After Jun Moxiao opened the path through the stars at the Strange Scholars' Mansion, countless geniuses entered the Central Province Qishi Mansion and embarked on this road of trials.
The Human Race's strongest trial road was not so simple. Every Heavenly Prodigy who entered the Strange Scholars' Mansion first had to undergo a round of screening. Those who failed were sent straight home. Only those recognized by the mansion were permitted to enter the Starry Sky Ancient Road for their trials.
To Jun Moxiao, this trial was like a special forces selection competition. Only those who passed the preliminary test qualified for the next round, after which they would be eliminated step by step until the strongest remained.
The Human Race's strongest trial road had eighty-one cities, meaning eighty-one stages. The final stage was the Imperial Pass, which contained 108 smaller stages. But after countless ages, many stages had fallen into ruin. Anyone below the Great Saint realm could not even push open the gates of the final stage. Shi Hao had specially established this stage, and it contained Immortal Source. Anyone who passed it and obtained the Immortal Source could cultivate to become a Quasi-Emperor.
Those at quasi-emperor ninth heaven only needed the blessing of the Heavenly Heart Imprint and to survive their heavenly tribulation to prove their Dao and become an emperor.
The laws of the Heavenly Dao in the Shrouding the Heavens World were incomplete. Each era could accommodate only one great emperor. Even if others cultivated to quasi-emperor ninth heaven, they could not prove their Dao. Gai Jiuyou had once reached quasi-emperor ninth heaven. Had Jun Moxiao not helped him earlier, his end would have followed his original fate: perishing together with a Supreme from a forbidden zone, his body dead and his Dao extinguished.
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