I Taught Myself to Become a Sword Immortal, but Nobody Said There'd Be Eighty-One Trials!

[System + martial arts adventure + comedy + passion + iconic moments]

Li Ergou happens upon an unparalleled secret manual while rescuing a beauty: How a Sword Immortal Is Made.

Bro, isn’t this manual a little too modern?

But why do I have to endure eighty-one trials to become a Sword Immortal?

[System Reply: Steel has to be hammered a thousand times to take shape. You only have to endure eighty-one trials to become a Sword Immortal. What are you complaining about?]

Fine, but...

The rewards this System gives me are a little too bizarre.

[Mars-Fueled Power Pill: Greatly enhances your physique when consumed, but has the side effect of making your farts shoot sparks.]

[Invincible Diamond Finger: A conceptual divine power. It can block any attack you believe it can block. It’s what I say goes, not what you say goes...]

Many years later, the young man sat alone atop a vast, desolate mountain. Pointing his sword at the heavens, he spoke the words he had kept bottled up for so long:

No one will help me reach the clouds, so I’ll tread through snow and climb to the summit myself.