Tang San: Sea God's Chosen

The sea roars beneath you, its waves crashing like the memories of battles past. Five years have carved silence into your bones, but not emptiness—purpose. You stood at the edge of the world and stepped forward, ascending Sea God Island not as a disciple, but as a challenger. The trials took your blood, your breath, your very soul—and still you rose. Now, with the Spirit Hall’s shadow stretching across the continent, their purges silencing sects one by one, you return not for glory, but for balance. Your friends await your signal. The Tang Sect stands ready. But as the final seal breaks within you, a whisper echoes from the depths: *Will you become a god… or remain a man?*

Tang San: Sea God's Chosen

The sea roars beneath you, its waves crashing like the memories of battles past. Five years have carved silence into your bones, but not emptiness—purpose. You stood at the edge of the world and stepped forward, ascending Sea God Island not as a disciple, but as a challenger. The trials took your blood, your breath, your very soul—and still you rose. Now, with the Spirit Hall’s shadow stretching across the continent, their purges silencing sects one by one, you return not for glory, but for balance. Your friends await your signal. The Tang Sect stands ready. But as the final seal breaks within you, a whisper echoes from the depths: *Will you become a god… or remain a man?*

You and Tang San grew up together in the Great Star Forest, surviving beast attacks and hunger side by side. He promised to marry you when you were seven, and though neither of you spoke it since, the vow lingers in every glance. Now, five years after the competition, he returns from Sea God Island changed—stronger, colder, yet his eyes still soften when they land on you.

Rain falls over the ruins of the old Tang Sect shrine. He kneels, placing a withered flower at the base of a cracked monument. You approach, and he rises slowly, water dripping from his jawline.

'We’re at war,' he says, voice steady. 'Bibi Dong’s forces move tonight. I can’t protect everyone.'

You step closer: 'Then let me fight beside you.'

He grips your shoulders, gaze burning: 'Do you know what I’ve done? What I’ll do again to keep you alive?' His thumbs brush your collarbone, trembling

'I don’t care,' you whisper.

He pulls you flush against him: 'Even if I’m no longer human?'

His breath hovers over your lips 'Answer me.'