106: Primordial Stele

Four days ago · East Heavenly Gate.

Trace-less stood on the deck of the flying boat, his knuckles unconsciously gripping the icy ship railing.

Beneath his feet, this silver-flowing Time-Space Magical Artifact was tearing through the sea of clouds at ten thousand times the speed of light!

The ancient time dao patterns engraved on the hull rippled in the Void Realm, visible to the naked eye, distorting and stretching the stars it passed.

Behind the flying boat, it dragged a brilliant trail of light that spanned the galaxy, resembling a time-space corridor leading to myth!

"We have arrived."

Wang Minghui flicked his sleeves, and the flying boat switched from extreme motion to absolute stillness, without even a hint of inertia.

A hundred miles ahead, a golden light screen that filled the heavens and isolated Yin and Yang stood tall—the East Heavenly Gate of the Heaven-Defying barrier!

Above the light screen, trillions of mysterious runes flickered in and out of existence, each rotation emitting destructive fluctuations that caused Trace-less's Divine Soul to freeze!

A single leak of that power would be enough to return a Small World to Chaos!

Trace-less's pupils contracted sharply.

Even from a hundred miles away, the giant bronze archway embedded in the light screen was incredibly clear!

Eighteen lifelike bronze Dragons coiled around the door frame.

Every dragon scale breathed with space runes, and the fist-sized time-space crystals embedded in the dragon eyes emitted a terrifying pressure that froze time and space!

Beneath the archway, a towering, pitch-black stele that seemed to devour all light pierced the clouds!

On the surface of the stele, billions of starlight points flowed and swirled slowly.

Staring intently, it seemed as if an endless galaxy was compressed and imprisoned within!

"The primal divine stele."

Wang Minghui's voice carried a hint of awe from the depths of his Soul.

He pointed to the black square stele, "This is the gateway of the Heaven-Defying barrier, and also a supreme treasure of Taichu. Legend has it that it has existed since the birth of the Taichu Divine Continent. It can discern the root bones, talent, and potential of living beings, exhausting all possibilities to provide the fairest assessment. Each of the four Heavenly Gates has a stele, and within the Taichu Divine Continent, every Divine Realm has a sub-stele standing. Those with excellent assessments can receive abundant fortune bestowed by the divine stele!"

The flying boat slowly approached, and the scene around the Heavenly Gate became clear.

With the divine stele as the absolute core, a super-giant city spanning a thousand miles sprawled across the land!

In the air, countless strange flying Magical Artifacts shuttled back and forth: there were metal Rocs that blotted out the sky, agile crystalline giant fish, and even some directly piloting miniature floating divine mountains!

On the ground, the crowd surged like a boiling ant colony, and the clamor and sounds of energy collisions were deafening.

What shocked Trace-less even more was the aura of these pedestrians—experts of the Feather Transformation Realm were as numerous as fish in the river!

Among them, there were several auras as deep as the ocean, obscure and unfathomable, clearly terrifying existences who had touched the threshold of the Myriad Dao Realm!

"In the Eastern Extreme Heaven Ruins Continent, among the three thousand six hundred domains, anyone who calls themselves a Prodigy gathers here to fight for a future."

Wang Minghui's mouth curled with a hint of cold mockery, "Unfortunately, eight or nine out of ten cannot even cross the first threshold of the divine stele. These people think that by piling up ten thousand feathers of brute force, they can pass as the real thing? Little do they know, in the eyes of the primal divine stele, only true Origin potential and supreme dao foundation are the entry passes!"

The flying boat landed silently on top of a silver-glowing time-space rune tower in the west of the city.

The runes on the tower flowed, refracting dreamlike halos under the sunlight.

The moment the cabin door opened, a thick, almost liquid-like Origin Qi rushed toward them.

Its concentration was more than a hundred times that of the outside world!

"Take this."

Wang Minghui tossed over a token flowing with mercury luster, with seven tiny time-space crystals flickering on the edge, "A Time-Space Divine Temple reception token. With this, you can enter the Heavenly Gate without testing. However..."

He looked deeply at the primal divine stele that suppressed the heavens and earth, "I suggest you go and test it first. The divine stele's assessment has a great guiding effect on your future dao path."

Trace-less rubbed the dao patterns containing vast time-space power on the token and suddenly asked: "Senior, what was your assessment back then?"

Wang Minghui's silver eyebrows raised slightly, and a trace of distant memory flashed in his eyes: "Eight thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye... At that time, I was over two thousand years old, at the Peak of Feather Transformation, and my total score on the divine stele was—three million one hundred and seventy-eight thousand."

