People often say that cultivation has no shortcuts; it requires accumulation day by day, perseverance over time, and only then can one achieve the Great Dao.
This statement is not entirely wrong, but it's not completely right either.
In fact, cultivation has always had a shortcut, and that shortcut is sword fighting.
Not only because it is a matter of life and death, where the victor takes all, but also because fundamentally most people are merely greedy and lazy, monkey-minded, thinking only about survival and reproduction.
Alright, beings in the Taiji Realm are not humans but wet creatures, yet essentially it's not that different.
When life can be peaceful and prosperous, there is no inherent drive for progress, mutation, or evolution.
Even faced with crises of various kinds, unless one's life is endangered, with plenty to spare and mastery of one's resources, how can one exert their full strength?
