Final Trial

The **Final Trial** is the grandest danger zone of the Asura Road and is found at the Asura Sea. The event could be called the most important part of the Asura Road world.

Some people even believed that when the Asura Road Master created the Asura Road in the past, it was to develop a foundation for the final trial to continue his inheritance. Because of this, the final trial houses uncountable riches and extraordinary resources beyond one's imaginations. The Final Trial was a true tempering ground for the elites of the Asura Road.

But no matter whether or not these stories were reliable or what the truth was, it was without doubt that the final trial was the grandest event in the entire Asura Road!

### **Tests**

The final trial’s nondiscriminatory trials were the most basic of trials. In these tests where trial challengers would obtain greatly different results from each other, everyone would be placed at the same starting line. Thus, cultivation was secondary compared to one's true absolute talent in the trials.

In this final trial, an endless variety of methods could be brought out to test a trial challenger. Their talent, absolute strength, foundation, comprehension of Laws, all sorts of qualities could be tested here without end. Moreover, every trial had a high martial threshold and the death rate was great even if one was a top genius of their generation. Only a truly prodigious elite of heaven would be able to survive and gain rich rewards in the final trial.

The final trial was extremely dangerous and had a very high mortality rate. These were all things that those who participated were well aware of. But, the heaven-defying lucky chances within were enough to make their eyes go red with envy.

### **God Runes**

According to Soulwhite, the Asura Road the Heavenly Dao rules that govern this world are incomparably strange. Many things have already been set in stone.

Trial challengers can find god runes through certain lucky chances, and once you collect the required specific sets of god runes then that will trigger a chance to enter the final smelting trial. Through this smelting trial, you will be able to obtain the rewards of the Asura Road’s Heavenly Dao.

This is because the person who created the Asura Road is an unimaginable existence. There are even those who speculate that this unknown existence is the master of the 33 Layered Heavens. In short, the rewards of the Asura Road are extremely rich.

### **Spectators**

All the various influences in the Asura Road certainly wouldn’t miss out on such a grand event. If an influence had a disciple participating in the final trial they would certainly come to closely watch the results. Even for influences that didn’t have any disciples participating, they would still come to gather information – information on their enemies’ disciples or their allies’ disciples and how they grew.

Beyond that, there were many curious individuals that came to join in on the fun. This grand event gathered all sorts of heroic individuals. With such a great scene, who would miss out on it?

These people were all outstanding individuals from different influences. There were senior supreme elders and also extraordinary young elites. All of them floated above the sea waters with overwhelming momentum, many of them riding opulent spirit boats and spirit ships.

### **Exit**

In the final trial, the truth was that there was more than one exit path. Besides the largest one, there were many small exits and the trial challengers would be transmitted to random locations. It wasn’t necessarily true they would be transported out to this location.

## **First Level**

This world was covered by a vast canopy of forests, and in these forests were great beasts.

All of this was the test of the final trial’s first level. This was a test with no handicap. It didn’t look at skeletal age, cultivation, or comprehension of Laws. All it tested was one’s absolute strength. If one was weak, then no matter how lofty their talent was they wouldn’t be able to pass.

However, if one has a high comprehension in the Asura Heavenly Dao they could instantly instantly unravel this illusion created by the laws.

The maximum percentage possible from the first level is at 20%.

## **Second Level**

This was the second world of the Asura Road Final Trial. Moreover, as a martial artist arrived here, they would instantly felt a suppression of Laws pushing down on them.

An irresistible strength would envelop their cultivation. An intangible and invisible energy formed a thin film over the cultivation base of a martial artist such as the inner world. Of all the energy they possessed, half of it would be locked.

The source of this was a suppression dependent on one’s skeletal age.

The higher a martial artist’s skeletal age, the more they would be suppressed. If those ancient rulers of sects and families were to enter here, their cultivation might possibly be suppressed to less than .001% of their original strength, making it so that the strength they could use was even less than the juniors’.

## **Gate of Laws**

After reaching the end of the second world, at the line of the horizon, a great metal gate loomed. The Gate of Laws was the tunnel that connected the second level to the third level.

