Hu Xiaochuan was genuinely astonished, because cases like Qin Shaofeng's—someone who had accidentally become a martial artist—were exceedingly rare.
The moment he thought of this, Hu Xiaochuan hurriedly gave Qin Shaofeng a crash course on the current martial arts world.
Only then did Qin Shaofeng learn from Hu Xiaochuan that the martial artist cultivation Hu Xiaochuan spoke of and the martial artist cultivation as he understood it were two entirely different things.
Though both were martial artists, in truth, Earth's martial artists were vastly different from those of the Ancient Continent.
At its root, martial artists of the Ancient Continent were classified as cultivators.
But Earth's martial artists could only be called martial artists. While they had some slight connection to cultivators, the gap between the two was enormous.
Because of Earth's environment—its sparse spiritual energy—there were no longer any cultivators on Earth.
No matter how the so-called martial artists of Earth cultivated, they could only remain martial artists and could never become cultivators.
That was because Earth's martial artists cultivated solely through the power within themselves. Such cultivation was limited.
But martial artists of the Ancient Continent could absorb spiritual energy to cultivate, using it to nourish and strengthen themselves until they ultimately became powerful.
Thus, martial artists of the Ancient Continent grew stronger and stronger through cultivation, and even their lifespans became longer and longer.
As for Earth's martial artists, because Earth had entered the Age of Dharma Decline and spiritual energy was scarce, cultivators could no longer rely on absorbing spiritual energy to cultivate. They could only cultivate through their own strength.
It was in such an environment that pure martial artists came into being.
Based on what Hu Xiaochuan had told him about the current state of certain martial artists, Qin Shaofeng had inferred all of