Climbing up the mountain, it gets colder and colder as we go higher, the cold wind howls, snow gradually appears, and then frost covers the ground. There is no way to go up the mountain. Climbing on the slippery ice and frost makes it a bit difficult to climb up the mountain.

Originally, this situation was not a problem for people like You Xiao. He only needed to use Qinggong to cover a distance of 100 meters. However, now his cultivation has been restricted and his abilities have been suppressed to the extreme. As a result, even climbing up the mountain has become difficult.

It is difficult, especially climbing in such an alpine and cold environment. It is also a great test for physical strength, and physical exhaustion can be said to have skyrocketed.

But for Yunjing's physique, this was not a problem. If he was willing, he could even jump up the mountain as fast as a cannonball, but he didn't do that because there was no need. Just like You Xiao

, seems normal, but in fact it is not normal anymore, and it is a bit eye-catching. After all, he is still carrying a sledgehammer.

The two climbed up a steep slope dozens of meters high, and what appeared in front of them was a rare flat open space sheltered from the wind. Standing here, You Xiao couldn't help but exhale a breath of white mist, rubbed his arms and said with a grin: "Hey,

I'm a bit cold and tired. I don't remember how long it's been since I felt like this. My cultivation is restricted. It's so uncomfortable. I don't even want to go up. This feeling is no different from ordinary people. It's really confusing."

"Where do all these emotions come from? Don't you think this is actually pretty good?" Yun Jing said calmly, carrying the hammer. The two of them came here together, but he didn't blush or breath.

While sighing inwardly that Yun Jing's physique was terrible, You Xiao asked in astonishment: "Why did Brother Dahamui say this?"

"This is not simple, because no matter how high the cultivation level is, everyone originally came from ordinary people, so returning to this state now is equivalent to walking the original path all over again. In this way,

It is equivalent to a huge benefit for improving one's own strength." Yunjing opened his mouth carelessly, looking like you can't think of things that even a fool can think of.

Having said that, Yunjing actually reminded You Xiao that this was a rare opportunity, but he didn't say it so directly. Whether he can understand it or not is none of his business. The other party is not a child.

Even if you don’t eat, you can drink it hard.

Hearing this, You Xiao's eyes flashed thoughtfully, recalling his own martial arts journey. Along the way, he struggled many times with the fact that he had not laid a good foundation in the past, so that it is now more and more difficult to improve, and now he has returned to

Initially, wouldn’t there be an opportunity to continue to polish and lay a solid foundation?

His heart suddenly became enlightened, and he couldn't help but look at Yun Jing and said: "Thank you Brother Sledgehammer for the reminder."

At the same time, You Xiao felt a little weird. He always felt that those words he said before should not be said by someone like Wang Dachui. Is it a coincidence?

"You're so good, why are you writing about me?" Yunjing said with a 'bewildered' look on his face.

I must be overthinking it, You Xiao was confused, shook his head and said with a smile: "It's nothing, let's take a rest and continue going up the mountain."

After saying that, he walked directly to the side and started practicing some basic boxing and kicking skills. He was not resting at all, but was further consuming his energy.

Yunjing didn't say anything. He could seize the opportunity to improve himself, so there was no need to interrupt him.

In fact, after Yunjing reminded him, his mind quietly observed that many people who came up the mountain thought of this and seized this opportunity to continue polishing and improving their basic physique. However, people who realize this are very selfish.

, I have no intention of sharing it with others at all. Even if I face other people’s jokes and waste my energy by practicing basic exercises, I don’t have any reaction. I’m probably still calling the other person a fool.

After resting for a while, You Xiao blushed and panted with hot sweat after completing a set of boxing and kicking skills. Not only did he not feel tired when he was panting, but he said cheerfully: "It's so good, I haven't been so good for a long time, brother Sledgehammer, don't ask why,

If you have time, just practice basic boxing and kicking, and you will know the benefits when the time comes."

He actually reminded Yunjing in turn, and Yunjing promised to give it a try if he had time, but he had no intention of doing so. After all, he had reached the ultimate level in every step of his previous martial arts journey, and there was no need to do it again. Anyway,

It is impossible to improve again.

Considering the terrifying physique of 'Wang Dachui', he didn't take it seriously, and Youxiao didn't force it.

Next, they continued to climb up, and soon they saw a corpse. It was the first corpse they had seen since going up the mountain.

