The tides of history rolled ever onward, and the development of cultivation arts never ceased.
In the hundred years from the Mist Era to the present, cultivation arts and cultivation theories had changed with each passing day, like industrial products during a scientific explosion.
Look at phones: a flagship model from five years ago would lag like a dog five years later.
Cultivation arts in the Mist Era were no different.
The only difference was that you could save up and replace a phone whenever you wanted, but once you cultivated an art, you had cultivated it. Other than Immortal Seed True Lords, who could make limited repairs to their foundations, practically no one could remold their roots and bones.
This gave rise to the tragic phenomenon of the Previous Wave dying on the beach, resulting in a period when all Dispersed Literature was filled with rebirth stories.
Battle Qi was the part of the Previous Wave that had died the most miserably.
Without question, Battle Qi had also evolved from Sharp Will, but it had not risen high enough or thoroughly enough. Thirty or forty years ago, those capable of cultivating Battle Qi had all been outstanding among men. They had once enjoyed peerless glory and roamed proudly through the Asteroid Belt. But thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river; once Heavenly Qi Manifestation was no longer an exceedingly rare species, Battle Qi was swept into history's garbage heap.
Nowadays, no one would say their dream was to cultivate Battle Qi. When Third Heavenly Layer experts were mentioned, a considerable number of people instinctively excluded Battle Qi and Mind Domain. It was as though these pioneers were merely defective half-finished products that had taken the wrong path, shoddy goods with no way back.
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