The words "crossing through struggle" encompassed the essence of every situation in this world where beings competed and longed to climb higher.
It was both the posture of striving forward and a brutal process of elimination, especially fitting for Two Realms Mountain—a final battleground where the ambitions, blood, and fire of countless races converged.
Those unpredictable, irresistible tides of laws were the "heavenly might" every being who entered this realm had to face, an unstoppable force of nature.
Whether one could steady oneself amid the tides and preserve one's life depended on the depth of one's foundation and one's ability to adapt.
However, we must never forget that the essence of the Final Saint War had never been a simple matter of individual cultivation or survival trials.
Its core lay in determining the flow of fortune among the myriad races and the ownership of sequence authority over the long years to come!
This was especially true beyond the regular wars held in cycles of ten, fifty, or a hundred years: the grand wars that came once every five hundred years, and the unprecedented Millennium Period war we were currently within.
Looking back through history, the vast war five hundred years ago, which shaped the landscape of the following five centuries, had lasted only fourteen years from beginning to end.
Yet in this millennium-long war, the battles between merely the first and second echelons had already consumed more than twenty years!
The resources poured in by every race, the lives buried, and the ambitions set aflame had long since dwarfed the scale of that war five hundred years ago.
It could be said with certainty that if the war five hundred years ago had shaped the face of the past five centuries, then the outcome of this Millennium Period war would