Shushan.
Walking along the white stone steps, winding forward, in the distance are countless magnificent palaces standing on the top of the mountain, surrounded by hazy mist and steam, it looks like a fairyland on earth.
In the main hall, Caroline saw Liu Wenjian.
This legendary figure, who is not crazy and cannot survive, is the first true mortal emperor in history. In the Jianghu era, as an ordinary mortal, he broke his own arm and cast a sword, and even assassinated many terrifying Jianghu Great master, a terrifying master of the fifth and sixth ranks.
The ancient existence that started the era of mortals cultivating immortals is simply a myth.
"You want to see Mount Shu?" Liu Wenjian was a little surprised.
However, there was the land mother, Qingteng Empress, who was accompanying her, obviously taking this visitor from another world to visit everywhere, as a landlord.
Afterwards, a group of people walked back to the mountain. On the top of the mountain was the Sword Tomb, halfway down the mountain was the Sword Washing Pool, 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 casting villa in the rivers and lakes. It is full of iron and sword embryos, and all kinds of ores are everywhere. It can be said to be an arsenal for the entire six realms, providing standard weapons for the army of gods from all walks of life. Students who want to enter Shushan must first learn how to forge swords. , here are all blacksmiths who make swords, practicing their skills.
Clang, clang!
Countless people brandished iron weapons with bare arms, and the furnace was scorching hot.
To practice forging skills, it usually takes seven or eight years of hard work to become a well-known blacksmith, that is, to forge swords with your arms.
"If you want to go to Shushan to learn swordsmanship, you must first learn to forge a sword, and the blacksmith's skill will last seven or eight years. Life is unfair."
Liu Wenjian said with emotion, "Some people are born with strong aptitude, and they are destined to embark on the path of cultivation, and everything is flat, but more than 80% of them are born without the so-called cultivation aptitude. To become extraordinary, you have to pay a thousand times the hardship , to be on an equal footing with others.”
Caroline couldn't deny it.
The vast extraordinary world is mostly composed of mortals.
Even in the Lava Ancient Territory of the Three Pillars of God, there are many mortals who don't even possess the qualifications of arcane swordsmen at the lowest level, otherwise there would be no rank.
"Isn't there already a line of physical training?" Caroline asked.
"Physical cultivation, although blood qualifications are not required, but the resources that need to be consumed are too large. It is the most resource-intensive of all systems, and it is not affordable for ordinary people. Even if you cultivate a family, you may not be able to support it two."
Liu Wenjian smiled, "So, if most mortals want to cultivate, they have to endure hardships, climb the towering and rugged Shu Mountain, and ask immortals."
"Of course, in Shushan, after many disciples become sword immortals, they can earn their own cultivation resources, and then go to the line of physical cultivation." Liu Wenjian looked at the burning furnace, "After all, the disciples of Shushan have nothing to fight. But the life expectancy is like a mortal, repairing the body and cultivating the lineage can make us truly embark on the path of practitioners."
Caroline nodded, chewing on the meaning carefully.
A lot of knowledge and details cannot be fully known in the story.
"It is an extremely painful job for an unqualified mortal to stand shoulder to shoulder with a genius who cultivates aptitude. One hand is put into the furnace alive, enduring the severe pain, and wielding the hammer with the other hand to forge and break through the furnace. The meridians and flesh of my arm, let my arm have 'talent', and then cut it off."
Liu Wenjian's voice was flat, but everyone knew that this method was simply the cruelest torture in the world.
Not even one.
Stretch your own hand alive into the furnace
What is it like to swing a hammer
How terrible is the determination
After all, the story is just a story. Caroline didn't know the horror of these mortals until she witnessed this scene with her own eyes.
"So, our Shushan lineage is still sparsely populated. Every Shushan disciple has a terrifying tenacity beyond imagination. If you look into it, there are very sad stories before them on the mountain, poor people."
Liu Wenjian smiled peacefully, "There are clouds in the world, but the road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky."
People who can go to Shushan Mountain are absolutely extraordinary people, and they look down on life and death.
"However, it is also because they have experienced hardships that they can transform and know how to cherish. If every disciple of Shushan does not fall halfway, at least they can reach the realm of the seventh-level emperor."
... sky! emperor!
Caroline's complexion changed slightly.
It's no wonder that the Shushan lineage has developed rapidly.
When the war with the Demon Realm broke out that year, a lot of terrifying combat power emerged.
