Chapter Summaries

The Taihao Incarnation fought off Eternal Realm Heaven Raiders who tried to capture him, destroying one of their warships with the Primordial Emperor Dragon Sword. Meanwhile, foreign Heavenly Prodigies in Big Dipper learned not to look down on its fighters after the Azure Emperor Incarnation beat their teachers.

• Eternal Realm Heaven Raiders recognized the Taihao Incarnation as an outsider and decided to capture him for profit.
• The Heaven Raiders attacked with their warships, but the Taihao Incarnation broke their binding force and summoned the Primordial Emperor Dragon Sword.
• The Taihao Incarnation's sword strikes badly damaged one warship and destroyed another, leaving the raiders terrified when their captain recognized him as a Sage-level Ascetic.
• Foreign Heavenly Prodigies arrived in Big Dipper and dismissed the reputations of Ji Hao, the Taihao Incarnation, and other local fighters.
• The Azure Emperor Incarnation beat up the foreign Heavenly Prodigies' teachers, prompting the Saints to summon and reprimand their disciples.

After three years of fighting his way across the Ancient Road, Ji Hao and the newly ascended Sage Dragon Horse neared the Trial Road of the Strongest. Elsewhere, the Taihao Incarnation crushed Brahma’s challenge with a single blow, leaving Brahma’s armor nearly destroyed.

• Ji Hao advanced through the Ancient Road, defeating powerful enemies and surviving dangerous encounters as the Dragon Horse broke through to Sage.
• Ji Hao made progress toward the Dao of Fighting Immortals, advanced his five secret realms, and refined the preliminary scriptures for the next secret realm.
• The Dragon Horse fused with power from the Solar Divine Tree, evolved its flames into solar true fire, and grew immensely stronger.
• Ji Hao and the Dragon Horse followed a stone tablet toward the Trial Road of the Strongest and reached a region showing signs of life.
• Brahma donned Saint Battle Armor and confronted the Taihao Incarnation, demanding divinity minerals and that he become a follower.
• The Taihao Incarnation struck Brahma once, sending him flying and nearly destroying his divine armor.

The Taihao Incarnation destroyed the Fan Clan’s fleet and revealed that he was Wu Shi’s successor. Fan Xian survived and offered to submit, leaving the Eternal Realm warned of his arrival.

• The Taihao Incarnation killed Brahma and used the Haotian Tower to repel the fleet’s Saint-Terminator Cannon and destroy several warships.
• Fan Xian attacked the Taihao Incarnation, who defeated her and repeatedly killed her as she reconstructed herself.
• Fan Tong and Fan Zhou confronted the Taihao Incarnation, who declared Wu Shi was his master and killed Fan Zhou.
• Fan Xian begged to submit, and the Taihao Incarnation annihilated the Fan Clan’s entire fleet.

The Taihao Incarnation traveled to Xianyu Star, an Eternal Realm world where Daoist arts and technology thrived, and learned that Fan Xian was a famous actress. He reached Changqing Pool to claim a fortune left behind by the Azure Emperor, whose ruins contained a Divine Treasury.

• The Taihao Incarnation recalled how Laozi had stopped the Eternal Realm from destroying stars to seize the Void God Realm's World Tree leaves.
• The Taihao Incarnation used the Void Array to reach Xianyu Star and concealed himself from its strict bloodline checks.
• The Taihao Incarnation saw Fan Xian's movie poster and heard locals praise her as the Eternal Realm's immortal flower.
• The Taihao Incarnation followed a map in a Manuskript to Changqing Pool, where the Azure Emperor had bathed and left divine lotuses and enduring spiritual energy.

The Taihao Incarnation and Fan Xian discovered a hidden small world in the Tengxian Pool, where the Azure Emperor had left a jar of sixth-stage evolution liquid and manuscripts. Meanwhile, the Fan Clan concealed the Taihao Incarnation’s connection to Wu Shi and mobilized forces to hunt him.

