Chapter 595: Lv Bu's Fatherly Love: Teachings from the Ghost God

Around the Trident, there was no pressure present at all.

Through the perception of her spiritual power, Lingqi discovered that the Sea God Trident was like a piece of dead, silent metal, devoid of any aura, yet its heavy sensation was extremely distinct.

Stepping onto the third level, she finally faced the weapon left behind by the Sea God; the exposed long handle of the Trident was about one zhang long, as thick as a child's arm, pitch-black and lusterless, with only a layer of fine patterns vaguely visible upon it.

This was the Sea God Trident, one of the most powerful divine weapons of the first-tier main gods beneath the Five Great God Kings of the Douluo God Realm.

In the original work, it was evolved by Tang San into a Super Artifact; although it was only a divine artifact at this moment, it was but a single step away from being a Super Artifact, surpassing the likes of the Angel Holy Sword and the Rakshasa Demon Sickle by a notch, and as long as it continued to be refined, it would certainly grow into a true Super Artifact.

Weighing one hundred and eight thousand jin, this weight in itself was actually not too excessive.

Bo Saixi was not truly unable to lift something of such little weight; during the Sea God Third Trial of tidal body tempering, she had used her soul power to hold up seven Deep Sea Sunken Silver Pillars weighing hundreds of thousands of jin each, without even blinking, with extreme ease.

But that was because she had used her soul power to envelop the Sunken Silver Pillars; it was less about her having great strength and more about her having profound cultivation.

However, as the Sea God Trident was a divine artifact, Bo Saixi's soul power could not envelop it, and she could not use soul power to lift it; relying solely on physical strength, she appeared unable to do so.

A major flaw of the Douluo Continent world was that its cultivation system was not strong, and everything relied on soul power; the physique of a Spirit Master was not particularly astonishing, and once the assistance of soul power was lost, their combat power would immediately drop by ninety-nine percent; it was impossible to be like those in higher worlds, where one could rely purely on physical strength without cultivation to shake one hundred and eight thousand jin with a single arm.

Lingqi was now also a person of the Douluo Continent and naturally was subject to such constraints, yet she also possessed something that the people of this continent did not: inheritance.

The bloodline inheritance of the Peerless Ghost God Lv Bu allowed her physical growth to be incomparable to that of ordinary people; in this world, I fear only Nan Feihuang and Dian Wei could surpass her by a notch.

Lingqi stepped forward, grasped the handle of the halberd, and began to exert her strength to pull it out.

Compared to Tang San, she had a disadvantage: behind her, there was no assistance from the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's First Skill, Power.

An eight-ring pagoda's auxiliary effect was ninety percent, nearly a doubling.

Therefore, her pulling was inevitably more arduous, and because she exerted too much force, her entire body's muscles were taut, exceeding their limits, and her skin had already begun to break and seep blood.

Fortunately, there was the Nine Heart Begonia; those drifting begonia petals merged into Lingqi's body one by one, repairing her physique; if not for Ye Lingling's healing, I fear her body would have collapsed before she could pull up the Trident.

Of course, she also had an advantage over Tang San.

That was a higher Sea God Affinity; because she had not taken any shortcuts in the previous trials and had passed the assessments entirely by relying on her own solid strength, she naturally pleased the Sea God more.

Lingqi's spiritual power merged entirely into the Trident imprint on her forehead, transforming into the Sea God's Light to be injected into the Sea God Trident before her; the more Sea God's Light she injected, the lighter the weight of the Sea God Trident became.

At this moment, Lingqi understood another function of the Sea God's Light, which was its role in this Seventh Trial. Clearly, the higher the Sea God Affinity achieved in the first six trials, the stronger the Sea God's Light possessed, thereby making it easier in the process of pulling up the Trident.

The Sea God's Light, reaching as high as seventy-five percent, played a huge role; before her eyes, the long handle was slowly rising under Lingqi's efforts, and the blood flowing from her palms covered more and more of the magic patterns on the handle, turning into a mixed golden-red radiance.

But the help of the Sea God's Light was ultimately limited; when the head of the Trident had been pulled out by one-third, Lingqi's palms were already covered in blood.

Nourished by the blood flowing from her palms, the patterns on the handle of the Sea God Trident had all been awakened; although the light was not intense, the golden textures were far more brilliant than the previously pitch-black appearance. As the blood flowed downward and injected into the head of the Trident, the gold continued to spread, and the two crescent-shaped patterns beneath the head of the Trident shone brightly; it felt as if golden light was erupting from the ground in the center of the Sea God Platform like a volcanic explosion. At this moment, Ye Lingling sensed that the Trident in Lingqi's hands was becoming heavier and heavier; no matter how much she exerted all her strength, she could not lift it even a fraction more, while the speed of the blood loss continued to increase. This was clearly not a good sign.

"Lingqi, keep going, you absolutely cannot give up; your husband is still waiting for you to go back and help him." Ye Lingling exerted the power of the Nine Heart Begonia with all her might to heal her.

She even used the Ring Fusion power from that day once more, maximizing her healing effect.

It was a pity that the Sea God Trident was an inanimate object, not an opponent, and Lingqi's Reverse Battle Golden Body could not exert its effect of becoming stronger when facing the strong to increase her power.

What was being tested now was Lingqi's own willpower.

"Lingqi, the highest realm of the Peerless Ghost God Art is to have no heaven, no earth, and to be unstoppable; even heaven and earth cannot block your will. What can a mere Trident do to you? Pull it out for me, and then, in this world, live on well!"

At this moment, a domineering voice echoed in Lv Lingqi's mind; Lingqi was startled, "Father!"

She would not mistake her father's voice, especially that last sentence; back when her father was defeated at Xiaxpi and captured by Cao Cao, she had once thought of going to rescue him alone.

But at that time, Lv Bu's final order had stopped her.

That order was: live on! It was exactly the same as the voice that had just rung out in her mind.

"Father, to Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo, you were not a good son; to your subordinates and ministers, you were not a good lord; to my mother, you were not a good husband; to the common people of the world, you were even less of a good person. But in your daughter's heart, you have always been a good father. So, you have always kept your power within my bloodline." Lingqi's eyes filled with tears, and her bloodline power began to boil.

The Peerless Ghost God Art, which had previously been stuck at the bottleneck of the eighth level, stepped into the ninth level in this instant.

Lingqi's cultivation rose to a higher level; if she were to absorb a ninth ring now, even a very ordinary ninth ring, her cultivation would definitely be more than level ninety-one.

More importantly, the Peerless Ghost God Art was a technique of dual internal and external cultivation, possessing a body-tempering effect that indigenous techniques of the Douluo Continent could not match.

Having advanced to the ninth level, Lv Lingqi's physique was more than twice as formidable as it had been just a moment ago.

All the wounds on her body were completely restored.

"Rise!"

Accompanied by the word "rise."

The main blade of the Trident, which was like a long sword, was slowly lifted up, accompanied by the side blades; Lingqi's blood washed down, seemingly cleansing away the blackness and dust upon it, and the golden light rippling like water was so dazzling and eye-piercing that dragon-like trembling sounds continuously burst forth from the Trident.

The Sea God Platform trembled violently, and along with it, the Sea God Hall, and even the entire Sea God Mountain.

At this moment, the Sea God Trident was finally successfully and completely pulled out by Lv Lingqi.

(End of chapter)