How Internal Elixir Arts Advanced Martial Arts

Yet when they saw a young man rise at an unimaginable speed, their long-dormant desire to pursue the Way burned hot again.

They might never attain the Way in their lifetimes. But to see martial arts take another step forward, even as mere witnesses, would be a blessing that let them die without regret.

"President, do you think he can really do it?"

Huang Xiaoren came over to Wu Cai, leaning on his walking stick.

Wu Cai shook his head.

"I don't know. I'm afraid no Grandmaster in the world does. That realm was first proposed only a few centuries ago, and in all that time, only three or five people have even brushed its edge, let alone attained it."

"But I believe he can. If even he can't, then perhaps that realm was nothing more than a jest from the Wudang Sect's founder in his later years."

Meanwhile, in the large suite prepared for him, Chen Cheng sat on the training-room floor and took from his coat the notebook in which he had gathered his conclusions after studying the martial insights of countless schools.

On its final page, he had written two words: Dan Embrace.

With the rise of online cultivation novels, many people had come to know about cultivating immortality. They had also heard the supremely showy line, "My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's."

But that line came from the famous Daoist Ge the Immortal Master's Baopuzi: Inner Chapters. Another line followed it: "Refine the elixir into gold, and live for hundreds of millions of years."

In modern terms: once a Golden Elixir entered his belly, his fate was his to command, not Heaven's.

Martial arts had begun with external exercises: building strength and tempering the body through hard training, much like working out at a