• The Taihao Incarnation and Fan Xian cultivated at the place where the Azure Emperor had undergone nirvana, while Fan Xian hoped to share in his hidden fortune.
• News spread across Xianyu Star that the Taihao Incarnation had destroyed the Fan Clan’s fleet, killed Brahma, and abducted Fan Xian.
• A hidden Ancient Saint of the Fan Clan ordered a bounty on the Taihao Incarnation, while the family suppressed news that he was Wu Shi’s successor and other powers joined the search.
• The Taihao Incarnation found no trace of the Azure Emperor’s fortune through his Dao comprehension, then entered the depths of the Tengxian Pool with Fan Xian.
• The Taihao Incarnation used the Demon Emperor Ancient Scripture to reveal a gate into the Azure Emperor’s small world and found a jade jar and manuscripts.
• Fan Xian identified the jar’s contents as sixth-stage evolution liquid, and the Taihao Incarnation compared its divinity substance to pill refinement.

The Taihao Incarnation studied the Azure Emperor’s legacy and created a secret technique to sublimate physiques, which Fan Xian began cultivating to evolve her mixed-blood Brahma battle body. Meanwhile, the God Organization learned of Wu Shi’s successor and prepared to assess him.

• The Taihao Incarnation sent the sixth-stage evolution liquid to Yan Ruyu through the Azure Emperor Incarnation and studied the Azure Emperor’s manuscripts.
• Using the God and Demon Body Refining Method as a model, the Taihao Incarnation created a secret technique to purify and sublimate a physique’s origin.
• The Taihao Incarnation gave the technique to Fan Xian, who studied it and entered a Dao state.
• Fan Xian awakened and continued comprehending the technique, hoping to attain a flawless Brahma battle body.
• A figure reported Wu Shi’s successor to the God Organization, and the Exalted One ordered an assessment of how much of Great Emperor Wu Shi’s bearing he had inherited.

The Taihao Incarnation learned that cultivators across the Eternal Realm were hunting him for his divinity substance and innate sacred body dao embryo, then set out to confront the Fan Clan. He arrived at Heaven, the raiders’ fortified homeworld, and found much of its defense force away searching for him.

• The Taihao Incarnation restrained his progress in the Saint realm, then left the Tengxian Pool after Fan Xian finished studying the constitution-elevating secret technique.
• A cultivator showed the Taihao Incarnation a portrait and said that people planned to capture and kill him for abducting Fan Xian; the Taihao Incarnation subdued the group and searched one man’s memories.
• The Taihao Incarnation learned that the Fan Clan, other clans, and forces from the Eternal Prime Star were hunting for his divinity substance and innate sacred body dao embryo.
• Fan Xian knelt and begged the Taihao Incarnation to spare the Fan Family’s innocent members, but he said he only intended to teach them a lesson and departed.
• The Taihao Incarnation reached Heaven, the raiders’ fortified small world, and noticed that many of its defenders were absent.

Chapter Summary: Washing Heaven, Fan Family Ancestral Saint

Key Plot Points and Events

• Taihao Incarnation arrives at Xianyu Star and declares his intention to “cleanse” the sinful Heaven. He seizes control of the nearby waterways and launches an immense attack against the Fan Clan.
• A golden-haired Ancient Saint of the Fan Clan confronts him, recognizing him as the individual who killed the clan’s Qilin Son and stole the mysterious Pearl. The Saint is enraged but also pleased, hoping to obtain the secrets of Taihao’s Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo and the Wu Shi Scripture.
• Taihao reveals that he has not walked into a trap; instead, the Fan Clan has surrounded itself with him. He attacks using water infused with his Dao power, transforming it into a heavenly river of blade intent.
• The golden-haired Saint summons the Fan Clan’s defensive treasure, the Saint King Battle Armor. Made with Daluo Silver Essence and powerful Dao Laws, it initially withstands Taihao’s attack.
• Taihao draws the Heavenly Blade, an Extreme Dao Prototype forged from Immortal Metal, intensifying the Fan Saint’s greed. He unleashes the Void Destruction Blade, whose power distorts space and time and produces countless destructive blade rays.
• The attack shatters the Saint King Battle Armor and severely injures the golden-haired Saint, despite the latter being a second-level Saint capable of rivaling peak Saints while armored.
• Just as Taihao appears victorious, a high-level Saint—the Fan Family Ancestral Saint—intervenes with a massive palm strike. Taihao counters with a single immortal-light attack that wounds the Ancestral Saint’s hand, forcing him to withdraw and heal.

