Just as a person has five orifices, each of the four seas has an eye. However, in the center of the four seas, which is also the center where the four continents intersect, there is also a largest eye.
The sea eye swallows and spits out sea water, and the endless circulation makes the four seas seem alive. The water veins also start from here and flow to all parts of the continents.
On this day, Lingning, the queen of the mermaid country in the South China Sea, Zhu Jiuyin, the candle dragon of the West China Sea, Ao Shen, the dragon king of the North China Sea, and Fu Guang, the dragon king of the East China Sea, rode the waves and raised troops to the central sea eye.
Along the way, demon soldiers from all over the world stood on the waves, rising and falling as if they were chasing the sea, rolling up waves for thousands of miles. In the front, strange beasts pulled a chariot full of rare treasures across the sea. In the middle, you could see Zhu Jiuyin, the Candle Dragon of the West Sea, and Ao Shen, the Dragon King of the North Sea, sitting in it and leading the army.
The Mermaid Kingdom of the South China Sea directly brought a palace pulled by a black tortoise that was more than ten miles long to the central sea area. The Dragon King of the East China Sea also came to the palace pulled by a huge dragon whale.
In comparison, one can tell at a glance that the South China Sea and the East China Sea have deeper heritage.
The West Sea and the North Sea had just been unified, ending the chaos. However, the two Dragon Kings still pale in comparison to the prosperous East Sea and South Sea.
The central sea eye looks like a huge whirlpool when viewed from the sea surface. The sea water gathered from all over the world rotates downward here, forming a bottomless abyss.
Within a thousand miles around here, there is almost no trace of any living creature. Even though this place is rich in water and full of vitality, it seems that all living creatures have fled from here in panic and dare not approach at all.
It seemed as if it had already known that this place was the largest eye of the sea in the mountain and sea world. This vortex could swallow everything, and once you fell into this bottomless abyss, it would be impossible to return.
No one even knows where the deepest part of this sea eye leads to. Some people say that this sea eye is connected to the sea eyes of the other four seas and circulates with each other.
Some people say that this eye of the sea leads to the nine springs, straight to the underworld, and anyone who enters it will die immediately, and their souls will enter the underworld.
The lords of the four seas arrived at the edge of the central sea eye, gazing at it from afar across the sea and the constantly rotating vortex waterfall.
These four came from afar, invited by the two gods, Changde and Zhang Heming, to the central sea to discuss the ownership of the four sea gods.
Now the four of them each rule over an area of the sea, and they all turned to practicing Shintoism some time ago, establishing the cycle of the four seas and restoring order. Everyone has great merit and is qualified to be the god of the four seas.
The two gods, Chang De and Zhang Heming, invited the four of them to the central sea eye to pray to heaven and earth and inform the upper realm that the four seas have been determined and the gods of the four seas have been decided, and they requested the upper realm to send down a divine decree to enthrone the gods of the four seas.
As long as they obtain the divine edict from the upper realm, they will be registered in the upper realm and be regarded as potential gods.
The four of them will also be eligible to endure the tribulation of becoming immortals. As long as they wait until the tribulation is over and then ascend to the upper realm once more and formally go to the Heavenly Court to report on their duties, they will become true immortals.
However, all this would only take effect after the two gods arrived and formally prayed to heaven and earth. The four of them were also waiting respectfully. After all, if something went wrong at this time and angered the two gods, and they lost their immortal status, they would truly regret it for thousands of years.
This was the first time that the Lords of the Four Seas had gathered together, especially the Zhulong of the West Sea, who was a new face among the four. The other three first looked at Zhu Jiuyin, the ancient god and demon species who was rumored to be domineering and fierce, and who was conceived from the divine fetus left over from the ancient times.
Zhu Jiuyin, the Candle Dragon of the West Sea, was extremely arrogant. He swept the other three people domineeringly with his pair of dragon eyes emitting divine light. He did not take these three people seriously. Lingning, the queen of the Mermaid Kingdom of the South Sea, hid in the palace on the back of the black tortoise and never came out. She was extremely mysterious.
Ao Shen, the Dragon King of the North Sea, looked at Fu Guang, the Dragon King of the East Sea, with cold eyes, while Fu Guang, the Dragon King of the East Sea, was calm and composed, as if he didn't care at all about the look from the Dragon King of the North Sea.
At this time, a divine platform suddenly fell from a distance, emitting brilliant light and landed above the central sea eye.
The altar is engraved with star patterns and is divided into several layers. At the highest point, one can see a large cauldron shining with starlight.
The veiled woman in the depths of the Black Turtle Palace raised her head at this time, and her beautiful eyes looked into the depths of the sky. Although she only saw the altar descending and had not seen any human figures, she could sense two auras that merged with the heaven and earth: "The two gods are finally here!"
