Battle Through the Heavens, Reborn as Xiao Yan's Sister

Chapter 7 The Millennium Evolution of Martial Arts

In the end, Xiao Xun'er still drank the strange, bubbling medicine.

"Go to sleep after you finish drinking..."

Seeing that she obediently finished drinking the medicine, Xiao Yue nodded in satisfaction, then let Xiao Xun'er leave the secret room, while she continued to tinker with the spiritual herbs.

As the night deepens,

Back in her room, Xiao Xun'er lay on the bed, gazing at the dark room. Her mood was completely different from the emptiness she felt the night before.

Her experiences during the day brought her a sense of warmth and a greater sense of belonging in this unfamiliar place. All of this was naturally due to that strange silver-haired woman, who was sometimes aloof, sometimes gentle, sometimes serene, and also a little bit... mysterious and cunning?

She gradually drifted off to sleep, perhaps because the medication was working, and this time she did not suffer from insomnia.

After she fell asleep, Xiao Yue opened the door to the room and came to the bedside. Looking at the young girl on the bed, a thoughtful look flashed in her eyes.

"This girl, she has such a frail aura..."

After all,

Xiao Yue placed two fingers on the other person's wrist, checking their pulse.

"Some kind of extremely powerful foreign object was forcibly implanted into my body not long ago, no wonder my blood and qi are weak, but it doesn't seem to be a bad thing." Xiao Yue said thoughtfully.

After thinking for a moment, she raised her left hand, on which was a gold ring. If you looked closely, you could see that it was actually nine gold threads wrapped around her finger. Xiao Yue slowly flicked her finger, and those gold threads turned into delicate acupuncture needles.

With a flick of her fingertips, Xiao Yue precisely inserted the golden needles into several acupoints on the young girl on the bed. The golden needles were made of soft gold and required Xiao Yue's internal strength to use. If brute force was used, the golden needles would bend immediately and would not be able to penetrate the skin at all.

Then, Xiao Yue rubbed the end of the gold needle with her right thumb and middle finger, performing a set of acupuncture techniques. Xiao Xun'er, who was fast asleep, did not feel anything unusual. She only felt a cool and comfortable sensation flowing through her body, nourishing her bones and meridians. Instead, she slept even more soundly.

"Good night…"

As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Yue flicked her wrist again, and the golden needles flew back and wrapped around her finger, turning into a ring.

As the saying goes, Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs, and Fuxi created nine needles. Xiao Yue's acupuncture technique originated from that ancestor of Chinese civilization - the ancient Fuxi.

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Quietly returned to his room.
Xiao Yue did not sleep. She sat back in her chair, holding a homemade silver fountain pen. The room was brightly lit by candlelight, and she was making plans for her future cultivation.

She is still young and her bones are not yet fully formed. No matter how much she trains, she will not have much combat power. For now, she can only practice standing meditation to nourish her bones and muscles, and visualize the White Tiger Devouring the Moon to nourish her soul.

So until then, I can only spend more time tinkering with other things.

"Hmm, the world is different now, and the martial arts from my previous life do need some changes..." Xiao Yue stroked her chin, lost in thought.

Her greatest treasure in this world was not the image of the white tiger in her mind, but her memories.

As the most outstanding martial arts genius in her previous life, a master of all schools of thought, she possessed the wisdom accumulated by her predecessors. The appearance of spiritual energy in the world allowed her to see more possibilities in martial arts. If she followed the training methods of her previous life step by step, that would not be impossible, but she could not be limited by the wisdom of her predecessors. She needed to make improvements to adapt to this world full of spiritual energy.

She recalled the ancient book "The Thousand-Year Evolution of Martial Arts." According to the book, although all major schools claim to have a history of a thousand years for internal martial arts, the oldest internal martial art, "Tai Chi Chuan," was actually created by Zhang Sanfeng of Wudang in the Ming Dynasty, which is less than a thousand years ago. In the five thousand years of Chinese history, internal martial arts have only emerged in the last thousand years.

What about the previous thousands of years?

What were warriors like during the Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States periods, and the pre-Qin era?
The author of that book spent more than a decade collecting information and made a deduction about 'spiritual novels': the spiritual energy in the world had been declining since the Sui and Tang dynasties.

There was no such thing as internal martial arts during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, the Qin and Han Dynasties.

At that time, the cultivators on Earth absorbed the essence of heaven and earth, gaining a comprehensive understanding of the nature of things, exploring the principles of heaven, and comprehending the mysteries of the human body, so as to reach the realm where all great power returned to themselves.

However, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth began to decline sharply from the Sui and Tang dynasties onwards.

It was also during this period that, according to some records from various sects, the number of martial artists on Blue Star decreased from the Sui and Tang Dynasties onwards. By the Ming Dynasty, it had become almost impossible to even absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

In ancient times, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was abundant, and our ancestors learned to absorb it. But as the spiritual energy of heaven and earth dwindled, what should later generations do? It must be admitted that humans have a very strong ability to adapt to their environment.

It was precisely the disappearance of spiritual energy that led to the emergence of internal martial arts.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhang Sanfeng of Wudang was probably the first person to create internal martial arts. He cultivated this art to its peak, reaching a state of sagehood in both his physical body and spirit.

Simultaneously,

This Master Zhang is also the last person recorded to break through the void and ascend to heaven!

From this period onward, the internal martial arts system was finally perfected, and then Tai Chi, Xingyi Quan, Bagua Quan, Wing Chun and many other styles of martial arts also appeared one after another.

After hundreds of years of exploration, countless talented individuals wasted their youth in pursuit of Zhang Zhenren's footsteps, gradually developing internal martial arts. In modern times, the system of internal martial arts training has become very complete, but there is no second Zhang Zhenren.

to be honest,
In the past, the cultivation process of many martial artists was the process of "refining essence into qi" and "refining qi into spirit" in Taoist terms.

The "essence" in "refining essence into qi" refers to the essence of heaven and earth, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

With the disappearance of spiritual energy on Earth, modern martial artists can no longer absorb this substance from the outside. They can only develop internal martial arts and refine the essence and blood within the human body.

Therefore, there is a saying that seven parts diet and three parts training. In an era when spiritual energy was declining, most martial artists could eat a lot in order to adapt to the environment. It was normal for them to eat half a roasted lamb in one meal, because they needed to refine a lot of essence and blood, so they naturally had to eat more.

"The internal martial arts I learned before were all products of our predecessors to deal with the disappearance of spiritual energy, just like fish in the sea that have to desperately crawl ashore to adapt to the polluted ocean..." Xiao Yue murmured to herself.

So her goal is now very clear.

Now that the fish have returned to the ocean, the next step is naturally to rediscover the lost heritage, and then... leap over the dragon gate!
“A martial immortal is a being of primordial energy, like an ancient sword immortal who forges sword pellets from his own energy, defeating enemies from a thousand miles away, without a trace or form. When his skill reaches perfection, he advances to the Martial Immortal realm, breaks through the void, ascends to heaven in broad daylight, and lives as long as heaven and earth…” Xiao Yue twirled the pen in her hand and wrote this sentence.

This is a true record from the biography of Master Zhang of Wudang, using Taoist terminology to describe the highest level of martial arts.

Ok,
The book also records that he had already broken through the void and ascended to heaven. Whether this is an exaggeration or not, we will know once we test it in the future.

(End of this chapter)