Shu Mountain.
Following the white stone steps, they walked forward. In the distance, there were countless mountain peaks and magnificent palaces. They were surrounded by hazy mist and steam, looking like a paradise on earth.
In the main hall, Carolyn met Liu Wenjian.
This legendary figure, if he did not go crazy, he would not live. He was the first real mortal Celestial Emperor in history. In the Jianghu era, as an ordinary mortal, he cut off his own arm to forge a sword, and unexpectedly killed many terrifying Jianghu Great Grandmasters, frightening experts of the fifth and sixth level.
The ancient existence who started the Immortal Cultivation Era was simply a myth.
"You want to see Shu Mountain?" Liu Wenjian was a little surprised.
But with the Mother Green Vine accompanying him, it was obvious that she was bringing this guest from a different world to tour around as a host.
Then, the group walked to the back of the mountain. The peak was the Sword Catacomb, halfway down the mountain was the Sword Purification Pool, and at the other end of the mountain was the Sword Forging Furnace.
This was an extremely cruel and touching place.
It was like the structure of the Sword Forging Villa in the Pugilistic World. It was full of iron weapons and sword embryos, and all kinds of ores were everywhere. It could be said that it was the weapons factory of the entire Six Realms, providing the standard weapons of the armies of the Celestial Gods. And disciples who wanted to enter Shu Mountain first had to learn how to forge swords. Here were all blacksmiths who forged swords and practiced their skills.
Clang clang clang!
Countless people waved their iron weapons bare-chested. The furnace was scorching hot, and it was in full swing.
It usually took seven to eight years of hard work to completely become a famous blacksmith, which was to forge swords with their arms.
"If you want to learn swordsmanship in Shu Mountain, you must first learn how to forge swords. And blacksmithing takes seven to eight years. Life is unfair."
Liu Wenjian sighed with emotion. "Some people are born with great aptitude and are destined to embark on a smooth path of cultivation. But there are even more people who are born without the so-called aptitude for cultivation. If they want to become extraordinary, they will have to endure hundreds or even thousands of times more hardships in order to stand on the same level as others.
Carolyn couldn't deny it.
The vast world of extraordinary people was mostly made up of ordinary people.
Even the Ancient Lava Region of the Three Pillar Gods was mostly ordinary people who didn't even have the talent of the lowest arcane swordsman. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a hierarchy.
"Isn't there already a body cultivator branch?" Carolyn asked.
"Although body cultivation doesn't require bloodline aptitude, it consumes far, far too many resources. It's the most resource-intensive of all cultivation systems. It's not something that ordinary people can afford. Even cultivation families might not be able to afford one or two."
Liu Wenjian smiled. "Therefore, most mortals who want to cultivate have to endure hardships and climb the towering and rugged Mount Shu to seek the path of immortality."
"Of course. In Shushan, after many disciples become sword immortals, they can earn their own cultivation resources and walk the path of physical cultivators." Liu Wenjian looked at the blazing furnace. "After all, Shu Mountain disciples only have combat strength, but their lifespans are like mortals. Cultivating body cultivators can help us truly embark on the path of cultivators."
Carolyn nodded and carefully digested the meaning behind his words.
Many knowledge and details couldn't be fully understood from stories.
"But mortals without aptitude want to stand shoulder to shoulder with geniuses with cultivation aptitude. This is an extremely painful task. One hand is put into the furnace, and while enduring the pain, the other hand wields an iron hammer, hammering and forging through the meridians and flesh of their mortal body. This way, their arm will have 'aptitude', and then they will cut it off."
Liu Wenjian's voice was calm, but everyone knew that this method was simply the cruelest torture in the world.
Not even one of them.
Putting one's hand into the furnace?
What kind of experience would it be to wield an iron hammer?
How terrifying would one's determination be?
After all, stories were just stories. Only when Carolyn witnessed this scene with her own eyes did she realize how terrifying these mortals were.
"That's why our Shushan lineage is still sparsely populated. Every Shushan disciple possesses an unimaginably terrifying tenacity. If you look deeper, you'll find that they all have extremely tragic stories before coming to the mountain. Pitiful people."
Liu Wenjian smiled peacefully. "There's a saying in the mortal world that the Shu path is difficult, even more difficult than ascending to the heavens."
Those who could go to Shu Mountain were by no means ordinary people, and they were indifferent to life and death.
"However, it is also because they have experienced hardships that they can transform and know how to cherish. Every Shu Mountain disciple, if they do not die midway, can at least reach the Seventh Stage Heavenly Emperor Realm."
… Heavenly! Emperor!?
Carolyn's expression changed slightly.