It was a middle-aged man who had been dead for a long time. His body had already been frozen into an ice sculpture. The fatal injury was caused by someone piercing his heart with a sharp instrument.

You Xiao actually recognized this person and said in surprise: "It's Kuangdao Zhangshu. This person originally had late-stage innate cultivation and was very famous in Yunzhou, but he died here."

"In this way, this person's death is sad, but it is normal. Nowadays, the cultivation of people who go up the mountain has been suppressed to the extreme, and they cannot display their abilities. Under the huge contrast, he died at the hands of someone who was much weaker than himself.

It's not surprising in my hands, but it's just a bit frustrating to die like this," Yun Jing said.

His face darkened, You Xiao said: "We have to be careful next time. Even Kuangdao Zhangshu died so silently, so we have to be vigilant at all times, just in case we die in the hands of some unknown person."

That’s what I call crying without tears.”

"Yes." Yun Jing nodded and did not refute.

Then they met more dead bodies along the way, both men and women. Some were people with unknown names, and some were originally famous. These people died in various strange ways, including those who were poisoned, those who died in sneak attacks,

Some people were attacked and hacked to death, and others looked like they were thrown to death. They even saw a person who was directly killed by the cold...

The higher you go up the mountain, the colder it gets. Even simple survival in the harsh environment is a big test. It is normal to be frozen to death.

In addition to corpses, they also saw many living people. Not everyone who came up the mountain would go to the top of the mountain. Those people were scattered everywhere and were busy working on their own. Yunjing and the others had not come into contact with each other. After all, they were not familiar with each other. It would be fatal if there was a conflict.

things.

In fact, the living people Yunjing and the others encountered did not go to the top. The reason can probably be guessed. They were either unintentional, or they simply came down after failure, or they simply could not withstand the harsh environment above. The reason why

The reason for not completely leaving the mountain is because those people are seizing this rare opportunity to solidify their foundation all over again. After all, they don't know when this environment that restricts cultivation will disappear.

There are people who stay on the mountain, and naturally there are people who come down the mountain, and there are also people who come up the mountain, but there is almost no interaction between people who are not familiar with each other. When they meet, at most they just look at each other from a distance, and they part ways without any malicious intent on the surface.

, if anyone wants to find trouble, there is nothing they can do, just have a fight, life or death.

It wasn't until the afternoon that Yun Jing and the two arrived at the top of the mountain.

This place is actually an extremely open flat land, the size of several football fields, and the ground is made of ice that has been frozen for who knows how many years.

Standing on the mountain, the blue sky seems to be within reach, and the white clouds are at your feet. Looking into the distance, anyone will have a heroic attitude of seeing all the mountains at a glance.

But the environment here is extremely harsh. The raging cold wind is like a knife. It hurts the body. It is difficult for people with unstable legs to stand here. Even when Yunjing and the others came here, they saw a man on the cliff.

The edge was blown down by the strong wind, and after a quick scream, there was no sound.

In addition to the biting cold wind, the temperature here is so low that the breath turns into ice. Even Yun Jing and You Xiao's eyebrows and hair are covered with frost formed by the breath.

"Damn it, with your cultivation restricted, this place is simply not suitable for people. It's freezing to death." You Xiao complained immediately after reaching the top of the mountain, his voice trembling slightly as he kept rubbing.

arm.

For Yunjing, although the environment here is harsh, it does not have any impact on him. It is just drizzle, but he still agreed: "Yes, this place is really uncomfortable. Let's take a look. If there is no excitement, we will just leave."

While talking, Yunjing was also looking around.

Since this is the final location for the battle of ten thousand swords, of course it is impossible for the two of them to be the only ones here. The fact is that before them, a large number of people had gathered here, at least two to three thousand, and they were scattered in twos and threes in this huge

Everywhere on the mountaintop platform.

After all, Yunjing is not a member of the martial arts world. He doesn't know anyone at all. The only one he knows is Song Mingdao who is alone. But for an old martial artist like You Xiao, there are many people he sees.

They are all worthy of their names. It can be said that there are many innate realms of true artistic conception, but now everyone is at the same level in a sense.

In the center of the huge open space on the top of the mountain, there is a ring with a diameter of more than 100 meters, which is several meters higher than the ground. The ring definitely did not appear recently. It is probably the product of the glory days of Burial Sword Mountain. It is a solid

The unmelting ice platform has been frozen for countless years in this extremely cold climate. It can be said to be harder than steel.

