就差点走火入魔
“he nearly went berserk.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“When Nie Hengcheng trained back then,”
就差点走火入魔
“he nearly went berserk.”
“I merely wished to test it for you.”
“Even a grandmaster nearly lost his mind doing this; who do you think you are?”
A quintessential concept in Wuxia culture referring to qi energy destabilization from improper internal martial practice, often serving as a cautionary metaphor for excessive ambition.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
almost; nearly
Used before verbs to indicate that an undesirable event almost occurred but was avoided.
to become obsessed; to succumb to deviation during martial cultivation
A classic martial arts idiom now widely used metaphorically for being overly obsessed with something to the point of losing sanity.