Divine Realm First Martial Meeting

## Introduction

**First Martial Meeting of the Divine Realm’s 3000 great worlds.**

This was a grand tournament that covered the entire Divine Realm and also included every single young elite of the Divine Realm.

The Divine Realm’s 3000 great worlds held numerous World King level influences, countless Holy Land level influences, and all sorts of hidden families and descendants of roaming masters. This unimaginable quantity of people would be completely gathered at the Divine Dream World!

Among these people were even descendants of Empyreans!

What kind of scene would that be!? That would be the grandest event of all ages!

The First Martial Meeting was a chance which all geniuses of the Divine Realm could participate in. Among the young geniuses produced from the great influences, all of them were arrogant talents of their generation and none of them were willing to admit that they were worse than others. They all looked forwards to competing against other geniuses at their age and being able to shine in glory at this Divine Realm First Martial Meeting!

The Divine Realm is filled with crouching tigers and hidden dragons; there are far too many powerhouses, more than you could ever imagine.

It was a gathering of all the proud elites of heaven to test out their skill with heavy weights of the Divine Realm! All splendid talents are welcome to try their luck and achieve exemplary results that would garner them honor and dignity! For a carp to jump the dragon gate and soar into the heavens!.

### **Present Martial Meetings**

Held in the Divine Dream World, held jointly by **Empyrean Vast Universe** and **Empyrean Divine Dream**! **All heroic young elites of the Divine Realm had participated in the auspicious event**!.

The recent First Martial Meeting of humanity was the most splendid and prosperous one for the last 100 million years.

It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that in the last several million years of history, this had been the most intense First Martial Meeting, with the highest number of people competing. Moreover, the appearance of Empyrean Divine Dream added a layer of mystery and intrigue to this First Martial Meeting.

This First Martial Meeting is unprecedented in its magnificence and grandeur. It is far more marvelous and ambitious than the last several dozens of First Martial Meetings. This time, it could truly be said that there are countless talents gushing forth.

In every First Martial Meeting, there would be the birth of an Empyrean descendant. Or, it was more accurate to say that only when an Empyrean descendant was born would that Empyrean decide to take advantage of the momentum and hold a Divine Realm First Martial Meeting. And an Empyrean descendant, without accident, would easily become someone as strong as a Great World King!

The truth was that the fame and glory brought about by being the champion of a Divine Realm First Martial Meeting was even greater than that of being a Great World King!

### **Previous Martial Meetings**

In the past First Martial meetings, besides the limits of age and cultivation, there were also requirements for one’s background. For instance, one had to be a disciple of a Holy Land, a junior of a ninth-grade family, or the descendant of a Holy Lord level powerhouse.

Before every martial meeting, a quota of people would be given to every Holy Land in the Divine Realm. There were many higher eighth-grade sects that couldn’t obtain a quota of people unless they had the recommendation of a Holy Lord level powerhouse or above. Thus, many wandering martial artists weren’t able to participate either.

Although it sounded unfair to refuse most wandering martial artists and even those from weaker sects, this was also reasonable. If there was no defined threshold to register and every martial artist participated, then the number of martial artists joining in would probably be counted using trillions as the smallest number. With so many people, how could a tournament possibly be arranged?

Thus, only sects with enough strength were able to recommend their strongest direct disciples. The strength of these chosen individuals was far higher than what an average wandering martial artist could hope to compare with.

But because of Divine Dream's Divine Dream Space, the present First Martial Meeting only has limits on age and cultivation. There is no limit on one’s background and also quota of people given. All geniuses that meet the required age and cultivation can participate.

## Tournament Structure

### **Overview**

There are a total of a 10-20 Quadrillion participants in the Martial Meeting hosted by Empyrean Divine Dream and Empyrean Vast Universe. The tournament is categorized into the **preliminaries or the elimination rounds** for all geniuses and elites of heaven; may or may not exclude Empyrean descendants, the **semi-finals** that is exclusive to peak Holy Land geniuses and World King geniuses, and the **finals** where almost all Empyrean descendant participants dominate the scene.

**Qualifiers Round - Preliminary Eliminations**

Locale
* Cities act as "safe-zones" until the 3rd or final round of the elimination phase.

Duration
* 3 months

Number of Tournament Participants
* In every great world, only those that possess the top 1% of merit points will be able to pass.
* 1 over a 10,000 would be chosen.
* In the Good Fortune World, out of 3 trillion participants, 2.97 trillion were eliminated, leaving behind only 30 billion participants.

