The brutal battles raged without end. The trialists threw themselves into the fray, fighting with mounting frenzy.
But after fighting for a while, some trialists would suddenly disappear for several days.
When they reappeared, their strength had generally grown. They were stronger, but also more frenzied. They fought madly over not just Divine Source, but even Pure Source, which held little value.
Ordinarily, cultivators had little use for such things after Dao Severing. Their behavior left the beings of the three kingdoms scratching their heads.
"Has the situation beyond our world really become this dire?"
The reason for it all was Jiang Yun's Emperor's Tower. He had finally found time to update it, adding everything up to the ninth floor in one go!
This update added the Dao Marks of four Heavenly Venerables from the Mythological Era, the two Sacred Emperors of Taiyin and Taiyang, and Emperor Hengyu, who had also been born on Ziwei.
For now, the highest stage bore only one soul-shaking line: "Who stands unrivaled at the end of the Immortal Road? At the sight of Wushi, every Dao comes to naught!"
The phantom of Great Emperor Wushi's Dao Marks presided over the final floor!
Strictly speaking, although Emperor Hengyu had protected the world for tens of thousands of years, he could not quite stand alongside Great Emperors who had all but become legends.
But everyone knew the man who had built the Emperor's Tower was named Jiang Yun. His surname was Jiang, and that was enough.
"Fellow Daoist, how far have you climbed in the tower?"
A burly cultivator, drenched in blood and gripping a long spear, spotted a trialist in the distance. His eyes lit up, and he called out in a booming voice.
These days, it was the first thing many trialists said when