Eternal Holy Emperor
Chapter 287 - 257: The Forbidden Person of That Year — Qian!_2

Chapter 287: Chapter 257: The Forbidden Person of That Year — Qian!_2

Throughout history, the Challenge Tower has always been a place where the young generation can verify their own strength, gauging how powerful they truly are based on the number of floors they have ascended.

The more levels they conquer, the stronger they naturally are.

However, truly overcoming the hundredth floor is very difficult, or to say frankly, nearly impossible. The higher the floor, the more challenging it becomes, with true success hard to come by.

Reaching beyond the ninetieth level, it already symbolizes the pinnacle of difficulty, representing the Battle Marks left by the ten strongest individuals to have ever challenged the Void Sky Tower. Each imprint is worthy of King Level status, each aspect perfected to the extreme, invincible among their peers, and known as formidable King-level enemies.

As for the hundredth floor, it is an insurmountable challenge, equal to the rank of Young Supreme, with cultivation in all areas surpassing the limits. It’s the Battle Mark of the strongest individual who ever traversed the Void Sky Tower, invincible, unparalleled now and forever.

The few who have passed the hundredth floor, even when looking back through the endless ages since the existence of the Void Sky Tower, are just a handful in number, each one a true peerless Supreme of their rank.

But even then, success only meant waiting for the time to elapse and the Guardian to disappear, defeating the Guardian in reality was impossible. For, how can one distinguish who is stronger or weaker among Supremes? The only option was to outlast them to claim victory.

The Void Sky Tower has six passages, with many young paragons entering to train and hone their own strength.

Beneath the Ancient Tower stands a massive black stele, densely inscribed with name after name, all challengers of the Void Sky Tower, all from the younger generation.

Behind each name is a number, ranging from one to a hundred, indicating the highest floor of the Void Sky Tower they reached.

From the lowest to the highest, these numbers form a ranking, with higher numbers signifying greater achievements. But among the multitude of names, most only reached levels between one and sixty, with very few surpassing sixty. The further up the tower, the more formidable the Guardians become, their strength increasing severalfold.

Indeed, throughout the years, those with numbers above ninety were exceedingly rare, so few that one could count them on their fingers, each a true King, supremely powerful in their era.

At the very top of the stele, towering above all other Trialists, there is one name that stands highest, ranked first, with a number unprecedented – one hundred.

That person is known as — Qiān!

Just the singular character "Qiān," seemingly bearing an unimaginably heavy weight, capable of crushing the heavens, still shines with endless radiance to this day, inspiring awe in every person who approaches the Void Sky Tower.

"Grandfather, who is Qiān? Why does his name have the number one hundred behind it, while others don’t?" a boy around eleven or twelve years old asked his elder, blinking his large eyes curiously.

Upon hearing this, the old man’s face slightly changed, signaling to the boy to lower his voice and said, "Child, don’t utter the name of this person; he is a forbidden character."

"Why?" the boy asked, puzzled.

"Do not ask; a forbidden character is just that, a taboo. Speaking of it can bring great trouble," the elder spoke with evident caution yet couldn’t help but add, "You are too young to know about the battle that happened forty years ago. In fact, even earlier, this Qiān had already achieved invincibility.

It is said he was a peerless Young Supreme from the Lower Realm, who once cleared the tower at record speed, breaking Void Sky Tower’s record, defeating the Tower Master Guardian of the hundredth floor. He even battled with the legendary True King Sun God, who is now renowned across the Heavenly Ten Thousand Domains."

"Sun God!" The boy’s black, bright eyes widened in wonder. That was a true super being, powerful and unmatched, with few rivals throughout the world, undefeated for many years.

This Qiān had actually battled the Sun God.

"You see, at that time, both Qiān and the Sun God were at the stage of Divinity Transformation. But the Sun God had already reached Divinity Transformation Perfection and, in the end, was unable to suppress Qiān, with the battle ending in a draw," the elder mused with a hint of nostalgia.

The so-called Divinity Transformation signifies the Heavenly Divine Realm, but the term Heavenly God is specific to the Tiandu Continent only. In the Heavenly and Myriads of Realms, Martial Gods are not called Martial Gods, but Demigods; Heavenly Gods are equivalent to Divinity Transformation, and Divine beings are Saints.

Qiān, who left his mark as number one on the black stele, is a forbidden character, viewed as taboo by many, but no less formidable than those legendary True Kings renowned throughout the Heavenly Ten Thousand Domains. He broke the Battle Mark left by another peerless Heavenly Pride from tens of thousands of years ago, becoming the new Young Supreme, reigning over the hundredth level.

To this day, his legend still shakes the world, and no one dares to forget him.

Ye Chen silently looked at that forbidden character’s name engraved on the black stele, speechless, then turned and walked away.

The old man gazed after the departing figure of the young man, murmuring to himself in surprise, "Somewhat familiar... that silhouette is very much like that forbidden character from back then."

But then he shook his head, dismissing the thought. That person had completely perished in body and spirit during the great event that shook the world forty years ago; how could he possibly still be alive? It must have been his eyes playing tricks on him; it was just a resemblance.

After leaving the Void Sky Tower, Ye Chen roamed alone through Huatian City, silently observing everything.

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