Trivia
 **2nd Round** | Kill Nightmares or other participants for Rewards and Merit points to determine results and rank.
Nightmares are even stronger and have evolved, only true masters remain.
* 1 out of 100,000 will make it to the next round

Duration
* 3 months

Trivia
 **3rd** **or** **Final Round** | Kill Nightmares or other participants for Rewards and Merit points to determine results and rank.
For the last three months, everyone knew that the slaughter between participants and the slaughter between participants and nightmare beasts would rise to a horrendous level. But now, everyone also learned that not even the boundaries of the cities would be safe. There would be no place for the weak to take shelter! In every great world, the entire great world would be completely turned into a battlefield!
If luck is on one's side, a participant will meet one of the prized rewards, an elementary spirit source! By killing the manifested spirit source, one can obtain gargantuan amounts of merit points!
* The "safe-zones" are no longer available. The tournament turns into a free-for-all.
* Nightmare Beast Tide - In the first two rounds of eliminations it had been participants hunting and killing nightmare beasts. But now, it seemed that the nightmare beasts would counterattack the city, swallowing up every participant they could.

Final Round - Elimination Rate: 99.99%
* 1 over a 1,000,000,000 would be chosen.
* Elimination proportion: 999 out of every 1000 participants!

Duration
* 3 months

Number of Tournament Participants
* 20 Million out of 2 Trillion remaining in True Martial Great World.

Trivia
* The third round of the preliminaries was especially prepared for the highest level of participants. Ordinary martial artists that couldn’t pass through the eliminations wouldn’t even have the strength to survive in this world. Only those that had the qualifications to pass the preliminaries would be able to live in the face of such a monstrous surge.
* Besides the True Martial Great World, on every other great world in the Divine Realm, monsters that were just as powerful as the red-furred monster had appeared. In front of them, even the top ranked master of that great world would find themselves hard-pressed to survive!
* For the first two rounds, the participants would revive in the city. But now, they would randomly revive in some location in the wilds. If their luck was bad, they might even directly revive into the midst of a beast tide and immediately die again.
* Lin Ming - Jumped to rank 890 on the Divine Seal Decree after killing the Red-furred monster. First in a great world.

This Divine Realm First Martial Meeting was specifically aimed at the peak geniuses of the Divine Realm. Those who couldn’t even reach Ninefall were doomed to be eliminated at the end of the first round.

Although this Divine Realm First Martial Meeting involved over 10 quadrillion individuals, it was actually extremely fair. There would be no case in which a powerhouse would be eliminated because they managed to get themselves thrust into a death group. There also wouldn’t be any weaklings that managed to pass because of some heaven-defying form of luck.

Occurrences of fraud wouldn’t occur either. Whether one was a peak genius of a World King Holy Land or a common wandering martial artist, no matter which of the 3000 great worlds they came from, everyone started at the same line. Those with strength would inevitably pass through this qualification round.

This also caused Lin Ming to sigh at Empyrean Divine Dream’s supernatural powers. He thought that gathering 10 quadrillion geniuses in any location of the Divine Realm was an impossible task to begin with, but Empyrean Divine Dream had done so with absolute ease. Moreover, the method of competition she devised was more than fair!

## Process

Three months from now, the first round of eliminations will begin. The elimination rate will be 99%! In every great world, only those that possess the top 1% of merit points will be able to pass.

Six months later, from the 1% of participants that have passed, the second round of eliminations will begin. The elimination rate is 99.9%! In every great world, only one out of every 100,000 of the starting participants shall remain!

Nine months later, the third round of eliminations will begin. Of the remaining participants, 99.99% of them shall be eliminated! In every great world, only one out of every billion original participants shall remain!

Three rounds of elimination, from 1% to .1% to .01%, finally only one in a billion participants would be chosen! This was what a true cruel and brutal competition was!

## Golden Scroll

In this tournament, the participants are written in an extremely extensive golden scroll which records the amount of merit points obtained. Listed after these names were their sect or master and age. It was clear that these were the participants of the Divine Realm First Martial Meeting.

This scroll also serves as the official ranking board of the entire preliminaries. They record the scores, ranking and the organizations listed of an elite heroic youth!

Just the width of this scroll was 400,000-500,000 miles!

This looked like a universe map that seemed to contain the heavens and earth.

It was naturally impossible for Empyrean Divine Dream to constantly update the merit points of every single participant with her soul force. No matter how powerful her soul force was, wanting to simultaneously monitor and change the merit points of over 10 quadrillion geniuses was impossible.

What she relied on were the heaven and earth Laws of the Divine Dream World.

Everything within the dreamland was supported by the Divine Dream Laws as a foundation, and the Divine Dream World would complete the statistics of everyone there itself. Empyrean Divine Dream would only need to provide a little bit of energy to display everyone’s scores.

The golden scroll was simply far too large. It was hundreds of thousands of miles wide and several million miles long. Even a Holy Lord didn’t have the ability to cover the entire golden scroll with their divine sense. And if they did, with the near endless names on the golden scroll, they would overdraw their divine soul before they found who they were looking for.

Thus, Divine Dream had sold jade slips that can search for a participant. One can use these jade slips to search for the ranking of specific participants. If you know the name and sect of a martial artist you may search them to find out how many merit points they have. The number of times you can use this jade slip is unlimited.

