Divine Staircase

First mentioned in chapter 1570, when the team of Shi Feng, Hidden Soul, and Brute Spear completed the Epic Test for the World Summit and achieved an SS-Rank Clear, receiving an Inferior Legendary Key, which prompted the descend of the Divine Staircase.

## Description

The Divine Staircase is a special trial that allows players to challenge themselves to perform **Exploits** that will grant them the acknowledgment of Gods.  Players can take on the various challenges within the shrines on the staircase and earn **Shrine Points (SPs)** which can be used to exchange for items in the World Summit.

In order to attempt the challenge, players are required to have at least a Bronze Shrine Key. The higher the grade of the shrine key, the more attempts they would get. For example, a Bronze Shrine Key gets 1 attempt, a Mysterious-Iron 2, a Secret-Silver 3, Fine-Gold 4, Dark-Gold 5, Epic 7, and Inferior Legendary Keys get 10 attempts.

There is also a Ranking List which reports on the progress of the top players who had cleared the most floors.

## Appearance

When the Divine Staircase was first activated, multiple pitch-black shrines rose into the air and were connected by numerous staircases. When the shrines stopped moving, the chain of shrines and staircases had extended to the peak of the World Summit.

## Challenges

Each Shrine represents a level and has the same trial. Players are required to reach the teleportation array at the end of the map to leave the trial. Players are restricted from using teleportation skills and are required to rely on their own power to accomplish each trial. Each trial is guarded by a Guardian Boss. The difficulty of the trials slowly increases in the first 10 shrines, but subsequent the difficulty increases with most of the monster going up in ranks and the Guardian Boss becoming stronger in rank and combat power.

Players will earn SPs when they passed the shrine challenges such as completing it, completing it within a time limit and killing the Guardian Boss within the time limit. The number of SP earned increases as players clear higher floors, however, pass the 10th shrine, SP reward only increases every five shrines.

Players will earn Exploits when they exceed their own limits and achieve an amazing feat. Shi Feng had earned 15,000 SPs for being the first player to achieve an Exploit.

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## Divine Hall Exchange

Players are able to exchange their SP for items within the Divine Hall. The following items are available:

* Bloodlines - there were a total of 23 Basic Bloodlines, 8 Advanced Bloodlines, and 2 Peak Bloodlines.
	+ The cheapest Basic Bloodline costs 100,000 SPs and 1 Exploit
	+ The cheapest Advanced Bloodline costs 200,000 SPs and 2 Exploits, with the most expensive costing 260,000 SPs and 2 Exploits.
	+ Peak Bloodline costs at least 340,000 SPs and 3 Exploits each.
* Potions, Designs and Recipes
* Mounts
* Siege Weapons
* God Crystals
* Equipment up to Fragmented Legendary rank.
	+ The cheapest Fragmented Legendary rank item costs 70,000 SPs, while the most expensive cost up to 240,000 SPs and 3 Exploits

## References

== List of References ==

1. ↑ Chapter 1570
2. ↑ Chapter 1571
3. ↑ Chapter 1575
4. ↑ Chapter 1576
5. ↑ Chapter 1578
6. ↑ Chapter 1579
7. ↑ Chapter 1580
8. ↑ Chapter 1570