When a martial artist made a mistake, he often never had another chance to understand it for the rest of his life. What he lost was his very life!
How often did life offer a chance to start over after making a mistake?
Those words were even more apt when applied to martial artists!
Knowledge gained on paper always felt shallow; to truly understand a thing, one had to put it into practice.
That saying did not apply to martial artists!
For a martial artist, every powerful expert who passed on experience to you offered an opportunity.
If you respected them, felt grateful, and understood their teachings, you could avoid one Death Calamity after another in the martial world and on the battlefield!
As for those who did not know to respect and revere the strong, who knew no gratitude and did not cherish that opportunity...
If they died, they died!
Even peerless geniuses, the finest of their generation, were no exception. What people called perishing halfway along the road was, in truth, commonplace!
Yet Zuo Xiaoduo could quiet his mind and ponder every word he said, then gain insights and understanding from them. That was deeply gratifying.
Insight and understanding were actually two different things.
Insight meant beginning to sense something, without yet reaching the point of putting it into further action, whereas understanding meant fully comprehending it and integrating it into one's knowledge!
"A special cultivation method for suppressing breakthroughs... there really isn't a method like that. To suppress the agitation of your True Essence, you really can only hold it in yourself."
Wen Xingtian gave a bitter smile. "That depends entirely on the individual's perseverance, endurance, capacity to withstand strain, talent, and innate constitution."
"Besides, if a cultivation method like that really existed, wouldn't the whole world