Character Developments

• Taihao Incarnation: Demonstrates overwhelming confidence and supreme combat power despite only recently entering the Saintly Realm. His mastery of Dao techniques, physical strength, and the Heavenly Blade allows him to defeat an armored second-level Saint almost instantly. He remains calm and fearless even when a high-level Saint joins the battle.
• Golden-haired Ancient Saint: Reveals his hostility toward Taihao and his desire to seize Taihao’s secrets and weapons. His confidence collapses after his strongest defense is destroyed, leaving him badly wounded and dependent on his ancestor’s intervention.
• Fan Family Ancestral Saint: Establishes himself as a far more powerful figure than the golden-haired Saint. However, his first attack is injured by Taihao, suggesting that Taihao may be capable of challenging even high-level Saints.
• Fan Clan members: Their shock at the Saint King Battle Armor and Taihao’s strength highlights the rarity of the treasures involved and the unprecedented danger Taihao poses to the clan.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming individual power: Taihao’s battle strength allows him to defeat opponents across major cultivation levels.
• Greed and hidden motives: The Fan Clan’s anger is mixed with intense desire for Taihao’s inheritance, scripture, body, and weapons.
• Confidence versus arrogance: The Fan Saints underestimate Taihao, believing their lineage and treasures guarantee victory, while Taihao’s calm confidence proves justified.
• Treasures as extensions of power: The Saint King Battle Armor and Heavenly Blade embody the importance of rare materials and Dao refinement, but Taihao’s mastery ultimately surpasses the armor’s defenses.
• The hunted becoming the hunter: The Fan Clan believes Taihao has entered their territory as prey, but he reverses the situation and declares that they are the ones surrounded.

Character Interactions

• The golden-haired Saint confronts Taihao with accusations over the Qilin Son’s death and the stolen Pearl, while secretly coveting Taihao’s inheritance.
• Taihao responds with contempt, openly challenging the entire Fan Clan and refusing to retreat.
• Their duel escalates from water-based Dao attacks to the clash between the Saint King Battle Armor and the Heavenly Blade.
• After Taihao defeats the golden-haired Saint, the Fan Family Ancestral Saint intervenes directly. Taihao meets his attack without fear and wounds him, creating a tense confrontation between Taihao and the clan’s true elder powerhouse.

The Taihao Incarnation battled Yuntong Fan, whose Saint King cultivation and newly forged armor made him a formidable opponent. After the Taihao Incarnation killed the Fan Clan’s Half-Saints, Yuntong Fan unleashed his armor’s Ultimate Storm Energy Cannon, and the Taihao Incarnation countered with Eternity Becomes Void.

• Yuntong Fan donned Saint King Battle Armor and revealed that his own cultivation had reached the Saint King realm.
• The Taihao Incarnation clashed with Yuntong Fan’s armor, then unleashed his blood qi and devastated the Fan Clan’s grounds.
• Three Half-Saints joined forces in the Three Talents Array, but the Taihao Incarnation shattered their formation and killed them with the Hand of Heaven.
• Yuntong Fan fired the Ultimate Storm Energy Cannon from his armor, and the Taihao Incarnation answered with Eternity Becomes Void.

The Taihao Incarnation refined his offensive use of space-time powers, robbed the Fan Clan, and challenged every Eternal Realm cultivator to battle. Preparing for the pressure he sought, he deepened his understanding of the innate sacred body dao embryo and opened the gates of his five secret realms, leaving him stronger than ever.

• The Taihao Incarnation used Space-Time Destruction Divine Light to dissolve Ancestor Fan’s battle armor laws, then developed the technique as a way to corrode Saint Weapons.
• The Taihao Incarnation overwhelmed the Fan Clan, destroyed much of its grounds, and emptied its treasury.
• The Taihao Incarnation declared himself Wu Shi’s Successor and challenged the Eternal Realm from among the stars to seek a breakthrough through battle.
• As he prepared for his challengers, the Taihao Incarnation comprehended the universe’s evolution and raised his understanding of the innate sacred body dao embryo to a new pinnacle.
• The Taihao Incarnation opened gates throughout his five great secret realms, released immense origin energy, and deepened his mastery of time and space.

The Taihao Incarnation faced a massive coalition of Eternal Realm powers seeking to defeat Wu Shi’s Successor and erase their old humiliation. As the assembled forces prepared to attack, he entered the divine forbidden domain and broke through to Saint King level.

