The monastery master of the Yellow Court Monastery lineage, a Heavenly Immortal Peak Stage cultivator, spoke. "May I ask, fellow Daoist, what is the final trial?"
The Yellow Court lineage's Golden Immortal Patriarch had been missing for many years, with no word of him for hundreds of millions of years. Yet the Yellow Court Patriarch had not perished; his name on the Investiture of the Gods List still shone.
Thus, Golden Immortal factions whose Golden Immortal Patriarchs had disappeared were also called "Ancient Golden Immortal Sacred Grounds," with the addition of the word "ancient."
That single word, "ancient," told of the Yellow Court lineage's foundations-and of its awkward predicament.
With their patriarch still alive, who would dare provoke them?
But with their patriarch nowhere to be found, missing for hundreds of millions of years, that deterrence could only be sustained by "his name still shines."
The man who had spoken was no ordinary figure.
Yellow Dragon Daoist, the current master of Yellow Court Monastery, the foremost expert of the Yellow Court lineage, and one of the Ten Heavenly Immortal Sequence in the previous Heavenly Immortal Championship Battle.
Everyone present knew that name.
In the previous Heavenly Immortal Championship Battle, every person who had fought their way through the encirclement to rank among the ten had climbed to the summit over the bones of countless Heavenly Immortals.
Diwa's descendant, Zhao Qing'er, smiled faintly. Her alluring phoenix eyes swept over everyone as she slowly said, "Fellow Daoists, the final trial is very simple."
"Whoever reaches the top of these steps wins."
Rumble!
The ground shook!
From beneath the earth veins of the Wood God Hall, a presence beyond that of a Heavenly Immortal cultivator erupted!
That presence was vast, boundless, and ancient, like a primordial deity turning over after sleeping for a