were here, he would definitely be surprised; Tang San had obtained the Seagod Nine Trials even without the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.

At this moment, the sky above Sea God Island was covered in gold, and seven Holy Pillars rose into the sky; the entire sky turned gold.

Seeing this scene, Poseixi did not know how to speak for a moment.

"Another one with the Seagod Nine Trials?"

"I... I understand!"

At this time, Poseixi's mind also received some information transmitted from the Sea God.

"Sea God Island is going to be interesting now!" Poseixi flashed away from Sea God Mountain and soon arrived above the Sea Horse Holy Pillar.

At the same time, on the side of Su Ling's goddesses, everyone also felt the change in the sky.

They all looked at Shui Binger, as the scene in the sky was exactly the same, with no difference, as the day Shui Binger obtained the Seagod Nine Trials.

It was just that at this moment, Shui Binger had closed her eyes and was frowning slightly, as if she had also received some information.

Seeing this, the other goddesses did not speak to disturb her. After a long while, Shui Binger opened her eyes and whispered: "Seagod Nine Trials, a competitive trial?"