This small jade slip only had a simple array formation carved into it that could connect to the golden scroll dreamland projection of the Divine Dream World. Even so, the cost was 10 million violet sun stones!

Empyrean Divine Dream was managing the Divine Realm First Martial Meeting. Just creating these massive Divine Dream Lights, continuing everything occurring within the Divine Dream Realm, and summoning those massive golden scrolls on all 3000 great worlds of the Divine Realm required an incomparably terrifying amount of energy.

Even if Empyrean Divine Dream was ridiculously rich, she still wasn’t able to use up resources like this, so she also needed a method to earn back some money.

## Rules

In the city there are various weapons, medicines, violet sun crystals, and all other kinds of treasures that can be freely used to restore your energy lost in battle. If you kill nightmares, you can also absorb the energy within them, or even directly obtain weapons and supplies from a nightmare’s body.

At the same time, if the nightmares kill participants, they shall evolve and become stronger and stronger. The merit points of these nightmares will also become higher!

In addition, as long as you leave the city, participants may hunt and kill each other!

If you kill someone you may obtain 60% of the dreamland treasures on their body as well as 0 to 60% of their merit points! After dying, you will be restored after one day and retain 40% of your dreamland treasures and merit points. The number of chances to return to the dreamland battlefield is unlimited.

Participants could hunt and kill other participants! That meant that as soon as one left the safety of the city, not only would they have to face the threat from the nightmares but they would also have to face the threat from other participants. And, the threat from other participants was probably the most important factor!

This sort of rule would originally benefit those who brought along other participants to the First Martial Meeting.

But upon killing another participant, the merit points and treasures you gain will depend on the difference in merit points between the killer and the slain. If the killer has fewer merit points, then they will obtain the full 60%. If the killer has more merit points, then the merit points they receive will be reduced by half if they have two times the merit points of the slain, and continue to be reduced by half beyond that! And after being killed, regardless of what your merit points were, you will lose 60% of your merit points and dreamland treasures!

If one had merit points several times higher than someone, killing them would give only a few percent of their measly merit points. In that case, going out and killing a few nightmare beasts might be a better use of time instead.

Thus, even if someone brought in many subordinates, these underlings also wouldn’t be useful in gathering points. This was because, generally speaking, the strength of these underlings was far weaker than their master and their merit points would soon be far outpaced by their master’s. Even if their master was killing them, the amount of merit points gained wouldn’t matter.

## **Divine Seal Decree**

The Divine Seal Decree was a list that included the entirety of the Divine Realm. Just from the words Divine Sea, one could understand just how illustrious it was.

The Divine Seal Decree lists the top 300,000 participants of the preliminaries during the First Martial Meeting of the Divine Realm.

Being ranked on this list means that one has great talent for martial arts. And on average, they are considered a young Holy Lord!

Being ranked in the top 10,000 would mean a peak Holy Lord talent. There was even a chance at becoming a half-step World King! Although a half-step World King was far from being comparable with a true World King, they were still characters that many great influences would go all-out to win over. Many ordinary World King Holy Lands, besides their own World King, wouldn’t even have a half-step World King in their ranks. If a new unaffiliated half-step World King were to appear, all of these ordinary World King Holy Lands would do everything in their power to win them over.

If one could rank in the top 3000 of the Divine Seal Decree, that would mean that on average, they would be the top ranked master of a great world! These were future leaders and helmsmen of the Divine Realm, among which even World Kings would be born from their ranks. As for the ones remaining, although they might not become World Kings, it wouldn’t be a problem to become a half-step World King.

The top 1000 ranks of the Divine Seal Decree was a completely new boundary. After stepping into the top 1000 ranks, every character there was an incredible existence. Each of them was a peerless genius of their generation. If they went to a Holy Land, even the Holy Lord of that Holy Land would have to bow. After rising to this boundary, with some luck, one could become an ordinary World King!

And if one was a World King, then even if they weren’t a Great World King they could still be an overlord of their own domain!

On average, the achievement of an Empyrean descendant was also to become a World King.

The top 1000 rankings was a completely new boundary, but at the same time the top 100 rankings were also a new boundary. After entering the top 1000 rankings, it was nearly assured that one would become a half-step World King. But by entering the top 100 rankings, there was a ray of hope that one would become a true World King! As long as one could meet another lucky chance in the Divine Transformation realm, becoming a World King wasn’t a dream!

