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Xie Yue suggested, "Why don't we go down and test the water together!"
Tuoba Yan nodded.
Led by Tuoba Yan, the others began to follow him into the water.
There are many sea spirit beasts in the water.
As Tuoba Yan and his companions entered the seawater, the lines between their brows glowed, forming a thin protective layer. They discovered that they could breathe freely in the seawater.
As they continued forward, the arrowfish in the ring-shaped sea initially merely swam around their bodies. Once they spotted them, drawn by the light emanating from their bodies, they charged towards them.
Thousands upon thousands of arrowfish attacked them together, like a barrage of arrows.
They regarded Tuoba Yan and the others as enemies. Judging from their rapid swimming, they seemed determined not to stop until they pierced through Tuoba Yan and the others' bodies.
"First Soul Skill - Ice Seal!"
With a thought, Shui Bing'er instantly unleashed her soul skill. It froze some of the seawater, but it did not stop the arrowfish's attack.
Some arrowfish emit a purple glow.
call!
This indicates that they lived for a thousand years.
"Holy crap, there are several arrowhead fish over there that are over ten thousand years old!" Li Kai exclaimed in disbelief.
"Retreat!" Tuoba Yan ordered.
Everyone quickly left the ring-shaped sea and evacuated from it.
Fortunately, they didn't go too far and retreated in time. Otherwise, let alone using their soul skills to reach the other side, they would have had a hard time even saving their lives!
Zhang Ping shook her head and said, "If we don't use our soul skills, we can't break through the blockade of the Ring Sea on our own. The Arrowhead Fish is an agile sea soul beast with extremely high speed. The spikes on its head are very sharp. The second test is extremely difficult!"
Li Kai rested his chin on his hand and asked, puzzled, "But why would they attack us on their own initiative?"
Shui Bing'er analyzed, "It might be because of the light emanating from our bodies!"
Li Kai asked in astonishment, "You mean the light emitted by the Divine Test made all the sea spirit beasts in the ring-shaped sea regard us as enemies?"
Shui Bing'er nodded, "The sea spirit beasts that attacked us just now included not only special species like arrowfish, but also many other species that are docile and do not attack unless provoked."
"I see. What if we fly over from the sky?" Li Kai looked at Zhang Ping.
Zhang Ping's martial spirit is the Golden-Waisted Flying Swallow. After being possessed by this martial spirit, she gains the ability to fly. Since she can't cross the sea, flying across the sky won't be a problem.
The sea contains seawater, which weakens the mobility of land-based Soul Masters. For flying Soul Masters, flying through the sky would allow them to complete the assessment quickly.
Zhang Ping's martial spirit possessed her. With a slight movement of her back, golden wings unfurled. Fluttering, she slowly flew into the air.
When she flew five meters above the sea, she suddenly encountered an obstacle.
"It's as if there's a wall in the sky, with a height limit. The flight altitude cannot exceed five meters above the sea level."
As Zhang Ping spoke, she carefully flapped her wings and flew towards the sea ahead. Her gaze was fixed on the ring-shaped sea below.
Just like when she entered the sea, a blue light emanated from between Zhang Ping's eyebrows, enveloping her entire body.
In an instant, the sea boiled.
Arrowhead fish and other sea spirit beasts all leaped out of the sea and launched an attack on Zhang Ping.
"Be careful!" Shui Bing'er cried out urgently, immediately using her soul skill, Ice Seal.
Instantly, many sea spirit beasts that were attacking Zhang Ping were frozen in ice.
At the same time, Zhang Ping activated her soul skill.
"Swallow Returns!"
Swallow Return: Zhang Ping's third soul skill.
When using her soul skill, Zhang Ping can return to the location she appeared in three seconds ago. There is no distance limit. The distance she can return can be precisely controlled by Zhang Ping as her mental strength increases.
"call!"
Zhang Ping couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. She turned to look at her companions and said, "Going it alone, relying only on ourselves, without using Soul Masters or killing Soul Beasts, we can't break through the blockade of the Ring Sea!"
A hundred-year-old soul beast can hardly harm a Soul Emperor-level Soul Master.
Even a thousand-year-old soul beast would find it difficult to pose a threat to a Soul Emperor-level Soul Master.
It seems that all you need to do is avoid soul beasts with a lifespan of ten thousand years to complete the second trial.
It's not that simple.
The second test has an important constraint.
During the assessment, when your body glows, you must not harm any of the soul beasts in the ring-shaped sea.
Soul beasts with a lifespan of less than ten years are not called soul beasts.
That's very difficult to do.
The Arrowhead Fish is one of the best among sea spirit beasts. Even Zhang Ping, an agile attacker with the ability to fly, couldn't launch a sprint using her speed advantage.
After thinking for a long time, Xie Yue asked, "Boss Tuoba, what do you think we should do to win him over?"
"Completing the mission isn't difficult; we just need to work together to break through the blockade of the Ring Sea. The challenge lies in how we can complete the assessment independently. Let's think about it again; since it's an assessment, there must be a solution."
For the next period of time, Tuoba Yan and his companions frequently entered the sea. Each time they entered, they were forced back by the sea spirit beasts in the ring-shaped sea.
They tried traveling together.
With Tuoba Yan and Shui Bing'er by their side, they could get closer to the other side.
The assessment can be completed. But this is clearly not what they want.
The assessment was no longer their goal; they valued every moment of completing the assessment more, and the transformation each divine test brought to them.
Tuoba Yan began to take measures. On the one hand, he increased the number of times each person went into battle at sea; on the other hand, he reduced the number of people in each team.
In this way, their soul power was consumed and replenished time and time again, and their soul power actually increased significantly over the course of half a year.
"My soul power has reached the peak!" Shui Bing'er, with her superior talent, had once again reached the peak of her soul power level. Her soul power had reached level eighty.
Tuoba Yan's soul power level was also comparable, reaching level eighty-seven, with signs of breaking through to level eighty-eight at any moment.
Over the course of more than half a year, in addition to the top-level divine test which increased his soul power by two levels, he also received a soul power bonus when he obtained a soul ring.
It is worth mentioning that Sea God Island is home to the Light of Sea God.
Each time they exhausted their soul power in sea battles, they could always quickly recover it using the light of the sea god. Each time they recovered, their soul power would increase slightly.
Meanwhile, during their battle at sea, they were attacked by Xiaobai, the king of the Demon Soul Great White Sharks.
But this is just a misunderstanding.
If one cannot use their soul skills, breaking through Xiaobai's blockade is virtually impossible.
More than half a year later, Tuoba Yan and his men stood on the beach. He smiled confidently and asked, "Are you all ready?"
"We're ready. This time, we'll definitely break through the Ring Sea's blockade." Xie Yue's eyes shone with confidence.