"According to modern cultivation theories, the so-called True Qi and Inner Force are all biological energy and cannot be produced out of thin air. Unless you can break through the Bridge of Heaven and Earth and become a Connate Master, you will be able to absorb energy from the void. Otherwise, the True Qi produced by your cultivation is the energy of your body. When you consume True Qi, you are consuming the energy in your body. If you do not replenish it in time, your body will be emptied!"
In the classroom of Class 31 of Jinghai City's No.13 High School, a man about 30 years old in a black martial arts suit was speaking.
In the middle of the classroom was a huge mat, and he was standing in the middle of the mat.
Around him sat more than 50 students, all of whom were students of Class 15. Most of these students were about 16 or 17 years old. There were both boys and girls, and they were all wearing martial arts suits.
And among these students, in a remote corner, there was a young man who looked to be about 15 or 16 years old. He looked strong and handsome, but among these students, he was too mediocre and inconspicuous.
Chu Yunfan looked at the man in the middle. He was the martial arts instructor of Class 35, Qin Wu. He had been retired from the military's special forces and had made many contributions in the military. However, for some unknown reason, he suddenly retired and came to teach at No.13 Middle School. He was basically the one who taught them all the problems they had with cultivation. Chu Yunfan looked at the man in the center.
"That's why the ancients said that the poor study and the rich practice martial arts. This is actually a very intuitive understanding. Why can only the rich practice martial arts?" Qin Wu said, paused, pointed to a student, and said. "Tell me, why!"
The student was stunned for a moment, then said, "Because the process of practicing martial arts is a process of constantly consuming one's own blood essence. If there is only consumption and no replenishment, this person will die very quickly. In ancient times, ginseng and ganoderma were very expensive, and ordinary people could not afford them!"
"That's right. That's why there were very few cultivators during the Gregorian Era. They were as rare as a phoenix feather or a unicorn horn. It wasn't until the Kunlun Era that we humans discovered the Kunlun Realm and discovered the super ancient civilization. Both technology and martial arts had a huge explosion. For example, ginseng and ganoderma, those that were decades old or even hundreds of years old could be easily mass-produced. They were all served on the dining tables of ordinary people.
At this moment, Chu Yunfan recalled the history of the Kunlun Calendar that he had learned in history class.
Hundreds of years ago, in the Gregorian Era, a huge sword light tore the sky, pierced through the universe, and fell into the Atlantic Ocean.
The entire Earth was plunged into a huge disaster. Countless countries were destroyed, and the world's population was less than one billion. Most of them were Chinese, and thus, the era of China's revival began.
Because of this disaster, most of the Earth collapsed, and humans began to find another home.
Finally, the crowd discovered a vast and boundless world on the other side of the crack torn by the sword light. This was the current Kunlun Realm.
Humans also entered the Kunlun Era!
When humans entered the Kunlun Realm, they discovered that this Kunlun Realm was not only suitable for humans, but it was also suitable for some strong creatures. Due to the presence of Spiritual Energy, there were many strong Demonic Beasts on this continent.
Even humans, who grasped advanced technology, could not defeat these boundlessly strong Demonic Beasts. Some of the stronger Demonic Beasts could not even be killed by a nuclear bomb. Under such circumstances, not to mention migrating to the Kunlun Realm, humans were even pushed to the border of the two realms and invaded the main camp of humans, Earth.
Just at this time, humans discovered that the super ancient civilization in the Kunlun Realm was a completely different system from the humans on Earth. They relied on cultivation to strengthen themselves and fight against the Demonic Beasts.
All of this was just like the alternate world mentioned in the fantasy novels from many years ago. With more and more information about the ancient civilization that had been excavated, including the sorting of cultivation methods and many other systems, the immigrants on Earth had begun the great era of everyone practicing martial arts.
With the dual power of martial arts and advanced technology, humans started to establish a foothold in the Kunlun Realm, preventing the Demonic Beasts from exterminating them.
Even so, humans still faced the threat of these strong Demonic Beasts at all times. The cities they built could still be breached. Once breached, hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions of people would be slaughtered. Such things happened many times in the past few hundred years.
Earth's Jinghai Thirteen High School was just an ordinary high school among the dozens of high schools there.
After the Great Cataclysm, most of the environment on Earth was no longer suitable for humans to live in. Hence, the overall living pattern was different from the scattered situation during the Gregorian Era. There were a total of ten base cities, each with hundreds of millions of people. In total, there were more than a billion people on Earth and not in the Kunlun Realm.
This was because the Demonic Beasts in the Kunlun Realm were too strong. It was not suitable for ordinary people to live in. Although many of the creatures on Earth had mutated after the Great Cataclysm and were evolving into Demonic Beasts, it had only been a few hundred years. They were still much weaker than the Kunlun Realm.
Jinghai City was one of the satellite cities of Dong Hua City, one of the ten base cities. Although it could not compare to the hundreds of millions of people in the main city of Dong Hua City, it still had tens of millions of people.
However, all in all, humans were much stronger than they were a few hundred years ago. A few hundred years ago, only a few people could obtain the right to cultivate. They were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns. Now, in order to fight against these strong Demonic Beasts, the Federation government had already thought of ways to popularize cultivation for everyone.