No wonder Shu Mountain was so fast.
During the outbreak of the war with the Demon World, a large number of terrifying forces surged out.
Because their state of mind had reached that point, they only needed all kinds of resources and treasures to pile on the sword, and they could ignore the slow cultivation of the realm.
After all, they could use the forging method to quickly improve the realm of the sword.
And these words had thoroughly explained the entire arduous process of mortal cultivation. Perhaps it could be written into a bloody epic: The Legend of Mortal's Journey to Immortality.
Or the Legend of Shu Mountain Heroes.
Clang!
Not far away, there was a middle-aged man who had started the final sword-forging ceremony.
Clang clang clang!
His hand reached into the furnace and forged himself. His face was crazy and paranoid, like a mad demon, and he madly waved a sledgehammer.
Beyond Carolyn's imagination, this man's face was calm and gentle, as if he had seen through everything. There was no pain, only determination.
Clang clang clang!
He steadily waved the hammer.
The slightest tremble would cause the forging of the sword to fail.
It was as if he had been waiting for this moment of pain for too long. He was waiting for the extreme pain at this moment, the moment of complete rebirth.
He was waiting for his serious illness to be cured.
He was waiting for his illness to be cured.
"Bearing a thousand sins, training to never give up."
The expression on Carolyn's entire body wasn't calm at all. In fact, there was even a trace of shock present on her face. "It's hard to imagine exactly what he's experienced to be able to maintain his composure amidst his craziness. He's using all of his strength to wield the metal hammer, as though all of his pain and obsession are being poured into the forging of his sword like a flood.
She thought of Liu Wenjian.
Perhaps, this middle-aged man was also in the same situation.
He crawled in front of the bones and blood, howling and crying, hating himself for being weak, hating himself for being powerless, hating his family for being destroyed.
Weakness was an illness.
He was waiting for his serious illness to be cured.
In Mount Shu, there was a word for mortals to go against heaven and oneself.
"Mount Shu gathers the souls of the trillions of people in the six realms who have suffered the most, the most sorrowful, and the most resolute. They pour their souls, their flesh and blood, and their will into the sword like a flood. The arm is also a kind of fusion of the soul and the flesh."
Carolyn's eyes burst into brilliance, and she seemed to understand something.
No wonder the broken arm of Mount Shu could not be reborn, no matter what Taoist Method or means.
Because they integrated the soul of the arm into the sword, cut off the first part of their soul, and formed a kind of fusion of flesh and blood on the arm.
This was the disciple of Mount Shu.
No matter how strong their cultivation was, even if they entered the realm of the eighth-order God like Liu Wenjian and became a great existence with a high degree of rebirth of flesh and blood, they could only maintain the truth of the broken arm.
The broken flesh would never be complete.
Because a part of their soul had been completely cut off and integrated into the flesh and blood of the arm, turning it into a sword.
After listening to Carolyn's explanation, the cute girl trembled all over. "The mystery of the eternal broken arm of Mount Shu, even the leader of Mount Shu can only be a homosexual. The truth of this mystery is actually … not the loss of morality!?"
Now, it was perfectly fitted together!
It was perfectly revealed!
It turned out that this was a weakened version to a certain extent, the fusion of the soul and the flesh.
Before, her knowledge was not enough, and she could not understand this strange phenomenon at all. Now she understood.
It seemed that everything in the world about the pursuit and deduction of the ninth-order pointed to the same end.
"Knowledge is the power of everything."
The cute girl suddenly remembered Hermes's words to describe the truth:
When that time comes, all the obscurities in the world will disappear from your side!
At this moment, she was so excited that her whole body trembled, and she almost lost her voice. She was completely convinced by the legendary Hermes. It turned out that all the knowledge had long been by her side.
She suddenly thought of another saying:
There is no lack of beauty in the world, but there is a lack of vision to discover beauty.
"This is everything Hermes wants to tell us. In fact, the answer to the riddle that gives us the answer has long been on Mount Shu."
Carolyn was also completely shocked. After coming to this world, she finally understood the feelings of the cute girl and the others. Hermes was terrifying and mysterious to this world, as well as his terrifying role in promoting civilization.
But after all, she was not an ordinary person. After pondering for a while, she was still thinking:
"Perhaps the path of the ninth-order soul and flesh can be used as a reference for the Shu Sect. First of all, I have to temper my heart in the mortal world. I have to have the same inner pain as them. I have to have an amazing will and determination. I have to create a furnace of heaven and earth and place myself in it. I have to use the terrifying high-pressure forging environment to speed up the cultivation of the fusion of my soul and flesh. I have to speed up the process of polishing the path of 100 trillion cells and the fusion speed of each cell!"
