Golden lotuses dappled the moonlit water; a starry river ten thousand acres wide shimmered upon Magpie Platform.
Yingtian Demon Monarch gazed at the boundless lotus pond before him, brimming with satisfaction. He looked at the golden lotuses blazing with radiant light, then at the banyan fruits falling drop by drop and sending ripples across the water. At last, he felt he had made it.
Kunlun of the Great Thousand World, the Yaochi Sacred Land—he had finally reached the sixth trial. Thinking back on the first five, he had either lost his way in mist-wreathed mountains or been chased by surging waves for ten thousand miles. When he had finally stopped running, a Golden-Haired Hou had used him as a punching bag...
Then, in the fourth trial, he had crawled through a melon field looking for watermelons. In the fifth, he had stood beside Tianchi fishing...
The first five trials of the Fruition Dharma Banquet had truly been extraordinary. They had tested fortune, comprehension, Divine Abilities, temperament, and spiritual sense—each a cornerstone of cultivation.
By that reckoning, Yingtian Demon Monarch believed the sixth trial would surely test another foundation of cultivation.
He glanced at the figures standing beside him outside Yaochi. More than ten thousand prodigies of the myriad races had come from All Heavens and Myriad Worlds to contend for the Fruition Rank, yet barely over two hundred remained.
The fact that he stood here meant that, among all the Five Calamities and Mahayana cultivators across All Heavens and Myriad Worlds, Yingtian Demon Monarch ranked in the top two hundred—and perhaps far higher!
At that thought, his mind began to wander...
Daoist Duo Ming, clad in hemp robes and a bamboo cap, was quietly studying the powerful figures around him, each possessed of formidable aura and immense backing.
The Fruition