In this way, after countless generations of inheritance and evolution, the new cultivators began to completely despair of the fur cultivation techniques passed down from the ancient era, knowing that with only those incomplete basic exercises, they would never be able to cultivate the supernatural powers and abilities of the ancient cultivators, and the legendary stories of the ancient mythological era began to truly become ethereal legends that could never be reproduced.

Although they despair of the exercises they are cultivating, these practitioners of the new era have not given up their impeccable pursuit of the highest realm. After thoroughly recognizing the cruel reality and determining that something must be changed, they made a crazy move -- they began to wantonly modify and experiment with the exercises and experiences handed down by their predecessors according to their own understanding and hopes, in order to achieve another breakthrough.

In this wave of experiments, although countless people died because of the failure of the change, there were also some people who finally succeeded and created a new cultivation method. Although this new cultivation method can no longer enable cultivators to gain a long lifespan, it can give them a powerful power far beyond ordinary people, allowing them to regain the transcendent status of ancient cultivators.

During this period of time, all kinds of cultivation ideas and ideas have been put forward and tried, and those attempts that eventually succeeded were naturally the origin of the birth and development of modern ancient martial arts. And this period is the era of a hundred schools of thought in the history of Chinese civilization that shines and various schools compete for beauty, and it is also called the Silver Age by later martial arts practitioners.

This era lasted for nearly a thousand years, during which I don't know how many geniuses and geniuses were born and dominated the world. In the records of Shaolin Temple, it was an era that fascinated martial arts practitioners more than the ancient mythological era, and most of the famous and decent sects that have been handed down in the rivers and lakes today originated here, and most of the first generation of patriarchs worshiped by each faction were also famous figures at that time.

In this era of explosive growth of all kinds of ideas, after the lifelong efforts of countless successful or failed explorers, the foundation for the development of ancient martial arts was finally completely laid, and the curtain of endless disputes in the rivers and lakes was opened. During those turbulent years, with the different evolution of various schools of thought and exercises, the four major schools of Taoism, Demons, Buddhism, and Confucianism were finally formed, as well as several other famous schools, which have been passed down to this day.

For countless years, although the exercises and ideas of each school and sect are different, there is one lineage that is exactly the same, that is, people can evolve to a new class through cultivation, and have incredible power. For this, all the famous sects with a long tradition are convinced, and those ancient martial arts cultivators who have received a formal inheritance are even more diligent in order to achieve this goal.

Among these cultivators who have overcome obstacles, the one who has achieved the most and is closest to the goal is Zhang Sanfeng, the founder of the Wudang Sect. With his amazing and brilliant assets, endless sacrifices, and countless hardships and hardships, he finally cultivated to the land immortal realm that no one had ever reached since the establishment of martial arts exercises, and lived for more than 400 years, pushing martial arts cultivation to a new realm. This is also the most fundamental reason why the Wudang faction was established thousands of years later than Shaolin, Kunlun and other sects, but it can still be ranked with Shaolin Taishan Beidou.

Zhang Sanfeng's success stimulated a large number of martial arts practitioners, and the long-dormant ancient martial arts cultivation world also ushered in the second peak of development. And that era was also called the Bronze Age by later cultivators.

After experiencing the great development of the Bronze Age, the last important position in the history of martial arts is the Black Iron Age, which is probably the period of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. In that turbulent and dark era, the country's political rule completely collapsed, warlords and warlords everywhere fought endlessly, and the entire land of Shenzhou was filled with a smoke of artillery fire. At that time, it was also a time of foreign invasion and foreign invasion, and the whole world was chaotic to the point of no return, and the cruel environment of the precarious situation put forward a strong demand for individual force, which eventually catalyzed the extraordinary prosperity of martial arts.

It's a pity that the prosperity of the Black Iron Age was brilliant, but it was also short-lived. At that time, it was the era of the rise of industrial civilization, and the strong requirements of modern warfare accelerated the development of thermal weapons, and the powerful modern weapons eventually completely ended the transcendent status of ancient martial arts cultivators. The reality that a lifetime of cultivation is not worth a bullet has completely dispelled the cultivation enthusiasm of the vast majority of ancient martial arts cultivators, and the martial arts world, which had just flourished, died miserably before it could develop and grow, and it collapsed.

