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There was a proposition that all martial artists in the modern era must contend with. Could they... overcome modern firearms?
The answer was dependent on individuals. Some would say human bodies simply could not withstand the impact force of a bullet. And they wouldn't be wrong. No matter how highly-trained a martial artist was, surviving against a hail of bullets with their naked body was impossible.
Maybe they could somehow deal with a pistol. But anything approaching the firing rate of submachine guns would already be beyond the limits of what the human physique could handle. Only a peak expert in external arts like Vator or a handful of people capable of circulating hardening qi to protect their bodies could remain unaffected by impact forces from firearms.
That wasn't all, however. Some other people also had something to say about this topic. Regardless of what type it was, an attack was meaningless in itself. It would only mean something if the attack had hit the target.
Without proper training, a rank amateur with a machine gun would still get devoured by a predator out in the wild. So, a martial artist shouldn't necessarily be at a disadvantage just because the other side had a firearm. That was their argument.
When the concept of firearms first surfaced in the world, martial artists roundly ignored it. Back then, firearms weren't any better than bows and arrows, even though they could be slightly more convenient at times.
Besides, rocks thrown...
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