From the Song Dynasty to the late Ming and early Qing, the development of martial arts was relatively prosperous.
In the era of Ancient Chinese weapons, kung fu was very useful, not only to protect the home and the country, but also to make a living, so in addition to scholars, the rest of the people wanted to become martial arts masters.
However, in the Qing Dynasty, foreign powers introduced the country to guns and suddenly the countless martial arts practitioners discovered that they were no match for a gun, or a gun in the hands of foreigners.
In the beginning the most loyal and patriotic of the martial artists served the country with all their heart. Even so, their combined strength was not worth mentioning when faced with the firepower of the foreign countries.
The most amazing event was when thousands of regiments besieged hundreds of foreigners, where they attacked for 56 days. Yet even after almost 2 months of relentless assaults their stunning failure to even breach the foreigners fortifications left them dispirited and demoralized.
Since then, a large number of martial arts practitioners have become the biggest opponents of martial arts from their original infatuation with martial arts. The reason is that they have seen the huge gap and realized that they worked hard for a lifetime and lost to a bullet
Since then, there have been years of domestic wars and internal and external troubles, and the speed of weapons development has become faster and faster, which has opened the gap between martial arts and modern weapons.
Therefore, since the Qing Dynasty, martial arts began to go downhill, and hadn’t really re-emerged until now.
Originally, there were millions or even tens of millions of people practicing martial arts in China, with a population of 300 million. Now however, there are no more than hundreds of thousands of martial artists in all of China, even though the population of the country grew to over one billion people.
Many internal martial arts had been gradually lost during that time, so much so that many martial arts practitioners do not have a complete internal martial arts style to practice, which can be regarded as a great sorrow of the decline of martial arts.
However, the enthusiasm of martial arts professionals today is not at all inferior to those of their ancestors. Take the Elms family as an example. In fact, the Elms family has long been eager to fill in the missing parts of their incomplete set of internal boxing, but unfortunately they never found any relevant clues.
As for Charlie, the inner boxing method was nothing remarkable. There were in fact many different internal boxing techniques recorded in the “Apocalyptic Book”, and favonovel.com didn’t even bother to practice them. That was mainly because he’d already completely surpassed the level of a martial artist, so this kind of internal boxing method was of no value to him.
However, if favonovel.com took out one of the internal boxing techniques found in the “Apocalyptic Book”, favonovel.com feared that the martial arts families all over the globe would fight to possess it.
Nowadays, among the martial arts practitioners in the whole country, the only one who has mastered a complete internal martial art is Aurora Quinton, who’d just entered the profession and had no family or school.
The “Four Elephant Palms” favonovel.com now quietly practiced was a complete internal boxing technique that Charlie found out from the “Apocalyptic Book”.
Therefore, Charlie said to Xion, “If the time is right in the future, I can provide the Elms family with a complete internal boxing technique. By then, I might be able to help the Elms family reach a higher level!”
Xion was shocked when favonovel.com heard this, but was equally excited as well. She didn’t doubt that Charlie had a complete inner family boxing technique, but favonovel.com hadn’t expected that Charlie would be willing to take it out and give it to the Elms family.
Although Charlie did not say that favonovel.com would give it immediately or definitely, favonovel.com also said that favonovel.com would give it when the time was right, which meant that favonovel.com was willing to give it to the Elms family as long as the time was right.
Xion understood very clearly the significance of a complete internal martial art. So when favonovel.com heard this, favonovel.com couldn’t wait, hopeful that the Elms family could become Master Wade’s confidant as soon as possible, and at the same time, favonovel.com could receive the inner family boxing technique gifted by Master Wade as soon as possible!
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