Heaven-Piercing Tower

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Heaven-Piercing Tower (通天塔)
Type	Neutral Character (AI)
Location	Central island within the island ring surrounding the inner sea of Dragon Soaring Continent
Status	Active; later described as having been revived 1005
First Appearance	Chapter 25 25

History

Legend holds that the Heaven-Piercing Tower was built by ancient gods as a ladder through which humanity could “ascend to heaven.” Its actual height and full extent have never been determined, and a divine barrier prevents anyone from climbing it from the outside. Progress is possible only through its interior floors. 25

In its earlier eras, the Tower produced powerhouses capable of overwhelming invaders from the Heaven Realm and Upper Heaven Realm. According to Azure Sea, its decline resulted largely from repeated internal conflicts: its strongest warriors killed or sealed one another, breaking the transmission of their inheritances. 1269

The Tower’s history is closely tied to two great defenders:

• Conquest Queen Fei Wenli — led a campaign out of the Tower against the Heaven Realm roughly ten thousand years earlier. 1244
• Prison Emperor Zhan Feng — fought the Heaven Realm’s three great powers six thousand years earlier; after that war, the Heaven-Piercing Path collapsed and the Tower lost its direct connection to the Heaven Realm. 703 1224

During Yue Yang’s generation, the Tower enters a renewed period of growth. His cultivation systems, including Meridian Burst, are presented as tools that can strengthen warriors of nearly every race and help restore the Tower’s former standing. 945 When a Heaven Realm legion invades, Yue Yang returns to the Martial Camp and rallies its peoples to resist rather than submit. 1243 1244

Following the destruction and renewal of the Balance World, the Tower’s three races are moved into a newly created world intended as their future home. 1400

Structure and Scale

The Tower stands on a small central island within an island ring surrounding an inner sea. The surrounding islands are divided into eastern, western, southern, and northern regions; the eastern region belongs to Great Xia. 43

• The inner sea is the Sea of Forbidden Flight. Ancient laws prevent flight above its surface and cause even a feather to sink. 43
• Visitors reach the central island by crossing the god-created Bridge of Life. 43
• The exterior is pure white, seamless, and covered in flashing divine runes. Yue Yang estimates its diameter at more than three kilometers and its visible height at several thousand meters. 43
• Every floor contains teleportation gates leading to separate miniature worlds used for training. 25
• The first floor contains Dragon Soaring Continent, Demon Abyss, and the Celestial Ladder; each higher floor expands in scale by more than tenfold. 606
• The upper levels are vastly larger still. A single island on a high floor may exceed Dragon Soaring Continent—or even Demon Abyss—in size. 165

Access and Advancement

A warrior must clear a lower floor and acquire its special token before entering the next floor. 25

Martial Camp Registration

Great Xia warriors must first report to the Martial Camp, where their identity, strength, and battle beasts are inspected. The screening is intended to bar weak entrants and prevent threats such as demon worshippers from entering the Tower. 41

Requirement / Method	Details
Tower credential	A credential card must be pressed against the glowing runes of a crystal pillar to activate the Martial Camp portal. 43
Arrival point	The portal sends travelers to one of one hundred landing points, with the destination varying each use. 43
Normal travel	Entering or leaving ordinarily requires a great teleportation array maintained by a nation. 43
Exceptional travel	Yue Yang later bypasses the usual restriction by leaving a battle puppet in the Heaven Realm and using the Three Realms Compass through it. 553
Lower-floor law	Killing is forbidden on the Tower’s lower floors; violators receive a ten-year ban. 60

Known Floors and Regions

Floor / Region	Description
First Floor	Contains Dragon Soaring Continent, Demon Abyss, and the Celestial Ladder. The Martial Camp is located here. 606 1244
Fourth Floor	Includes the Sky Garden, Luo Hua Beauty’s former residence. 1259
Sixth Floor	A gathering place for all races and the headquarters of the Innate Alliance; it is regarded as a domain of true powerhouses. 358
Tenth Floor	Contains routes and shattered passages associated with the Heaven Realm, including the Life-and-Death Gate trial ground. 703
Beyond Heaven	The dangerous expanse between the Tower and the Heaven Realm Gate, composed of numerous pocket worlds, shattered spaces, and spatial vortices. 507
Heaven Realm Gate	Once linked the Tower directly to the Heaven Realm and supported trade and travel; after the great war, its route became broken and perilous. 760

Trials and Special Sites

Life-and-Death Gate

The Life-and-Death Gate is a sealed pocket world within the shattered Heaven Realm passage on the tenth floor. Ancient-era powerhouses established it as a qualification trial: only Tower warriors able to endure one hour inside were considered fit to enter the Heaven Realm. 703

• The trial is not determined purely by level or raw strength. 703
• It fell out of common use after the Heaven-Piercing Path collapsed six thousand years earlier. 703

Ruins of the Gods

The Ruins of the Gods are a major mystery connected to the Tower, Dragon Soaring Continent, Demon Abyss, and Celestial Ladder. They are known to hold ancient treasures, but their depths remained inaccessible for ages. 470 532

• The Guidance Temple contains the Wisdom Gate, which grants access to the Ruins’ inner core region. 1270
• The Time Corridor within the Ruins reveals entrants’ true forms, hidden abilities, and actual strength. 1272
• The Tower’s past powerhouses left marks and cultivation inheritances in the Celestial Ladder Secret Realm for later generations. 1269

Vast Wilderness

The Vast Wilderness is the Tower’s dueling ground. During the Heaven Realm invasion, Xue Tanlang creates a Golden Arena there that restricts participation to Gold-ranked battle beasts. 1236

Legacy

The Tower’s identity is portrayed as spiritual rather than racial or geographic. Old Chess King defines a true Heaven-Piercing Tower warrior by an inheritance carried through the soul, will, knowledge, and heart rather than bloodline or birthplace. 773

Its peoples retain a strong attachment to the Tower as their homeland even when they settle elsewhere. This attachment is cited as one reason its culture and martial inheritance repeatedly recover after periods of defeat and decline. 1269

Major Events

• Ancient construction — said to have been built by gods as a path for humanity to ascend. 25
• Conquest Queen’s campaign — Fei Wenli leads Tower forces against the Heaven Realm. 1244
• Prison Emperor’s war — Zhan Feng resists the Heaven Realm invasion; the direct path later collapses. 703 1224
• Yue Yang’s rise — new cultivation methods and alliances accelerate the Tower’s recovery. 792 945
• Heaven Realm legion invasion — enemy forces massacre defenders at Falling Star Sea and press into the Tower. 1220 1227
• Martial Camp declaration — Yue Yang assumes leadership of the resistance and vows to restore the Tower’s glory. 1244
• New homeland — the three races of the Heaven-Piercing Tower awaken in a new world created after the renewal of the Balance World. 1400

Notable Quotes

“The Heaven-Piercing Tower will not submit. We may be knocked down. We may even be beaten to death. But no one can, and no one ever will, defeat us!” 1244

“The inheritance of the Heaven-Piercing Tower does not lie in one's birthplace, race, or bloodline. It lies in the soul!” 773