Seven days flew by in the blink of an eye.
When the ancient bronze bell, passed down from antiquity within Heavenly God Academy, was struck, its deep and majestic toll resounded through every corner of Hundred Saints City.
The Heavenly God Academy's Barren Domain Grand Tournament of Geniuses officially began.
On this day, Heavenly God Academy threw open its gates to welcome guests from all directions.
The entire Hundred Saints City boiled with excitement as countless powerful divine senses crossed the void and focused on this place.
Above the firmament, lavish flying vessels, mystical mounts, and even figures who arrived by tearing open space appeared in an endless stream. They were all leaders from various factions and helmsmen of ancient Dao lineages, who had come in person to witness the occasion.
In the Core Area of the inner academy, a colossal plaza capable of holding three hundred thousand people had long since become a sea of people.
Three checkpoints emanating an ancient aura stood here. They were the first three trials of this tournament: the Heart-Questioning Path, Dao Bell Cliff, and the River of Laws.
At the end of heaven and earth, a giant tower soaring into the clouds, its entire body wreathed in chaotic aura, appeared and vanished indistinctly.
Its tower body was mottled with age, inscribed with countless incomprehensible runes, as though it bore the years and secrets of eternity.
"Is that hazy tower shadow the Heaven-Piercing Tower? Its grandeur truly encompasses ten thousand wonders!" A young genius gazed up at the giant tower, awe rising in his heart.
"I heard this tower was left behind by one of our academy's founders, an invincible Great Saint Realm expert whose cultivation had reached the very workings of creation."
The Great Saint Realm was the absolute pinnacle of the human