The gate stood tall to the heavens, as heavy and towering as mountains, solemn and majestic. The gate constantly emitted golden rays of light. Countless runes revolved around the gate.

There were often many differences during the rounds of the final trial each time. But, the Gate of Laws always existed every time the final trial opened. All trial challengers had to pass through the test of the Gate of Laws.

One of the rules of this stage was that the Gate of Laws would only open once the majority of trial challengers participating had arrived here. And after they arrived, the trial challengers had to choose over different gates with varying sizes and difficulties. Within the gate was an incomparably vast starry space. Four spatial gates were lined up in the starry space. The smaller the gate, the higher the difficulty - this was the rule of the Gate of Laws.

### **Four Gates**

* Mortal-step Gate
* Earth-step Gate
* Heaven-step Gate
* Asura Gate

These four spatial gates represented four difficulties. From largest to smallest, from easiest to hardest, they were the mortal-step difficulty, earth-step difficulty, heaven-step difficulty, and also the Asura difficulty.

This was an extremely vital part of the Asura Road’s final trial. The rewards dispensed at the Gate of Laws were incredibly rich.

Moreover, from this point on, the results of the trial challengers would rapidly be pulled apart. The powerhouses would go higher and the weak ones would drop lower.

The different difficulties of the Gate of Laws were tremendously different from each other. The easiest difficulty might take only several days to end, but the harder difficulties could take dozens of days.

**Mortal-step difficulty Gate**

Usually, the first group of people that would successfully reach the third level were the weakest of the trial challengers. They were people who chose the easiest mortal step level difficulty, and within the mortal step level difficulty, one only needed to cross the aerial bridge to pass. There was no need to step onto the ancient continent and battle the numerous opponents that manifested from the Laws of the 33 Heavens.

As such, they only needed 3-4 days to pass the Gate of Laws. Afterwards, they could obtain their rewards and enter the fourth level.

* The highest completion percent possible in the mortal-step difficulty was at 25-30%.

**Earth-step difficulty Gate**

Although the earth-step difficulty was only the second level of difficulty, it wasn’t simple at all. Perfectly passing was an extremely difficult task and even many proud children of heaven from various great influences would only be able to complete a part of it.

* The highest completion percent possible in the earth-step difficulty was at 36%.

#### **Asura-step difficulty Gate**

This spatial gate was blood red, like a spinning vortex of blood. The aura it emitted caused one’s heart to shake with fear and dread. Many martial artists would feel a terrifying pressure just by looking at it. They couldn’t keep their eyes on this gate for a long period of time.

After entering this gate, a dark blue ancient plank road stretched to the horizon, vanishing into a boundless sea of clouds. The further a martial artist walked down this plank road the greater the pressure was. On the plank road existed the remnant pressure of the Asura Road Master.

At the end of the plank road existed a vast and ancient continent. At the center of this continent, numerous golden gates stood tall.

These golden gates stretched to the horizon. They covered all the Laws of the 33 Heavens, and this was also the reason why the test from the second level to the third level was called the Gate of Laws.

In the past, Lin Ming had also come to this ancient continent. These golden gates had opened one after another and enemies who represented the Great Daos of the 33 Heavens had appeared.

When Lin Ming defeated all these enemies in turn, the golden gates had disappeared, leaving behind only a single final gate. When this final gate opened, the Black Asura had appeared.

The Black Asura he had ridden a great black dragon and he had also worn deep ruby red armor. His arms and his waist had been wrapped with thick chains.

When Lin Ming first came to the final trial, he had to withstand three spears from this opponent in order to perfectly pass the Asura level difficulty.

#### **Gate of Hell**

This spatial gate was a deep blood red, and even smaller, only a fifth of the Asura level gate’s diameter. Moreover, this spatial gate was smaller than all the other ones present. If so, this meant that it was even more difficult than the Asura level gate. This new smallest spatial gate emitted a horrifying aura, one that affected his soul and nearly ruptured his spiritual sea.