Because they have reached the state of mind, they only need various resources and treasures to accumulate on the sword, and they can practice slowly regardless of the state.
After all, it is possible to quickly improve the realm of the sword with the method of forging.
And these words have thoroughly explained the entire arduous process of mortal cultivation, and perhaps it can be written into an epic that splatters blood: The Legend of Mortal Cultivation.
Or it may be Legend of Heroes of Shushan.
clang!
Not far away, a middle-aged man started the final sword casting ceremony.
Clang, clang!
He stretched his hands into the furnace alive to forge his body, his face was crazy and paranoid, he looked like a madman, and he crazily swung a sledgehammer.
Beyond Caroline's imagination, this man's face was calm and gentle, as if he saw everything clearly, there was no pain, only determination.
Clang, clang!
He swung the hammer steadily.
The slightest tremor would cause the sword casting to fail.
He seemed to be waiting for this moment of pain for too long, too long, waiting for the moment of extreme pain and complete rebirth from the ashes.
He is waiting for his own serious illness.
He is waiting for his illness to die.
"If you bear a thousand felonies, you will never give up on practicing."
Caroline's complexion was not calm, and she was even a little shocked, "It's hard to imagine what he has gone through to calm down in such a madness, swinging the hammer with all his strength, as if all the pain, Obsession, all like a shocking flood, poured into the forging sword."
She thought of Liu Wenjian.
Perhaps, this middle-aged man is also in a normal situation.
Crouching in front of the bones and blood, howling and crying, hating myself for being weak, hating myself for being powerless, hating my family for being ruined.
Weakness is disease.
He is waiting for his own serious illness.
Shushan, talking about a mortal's inverse character, walking against the sky and walking against oneself.
"Mt. Shu is a collection of trillions of people in the six worlds who have encountered suffering in their lives, the most sorrowful, and the most determined people. Their souls are poured into it, and they use their own souls, their own flesh and blood, and their own minds and bodies. Integrating into the sword, the arm is also a kind of unity of soul and flesh."
Caroline's eyes burst into brilliance, as if she understood something,
No wonder, it is impossible for the broken arm of Shushan to be reborn with any Taoism and 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 flesh and blood unity on the arm.
This is the disciple of Shushan.
No matter how strong his cultivation was, even if he stepped into the eighth-level deity like Liu Wenjian and became a great being with a high degree of rebirth of flesh and blood, he could only maintain the truth of his broken arm and mutilation forever.
The flesh is mutilated and never complete.
Because a part of his soul has been completely cut off and merged into the flesh and blood of his arm, turning it into a sword.
Mengmei shuddered when she heard Caroline's explanation, "The mystery of Shushan's eternal broken arm, even the head of Shushan, can only be regarded as a habit of broken sleeves. The truth of this mystery is...not the loss of morality. !?"
Perfect and fit now!
Uncovered perfectly!
It turns out that this is a weakened version to some extent, the unity of soul and flesh.
Before, the knowledge was not enough to understand this strange phenomenon at all, but now I understand it.
It seems that in the world, everything about the pursuit of the ninth level is pointing to the same end point.
"Knowledge is all power."
Mengmei suddenly remembered the words Hermes described the truth:
Until then, all the obscurity in the world will disappear from your side!
At this moment, she was trembling with excitement and almost lost her voice. She was completely convinced by the legendary Hermes. It turned out that all the knowledge was already by her side.
She suddenly remembered a sentence:
There is no shortage of beauty in the world, but the lack of vision to discover beauty.
"This is Hermes. Everything he wants to tell us, and the answer to the riddle that he wants to tell us, is already on Mount Shu."
Caroline was also completely shocked. When she came to this world, she only knew the feelings of Mengmei and the others, the horror and mystery of Hermes in this world, and the terrible role of promoting civilization.
But after all, she is not an ordinary person. After Shen Yin calmed down for a while, she was still thinking:
"Perhaps you can refer to the Shumen for the ninth-level road of soul and flesh. First of all, you must refine your heart in the world of mortals. Just like their inner pain, amazing will and determination, recreate a melting pot of heaven and earth, place yourself in it, and forge it with terrifying high pressure. Environment, speed up the fusion cultivation of your soul and body, speed up the process of polishing one hundred trillion cells, and the fusion speed of each cell!"
Like Shushan disciples.
