Heavenly Dao

Biodata

Authority and Manifestation

• Communication: Issues announcements, reminders, and personal notifications directly into participants’ minds. Its initial voice is described as ethereal and icy 1.
• Transportation: Announces the simultaneous descent of all able-bodied Blue Star residents aged 15–50 into the Heavens' Slaughter World, presenting it as Blue Star’s only chance to save itself 1.
• Village placement: Places newcomers in novice villages with an initial population of 1,000 each. Qin Feng arrives in Novice Village No. 911 1.
• Possession restrictions: Confiscates Qin Feng’s phone and other belongings during his descent, while leaving his cigarettes and lighter 20.
• Rules and enforcement: Establishes survival requirements and recognizes evil creatures that violate its rules; Judges are tasked with killing those creatures 2 18.

Novice Trial and Protection

Talent and Combat Systems

Talent Awakening

The Heavenly Dao awakens innate abilities according to each participant’s four attributes and inherent nature 1.

• Ranks, lowest to highest: F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, and SSS 1.
• Unique talents: Every talent of SS rank or above is one of a kind; two people cannot awaken the same such talent 1.
• Qin Feng’s awakening: Receives the SSS-rank talent Endless Extraction 1.
• Village results: Announces that Village No. 911 has 787 F-rank awakenings, 194 E-rank awakenings, 17 D-rank awakenings, and two awakenings of C rank or higher 2.

Combat Assessment and Energy Distribution

• Combat ratings: Calculates star ratings from the four basic attributes, excluding innate abilities. Consequently, the assessment can substantially underestimate humans with powerful or multiple talents 3 5.
• Early beast standards: Lists ordinary level 1 beasts at three stars, level 2 beasts at four stars, and level 3 beasts at five stars 3.
• Team rewards: Distributes a defeated beast’s leveling energy according to each participant’s contribution rather than splitting it equally 8.

Heavenly Dao Light Screen

Participants summon the translucent Heavenly Dao light screen through thought. It initially provides personal information and village chat, with additional channels opening as requirements are met 1 10.

Channel Restrictions

• Alternate spaces: The hidden valley disables rankings while leaving personal information and chat available. Qin Feng’s leaderboard entry turns gray, and its progress does not update normally while he remains inside 16 19.
• Resource wagers: Temporarily disable both competing villages’ rankings and link their chats. Participants may read the opposing village’s channel but cannot post there 24 39 40.
• Regional posting limits: Participants below level 5 may speak three times daily; levels 5–9 receive ten messages, and level 10 or above receives thirty 37.

Rewards and Blessings

Level 10 Placement Rewards

The Heavenly Dao awards treasure chests to the first 100 villagers to reach level 10. Rewards are issued immediately upon reaching that level rather than at the end of the assessment 10.

• Chest grades, lowest to highest: Black iron, bronze, silver, gold, dark gold, purple diamond, epic, and mythical. Higher grades offer better chances of high-grade items 10.

Reputation

Reputation rewards first discoveries and achievements. Reaching specified thresholds grants blessings from the Heavenly Dao 12 34.

Judges

Judges hold a rare divine calling dedicated to slaying evil creatures that violate the Heavenly Dao’s rules. Only one is chosen from every billion people 18.

• Hidden trial: Qin Feng becomes a level 1 Judge after killing the dried corpse, earning ten judgment points and completing the Heavenly Dao’s hidden trial 18.
• Initial blessing: Becoming a Judge grants +20 to each of the four basic attributes 18.
• Advancement requirements: Level 2 requires both 100 judgment points and the D-rank Darkness Manipulation talent 39.
• Level 2 reward: Qin Feng receives another +20 to each basic attribute upon advancing 39.

Resource Wagers

Resource wagers are compulsory inter-village contests initiated through a Resource Wager Token. The token can only be activated by the village’s highest-level participant 23 33.

Documented Contests

• Village No. 137 against No. 911: A race to produce a level 5 participant. Qin Feng reaches the target first, securing No. 911’s victory; afterward, the linked chats separate and rankings return to normal 23 30 31.
• Village No. 446 against No. 911: A later wager raises the target to level 8 39.

Quests and Restricted Areas

Lost Village

• Identifies the Lost Village as a highly dangerous area and informs Qin Feng that a Dark Seal is required to cross its protective barrier 37.
• Explains that the village connects to tens of millions of novice villages, appears at night, and disappears before dawn 39.

Breaking the Five Elements Seal

• Activating a C-rank quest token opens Village No. 911’s quest channel and grants a quest with no time limit 45.
• The objective is to collect five King’s Heart Cores and break the barrier seal at the Five Elements Altar in Severed Dragon Slope, allowing the village to enter the greater world 45.
• Rewards include a dark gold treasure chest and additional rewards described as extremely generous 45.
• Quest guidance identifies the Mammoth King as the weakest of the five targets, supplies its coordinates, and recommends more than twenty level 10 participants for a success rate above 70% 45.