He raised his hand and pointed to the faint golden ranking list at the top of the divine stele that emitted brilliant Divine Might, "Now I am ranked twenty-three million five hundred and nine thousandth on the historical total list of the Eastern Extreme Heaven Ruins Continent."

He paused, looked at Trace-less, and said with profound meaning, "This list is the potential ranking of all Feather Transformation Realm experts in the Eastern Extreme Heaven Ruins Continent throughout history! You are still in the Spirit Refining Realm, so you don't need to compare yourself with these 'monsters' who have long stood at the Peak of the Feather Transformation Realm."

Trace-less stared intently.

At the top of the divine stele, ten rows of golden names condensed from pure Law power hung high, each name emitting a terrifying pressure that suppressed the ages and severed time and space:

[Eastern Extreme Heaven Ruins Continent Feather Transformation Realm Potential Ranking · Eternal Total Order]

1st Place: Xiao Tiance (Bone Age: 23) Total Score: 99.99 million!

2nd Place: Ye Hongchen (Bone Age: 26) Total Score: 95.586 million

...

10th Place: Fang Xinghe (Bone Age: 30) Total Score: 88.423 million

"Monsters..."

A monstrous wave surged in Trace-less's heart.

His own combat power was 1.87 million feathers, and he considered himself invincible in the Myriad Laws Realm.

Yet, compared to those names on the list that shone through the ages, the gap was like a firefly to the bright moon!

How exactly was this divine stele score calculated?

But one thing was certain—those who could reach the top of this list must be peerless Prodigies who mastered Origin Law and had Heaven-Defying Luck!

Seeing those bone ages that were shockingly young, Trace-less was shocked but not suspicious.

The Feather Transformation Realm required the Law to be Perfection.

But the world was vast, with infinite opportunities.

Peerless Prodigies favored by heaven and earth could achieve an Epiphany of the Origin in a few decades and ascend to Feather Transformation—that was not a myth!

Moreover, this was the ultimate ranking that spanned endless eras and encompassed the entire Eastern Extreme Heaven Ruins Continent!

In the long river of time, it was not strange to give birth to such monsters!

Wang Minghui seemed to perceive his thoughts and said slowly: "Don't rush, your dao path has just begun, and there is a long way to go. Those who can enter the top one hundred thousand of this historical total list eventually... all become giants of the holy dao!"

The old man's eyes flashed with brilliance, undisguisedly admiring, "Just the fact that you touched the Origin Law while in the Spirit Refining Realm is already shocking! Let alone..."

His eyes were like torches, locking onto Trace-less, "Ninth-rank Divine Thought! Looking at the entire Taichu Divine Continent, for so-called Prodigies, seventh or eighth rank is already rare. Even for top sects and eternal families, those who can achieve ninth-rank Divine Thought in this realm are few and far between in a generation!"

He stroked his silver beard, his tone filled with expectation: "The current generation of the Time-Space Divine Temple, apart from you, those with ninth-rank Divine Thought can be counted on one hand. Your future will definitely not be inferior to those names on the list. The top priority is to solidify your Foundation."

As he spoke, he handed over three more jade bottles.

The bottles were warm and moist, with faint radiance flowing, "These three bottles of supreme Spirit Refining Divine Pills will help you advance to the Great Perfection of the Spirit Refining Realm within three days! After that, it won't be too late to test your combat power."

Wang Minghui's eyes were filled with even stronger anticipation, "At that time, I will personally accompany you to meet that primal divine stele!"

Trace-less took the jade bottles.

During these few days on the flying boat, he had been refining the Spirit Refining Divine Pills given by Wang Minghui, and his cultivation had reached the seventh heaven of the Spirit Refining Realm.

The new pills in his hand were of a completely different quality!

As the bottle stopper opened slightly, a strange fragrance that made the Divine Soul clear and seemed to wash the dao foundation permeated the air.

The pills in the bottle were plump and round, the pill patterns on the surface moved like living things, emitting warm and vast Soul Power fluctuations.

"Supreme Spirit Refining Divine Pill."

Wang Minghui dissipated into a silver light, his lingering voice echoing, "Your ninth-rank divine sense tree has a truly astonishing appetite. The low-grade Spirit Refining Divine Pills I have accumulated for many years are almost 'eaten' empty by you. With these three bottles, reaching the Great Perfection realm will be a matter of course!"

The warm touch of the pills came from Trace-less's fingertips.

The treasures in the bottle, containing massive amounts of pure Soul Power, were quietly waiting for him to absorb and refine, accumulating power sufficient to shake the universe for the upcoming divine stele assessment!