Ye Xiwen nodded. Only those lacking strength believed martial cultivation was for showing off bravery and fighting fiercely. In truth, everything was for one thing—eternal life!
It was a term that made people yearn for it. Every expert and great power spent their entire lives cultivating merely to brush against the edge of those two words!
That was the true foundation of martial cultivation!
"Since you understand this, you should also understand that comprehending the Heavenly Dao is the core of all cultivation. Especially at your level, you should have already begun to sense the existence of the Heavenly Dao. To people like us, the Heavenly Dao is like a massive cage that enshrouds us. We cultivate all our lives precisely so that we will not be bound by this cage!" Ye Zhentian said.
Ye Xiwen nodded. He felt this deeply as well. To ordinary people, something like the Heavenly Dao was invisible and intangible. Yet the higher one climbed in cultivation, the more clearly one could sense its existence. It was not some illusory thing; it truly existed.
It was like the programs in computers from his previous life. The entire Heavenly Dao was like a supercomputer composed of countless programs. No matter how martial artists cultivated, they had to do so within the limits permitted by that computer, cultivation included.
Though they spoke of defying heaven to change fate and seizing life from heaven, if the laws of the Heavenly Dao did not permit it, martial artists would fundamentally be unable to cultivate.
This program of the Heavenly Dao governed every last thing in the world, including human lifespan. Once one reached the prescribed limit, one would naturally grow old and die. There was an unseen force manipulating it all.
And so-called eternal life was like, after understanding