First Acquaintance with the Martial Dao

"Immortal Master Yi, this is your dinner!"

A disciple of the Origin Return Sect placed a meal not far from Yi Xuan as a Yi Xuan.

Yi Xuan, who was flipping through the manual in his hand, looked up, nodded, and then turned his gaze back to the book.

Seeing that Yi Xuan had not given any instructions, the disciple cleared away Yi Xuan's dishes from the previous meal and prepared to leave.

"Has he not left yet?"

Just before the disciple left the room, Yi Xuan's voice reached his ears.

The man nodded and said, "Yes, it's been four days! They're still kneeling in the square in front of the main hall."

"Are the meals I ordered delivered every day?"

"It's been delivered, but that guy doesn't move at all. Every time I deliver it, all he asks Immortal Master Yi if you'd like to see him!"

Yi Xuan nodded to indicate that he understood, and then waved for the other person to leave.

The person the two were talking about was Zhuo Ning, who had been defeated by Yi Xuan earlier.

Yi Xuan originally thought that Zhuo Ning would leave Origin Return Sect after admitting defeat, and then he would only need to find a suitable martial art in the Origin Return Sect's secret manual to leave Origin Return Sect.

Unexpectedly, Zhuo Ning, for some reason, did not leave after admitting defeat. Instead, he knelt in the square and said he wanted to follow Yi Xuan.

Yi Xuan refused the request without even thinking about it.

If it were any other cultivator, they might have accepted him because he was Great Grandmaster.

However, Yi Xuan's situation is completely different from that of the native cultivators of this world; he has too many secrets. Although one day in the future, Yi Xuan will spread his technology to every corner of this world, that will only happen when his strength is no longer a threat.

At this time, Yi Xuan did not yet possess that kind of power, so he would never take in someone like Zhuo Ning, who wanted to follow him after only meeting him once. If the other party betrayed him after learning Yi Xuan's secret, Yi Xuan would be devastated.

It's worth noting that when Yi Xuan first accepted Liang Shi as his apprentice, he tested him for over half a year. And even today, Yi Xuan's base still doesn't fully open its technology to Liang Shi.

Although Yi Xuan had lived in this world for over twenty years, he still harbored a certain degree of wariness towards it, a fact that even Yi Xuan himself was unaware of.

Four days have passed since Zhuo Ning knelt in the Guiyuan Sect's square. During these four days, Yi Xuan has been staying in the Guiyuan Sect's Scripture Pavilion. Through the various secret manuals of the Guiyuan Sect, Yi Xuan has gained a general understanding of martial arts.

If the cultivation of immortality involves absorbing the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to strengthen oneself and achieving a state of harmony Unity of Heaven and Celestial Person, then martial artists improve their strength by training their physical bodies, hoping to achieve the ultimate goal of overcoming fate.

Both cultivation systems have the same goal, but the different methods they use result in a difference in their potential.

Having experienced his past life, Yi Xuan understands better than anyone else in this world that for any species to survive, the smart way is to adapt rather than control.

The state of harmony between Unity of Heaven and Celestial Person and nature requires cultivators to embrace the universe, while simultaneously allowing the universe to embrace them. In this way, the universe will see the cultivator as part of itself, and their cultivation will naturally rise steadily.

In contrast, Martial Dao cultivation aims to achieve the ultimate goal of overcoming nature.

Haven't we learned enough lessons like this from past lives? The facts tell us that humans cannot conquer nature; they can only submit to it.

This is why the upper limit of Martial Dao is only the Great Grandmaster realm, because the purpose of Martial Dao is to defy the heavens and earth.

For cultivators like this, the heavens and earth are already being generous by allowing you to survive; how could they possibly help you improve your strength?

In Yi Xuan's view, the relationship between cultivators and martial artists and the world is like that between cancer cells and viruses and the human body.

Both ultimately aim to obtain sufficient nutrients from the human body as a whole to improve themselves. However, cancer cells disguise themselves as normal cells, only becoming cancerous when the time is right, causing irreversible damage to the body. Before becoming cancerous, however, cancer cells can coexist peacefully with the human body.

In contrast, viruses, which are completely resisted by the human body, are targeted by the body's immune system as soon as they enter the body, and the system tries every means to eliminate them.

Over the past four days, Yi Xuan has skimmed through almost all of the Origin Return Sect 'Martial Dao arts manuals. Among them are ordinary martial arts that can only be cultivated to the Houtian, as well as top-level martial arts that can lead directly to the Great Grandmaster, and secret techniques and moves for martial artists.

Guiyuan Sect truly lives up to its reputation as the number one martial arts sect in Xijiang Kingdom, possessing a vast number of martial arts manuals that far exceed those of Qingyun Sect.

This meant that even though Yi Xuan Su was a cultivator with a powerful Divine Sense, he was unable to memorize all the martial arts manuals.

Fortunately, the Black Tortoise's visual system had a built-in scanning function, Yi Xuan used the Black Tortoise to make copies of all the martial arts manuals of the Origin Return Sect over the next four days.

In this way, Yi Xuan can bring them back to the base, where No. 01 can conduct simulations to determine the most suitable cultivation method for Yi Xuan.

Meanwhile, in the Origin Return Sect's Scripture Pavilion, Yi Xuan held a secret manual in his hand, his brows furrowed.

It wasn't that Yi Xuan encountered a problem with the Martial Dao manual, but rather that Yi Xuan discovered he had absolutely no experience in Martial Dao cultivation. Even if he brought back all the Martial Dao manuals from the Origin Return Sect, No. 01 could only perform theoretical simulations.

Without the support of martial arts training experience, Yi Xuan dared not rashly believe the simulation, after all, there is often a considerable gap between theory and practice, especially when the object of the simulation is the human body.

However, there is a solution. One way is for Yi Xuan to waste time practicing a martial art. It doesn't need to be too profound; just achieving some level of proficiency would suffice. Then, Yi Xuan can share his training experience with No. 01 for reference. However, this method would waste a lot of Yi Xuan's time.

Yi Xuan was not optimistic about this method. For Yi Xuan, who believed in science, it would be more useful to do research and development than to waste time on some kind of cultivation that he knew was a waste of time.

At this moment, another plan came to Yi Xuan's mind. That was to find someone with Martial Dao skills to cooperate with No. 01. This would save Yi Xuan's time, and that person might also be able to Yi Xuan his subsequent training.

Once the idea appeared in Yi Xuan's mind, it was unstoppable, and the right person was readily available: Zhuo Ning, who was still kneeling in the square at this moment.

This guy is not only incredibly strong among martial artists, but also extremely talented, perfectly meeting Yi Xuan's requirements. Most importantly, he's practically come to me of his own accord.

Since it was delivered right to his doorstep, Yi Xuan naturally wouldn't be polite.

"Someone come here?"

Upon hearing Yi Xuan's words, the disciples outside the Sutra Repository hurriedly entered.

"Go and call Zhuo Ning over!"

Hearing the disciple leave, Yi Xuan secretly rejoiced, "Hehe... Zhuo Ning... let you experience the charm of a PUA master!"