Necropolis of the Gods

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Necropolis of the Gods
Original Name	众神墓地
Alias(es)	Tomb of the Four Divine Beasts 19
Affiliation	Created and managed by Beirut 42 134 202
Occupation/Role	Burial complex and treasure-bearing trial ground for Saint Realm and deity-level experts 15 19 36
Location	Separate planes accessed from the Yulan Continent through the Forest of Darkness, North Sea, and South Sea 18 36 65 134
Structure	Three necropolises; eighteen floors are described for the trial system 19 65
First Appearance	Mentioned in Chapter 15; first entered and described in Chapter 19 15 19

Background / History

Beirut built the burial complex after stealing the Four Divine Beasts’ corpses from the Radiant Sovereign. He refined the White Tiger’s Wind Element Lesser Sovereign Spark to become a Sovereign and regarded his protection of their remains and clan as repayment for this debt 134 202.

When introducing the trials to Kolan, Beirut claimed to be a Sovereign’s envoy administering the Necropolis on his behalf. Kolan privately recognized that Beirut was the Sovereign himself 15.

The trials were intended to give inhabitants of Beirut’s homeland opportunities to grow stronger. Beirut deliberately avoided simply supplying enough resources to turn everyone into gods or Highgods, believing that such assistance would not produce genuine powerhouses 42.

Appearance

The tomb is an immense, approximately rectangular structure crowned by a diamond-shaped, pointed spire 19 134.

• Height: Nearly 20,000 meters 19.
• Base: Approximately 10,000 meters along each of its four sides 19.
• Wall reliefs: Each wall depicts one of the Four Divine Beasts—the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, or Black Tortoise 19.
• Interior: Floors contain distinct environments rather than ordinary burial chambers, including grasslands, ice mountains, oceans, deserts, and magma worlds 19 36 37 39 40.

Locations and Entrances

Access point	Necropolis contents and characteristics
Forest of Darkness	Houses gods who died during the two great wars. Beirut describes its first opening as comparatively survivable for cautious participants 18 19.
North Sea island	Houses fallen gods from the two great wars. Reached through a Gate of Space on an island; its upper floors contain increasingly powerful deity-level opponents 19 36 37.
South Sea seabed	Contains the Four Divine Beasts’ corpses on the eighteenth floor. Its trials differ from the other necropolises and are especially dangerous 19 37 65.

• The necropolises stand in separate planes reached through spatial gates; Kolan describes their environment as essentially equivalent to a Divine Plane 19 36 65.
• Beirut later takes Kelan and Qinghuo to the tomb within a plane he created, entering through a passage that appears near its pointed summit 134.

Entry and Trial Rules

Eligibility

• Saint Realm participants require both sufficient combat strength and the backing of a deity-level expert 18 33 202.
• The second tier of peak Saint Realm strength is treated as the minimum viable standard; weaker entrants are considered to be courting death 18 35.
• Eligibility is also subject to Beirut’s approval. Ernst and Desri are absent from the first expedition because of their Radiant Church affiliation and Beirut’s hostility toward the Radiant Sovereign 18.
• Kolan receives fifty admission slots and eventually permits Leo, Hannah, and three other family members to participate 35.

Schedule and Routes

• The Necropolis opens once every thousand years 15 42.
• Saint Realm experts enter first and explore for ten years; deity-level experts subsequently receive their own ten-year expedition 36.
• Humans use the left passage, while magical beasts use the right. In David’s expedition, survivors of the separate first four floors can meet on the fifth 36 202.
• Saint Realm entrants begin on the first floor; gods begin on the twelfth through a single shared passage 36 65.
• At the end of the allotted period, exit passages appear. Participants may remain on a comparatively safe floor rather than continue climbing 19 42 209.

Guardians and Environmental Restrictions

• Imprisoned opponents can earn freedom and an opportunity to explore the Necropolis themselves by killing challengers 40.
• Beirut monitors expeditions and can adjust rewards according to a participant’s performance 37 42.
• Undead cannot be summoned from the Undead Realm inside the Necropolis. Locally crafted undead remain usable, as demonstrated by Getlin and Kolan 19 21.
• The dense heaven-and-earth elemental energy makes the Necropolis a valuable cultivation site even for participants unable to advance further 23.

Floor Structure

Standard Upper-Floor Hierarchy

Beirut describes the following hierarchy during Kolan’s North Sea expedition, while explicitly noting that the South Sea Necropolis is different 37.

