An ancient will, so old that its age could not be traced, slowly descended from the heavens.
At the same time, the rules of the first trial of the Emperor Path Strife were clearly branded upon the sky!
Emperor Path Strife—the Battle of the First Heaven!
The six Great Realms would each send beings below the True Immortal Realm into the First Heaven for slaughter. There was no limit to their numbers!
The final victor would be the winner!
The Greater Realm of the losers would be stripped of one-tenth of its Heaven-and-Earth Origin and immortal spirit energy, while the victor would receive every reward stripped from all the losers!
The moment the rules appeared, the experts of the Demon World, Demon Realm, Ghost Realm, Divine Realm, and Celestial Court all remained calm, clearly having known these rules long ago.
But on the Human Realm's side, everyone's expressions changed sharply.
Below the True Immortal Realm?
No limit on numbers?
They would fight until only the beings of one realm remained?
These rules...
They were simple and decisive!
Yet also cruel!
Cruel to the extreme!
One had to know that below the True Immortal Realm, the number of living beings ran into the countless hundreds of millions!
Yet in the first trial of this Emperor Path Strife, they would be thrown into an unfamiliar world and forced into endless slaughter with the beings of the other five realms!
No limit on numbers meant just how immense the scale would be!
Fighting until only one realm remained meant there would be one—and only one—winner!
The beings of the other five realms would either be slaughtered to the last or eliminated. There was absolutely no third path!
How was this a trial?
This was clearly an incomparably bloody gu ritual, raising poison through