Transmigrating over ten thousand years late, I was forced to become a mighty presence - Chapter 289

Chapter 289: Chapter 142: Breaking Through Twelve Levels_1

At the entrance of the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda corresponding to the Zhongyang Market, hundreds, if not thousands of cultivators gathered.

With the opening of the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda for trials, all the Primal Chaos Energy on earth was retracted, leaving only a residual amount in the sky for the Spirit Refining True Beings to collect.

Under such circumstances, the land, initially suppressed by the Primal Chaos energy, was repaired by the united efforts of many cultivators using their Divine Skills. Afterwards, they began to establish small gathering spots around the perimeter of the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda, allowing easier access for the cultivators attempting to ascend.

Despite the continued hustle and bustle of the three major markets located fifty li away from the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda, they cannot rival the convenience these small gathering spots offer.

Merely ten days later, these gathering spots busied up significantly due to the influx of cultivators coming and going to attempt the trials in the pagoda.

Members of the nine major sects including Purple Mysticism Grotto Bright Heavens Wen TianTai, Taiyuan Xuanchen Liew Hang, and others gathered in an inn at one of those gathering spots outside the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda.

All the prodigies sitting at the round table in the inn had mostly lost their former arrogance, their faces etched with traces of lingering fear from their run-ins with danger.

Wen TianTai emptied his cup of spirit wine in one gulp and spoke to the other sect prodigies with a bitter face:

“It has been a full nine thousand years since the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda was last opened. The elders within our sect have either ascended to the Upper World for a carefree eternal life or have already perished. There are no survivors who experienced the previous trial in the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda.

I only found some records of the trials in the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda in the scripture depository of our sect.”

“These trial records all indicate that the demand for cultivation level in the trial of the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda isn’t high. As long as you reach the corresponding cultivation level of each level, there is a chance to complete the trial.

However, the whole process can prove to be excessively difficult before grasping the rules of the trial.

At that time, I didn’t take the messages left by the predecessors of my sect seriously due to my arrogance. I now understand that those who managed to leave records in the scripture depository were esteemed figures of their time. In comparison, I, a mere common disciple, viewed the difficulty of the trial with contempt due to my overbearing arrogance.”

The words of Wen TianTai immediately drew responses from the other cultivators present.

“The trial at the Mortals Gate is exceedingly difficult; it’s not something a commoner could possibly handle!”

“When I attempted the ninth floor, I coincidentally fell into the battle which happened 38,000 years ago between the Hunyuan Sect and the Qishan Divine Venerable. Although it was only a small battlefield of the great war, the battlefield contained several hundred Spirit Transmutation cultivators.

My task was to guard the site of the Hunyuan Sect for three days until aid arrived. This type of historical trial is simply not something a common Spirit Transmutation cultivator can complete.”

“The battle between the Hunyuan Sect and the Qishan Divine Venerable? That’s a trivial matter.

The historical trial I got involved in was the founding battle of the Great Yin Imperial Dynasty. I had only just been involved and hadn’t even had the time to discern my surroundings yet when I was beheaded by a general of the Great Yin Imperial Dynasty.”

“I didn’t have an extravagant experience like yours. I was cast into an event that occurred just over five thousand years ago, which was only a major sect competition.

As long as I could defeat my opponent who was also at the Spirit Transmutation Realm, I would be able to pass the trial.

But I would have never thought that my opponent would turn out to be a young version of Kuang Tianjie, the master of the Blood River Yuan Slaughter Path.

Even though he and I were at the same stage of cultivation, I was unable to withstand even three of his moves and was directly killed by his Blood God Dafa.”

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Everyone discussed excitedly about the trial in the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda, exchanging the information gained during the historical trials, and discussing the approaches to breaking through those historical trials.

“I’ve heard some solutions concerning the battle of the Hunyuan Sect that you mentioned, Brother Chen.

Every station of the Hunyuan Sect has the Hunyuan Great Formation, a defense-focused, fifth-rank formation. If you can find it and activate the formation, withstanding for three days shouldn’t pose a problem.”

“The founding battle of the Great Yin Imperial Dynasty? I’ve also heard a bit about this historical trial. It seems that whoever is part of the Great Yin Dynasty can conceal their real identity by exhibiting the dynasty’s luck.

However, for cultivators from other sects like us, it’s an impossible trial.”

“The young Kuang Tianjie once traveled to different major sects to secretly learn the skills to suppress sects. Your trial experience may not necessarily require you to defeat him.

As long as you can withstand his attacks for a few moves, then lure him into using his demon-path methods, Kuang Tianjie will naturally expose his secrets, and sect strongmen will intervene. By that time, you will be able to complete the trial.”

While these proud sons of heaven had some understanding of the solutions for the trials from their retrospection after the trials, facing the perilous circumstances of actual historical events made it difficult for them to quickly find the breakthrough methods during the short period of the trial.

All nine Spirit Transmutation Realm Cultivators present, who were already high-level forces participating in the trials of the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda, had all failed in their attempts at the ninth trial.

The ninth trial, under normal circumstances, should correspond to the difficulty at the Peak of Qi Refining and should be easily completed by these Spirit Transmutation cultivators.

But reality told a different story.

Unless they managed to swiftly decipher the key clues in the flow of historical trials, these Spirit Transmutation cultivators only found their end within those historical trials.

They were not the only ones facing such hardship; almost all of the cultivators met the same challenges.

Some cultivators, after failing to ascend the tower, managed to find solutions to the historical trials by gathering various types of information externally. However, when they decided to attempt the trials in the pagoda again, they found that the historical trials had changed, posing another brand new challenge.