• Saint King Battle Armor and powerful armored giants converged on the Taihao Incarnation as he claimed the starfield as his domain.
• Twenty Saint Kings and fleets from the Eternal Realm’s major powers assembled to surround him, while Fan Xian watched with worry.
• Spectators across the Void God Realm debated whether Wu Shi’s Successor would be defeated or become the third person to fight his way through the Eternal Realm.
• Daoyi watched the Taihao Incarnation while his old servant reminded him that the Ancient Tree of Life remained their priority.
• The Taihao Incarnation struck first, entered the divine forbidden domain, and broke through to Saint King level as the Qi Clan ancestor and a Saint King of the Never-Setting Sun Royal Tribe discussed sharing the mysteries of his constitution.

The Taihao Incarnation fought twenty Saint Kings and two thousand Interstellar Warships, using his rising combat strength and Dao of Fighting Immortals to kill one Saint King. Ji Hao watched without intervening, and the remaining Saint Kings broke through the Taihao Incarnation’s time-slowing heaven and earth dharma form.

• The Taihao Incarnation fought the Saint Kings while their battle armor battered his body, and some of them tried to keep him alive as a source of blood for extending their lives and aiding their cultivation.
• The Taihao Incarnation sacrificed his Heavenly Emperor Dharma Form to trap nineteen Saint Kings and slow time, then used Battle Immortal to destroy the armor and body of the Saint King who had drunk his blood.
• The Taihao Incarnation pursued the wounded Saint King and killed him with the Battle Saint Method as cultivators across the Eternal Realm watched the battle in the Void God Realm.
• Ji Hao watched the fight but chose not to help, wanting the Taihao Incarnation to resolve his own battles and walk his own path.
• The Saint Kings broke through the heaven and earth dharma form, and the Taihao Incarnation wiped blood from his mouth after its destruction affected him.

The Taihao Incarnation fought twenty Saint Kings of the Eternal Realm and realized that battle was essential to forging his battle immortal path. He left the Qi Clan's Saint King near defeat, while the Saint Kings called in interstellar warships.

• The Eternal Realm's Saint Kings attacked the Taihao Incarnation with their full strength, forcing him into a desperate battle.
• The Taihao Incarnation embraced the battle as a way to temper his battle intent and unleash the Battle Saint Method, Flying Immortal Technique, and Heaven-Slaying Dao.
• The Taihao Incarnation used the Haotian Origin Sea and Divine Sabre to hold several Saint Kings at bay while repeatedly healing from their attacks.
• The Taihao Incarnation grew stronger as he fought, cracked the Qi Clan's Saint King's armor, and overwhelmed the attacks of the other Saint Kings.
• The Qi Clan's Saint King ordered the others to deploy interstellar warships, but the Taihao Incarnation's divine-soul sword cleaved him apart and left him barely able to resist.

The Taihao Incarnation endured a barrage from two thousand Interstellar Warships and used the crisis to advance his forbidden technique, beginning his path of fighting immortals. He charged the nineteen Saint Kings, but their combined attack sent him flying as the warships fired again.

• Two thousand Interstellar Warships fired their Railguns at the Taihao Incarnation while the nineteen Saint Kings restrained him.
• Ji Hao considered using the Eternal Realm's technology and battle armor for his future rule of the Shrouding the Heavens Universe.
• Under the barrage, the Taihao Incarnation suffered grievous wounds but resolved to keep fighting.
• The Taihao Incarnation advanced into the forbidden domain and transformed Eternity Becomes Void into a Taboo Secret Technique.
• The Taihao Incarnation charged the nineteen Saint Kings with his Divine Sabre, but their combined techniques struck him away.
• The two thousand Interstellar Warships fired another barrage at the Taihao Incarnation.

The Taihao Incarnation drew the Nineteen Saints away from the fleet by throwing the Haotian Tower to them, then charged the Eternal Realm’s Interstellar Warships. He began smashing through the formation and detonating its ships, leaving the battle underway.

