As Wang Jiancheng spoke.
A secret that had never been recorded in any written records, a story from the Great Flames Empire 2,100 years ago, slowly appeared in front of Lin Cheng.
In the history of martial arts development in the Divine Great Land, there were three explosive periods.
The first outbreak period was about 10,000 years ago, in the ancient era where the exact time could no longer be verified.
At that time, the ancestors of the human race walked out of the wilderness and gave birth to words and civilization.
Due to the increase in communication and intelligence, internal strength, which was once only grasped by a few talented people by instinct, became a method that could be systematically learned to become stronger.
In other words, martial arts.
The individual who practiced martial arts would constantly increase in strength, pushing the entire civilization forward.
Then, as time passed, the development of martial arts continued to advance, and finally ushered in the second explosive period.
That was the era of martial arts legends 2800 years ago.
The first martial arts legend, Bai Lici, had shown everyone just how powerful a person's martial arts could be.
It was a terrifying power that could look down on all dynasties and make heroes bow their heads.
In the face of such an existence, numbers had lost their meaning.
Such a martial art would leave the people of the same generation in despair, but it would allow future generations of martial artists to see the direction of progress and have the motivation to pursue it.
Many times, what hindered people from moving forward was not laziness, but not knowing the direction to move forward.
Because of this, martial arts welcomed a second explosion.
In the hundreds of years that followed, many experts constantly invented new martial arts techniques, trying to recreate the miraculous martial arts techniques that the first martial arts legend had displayed.
As a result, unique skills and techniques continued to appear, driving the overall strength of the martial arts world to continue to rise.
Occasionally, there would be people with extraordinary talent who surpassed the heights of all martial artists and became martial arts legends.
The system of dividing the strength of martial artists from beginners to third-rate experts, second-rate experts, first-rate masters, super-first-rate grandmasters, and martial arts legends was established in this era and passed down to future generations.
"Seven hundred years after Senior Baili Ci became a martial arts legend, there was a senior named Baili Xingye among his descendants who became a martial arts legend. He single-handedly pushed forward the third martial arts outbreak.”
"I don't need to tell you the rest of the story.”
Wang Jiancheng looked at Lin Cheng and did not continue.
Hearing this, Lin Cheng was deep in thought.
According to the historical records, Senior Baili Xingye was kind and charitable when he was young. He had many chivalrous deeds. Later on, when he achieved great success in his martial arts, he was not stingy with pointing out the doubts of other rising stars in the path of martial arts.
This also led to a large number of martial arts masters at that time. Many people's martial arts had surpassed the definition of a super grandmaster. In other eras, they could already be called martial arts legends.
Because of this, there was an additional power level division that was not used in the later eras, which was the legendary level.
The so-called legendary level meant that his martial arts had already reached the level of being able to look down on all the heroes. His deeds were like legends.
They had martial arts that were more powerful than super-class masters, but they were not invincible. Therefore, they were only legends, not myths.
Many of the martial arts recorded in the Martial Code were the ultimate techniques left behind by the legendary experts of that era.
The Mysterious Heavenly Palace's Palace Master, Ji Qinrui, who had fought with Lin Cheng before, could be considered one of the best among the Legendary experts.
According to the historical records, the martial arts legend Baili Xingye, who had single-handedly started the third era of martial arts explosion, ended the era of martial arts prosperity with his own hands.
During the New Year's Eve on Baili Planet, he went on a killing spree.
He had slaughtered more than 99% of the experts in the entire martial arts world. Many of them had even received guidance from Baili Xingye.
Because of Baili Xingye's massacre, there was a gap in the number of experts of that era. It was only many years after his death that the next martial arts legend was born.
Some people said that Baili Xingye had lost his mind due to cultivation deviation.
Some people said that it was because he was about to die in his later years and had gone crazy, so he dragged all the experts of that era to die with him.
However, since Wang Jiancheng had specifically mentioned this matter, it meant that the reason behind this was not as simple as it seemed.
"It seems that you have already guessed a little.”
Wang Jiancheng sighed,
"Senior Baili Xingye's original intention was quite good. He spread the profound martial arts in the Martial Code and created many legendary experts who were comparable to martial arts legends. Then, he gathered everyone's wisdom and deduced martial arts to an even higher level.”
" But who would have known that this world is so barren? Not only is it unable to support us martial arts legends to cultivate to a higher realm, but it also doesn't allow many legendary-level existences.”
At this point, Wang Jiancheng's expression became extremely complicated.
He took a deep breath and continued,"
"In that era, there were more than fifty legendary experts.”
" There are more than five hundred super-first-rate experts and tens of thousands of first-rate martial artists, which makes the Heaven Essence and Earth Qi, which are not abundant in the first place, even thinner.”
"Sixty years after the birth of these legendary experts, there were even some talented martial artists who were unable to advance to the first-rate realm.”
"If we allow the number of cultivators to continue to expand like this and consume the essence of heaven and earth without restraint, perhaps after a period of time, even sensing the aura of the world will require a genius.”
"At that time, no martial artist will be able to achieve a level above first-class. Perhaps martial arts will completely decline. People will even think that the existence of martial arts is just a myth made up by predecessors.”
"It was precisely because of this that Senior Baili Xingye went on a killing spree back then and even destroyed most of the martial arts inheritances at that time, leaving only a very small number of inheritances for future generations.”
"Now that another 2,000 years have passed, the overall strength of the entire martial world has only recovered to 30% of Senior Baili Xingye's era. However, the inheritance of martial arts still exists in the end.”
"At that time, Senior Baili Xingye still had at least 20 years of lifespan left. However, in the end, he also exhausted what little essence, blood, and qi he had left in this cleansing battle. He passed away three months after the cleansing ended.”
Hearing this, Lin Cheng fell silent.
Glancing at Wang Jiancheng, Lin Cheng sighed,"The reason why we don't spread profound martial arts is for the sake of the existence of the entire martial arts system. It won't completely cut off the path of the younger generation.”
" Leaving behind the Martial Code is to leave hope for the martial arts legends of the younger generation to advance. This way, martial arts will continue to advance and not completely stagnate."”
"Seniors, what great spirit."
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