For a long time after the Black Iron Age, the entire land of Shenzhou was in a state of turmoil, and although the martial arts cultivation continued its previous glory, it did not see much progress. Finally, when the whole country was completely calmed down, and before there was any development in martial arts cultivation, the whole society fell into a more fanatical turmoil again, not only ancient martial arts, but all the classical culture and peculiar skills that had been passed down through countless wars were all devastatingly attacked and destroyed, and I don't know how many unique secret techniques and cultural treasures were completely annihilated in the long river of history.

At that time, not to mention the development of martial arts cultivation, it was not easy to survive and barely guarantee that it would not be completely wiped out. It is not easy to barely maintain the inheritance of the little essence that has been preserved by the lives and blood of countless people, let alone the revival and development of rebirth. Since then, the martial arts cultivation that has completely broken the backbone has begun to decline rapidly, and there is never the slightest sign of recovery.

Of course, this is only one of the reasons for the complete decline of martial arts cultivation, and the other reason is the degradation of the earth's environment. The increasingly serious environmental pollution, coupled with the huge survival pressure brought about by the rapid population growth, quickly depleted the earth's vitality, so that the aura of heaven and earth, which was relatively abundant before, was basically lost in just a few decades, and the spiritual herbs and elixirs derived from it were almost completely extinct.

Without sufficient material security, it will naturally become more and more difficult to cultivate, not to mention that there is another land immortal like Zhang Sanfeng, that is, the mythical masters who were often born in the past have completely disappeared, and they have not been found for a hundred years.

According to the records in the Shaolin Temple's Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, in today's martial arts, the highest cultivation is a few innate masters, and these people are all martial arts predecessors who have been famous for decades. Among the younger generations of cultivators, not only are there very few people who have the potential to break through the innate realm, but even the breakthrough date is far away, and the complete decline of ancient martial arts cultivation is just around the corner.

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"Hey, its rise is also vigorous, and its demise is also sudden! This is the truth of history, and it is really not at all helped!" After reading such a history of the birth, development, continuation and decline of martial arts, Ye Qiuli couldn't help but sigh, full of emotion, and couldn't say anything for a long time.

Another splendid civilization created by the predecessors after countless hardships and ups and downs finally went to ruin and slowly disappeared in the long river of history. For mankind as a whole, no one can really say whether the tremendous development of material civilization is beneficial or disadvantageous.

However, for the complete decline of the ancient Chinese martial arts, although Ye Qiuli's heart was full of endless regrets, he did not feel for it for too long. He is not a savior, he has neither the responsibility to save the world from danger, nor the ability to turn the tide of the tide, all this is the general trend of history, the inevitable law of the development of things, and it cannot be changed by effort. The scarcity of resources has become the biggest bottleneck restricting human development.

This is not only the predicament encountered by the ancient martial arts cultivation world, almost all human civilizations are facing such a problem, and they don't know which day they will be powerless and completely decline. Even Ye Qiuli himself, also because of the lack of cultivation resources on the earth, had to venture out of the earth after he had just had the ability to travel interstellar, and went to the vast space to find a way to the cultivation realm.

"Whew!-" With a long sigh again, Ye Qiuli quietly put away his regrets, no longer paying too much attention to these things that were far beyond his control, but shifted his attention to other targets that made him more interested.

He had already gotten what he wanted from the martial arts historical materials collected by the Shaolin Temple. According to the records of these materials, the ancient martial arts that are still being passed down are still inherited, as he guessed before, adapted and developed from the cultivation civilization that once existed on the earth, and it is another faction that passed on the torch after the decline of the earth's cultivation world.

At this point, Ye Qiuli finally had a comprehensive understanding of the history of the development and evolution of martial arts and martial arts, and traced back to the true origin of martial arts, not only clarifying the ins and outs, but also relieving a huge doubt that was lying in his heart. The original source of martial arts really came from the cultivation world that was active in the entire earth in ancient times, and it was an alternative rebirth of cultivation civilization.

This is also consistent with Ye Qiuli's conclusions drawn from Lu Yan's narration and his own investigation. After all, it is already certain that there were real cultivators on the earth, which has long been proved by Xuanyuan Sword and Dayu Jiuding and other magic treasures, and now there is such a detailed historical record, and it is only to explain the cause and effect more clearly.