## **Trivia - Preliminaries**

#### *Nightmare beasts*

* Nightmares - These nightmares are condensed from the energy of the Divine Dream World, and they come in all sorts of macabre and strange forms. Some more humanoid, some more like ancient beasts, and some are even energy life forms. They can use Laws, they can control energy, and there are even creatures that are as intelligent as humans. Slay them, and you will gain merit points. Finally, these merit points will be used to decide your results and rank!
	+ "In the Divine Dream World, nightmare beasts are formed from the energy within this dreamland. They were originally forms of energy wandering around the Divine Dream World that were gathered together by the power of Laws, and turned into these aggressive monsters. If I were to call these energies something else, they would be heaven and earth origin energy!" -Lin Ming realized.
	+ The nightmare beasts of the Divine Dream World were consistent with the heaven and earth origin energy in the real world. However, the heaven and earth energy there didn’t have any aggressive nature and these nightmare beasts were actually able to kill people. In the real world, one could absorb heaven and earth origin energy to cultivate.
	+ Within the Divine Dream World, if one killed these nightmare beasts and absorbed their energy, one could cultivate all the same! But the premise of all this was that one understood the Divine Dream Law transcendent divine might.

* Super Monsters - They are soul lives that Divine Dream captured long ago during her adventures into the Soul World. They are living beings and not energy forms created from the Laws unlike the other beasts.
	+ **Red-furred monster -** This red-furred monster was around 10 feet tall and the hairs all over its body were as sharp and shiny as steel needles. Its chest, neck, and back were completely covered with thick black scales. Its body was grandiose, its claws sharp and fierce, and there was a thin and long tail that extended from its back. This tail seemed to have joints in it just like an iron whip, and on the end of this tail there was a long spike. This spike shined with a cold light. Just a moment ago, this spike had pierced through the hearts of three martial artists.

#### *Locations - True Martial World*

* Demon Sealing Ridge -  Demon Sealing Ridge is 3000 miles southwest of True Martial City. It’s a long mountain range covered with towering trees and canyons and glens everywhere. There is also an extremely high concentration of high level nightmare beasts there. That is the hunting grounds that the top masters of True Martial City like the most. But because of that strange red-furred monster, there aren’t as many high level nightmare beasts in Demon Sealing Ridge. In addition to that, because of the threat that the red-furred monster poses, many masters have left Demon Sealing Ridge and have started hunting in the lower level area.

**Semifinals**

### **Overview**

In the preliminaries, the elimination rate had reached a despairing percentage; only one out of every billion participants had managed to make it through. Even so, the original number of participating martial artists in this First Martial Meeting was far too great. Although the elimination rate was astoundingly high, there were still around 10 million martial artists throughout the entire Divine Realm that had made it through the preliminaries. It wouldn’t be easy to screen out these people at all.

The Divine Realm First Martial Meeting semifinals were separated into 30 locations. On average each location had three participants that were in the top 100 rankings of the Divine Seal Decree.

Out of the 3000 great worlds, every 100 great worlds will be divided into a group and that group will compete in a small world. In every group of 100 great worlds, there are many participants from first-order worlds and second-order worlds. Every group will have over 300,000 participants, but only 300 people will make it out of every group in the semifinals.

This elimination ratio was far too exaggerated. In 100 great worlds, in which many first-order and second-order worlds were included, only 300 people would make it through. This meant that if one wished to make it through they would need to be one of the top three ranked masters of a great world.

On the first 21 steps of the Divine Seal Altar, one would fight simulation spirit bodies produced by array formations. Starting from the 22nd step and upwards, one would no longer fight simulation spirit bodies but would have to fight and defeat other participants on the same step!

This produced another problem. That was that the first group which was in the lead was stronger overall, thus the opponents they faced were also more powerful.

Thus, if they wished to maintain their status of being in the vanguard, they would have to pay a certain price.

If they were too weak they would be defeated and their ranking here would drop.

A participant was only able to lose five times before they were eliminated; they naturally didn’t wish to waste these chances.

The truth was that the competition taking place on the Divine Seal Altar did not forbid the use of recovery pills. But, the medicinal efficacy contained within recovery pills was not completely consistent with a martial artist’s own true essence. Using three or four was fine, but if one used too many then that would cause their true essence to become impure and also affect their combat strength.

On the 26th step, the pressure rose once again. The rivers of heaven and earth origin energy had become much thinner on the 26th step. But, the Empyrean pressure had increased to the point that it was like a continuous waterfall crashing down on them! Moreover, the higher one went, the stronger the pressure was. This was the step that solidified the who the final 300 martial artists' that would make it to the finals. Even top five ranked martial artists' would fall short.

And at the 27th, even first ranked martial artists' were far from enough! This meant that as long as one could climb up to the 27th step, they would be able to pass the semifinals.

### **Gravemoon Star**

#### **Participants**

 Dragon Fang
 Nether Limitless

300,000 participants in Lin Ming's Bracket

Participants compete to see who can ascend the highest on the Divine Seal Altar

* 33 Steps, each step is 100,000 feet high.
* Participants Fight Simulation Spirit Bodies (Formed by Array Formations) for the first 21 steps.
* Participants fight each other for the remaining 12 steps, no killing is allowed.
	+ If defeated more than 5 times throughout the semifinals, participants lose the qualification to advance.

