As hazy dreamlike light flickered, Song Qingxing's figure warped like rippling water within the Trial Gate, then was directly sucked inside.
After passing through a long Spatial Tunnel, the view before him suddenly opened up. He appeared in a completely unfamiliar space, landing beside a towering cliff. Everything around him was pitch-black, and below lay a bottomless abyss.
Before him stood a stone bridge less than one zhang wide, stretching straight toward the opposite shore as though it had no end.
"Is this... the Path of Thorns?"
Before entering the Trial Road, Li Yuxia had told him about the five trials he would undergo after entering the Trial Gate. These five trials were arranged according to the Five Elements.
They were the Path of Thorns, Flame Demon Purgatory, Boulder Space, Void Sword Mound, and Boundless Sea of Suffering.
These five trials respectively tested the Divine Soul, dharma power, physical body, Sword Dao Law, and Dao Heart.
What stood before him now was the first trial.
According to Li Yuxia's description, the Path of Thorns was precisely what its name implied: a road filled with thorns, nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine zhang long, leading straight to the second trial, Flame Demon Purgatory.
Once a cultivator stepped onto the Path of Thorns, their dharma power would be completely sealed. This meant that the trial-taker could only rely on their own two legs to tread through the thorns.
But these thorns were not to be underestimated. Their spikes could not only ignore a cultivator's physical strength, but also carried strange toxins. Once those toxins entered the body, they brought intense pain that reached directly into the Divine Soul. Any cultivator with even slightly weaker willpower could collapse at any moment.
Moreover, the toxins possessed powerful hallucinogenic effects. One lapse in attention, and