396 Human Nature 5yr

Translator: SophiaXEditor: Kurisu

"Dan is 'single', which, in turn, is 'one'[1].
"Dao is the only thing without a counterpart, hence the name Dan. Alone, it is enough to clear the sky, settle the earth, fill the grains, and make one immortal.
"Dan is one, which is very close to Dao itself. Neidan (internal Dan) is the practice to refine one's internal organs so that one could achieve the Great Dao.
"Most people are mislead in this concept. Because of the internet, modern men have easy access to a multitude of information that might not be necessarily true. Some are purely fictional and exaggerated, speaking of Dan as a bead-like object hidden in one's body. That is not the case." 
"Pffft!"
The second day, many people in the square couldn't help but lower their heads and snicker after Lu Yuanqing said those words, for most of the young people nowadays had read at least one of those brainlessly fabricated novels to know what the priest was talking about.
"The school of Neidan could find its origin in Wei Boyang of the Eastern Han Dynasty, then improved by the sages of later generations. After late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, Neidan gradually became a perfected system of Dan motheds.
"As the saying go