## **Notable Moments during the Semifinals**

* Defeated Crimson Wishjade at the 23rd step
* In these semifinals, the Ancient Phoenix Clan was nearly one of the loudest cheerers. In addition to them, the disciples of the Skydark Holy Lands shouted loudly enough that their voices quaked the heavens.
* The top five were Nether Limitless in the lead, followed by Bloodless Sword and Dragon Fang, then Purple Blade and Lin Ming.
* Defeated Zhou Hong on the 26th step
* Top Master would continue to fall in the 27th step, even the likes of Wu Finalcloud were defeated by the Empyrean pressure.

* Defeated Nether Limitless at the 31st step
	+ That moment when he defeated Limitless was described as a single young man, underneath the gaze of billions of people, dared to jump ranks to challenge the number one genius of a hundred great worlds – that was a character that had a chance of becoming a Great World King in the future! An extreme genius amongst geniuses! Every time had its own peak, and the peak of this moment belonged to Lin Ming. A heroic youth in the glory of his prime!
	+ In that moment, Lin Ming seemed to be the only existence on the Divine Seal Altar, a hero that ruled over the world, standing arrogantly amongst society!
* Ascended to the very top (33 steps), claiming first place
	+ News about this competition on the Divine Seal Altar spread like a snowstorm throughout the entire Divine Realm. The billions of spectators present had come from 100 great worlds as well as countless small worlds and hidden worlds. They were all high level figures, either sect Elders, reclusive sages, or outstanding young elites. Their ability to spread news far surpassed the ordinary person’s. For a time, the name of Lin Ming and Dragon Fang were extremely dazzling. In particular Lin Ming; his fame resounded through the world!

## **Legend of the Divine Seal Altar**

The Divine Seal Altar was used once 100,000 years ago in the First Martial Meeting of the Divine Realm, and the geniuses from hundreds of great worlds competed on it. I also know that back then, let alone reaching the 33rd step, there wasn’t even anyone capable of reaching the 32nd step! At that time, the rules of the competition were that it would only end once all martial artists were swept off the Divine Seal Altar. In other words, no one was able to crawl up!

This is Empyrean Vast Universe’s proudest creation. Ever since he created this replica of the true Divine Seal Altar, deep within Vast Universe Heavenly Palace, over 100 descendants of Empyrean Vast Universe have climbed up it. This is one of the ways that they are tempered there. However, there has never been a Divine Sea realm descendant, even a late Divine Sea realm descendant

> When my Honorable Master was 8.6 million years of age, he created this Divine Seal Altar. Up until now, over 2 million years have passed. For all those underneath the Divine Transformation realm, even if they are direct disciples of Honorable Master, none of them have been able to reach the summit! There has been a disciple that reached 70,000 feet up the 33rd step, but even at that distance, there is still 30,000 feet remaining! And, at that time, the disciple had a late Divine Sea realm cultivation!
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> “Today, of the two of you, one has a middle Divine Sea cultivation and the other has an early Divine Sea cultivation. You can both be more than proud that you have reached this step. You no longer need to fight, but can directly continue climbing up the Divine Seal Altar! - Xiao Daochild
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#### **70,000 feet up on the Divine Seal Altar’s the 33rd step**

One would need to cross the 27 Thunder Source killing formation at 70,000 feet. These 27 thunder sources were tribulation thunder beasts, thus, it is even more frightening then the purple lion thunder source at Sky Spill Continent.

#### **80,000 feet up on the Divine Seal Altar’s 33rd step**

80,000 feet up on the Divine Seal Altar’s 33rd step, countless Law runes began to shimmer into existence. These multi-colored runes were different from the Laws that currently existed in the Divine Realm. No one was able to discern what they meant. After these Law runes appeared, they gathered together, forming stone tablets!

At 80,000 feet up, the Law runes gathered together, forming 33 Law stone tablets! Since ancient times, countless supreme elders of the Divine Realm, before their death, would spend a great deal of time and energy to carve their life’s comprehension of Law Concepts onto these stone tablets, forming totem tablets for their descendants to meditate on.

And now, the Great Dao in the heavens had gathered into 33 Dao tablets. This left everyone panic-stricken. If the world Laws formed Dao tablets, then wouldn’t these be tablets on the same level as chaos stones? Thus, one could infer the might of each dao tablet!

After climbing this far up the Divine Altar’s 33rd step, it was no longer only thunder tribulation, but Law tablets formed from runes of the heavens and earth. One would be directly bombarded by these tablets!

#### **90,000 feet up on the Divine Seal Altar’s 33rd step**

The power of divinity in the sky constantly gathered, forming new phantoms, for a total of 33 figures! These 33 life forms formed by power of divinity were the great tribulation of 90,000 feet!

One would discover that every single one of them was releasing a different aura. Among them, the core three people released a distinct aura completely similar to essence gathering, body transformation, and soul forging. The essence gathering phantom martial artist had an early Divine Transformation cultivation. The body transformation phantom martial artist had already opened the complete Eight Inner Hidden Gates. As for the final soul forging phantom martial artist, Lin Ming couldn’t see just what boundary he had reached.