Just like the disciples of Mount Shu.
Using the furnace to speed up the fusion of oneself, merging all of one's soul, will, and emotions into the body.
"If you want to become a god, you must first become a mortal." When Carolyn thought of this, it was as if thunder had exploded in her mind in an instant. A smooth path appeared in front of her. "Let's go to Mount Shu first."
So, Carolyn looked at the sword-forging furnace and turned to look at the entire Mount Shu outside. She asked seriously, "I came here for a trip. Can I also enter Mount Shu and learn from a disciple?"
Enter Mount Shu?
Liu Wenjian was stunned.
In Mount Shu, cultivators with aptitude would never come to cultivate. This was an extremely unorthodox path opened up by mortals. Who would have the time to cut off their arm?
Moreover, even if they reached the God Realm, they would not be able to recover.
If there were other choices, no one would choose to be in such pain and be incomplete.
This was not a system worth learning. Even other cultivators would not be like body cultivators, who would also cultivate the sword immortal lineage.
"It's not the sword art of Mount Shu, but the spirit of Mount Shu's sword intent and determination to enter the path of cultivation here," Carolyn said with a serious expression. Carolyn had a serious expression on her face as she continued, "This is a training ground for the Ninth Step. I feel that I'll be able to understand a little."
Liu Wenjian was speechless and could only nod.
Carolyn also sealed her cultivation and began to learn like an ordinary person, re-experiencing all the hardships of the path of cultivation.
Soon, in less than a few days, the news spread through the Mother Green Vine.
The entire Six Realms was shaken because of this. This terrifying fact was simply unbelievable.
"Another ancient mystery has been solved?"
"In ancient times, Bai Xiaosheng had already told the world the two concepts of the ninth-order path? Using the teachings of Hu Rennong and Liu Wenjian? "
"This? … How shocking was that?! In a previous historical dialogue, he told us the mentality of reaching the ninth-order path and the two concepts of the ninth-order path? "
"Mount Shu's lineage, the fusion of the soul and the body, could it be the inspiration for the ninth-order path!?"
"No, no, the general direction of Mount Shu's path is correct, but the minor direction is ridiculously wrong. They treat this arm as a whole and fuse it with the soul and the body, as a big iron plate, and not as an arm with billions of cells, splitting the soul and fusing it with precision."
"Yes, it's not precise enough."
"But it's inevitable. As the beginning of cultivation in an extremely low realm, how can it be so precise? They must treat the arm as a whole and fuse it with the soul of the whole arm. "
"However, the path of cultivation after Mount Shu has also appeared."
"Indeed, Liu Wenjian will also re-cultivate the Mount Shu Sword Manual, break through the Sword Immortal God, and refine his own sword, turning it into a sword with billions of cells."
"He treats the sword as a world." The Mount Shu Sword Immortal God Lineage can reach the ninth-order path! It can be cultivated to the ninth-order path! "
"However, Liu Wenjian is already a mid-level God, and his lineage's path of cultivation is in line with the ninth-order path. I'm afraid that once he breaks through to the high-level God level, his progress on the ninth-order path will be countless times faster than ours."
…
In an instant, all the Gods in the entire Six Realms were moved.
Great waves surged in their hearts. At this moment, they were almost speechless as they deeply felt that a terrifying, ancient, supreme existence had left everything for them before they died. It was as if everything had been nurtured and placed in front of them, teaching the mortals on the ground behind their backs.
"Hermes …"
Countless powerful beings abruptly turned their heads and looked in a certain direction.
They had been cultivating in seclusion, but now, they felt that it was time to change the location of their seclusion.
In less than a few days.
At the foot of Mount Shu, there were more than a dozen ordinary people who had sealed their Divine Power and were climbing slowly to seek immortality.
They followed the answer left by Hermes and moved forward.
To become a God, one must first become a mortal.
The Gods entered Mount Shu.
…
…
It was bitterly cold in the winter.
In the orchard under Dong Cheng Town, Xu Zhi glanced at the cellar.
He looked at the Barren Ancient World, which was like spring all year round, and everything that happened on Mount Shu.
He continued to rearrange everything in his study.
In his opinion, this would be the origin of his new world, the world of the crystal wall.
Although the size requirements for the spiritual world were not high, Xu Zhi still wanted to make the environment better. After all, this place was similar to a computer room.
"It seems that I have to start nurturing and planning the process of the new world," Xu Zhi said in a low voice.
After all, a world could grow from nothing. Even if it was just the beginning, it still had to go through many stages of polishing.
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