After snapping out of his daze, another Heavenly Pride stubbornly insisted, "Hmph! We never knew about this!"
"If we'd known we could choose taboo difficulty above destruction level difficulty, we would have challenged it too!"
Those words sent a stone plunging into water, stirring a thousand waves. Many Heavenly Prides spoke up in unison to salvage their dignity.
"Exactly! Destruction level difficulty wasn't any challenge for me at all! If I'd attempted taboo level difficulty, I could have succeeded just the same!"
"..."
The Great Dao Divine Stele seemed to have anticipated that the cultivators would remain so stubborn.
Immediately afterward, radiance flickered across the enormous divine stele once more.
This time, it revealed the rules of the Taboo Level Gate.
[Taboo Level Great Dao Gate: Those who enter this gate will encounter Ancient Supreme beings whose cultivation is, at minimum, at the Golden Immortal Realm ninth level. Most are at the Half-Step Immortal King Realm. To clear this gate, you must defeat one hundred Ancient Supreme beings!]
At the sight, the Heavenly Prides' eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets in shock!
Ancient Supreme beings?
Were those the Supreme Prodigies they were thinking of, who had supposedly reached the pinnacle during the Immortal Flourishing Era?
And even the weakest were at the Golden Immortal Realm ninth level?
They had to defeat a full hundred of them, too?
Was this really a trial... and not volunteering to die?
Wait...!
Something else occurred to the Heavenly Prides present. They all turned toward Su Changge, their faces instantly turning deathly pale.
Wasn't there someone right here who had emerged from the taboo level Great Dao Gate?
Although Su Changge had been a little slower than them, the difference had been slight.
Moreover, with just a special conversion, they could be