Meng Tu was at the southeastern edge of the Northern Ice Plain, north of Inkman City, northwest of the Corrupt Poison Grassland, and at the southern end of Meng lineage territory. There was a place called Autumn Blade Plain.
The terrain here was flat, not a blade of grass grew, and it was a naturally formed strange land.
Meng Tu walked step by step across Autumn Blade Plain.
He was powerfully built, his skin the color of red bronze. He wore a vest that exposed his shoulders, with his trouser legs rolled up to reveal his calves.
He wore no shoes, walking barefoot.
Step after step, the level ground was sharp as blades. Meng Tu trod upon the silvery-white soil as though walking over a mountain of knives, every step leaving behind a bright-red footprint.
Yet his expression was like a stone carving, utterly unchanged. Silent as iron, he kept his eyes shut and his brows slightly furrowed, doubt lingering in his heart.
"Autumn Blade Plain is filled with blade path dao marks and naturally nurtures countless blade Gu. I have walked on foot, pacing back and forth, for several years now. What am I lacking that I still cannot break through in blade path?"
Blade path was a very minor path, utterly incomparable to metal path, fire path, earth path, and the like.
When blade path was mentioned, sword path could not be left unmentioned.
These two paths had always been deeply entangled in kindness and resentment, yet they were also bound together. This was because the origins of both paths were one and the same: blade Gu.
Blade Gu was explicitly recorded in The Legend of Human Ancestor. Human Ancestor walked through the Abyss of the Ordinary. Some places there were muddy swamps where it was easy to