Follow the path of Dao from infancy Chapter 1889 Chapter 505: Breaking the Hundredth Floor, Challenging the Quasi-Emperor (Part 3)

Li Hao let out a quiet sigh from deep inside.

Next, he unleashed the might of the Formless Realm. Right away, the realm's energy wrapped around him, morphing into a colossal, crushing force that instantly ripped apart the Ancient Demons at the Ninth Level of the Immortal King Realm.

Without stopping, he cleared the current level in a flash and pressed onward to the next.

At the same time, intense clashes erupted throughout the various floors 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 summit, overlooking 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, unmoving, as if they had no desire to tackle the tower's challenges.

The Immortal Immortal Emperor scanned the area briefly before pulling back his eyes. The ones who skipped entering weren't those aware they couldn't climb to the peak, but instead the elites already at the apex, like Di Mingyuan from the Emperor Clan, Dao Qingyin from the Dao Clan, and their peers.

They were certain their standings wouldn't drop below the top hundred, so they avoided needless effort, instead sitting in stillness to fine-tune their peak condition, preparing for the four trials to follow.

Those four stages are vital, set to weed out eighty from the hundred contenders, alongside the eight extra Emperor overseers. Under the watch of ten Emperors in total, no scheme could slip past their scrutiny.

"Ha, those guys have finally started to show their skills?"

Sensing the events unfolding in the Heaven Tower, a faint grin curved the Immortal Immortal Emperor's mouth. Among the entrants, a few had only stepped into the Heaven Tower once, devoting the remainder of their time to cultivation beyond the testing ground.

Others hid their true power, or maybe hadn't pushed hard in the mid-level tests. Now, around the thirtieth floors and up, they dashed ahead, surging into the eighties and nineties at breakneck speed.

"That little fellow has also started exerting effort."

In the group of four or five who blasted through rapidly, the Immortal Immortal Emperor spotted the youth's form, who had leaped from the sixties to the nineties in a blink.

For these Immortal Kings, their baseline hope was hitting the ninetieth floor to qualify; pushing past a hundred would earn the True King honor.

Right now, a vast number of Immortal Kings had smashed beyond the ninetieth level.

Maybe because of the catastrophic times, the destinies of every clan were blooming, raising a wave of elite Immortal King experts.

"It seems this True King selection is interesting, the structure will indeed change,"

the Star Empress stated evenly.

She saw that even those once outside the top ten were now pushing hard, racing forward swiftly. Come the four trials, the fight for the top twenty spots would be fierce!

After all, just the heirs from the top ten clans claimed ten positions, without counting their elders, supreme Immortal Kings, and various reborn quasi-emperors, reborn Emperor masters, and more.

Besides the top ten clans, heirs from other mighty clans were no slouches either. This True King selection meant control over every clan, a shake-up and chance unmatched in 100,000 years; all factions would pour everything into charging ahead.

"These fellows are truly confident,"

the Immortal Immortal Emperor commented coolly, eyeing the forms 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 floor, Li Hao watched as the Ancient Demons' bodies exploded in front of him, tumbling down like falling rain, his expression lost in contemplation.

Past the ninetieth floor, every Ancient Demon stood at Immortal King Perfection, mastering a host of Ancient Demon Secret Techniques, each honed to Great Accomplishment, rendering them extraordinarily formidable. Since the Ancient Demon Clan's Divine Soul already outshone the Ten Thousand Clans, these Immortal King Perfection Ancient Demons had forged 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 had gathered more than 3,000 drops of True God Blood, often getting steamrolled by 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.

It was solely through the era of grasping the Thirteen Levels of Cooking Path, where he kept refining Ancient Demons, that 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 it to the Third Layer, granting a nine times boost!

Should he unleash full power and ignite his True God Blood, the density could hit 36,000 drops. Not even those who maxed out True God Blood, forging a genuine True God, could endure such force.

"Even Immortal King Perfection is this powerful. I wonder what qualitative change there will be in the Quasi-Emperor Realm beyond a hundred layers."

Li Hao's gaze shimmered; he didn't waver, charging straight through the level.

Ancient Demon shapes fell sliced before him, and he sped to the 99th floor. No delay—he wiped out a swarm of Ancient Demons, ignoring how many there were, then stepped onto the hundredth floor.

The realm past the hundredth floor entered the Quasi-Emperor territory.

Floors from the hundredth to the two-hundredth belonged to Quasi-Emperors, while exceeding two hundred hit Emperor Superior tiers.

Beyond two hundred floors hid the Heaven Tower's real might.

Moving forward, Li Hao stepped onto the hundredth floor.

The scene ahead shifted dramatically, stripped of peaks and streams, revealing a tangled Chaos Void.

A tear ripped open, releasing a subtle Emperor's Might!

Li Hao narrowed his eyes, watching a gigantic, jet-black Ancient Demon rise gradually from the tear.

The faint Emperor's Might he'd felt before poured from this being.

"So this is a Quasi-Emperor... I've heard it's already cultivated the Ten Thousand Paths Realm to Perfection, reaching the Tenth Realm!"

"No method across All Heavens can harm it!"

"Unless, a force surpassing the Tenth Realm emerges!"

Li Hao's eyes tightened more; while a Quasi-Emperor had entered the Emperor ranks, against a genuine Immortal Emperor, the gap stretched vast, like tens of thousands of miles.

In simple terms, a Quasi-Emperor commanded the world's endless paths, perfecting every known way.

On paper, they embodied the era's ultimate Great Perfection.

Yet a Quasi-Emperor hadn't forged their personal Emperor Road. Imagine a full water bottle, brimming to the edge without spilling; it held all current qualities but hadn't fused them into something unique or expanded its limits!

And that breakthrough was the Godless Realm!

"This Emperor's Might is as dim as a firefly compared to a true Immortal Emperor."

Li Hao's face grew grave; back with the True Immortal Body in the Southern Domain, confronting that Supreme figure, the weight had been a thousand, ten thousand times heavier than here!

By contrast, this Quasi-Emperor Ancient Demon seemed trivial.

"Perhaps, it's time to try overlapping and blending the Seven Paths Realm to break the contemporary Great Perfection!"

Li Hao pondered silently.

His focus changed; inside, the distinct Seven Paths Realm suddenly layered over each other, as if fusing, and at once unleashed a horrifying Kingly aura!

Even without full integration, this false fusion revealed the King's Domain's potency!