,/.

"Alas!"

Sword God Mountain, Cliff of Reflection.

Su Fan sighed.

"Useless talent, reduced to an abandoned child, engagement broken off, then thrown by the sect onto Cliff of Reflection for confinement—I've got the full treatment of those webnovel protagonists!"

Su Fan shook his head with a bitter smile.

Just three days ago, he had still been a disciple of Sword God Mountain. Then, without warning, he had been thrown onto Cliff of Reflection and confined there for life, never to leave.

Any disciple confined to Cliff of Reflection had basically never taken another step beyond it.

This place was also known as "Burial Sword Cliff." Rumor had it that the swords of Sword God Mountain's experts throughout the generations were buried here.

Su Fan had not been sent to Cliff of Reflection because he had committed some mistake. It was all because of a piece of news that had arrived three days earlier.

The Gan Royal Estate, one of the Chu Kingdom's three great royal estates with surnames other than the royal family's, had announced that Su Fan was expelled from the estate and was no longer its young master.

And the fuse that set everything off was that Su Fan's fiancée, Wu Aoxue, the eldest daughter of the Tianwu Royal Estate—also one of the three great royal estates—had broken off their engagement!

The cultivation good-for-nothing Su Fan had instantly lost all value. Worse still, he had made the Gan Royal Estate lose face, so he was expelled from it.

His cultivation at Sword God Mountain had originally depended on the Gan Royal Estate's connections. Now that his engagement had been broken and he had been driven from the estate, he had become an abandoned child.

His talent had been mediocre to begin with, making him one of Sword God Mountain's worst disciples. Naturally, Sword God Mountain had cast him aside as well.

They threw him onto Cliff of Reflection.

Any disciple confined to Cliff of Reflection would have their cultivation crippled. Given the harsh environment here, disciples whose cultivation was crippled would not survive long before dying.

Su Fan's cultivation had not been crippled.

Because his cultivation was laughably low, barely stronger than that of an ordinary mortal!

Naturally, there had been no need to cripple it!

Su Fan stood beneath the only large tree on Cliff of Reflection, lowering his head slightly in thought. "With my current talent, if I cultivate bitterly for a hundred years, I should be able to condense a Mystic Sword!"

Sword God Mountain specialized in the sword path and had once been praised as the orthodox lineage of sword cultivation beneath heaven. Though it had long since declined and was no longer what it used to be—

—it was still not to be underestimated.

Sword God Mountain's sword cultivation realms were uniquely distinct: Mortal Sword, Mystic Sword, Spirit Sword, Void Sword, Emperor Sword, Heaven Sword, God Sword...

Corresponding to the cultivation realms: Mortal Realm, Profound Realm, Spirit Realm, King Realm, Emperor Realm, Heaven Realm, God Realm...

Only by breaking through to the Mystic Sword could one truly step into cultivation and be considered a sword cultivator.

As for Su Fan, he was still stuck at the initial stage of the Mortal Sword...

Put simply, he had merely learned some sword techniques and was only a little stronger than an ordinary person...

Precisely because of that, when he was thrown onto Cliff of Reflection, they could not even be bothered to cripple his cultivation. To put it bluntly, he had no cultivation to cripple in the first place.

Because he was truly too useless.

Though his talent was poor, Su Fan had not lost heart. He firmly believed that diligence could make up for clumsiness. If talent was lacking, he could use time to accumulate it and slowly pile up his cultivation!

He also possessed the essential cheat of a transmigrator.

On his eighteenth birthday, his system had activated: the Infinite Lifespan System!

He possessed an endless lifespan and would never die because his years ran dry!

Originally, Su Fan had planned to lie low and develop, slowly accumulating cultivation. One day, he would outlast everyone and grow ever stronger!

Yet he had been thrown onto Cliff of Reflection.

After having his engagement broken and being expelled from the royal estate, Su Fan immediately sensed danger.

It felt as though his little life could be lost at any moment!

