Chapter 3702: Strange

"This was the divine statue awakening magic array? Why did it feel different from the ones I had seen before?"

"I didn’t know, but the spiritual sense felt very strong."

The accompanying priests whispered among themselves, inwardly alarmed.

Very powerful!

Although they could not understand the exact meaning of the magic array runes, as high-tier priests who had long dealt with magic arrays, they could judge purely by intuition that the complexity and energy level of this formation far exceeded anything they had ever encountered.

"Look, that is the god-level divine statue."

"It really is..."

The priests raised their heads one after another, looking at the god-level statue at the highest point of the ritual site, their eyes filled with reverence.

The divine statue had not yet been awakened, but the faint pressure it emitted had already caused subtle spatial fluctuations. Under its influence, the priests felt as if a heavy stone was pressing on their chests, making it hard to breathe.

At the same time, what made them feel even more suffocated was the young man standing beside the divine statue.

Just standing there was enough to evoke an inexplicable sense of awe in them.

Who was that guy?

Several leading god servants from Sea God Island also looked toward Fang Heng with scrutiny.

"Everyone, please take your positions according to the ritual area."

Lyanna stood beside the divine statue, guiding the priest teams from each island to their designated positions.

Perhaps because of the pressure from the divine statue, no one spoke further and quickly took their positions as instructed.

However, Xavier remained where he was, examining the entire ritual setup with a furrowed brow.

The more he looked, the more something felt wrong.

The array structure Lyanna had laid out was very different from the traditional awakening rituals passed down through Sea God Island’s history. The traditional ritual only required a single circular array, focusing on slowly channeling faith power into the divine statue to gradually awaken its dormant power.

But now, this formation consisted of more than ten concentric arrays, thousands of priests participating simultaneously, and ground inscriptions of alchemical runes he could not understand at all...

Something felt off.

The more Xavier looked, the more uneasy he became. Finally, he could not help but walk up the high platform and quickly approach Lyanna.

"God servant Lyanna."

"What is it?"

Xavier carefully glanced at Fang Heng beside her and lowered his voice, saying, "The structure of this formation is too different from the awakening rituals passed down in our island’s history. This kind of scale..."

Fang Heng interrupted him, "Time is not enough. Following your traditional ritual process would take at least twelve hours. I compressed the magic array structure so the entire ritual can be completed within one hour."

"But..."

"Xavier." Lyanna said coldly, "We agreed that you would hand over full control of the ritual. If you regret it now, we can step aside."

"No, no, that’s not what I meant."

Xavier quickly apologized.

At this point, there was no turning back.

After a brief silence, he still hurried back to report to Island Lord Regin.

In fact, Regin was on another mountain platform not far from the ritual site, observing everything in full view.

After hearing Xavier’s report, Regin pondered for a moment and asked, "Xavier, what are you worried about?"

"I can’t explain it," Xavier shook his head. "But I feel that simply awakening the divine statue should not require such an enormous setup."

Regin shook his head.

With the enemy fleet approaching, there was no time left. It was already too late to turn back.

"Continue cooperating with them."

Regin’s voice grew deeper. "Deploy all remaining elite forces on the island around the ritual site in secret. If anything goes wrong during the ritual, immediately take control of them."

Xavier nodded firmly,"Understood!"

...

Time passed bit by bit.

As dusk fell, the last ray of sunset disappeared over the horizon.

On the ritual site, more than three thousand priests were fully in position.

Torches illuminated the entire mountain valley.

Standing on the highest stone platform, Fang Heng released his perception and checked the magic array nodes once more.

Everything was ready.

Fang Heng suddenly opened his eyes.

"Lyanna, begin."

"Yes!"

Lyanna gave a loud command, "All priests, channel your faith power into the array nodes!"

Three thousand priests closed their eyes in unison and joined their hands.

Faith power surged out from their bodies and poured into the runes beneath their feet.

Blue light spread from the nodes beneath the priests, layer by layer, illuminating the entire ritual site. The mountain was enveloped in a brilliant blue glow.

At the center, the runes of the formation shifted from blue to deep purple. A terrifying wave of power that seemed to tear through spatial barriers erupted from the center of the array.

"Boom!!"

The divine statue suddenly erupted with radiant blue light, forming a pillar of light that shot straight into the night sky.

The angle of the pillar slowly tilted forward, pointing toward the distant sea.

What was that?

The non-participating god servants noticed the anomaly; their brows tightly furrowed.

This did not look like an awakening ritual...

"Something’s wrong!"

Xavier stared at the light pillar, his expression changing drastically.

This was definitely not an awakening ritual!

"Boom--!"

In the next moment, with a violent roar, the night sky was forcibly split open by a blue beam of light.

The rift extended from the center of the sky outward, filled with swirling blue radiance.

On the sea, the tide suddenly reversed.

The originally calm waves were stirred as if by an invisible hand, rising into massive waves over ten meters high and crashing in all directions, forming a giant vortex at the center.

Everyone turned their gaze toward the sea.

Within the vortex, a massive phantom was slowly condensing.

It had not fully formed yet, but its outline alone—so enormous that even the portion above the sea already covered half the sky.

Instantly, a vast pressure spread out from the phantom.

The terrifying coercion made all priests on Sea God Island feel a heavy pressure in their chests.

"Gulp..."

Xavier stared at the phantom over the sea, swallowed hard, and froze completely, his eyes filled with disbelief.

He recognized that outline.

Every priest on Sea God Island recognized it.

Sea God-Feng Tiya.

Xavier abruptly turned his head and stared at Fang Heng, who was still controlling the ritual.

He had lost his mind!

They were actually summoning Sea God Feng Tiya!

Xavier’s mind buzzed.

Throughout all known history of this world, there had been attempts to summon the true body of the Sea God, but without exception, they had all failed.

The spiritual power required to summon the Sea God’s true form was far too terrifying.

Even if there were thousands of priests contributing their spiritual power, it would not be enough, even if multiplied several times over.

Moreover, that was not even the real difficulty.

Even if all requirements were met, the success rate of summoning the Sea God was less than one percent.

After all, why would a god so easily accept a mortal’s summons?

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