If one had to forcefully describe this new fifth Gate of Laws that had appeared, then calling it the Gate of Hell would be the most appropriate. After Asura was Hell.

This gate was in fact the true 'Gate of Laws'. This is because the extra gate lead to a wisp of a divine soul from Heavenly God Asura.

It was a difficulty far higher than the Asura level; it could even be said to be a Gate of Laws that was specifically opened for Lin Ming. And the examiner of this Gate of Laws was actually the Asura Road Master himself. But the test that the Asura Road Master was giving him was not a battle of strength but a debate of the Laws.

Inside this gate, Lin Ming had contended against Asura through the Heavenly Dao laws, contrasting and comparing the laws that they perceived.

When two martial artists who had reached extremely high attainments in the comprehension of Laws began to engage in a vigorous debate using Law lines, although the eruption wouldn’t sweep through the world with energy that could shatter planets, it would still emit a horrifying aura and momentum that was similar to a martial artist’s billowing blood vitality during the heat of battle. As it lit up the skies, its glory could compete with the sun and moon.

### **Rules**

Within these gates, a martial artist is unable to use external items and has to choose from weapons provided by the trial. At the very start of the trial, one would be transported atop a timeworn cliff, with walls that stretched down to infinity. Beneath the bridge was an impossibly distant valley that he couldn’t see the bottom of.

Moreover, in the bridge there were also hundreds of floating weapons.

There was a sword, spear, saber, dagger, hammer, chain, whip, shield, ruler, and so forth. There could be said to be every type of possible weapon available.

There were even different weapons of the same category. For instance, within spears there were also hard spears, flexible spears, lances, short spears, overlord spears, and so forth. Any weapon that could be thought of could be chosen.

No external items could be used here. One could only choose a weapon available within this trial and rush through the Gate of Laws depending on their own ability. This was the first level of the final trial that tested a martial artist's comprehensive talent and not their absolute strength.

## **Third Level**

After the Gate of Laws was the third level, and the third level had no dangers, only rewards.

The final trial didn’t have dangers on every level. Some levels were designated as reward zones and also to allow trial challengers a place to rest. The third level was such an example. Also, if some people didn’t have full faith they could overcome the fourth level then they could withdraw to the third level until the final trial was over.

The final trial’s third floor was simply a vast white earth, seeming to stretch to infinity and beyond. It didn’t seem like there was anything special here nor were there any dangers.

But, floating in the skies above this white earth were innumerable immortal palaces!

These immortal palaces came in different sizes The smallest were the size of a mortal house, the medium ones were around the size of a royal palace, the larger ones were around the size of large mountains, and the biggest one was even the size of a small planet!

Moreover, the larger an immortal palace was, the more horrifying the aura it exuded. In particular, the immortal palace that was as large as a planet was engraved with countless runes of the Great Dao. Between these endless runes were also reliefs of God Beasts. There were winding Azure Dragons, Phoenixes in nirvana, Kirins running; their numbers and variety were endless.

These reliefs were also covered with runes, all of them giving off an incredibly shocking feeling. It was like there was some spiritual god living within this immortal palace!

According to the completion that a trial challenger had obtained so far, they could enter different immortal palaces.

### **Immortal Palaces**

These immortal palaces filled the heavens like stars. There were large ones and small ones, all of them in varied styles and sizes. If one wishes to enter the immortal palaces, they will need a sufficient completion percentage.

* Thatched hut sized immortal palace - requires at least a 30% completion
	+ For Mortal-step Gate passers
	+ The highest number, the thatched hut sized immortal palace, hung at a generally lower altitude.
* Imperial palace sized immortal palaces - requires at least a 35% completion
	+ For Earth-step Gate passers
	+ As for the larger immortal palaces, the bigger they were the higher they floated.
* Mountain-sized immortal palaces - requires at least a 40% completion
	+ For Heaven-step Gate passers
	+ The second-ranked immortal palace only inferior to the singular plante-sized immortal palace.
* Planet-sized immortal palace - requires at least a 45% completion
	+ The highest ranked immortal palace – the only one of its kind within the third level, the legendary planet sized immortal palace.
	+ For top Asura Gate passers

The largest of these was an immortal palace the size of a small planet and was extremely far from the ground. The inside of this palace was a blue stone road that was directly below the starry skies, ascending to the horizon. Previously, Lin Ming had enlightened himself on the power of the Great Dao that was left behind in the blue stone road. Then, at the center was a dark space where Lin Ming had obtained the Asura blood.

