Shushan.

Walking along the white stone stairs, you will see countless mountain tops in the distance. The magnificent palaces standing on the mountainside, surrounded by hazy mist and steam, look like a fairyland on earth.

In the main hall, Caroline met Liu Wenjian.

This legendary figure, who cannot live without being crazy, is the first truly mortal emperor in history. In the Jianghu era, as an ordinary mortal, he cut off his own arm and made a sword, and actually assassinated many terrifying Jianghu.

Grand Master, a terrifying master of the fifth and sixth levels.

The ancient existence that started the age of mortals cultivating immortals is simply a myth.

"Want to see Shushan?" Liu Wenjian was a little surprised.

However, the Mother of the Earth, Lady Ivy, accompanied her, apparently taking this visitor from another world around to show her kindness as a landowner.

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Afterwards, a group of people walked towards the back mountain. At the top of the mountain was the Sword Tomb, halfway down the mountain was the Sword Washing Pond, and at the other end of the mountain was the Sword Forging Furnace.

This is an extremely cruel and touching place.

The structure is like a sword-making villa in Jianghu. It is full of iron tools and sword embryos, and various ores are everywhere. It can be said to be the arsenal of the entire six realms, providing standard weapons for the armies of gods from all walks of life. Disciples who want to enter Shushan must first learn how to make swords.

, here are all blacksmiths who make swords and practice their skills.

Clang clang clang!

Countless people were wielding iron tools with their bare arms, and the furnace was scorching hot.

To practice blacksmithing skills, it usually takes seven or eight years of hard work to become a well-known blacksmith, which is to forge swords with your arms.

"If you want to go to Shushan to learn swordsmanship, you must first learn to forge swords. The blacksmith's skills have been around for seven or eight years. Life is inherently unfair."

Liu Wenjian said with emotion, "Some people are born with strong innate qualifications and are destined to embark on a smooth path of cultivation. However, more than 80% of people are born with no so-called cultivation qualifications. To become extraordinary, they have to pay thousands of times of hardship."

, only then can we stand on the same footing as others.”

Caroline is undeniable.

The vast extraordinary world is mostly composed of mortals.

Even in the ancient lava domain of the Three Pillar Gods, there are still many mortals who do not even possess the lowest arcane swordsman qualifications.

"Don't you already have a lineage of physical cultivation?" Caroline asked.

"Physical cultivation, although it does not require bloodline qualifications, consumes too many resources. It is the most resource-intensive of all systems. It is not something that ordinary people can afford. Even if you are a cultivator, you may not be able to afford it."

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Liu Wenjian smiled and said, "So, if most mortals want to practice cultivation, they have to endure hardships, climb the towering and rugged Shu Mountain, and seek immortality."

"Of course, in Shushan, after many disciples become Sword Immortals, they can earn their own training resources and then practice their own lineage." Liu Wenjian looked at the red-hot furnace, "After all, Shushan disciples have no fighting power.

But our lifespan is like that of a mortal. Repairing the body and cultivating one's veins can allow us to truly embark on the path of a practitioner."

Caroline nodded, chewing the meaning carefully.

There is a lot of knowledge and details that cannot be fully known in the story.

"But mortals without qualifications have to compete with geniuses with cultivation qualifications. This is an extremely painful job. One hand is put into the furnace alive, enduring the severe pain, and the other hand is used to swing the hammer, forge, and break through

The meridians and flesh of this arm’s mortal body gave my arm the ‘qualification’, and then I cut it off.”

Liu Wenjian's voice was calm, but everyone knew that this method was simply the most cruel torture in the world.

Not even one.

Put your hand into the furnace alive?

What is it like to swing a hammer?

What a terrible determination?

After all, stories are just stories. Only when Caroline witnessed this scene with her own eyes did she realize the horror of these mortals.

"So, our Shushan lineage is still sparsely populated. Every Shushan disciple has a terrifying tenacity beyond imagination. If you look deeper, there are very sad stories before them on the mountain, poor people."

Liu Wenjian smiled calmly and said, "There are clouds in the world. The road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to climb to the blue sky."

People who can go to Shushan are inherently extraordinary, and they take life and death lightly.

"However, it is also because they have experienced suffering that they can transform and learn to cherish. If every Shushan disciple does not fall halfway, he will at least reach the seventh-level Heavenly Emperor realm."

...God! Emperor!?

Caroline's expression changed slightly.

No wonder the Shushan lineage was established quickly.

When the war with the demon world broke out, a large number of terrifying combat forces emerged.

Because they have reached the state of mind, they only need various resources and treasures, piled on the sword, to ignore the slow cultivation of the state.

After all, you can quickly improve the level of your sword by forging it.

And these words have completely explained the entire arduous process of mortal cultivation, and may be written into a blood-stained epic: A Mortal's Journey to Immortality.

Or maybe it's The Legend of Shushan Strange Heroes.

clang!

Not far away, there was a middle-aged man, starting the final sword-making ceremony.

Clang clang clang!

His hands reached into the furnace to forge his body. His face was crazy and paranoid, like a madman, and he waved a sledgehammer crazily.

Beyond Caroline's imagination, this man's face was calm and gentle, as if he saw everything clearly, without pain, only determination.

Clang clang clang!

He swung the hammer steadily.

The slightest tremor will cause the sword to fail.

He seemed to have been waiting for this moment of pain for too long, waiting for this moment of extreme pain and a complete rebirth.

He is waiting for his serious illness to end.

He is waiting for his illness to be cured.

"If you bear a thousand heavy sins, you will not give up even if you practice."

Caroline's face was not calm, and even a little frightening, "It's hard to imagine what he went through to be able to calm down in such a madness, swinging the hammer with all his strength, as if all the pain was gone,

Obsession, all pouring into the forged sword like a shocking flood."

She thought of Liu Wenjian.

Perhaps, this middle-aged man is also in a common situation.

He prostrates himself in front of the corpses and blood, howling and crying, hating himself for being weak, hating himself for being powerless, hating that his family is ruined.

Weakness is disease.

He is waiting for his serious illness to end.

Shushan, a mortal's word "ni", goes against heaven and goes against oneself.

"Shu Mountain has gathered the trillions of people in the entire six realms who have encountered suffering in life, the most sad and determined people, and their souls have poured into it, using their souls, their own flesh and blood, their own minds and bodies, like a flood.

Integrated into the sword, the arm is also a kind of soul and body."

Caroline's eyes sparkled brightly, as if she understood something,

No wonder, Shushan's broken arm cannot be reborn using any Taoism or means.

Because they integrated the soul of the arm into the sword, cutting off the first part of their soul, forming a kind of flesh-and-blood unity on the arm.

This is the Shushan disciple.

No matter how strong your cultivation is, even if you step into the realm of eighth-level gods like Liu Wenjian and become a great being with a high degree of rebirth of flesh and blood, you will always remain the truth of a broken arm.

The physical body is incomplete and will never be complete.

Because a part of his soul has been completely severed and integrated into the flesh and blood of his arm, turning it into a sword.

The cute girl trembled after hearing Caroline's explanation, "The mystery of Shushan's eternal broken arm. Even the leader of Shushan can only treat it as a broken sleeve. This mystery turns out to be..."

Fits perfectly now!

Perfectly revealed!

It turns out that this is a weakened version to some extent, with soul and body becoming one.

Before, I didn't have enough knowledge to understand this weird phenomenon, but now I understand it.

It seems that everything in the world regarding the pursuit of the ninth level points to the same end point.

"Knowledge is all power."

The cute girl suddenly remembered the words Hermes used to describe truth:

Until then, all the obscurity in the world will disappear from your side!
To be continued...