It was obvious that many people had fought in the ring before. Even though the ring was as solid as steel, the traces caused by sharp weapons could still be seen vaguely. However, there were more bloodstains on the ring, and the ice surface was stained with a layer of blood.

It looks shocking, and I don’t know how many people have left their blood on it.

When Yunjing and the others came to the top of the mountain, they didn't attract much attention. Occasionally, their eyes fell on them and they quickly looked away. Only a few people who had witnessed Wang Dachui's true artistic conception of hammering to death a few days ago had their eyes on them.

After staying for a while longer, the most he could say was that these two people were here too.

At this time, there was a swordsman in blue shirt standing on top of the ring. He looked to be in his thirties and had a stern face. He stood in the middle of the ring, letting his clothes rustle in the biting cold wind.

He was concentrating with his eyes closed, seemingly unaware of the sights falling on him from all directions around him. There was an ancient long sword stuck beside him, with an eight-sided sword and a bluish edge, but there was this complicated ancient simplicity on the sword.

pattern.

"It's actually him, Xie Yunlan, who is known as the Master of Life-Destroying Swordsman in the world. This person is used to being a loner. He has a mid-level cultivation of the True Illusion. Rumor has it that his life-seeking swordsmanship is extremely powerful. I don't know exactly how powerful it is. Anyway, the rumors say

It is said that he has killed more than one master of the late stage of True Reality with his life-seeking swordsmanship. What is he doing now? Waiting for others to challenge him?" After You Xiao looked around for a moment, he turned his attention to Qing Qing on the ring.

The swordsman in shirt said.

Yun Jingxin said that although Youxiao's cultivation level was not high, he was well-informed and could actually popularize some information about the blue-shirted swordsman. Hearing this, he nodded and said, "That's probably true. It's just that this person's abilities are obviously extraordinary."

, No one has come up to challenge him yet. In your words, his cultivation was originally in the middle stage of the true artistic conception, but he has a remarkable record. Even if his cultivation is suppressed now, he is still an extremely powerful ruthless character."

"Whatever, we're just here to join in the fun. We have no intention of going on stage anyway, but there's no point in it. Just keep waiting. I don't want to stay in this damn place any longer," You Xiao said with a breath of air.

Yun Jing laughed softly and said: "Don't be anxious, the good stuff always comes later."

Every location on the top of the mountain is similar. There is no comfortable place. They chatted and stopped looking for a good place. They just found a location and waited to watch the show.

During the short time he came up the mountain, Yun Jing also secretly observed through his mind, and roughly understood what was going on at the moment from people's small chatter.

How should I put it, the so-called ten thousand swords fighting to seize the opportunity actually has no rules at all. If there are rules, it is to go to the ring, go up, defeat the people in the ring, and then defend the ring to meet the challenges of others. Of course

, when you are guarding the ring, you can also tease the people below. If they don't accept the challenge, that's another matter. Those who don't accept the challenge are equivalent to voluntarily giving up this opportunity.

In short, everyone secretly said that the one who finally stands on the stage is the one who gets the chance. As for whether the final result will be like this, it is unknown. Anyway, the possibility is the highest.

From Yunjing's heart, he also felt that there was a high probability that the Emperor's Sword would appear in the hands of the last person standing in the ring. After all, the Emperor was of course the one who faced any difficulties in the world. If he did not have the will to overcome any difficulties and adjustments,

How can one be called the Son of Heaven because of his talent?

Gu Qi

But there is a troubling problem, that is, every defender has to face one round of battle after another. No matter how capable a person is, if his cultivation is limited,

Can you still stand on it after the wheel battle?

So in fact, it is normal for many people who are interested in opportunities to wait and see and not go on stage. Wait until the last moment to go on stage and defeat the champion. While everyone is watching, you can also get opportunities. What a great start?

The third prince of Dali who was adding fuel to the flames had obviously never been on the stage. He was wearing a mask and watching with cold eyes. While obviously waiting for the opportunity to come, he was also observing the strength and means of everyone who came here during this period.

The same goes for Song Mingdao. He stayed alone, sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed slightly, the inferior long sword lying across his knees, and he remained motionless despite the cold wind.
To be continued...