The Heavenly Stele, the Fortune Ranking
Bi Fan followed Guo Fei's gaze toward the horizon. A pitch-black pillar was rising from the distant edge of the world.
A black pillar? No, it was a stone stele!
The stele was matte black from top to bottom, covered in densely packed writing that seemed to bear the marks of time.
It kept rising, appearing about a meter wide. And that was from an unknown distance away. How enormous would it be up close?
It was probably larger than dozens of mountain ranges put together.
Bi Fan was shaken. He had no idea what this colossal object was.
The stele continued to rise until it pierced the sky and climbed into the clouds, as if joining heaven and earth. Only then did it stop.
The tremors around them gradually weakened, then finally ceased altogether.
The entire sea fell into an eerie calm, as though nothing had happened. But the matte-black stele piercing the sky in the distance bore witness to its arrival.
Bi Fan came back to himself. Even he was shaken by the stele reaching into the heavens. He turned to Guo Fei and asked, "State Lord Guo, what is that?"
Guo Fei stared blankly at the stele towering into the sky. He swallowed, then spoke in a hoarse voice. "That's the Heavenly Stele!"
"The Heavenly Stele?"
"Every Hundred States Grand Meeting, once a certain amount of fortune has been gathered, the Heavenly Stele appears. But it usually appears around the fifteenth or sixteenth day. Why has it appeared so early this time?" Guo Fei sounded utterly perplexed.
"What happens when the Heavenly Stele appears?" Bi Fan asked.
"When it appears, you can enter it and undergo the Heavenly Tablet Trial. If you pass, you'll receive the Fortune Baptism. The more fortune