The back exit of every immortal palace in the third level corresponded to the entrance to the fourth level.

## **Fourth Level**

At the fourth level, the dangers would rise to a whole new degree. On the fourth level, it could be said that every step was filled with murderous intent, every step was a life or death crisis. This fourth level was far more perilous than the last two levels.

In these lands there were ghosts, evil races, and all sorts of monstrous beings, all of them having the terrifying strength of a World King and above. Even a squad of outstanding martial artists would fall into perilous situations if they weren’t careful.

Thus, this was the reason why some trial challengers that passed the Gate of Laws would return to the third level even though they knew that the fourth level was abundant with lucky chances. They simply didn’t dare to continue venturing deeper in this cursed land. Once they returned to the third level, this meant that to them, the final trial had ended.

This was a true battlefield that littered with countless treasures from 10 billion years ago, it was an expansive space comprising of different terrains each one different from the other.

The deeper one ventured into the fourth level, the more dangers there were. But correspondingly, the better the lucky chances were.

* Usually, the average completion rate after one reaches and survives the fourth level was at 50%.
* The highest completion percentage in the fourth level was at 60% percentage.

### **Locations**

The world of the fourth level was created by the elemental powers of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Each one of these elemental lands had rare treasures, and every now and then these elemental regions would shift and transform, migrating to other areas. Thus, each time this trial occurred there would be different dangers and different lucky chances.

If one were to spend a great deal of time and effort piecing together a map, at the next final trial that map would only be 20-30% usable.

The fourth level was shaped like a massive rectangle. The trial challengers started on one end and the further they went towards the other end, the deeper into the fourth level they would go and the greater the risks would be. Generally speaking, the passage from the fourth level to the fifth level would always appear around the middle of this rectangle. In other words, as long as one arrived at the middle of the fourth level they would be able to enter the fifth level.

### **Treasures**

The highest artifacts a martial artist could dig up here was at the extremes of True Divinity, and even some of these were items from the abyssal race. It was here that Lin Ming had obtained the Black Dragon Spear and the remains of an extreme True Divinity level abyssal that once fought against Asura.

### **Exit**

In almost every case, the entrance to the fifth level would appear in the middle of the fourth level. As for everything past that, that was a land filled with treasures and lucky chances. However, there was killing intent spread through every inch of land. The strong could journey in, but the weak had to give up.

Once the channel to the fifth level opened, it would also take time to turn around and arrive at the middle.

Moreover, they had to kill a sufficient number of monsters in order to obtain the max completion percentage here.

## **Divine Seal Altar**

Sometimes, the Divine Seal Altar would appear in the final trial and trial challengers would need to climb up to the 30th step in order to proceed to the next level. This was the case for Divine Seal and Lin Ming when they first challenged the final trial of the Asura Road.

During Lin Ming's first final trial, he had needed to climb the Divine Seal Altar from the fourth level to the fifth level of the test.

3.6 billion years ago, Empyrean Divine Seal should also have come to the final trial, and he saw this same scene as he tried to go from the fourth level to the fifth. After climbing the 33 steps, Empyrean Divine Seal had relied upon the comprehensions he obtained here to create his own Divine Seal Altar.

Afterwards, that Divine Seal Altar became one of Empyrean Divine Seal’s lifetime magic weapons.

### **Trial Challengers**

Those that were able to arrive here were all outstanding elites amongst all outstanding elites of the Asura Road. After having gone past the first to the fourth level of the final trial, the participants that could climb the Divine Seal Altar were top geniuses of their respective sects with the weakest of them coming from a lower Empyrean Holy Land.