Just as Instructor Qin Wu said, cultivation was not just about talent. It was also necessary to have a partner, technique, and wealth. In the process of practicing martial arts, it was very harmful to the body. If one did not replenish the energy consumed, it was normal for one to die prematurely in their thirties or forties while still in the prime of their life. In fact, the more powerful one was, the faster one would die.
"For the current you, the source of Vital Qi is actually your own biological energy. The higher the level of your physical body, the more Vital Qi you will be able to produce. Even if you have the opportunity to cultivate to a higher realm, the cultivation of your physical body is still the foundation of everything!" Qin Wu stood with his hands behind his back. His entire body was as straight as a spear. It was as if he was going to pierce the sky. "In the feudal era, the cultivation master Lu Zu wrote the Knocking Yao Song: Cultivating one's nature and not cultivating one's life is the first disease of cultivation. It means that one only cultivates the Dao and not the physical body. This is not right. One should cultivate both life and death!"
Chu Yunfan nodded. He thought about the knowledge he had learned about cultivation in the past. The path of cultivation was incomparably long. Ever since the discovery of the ancient civilization, these cultivators had gone through many years of exploration and divided the various realms of cultivation. The first was the Physical Body Realm.
The Physical Body Realm was the only way to enter the path of martial arts. On the road to the peak of martial arts, it was like crossing the boundless sea, and the physical body was the boat that crossed the sea. The stronger the physical body, the more likely it was to cross the sea and reach the boundless shore.
Therefore, tempering the physical body was the foundation of martial arts, and it was called the Physical Body Realm.
The Physical Body Realm was divided into Training Muscles, Forging Bones, Training Skin, Training Tendons, Internal Strengthening, Resonating Tendons and Bones, Blood Transfusion, Internal Vision, and Nurturing Qi.
Only by cultivating the Physical Body Realm to the maximum level could one be considered to have established a foundation. This was because the body needed more Vital Qi to circulate, and it required a strong body.
When the ninth minor realm of the Physical Body Realm was Nurturing Qi, a Sea of Vital Qi would be opened in the Dantian. With this Sea of Vital Qi, the body would be able to hold an endless amount of Vital Qi. This was the so-called Qi Sea Realm.
After the Qi Sea Realm, there was the Acquired Stage, Innate Stage, and so on. However, Chu Yunfan did not know much about them. After all, most of the teachers in Thirteenth High School were only in the Qi Sea Realm. There were not many masters in the Innate Stage in the entire East Ocean City.
"I know that most of you will not be able to get into the martial arts class during the class placement test in a month. You will only be able to get into the academic class. However, you have to understand that even if you don't succeed in your cultivation, you will still have to rely on your own cultivation if you want to live to a hundred years old!" Qin Wu said as he glanced at everyone in the class. "In the Gregorian Era, the average lifespan of a person was only a few decades old, not even a hundred years old. Why? Isn't it because of poor health and long-term suboptimal health? If this kind of person doesn't die, who will? However, in the current Kunlun Era, everyone is a cultivator. Our average lifespan has long since exceeded a hundred years, and some can even reach a hundred and twenty years. This is the benefit of everyone practicing martial arts! "
Hearing Qin Wu talk about the martial arts class and the liberal arts class, Chu Yunfan could not help but feel a little sad.
Although everyone wanted to cultivate, there was a difference in talent. According to Thirteenth High School's standards, those who could reach the seventh stage of the Physical Body Realm before the third year of high school were considered to have good talent, and these people would be assigned to the martial arts class. The rest of the people with average talent would be assigned to the liberal arts class.
Before the liberal arts and martial arts classes were divided into classes, the content of the liberal arts and martial arts classes was considered to be half and half each, which was relatively even. However, after the class placement, they would quickly diverge.
Martial arts class, as the name suggested, meant that students who entered the martial arts class would have less time to learn about culture and knowledge. More time would be devoted to cultivation.
Although the students who entered the liberal arts class did not say goodbye to cultivation forever, they would still reduce the time spent on cultivation and spend more time on learning cultural knowledge. In the future, they would be able to get into university and become office workers like normal people.
As hot-blooded youths, except for a few, most people yearned to become powerful martial artists. It was not only because they were strong and had limitless potential, but also because it was easier for martial artists to earn money. Compared to the graduates of the liberal arts class who earned a fixed salary step by step, the graduates of the martial arts class could earn money faster if they joined a government department, the army, or even became a mercenary for a company to hunt monsters.
Not to mention, the best among them could go to the Kunlun Realm and enter the Nine Major Martial Arts Holy Lands to cultivate, becoming a super powerhouse whose name shook the world.
However, reality was cruel. Not everyone had the talent to cultivate. Most people had average talent, and it was difficult for them to be nurtured. Only those who showed enough talent would be chosen to enter the martial arts class and focus on nurturing them.
Chu Yunfan was one of those who did not have much talent. He was only at the fifth stage of the Physical Body Realm when he was in his third year of high school. Not to mention those who could enter the martial arts class, he was not outstanding even among the students who were destined to enter the liberal arts class. He could only be considered average.
"Alright, that's all for today's class. It's best if you don't ask for leave for tomorrow's class, because I'll be teaching you a combat technique. If you miss it, I won't teach it a second time, understand?" Qin Wu said to the students.
"Understood!"
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