Floor	Opponent level
12	Lowgods 37
13	Median Gods 37
14	Powerful Median Gods 37
15	Ordinary Highgods 37
16	Six-Star Fiend-level Highgods 37
17	Seven-Star Fiend-level Highgods 37
18	Prefecture Lord-level Highgods 37

Documented Floors and Encounters

Necropolis / Floor	Environment and inhabitants	Significant details
Forest of Darkness — 1	Grasslands inhabited by a Saint-level, wolf-headed archer 19.	Kolan uses Soul Fire to control the archer and locate the second-floor passage; no reward is present there 19.
Forest of Darkness — 2	Undead armies commanded by the Saint-level necromancer Getlin 19.	Getlin controls at least a million undead, including no fewer than a hundred Saints. His army collapses when Kolan annihilates his soul 19.
Forest of Darkness — 11, first expedition	Millions of Saint-level Poison Bees and a divine beast 23.	The challengers fail to clear the floor; all of Kolan’s crafted undead are destroyed 23.
Forest of Darkness — 11, David’s expedition	A million Abyss Blade Demons 202 209.	The peak Saint Realm experts retreat to the tenth floor with significant injuries 209.
North Sea — 6	A Netherfire Phoenix encountered during the Saint Realm trial 36.	Hansen is eaten after someone wakes the creature 36.
North Sea — 12	Magma world containing Lowgod opponents 36 37.	Kolan confronts the Nether Phoenix and defeats two Lowgods 36 37.
North Sea — 13	Ice mountains, extreme cold, and heavy snowfall 37.	Kolan defeats Delkang, a water-blue python, and an assassination specialist 37 38.
North Sea — 14	Desert world guarded by the Midgod Fiend Maiken 39.	Kolan kills Maiken and reaches the reward-bearing passage 39.
North Sea — 15	Azure ocean surrounding a green island 40.	The Highgod Sophia fights Kolan to regain her freedom 40.
South Sea — 15	Radiance-filled world guarded by Kailina, a Twelve-Winged Divine Angel 65.	Kailina is a Seven-Star Fiend-level opponent, substantially stronger than the standard fifteenth-floor guardian 65.
South Sea — 16	Magma world with boiling lava rivers and Liquid Golden Flame 66.	Andrew, a Volcano Giant and Lord of Volcano Prefecture, guards the floor 67.
South Sea — 18	Vast blue-tiled chamber beneath a pure blue sky 134.	An altar rises from the floor to display the 10,000-meter-long Azure Dragon corpse 134.

Treasures and Rewards

Location	Documented rewards
First ten floors	Artifacts, but no Godsparks 65.
Eleventh floor	Godsparks; obtaining them requires surviving the floor’s defenders 23 65 209.
North Sea — fourteenth-floor passage	Fifty Soul Gold Beads, one hundred Amethyst, and a Highgod soul-defending artifact 39.
North Sea — passage after the fifteenth-floor battle	Over a hundred Soul Gold Beads, a Death Highgod Godspark, and a complete skull-shaped Highgod soul-defense ring 41.
South Sea — reward for defeating Kailina	Five drops of Wind Sovereign’s Might, also called Overgod Power 66 78.
South Sea — entrance to the seventeenth floor	A Space Ring containing a damaged Soul-Defense Overgod Artifact 68.

• Beirut increases Kolan’s reward to include a Highgod soul-defense artifact after observing his talent and restraint 42.
• The Four Divine Beasts’ preserved bodies are themselves research material: their physical strength is comparable to Overgod Artifacts 134.

Major Expeditions

Kolan’s First Trial

Kolan’s first expedition enters through the Forest of Darkness. After overcoming the first two floors, he eventually joins the other challengers against the eleventh-floor defenders. The attempt fails, forcing the survivors back to the tenth floor; seven human Saint-level experts and every participating Saint-level magical beast die during the expedition 18 19 23.

The survivors spend more than nine remaining years cultivating before Beirut ends the trial. Their losses also affect the outside world: within thirty years, some clans and factions deprived of their Saint-level protectors are destroyed 23 25.

North Sea Expedition

• Of 108 human Saints, 64 survive; of 28 Saint-level magical beasts, 14 survive 36.
• Hansen’s death prompts Kolan to attack the Nether Phoenix after the deity-level expedition begins 36.
• Kolan climbs through the upper floors but chooses not to challenge the sixteenth after exhausting substantial soul energy and divine power 37 38 39 40 42.
• The War God returns with two artifacts and additional treasures; the High Priest obtains three artifacts and other resources 42.

South Sea Expedition

• The opening is announced in Yulan Calendar year 10047 65.
• Linley achieves external godhood during the Saint Realm trial. Kolan gives him ten Soul Gold Beads to replenish his weakened soul 65.
• Kolan’s later deity-level expedition includes more than a hundred Lowgods and ten Midgods from his family alone 65.
• After defeating Kailina, Kolan initially retreats from Andrew’s superior material attacks. He later uses Overgod Power to secure Andrew’s surrender and proceeds toward the seventeenth floor 66 67 68.

Eighteenth-Floor Research

Kelan obtains Beirut’s permission to study the Four Divine Beasts’ remains, presenting his objective as research into Overgod Artifact-level physical strengthening. His concealed purpose is to investigate their Combined Innate Divine Ability 134.

Beirut accompanies Kelan and Qinghuo into the tomb and reveals the Azure Dragon corpse. Kelan subsequently studies the remains under surveillance, with later passages establishing a two-thousand-year research allowance 134 135 137.

David’s Expedition

• David joins the Saint Realm experts gathering at the Forest of Darkness entrance 202.
• The eleventh floor’s Abyss Blade Demons force the leading Saints to retreat and recover on the tenth floor 209.
• Beirut appears when the ten-year period expires, releases the participants, and personally congratulates David 209.