Under Ling Zhan's reminder, Wang Chen quickly left the battlefield and fled to a distant place. He can no longer bear a second battle now.

  By a water source in the Thorny Mountain Range, Wang Chen treated his wound and washed his body. He then stored his tattered clothes in his storage space. Otherwise, the bloody smell on him might attract the attention of demonic beasts at any time.

  Then, after finding a secluded spot and drinking a mouthful of dew, he began to cultivate.

  His body had six or seven wounds and needed to be repaired as soon as possible. Otherwise, he would not be able to continue surviving in such a dangerous place.

  Under the dual effect of Emperor Dragon's Decision and Starlight Tempering, with the help of the energy from the stalactite liquid, Wang Chen's wounds healed rapidly, which was hard to believe.

  By afternoon, after recovering from the practice, some minor wounds on his body had healed seven or eight tenths, and the effect even exceeded Wang Chen's imagination.

  As for the wound on his waist that was ambushed and the two larger wounds left in battle, they were temporarily stabilized but not yet healed. Time is needed to heal them, it's impossible to recover overnight!

  Of course, for such an effect, Wang Chen was already quite satisfied! If it were an ordinary person who had suffered such injuries, there would only be one choice, which is to withdraw from the thorns and go back to recover, and then re-enter the thorns after the injury has fully healed.

  It can be said that with the help of Emperor Dragon's Decision, Stellar Tempering and Lactescent Liquid, Wang Chen had too many advantages over ordinary people.

  "Hmm..." His body recovered, his true yuan force recovered, and his physical strength recovered, making Wang Chen feel refreshed in an instant.

  He stood up and let out a long sigh, gazing at the dense forest before him, a hint of bitter smile playing on his lips as he silently lamented.

  As soon as he entered the thorny mountain range, Wang Chen encountered so many things that made him feel deeply emotional. Indeed, it was a convergence point of heaven and hell, where one thought could lead to heaven and another thought could lead to hell. In this mountain range, anything could happen.

  From morning till now, Wang Chen entered this forest and first saw the corpse of an adventurer who was ambushed by his own companion, then killed a second-tier high-level demon beast Lion Tiger Beast, and then encountered another ambush, and finally killed his opponent.

  Such a life may be the real trial, from which Wang Chen also saw many of his own inadequacies. He still has a lot to learn and grow.

  "Hey, kid, what's wrong? Have you realized something?" Ling Zhan's shadowy figure was standing beside Wang Chen, looking at him standing in place with a subtle sigh, and said with a smile.

  "Hmm!" Wang Chen said with a wry smile.

  Thinking back to the time when he spared those adventurers' lives, only to be ambushed later, Wang Chen still had a lingering fear. If he had listened to Ling Zhan's words and ended their lives at the first opportunity, perhaps that danger would not have arisen.

  If it weren't for the Chiyan giant sword on his back, Wang Chen would have become a cold corpse by now.

  "Hey, kiddo, study hard! There are many places you need to learn from. Now I'll tell you a few more rules for survival in this kind of environment."

  The third rule of survival: never try to be careless, anything can happen in such a place, crisis is lurking everywhere, the next moment may let you lose your life, please be ready for battle at any time!

  The fourth rule of survival: Never try to evoke sympathy! Sympathy is the cheapest thing in such a place! It's as worthless as dog shit. In such a place, there are only enemies and death, choosing sympathy is equivalent to choosing death.

  The fifth rule of survival: never turn your back on anyone, for they will stab you in the back when you least expect it and send you to the afterlife.

  The sixth rule of survival: avoiding injury is the greatest hope for survival! Injuries will only make you a target in this environment!"

  Looking at Wang Chen, Ling Zhan smiled and said.

  But every one of his words made Wang Chen's heart thump violently.

  Is this the rule of survival? These few sentences made Wang Chen learn too much, and almost all of them appeared today with these mistakes.

  Sympathy, pity, relaxation...

  It seems like all the mistakes Wang Chen could have made did appear! Is this what they mean by experience?

  At this point, Wang Chen secretly sighed, there were really many things to learn. At the same time, he was secretly grateful to have Ling Zhan as a senior following him and guiding him.

  Otherwise, the danger he will encounter will be greater. At least, learning these things will waste too much of his time and need to take a long detour to explore and summarize.

  "Alright, just remember these rules for yourself! Hmm, you must reduce your injuries, it's good that you have the Clockwork Liquid now, if it were an ordinary person, they might not be able to continue at this point. If you want to try and temper yourself, if you want to increase your strength, first you need to learn how to protect yourself!" Ling Zhan added.

  "Got it!" Wang Chen said in a low voice, then nodded heavily.

  At this moment, his eyes became extremely sharp. In the summer of sixteen years old, Wang Chen learned the law of survival in the thorny mountain range and mastered the survival skills of the thorny mountain range.

