Martial Ascent to Divinity-Chapter 570 - 553: Benefits

This trial belongs to the "Consciousness Trial," which generally only appears in high civilizations.

The trial taker’s body remains outside, but their consciousness, spirit, martial arts will, memory, etc., will enter and be enhanced within.

Once the trial is completed, consciousness returns to the body, and with a little cultivation, full integration can be achieved.

Aside from not directly enhancing the physical body, the consciousness trial can enhance every other aspect.

After receiving all the information about the trial ground, Zhou Leng realized that the intensity of this trial ground is somewhat outrageous.

It’s said to be prepared for Qi Blood Realm trial takers, but in reality, it completely stays at the Innate Realm level.

The so-called "Qi Blood Realm level" of the Celestial Ladder uses high-level life forms of the starry sky as the standard.

Even a regular genius, before Zhou Leng advances to the Innate Realm, wouldn’t reach the standard.

Only geniuses at least at the level of the Three Sons of Ancient River can pass the nine trials.

The good news is that before it is formally determined, the Master of Trial can make slight adjustments to achieve a perfect level.

Zhou Leng thought for a moment, then issued the command: "I want to attempt the trial."

Swoosh...

Zhou Leng appeared in the first room of the trial ground.

The room began to broadcast the Divine Text.

These Blue Star People couldn’t understand, so Zhou Leng shook his head, translated the Divine Text content, and made first modifications.

He was the only one here, so he stepped up and read the trial broadcast content, replacing the Divine Text voice.

"Unnamed Elementary Consciousness Trial First Layer, Evasion Trial. During this period, trial takers will undergo various types of saturated attacks. The fewer vital hits, the higher the score."

"Reach 60 points to proceed to the second layer."

"Reach 80 points to receive a level one reward."

"Reach 100 points to receive a level two reward."

"Reach 120 points to receive the highest reward."

"If all nine trials each reach 120 points, the final trial reward can be obtained."

Zhou Leng took a step forward, officially entering the first room.

The room quickly transformed into a hundred-meter square martial arts dojo, the floor paved with white stone slabs, with tiered seating outside the arena.

The seats were filled with various translucent cosmic groups.

Some cheered, some applauded, some shouted.

High civilization trials are indeed different; they even have an atmosphere crew.

Then, for the second modification, remove the atmosphere crew. They can join again during future combat trials.

"Evasion Trial One: Hidden Weapons."

As Zhou Leng heard his own voice finish, a masked man in black appeared in front, holding a photon gun. As he raised his hand, a laser beam shot out.

Even the strongest Innate cannot evade the speed of light.

Fortunately, the photon gun has a startup time. Before activation, Zhou Leng shifted sideways, avoiding the gun barrel direction, silently cursing this as a hidden weapon—it’s shameless.

When testing others, hmm... not bad.

The masked man continued shooting.

Once the photon gun fires, it cannot be dodged, only evaded in advance based on the direction of the gun barrel.

This is the Will World, perfectly replicating the body’s peak strength. For a dignified Innate King-level martial artist, it’s easy.

"Evasion Trial Two, Arrows."

To the left, a group of ten archers appeared, each Innate Realm level, drawing bows and shooting arrows, with arrows flying like the wind, tireless.

Whizz, whizz, whizz...

The flying speed is far less than the photon gun, but the volume is high.

While dodging, Zhou Leng observed the trial intensity, needing to ensure the trial’s intensity while achieving the purpose of strengthening the trial taker.

As the evasion trial continued to escalate, more and more black-clad figures threw hidden weapons around.

Laser, darts, arrows, crossbow arrows, spell missiles, successive wind blades, falling stones, and...

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Five 125mm caliber main battle tanks appeared on the edge of the martial arts dojo, the vehicle shaking, the cannon roaring, white smoke billowing, five shells flying forth like five divine flames of thunderbolt.

Each shell’s power approaches a punch from a newly advanced Grandmaster.

Once hit head-on, even as strong as Zhou Leng, the Taiqing Sea Robe would be pierced, leaving a bowl-sized scar.

Zhou Leng remained calm, either swiftly dodging or extending his hand for a flick, redirecting the shells to explode a short distance away.

The fingers felt a powerful rebound, as if struck by a sledgehammer, slightly numb.

The photon gun already exerted enough pressure, and with the arrival of five tanks, the pressure surged.

Before long, five masked figures wielded single-soldier rocket launchers, firing a shot each at Zhou Leng.

Boom, boom, boom...

Zhou Leng was sure that any martial artist in the Vitality Stage would have been blasted to bits at this moment.

But, an Innate King can dodge all these attacks.

A barrage of long-range attacks poured down like hail...

"Evasion Trial Ten, Blinding."

As this voice appeared, a hundred initially minorly moving black-clad figures transformed into lightweight skill masters, rapidly circling around Zhou Leng with lightweight skill, launching frequent attacks.

Zhou Leng remained calm, moving with the swiftness of lightning, his hands like myriad blossoms fluttering.

Throwing darts, arrows, crossbow arrows, falling stones—if they couldn’t be avoided, were caught and flicked away, leaving him unscathed.

The tank shells were swift and fierce, the rocket’s blast was wide, but both could be dodged.

Spells and lasers couldn’t be caught but could be avoided.

Easily breaking through 450 meters per second, he darted back and forth like a bullet in the martial arts dojo.

A white light flashed after three seconds.

In front of Zhou Leng, it was a blur of white.

Without any warning, unable to resist, he was directly blinded.

Relying on residual memory to deduce, complemented by locating through the sound of the wind, Zhou Leng evaded at high speed.

A second later, his vision recovered.

