Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Seventh Trial Tower |
| Original Name | 第七座试炼塔 |
| Type | Virtual combat trial tower 62 66 |
| Affiliation | Virtual Universe Company 62 68 |
| Occupation/Role | Final tower in the Universe Peak Genius Battle’s trial-space assessment 62 |
| Location | A desolate meteorite containing all seven trial towers 62 70 |
| First Appearance | Introduced with the trial-space layout 62; Jiang Ming enters it 66 |
| Notable Record | Jiang Ming becomes the first participant in humanity’s history to clear it 70 |
Structure and Rules
- Seven floors: The tower is the last of seven towers, each containing seven separate trial spaces 62.
- Scoring: Each floor awards 10 billion points, making a complete clear worth 70 billion points 62.
- Advancement: Participants can advance by killing every opponent or surviving for ten days on a floor 62.
- Fixed opponent types: Corresponding floors across the towers feature the same kinds of enemies, with their strength increasing in later towers 62.
- Persistent physical condition: The simulation does not reset a participant’s condition between battles. Jiang Ming therefore carries his accumulated energy into subsequent floors 66.
- Viewing access: Outside citizens follow point totals and rankings, while Immortals have permission to watch battles. Eliminated contestants also watch Jiang Ming through projections in the garden plaza 62 66 70.
Floor Challenges
| Floor | Opponents | Jiang Ming’s Clear |
|---|---|---|
| First | Tens of thousands of Blood-haired Mammoths, using Laws and coordinated formations | Annihilates the mammoths with Pure White Fire and blade attacks. Spends many days burning the landscape to raise his internal energy to its peak 66. |
| Second | 10,000 Nine-headed Pythons | Eliminates them with three strikes 66. |
| Third | 1,000 metallic lifeforms of the Tuo Luo Clan | Clears them after roughly a dozen minutes of combat 66. |
| Fourth | 1,000 cosmic strange lifeforms called Flying Roars | Battles for several hours before reducing them to ash 66 68. |
| Fifth | 100 Mechanical Race puppets | Destroys them one by one over half a day 68. |
| Sixth | 10 Starry Sky Giant Beasts, Cang | Defeats them after a day and a night. This battle causes his first injury in the trial towers 68. |
| Seventh | A Zerg Mother Queen and its mother nest | Shatters the mother nest and the trial space in his final outburst, completing the tower 62 70. |
Difficulty and Simulation
Law-Using Opponents
- The first-floor Blood-haired Mammoths have reached the threshold of Law origin. Their physical advantages make their individual attacks comparable to those of the watching geniuses 66.
- Their fearless, coordinated formations make them more dangerous than a well-trained army 66.
- Each sixth-floor Cang is described as an opponent that the other contestants—including Bolan—could not defeat even by combining their strength 68.
- The Virtual Universe simulates the Cang’s proud personalities, preventing them from fighting in the most efficient manner and shortening Jiang Ming’s battle 68.
Endurance and Willpower
- The tower’s difficulty greatly exceeds the Stellar level; even Immortals initially regard its final floor as impossible for a Stellar-level warrior 62 68.
- Jiang Ming needs Domain Lord-level internal energy to overpower its opponents, despite participating at the Stellar level 67.
- Maintaining his Stellar Body at full combat output consumes enormous mental energy. Longer battles progressively increase the strain 67 68.
- Jiang Ming later attributes his success partly to his 63-times body gene level, which allows his real body to nurture the unusually powerful will needed for the challenge 70.
History
Historical Benchmark
Before Jiang Ming’s attempt, no participant had cleared the seventh tower. Most previous Genius Battle champions reached only the sixth tower; entering the seventh was itself a distinction reserved for exceptional geniuses 62 70.
Nine Sword Venerable recalls winning his own Genius Battle hundreds of thousands of epochs earlier but reaching only the seventh tower’s first floor 67.
Jiang Ming’s Record Clear
Jiang Ming enters the tower after rapidly clearing the preceding six. On the first floor, he uses the burning landscape to accumulate energy rather than immediately advancing. This preparation lets him begin later floors at peak combat power, though prolonged battles steadily exhaust his mind 66 67.
After defeating the sixth-floor Cang, he rests to settle his killing intent. His final-floor outburst then destroys the Zerg Mother Nest and shatters the trial space. Instead of being immediately ejected, he returns to the meteorite outside the seventh tower before voluntarily leaving the assessment 68 70.
His final trial ranking records 77,777,770,000 points, placing him first ahead of Bolan and Luo Feng 71.
Impact
- Human recognition: Nine Sword Venerable calls Jiang Ming potentially the greatest genius in human history and reports the clear to Chaos City Lord 70.
- Assassination threat: Moon Wolf King’s intelligence reports prompt the Demon Race to dispatch stronger assassins into human territory 66 70.
- Lasting reputation: Jiang Ming’s unprecedented clear remains a major reason Immortals closely follow his later Tongtian Bridge challenge 91.