Although he had infinite lifespan, he could still be killed!

"I have to raise my strength. Now that I've lost my background and my backing, someone could easily kill me at any time!"

Moreover, the broken engagement had come far too suddenly!

Su Fan could not help recalling those melodramatic plots that often appeared in the novels he had read in his previous life.

Could some love rival suddenly emerge and send a lackey to kill him?

Too dangerous!

"Could throwing me onto Cliff of Reflection be a form of protection?"

"This sends a message to the outside world: I'm trash, thrown onto Cliff of Reflection, destined to live out an ordinary life and die."

"That way, no one would deliberately come to kill trash like me?"

"And Cliff of Reflection lies behind Sword God Mountain. Anyone who wanted to sneak in and kill me would first have to get past Sword God Mountain. The difficulty rises, so enemies would not risk coming to kill trash like me."

Even so, Su Fan still felt that he was in great danger!

He had to raise his strength to protect himself!

"I hope I'm just overthinking it, and there isn't some melodramatic love rival coming to kill me!"

"But my talent is so poor. How am I supposed to improve my cultivation?"

Su Fan was troubled beyond measure.

With such poor talent, raising his strength in a short time was simply impossible.

"Alas!"

Su Fan sighed and turned back to the pitch-black cave on Cliff of Reflection.

This was the place where he sheltered on Cliff of Reflection.

Night fell, and a bright moon hung high in the sky.

Su Fan lay on the weeds inside the cave, unable to sleep. The feeling of crisis—that his little life could be lost at any time—kept lingering around him.

"What should I do?"

"This system is too useless. Giving me lifespan alone is no use. It should at least improve my aptitude!"

Su Fan complained as he looked at the system.

Moonlight streamed in through the cave entrance. Out of the corner of his eye, Su Fan suddenly caught sight of a glimmer of silver light.

"What's that?"

On the cave wall, under the moonlight, a silver gleam the size of a fingertip appeared.

Su Fan immediately grew curious. Stepping closer, he discovered that the silver light came from a tiny pebble embedded in the stone wall.

He reached out and pressed it.

The glowing pebble sank inward.

Crack!

A hole suddenly opened in the stone wall at the end of the cave. Su Fan's spirits lifted at once. There was actually a secret inside the cave?

He recalled that Sword God Mountain's Cliff of Reflection was also called Burial Sword Cliff. Legend said that Sword God Mountain's former experts would bury their swords here before passing away.

Yet to this day, no one had ever found a single buried sword on Cliff of Reflection.

Since it was used to punish disciples, it had later come to be called Cliff of Reflection.

Could those swords all be buried beyond this cave wall?

Su Fan was overjoyed. Perhaps there was some fortuitous opportunity inside.

He took out a Moonlight Stone that he carried with him and walked toward the doorway within the cave.

The Moonlight Stone emitted a silvery radiance like moonlight, illuminating the area around the cave.

After entering through the doorway behind the cave and taking only two steps, Su Fan stepped on a sunken stone with a crack. The door that had been opened instantly shut.

Su Fan jumped in fright. Would he be trapped to death in here?

He lifted his foot and stepped on that stone again. The door opened.

Su Fan breathed a sigh of relief. After closing the stone door, he continued onward.

Under the Moonlight Stone's glow, Su Fan soon saw the space open up before him. A vast underground cavern appeared.

And within the cavern stood grave after grave!

Sure enough, this was the Sword Burial Ground. Those were the swords buried by Sword God Mountain's experts!

Su Fan entered the cavern, where a stone stele stood at the entrance.

When the Moonlight Stone shone upon it—

"Forbidden Technique Burial Ground!"

The five pitch-black words on the stele carried a desolate air that rushed toward him. No one knew how many years had passed, yet the strokes still retained the bleak state of mind of the person who had carved them.

"Not a sword burial tomb?" Su Fan froze.

What forbidden technique?

Suddenly, Su Fan's eyes lit up. Could he... cultivate this forbidden technique?