• The Taihao Incarnation used the Haotian Tower and Nine Secrets: Zhe to withstand the Nineteen Saints’ attacks, then threw the tower among them to provoke a struggle over the treasure.
• The Nineteen Saints fought to seize the Haotian Tower while the Interstellar Warships fired their railguns and launched Capture Nets at the Taihao Incarnation.
• The Taihao Incarnation dodged the attacks, destroyed the Capture Nets with his Divine Sabre, and accelerated toward the fleet.
• The Taihao Incarnation rammed through an Interstellar Warship and pierced the first column of the fleet, causing the ships’ Stellar Furnaces to explode.
• The Taihao Incarnation smashed through more than a dozen Star Warships, rubbed the lump on his head, then resumed tearing through the formation.

The Taihao Incarnation destroyed the warships of ten Eternal Realm powers, provoking the Great Saint of the Eternal Realm. As the Incarnation began a devastating lightning tribulation to transform and repair himself, onlookers witnessed the calamity unfold through the Void God Realm.

• The Taihao Incarnation used Nine Secrets: Xing and Nine Secrets: Jie to destroy two thousand Interstellar Warships, devastating the Eternal Realm's major powers.
• The Eternal Realm's leaders called for Supreme Battle Armor and their strongest fighters, while the Great Saint of the Eternal Realm set out to confront the Taihao Incarnation.
• Sensing danger, the Taihao Incarnation began a lightning tribulation and sent the Haotian Tower into its depths to absorb thunder and evolve.
• The Taihao Incarnation endured the tribulation despite severe damage to his origin and divine soul, seeking to use its creative power to heal and transform himself.
• Ji Hao projected the tribulation into the Void God Realm, where cultivators watched lunar and solar divine thunder engulf the star domain.

The Taihao Incarnation endured the Lunar-Solar and Four Symbols Heavenly Lightning while a Great Saint and the Qi Clan's Saint Kings waited for a chance to attack him. Elsewhere, Ji Hao watched more than three hundred Human Race talents gather on the Ancient Road, drawing attention when the Dragon Horse cried out.

• The Taihao Incarnation entered the Lunar-Solar Divine Lightning, using Nine Secrets: Zhe to heal and refining the lightning into his body.
• A Great Saint held back, while the Qi Clan's Saint Kings restrained the Haotian Tower and planned to attack after the tribulation.
• The Four Symbols Heavenly Lightning attacked in the forms of a True Dragon, Xuanwu, Divine Phoenix, and White Tiger, and the Taihao Incarnation fought them, destroying the White Tiger.
• Five Elements Heavenly Lightning, Chaos Divine Thunder, and a self-severing Dao-revealing tribulation struck the Taihao Incarnation, repeatedly breaking apart his body.
• Ji Hao watched more than three hundred Human Race talents arrive on the Ancient Road, and the Dragon Horse's cry made them notice Ji Hao and his companions.

Ji Hao reached the First Human City and realized the Emperor Road gathered fortune aura from its contenders, rewarding the strongest until one could claim an era’s imperial throne. Confident the throne would be his, he entered the road and confronted a cultivator who objected to Dragon Horse’s overwhelming pressure.

• Ji Hao arrived at the First Human City on Dragon Horse and drew the attention of the gathered cultivators with his extraordinary bearing and saintly mount.
• Ji Hao opened his heavenly eye and sensed that fortune aura was being drawn into the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
• Ji Hao deduced that the Emperor Road accumulated contenders’ fortune aura, allowing the strongest to gather an era’s momentum and ascend to the imperial throne.
• Ji Hao sent a strand of his fortune aura into the road with the List of Gods and declared that he would claim the era’s throne.
• Dragon Horse’s draconic pressure made nearby mounts and cultivators recoil, and Ji Hao told a man who challenged him that he had already lost if he could not endure it.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Outside the Human Race’s first checkpoint on the Starry Sky Ancient Road, Ji Hao is confronted by Tuoba, a Saint-realm Heavenly Prodigy from a powerful ancient starfield.
• Before Ji Hao can act, his golden-red Dragon Horse releases a terrifying roar. The sound shakes the laws of heaven and earth, frightens other beasts, and severely injures Tuoba.
• The Dragon Horse has reached the Saint realm after cultivating with Ji Hao, mastering the Azure Emperor’s Secret Technique, divine-demonic body refinement, and Solar Divine Power. It is beginning to evolve toward a True Dragon and possesses strength comparable to a seed candidate.
• Tuoba is humiliated and then completely loses his courage when Ji Hao merely looks at him. His Dao heart collapses, and he leaves the Emperor Road in defeat.
• Ji Hao orders the checkpoint gates to open. Although the city normally opens only at set intervals and generally requires the presence of a seed-level expert, the Envoi makes an exception and opens the gates.
• This confirms to the gathered cultivators that Ji Hao himself is a genuine seed candidate, likely stronger than ordinary seed-level figures.
• Ji Hao leads the cultivators into the ancient city. The city is guarded by formidable golden-red-armored soldiers, many of whom are former Emperor Road contestants who failed and remained behind.
• Inside the gate passage, a soldier attempts to stop Ji Hao and warns everyone against fighting. Ji Hao ignores him, prompting the captain to confront him directly.
• Ji Hao bluntly calls the soldiers “losers,” arguing that those who failed on the Emperor Road should maintain reverence toward true experts. The chapter ends with the captain’s resentment and wounded pride being revealed.

