For Green Mountain's sword cultivators, the Wuzhang Realm was the most important threshold. Upon entering it, they could live several times longer than mortals and use Daoist arts to conceal their presence completely. More importantly, their flying swords could be hidden inside their Sword Pellets, emerging at the call of their Sword Sense when needed, swift as lightning, killing without a trace.
Back then, Master Meng and Master Lü had been sent to South Pine Pavilion as Teaching Immortal Masters for the outer disciples precisely because they had never managed to enter the Wuzhang Realm and could see no future in cultivation. Only after bringing along Zhao Layue, Liu S sui, and Jing Jiu had they been recalled to the peaks as a special exception and granted spirit medicine to continue striving toward higher cultivation realms.
The Iron Sword on Jing Jiu's back meant that he had yet to enter the Wuzhang Realm.
At his age, this was perfectly normal. The problem was that his performance at the Sword Inheritance Assembly three years earlier had stunned many people. Naturally, everyone felt he ought to have made some breakthrough after three years of traveling. Of course, such expectations were inevitably tied to jealousy or envy.
"Many Early-Blooming Cultivators advance extremely quickly at first, but as the Daoist arts grow increasingly profound, they gradually slow down, or even stop progressing altogether."
Looking up at the cliff, Xue Yongge sneered. "No progress at all in three years. I think he's just that sort of person."
Three years later, Xue Yongge had reached perfection in the Shouyi Realm. A few days earlier, with help from his granduncle on Shiyue Peak, he had entered the Mind-Bearing Realm in a single leap. He knew Twofold Forgetting Peak would select him today and impart true sword arts