C343 Life and Death

"This year, if I'm not mistaken, the content of the stone platform is the origin, and the origin is also one of the Three Thousand Great Daos. I don't think there are many among these young people who can comprehend something." The Lord Prefect was guessing the contents of the last trial of the year.

"I can't say for sure. However, if they can understand something from it, it will indeed be beneficial for their cultivation." The Vice-Leader wasn't sure that the content of the stone platform this year would be about the Dao of Origin.

This was the last trial of Freshmen Trial. It was set up by the first Palace Lord of Qian Yuan Academy in order to test the comprehension ability of the new disciples. The various scriptures of the Great Dao on the stone platform were all placed by the seniors of Qian Yuan Academy.

Every year, when the new students arrived here, the stone platform would randomly choose a scripture for them to comprehend, but the contents of the scriptures placed by the seniors weren't complete. They were basically just the beginning of the scripture.

After all, there were some scriptures that even the Qian Yuan Academy did not have a complete collection.

The depth of the content of the scriptures every year was also different. For example, when minor scriptures such as the Dao of Rainwater appeared, then the number of new students who could comprehend its mysteries would greatly increase.

The Dao of Life and Death belonged to the category of the Great Dao. Not only were the rules complicated, but even the scriptures were extremely obscure. It was extremely difficult for a newborn to comprehend the profoundness of the scriptures through the opening chapter, and this was a great test of the comprehension of the learner.

The Wu Tingyang that the two manor lords mentioned, the content of Freshmen Trial that year was the Dao of Life and Death. At that time, he was the only one who had successfully comprehended the simple meaning of the Dao of Life and Death, and the other New Hegemones had only touched upon some clues.

From this, it could be seen how difficult it was to comprehend the Dao of Life and Death. Actually, the fact that Wu Tingyang had been able to comprehend the fourth step of the Dao of Life and Death had truly shocked the world. One must know that even the elders of the academy might not have been able to comprehend it to such a depth.

Wu Tingyang's comprehension ability was truly terrifying.

Although the Dao of Origin that the two Palace Lords were talking about was also within the scope of the Great Dao, the difference between the Dao of Origin and the Dao of Life and Death was immeasurable.

That was why they thought that if the content of this year was about the Dao of Origin, the new students would probably be able to comprehend it to the sixth step.

As for what they said about the number of steps to comprehend, it was in fact the initial level of understanding of a Dao. It didn't mean that they had completely grasped a Dao.

The preliminary comprehension was divided into ten steps. Within the ten steps, only cultivators had a rough understanding of a Dao. However, they couldn't actually use it.

To be more accurate, within ten steps, it was just a person's understanding of a path. Every person had their own understanding of a path, so the level of understanding of a path varied from person to person.

If someone could comprehend a Dao to the tenth step, then his understanding of the Dao would be very deep. He would already have the hope to grasp the Dao.

As long as the practitioner's comprehension was extraordinary, there was a chance of planting the Dao foundation in the practitioner's heart once he reached the tenth step. Cultivators at this level were already able to make use of a portion of the Dao they had comprehended.

If a cultivator mastered a Dao, then his combat strength would also increase by several folds. For example, how much of the combat strength of the Energy Shaping Realm was determined by the amount of Sanhua condensed.

And once one reached the Earth Surge Realm, most of the cultivators would be able to successfully condense three Divine Flowers. At this time, whoever grasped a path would be considered as one of the best in the Earth Surge Realm.

Dougan Heart Seed was also a necessary condition for the conflict between the earth and the sky, and those Phenomenal Stage Experts were existences who had mastered at least one Great Dao.

And the fabled taboos, who have understood their own Great Way, are therefore themselves a part of the Great Way they have understood.

That was the level of integrating the body with the Dao. However, at the level of the forbidden beings, they could only integrate themselves into one Great Path.

Therefore, although some of the Phenomenon Ascendants had mastered several Great Daos, in the future, they could only choose one of them as their direction.

...

At the Center Of The Trial Grounds.

Lee Zhuohua and the others were the same as the other teams as they focused their attention on the high platform in the middle. Although they did not know what mysteries this high platform had, they could only wait at this moment.

"Ascending Heaven, I wonder what kind of test it will be." Lee Zhuohua's eyes locked onto the high platform, guessing in his heart.

"I wonder what the content will be. Although the people of the Demon Realm are slightly lacking in comprehension, if it comes to something related to Qi or strength, then I don't have any shortcomings." The Mad Demon stared solemnly at the high platform. He knew very well that his comprehension ability could not compare to Track Of Ren Yun's, but he still hoped that the content of the high platform would be what he was good at.

"Hmph, no matter what it is, the two of them can't beat me in terms of comprehension." Track Of Ren Yun slightly retracted his gaze, and thought in his heart.

Just as everyone was paying attention to the high platform.

"Buzz ~"

The originally quiet platform began to tremble. Streams of mysterious fluctuations began to spread out from its body, as if something was about to appear on the platform.

"Hmm?" Lee Zhuohua sensed the fluctuations on the high platform and looked up.

"He's here. What could it be?" The Mad Demon also noticed the abnormality on the high platform.

"No matter what the content is, I will definitely win in the final trial." After Ren Yunzhu noticed the abnormal movements on the stage, he still had this thought in his heart.

The tremor of the platform was so slight at first that some people did not notice it, but gradually the tremor of the platform began to grow more violent, and the oscillations began to become somewhat disordered.

At this time, all the teams noticed the change on the platform, and they were all surprised.

"Boom."

Under everyone's watchful gaze, the platform, after a single chime, burst forth with a dazzling light, and then, one by one, words of gold began to appear, densely packed together.

Everyone who saw this held their breath. They didn't know what the words on the platform were, because each of them had a mysterious aura about them that made it impossible to tell what they were.

"What are those?"

"It seems to be words. Is this the Ascending Heaven?"

Some people started to ask questions because they couldn't clearly see the text on the high platform. However, just as they were puzzled by this, the text on the high platform suddenly collapsed.

After that, each golden word quickly rushed towards the crowd from the high platform. These words seemed to have their own thoughts, as they found their target in the crowd and rushed over one by one.

Before anyone could react to what was going on, the golden words had already rushed into everyone's body.

"This?" Lee Zhuohua was also puzzled when he saw the golden words, especially when he saw a word entering his chest. He was even more surprised.

The Mad Demon and the Track Of Ren Yun seemed to have long since understood that such a thing would happen, so their expressions were not very surprised.

But the others were shocked by the suddenness of the situation. They could not understand what was going on, how the words had entered their bodies.

When everyone didn't know what to do, the high platform shook again.

Then, some more words appeared, and these words were different from the golden ones from before. They were not shrouded in a mysterious aura, so everyone could clearly see what those words were.

"Dao of Life and Death, three days to comprehend."