Guided by Meng Tianzheng, Lin Fan passed through several grand formations and arrived at an ancient land.
There was no vegetation here. The land stretched endlessly, silent and still, with only a golden Metal Stele standing before him.
"This Metal Stele is the trial. It contains a world within it. Approach it and release your divine power, and you can enter," Meng Tianzheng explained.
The stele was said to have been forged by the Sage Emperor himself and placed in the Heavenly Deity Academy before he faced his Immortal Ascension Tribulation, all to select an inheritor.
He also said that the stele contained an imprint of the Sage Emperor. Any creature who entered would fight it at the same cultivation level.
Moreover, "the same cultivation level" here meant every realm from the Blood Moving Realm to the Heavenly God Realm. Only by remaining undefeated in every realm could one pass.
Only creatures below the Void Dao Realm could attempt it!
Lin Fan did not need to think much to understand how difficult it would be. Someone who had succeeded in body-as-a-seed cultivation was bound to be "invincible" within his own realm.
His little brother Shi Hao was proof enough. In the original novel, he had never lost a battle against someone at the same cultivation level.
"Before you, more than ten thousand Heavenly Talents have attempted this trial, including renowned Young Supremes from the Immortal Academy and the Sacred Academy. Without exception, every one of them failed."
Meng Tianzheng even stated bluntly that most had lost at the initial Blood Moving Realm stage and never even glimpsed the Heavenly Passage trial.
Lin Fan was startled to hear this. The cultivators who had failed included the Little Heavenly King, Purple Sun Heavenly Lord, and Jin Zhan. Even Ning Fei had come.