These people were different from the group of people that Lin Ming accompanied in the semifinals of the Divine Realm First Martial Meeting. At that time at Gravemoon Star, out of all the martial artists that climbed up the Divine Seal Altar, not including Lin Ming and Dragon Fang, the most outstanding genius there had been the Skydark Holy Lands’ Nether Limitless. There weren’t even any Empyrean descendants.

As for Nether Limitless, he was only the core disciple of a Great World King influence. Compared to these core disciples of Empyrean and True Divinity influences, he fell far behind.

From the first to the last step where the space crack leading to the fifth level was at, one would need to climb at least the 31st step to enter, otherwise they would be eliminated. However, according to the previous elimination rates of the trials, not too many people should be eliminated. In other words, the majority of trial challengers should be able to make it to the 31st step.

## **Fifth Level**

In order to survive the life and death slaughters of the fourth level and arrive here, each and every person was a peak character. And the fifth level was actually quite special compared to the previous levels.

After stepping into the fifth level, all trial challengers would be restricted to the early Holy Lord realm whether they were World Kings, half-step World Kings, or peak Holy Lords. The only exceptions would be those below the Holy Lord realm. Their cultivation wouldn’t decrease, rather, some strange Laws fused into their inner world, causing their cultivation to dramatically rise, all the way into the early Holy Lord realm.

From non-discriminatory trials, to the Gate of Laws that had a difficulty based on one’s skeletal age to test talent, to the Divine Seal Altar that was more difficult depending on one’s cultivation in order to test one’s foundation, and now to this fifth level that limited one’s cultivation so that everyone’s cultivation was the same. If so, then on this fifth level what was tested was one’s attainments in cultivation methods and understanding of the Laws.

* Usually, the average completion rate after one reaches and survives the fifth level was at 65-70%

### **Landscape**

Although the space within the final trial changed each time, the fifth level always stayed the same.

The fifth level wasn’t as vast and boundless as he had imagined. Compared to the fourth level, the fifth level was far, far smaller and would only have occupied a tiny corner. In fact, if Lin Ming focuses his sense into a straight line, he could make out the boundaries of this world. This was a broad wilderness. The earth was a desolate wasteland and clouds hung high in the skies, a deep crimson red that seemed as if it would drip blood at any moment.

The surroundings would change dramatically whenever there was a change of guardians.

The fifth level had a multiple space node. If a trial challenger gave up on killing the fifth level’s Overlord, they could retreat to the entrance. After a period of time, the space node would automatically expand and open, forming the channel from the fifth level to the fourth level.

Otherwise, if a trial challenger was able to strike down the fifth level’s Overlord then another spatial node would open, forming the channel from the fifth level to the sixth level.

### **Overlords**

The one who guarded this floor was the Undying Inferno and the Undying Polar Ice Phoenixes. They both had protected the final trial’s fifth level for billions of years.

* **Undying Inferno Phoenix**
	+ In reality, it is an amalgamation of incomparably terrifying Fire Elementals. Although it resembles a phoenix in form, it is in no way a God Beast.
	+ Because it doesn’t possess a main body, it is nearly indestructible. Once a martial artist approaches it, the phoenix will release incomparably blazing hot flames that can instantly scorch a peak Great World King to death. These flames will bake away flesh and skin, tempering the bones into tempered golden bones. And these tempered golden bones will become a puppet of the Undying Inferno.
	+ The Undying Inferno cannot be destroyed, that is true, but every time it attacks it will release the fire essence within its body. Once this fire essence is exhausted, it will turn into a phoenix egg and experience a nirvana in a bath of flames. This is its weakest point and the best time to attack.
	+ Once it exhausted its essence it could undergo a nirvanic rebirth to turn into an ice form monster

These overlords were the reason that no one was able to pass the fifth level in the last billion years. Because of this, to most martial artists, this was the final and most daring level of the Final Trial. In the past, Lin Ming and Sheng Mei had joined forces to bring down the Undying Polar Ice, causing their reputations to soar.

