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Jeong Yun-Seong freaked out and hurriedly thrust his sword forward.
“Hiiiieeek?!”
He genuinely believed he would be a match for Kang Jin-Ho's men. He didn't think the gap between them wouldn't be so big to the point of being insurmountable. As a matter of fact, Jeong Yun-Seong even thought that maybe, just maybe... He could overwhelm his enemies.
His thoughts weren't entirely without merit. Those selected by Kang Jin-Ho were all aged between their twenties and early thirties. However, the defenders working together to protect Elder Goh Seong-Hyeon were all in their forties.
In other words, there was at least a difference of a decade. And such a gap was nearly unbridgeable in the world of martial artists.
On the surface world of regular folks, someone over forty was seen as past their prime. An athlete at that age must consider retiring, while professional fighters would already have relinquished their throne to younger competitors. However, that story didn't apply to cultivating martial artists.
Martial artists fundamentally aged slower than normal people. And while the latter group relied on physical strength to fight, the former possessed an excellent substitute called internal energy.
While professional fighters lost speed and power as they got older, martial artists steadily accumulated qi in proportion to the length of time they spent cultivating. The older they were, the more time they would've spent cultivating and acquiring a greater pool of qi, which gave birth to the gap in strength between martial artists.
As such, age was seen as a symbol of strength among martial artists. At least,...
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