181. The Theory of Imitation
After rummaging through all kinds of classical texts, the elders of Wudang Mountain found that there were no classics that had ever discussed the principle of this true qi utilization technique and its special manifestation.
In the various texts of the time, it was only indicated that there was indeed such a technique, but there was no other investigation and record.
A technique that can allow the Gu Martial cultivators of the Second Realm of Gu Martial Arts to condense their natural spiritual power is definitely an existence that can make a sensation. In the elder's judgment, he believes that this technique is definitely of epoch-making significance, and the research on this technique should be endless.
But in reality, this is not the case.
In the various texts left over from antiquity, no one has discussed the principle of this technique and its subsequent development, and no one wants to know where this technique came from.
The idea of how they treat this technique is very obvious: it can be used, but there is no need to study it.
In view of this, Elder Wudang Mountain felt very strange.
When something that can break the rules of theory appears in the public eye, no one thinks that this thing and this application technique are strange and have great theoretical value.
Looking through various ancient classics, Elder Wudang Mountain found an attitude between the lines of these classics.
This attitude is the attitude of indifference to the application technique of this true qi.
In this record, he found that everyone back then tacitly understood this true qi application technique, as if as long as it was a normal person, they should know the principle of this technique.
Because everyone knew what was the reason for attracting natural spiritual power, their attitude towards this technique was so indifferent, as if in fact this situation was an open secret in the entire ancient martial world.
And after the passage of time, because the final usefulness of this technique is too poor, and people have been adapted, there are more and better ways to deal with the battle. The use of true qi skills is not proportional to the reward and has become an abandoned thing of an era.
Therefore, many cultivation sects also have a dispensable attitude towards the inheritance of this true qi utilization technique.
Now that this technique has become useless in later times, the origin of its theories and the reasons for its emergence are even less concerned.
Even when passing on a skill, it is not deliberately explained the theory and reasons for it, and people pay more attention to the application of the skill itself.
Over time, even the inheritance of this True Qi technique was cut off, not to mention other knowledge points about this technique that were of no use.
In the end, Elder Wudangshan's summary is that he got a theoretical idea after a long period of theoretical summary and speculation:
The reason why this technique was able to be used was something that was well known in antiquity, so much so that it was not written in the end.
It's only the part of the skill that it can have an effect, because of the fear that it will end up making mistakes, there will be a sect to summarize it, and finally let this skill become an existence in the classics.
In the process of word of mouth, people pay more attention to the useful technique itself, and are not particularly curious about its origin and history, and have little heart to study it, so these knowledge points become more loose, and fewer and fewer people know about it.
With the passage of time, it was not until many years later that there was a trend of reform in the world of ancient martial arts.
The idea of this reform is to make more use of some powerful weapons and relatively strong armor when the low-end realm is successful.
Although this item that provides external power requires a certain amount of resources and money, it is definitely more destructive and protective to the user than relying on one's own enemies.
Therefore, many sects have shifted the focus of the cultivation of low-end ancient martial arts realm cultivators from the training of their own strength to the cultivation of various weapon application skills.
The ancient martial arts world has undergone such a large-scale transformation of cultivation methods, and the result is that in the low-end field, many skills that are relatively cost-effective in themselves have been passed on with difficulty, and those skills that have paid too much, the return is relatively scarce, and the two are not proportional to the skills, and there are fewer and fewer people who cultivate, and finally this skill has gradually lost its inheritors, and it has slowly been lost in the long river of history.
These lost low-end techniques also contain the inheritance of this true qi application technique.
Although this kind of technique looked quite lofty, in the second realm of the ancient martial arts, the ancient martial cultivators were able to use the natural spiritual power between heaven and earth.
However, due to the thickness of the natural spiritual power film, the defense power is really limited, and the threshold for the application of this technique is too high, and many people can't learn it at all. And even if you learn it, the huge consumption of this skill has already pulled this skill to the level of chicken ribs.
Now that this method of applying the True Qi technique has been cut off, not to mention its other knowledge points, it is even more of a lost mess.
After such a long period of time, it is understandable that this theory has disappeared entirely.
Quite simply, the evidence shows that it is no longer feasible to investigate the origins and principles of this technique from a classical perspective.
However, Elder Wudang Shan did not give up, and found such a specific case that subverted traditional ideas and theories, and he was of course extremely excited as a master in today's academic circles.
And the attraction and inspiration that this True Qi technique brought to him made it impossible for him to directly give up the investigation of this technique just because he had a broken thought.
