One of the five elemental law domains.
The Earth Mound Domain.
As far as the eye could see.
This law domain was a vast, ocher-colored plain, crisscrossed with gullies and covered in scorched earth.
At the end of the steadily rising terrain, a dazzling radiance could just barely be seen suspended in midair.
That was where the law seal lay.
Compared to the bustle of the other law domains, far fewer cultivators had come here.
Clearly, they all knew that the fluctuations of the laws here were the weakest.
The rewards were nowhere near those of the other four law domains, though the Five Elements Art had still nurtured plenty of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures here over tens of thousands of years.
Across this vast slope.
The cultivators who had entered the domain trudged forward with hunched backs, as though bearing an immeasurable burden.
Every step uphill cost them tremendous effort.
Just then, deep in the wasteland.
An unaffiliated True Source Realm cultivator, veins bulging at his temples, gritted his teeth and took another step.
Boom!!!
The next instant, the ground split open, and countless deadly spikes erupted!
In the blink of an eye, they pierced the cultivator before he could dodge, driving upward through his most vulnerable parts and impaling him into a bloody figure!
His agonized screams rang across the plain.
His corpse remained pinned high on the spikes, blood streaming down in a horrifying sight.
The dozen or so unaffiliated cultivators struggling forward nearby went deathly pale. They clenched their teeth, not daring to stop for even another glance.
These were the rules of the Earth Mound Domain's trial.
Anyone who entered.
Regardless of their cultivation realm, would be suppressed by the [Earth Art] governing this land.
An invisible [law-weighting mountain] would materialize on everyone's back!