According to the rules of the final trial, the guardian of the fifth level, whether it was in the form of the Undying Inferno or Undying Polar Ice, once it gathered all its strength it would slowly use it all up in a series of attacks. Finally, when its energy was exhausted it would turn into the polar ice egg and the inferno egg.

The polar ice egg and inferno egg represented the lowest point of the guardian’s strength. Almost all of the trial challengers would wait for this moment to attack, the most opportune moment was when the guardian reached its lowest point.

But Lin Ming stood out amongst all trial challengers, this was because after returning to the final trial he had killed the Undying Ice Phoenix before it had turned into an egg. Moreover, he had done this alone. In the history of the Undying Polar Ice, in the 10 billion years of history since it had been created by the Asura Road Master, something like this had never occurred.

## **Sixth Level**

The sixth level – it was a billion year legend. In all that time, no one had set foot in it. Only after Lin Ming and Xiao Moxian had beaten the the final Undying Phoenix Phoenix was this legend broken.

The sixth level was similar to the third level, it was a world filled with treasures that waited those who completed the most difficult fifth level. There were no dangers in the sixth level; it was a place used for rest and for providing rewards.

The sixth level was nothing but chaos. Here, the skies and earth were the same color, fundamentally indiscernible from each other. Only the endless mystical traces of the Laws that covered the world differentiated the surroundings of this level.

The last time Lin Ming was here, he had obtained a reward. The second time was when he had brought the emperor jades of fate to open the seventh level.

### **Asura Inheritance**

Into the center of the sixth level, the earth collapsed and a fathomless abyss appeared. This abyss had no bottom, as if it was a connection to another universe. And from the center of the abyss, a massive black stone statue slowly floated up.

This black stone statue was carved in the shape of an Asura war god. The war god held a dragon spear and wore a suit of black battle armor. His body was covered in ferocious scales and he stood upon a Divine Dragon. His entire being overflowed with an ancient and savage aura, one that shocked the mind and made one feel fearful.

On the armor of this war god, there were three small grooves placed in a row.

On the side of these grooves were words that spoke of the requirements for obtaining the road master's legacy. Only by obtaining three emperor jades will one be able to reach the seventh and final level. Of course, the requirement was that a person had to be 'fated' in order for them to collect all three jade slips. For those that were fated, even if they didn’t search for the emperor jades, the emperor jades would look for them instead. And for those that weren’t fated, even if the emperor jades were placed in their hands they still wouldn’t recognize it.

## **Seventh Level**

The seventh and final level of the Final Trial, one couldn't help but speculate on what that place would look like. Moreover, with such a strict requirement the place was bound to have a world-defying trial or a supreme reward.

Would this be a test with a heaven-defying difficulty, or would it purely be rewards?

However, the final level was far from anyone's wildest imaginations.

This was a pure gray world. The sky was disorderly and the earth was barren. In the land, rows of graves were lined up, tens of thousands of them. These graves occupied a square area of land. They were all of the same gray and black stone, a solemn and reverent atmosphere swirling around them.

The seventh level was actually a vast cemetery that buried tens of thousands of ancient kings who had fallen in the great calamity of the 33 Heavens 10 billion years ago.

But, even after 10 billion years passed, these tombstones remained whole. The only difference was that one could feel the breath of endless years coming from the elegant writings carved into the stone. One could speculate that they were protected by an array formation or if the tombstones were forged from some type of special rock. Otherwise, the tombs would have broken down to nothing after 10 billion years.

After these people died in the great calamity, someone had specifically built graves for them. This was because after that great war, it became too difficult to find their corpses, thus these tombs were only filled with clothes and other objects to serve as mementos to their previous existence.

When Lin Ming came here, he had strolled through the countless fallen powerhouses, feeling the desolutness of death. He saw many outstanding figures of the ancient past. Their origins and lives were briefly described on their graves. They came from different universes of the 33 Heavens, and each one of them was a ruler of their era, a king of their time!

Their strength was far beyond that of the Empyreans of the present.

