Prodigy Road Preliminary Screening Realm.
The first trial prohibited the use of one's own spiritual energy and external possessions?
Chen Qiu did not rise immediately. Instead, he stood at the foot of the stairs leading into the clouds and looked up at the Heaven-Piercing Steps.
The steps were tall and wide.
With every step, one basically had to raise one's leg to its highest point. Petite female Sky Prodigies who came here would probably have to climb upward with both hands and feet.
Chen Qiu glanced around without lingering, then stepped onto the stairs and headed forward. After crossing seventy or eighty steps, he arrived at the point where the stairs met the wall of clouds surrounding the plaza.
The plaza was shrouded by countless clouds.
These Heaven-Piercing Steps passed through the clouds and continued stretching toward the heavens.
After entering the cloud-shrouded Heaven-Piercing Steps and walking for roughly a dozen breaths, he finally emerged from the clouds, and the view before him suddenly opened up.
It was as though he were in the sky.
Beneath a clear sky stretching ten thousand miles, a Heaven-Piercing Stairway extended endlessly toward the high heavens. Even when he swept out with his divine sense, he could not see the stairway's end at the edge of its range.
Below and around the Heaven-Piercing Steps was a sea of flames stretching beyond sight.
There was no need to think about it. Without being able to use spiritual energy, falling down there would mean death or crippling injury.
This was the first trial: the Heaven-Piercing Steps.
"..."
Chen Qiu stood silently where he was, expressionless, and did not continue climbing. The end of the Heaven-Piercing Steps was nowhere within the limits of his divine sense. That meant no one could climb these stairs within the time