"Your Highness, this is your first visit to Sea God Island, isn't it? Why not accompany me to Sea God City for a while..."
Chen Xinjie looked at Tang Luochuan before him and extended the invitation. As the inheritor of the Sea God, staying—or even residing—in Sea God City would allow him to better arrange protection and accommodations for the young man.
"I've indeed never been to Sea God City before."
"Thank you for the trouble, Your Excellency Chen."
Tang Luochuan did not refuse Chen Xinjie's offer. After all, the man was a top-tier Ultimate Douluo.
Though he couldn't predict whether this fiercely loyal subordinate of Tang San would defect when facing the Tang family in the future, it wasn't something worth his concern.
If Chen Xinjie remained loyal, his strength as one of the era's top powerhouses would still be useful. But if he turned to Tang Hao's side...
By then, the man might not even withstand a single strike from him—hardly a threat. Of course, given that Tang Luochuan was only a Soul Sage at the moment, Chen Xinjie still carried significant weight.
"No trouble at all, Your Highness! Just call me Old Chen—no need for such formality."
"Please, come this way..."
Overjoyed at the response, Chen Xinjie nodded eagerly and led the way toward the city on Sea God Island.
Sea God City
Twenty thousand years ago, after Tang San ascended to godhood, the followers who had once served under Poseidon's lineage voluntarily preserved all traditions of Sea God Island, continuing to revere the God of the Sea as their sovereign...
However, unlike their former devotion to Poseidon, after Tang San's ascension, only the core members of each generation of the Sea God Family knew of the original Sea God's existence. The rest...
Only knew that Tang San had become the God of the Sea through his own power, with an aura of forcefully condensing his Godhood.
A thousand years ago, when Tang San appeared just as the Sun Moon Empire was on the verge of unification, the Sea God Family seized the opportunity to pledge their loyalty—and were even rewarded with a Divine Artifact:
The Sea God Helmet.
The Chen Family of the Sea God lineage was no longer a reclusive clan but had risen to become one of the strongest families on the continent, with each generation's patriarch possessing top-tier cultivation.
"The Sea God Family... I've only heard rumors, but today I'll witness them firsthand. Not bad..."
As Tang Luochuan stepped onto the true Sea God Island, the thought crossed his mind.
After communicating with Gu Yue and Na'er, he used the connection of Dragon Valley to summon the two—who had never experienced this place—to Sea God City.
"Luo Chuan, you're back."
Not long after arriving in Sea God City with Chen Xinjie, two voices rang out. Gu Yue and Na'er appeared together in the distance.
"Gu Yue, Na'er."
Tang Luochuan smiled in response. Compared to the unspeakable bootlicker beside him, he'd much rather spend time with his girls.
"Your Highness, this..."
In contrast, Chen Xinjie was utterly bewildered by the scene before him. Two young women—and what shocked him most was that their talent was nearly on par with His Highness, the inheritor of a Deity. Both were Soul Sages.
How was this possible?!
"They're my girlfriends, Gu Yue and Na'er."
"Gu Yue, Na'er, this is Elder Chen."
Tang Luochuan first spoke indifferently to Chen Xinjie, then turned all his gentleness to the two beside him, leaving Chen Xinjie utterly dumbfounded.
Were these his two girlfriends?
Talented and seemingly quite clingy...
"Greetings, young ladies. I am Chen Xinjie. You may call me Old Chen or whatever you prefer..."
Chen Xinjie could only shake his head and reply slowly.
"Elder Chen."
Gu Yue and Na'er responded lightly, paying little attention to him, harboring only a bit of...
Mischievous amusement.
"Chen Xinjie, a top-tier Ultimate Douluo, has just become Luo Chuan's subordinate. If he were to find out you're not the inheritor recognized by the God of the Sea, Tang San..."
"Wouldn't he explode?" Gu Yue chuckled inwardly, unable to resist sending a telepathic message.
"Before I ascend to godhood, he won't know."
"After I become a god, even if he finds out, his only options will be death or submission."
Tang Luochuan replied nonchalantly.
Chen Xinjie might be among the pinnacle of Ultimate Douluos, but in his eyes, he was nothing. Moreover, he held absolute suppression over Chen Xinjie's strongest trump card—the Sea God Power.
"Then you..."
"Are quite wicked."
Gu Yue laughed telepathically.
"Brother Luo Chuan is so wicked."
Na'er also giggled secretly.
"Hmm..."
"There will be even more wickedness in the future."
Tang Luochuan smiled without speaking, muttering to himself.
"..."
Watching the three of them flirt so openly, Chen Xinjie felt utterly numb. Not to complain, but...
Was this really fair to an old man like him?
Meanwhile.
Far across the ocean.
"..."
"The inheritor of the Sea God has appeared."
A cloaked woman gazed at the vast sea before her, sensing something, a trace of ferocity flashing in her eyes.
She was none other than the leader of the Holy Spirit Church, one of the Demon Emperor among the Two Emperors and Four Heavenly Kings.
But at the same time, she was merely a pitiable soul who had lost her husband, her former dominion over the seas, and now cooperated with humans.
"The aura of the Sea God's Inheritance..."
"Still as detestable as ever."
The Demon Emperor looked toward Sea God Island, her rage stirring the ocean into towering waves.
How familiar this aura was. Once, her husband had been the most qualified to claim the faith of the seas...
Yet in the end, because of his identity as a Soul Beast, he became the loser, blinded in one eye, and later, as part of the Sea God's inheritor's Godhood Trial, he perished, becoming the other's ninth Soul Ring...
"It seems that young man, Chen Xinjie, must have gone to receive the inheritor. Another future enemy for me..."
She murmured, still staring at Sea God Island.
Initially, upon sensing the descent of the Sea God's Inheritance, she had considered sending her daughter, who had also taken human form to cultivate, to seek it out...
But now, it seemed unnecessary.
"Sea God, Sea God Douluo..."
"In the future, I will not be the one who loses!"
Memories of happier times flashed through the Demon Emperor's mind, finally settling on the moment Tang San had slain her husband.
Humans are no good. In this world filled with intolerable evils and the vile faith in Tang San, the best outcome is only... Destruction!
The Holy Spirit Church's plan to destroy Shrek Academy with the Spirit Transfer Pagoda is merely the tip of the iceberg. She wants to create a world...
Without Tang San.
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