Had he once thought "Calamity" was "the road ahead"? Was there no road ahead after all?
Pan Long thought about those two questions for a long time and came up with a few guesses.
Thor Guda's martial arts were so extraordinary that even in the Nine Provinces World, Pan Long had never met anyone his equal. Perhaps even the True Person Grandmasters could not have beaten him if they had fought with the same strength.
In martial arts, Thor Guda had reached the limits of what a person could achieve—or at least the limits of this world.
But no matter how skilled he was, he was still flesh and blood. His physical strength had its limits.
As the saying went, "Human strength runs out." It was like the fighters of another world: no matter how good their kung fu was, they could not beat guns and cannons.
Pan Long had seen no guns or cannons in this world, but he had seen Colin's family light a fire with something like matches.
If matches had already been invented, guns and cannons could not be far behind. Guns might be difficult, but cannons should pose no problem.
Thor Guda and other masters who had reached the limits of human ability had been shaken when they saw the power of cannons. They had discovered that the strength they had taken pride in for so long had become cheap and fragile in the face of progress.
Perhaps they could withstand one cannonball head-on. But if ten thousand cannons fired at once, could they withstand that?
Of course they could not!
At the same time, they must have wondered: if a cannon could wield such power, why couldn't a person?
So they had worked to find strength beyond those limits. Then, whether something went wrong