These phantoms all practiced a single type of cultivation system, for a total of 33 people!

#### **Final 10,000 feet**

In Vast Universe Heavenly Palace, there are indeed disciples that can climb up the last 10,000 feet. Of course, these disciples are all at the Divine Transformation realm and above. What they experience in the last 10,000 feet is different from person to person, and each one’s experiences are unique. According to what my senior-apprentice brother told me, there are no two people that have experienced the same things. - Elder Zhou

 It is said that when an unrivalled genius climbs up the final stretch of the Divine Seal Altar, they will arouse a world phenomenon. Empyrean Vast Universe may have created this Divine Seal Altar, but there are many situations of the Divine Seal Altar that have surpassed his control. Even Empyrean Vast Universe found this situation strange. He finally speculated that whatever events happen in the last 10,000 feet are dependent on a martial artist’s cultivation methods, lucky chances, experiences, foundation, physique, will, talent, bloodline, perception, and all sorts of other factors combined together, thus the reason why all sorts of unusual and unpredictable things can occur that are impossible to predict. These strange situations are sometimes even accompanied with the emergence of phenomena.

Moreover, the more potential and talent one has, and the more mysterious and powerful their cultivation methods are, then the more difficult it will be to predict just what will happen when that person climbs the last 10,000 feet of the Divine Seal Altar. Sometimes, there are monstrous geniuses with unprecedented talent who will climb up the Divine Seal Altar’s final 10,000 feet and galvanize the appearance of phenomenon. When Vast Cosmos climbed up the Divine Seal Altar during the Divine Sea realm, he created a record at 70,000 feet. Later, at the Divine Transformation realm, he climbed up the final 10,000 feet of the Divine Seal Altar and caused the appearance of a phenomenon!

### **Earth Proclamation**

The top three of the Earth Proclamation are able to study a transcendent divine might.

**Finals**

### **First Round - Slaughter City**

10,000 participants, they were divided into 10 groups with 1000 people each.

Divided into two smaller groups depending on your results in the semifinals as well as the strength you’ve displayed so far, 30 people in one, 970 in the second. For those in the second group, they have three chances to challenge someone from the first group.

If they can win in any single one of these battles, they may swap positions with their opponent. Otherwise, if you are defeated in all three challenges then you will be directly eliminated! As for those that are defeated and replaced in the first group, they also have three chances to challenge someone from the first group again. If they lose all three challenges, they too will be eliminated! This process continues until the second group is completely eliminated.

Upon hearing these rules, those that were selected to enter the second group felt uncomfortable. To put it in other words, Vast Universe Heavenly Palace did not believe those from the second group had any chances of winning and wanted to directly eliminate them from the tournament. This round of eliminations was developed as their final chance.

In the previous qualifying matches for the finals, only the total top 50 ranked martial artists of the first groups would be able to make it to the true finals.

Besides these 50 people, everyone else had to undergo a brutal series of eliminations to compete for the remaining rankings. Finally, there would be 300 individuals left and in the end these people would be divided into two lists – the Heaven Proclamation and Earth Proclamation.

In essence, there are only 50 people in the first group and Empyrean descendants take up 30 of those positions, leaving behind only 20 spots.

### **Slaughter City**

The first round of eliminations for the finals was at Slaughter City. This was a metal city. This city looked fierce and barbaric, with harsh and bewildering angles. It was red all over and emitted a vast and ancient aura. It was unknown just what type of metal was used to make this.

As soon as this metal city appeared, many of the young elites present felt their hearts shake. Facing this city, they felt all the hairs rise up on their body. It was difficult to summon any courage or confidence in the presence of this crimson city.

This was Vast Universe’s Empyrean spirit treasure! He brought it up from a 100 million year blood pond in a slaughter hell, and it carries with it a terrible slaughter energy! The main battlefield of the true semifinals will be Slaughter City. If one cannot even pass its gates then they have already lost all qualifications to compete.

Before the finals truly began, there would first be a massive round of eliminations. This was a way to simplify the competition without affecting the fairness of it, so that the number of matches was reduced as much as possible.

After the first round of eliminations (entering Slaughter City's Gates) only 890 participants qualified for actual matches. 10,000 people and now 90% were suddenly eliminated!

In the Finals, only 50 Participants remained.

In the first part, everyone would have to fight 18 matches, and the final 10 people would be chosen from this.

The order of the matches in the first part was all dependent on the arrangement of the host, Vast Cosmos. He would try to separate the powerhouses as far away from each other as possible.

Divided into two stages.

Stage 1: Each participant has 18 matches, after which all 50 participants are divided into 2 tiers.

The 1st tier has 10 people and the 2nd tier has 40 people. The finale & Top 10 list will be decided from the 1st tier.