  The sky was still early, and after tidying up, Wang Chen set foot on the road again. The goal of his trip to this side for trial was to take the starting point of the thorny mountain range outside Xingyue City, go all the way east, cross **hundreds of kilometers**, and finally arrive at a small town under the foot of the thorny mountain range at the edge of the Tianfeng Kingdom.

  It took eight months, of course, if he could complete such a trial faster, Wang Chen wouldn't mind. After leaving the Thorny Mountain Range, his strength must reach the level of a third-tier Spiritual Warrior, this was Wang Chen's lowest requirement for himself.

  As for the remaining four months, he will set out from the remote town of Tianfeng Kingdom towards Yinfeng Valley, return to Xingchen Sect, prepare to face the life-and-death battle with Yao Tian, and at the same time prepare for the assessment ceremony of the inner door core disciples.

  This time back, his other important goal is to become a core disciple of the inner door.

  With his back to the sunset, with dreams and goals in mind, Wang Chen slowly moved forward towards the east, starting his journey and adventure within the thorny mountain range.

  ……~……~……~……~……

  In the dense forest, Wang Chen held the Scarlet Flame Great Sword tightly in his hand, maintaining a high level of vigilance as he slowly walked forward. His figure was agile and silent as he moved through the mountains and forests, and ordinary first-tier demon beasts were not even worth his attention, so he simply ignored them.

  A first-class demon beast, equivalent to the strength of a martial artist in the Refining Body stage. Such a demon beast can't cause any harm to Wang Chen at present! Of course, if some blind ones come looking for trouble, Wang Chen naturally wouldn't mind taking care of them and making them his food.

  Facing these demonic beasts, the current Wang Chen can easily solve them with a wave of his hand. The gap is really too big. This also made Wang Chen feel emotional, thinking back to when he first entered the outer gate of Xingchen Sect, and how it was a huge struggle to kill a high-level demonic beast. After just half a year, everything has changed beyond recognition.

  At present, Wang Chen's main energy is focused on the second-order demon beast and the third-order primary demon beast. The strength of a seventh-order true martial artist, the Doulang Palm and Tianxuan Slash techniques, combined with the protection of the Eight Gates Escape Armor, as well as the final resort of Qingguang Explosion, Wang Chen has the ability to fight against a third-order primary demon beast.

  Even within this half-month period, Wang Chen had already hunted and killed three 3rd-stage primary demon beasts. Although the battles were difficult, they did not pose a great danger.

  A third-tier primary demon beast, equivalent to the strength of a first-tier to third-tier spiritual warrior! However, compared to a first-tier to third-tier spiritual warrior, they are obviously much easier to deal with.

  Wisdom had not yet fully grown, making their thoughts extremely simple, which created many opportunities for Wang Chen.

  Of course, killing these monsters, Qing Guang exploded and became Wang Chen's tried-and-true move, also the most advantageous killer.

  Unconsciously, it has been half a month since entering the thorny mountain range!

  For half a month, Wang Chen had been staying in the starting area of the Thorny Mountain Range, but as time passed, he slowly ventured deeper into it.

  Wang Chen's plan was to spend a month in this area, thoroughly mastering more survival skills and techniques before continuing on his way.

  He wasn't in a hurry to rush towards the finish line! From here, it was only about 100 kilometers to his destination, a small town on the outskirts of Tianfeng Kingdom. If he went all out, Wang Chen wouldn't need two months to reach the end point.

  However, it is clear that such a way does not conform to the essence of Wang Chen's trial. What he needs is tempering and upgrading his strength! Therefore, continuous fighting and learning are his main goals.

  It was also for this purpose that Wang Chen spent a whole half month in this area.

  In this half month, Wang Chen experienced one after another bloody and cruel battles, and also experienced several assassination attempts by adventurers lurking in the dark!

  In this half month, Wang Chen killed a total of 23 second-tier demon beasts and three third-tier low-level demon beasts. On average, he killed one third-tier demon beast every five days, and nearly two demon beasts per day.

  Simultaneously broke through the adventurers' five ambushes, killing three batches of ambush members! Among them were six 9th-level True Martial Artists and eight 8th-level True Martial Artists! On average, more than four members were killed each time.

  Of course, for the remaining two ambushes, Wang Chen chose to escape because there were spiritual warriors among each of these two batches of ambush members.

  Under the leadership of the Lingwu warrior, in coordination with the siege of the upper nine-tier true martial artist, he had no chance of winning! He could only choose to escape, avoid injury and death.

  In these five ambushes, Wang Chen opened the door three times, twice to escape and once to kill!

  On average, Wang Chen was ambushed every three days and killed one ambusher per day.

  In battle after battle, Wang Chen's wounds grew more numerous, and his heart became increasingly resilient. The fight between life and death made Wang Chen's vigilance higher and higher, and his methods became more and more ruthless.

  Before he knew it, Wang Chen had already spent a month in this thorny mountain range.