The Heavenly Ascension Ladder rose like a jade pillar supporting the heavens, piercing from the boundless earth into the cloud seas of the highest skies.
Its steps, seemingly cast from immortal jade, were covered in the scars of time.
Each scar seemed to hold the frozen rise and fall of prodigies across the ages.
Some were faint, regrets left by those who had fallen halfway.
Others were deep as ravines, struggles fought with every last drop of qi and blood.
Only the ten highest steps bore not a single mark.
They were like a heavenly chasm that had existed since chaos first opened.
And today, Ye Tian had broken the record!
He had entered a realm no predecessor had ever reached!
As Ye Tian stepped onto the ninety-ninth step, light surged skyward as though an ancient formation had awakened.
The Great Dao Voice announced the beginning of the final trial—"Ascend the heavenly road, walk in song, veil the heavens with a flick of the fingers"!
Those words seemed to contain some supreme profundity, wondrous beyond measure and impossible to fathom.
Just as everyone held their breath and focused, wondering what earth-shattering death trap this final trial would bring.
The phenomenon above the ninety-ninth step did not erupt with the world-destroying impact they had expected.
Instead, the pillar of light piercing the heavens slowly dispersed.
A blood-red sky abruptly appeared before Ye Tian.
Pitch-black evil mists of chaos surged like a tide.
Countless figures of the Evil Race roared as they charged out of it.
Some had three heads and six arms, wielding bone blades drenched in black blood.
Some had neither eyes nor ears, their bodies masses of writhing chaotic abomination, dissolving even space wherever they passed.
There was even a chaos Demon Dragon ten thousand zhang long, with scales