"Let's go take a look over there!"
Su Mo turned his gaze toward the rock wall surrounded by the crowd, then walked over with Hong Qingxuan.
When they reached the foot of the wall, Su Mo immediately saw that the image above the fiery-red vortex showed warriors locked in battle.
There were eighteen warriors in the image, each fighting alone. Their opponents, however, were all the same: large numbers of flame men.
Some of them were unstoppable, cutting down the flame men until they retreated in defeat, while others were in constant peril and completely unable to match the flame men.
"Haha! Someone else is about to come out!"
"So far, it seems only a few people have passed the first trial!"
"The first trial is actually a test of combat strength? Artifact refiners have to be tested on combat strength too!"
"The difficulty of this first trial is simply outrageous. I wonder what the second trial is!"
"..."
All sorts of discussions rang endlessly through the watching crowd.
Listening to the crowd's discussion, Su Mo immediately understood that this fiery vortex was the so-called Flame Refining Path. To obtain Ou Lianzi's Artifact Refining Inheritance, one had to enter the Flame Refining Path.
The first trial in the Flame Refining Path was a test of combat strength: fighting the flame men.
The flame men came in three waves, with thirty-six in each wave. The first wave was at the challenger's cultivation level, the second was one cultivation layer higher, and the third was two cultivation layers higher.
However, the Flame Refining Path could only allow eighteen warriors to undergo the trial at once. Only when someone passed or was eliminated could others enter again.
Of the several thousand people here, more than half had already failed the trial and could