He was deeply convinced that the emergence of this technique would certainly be a clue to an advanced theory. From this point of view, the final theoretical result is definitely a subversive theory that can apply for the most high-end and authoritative awards in the academic world.
Therefore, in order to continuously discover the academic theories of ancient martial arts, Elder Wudang Mountain has been sleepless all night and has been reading various classics, in order to be able to find references on the side of this true qi application technique, so as to conduct in-depth research.
After a long and sleepless search and reading, Elder Wudang Mountain finally found a description of this True Qi application technique in several classics and articles.
Among them, the most described and cited should be an academic paper written by an unknown scholar at that time.
The title of the paper is "Aiming at the Mainstream of Contemporary Academic Theory: Skepticism and Discussion on the Application of Natural Spiritual Power in the Fifth Realm".
The argumentation of this paper is not particularly cautious, and even the supporting evidence is not overly accurate.
Elder Wudangshan could tell between the lines that the author of this paper must be a non-mainstream elementary school scholar who is not very well-known and has no reputation or status in the academic world.
The reason why Elder Wudangshan attaches importance to this academic paper is not the theoretical analysis part of this article, and he even feels that these things are fundamentally lacking in many factors, resulting in this article can be said to be full of loopholes.
What Elder Wudang Mountain did was just an unusual way of thinking for this academic author.
In this article, the author proposed that kind of true qi application technique, so that an ordinary second-realm ancient martial artist could have access to natural spiritual power, rather than something that only a fifth-realm ancient martial master could access.
Based on the further assumptions of this theory, the author proposes an alternative academic approach that is inconsistent with the current mainstream theories.
He believed that the acquisition of natural spiritual power did not rely on the sublimation of the ancient warrior's own rank, but from a strange imitation.
When the ancient warrior entered the fifth realm, the imitation of the ancient warrior itself entered a subconscious state, so he was able to mobilize the natural spiritual power at will.
And if a person is not able to put his body into a certain state of imitation when he has not reached the fifth realm of ancient martial arts, then this person can also mobilize a small amount of natural spiritual power.
It is true that the theory proposed by the author of this article is not very convincing because it is only a hypothesis in itself, and there is no substantial proof.
Moreover, the mainstream view of natural spiritual power in the academic theory of ancient martial arts at that time was based on this theory of life-level evolution.
Therefore, when this article criticizing the mainstream theory comes out, whether it has real reference value is one aspect, and the most important aspect is that the theory is not tolerated by the mainstream theory, and it will inevitably not be recognized by the academic community in the end, so it is also a very inevitable result that it has not been publicized and developed.
After reading the whole book, Elder Wudangshan finally found a theory that was inconsistent with the mainstream theory at that time, but coincided with his own ideas, and he was of course very excited in his heart.
After all, although Elder Wudangshan's views were not as specific as those in that critical article, he only had some doubts.
However, after searching through a lot of literature, I only saw a few articles on the application technique of True Qi, and only this article and Elder Wudang Mountain's thinking could reflect each other.
Therefore, Elder Wudang Mountain felt that the idea of this article gave him a very enlightening perspective.
This specific angle is to deny the theory of the sublimation of natural spiritual power, but to do the opposite, and to use the direction of imitation theory to explore the reality of the existence of true qi application techniques.
Now that the direction of the study has been determined, Elder Wudangshan continued to search for various information to explore whether the imitation theory has real truth and possibility.
After years of exploration, Elder Wudang Mountain's theoretical research, which he thought had a direction, fell into a bottleneck again.
After searching for materials from multiple directions, Elder Wudang naturally did not find specific examples or materials that could be used as direct or connected evidence.
In this way, his own theoretical research, like that of the unknown young scholar, could not be supported by any concrete examples that could be used as evidence.
Without the proof of concrete events, the theory is like a castle in the air, because it does not have a solid foundation, it will inevitably collapse directly when it encounters the slightest pressure.
And for the rest of the time, this Wudang Mountain elder insisted on the correctness of his imitation theory. In order to prove the credibility of his theory, he devoted the rest of his life to the proof and research of imitation theory.
However, until the death of this Wudang Mountain academic tycoon, he naturally did not find any discoveries.
After all, there were no clues or knowledge points about the origin and development of the True Qi application technique, so he wanted to investigate but there was no direction.
All of his theories can only be estimated from the side of the literature. There is no value that can be used as a reference proof.