Immortality begins with becoming a master weapon refiner

Chapter 138 Yulong Pass, Frontier Situation
This also applies to Lü Zhenyan. He was not born into the Lü clan of Nanyue, but into the Lü clan of Yan. His current status is mainly due to his talent.

He is quite compliant and can listen to warnings from others. For example, when Gu Qing berated him harshly during the day, he immediately calmed down after someone warned him. This is a result of his mindset.

As for the cultivators native to Nan Yue, arrogance is a common problem. They have known this since birth, and there are cultivators from the five mortal kingdoms below them.

In the initial stages of spiritual practice, they are always among the top performers.

They gradually developed an arrogant and self-confident personality. They were typical troublemakers who had never experienced hardship. Their dissatisfaction with Situ Qing reached its peak after the banquet.

In the midst of verbal venting and belittling, even Madam Situ began to hold a grudge.

This situation once made Gu Qing feel that the future of the Southern Wilderness human race was in great danger.

The reality is that I misunderstood.

There are many factors that determine a person's character. These cultivators are generally in their seventies or eighties, which is an age when ordinary people are already in their graves, but for cultivators they are still very young.

Many people maintain a youthful appearance and a youthful mindset throughout their lives, and some even retain a childlike spirit.

This is related to their experience, which can be summed up in four words: smooth sailing! They haven't yet experienced the harsh realities of life.

Furthermore, personality is a phase-specific thing.

One should not condemn a person's entire future or even sentence them to death because of a bad character trait at a certain stage.

Just like.

A five- or six-year-old child scratches other people's cars during the Lunar New Year, throws firecrackers into other people's homes, throws stones to smash other people's windows, and destroys your collected figurines.

Is it terrible? Absolutely terrible!

Damn it? Yes!
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to throw him into a pig cage, and there are many reasons for this kind of personality.

Either it's a problem with their parents, or it's a problem with their living environment.

As the sage said: If one punishes without teaching, then punishments will be numerous and evil will not be overcome; if one teaches but does not punish, then wicked people will not be deterred.

Some people may not be taught by their parents, but are influenced by their environment.

A person may be inherently wicked and evil, but if they encounter a good teacher, the probability of them becoming a bad person can decrease from 90% to the point where they can eventually become an upright person.

Punishing someone without teaching them, or teaching them but not punishing them, are both unacceptable.

Of course, if it remains unchanged despite numerous setbacks and the trials of life, then bury it as soon as possible to avoid wasting air.

There is still a chance to save these people.

Not a person of great evil or wickedness.

Gu Qing sat quietly in the room, seemingly having gained some insight.

The saying "to refine one's heart in the mortal world and attain enlightenment" may be just like this. One does not necessarily have to become an ordinary person to understand the mortal world. Wherever sentient beings are, that is the mortal world!

At the speed of the Sky Shuttle, it only took one month.

We've arrived at Yulong Pass.

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The border defense line of the Southern Yue Kingdom was very long.

The four passes are lined up in the front row, with the Dragon Pass at the back. It is not only the last line of defense but also the logistics transfer zone for the four passes in front.

It is extremely important and is also the safest place on the frontier.

This area bordering the territory of the demon race is called—the Rift Valley Abyss!
It is the boundary that was cut out by the sword of the Baiyue Immortal Lord and the Lutian Demon Emperor when they fought each other ten thousand years ago. It stretches for nearly eight thousand kilometers, and the deepest part can reach the lava layer, while the shallowest part is still ten thousand meters deep.

Based on this, a natural defense line is formed.

Every two thousand kilometers is a new barrier against demons.

Over the years of war, countless corpses have been buried there, and the place constantly exudes a malevolent aura, with evil spirits frequently being born in the abyss.

This malevolent resentment mingled with the blood of the dead, forming the Yellow Springs Weak Water River, a torrent of resentment, at the bottom of the abyss. Legend has it: "Eight thousand abyss boundaries, thirty thousand weak waters deep, not even a goose feather can float, and reeds will sink to the bottom."

Let alone ordinary people, even cultivators cannot swim across.

If you fly in mid-air, you will be pulled down by the Yellow Springs Weak Water, and your body will be eroded, your flesh and blood will dissolve, and you will become a part of the spirits of the Weak Water.

It is a natural layer of air defense.

This greatly weakened the Eagle Demon Clan, the mortal enemy of the Southern Wilderness Human Race, and also significantly reduced the defensive pressure on the Human Race. It's hard to say whether the Hundred Yue Immortal Lord did it intentionally.

Perhaps this plan was in place from the very beginning.

In the entire Cangwu cultivation world, apart from the Rift Valley Abyss in the Southern Wilderness, there is also a place called Fenglin Continent in the center of the Western Sea, which is surrounded by the Weak Water on all sides.

It's just that place isn't as dangerous as the Abyss.

The fact that this place is prefixed with the name "Yellow Springs" shows how dangerous it is.

You can't see the Rift Valley from [Yulong Pass], as it's quite far away.

After Gu Qing and the others arrived.

The commander of [Yulong Pass] personally received them.

His name is Fang Fengye, one of the nine great immortal clans of the Southern Wilderness. He is of the same lineage as the Xia family and is a seventh-rank cultivator. He is the commander of Yulong Pass in name only, and there are more than one sixth-rank patriarch behind him guarding this place.

Besides guarding the front lines, these ancestors are also capable of providing support whenever the four Heavenly Gates on the front lines encounter trouble. With their speed, they can arrive within half an hour, making them a top-tier mobile force.

Even if Gu Qing becomes a soldier in the weapon-refining department, he still needs to undergo basic training to avoid becoming a burden to others in case of an emergency.

"General Ye."

After setting up the Sky Shuttle and directing his men to move the supplies, Situ Qing came over to report.

"This batch of new recruits consists of thirty-two people."

"They are all disciples of Baiyue Mountain."

The unspoken meaning behind these words is clear to those who understand.

Fang Fengye nodded.

"Return to the team. I have my own arrangements for these people."

"Yes!"

"You will all follow me into the pass."

Yes, at this time they had not yet entered the interior of Yulong Pass, but were on a mooring platform outside, only a kilometer away from Yulong Pass.

However, even supplies transport vehicles are not allowed to easily enter this military stronghold, in order to prevent the possibility of spies infiltrating.

The environment here is very oppressive, surrounded by the Gobi Desert with its endless yellow sand. The climate is hot, and people don't talk much.

Yulong Pass is located between two high mountains.

The bricks were made from a type of iron-metal material, and Gu Qing, with the eye of a weapon refiner, could tell that each brick in the [Dragon Control Pass] was a magical artifact of unknown grade.

They are also interconnected. At crucial moments, the entire Imperial Dragon Pass becomes a single, super-large artifact, and you can guess what role it can play.

Is this the large-scale war machine that Elder Jiang mentioned to him?

It indeed requires the collaboration of multiple weapon refiners to forge; otherwise, even if one person were to operate it for a hundred years, it might not be possible to create such a war weapon.

Yulong Pass is a place entirely dedicated to military operations.

The number of standing soldiers is a secret, and Gu Qing doesn't know it, but he feels it wouldn't exceed the number of cultivators from Baiyue Mountain, since there are certain requirements to come here.

Therefore, the entire [Yulong Pass] is not very large, probably only the size of an ordinary town.

(End of this chapter)