I think she's getting worse 😂😂😂

lol seems like it. But I think they are trying to say that it is one thing to train to swing a sword ( like I do! ) but it is quite another thing to actually use a sword in combat, even worse if your limbs are hampered and especially if it is in a life or death situation. When I swing a sword, I can make it look pretty, but can I really perform in an actual sword fight? Nah. I doubt it. So, in order to do that, one would have to experience a life or death situation and do so often if you want to improve useful skills.

So as a teacher, how to you put your student in a real life or death situation...without killing them?

One that I remember the most is the Manga: Sword of the Immortal, where the title character "Manji" tells the young girl he has chosen to protect to help her get her vengeance, he tells her that she is a fool whose fighting skills suck and in a real life or death situation she can only die. He further explains that without going through years of training where you spar with Kengo "sword gods" every day till you vomit blood! Without this she wouldn't amount to anything in fighting with her enemies who killed her family. So leave the fighting to me.

Anyway I am paraphrasing it. But I never forgot that scene. It made quite the impression.

Oh, so the monk is a fraud acting like he's righteous on the outside but in actuality he's a scumbag POS in the inside practicing evil smh.

This story is a bit more sophisticated than simply grouping everyone into good and evil. The monk is greedy for fame and fortune, exactly as mc said. He is not entirely evil, nor entirely good. Many of the other characters are the same. Consider the evil swordsman "Raincoat Man" - when his apprentice stormed into the Abandoned Sword Manor he miraculously slaughtered anyone who got in his way. Both he and his master looks evil, acts evil, speaks like an evil guy and uses "Devil" skills...and yet why was he even there? He was acting on the Confucian values of respecting his teacher and seeking revenge by trying to kill the man who killed his teacher. From that perspective, even Raincoat Man's apprentice is not all bad.