Gu Yunzheng shook his head. "You can't put it that way. Although domain sequence level three and domain sequence level four are only one level apart, the gap between them is anything but small."
"Care to elaborate?"
"To break through to domain sequence level three, you need to pass fifteen [Succession Trials]. It's difficult, but as long as you have enough information to trade with others, or belong to a circle that shares information, you can eventually gather enough. But breaking through to sequence level four is different."
Hu Chan asked, "Does breaking through to sequence level four require passing fifty [Succession Trials]?"
Gu Yunzheng said, "No, breaking through to sequence level four has nothing to do with the number of [Succession Trials] you pass. You have to achieve the first clear of three Large Gods' [Succession Trials]."
"In other words, no one can have passed that Large God's trial before you. That first-clear requirement is the condition for breaking through to domain sequence level four."
"That also means domain sequence level three is the highest you can reach with other people's help. To go any higher, you need formidable strength, keen battlefield instincts, and extraordinary luck."
At this point, Gu Yunzheng explained further. "Before passing a trial, you have no way of knowing whether someone else has already passed that Large God's [Succession Trial], so you have to keep trying, keep searching. To get three first clears, you might have to explore the trials of ten or twenty unfamiliar Gods."
"What's even more difficult is that, if you understand the Path of the Believer and know that the images of Gods along it are actually the true-form projections of individual Large Gods, then you should also know that the number of Large Gods on Earth is finite. There are