But of these people, only a small number had their bodies buried here. Most of these graves were filled with battle armors, weapons, clothes, or some other objects that the grave master used before their death. There were even some people that only had a tombstone as a marker, with nothing inside at all.

In addition, on their epitaphs, the words ‘33 Heavens calamity’ appeared more than once.

A list of the powerhouses known to be buried here:

* Xiu Kao - Extreme Emperor Heavens’ Reverent White Arc
* Yuan Chun - Sky Zenith Heavens’ Demon Concubine
* Martial Saint Huang Qi
* Cold Ice Fairy Yun Meng

### **Starry Skies**

As one moved deeper into the cemetery, one could notice a light gray fog that wafted in the air. After moving forwards, the fog would gradually diverge and a great cliff could be seen at the end of these tombstones.

And beneath this cliff was not an abyss, but an endless starry space. This sort of feeling was as if a part of an ancient continent was thrust into space, and here was where it broke off.

Looking at the trillions of stars that shined in the distance. As they sparkled in the far-off distance, they seemed cold and lonely. They had existed there for a long time, and would continue existing.

And in this starry space, a massive white altar floated. It was as large as a planet and was like a pyramid in shape. From the top to the bottom, the altar consisted of 33 steps - this was the Divine Seal Altar.

For all this time, the original Divine Sea Altar that Heavenly God Asura created was in fact stored in the seventh level of the Final Trial.

## Completion Percent

When the exit passage closed, the heavens and earth began to change. Countless Asura Law lines began to gather from all over, forming massive words in the endless skies above the Asura Road.

These words were each a thousand miles large and stretched out for hundreds of thousands of miles. They filled the entire Asura Sea with a magnificent and overpowering momentum, ancient and boundless!

What these words recorded were the completion percentages of those young heroic elites of the world.

After the Asura Road’s final trial ends, the Asura Road’s Heavenly Dao will inform every existence in this world about the results of those martial artists that have completed above 70%. The Heavenly Dao will also inform the world of their name and cause their name to rise to fame. Usually, as long as a martial artist could enter the fifth level then their completion percentage could reach 65% or even 70%.

### **70% Completion Percentage**

As long as one could obtain at least 70, that was an extremely good result. If Bigflame and the Divine Void Crown Prince hadn’t been massacred by Lin Ming on the fourth level, their final completion percentage might be around 75%.

No matter what influence one came from, a completion percentage of 70% was extremely shocking. In the future, this completion percentage would be a brilliant record and banner of their successes, one that hung over their road of martial artists. They would be given glory and assigned more resources, and this completion percentage would be highly beneficial to their future growth. Moreover, the rewards for obtaining a 70% completion rate were extremely rich, enough to arouse the envy of many people.

If there was a sect who had a trial challenger that reached 77-78%, this would meant that in the future they would reach the half-step Empyrean realm, and there was even a considerable chance they would become an Empyrean.

The birth of an Empyrean. In an Empyrean level influence, there was no need to mention how important this was. They would unhesitatingly spend every resource possible to chase after such a goal.

As for a completion percentage of 79, that was even more exaggerated. Such a character had an extremely high possibility of becoming an Empyrean and perhaps even a powerhouse amongst Empyreans.

However, only an unrivalled genius of an entire race would be able to surpass 80%.

### **80% Completion Percentage**

That was a mythical score. Although there was only a single percent between 80% and 79%, the truth was that it was as far as the heavens and earth. In the last 100 million years, there were several such people who had appeared with this score, and nearly all of them had become Empyreans, with many close to becoming True Divinities.

Before the start of the War Against the Saints' only two people have managed to surpass 80% in the final trial for the last 100 million years. One of them is the Saint Son Wumo and the other is Sheng Mei. Wumo had an 81% completion rate and the Soul Empress had an 83% completion rate.

Coincidentally, both of them appeared 30 years ago prior to the time that Lin Ming entered the Asura Road at the age of 40-50.

### **90% Completion Percentage**

Disregarding 90, even 85 was incredibly rare in the world. Before, in the eyes of the trial challengers, 85 was a nearly unachievable goal.

