Reincarnated as the Death Spider Queen, sacrificing Bibi Dong at the start

It was a laugh that was extremely inexplicable, even somewhat comical.

When people are overwhelmed by a huge contrast and don't know how to express their extremely complex, absurd, and helpless emotions, they often instinctively laugh.

He had calculated everything, anticipating all of Poseidon's anger, doubt, and probing, but he hadn't expected that she would so easily say "trust" to him.

"Why?" Nan Feng's smile gradually faded, his brows furrowed slightly, and his eyes were filled with unresolved confusion. "How could you... believe me so easily?"

Looking at his anxious and uncertain expression, Poseidon calmly said, "If you don't need a reason to doubt someone, then you also don't need a reason to believe someone."

“I found your self-analysis just now credible, so I believed it. There’s no other reason why.”

Nan Feng fell completely silent.

He didn't know how to describe his current emotions. In his perfect prediction, Poseidon should have scoffed at his words, continued to be suspicious, and even fought him three hundred rounds.

So, she just openly...believed it?

This feeling of punching cotton, not only not being bounced back, but being extremely embraced by cotton, left this "monster" who was used to scheming against people feeling a sense of unprecedented disorientation.

Seeing Nan Feng fall into an eerie silence, Poseidon did not press him any further.

She straightened her priestess robes, which had been slightly disheveled from her earlier movements, and her expression regained the solemnity and dignity befitting a high priestess: "If your real purpose in all this is to reshape your body and achieve resurrection..."

"I can try to contact Lord Poseidon for you now."

“Of course,” Poseidon said, turning to walk out of the hall, “provided that the sea god is willing to answer my prayers.”

After saying that, Poseidon left the room and headed towards the central hall, the very heart of the Temple of Poseidon.

There, a statue of Poseidon is enshrined, along with the trident of Poseidon, the divine weapon symbolizing the absolute authority over the sea. It is also the sacred place where she listens to divine will and prays devoutly.

……

The next morning, the first rays of dawn shone through the towering dome of the Temple of Poseidon, scattering like shattered gold across the cold, white jade floor.

Poseidon finished his night of prayers and returned to the side shrine in the faint light of dawn.

She had assumed that, given the man's lawless nature, even if she forced him to stay, he would not behave himself that night, at the very least turning the side hall upside down and searching for a way out. However, when Poseidon pushed open the heavy hall door, the scene before her was completely unexpected.

Nan Feng did not run around or cause any damage.

He simply bent one leg and casually squatted in the deepest corner of the room. His long, dark purple hair fell down in a slightly disheveled manner, obscuring most of his face. His heterochromatic eyes, which were usually full of aggression, calculation, and arrogance, were now completely unfocused, staring blankly at a crack in the stone slab on the ground, his whole being lost in a deep, detached state, as if completely isolated from the world.

Seeing Nan Feng's appearance, now devoid of all sharpness and pretense, quiet and even somewhat bewildered, Poseidon's eyes flickered slightly, and she stopped in her tracks.

Looking at the lonely figure in the corner, Poseidon's vague suspicions grew stronger at that moment.

She suddenly realized that this "monster," who spouted wild words and regarded the whole world as his enemy, was perhaps, at his deepest core, nothing more than a pitiful person who had been hurt too many times and betrayed too many times, thus completely shutting himself off under thick layers of defense. The more he used the most vile and shameless means to push others away, the more he could not hide the helplessness and bewilderment etched into his bones when faced with an extremely abrupt yet extremely pure "trust."

However, Poseidon did not reveal the truth.

Having lived for over a hundred years, she understood the complexities of human nature all too well. For such an extremely sensitive and proud soul, once the last vestige of pretense protecting him was pierced, it would only provoke an incredibly strong defensive instinct and a frenzied backlash. She decided to continue observing, to see just how honest this man truly was.

Poseidon slowed her pace and walked gently to Nan Feng.

Only when the high priest's shadow enveloped him did Nan Feng's unfocused pupils gradually refocus.

"Lord Poseidon... did not respond to me."

Poseidon didn't offer any comforting platitudes; instead, she directly informed Nanfeng of the final result of her night's prayers.

"Oh."

Upon hearing the result, Nan Feng showed no disappointment, after all, he had never expected it in the first place.

“However…” Poseidon paused.

"If you really want to try to use the power of the sea god to reshape your flesh and blood body, perhaps there is another path you can try."

Nan Feng raised an eyebrow slightly, shifted his position against the cold wall to a slightly more comfortable one, and looked up at her: "What road?"

"The Sacred Pillar Trial of Poseidon Island".

Poseidon said, "This is a test left by the Sea God in the mortal realm. As long as you can pass the approval of the Holy Pillar and successfully start the test, you will be able to directly bathe in the true light of the Sea God."

"In that baptism of pure divine power... perhaps you can find the opportunity to reshape your body and be completely resurrected."

Chapter 179 Poseidon: I will not put him to the test

……

Nan Feng simply shrugged indifferently at Poseidon's suggestion, got up, and left the Temple of Poseidon with Poseidon.

"Then let's give it a try."

In fact, Nan Feng had absolutely no expectations for this so-called "trial by the Sea God".

Although Poseidon, the sea god, was relatively enlightened in the divine realm and did not harbor the extreme discrimination against the soul beast race, the miracle of "resurrection," which reverses the laws of life and death, was not something that could be casually bestowed upon the mortal world.

If Bibi Dong's true form were to personally cross the sea to come here, with her terrifying talent and foundation, she might even attract the Sea God's divine attention.

But now?

The body he now uses to walk is nothing more than a fake puppet forcibly created using pure energy.

The soul he resided in the puppet was merely a fragment torn from his original body; his true soul core remained safely within Bibi Dong of Wuhun City.