The 2nd tier will undergo a round robin tournament, the top 3 ranked in this tier can then challenge the 1st tier participants to take their spots in the 1st tier.

### **Divine Seal 12 Children**

In the midst of great battle, their were 12 monstrous geniuses that had capitulated themselves away from others. This was a group that defined the potential final participants.

Divine Seal, to become divine, was an extremely vague idea. In general terms, it implied that one had colossal potential and their future achievements would be limitless. But, as for what boundary they would reach in the future, that was hard to say.

This outlook naturally originated from Empyrean Divine Dream’s Divine Seal Decree.

Now that the finals were underway, the two words of Divine Seal could be compressed into 12 people. These were the Divine Seal 12 Children.

The first are three characters that will absolutely become gods in the future: Frost Dream, Xiao Moxian, and Hang Chi. Frost Dream is first, and as for who is weaker between Xiao Moxian and Hang Chi, it is hard to say. However, in terms of potential alone, Xiao Moxian might sweep away everyone present.

After that is Jun Bluemoon and the Monster Prince; they can be ranked fourth and fifth. The rankings after that are a bit difficult to say, and there are too many differing opinions on them. Lin Ming, Dragon Fang, White King, Shiku, Ram Saber, Hua Xuan. But the rankings were yet incomplete since the tournament lacked information on each and all of them.

### **Top 10**

After the 3rd round of the Final top 10, they were further divided into 2 groups, with 6 participants in the 1st group and 4 in the other. They will no longer battle each other between groups, except for the highest ranked of the 2nd group may challenge the lowest rank of the 1st group.

In no particular order, the 2 groups rosters below

 Hang Chi
 Xiao Moxian
 Lin Ming
 Jun Bluemoon

This round of the Divine Realm First Martial Meeting had far surpassed all other times in the past. The several top ranked characters here would all have high chances of becoming Empyreans in the future.

In the past First Martial Meetings, the first ranked Empyrean descendant on the Heaven Proclamation would at most become a half-step Emyprean in the future. As for the first ranked Great World King disciple on the Earth Proclamation, they would usually become a Great World King in the future.

Only in a single First Martial Meeting every million years or so would a true future Empyrean be born.

But in this current First Martial Meeting, three young Empyreans had already appeared. Moreover, once these people became Empyreans, they would not be ordinary Empyreans either. Among them, Xiao Moxian had the greatest potential. In the future, there was a high chance that she would become someone outstanding even amongst the many Empyreans. Although she might not be able to stand on par with Empyrean Divine Dream, she should at least be able to stand evenly with Empyrean Demondawn! This was an unthinkable event.

## Lin Ming's Notable Moments during the Finals

During the group stage, Lin Ming achieved 15 Victories, 0 losses and advanced through the "Pre-Finals"

Defeated Frost Moon in Stage 1's 18 matches

Defeated Ram Saber in his 18th Match of Stage 1

Defeated Lord Monster (Monster Prince) in the first round of the Finals

Defeated Dragon Fang (Long Ya) in the second round of the Finals

Defeated Xiao Moxian in the third round of the Finals

Defeated Jun Bluemoon

Lost to Hang Chi as Lin Ming suddenly entered a state of Enlightenment (Due to Empyrean Divine Seals Soul Fragment).

Fought Frost Dream to a Draw

## **Final Result**

### **Ranking Anomaly**

There were no problems in sorting fourth to tenth place. It was only in the top three that some questions appeared.

If this were according to the rules of the tournament, then Hang Chi, who lost one match and won all others, would have been placed second. As for Lin Ming, he lost one match and tied in another, thus he should have been placed third.

However, if Hang Chi was truly ranked in front of Lin Ming because of the tournament rules, that couldn’t be justified at all. Hang Chi wasn’t willing to accept this either. He was well aware that his victory over Lin Ming in truth shouldn’t have counted.

Hang Chi’s strength had indeed surpassed Lin Ming’s before his deep sleep. But against Lin Ming after his deep sleep, it was clear who was weaker and who was stronger.

Thus, Hang Chi was ranked third.

As for Frost Dream and Lin Ming, both were similar in strength. In the last match, it was impossible to determine victory and defeat. Thus, the results deferred to the tournament rules. Since Frost Dream had one more victory than Lin Ming, she took first place. As for Lin Ming, he took second.

### **Lin Ming's Rise to Power**

When the First Martial Meeting began, Lin Ming had only been at the early Divine Sea realm and he had only reached perfection of the fourth level Fire Laws. He didn’t train in the soul forging system and he certainly didn’t know how to fuse together his essence, energy, and divine.

In this situation, even if Lin Ming were to attend the finals, it would be far too difficult for him to enter the top 10.

However, as he went through the preliminaries, semifinals, and even the finals, Lin Ming made breakthroughs during every stage of the tournament, his strength constantly increasing! Finally, after deeply sleeping for 500 days, he managed to fight Frost Dream to a draw! This was the true meaning of an extreme genius.

