"Senior Sea Star Douluo, don't look at me like that. These are all orders from Star Crown Douluo, I'm merely following commands."
"Bah, disgusting."
Sea Star Douluo bit off a piece of flesh from his tongue only to spit out bloody foam on Xu Mingguang's face. After all, he had strong self-healing abilities and wasn't afraid at all.
Since he knew he was captured, he never thought of returning alive. Rather than being used by those scumbags from the Star Crown Sect to threaten the high priest, it was better to commit suicide.
Just as Sea Star Douluo was about to bite his tongue to end his life, a beam of starlight hit him directly and froze him in place.
Wiping the blood off his body with an ugly expression, Xu Mingguang forcefully pried open Sea Star Douluo's mouth and shoved the dirty rag back in.
He truly didn't want to do this. He had hoped he could extract something more from Sea Star Douluo, but he hadn't expected him to be so ungrateful.
"Fine, now you, the Titled Douluo, will stay in this cabin until death claims you."
Xu Mingguang shot beams of starlight with a dark face, piercing through Sea Star Douluo's arms. Listening to the man's whimpers and groans, he left the cabin in satisfaction. He had lived a life of luxury since childhood and had only suffered a little while hunting soul beasts, but he had never experienced such humiliation.
It was also his own fault. He tried to squeeze something out of Sea Star Douluo even though he was worthless. Next time, after using illusions to extract information, he should either imprison the captives forever or execute them on the spot.
Thinking of the difficulty in capturing Sea Star Douluo earlier, Xu Mingguang still felt a lingering fear. The advantage of Sea Soul Masters in the ocean was truly formidable.
If they hadn't let their guard down earlier and he hadn't subdued him with hallucinations, the man would surely have escaped into the sea.
He couldn't help but begin to worry about Xu Mingxi's plan. Could they really eliminate the Sea God, Poseidon Douluo, in the sea?
As Xu Mingguang left, the soul power that had been surrounding the area gradually faded, but even the faint cries of Sea Star Douluo couldn't escape the cabin, let alone reach the Swordfish ship sailing on the boundless sea.
He could only endure the pain in his body and pray that the high priest would soon discover the thief from the Star Crown Sect and rescue him from these villains.
Unfortunately, when Qian Daoliu, far away in the Wuhun Empire, received the news, not a single soul master on Sea God Island had realized his disappearance.
It was only a month later that Bo Saixi sensed something was wrong. It was hard to find a suitable soul beast, but it shouldn't take that long.
The seventh soul ring Tang San needed was only about 40,000 years old. With Sea Star Douluo's strength, it should have been easy to capture it alive and bring it back. Could he have had an accident?
Bo Saixi's expression changed in the depths of the Sea God Temple, and she ordered people to summon the remaining Sacred Pillars and Titled Douluos of the Clear Sky Sect.
A few minutes later, she saw the three Sacred Pillars—Sea Ring, Sea Cat, and Sea Girl—sitting below, and sorrow surged in her heart.
Of the once-mighty Seven Sacred Pillars, only three remained. The power of Sea God Island had weakened this much without anyone realizing it.
"Senior Bo Saixi, you summoned us, but Starfish found a suitable soul beast."
Tang San's eyes were filled with barely hidden hope. Now that he lacked the secret to cultivating twin martial spirits that Yu Xiaogang had shamelessly asked for, he didn't dare add a soul ring to the Clear Sky Hammer, fearing he'd explode himself by accident.
As a result, he could only cultivate the Blue Silver Grass that hadn't been strengthened by immortal herbs or awakened by his bloodline—its weakness was obvious.
He had once fought a Clear Sky Hammer Soul Emperor with Blue Silver Grass and only won by relying on hidden weapons.
Although he claimed that his hidden weapons were invincible and their strength was also his strength, he still sensed something was off in how others looked at him.
Whether it was the remaining soul masters of the Clear Sky Sect, the sea soul masters of Sea God Island, or even the Titled Douluos on both sides, there seemed to be a hint of contempt in their eyes.
Since then, Tang San harbored some resentment toward Tang Hao in his heart.
Since the conflict between the two martial spirits couldn't be resolved, why not let him just cultivate the Clear Sky Hammer alone? Now he was stuck using this useless Blue Silver Grass and felt humiliated.
Later, he learned from Tang Hao that his mother was actually the Blue Silver Empress, and he immediately placed his hopes on improving the Blue Silver Grass's bloodline.
Sea Star Douluo's mission was to find plant-type soul beasts in the ocean with strong bloodlines for him, hoping to make up for the Blue Silver Grass's deficiencies.
Unfortunately, his hope was shattered when Bo Saixi shook her head. His spirit deflated instantly, and he slumped in his chair in a daze.
He didn't realize that everyone present except him was a Titled Douluo, and his reaction did not go unnoticed.
Bo Saixi's expression remained unchanged, but she sighed helplessly in her heart. She truly didn't understand what the Sea God was thinking, to actually intend to pass the throne to a soul master like this. Brother Chen was much better than him.
To her, Sea God Island intervening in the continental war, losing three Titled Douluos and many sea soul masters, and now Sea Star Douluo disappearing while searching for a soul beast—was it really worth it?
"Tang San, it's likely that Sea Star Douluo had an accident. There's still no news."
Tang San fell silent. Sea Star Douluo was already the strongest combatant Sea God Island could send. Sea Spear Douluo and Sea Girl Douluo were only comparable to him at sea.
Not to mention Tang Hao and other land-based soul masters—they couldn't even touch Sea Star Douluo in the ocean, let alone capture him.
The unexplained loss of such a powerhouse made everyone present wonder if someone was targeting them.
It couldn't be a coincidence that they ran into a 100,000-year-old sea soul beast. With Sea Star Douluo's familiarity with the sea, it shouldn't have gone this far.
"Senior Poseidon, are we just going to sit here and wait to die? Are there no suitable sea soul beasts around Sea God Island?"
"No, the area around Sea God Island is full of Sea God followers—there are no evil sea soul beasts."
Poseidon tapped his staff, and everyone silently dispersed, leaving only Tang Chen behind. The two of them had already made up their minds and wanted to talk for a while.
Only Sea Girl Douluo glanced back at Tang San as she left, a deep suspicion and a flicker of undetectable disgust flashing in her intelligent eyes.
With mermaid blood in her veins, she was highly sensitive to emotion. If she wasn't mistaken, the desire in Tang San's eyes didn't entirely vanish after hearing the high priest's rejection.
Honorable Sea God, your judgment in choosing a successor this time is truly disappointing.