The Dragon King of the East China Sea, Fu Guang, had a calm expression, but his eyes still showed excitement: "The Lord God is here!"
Ao Shen, the Dragon King of the West Sea, had already sensed a familiar aura, and even the black divine command he carried made a slight buzzing sound: "Master is here!"
"here we go!"
The altar floats above the eye of the sea, with a whirlpool waterfall flowing below. From the sky, two Taoists in black and blue robes slowly walk down, riding on auspicious clouds and landing on the altar.
"Greetings to Lord Chang! Greetings to Master Zhang!"
"Meet the two gods!"
At this time, the lords of the four seas also flew up from the sea surface, walked onto the altar one by one, and bowed to the two gods. The demon soldiers surrounding the sea eye and controlling the waves above the sea also saluted one by one.
The whole scene seemed solemn and dignified, with two Taoists standing at the highest point of the altar raising their hands to support.
"The two of us came here late precisely to prepare for this Conferred God Platform!"
"Today is a good time to pray to heaven and earth and confer an order on the gods!"
"Are you four ready?"
The four of them bowed again: "Everything will be subject to the arrangements of the two gods!"
Zhang Heming flicked his whisk, and rays of light rose from the altar, each ray of light corresponding to the stars in the sky.
Chang De waved his hand and saw the huge cauldron at the highest point burning with flames, making a sound like a huge bell. At the same time, from the nine heavens, a ray of starlight swept down from the blue sky and white day, passing through the lower world.
The two gods drew the star power to the lower world, and immediately they saw the Taibai star above the sky suddenly shine brightly. Faintly they could see a ladder of light leading straight to the highest level of the sky.
Zhang Heming took out the prayer he had prepared long ago from his wide sleeves. The prayer text was not written in spiritual language, nor in the language of the Ten Thousand Nations of the South Continent or the Sanskrit of the West Continent, but in ancient language.
He recited the text in a strange language, and then the heaven and earth within a radius of several miles seemed to tremble along with it. The sound was not loud, but it spread to every corner within a thousand miles.
"Peace and stability in the world!"
"In the lower world today, there is the Dragon King Fu Guang from the East Sea, the Zhu Long Jiu Yin from the West Sea, and the mermaid Ling Ning from the South Sea..."
Afterwards, Zhang Heming threw the document into the big cauldron. A ray of light shot up into the sky from the cauldron, connecting heaven and earth and traveling through the upper realm.
Not long after, a golden edict descended from the sky above. When it appeared, it directly covered the entire sky of the central sea. At a glance, there were no blue sky and white clouds in the sky. Only divine patterns and talismans could be seen, as well as the vast golden light like the sea.
It was accompanied by the voice of Taibai Star Lord, which was poured into the four people and two of them who were waiting to be conferred the title.
"The gods of the lower world, Fu Guang, Ling Ning, Zhu Jiuyin, and Ao Shen, accept the decree!"
The four of them immediately stood on the highest altar and knelt on the ground beside the two gods to welcome the divine edict from the heavenly court in the upper realm.
"You four have sorted out the order of the four seas, determined the cycle of heaven and earth, and suppressed the wind and rain of the four seas. Your merits are outstanding."
"I hereby decree that Fu Guang shall be made the Dragon God of the East China Sea, commanding the billions of aquatic creatures in the East China Sea, and the God of Rain on Earth, ruling over rain, thunder, floods, tides, and tsunamis!"
"I appoint Lingning as the Sea God of the South China Sea, in charge of the vast sea area of the South China Sea..."
"Conferring upon Zhu Jiuyin the title of Dragon God of the West Sea..."
"Ao Shen was conferred the title of North Sea Dragon God..."
Four golden lights fell into the bodies of these four people, and immediately their golden bodies of the gods were seen being recast. Countless golden patterns of the great principles were continuously integrated into them, and they dissipated after a long while. At this moment, the divine edict from the Heavenly Court above the sky also disappeared.
Seeing that the enthronement of the God of the Four Seas was completely completed, Chang De and Zhang Heming looked at each other, laughed heartily, and the fear in their hearts finally settled down.
Now the merits of the two were finally completely acquired. They just had to wait for the tribulation to be over, and then they would be able to ascend to the upper realm and obtain the immortal status of a star god.
"The Conferred Godhood has been completed! I hope you will practice well, do more good deeds, and benefit the people."
"Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you have been conferred the title by Heaven. You haven't even become a god yet. You are just pretending to be the God of the Four Seas. If you do many unjust things, you will be punished by Heaven."
“Don’t even mention that you haven’t achieved immortality yet. Even if you really did become an immortal, if the upper realm knew that what you did in the lower realm violated the laws of heaven, you would definitely be stripped of your divine status and cast into the underworld!”
After giving some instructions, the two of them took away the Conferred God Platform and flew away across the sky.