The first successful evasion from blindness.

Next, the trial went crazy, blinding him every few seconds, lasting anywhere from one to three seconds.

Zhou Leng had tried his best, yet during blindness, he was still hit by over a hundred Innate throwing hidden weapons, lasers, missiles, and rocket shells, failing to preserve his golden body and getting hit in vital spots successively.

Time elapsed, and a buzzer sounded.

"Trial Taker Zhou Leng, 98 points, excellent."

"The reward for each trial layer of the unnamed trial ground can only be received once. Would you like to receive it now or wait until you accumulate the highest achievement?"

"Wait for the highest achievement," replied Zhou Leng.

"Would you like to repeat the First Layer Trial or proceed to the Second Layer Trial?"

"Five minutes later, repeat the First Layer Trial."

"Okay."

Zhou Leng stood in the center of the Martial Arts Dojo, recalling the previous events.

The difficulty of the entire trial was beyond imagination.

Zhou Leng remembered the Three Sons of Ancient River.

At that time, the Three Sons of Ancient River were only in the Vitality Stage of the Qi Blood Realm, but their combat power was equivalent to an Innate King.

And the Three Sons of Ancient River must still be quite far from the top geniuses of High-Level Civilizations.

Even if the Three Sons of Ancient River were here, they would need to train painstakingly multiple times to achieve 120 points in this difficult trial.

With a sigh, Zhou Leng accepted that he had a gap between himself and top geniuses of High-Level Civilizations, but didn’t expect the gap to be so vast.

Silently using the Martial Arts Old Shadow to review the past process, identifying shortcomings.

Noticing mistakes in Lightweight Skill and evasion, he sought ways to correct and improve.

Soon, the second trial began, once more.

Once, twice, thrice...

Before twenty trials, Zhou Leng occasionally got hit in vital spots, with scores fluctuating between 97 to 100.

After twenty trials, consistently scoring 100 points, even during blindness, he could avoid vital spots.

Yet, the attacks were completely without dead angles and had large area damage, avoiding vital spots but unable to evade other areas, still getting injured.

Zhou Leng unexpectedly found such a disparity between himself and the top geniuses of the cosmos, unwilling and refusing to back down, he continued the trials.

Thirty times, forty times, fifty times...

Because it was Will Trial, his body would not get fatigued.

Being the Master of Trial, the trial ground’s power would keep Zhou Leng’s consciousness at its peak.

He lost sense of the external world, lost track of time concept, yet didn’t mind, striving hard on cultivation.

A hundred times, two hundred times, three hundred times...

Ultimately, reaching a thousand times, still scoring 100 points.

No longer able to improve, 120 points remained out of reach.

Repeated introspection by Zhou Leng led nowhere, still unable to pinpoint the issue.

Only after a long while did he realize that these 20 points were not a personal gap, but a gap between High-Level Civilizations and Elementary Civilizations.

Zhou Leng shook his head, just about to enter the second room when an idea struck, saying, "Based on my test, the difficulty of the First Layer Trial is too high, unsuitable for Elementary Civilizations. Lower the difficulty by one layer."

The sound from the trial emanated: "Difficulty lowered, reduced to Intermediate Civilization level."

"Conduct another evasion test."

Thus, Zhou Leng performed the evasion trial anew.

Having endured torment at the difficulty level of High-Level Civilizations, in the Intermediate Civilizations trial, Zhou Leng seemed like a master carpenter wielding an ax or a legendary warrior playing with a sword. No matter how fierce the attacks, it felt like a soft breeze brushing leaves, not even touching him.

Zhou Leng appeared to be immersed in a delightful game, transforming into a shadow darting about the Martial Arts Dojo.

The buzzer sounded, marking the trial’s end.

"Congratulations, Trial Taker Zhou Leng, for achieving 120 points, surpassing the full score, thus obtaining the highest reward."

"Reward One: Every ten days, you can conduct an evasion trial to exercise evasion ability until 10 consecutive trials achieve 120 points. Of course, as the Master of Trial, you can enter anytime."

"Reward Two: Obtain a scroll of Martial Arts Void God’s Lightweight Skill Martial Shadow Wall, recording related experiences of Void God cultivating Lightweight Skill, Stepping Technique, Body Technique, and others. This shadow record is protected by Tai Life Celestial Star Pavilion copyright, prohibiting dissemination."

"Reward Three: The evasion trial increases High-Level race accompaniment options, such as Ten-Eyed Ones, Hundred-Handed Flowers, Star Dragons, etc. These are obtainable by consuming Star Conch for High-Level accompaniment. Note, High-Level partners are extremely powerful, and even under the protection of Will Trial, one’s will may suffer harm, especially a blow to one’s confidence. Use cautiously."

"Reward Four: As you are the first Trial Taker from Blue Star Civilization to achieve a surpassing full score, and furthermore belonging to an Elementary Civilization, if all Nine Layers of your trial reach a score of 120, you will earn 1 ’Civilization Merit.’ Civilization Merit is the universally prestigious merit of Tai Life Celestial, extremely valuable, tread carefully."

"Hm?"

Zhou Leng blinked repeatedly.

Seemingly gained quite an advantage.

However, as the Master of Trial and Celestial Ladder Sage, perhaps it’s fixed welfare?

It’s possible.

Following that, two points of white light entered the brow.

Zhou Leng envisioned the Will World.

Two new items appeared, or rather, three items.

One was a starlit translucent emblem, appearing as a star, as a moon, like a breathing star, emitting flames.

But a sweep of consciousness revealed it as a peculiar encryption method; the entire Civilization Emblem was essentially a high-level identification document.