369: Chapter 369: Martial Arts (Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Tickets) 369: Chapter 369: Martial Arts (Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Tickets) He casually picked up the book and flipped through it.
The book was published in the Federation Calendar year 275, about five hundred years ago.
This book wasn’t an ancient manuscript that had survived for five hundred years, but rather a photocopy of the original.
The first page of the book was the preface, an author’s foreword.
The author was a biological professor at Dawn University.
He discovered a special “training” thod from the First District within the fragnted ancient manuscripts left by the Original Federation, known as “Martial Arts.”
This thod had serious omissions, and at first, he thought it was as far-fetched as the old alchemical potions.
But during a chance experint, he found that the “breathing techniques” described by this thod could indeed enhance physical abilities to so extent, achieving effects such as improving health and extending life.
Consequently, he began to delve into this thod, but most of the ancient manuscripts he had were incomplete, and even the section that initially described the breathing techniques was not entirely intact.
He led his team to take corporate projects to earn money while devoting all his efforts to this research.
In the book, the author ntioned that he invested tens of millions in the project, worked on it day and night to the point of addiction, resulting in his wife divorcing him, his children denying him, and many of his favored students leaving for other ntors due to the high-intensity work.
Even so, he persisted in advancing the project.
He vaguely saw the mysteries of human life and the truths of the universe within this project.
These were worth his relentless pursuit.
Most of the preface was the author narrating the hardships of research, like a reticent elderly person mumbling to an “audience” through the pages of the book.
This audience might be thousands of kiloters away, or even separated by several centuries.
Only at the end did the author ntion offhandedly the purpose of writing this book, “To summarize and collate the information about the First District collected over the years, and to provide a simple overview and verification.”
He Ao skimd through the contents of the rest of the book.
The book was divided into three chapters, wherein the author, based on the fragnted ancient manuscripts he collected, briefly narrated his understanding of the Martial Arts of the First District.
The first chapter was about the origins of Martial Arts.
He believed that Martial Arts from the First District was sothing with a long history of inheritance at least within the First District, even existing before the great disaster, as people before the disaster were not strong and could only use Martial Arts to improve health and fitness.
The reason was simple: the language logic of all the ancient manuscripts differed slightly from the language logic of the First District during the Original Federation era that he had verified.
The First District used ideograms evolved from pictographs, and while the characters remained the sa, the manner of speech changed over different eras.
Therefore, the author speculated that these ancient manuscripts were not written during the Original Federation era but in an even earlier one.
Although the language logic varied, the written characters did not change.
The author depended on the collection of First District characters retrieved by refugees of the First District, and through constant experintation and educated guessing, he roughly created a table of anings.
The table contained about one or two hundred characters regularly used in the ancient manuscripts and their interpretations, which he included in the book.
He Ao flipped to the appendix at the back and, activating Super mory, morized the table.
The second chapter was about the speculation of a complete Martial Arts system.
The author believed that the Martial Arts of the First District was an extrely complex training system, including various different training thods.
So paths of Martial Arts training could even lead to transcending the ordinary and becoming a legendary being similar to an “Angel.”
However, such “training” was impossible before the great disaster; only after the disaster did the air beco perated with a mysterious energy that could sustain people gaining powerful “Qi.”
This presented a question: the inheritance of Martial Arts in the First District likely predates the great disaster; it is not possible to create a complete training system with a rigorous logical structure after the disaster out of thin air.
The author could not analyze the specific background but speculated that even before the great disaster, the First District might have already experienced an environnt similar to the one during the disaster.
Moreover, this environnt was likely different from the current one of the disaster because the Martial Arts system had never ntioned sothing that was bred during the disaster.
At this point, He Ao paused.
Common people might think this referred to exotic beasts, but He Ao keenly realized that the author might be referring to “Talent Sequences” here.
He Ao once saw the notebook of the person who speculated that Talent Sequences have a cyclical nature; that person seed to have deep connections with the founders of the Federation, such as the obvious fact he knew Ellens, the founder of Dawn City and its first Mayor.
It was even possible that this person was one of the Federation’s founders, and according to Federation records, so founders ca from the First District by boat, which has significantly influenced the new order and civilization of the current Federation.
Since the founders of the Federation had a deep relationship with the First District, if Talent Sequences had appeared earlier, then considering the tiline of the complete Martial Arts system’s developnt, the First District must have discovered so patterns and didn’t need to start from scratch.
But according to the clues in that notebook, it looked like all the rules were figured out from scratch.
So could it be that Talent Sequences were a unique product of after the great disaster?
This thought made He Ao startle.
If Talent Sequences were bound to the great disaster, what was the main world currently experiencing?
The main world was also witnessing a surge of “Talents” identical to Talent Sequences.
Perhaps it was ti to start collecting detailed information about the great disaster.
Currently, the information about the great disaster and the Original Federation is scarce on the internet, as if it has been deliberately erased by so power.
He could start by asking Eve to collect it.
It was a pity that the Nolanka Group had been established too recently, less than a hundred years ago, and Kaye City was also a new city established 400 years after the Federation, with no access to that hidden history.
Dawn City had a long history, and now that Christos was the Mayor, there might be an opportunity to have him collect so secret historical data.
For now, He Ao put aside his doubts as the changes in the main world had been ongoing for at least a decade and seed to continue.
There was no hurry in a day or two.
However, after this mission ended, he could use his identity as the Deputy Director of the Overseas Departnt to inquire about related information from the Research Institute’s higher-ups; having been in contact with relics for so long, they must know sothing.
The great disaster had a trendous impact on the world, and it was sothing that He Ao still needed to pay attention to.
He Ao refocused on the book, turning to the third and final chapter.
This chapter was the author’s private contribution.
But seeing the contents inside, He Ao frowned slightly.
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