"We've strayed off topic. Let's return to the Rhyme Realm of Combat Skill. Now that you've reached this realm, if you want to keep advancing,
you need to keep thinking, express your understanding of the Dao to Heaven and Earth through your Fist-and-Foot Arts, draw in primordial qi, and make up for the path of martial arts."
Meng Chuan had something else he did not understand, so he asked:
"Martial Uncle, the word Dao is far too broad. Is the Dao you're talking about the martial Dao?"
"Of course. The word Dao can be great or small. At its greatest, it encompasses heavenly law and karma, life and death, reincarnation and rebirth. At its smallest, it is an ordinary person washing clothes and cooking meals, firewood, rice, oil, and salt.
What kind of Dao a person walks depends on them. Focusing on what one does day after day, year after year, is itself the process of drawing closer to the Dao.
We martial artists train in martial arts, and what we pursue is precisely the martial Dao."
"I understand."
Auntie tended to the household every day. Even though the family was now well-off because of him,
she still refused to hire a maid, insisting on doing the laundry and cooking herself, taking joy in it.
Because this, too, was her own Dao of happiness.
Seeing that Meng Chuan had understood, Zhao Shousui nodded and said:
"Then I'll continue. The Rhyme Realm of Combat Skill is far too vast.
The predecessors divided this realm into three steps. The first is Knowing Self, then Knowing Heaven and Earth, and finally Knowing Origin.
The so-called Knowing Self realm means having sharp divine thoughts, an unhindered body, and truly becoming the master of oneself. The second step—
If you can reach the final step,