Zhu Huaishan smiled faintly and explained, "When it comes to martial arts, what's more important: breaking through to a new realm, or improving your practical combat skills?"
Fearing Zhao Lin wouldn't understand, he offered an example. "Suppose you have a martial artist who only cares about his cultivation realm. He focuses all his energy on training his skin, bones, and sinews, then breaks through to the Qi Realm, spending very little time and effort practicing his fists, feet, or weapons."
"Then you have another person who only spends half the day advancing his realm, using the rest of his time to practice all sorts of practical combat techniques."
"Which one do you think is correct?"
'Is he testing me?' Zhao Lin thought. 'This feels a bit like the old debate between the Qi Sect and the Sword Sect.'