Faced with a dummy whose soul is incomplete, Poseidon, the god of the sea, would most likely not even bother to pay him any attention, let alone send down any divine light to help him rebuild his body.

However, since Poseidon brought it up himself, and we're just killing time anyway, there's no harm in going through the motions and giving it a try.

……

The City of the Sea Maidens, the Altar of the Holy Pillars.

The Sea Maiden Douluo was sitting idly by the pool under the Holy Pillar, her beautiful blue fishtail gently splashing in the clear water.

Just then, two figures descended from the sky.

The Sea Maiden Douluo immediately straightened up, respectfully preparing to bow to the High Priest. However, when her gaze swept over the completely unfamiliar man beside Poseidon, her instinctive vigilance as a Title Douluo instantly kicked in!

This was an extremely handsome man, yet he exuded a deadly aura. He had long, deep purple hair, wore magnificent and cold black and gold armor, and especially his heterochromatic eyes, one higher than the other. Just a casual glance from him made the Sea Maiden Douluo feel an indescribable sense of oppression.

Why did the High Priest bring a strange man back to Seagod Island?!

Before the Sea Maiden Douluo could even ask a question, the man who was standing next to Poseidon suddenly swayed!

"Shh-!"

Without warning, Nan Feng teleported to the front of the Sea Maiden Douluo.

To the utter astonishment of the Sea Maiden Douluo, instead of maintaining a safe distance, he opened his arms and swept her up in his arms!

"how?"

Nan Feng looked at the astonished face of the Sea Maiden Douluo up close, "We've only been apart for less than a day, and you don't recognize me just because you have a different face?"

Being forcibly held in mid-air in such an outrageous manner, the Sea Maiden Douluo was completely stunned.

Her beautiful blue fishtail trembled frantically in mid-air. For a moment, she even forgot to mobilize her soul power to resist. She could only instinctively turn her head and look at Poseidon not far away with a pleading and bewildered gaze.

Looking at Nan Feng's incorrigible and shameless behavior of flirting with everyone he went, Poseidon rubbed his temples in utter exasperation.

"Alright, stop fooling around," Poseidon scolded irritably. "Put the Ama down."

Upon hearing the High Priest's words, Nan Feng pursed his lips, stopped trying to frighten the mermaid, and released her back onto the ground.

As soon as she landed, the Sea Maiden Douluo darted behind Poseidon. She peeked out, looking the arrogant man up and down with suspicion.

That extremely peculiar and oppressive fluctuation of soul power... and those unique heterochromatic double pupils...

"You...you are the Demon God senior?" the Sea Maiden Douluo asked in confusion.

"I thought my signature spider eyes were so obvious that you would recognize me at a glance." Nan Feng looked at the Sea Maiden Douluo hiding behind Poseidon and spread his hands in disappointment. "It seems your observation skills are still not sharp enough."

The Sea Maiden Douluo was even more bewildered now.

She glanced at Nan Feng's sharply defined, coldly handsome face, then recalled the adorable six-year-old girl in shorts from yesterday... The contrast was just too outrageous!

"But... weren't you a little girl before?" The Sea Maiden Douluo looked completely bewildered. "How... how did you suddenly become a grown man?"

"I'm too lazy to explain it a second time."

Nan Feng waved his hand, "Whether it's the six-year-old girl you saw before or the man you see now, they're both just fake puppets made of energy."

"What is the essential difference between a male and female doll that has no physical form? They are just different-looking dolls with different outer shells."

The Sea Maiden Douluo stared blankly, mouth agape, unsure how to react.

Nan Feng ignored the Sea Maiden Douluo's shock. He turned his head and looked at the Sea Maiden Sacred Pillar standing in the center of the pool, emitting a strange light. A faint curiosity flashed in his heterochromatic eyes.

"Enough with the small talk." Nan Feng cracked his knuckles and looked at Poseidon. "High Priest, weren't we supposed to start the assessment and try our luck? What's the process? Do we just walk up and touch the pillar?"

Poseidon shook his head, grasped the golden scepter, and stepped forward: "No need for that. You just need to stand on the edge of the Holy Pillar and empty your mind."

Nan Feng shrugged and did as instructed, standing at the foot of the Sea Maiden's Sacred Pillar.

Poseidon's expression turned solemn. She slowly raised the scepter in her hand, and a vast and sacred blue soul power surged into the sea goddess pillar in the center of the pool.

"Om-"

With a clear buzzing sound, a clear blue beam of light shot up from the top of the sacred pillar, then transformed into a soft sea god's light, cascading down like a waterfall and precisely enveloping Nan Feng.

However, a scene that baffled both Poseidon and the Sea Maiden Douluo standing nearby unfolded.

The light of the sea god swept across Nan Feng's body, but it was as if it had swept across a cloud of empty air, leaving no reaction!

The sacred pillar of the sea goddess, which stood in the center of the pool, quickly dimmed after a brief flash of light, and no longer displayed any color or glow that represented the assessment level.

Poseidon was completely stunned, his eyes filled with confusion.

This has never happened before in the tens of thousands of years of history of Poseidon Island!

It should be noted that even an ordinary civilian with no soul power would receive at least a basic white-level response from the Holy Pillar after the Holy Pillar assessment is initiated.

How could it be so deathly silent now, as if the test subject didn't exist at all?

Just as Poseidon was wondering what had gone wrong, an extremely grand and majestic divine thought suddenly descended into her mind without warning!

"No need to try."

This is... a divine decree from the Sea God?!

Poseidon was greatly shocked and immediately lowered his head with utmost respect in his mind, listening to the teachings of the deity.

"This is nothing but a hollow, fake puppet, its soul incomplete, merely a fragment," Poseidon said calmly. "How can an existence whose soul is incomplete be qualified to undergo my test?"