The Dao of Diligence: A Cultivation LitRPG Adventure (BOOK 3)

Turning the tables on an Archdemon inside a lethal blood array was only the beginning.
With his enemy's cultivation devoured and his clan safely relocated, Aurelian claims a coveted invitation to the Eastern Region's deadliest proving ground—the Genius Tournament.
Cloudrest Province is nothing like the Azure backwater he came from. Here, prodigies are common as dust, and a single glance at his Defective Spirit Root is enough to write him off.
Let them.
The Five Great Geniuses sit at the top of this region, and Aurelian intends to climb over every one of them.
At the summit of the hundred-step Trial Stairway lies the legacy of Sovereign Lin—an ascended immortal whose power has gone unclaimed for ten thousand years.