This Martial Saint's Health Bar is Too Thick!-Chapter 433 - 1 Where to Find Immortality

Mists wreathed the mountain peaks, where pine forests swayed gently in the wind, the sound like music from the heavens.

Stone steps wound upward, flanked by endless verdant bamboo, lush and green. As one ascended the staircase, the mist thickened.

At the mountaintop, a vast array of ancient buildings half-revealed themselves through the clouds. Old trees and vines entwined around them, and wisps of blue smoke rose from the many Taoist temples, merging with the mist, creating an almost ethereal realm.

This was the Daluo Sect, one of the Taoist Three Sects, and acknowledged as the premier vein of Taoism, the ancestral home of the Taoist tradition!

There were no empires that lasted a thousand years in the world, but there were millennium-old noble families and sects.

For instance, the Buddhist sacred site, Pudu Temple, was a treasured monastery for a thousand years, and the Daluo Sect, as the ancestral home of Taoism, had existed for over eight hundred years!

Ai Liangshan stepped out from one of the Taoist temples and quickly strode toward the edge of the cliff.

The mountain breeze brushed his face, making his Taoist robe flutter noisily.

On the edge of the cliff were a dozen iron posts, to which iron chains thick as a wrist were locked.

The other end of the chains stretched out over the cliff, hidden in the mist.

The Daluo Sect's territory included over a dozen mountain peaks, each connected by such iron chains.

If one wished to travel from one peak to another, the fastest way was directly via these iron chains.

When Ai Liangshan reached the cliff's edge, he saw disciples wearing Daluo Sect Taoist robes continuously leaping down from the chains, landing steadily on the ground.

They had just come from the mountain peak opposite.

This was one of the daily routines for the Daluo Sect's disciples!

The iron chains between the mountain peaks were at least two hundred meters long and up to over five hundred meters at their longest.

Furthermore, enveloped by clouds and fierce mountain winds, the chains themselves would constantly sway, and the mist obscured the vision, making it possible to only see a few meters ahead. This significantly increased the difficulty of traversing the chains.

A single slip would result in falling from the chains into a bottomless abyss, where even a Tao Foundation Stage warrior would perish, leaving no remains!

The Daluo Sect required all disciples who had entered the Body Breaking Stage to traverse between the peaks at least twice daily.

Every year, there were disciples in the Daluo Sect who died due to this practice!

This was the difference between the major sects in the World and the twelve universities in terms of education.

In the twelve universities, this kind of practice wouldn't be allowed.

Most of the students admitted to universities were the offspring of the privileged; one was the daughter of some Inspector General, another the son of a Chief Minister....

Sending their children to the university was for the sake of achievement, for 'gilding the lily.' Who would dare let these students 'walk tightropes'?

Who would take responsibility if something happened?

However, the Daluo Sect had established such training not merely to torment the disciples.

Through such training, the disciples first developed excellent lower body techniques and control over their body balance.

This was very helpful to the practice of Martial Arts.

More importantly, it trained their courage and forged a strong psychological quality!

For a Martial Artist, this was an even more precious attribute.

Advancing from the Body Breaking Stage to the Qi Change Stage required tempering one's Heart Realm, possessing sufficient Mind Power. Not everyone could overcome this challenge.

For the disciples of the Daluo Sect, as long as they didn't die, over seventy percent could smoothly break through to the Qi Change Stage.

Such a 'success rate' far exceeded the twelve universities!

This was what that Cabinet Minister had initially questioned, and also why the present Chief Minister was determined to change the educational methods of the Zhi Ge Department in the universities.

Ai Liangshan chose an outward-bound chain and leaped onto it, then briskly walked along the chain.

Soon, he disappeared into the mist.

The mountain wind blew, constantly swaying the chains underfoot, yet Ai Liangshan's expression remained steady as he walked over the chains with ease.

The chain between Luoxia Peak and Daluo Peak, which he was currently crossing, was relatively easy compared to the others; he still remembered the first time he walked the chain from Daluo Peak to Flying Cloud Peak.

There, the mountain wind roared like a tiger's growl, and the surrounding mist lashed like tidal waves from all directions, over and over!

Those scenes were genuinely terrifying; Ai Liangshan had not forgotten them to this day.

Soon, Ai Liangshan crossed the chain and arrived at the Daluo Sect's main peak, Daluo Peak.

Most of the important figures of the Daluo Sect were on this peak.

Ai Liangshan continued up the stone steps and quickly reached the summit of Daluo Peak, entering a vast square paved with marble.

Clouds of mist enveloped the square, where several dozen disciples in Taoist robes were practicing swordsmanship.

Ai Liangshan crossed the square and arrived at a secluded pond.

He stood by the water and reverently offered a salute.

In this secluded pond resided the Daluo Sect's Mountain Guardian Beast—the Azure Water Sky Cloud Beast.

Unlike the one Lu Wenzheng had prepared for Xu Jing, this Azure Water Sky Cloud Beast of the Daluo Sect was a Seventh-grade superior Exotic Beast with Water Control Divine Power, with combat power far surpassing an ordinary Martial Arts Master and almost reaching that of a Great Grandmaster!

This Exotic Beast had been subdued by the fifth-generation Sect Master of the Daluo Sect and had served as the Mountain Guardian Beast for over three hundred years.

Every Daluo Sect disciple passing the secluded pond would stop and offer a salute to the water, expressing respect for the Mountain Guardian Beast as well as to the former Sect Master who had captured it.

"Over three hundred years, that's truly impressive,"

Each time Ai Liangshan offered his salute by the pond, he couldn't help but sigh with admiration.

The average human lifespan is about seventy years, with five types of Implants capable of extending it to one hundred and twenty years. Afterward, breaking through each major Realm could add sixty years of longevity.