In society, if people wanted to describe somebody who was still powerful in martial arts when he was old, they would like to say that he became more firm as he grew old, but it was improper to describe the cultivators on mountains in this way.
After all, the cultivators on mountains had lived for hundreds of years at least anyway. If they wanted to maintain a good appearance, they might show their faces which were young all the time as they liked except the last days when they looked old. So it was not right to say that they became more firm as they grew old. For example, the temple owner Liang Yi had cultivated for hundreds of years, yet he still had a middle-aged man's face, while the old master Xu Ji was unwilling to maintain his face, so he looked so old. However, after he wielded his