 It seemed that after reaching 90, any further growth was extremely difficult. Compared to the previous times, completion percentage was twice as hard to obtain.

If this were true then Sheng Mei even suspected whether 100% completion was possible in the final trial.

A completion rate of 92%. To most people, this couldn’t even be described as a legend. It was simply outrageous.

Imagine. A future True Divinity needed 85%-87%. This was completely different from 92%. Whether it was 70 to 80, or 80 to 90, there was a distance as great as the heavens and earth between them. It was almost impossible to look up at a score as high as 92%

### **Lin Ming's First Final Trial**

When Lin Ming entered the final trial, all of his scores reached the highest possible level.

* *Third Level*
	+ After Lin Ming had completed the Asura Gate of Laws his completion percentage reached 45. This was proven when he was able to step into the planet-sized immortal palace.
* *Fourth Level*
	+ After crossing the fourth level and killing so many monsters, his completion rate had risen to 60%.
* *Divine Seal Altar*
	+ Then, after climbing up the 33 steps of the Divine Seal Altar, his score had risen to 75%. Up until then, his score had been perfect.
* *Fifth Level*
	+ Initially, he had obtained 85% completion during the Undying Inferno Phoenix trial. Compared to Sheng Mei who had an 86% completions percentage, he was a tad off.
	+ This was because on the fifth level the one leading the force and also the one with the greatest role had been Sheng Mei. Facing the Undying Inferno, whether it was defending or attacking, it was almost Sheng Mei alone. No matter how much everyone tried to support her, they were just that – supporting actors. Thus, Lin Ming obtained another 10% but Sheng Mei’s score rose by 16%. After combining everything, Lin Ming was slightly worse.
	+ He obtained 92% completion after the Undying Polar Ice trial. He was ahead of both Sheng Mei and Xiao Moxian, who has 89% and 87% respectively.

## Trivia

* The difficulty of the Gate of Laws was disgustingly abnormal. Even the sixth revolution Sheng Mei was barely able to perfectly complete the heaven-step difficulty.
* Xiao Moxian had followed after Soul Empress Sheng Mei and chose the heaven step difficulty. However, Soul Empress Sheng Mei had passed the trial far more calmly than Xiao Moxian had. But the reason for this was because Xiao Moxian wasn’t familiar with the situation in the trial like Sheng Mei was, which inevitably caused her to use up a great deal more strength, even injuring her origin energy a little. Even so, Xiao Moxian had still perfectly passed the heaven step difficulty and obtained a high completion percentage.
	+ Particularly the abnormally difficult Asura Gate. Lin Ming already had an extremely high level of talent and also understood the Asura Heavenly Dao, which gave him a massive advantage. But even so, he had nearly lost his life in order to pass.
* The Asura level difficulty was something even Soul Empress Sheng Mei could only complete a portion of. And if one completed only a portion, they could only choose the second rate mountain sized immortal palaces or the third rate imperial palace sized immortal palaces.
* Lin Ming was a fabled existence within the Asura Road. In billions of years, he was the only final trial challenger who had managed to obtain a completion rate above 90%. This was before the Asura Sea War and when the difficulty was absurdly high.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 1429 – The Final Trial
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Chapter 1963 – Entering the Gate of Laws
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 1688A – Taunt
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 1965 – The Final Gate
5. ↑ Chapter 1680 – Asura Difficulty
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Chapter 1968 – Entering the Immortal Palace Once More
7. ↑ Chapter 1689 – Flying Towards the Immortal Palace
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Chapter 1697 – Black Dragon Spear
9. ↑ Chapter 1713 – Climbing the Divine Seal Alta
10. ↑ Chapter 1715 – Sheng Mei’s Thoughts
11. ↑ Chapter 1728 – Ice Egg
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Chapter 1978 – Fighting the Undying Polar Ice Once More
13. ↑ Chapter 1717 – Overlord
14. ↑ Chapter 1979 – Opening the Seventh Level
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Chapter 1980 – Emperor Cemetery