Use the furnace to speed up your own fusion, and integrate all your soul, will, and emotions into your body.
"If you want to transform into a god, you must first transform into a mortal." Caroline thought up to this point, as if a thunderstorm exploded in her mind, and a smooth road appeared in front of her eyes, "Let's go to Shushan first."
So, Caroline looked at the sword casting furnace, then turned her head to look at the entire Shu Mountain outside, and asked seriously: "I came here for a trip, can I also visit Shu Mountain, from a Disciple learn?"
Enter Shushan
Liu Wenjian was dumbfounded.
In the lineage of Shushan, those who are qualified to practice never come to practice. This is the extreme path opened up by ordinary people. Who is idle and has nothing to do
Moreover, even if it reaches the gods, it cannot be recovered.
If there were other options, no one would choose to be so painful and crippled.
This is not a system worth learning, and even other practitioners will not also practice the lineage of Sword Immortal like physical cultivation.
"It's not about practicing Shushan's sword skills, but about learning Shushan's sword spirit and determination, and practicing Taoism here." Caroline said seriously, "This is the place where the ninth-level path is honed, and I think I will understand Some."
Liu Wenjian was speechless and could only nod his head.
Caroline also professed to be a self-proclaimed cultivator, and began to study like an ordinary person, re-experience all the hardships of the road of cultivation.
Soon after, in less than a short period of time, the news here spread from the Earth Mother Ivy.
The entire Six Realms were also shocked by this, and this terrifying fact is simply unimaginable.
"Another ancient mystery unraveled?"
"As early as the very ancient times, as Bai Xiaosheng, he has already told the world, the two concepts of the ninth order? Did you use the Hu Rennong and Liu Wenjian that you taught back then?"
"This?... How amazing is this! A historical conversation before, told the mentality leading to the ninth level, and then told the two concepts of the ninth level?"
"The lineage of Shushan, the unity of soul and flesh, may be the inspiration point of the ninth-level road!?"
"No, no, the general direction of the road in Shushan is correct, but the small direction is outrageously wrong. They take this arm as a whole and integrate it into the soul and flesh, and treat it as a big iron plate, not as an arm of billions of cells that splits the soul. , separately and precisely integrated into every part.”
"Yeah, not detailed enough."
"But it is also inevitable. As a very low level of initial practice, how can it be so fine? It must be regarded as a whole piece of arm and integrated into the soul of a whole piece of arm."
"However, the practice path after Shushan also appeared."
"Indeed, Liu Wenjian will also rebuild the Shushan Sword Code, break through the god's sword fairy, and then refine his own sword again, and turn it into a sword with tens of trillions of cells."
"Treat the sword as a world," Shushan Sword Immortal lineage, pointing to the ninth step of the avenue! It can be cultivated to the ninth level! "
"However, Liu Wenjian is already a middle-level god, but the cultivation path of their lineage coincides with the ninth level. I am afraid that once they break through the high-level gods in the future, the integration progress on the ninth level will be countless times faster than ours."
...
In an instant, the gods of the entire six realms were moved.
There was a violent wave in their hearts. At this moment, they were almost speechless to express the shock in their hearts, and they deeply felt the deep feeling that a terrifying ancient supreme existence left everything for them before they died. , everything seems to have been conceived and placed before the eyes, teaching the mortals on the ground behind their backs.
"Hermes..."
Countless powerful beings turned their heads in vain, looking in a certain direction somewhere in the dark.
They were originally practicing in seclusion, but at this moment, they already felt that the place where they were practicing in seclusion should be changed to another venue.
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 climbed slowly. They went up the mountain to ask for immortality.
They pursued the answers left by Hermes.
If you want to transform into a god, you must first transform into a mortal.
The gods entered Shushan.
...
...
Bitter winter.
In the orchard in the countryside of Dongcheng, Xu Zhi was in the cellar.
He looked at the desolate ancient world that was like spring all the year round, and turned his eyes back to everything that happened on Shushan Mountain.
He continued to rearrange everything in the study, to frame everything.
In his opinion, this will be the origin of his new world, the crystal wall system world.
Although there is not much requirement for the location of the soul world, Xu Zhi still wants to make the environment better. After all, it is similar to a computer room.
"It seems that I have to start the process of gestating and planning the new world." Xu Zhi whispered.
After all, for a world to exist from scratch, even as the first sprout, it still has to go through many polishing and stages.