"Less than a century after our founder established the Sword-Washing Pavilion, our sect had already become a great martial sect in the Real World, renowned throughout the land."
"Later generations of patriarchs carried on one after another, working together to expand and glorify our lineage. Step by step, we rose to the status of one of the Six Sword-Wielding Sects. Today, the pavilion possesses one hundred and eight peerless arts."
Su Wuming slowly recounted the sect's history to Qin Sheng, conducting his initiation training.
At the very least, a move had to be at the External Scenery Pinnacle to qualify as a peerless art in a major sect like the Sword-Washing Pavilion.
"Even among divine skills that directly point toward the Dharma Body realm, aside from the Taishang Sword Scripture, there are three more: the Sword Lord's Heart Scripture of No-Self, the Killing Dao, and the Emotionless Sword Scripture."
"However, compared to the Taishang Sword Scripture, these three divine skills are far more difficult to cultivate. Each has its own threshold and cannot be widely practiced. Thus, most pavilion disciples qualified to study fundamental divine skills choose Taishang."
Qin Sheng nodded. From their names alone, he could tell the inclinations of the Sword-Washing Pavilion's other three divine skills.
Those who cultivated the Sword Dao were generally extremely self-centered, and their lives were always accompanied by slaughter.
If they then comprehended a peerless divine skill like Severing the Dao, Seeing the Self, which directly pointed to one's original heart, it was all too easy for them to become extreme—forgetting themselves and the world, with only the sword in their hands remaining.
"If you wish to accumulate the foundations of orthodox arts, there is no need to seek quantity. You only need to comprehend some representative martial arts," Su Wuming said.
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