A Lone Boat, a Sword's Shadow

Others rely on spiritual roots to practice swordsmanship; he relies on chopping wood. Others break through techniques with talent; he does it by understanding them.

Ye Guzhou, a mortal with not even the lowest-grade spiritual root, carries a rusty iron sword worth three taels of silver. With it, he fights his way from the bluestone courtyard of Yunlan Mountain to the Sword Sea of Myriad Worlds.

A born sword embryo? He taps once with his sword and shatters the sword intent his opponent is so proud of. Then he says calmly, "Your sword doesn't understand you as well as mine does."

A mighty expert of the Lawbreaking realm? He splits the laws of the earth's veins and chuckles. "No matter how strong a law is, it has a gap."

An eternal sword cultivator? He catches a starry sword strike with ordinary iron and says earnestly, "Eternity isn't about never changing. It's about continuing to understand."

He has no special physique and no heaven-defying opportunities. He relies on just one thing: understanding the trajectory of every sword and the flaw in every kind of force.

From the Yunlan Sword Assembly to the Hanging Sword Island, from the Immortal-Falling Platform to the Star River Sword Arena, countless prodigies, immortals, gods, and eternal beings fall to his rusty iron sword.

They ask, baffled, "How can a mortal body break all techniques?"

Ye Guzhou runs his fingers over the notch in his sword and replies, "It's not a mortal body that breaks all techniques. My sword just happens to understand your techniques."

(P.S. This is a story about crushing every talent and realm with pure understanding. Even ordinary iron can determine the fate of the world.)