"What? What immortal?"
Aaron was mildly curious and asked a question.
"It was that wandering Daoist who went to exorcise ghosts for the Zhao Family last time. Then a passing sword hero recognized him—the haunting had been released by that Daoist himself, all to swindle money... The two of them started fighting. That sword hero had a flying sword; with a single release, sword light could be seen across half the city, and its sword cry sounded like a dragon's roar..."
Li Xiao spoke while gesturing, his face alight and his hands flying about. He was envious beyond measure. "I wonder... when an immortal might take me as a disciple, so I can learn the immortal arts of a sword immortal too?"
Give me a break. With the "talent" of a brat like you, who can't even identify all the human body's meridians, a cultivator would have to be blind to take you as a disciple.
Aaron silently mocked him.
In this world, martial cultivation and immortal cultivation were inseparable.
The first two realms of immortal cultivation—Acquired and Innate—also existed among mortals. Even an expert of the secular martial world, so long as his talent was passable and he cultivated bitterly for several decades, could attain the Acquired realm.
As for those with talent one in a thousand—or even one in ten thousand—who also possessed an Innate cultivation method and a touch of fortuitous opportunity, entering the Innate realm through martial arts was not impossible. Such people were rare figures in the martial world, known as Grandmasters or Great Grandmasters, but that was as far as they could go.
Without an immortal cultivation method from the immortal, demonic, or unorthodox paths, and without understanding the secret to condensing Killing Intent, one could never refine Killing Intent in an entire lifetime