Follow the path of Dao from infancy Chapter 1889 Chapter 505: Breaking the Hundredth Floor, Challenging the Quasi-Emperor (Part 3)
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Deep inside, Li Hao let out a heavy sigh.
Next, he unleashed the might of the Formless Realm. Right away, the realm's energy surged around him, morphing into a colossal, unstoppable force that instantly ripped apart the Ancient Demons at the Ninth Level of Immortal King Realm.
Without stopping for a moment, he wiped out one floor completely and pressed on upward.
At the same time, brutal clashes erupted throughout the various levels of the Heaven Tower.
Beyond the tower's exterior, on its highest point, the Immortal Immortal Emperor and the Star Empress positioned themselves at the peak, staring into the quiet void below.
As the trial kicked off, hordes of figures from diverse clans in the abyss rushed toward the tower. Yet, certain silhouettes stayed back outside, doing nothing, as if they had no desire to tackle the tower's challenges.
The Immortal Immortal Emperor scanned the area briefly before pulling his eyes away. The ones who skipped entering weren't those aware they couldn't climb to the top; instead, they were the elite already at the summit, like Di Mingyuan from the Emperor Clan, Dao Qingyin from the Dao Clan, and similar figures.
They were certain their positions wouldn't drop beyond the top hundred, so they avoided wasting effort and simply sat in stillness, fine-tuning themselves to peak condition while waiting for the next four tests.
Those four trials are vital, since they'll knock out 80 from the 100 contenders, plus the eight extra Emperor overseers. Under the watch of ten Emperors in total, no scheme could slip past their notice.
"Ha, those guys have finally begun revealing their true abilities?"
Sensing the events unfolding inside the Heaven Tower, a faint grin crept onto the Immortal Immortal Emperor's face. Among the entrants, a few had only stepped into the Heaven Tower once, devoting the rest of their time to training outside the combat zone.
Others hid their real power, or maybe didn't treat the middle-stage hurdles with full seriousness. Now, bursting through and past the 30th level, they dashed ahead, hitting the eighties and nineties in no time.
"That young lad is putting in real effort too."
In the group of four or five who surged ahead rapidly, the Immortal Immortal Emperor spotted the youth's form, who had leaped from the sixties to the nineties all at once.
For these Immortal Kings, their original benchmark was clearing the ninetieth level to pass; pushing past a hundred would earn someone the True King honor.
Right now, a vast number of Immortal Kings had blasted beyond the ninetieth level.
Maybe because of this disastrous age, the destinies of every clan were blooming, raising a bunch of elite Immortal King experts.
"Looks like this True King contest will be full of surprises; the overall setup is bound to shift,"
the Star Empress stated evenly.
She saw that even the ones formerly outside the top ten were now pushing hard, racing forward at full speed. Once the four trials arrived, the fight for the top twenty spots would be fierce!
In the end, just the successors from the top ten clans already claimed ten positions, without counting their clan seniors, supreme Immortal Kings, and various reborn quasi-emperors, reborn Emperor experts, and so on.
Besides the top ten clans, the heirs from other mighty clans were no pushovers either. This True King event represents control over every clan, a shake-up and chance not seen in 100,000 years; all clans would pour everything into charging ahead.
"These people are really full of themselves,"
the Immortal Immortal Emperor commented coolly, eyeing the shapes lingering outside the tower.
After that, they turned their attention back to the action inside the Heaven Tower.
Bang!
Under the realm's crushing weight, on the 96th level, Li Hao stared at the Ancient Demon bodies exploding in front of him, dropping like scattered rain, even as his eyes held a contemplative glint.
Past the ninetieth floor, every Ancient Demon reached Immortal King Perfection, mastering loads of Ancient Demon Secret Techniques, all honed to Great Accomplishment, rendering them incredibly formidable. Since the Ancient Demon Clan's Divine Soul already outshone the Ten Thousand Clans, these Immortal King Perfection Ancient Demons had refined True God Blood surpassing 5,000 drops in density.
This was wildly over the top for Immortal King Perfections among the Ten Thousand Clans, where just a handful managed to gather more than 3,000 drops of True God Blood, leaving them almost helpless against their Ancient Demon rivals.
Li Hao regretted that his long years of tough training and study in the Heaven Tower hadn't boosted his True God Blood much, with no chance to prepare Ancient Demon Flesh.
Just in the period of grasping the Thirteen Levels of Cooking Path, where he kept preparing Ancient Demons nonstop, had his True God Blood climbed to 4,000 drops.
Luckily, he possessed the Extreme Dao Chaos and Infinite Emperor Skill passed down by his master.
He had advanced to the Third Layer, granting a nine times boost!
By going all out and igniting True God Blood, the density could hit 36,000 drops. Not even those who fully mastered True God Blood, forging a genuine True God, could endure that.
"Even at Immortal King Perfection, they're this strong. I can't imagine the huge leap waiting in the Quasi-Emperor Realm after a hundred layers."
Li Hao's gaze sharpened, but he didn't waver, charging straight through the floor.
Ancient Demon forms fell sliced before him, and he sped to the 99th floor. Not lingering, he demolished a swarm of Ancient Demons, ignoring how many there were, then stepped onto the hundredth floor.
Passing the hundredth layer enters the Quasi-Emperor territory.
Levels from the hundredth to the two-hundredth belong to Quasi-Emperors, while exceeding two hundred hits Emperor Superior territory.
Beyond two hundred levels hides the Heaven Tower's ultimate strength.
Moving onward, Li Hao stepped into the hundredth floor.
The scene in front of him shifted dramatically, empty of any landscapes or waters, replaced by a complex Chaos Void.
A crack formed, releasing a subtle Emperor's Might!
Li Hao narrowed his eyes, watching a huge, dark Ancient Demon rise gradually from the crack.
The faint Emperor's Might he felt before came straight from this being.
"So that's a Quasi-Emperor... I've heard it already perfected the Ten Thousand Paths Realm, hitting the Tenth Realm!"
"Nothing in All Heavens can touch it!"
"Except for a power that goes beyond the Tenth Realm!"
Li Hao's eyes tightened more; while a Quasi-Emperor had entered the Emperor ranks, against a true Immortal Emperor, the gap was vast, like thousands upon thousands of miles.
To break it down, a Quasi-Emperor commands all the world's paths, achieving Perfection in every known way.
In theory, they stand at the current era's Great Perfection.
Yet a Quasi-Emperor hasn't walked their personal Emperor Road. It's like a full bottle of water, brimming to the edge without spilling over; it holds all current elements but fails to fuse them into something unique and expand to a higher plane!
And that plane is the Godless Realm!
"This Emperor's Might shines dimly like a glowworm next to a real Immortal Emperor's."
Li Hao's face grew serious; back with the True Immortal Body in the Southern Domain, confronting that Supreme figure, the weight felt thousands, even tens of thousands of times heavier than this!
By contrast, this Quasi-Emperor Ancient Demon seemed trivial.
"Maybe it's the moment to attempt layering and fusing the Seven Paths Realm to shatter the current Great Perfection!"
Li Hao pondered silently.
His focus changed; inside him, the distinct Seven Paths Realm suddenly layered over each other, as if starting to fuse, and right then unleashed a horrifying Kingly aura!
Even without a full merge, this fake fusion unleashed the might of the King's Domain!