Soon, Lin Ming and Frost Dream’s battle was spread out and glorified by the hundreds of millions of people and countless attending influences. In just several days, descriptions of their battle filled the entire Divine Realm.

### **Rewards**

* First place reward was 500 billion violet sun stones
* Third to second, the reward was 300 billion violet sun stones
* Fifth to fourth, the reward was 100 billion violet sun stones
* Tenth to sixth place, the reward was 30 billion violet sun stones
* Top 10 genius disciples could enter into Vast Universe Heavenly Palace, the influence established by Empyrean Vast Universe, and accept the guidance of Empyrean Vast Universe’s chief disciple.
* Top three could obtain the chance to perceive a transcendent divine might. From fourth to tenth place, one could enter into Vast Universe Heavenly Palace and choose to study any top technique beneath a transcendent divine might
* Above that was 50 million violet sun stones. Moreover, there were also many other types of rewards such as spirit artifacts, pills, cultivation method jade slips, and so forth
* Between 900 to 3000, the reward was 20 million violet sun stones and a medal corresponding to their ranking
* Below the top 3000 reward for that was 10 million violet sun stones and a violet sun crystal medal

## Trivia

* The First Martial Meeting was a wild scene that caused everyone to go crazy with emotion. Let alone these martial artists that often resorted to violence to solve all of their problems, even in mortal nations, there was likely to be riots after kickball matches. Once the fans of these kickball matches rose up, it wasn’t strange if dozens or hundreds of people were trampled to death.
* Not every generation of geniuses can encounter the First Martial Meeting. This is because every time the First Martial Meeting is held, the momentum of the event grows far too huge. The consumption of resources and energy is tremendous, thus oftentimes there can be 2000-3000 years between each First Martial Meeting! There are even some great influences that will have their young geniuses enter into time-changing enchantments if they feel that the time for the First Martial Meeting will begin soon. They will have their geniuses come out only when the date for the First Martial Meeting arrives.
* In fact, one of the reasons Lin Ming joined the Divine Realm First Martial Meeting was to experience a much broader stage. He wanted to experience all the peak talents throughout the entirety of the Divine Realm. These geniuses would have endless variations of abilities and tactics, and their comprehension of Laws would be just as varied and strange. The more Lin Ming experienced, the broader his horizons would be.
* This First Martial Meeting may be held by Empyreans but the truth is that only the disciples of the Empyreans are managing affairs. How could an Empyrean possibly bother themselves with such things? Even the rewards for the top 10 are with the direction of Empyrean Vast Universe’s chief disciple. Even if one managed to achieve first place in this First Martial Meeting, they still wouldn’t have the chance to meet an Empyrean. Let alone an incomplete spirit artifact, even if there was only a tiny fragment left over, there would still be a massive number of martial artists chasing after it like a flock of ducks. Even if that fragment had no more function, there would always be people wishing to collect it.
* To an Empyrean that lived for tens or even hundreds of millions of years, it would be hard to arouse their interest with this Divine Realm First Martial Meeting that occurred every several thousand years. They had simply seen far too many First Martial Meetings!

## References🧃

1. ↑ Chapter 1193 – The Heaven Defying Divine Dream Law
2. ↑ Chapter 1214 – The Last Round
3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 Chapter 1178 – The Slaughter Begins
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Chapter 1180 – Ranking
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 1212 – Merit Points Over a Hundred Million
6. ↑ Chapter 1214 – The Last Round
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Chapter 1224 – The Final Result of the Preliminaries
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Chapter 1182 – Lin Ming Makes His Move
9. ↑ Chapter 1217 – Soul Life
10. ↑ Chapter 1216 – Red-furred Monster’s Evolution
11. ↑ Chapter 1200 – Rescue
12. ↑ Chapter 1235 – Without Weapons
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 13.7 Chapter 1237 – The Battle Begins
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Chapter 1242 – Rapid Drop In Numbers
15. ↑ Chapter 1247 – Heroic Youth
16. ↑ Chapter 1243 – Loose Tongues Lead To Trouble
17. ↑ Chapter 1244 – 15 People
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Chapter 1256 – Climbing to the 33rd Step
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 Chapter 1260 – Dragon Fang, Defeated
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Chapter 1265 – Tribulation of Essence, Energy, Divine
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 Chapter 1267 – The Final Stretch
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 Chapter 1278 – The Finals Begin
23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 Chapter 1279 – Slaughter City
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 Chapter 1287 – Divine Seal 12 Children
25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 Chapter 1289 – The Final Battles Begin
26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 26.5 26.6 26.7 26.8 26.9 Chapter 1328 – The Final Result
27. ↑ Chapter 1249 – The Defeated Nether Limitless
28. ↑ Chapter 1154 – The Yan Littlemoon of Years Gone By
29. ↑ Chapter 1157 – Necklace of the Goddess