Character Developments

• Ji Hao: Displays extreme confidence, composure, and disdain for those he considers weak. He does not need to fight personally to establish dominance and remains focused on advancing quickly along the Ancient Road. His belief in respecting genuine strength while disregarding the weak is emphasized.
• Dragon Horse: Evolves from a powerful mount into a terrifying Saint-level combatant in its own right. Its roar alone defeats Tuoba and establishes that it is not merely Ji Hao’s subordinate but a near-seed-level existence.
• Tuoba: Begins as an arrogant, recognized Heavenly Prodigy but is crushed by the Dragon Horse’s roar and Ji Hao’s gaze. His confidence and Dao heart collapse, forcing him to abandon the road.
• The City Soldiers: Revealed as powerful former competitors whose failures have left them resentful. Their authority and strength are genuine, but their hostility toward new arrivals is partly driven by bitterness and wounded pride.
• The Cultivators: Initially question whether Ji Hao relies solely on beast-taming techniques, but their opinions change when the gates open specifically because of him. They begin recognizing him as an exceptional seed candidate.

Significant Themes

• The ruthless nature of the Emperor Road: Advancement permits no retreat, and a single defeat can destroy a cultivator’s confidence, ambition, and future.
• Strength as the ultimate authority: Status and reputation mean little when confronted with overwhelming power. Even a famed Heavenly Prodigy cannot withstand Ji Hao’s mount.
• Respect for the strong: Ji Hao views reverence toward genuine experts as a fundamental rule, while those who challenge superior figures without the strength to back themselves are treated with contempt.
• Failure and resentment: The soldiers symbolize cultivators who once possessed ambition but were broken by defeat. Their hostility toward newcomers stems from bitterness and a desire to regain a sense of superiority.
• The bond between master and mount: Ji Hao’s cultivation has transformed the Dragon Horse into a formidable partner, showing that his strength extends beyond his own direct combat ability.

Character Interactions

• Ji Hao and Tuoba: Tuoba challenges Ji Hao, but the Dragon Horse defeats him first. Ji Hao’s calm glance then completely breaks Tuoba’s will.
• Ji Hao and the Dragon Horse: Their partnership is shown through the Dragon Horse’s immediate defense of Ji Hao and Ji Hao’s role in its cultivation and evolution.
• Ji Hao and the assembled cultivators: Ji Hao’s actions force them to reassess him from a possibly dependent beast-tamer to a powerful seed candidate.
• Ji Hao and the city soldiers: The soldiers attempt to enforce the checkpoint’s authority, but Ji Hao ignores their warnings and openly insults their status as failed competitors, creating a tense confrontation.
• The soldiers and the newcomers: The guards’ warnings reflect their official duty, but their resentment reveals a deeper conflict between failed veterans and ambitious new contenders.

Ji Hao and the other contenders arrived at the First Human City, where the Envoi explained that only those who passed the Trial Ground could continue along the Starry Sky Ancient Road. After seven days in the city, the contenders gathered to begin a trial focused on comprehending the Great Dao.

• The Dragon Horse struck the captain with a hoof after he challenged Ji Hao, and Ji Hao warned him not to do it again.
• The Envoi told the contenders that they had to pass the Trial Ground to reach the next checkpoint and that fighting was forbidden in the city.
• Ji Hao and the Dragon Horse explored the city, paid a piece of divine source for lodging, and spent their time sampling local delicacies.
• Seven days later, the Envoi summoned the contenders to the central square and announced that they had to comprehend the Trial Ground's Great Dao to continue.