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Under the flickering candlelight, Li Dao held onto the yellowing book as if he was intoxicated.

It was already late at night, and most of the people were already asleep. Only his room in the inn still emitted the faint light of a candle.

The Azure Lotus Sword Art was truly worthy of its name. It was the summation of Li Taibai's life in the way of the sword.

This was not only a sword art, but also an inner force cultivation method.

Generally speaking, there were two types of martial arts: internal martial arts and external martial arts. External techniques included sword arts, claw techniques, leg techniques, boxing techniques, and so on.

In the martial arts world, internal and external techniques were usually separated. Often, a secret manual was a type of martial arts. Secret manuals like the Nine Yin True Scriptures, which encompassed everything, were not common, so the Nine Yin True Scriptures were also known as the treasured manuals of the daoists.

Li Dao flipped through the pages of the book, not missing a single word of the contents. In his opinion, the Blue Lotus Sword Manual was not inferior to the Nine Yin Sutra in terms of grade. On the contrary, it was much higher in rank.

The title of Sword Immortal that Li Taibai was able to leave behind was not an ordinary martial arts technique.

Martial arts had its origins. It contained the philosophical theories of all sorts of schools. For example, Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, as well as the military, Mo family, farmers, and so on.

In martial arts, Taoism gave birth to many schools of martial arts, followed by Buddhism, then Confucianism.

In the modern times, the martial arts sects developed by Taoism were the martial arts sects, the Shaolin Temple, the White Horse Temple, the Great Zen Temple and other monasteries were the martial arts sects developed by Buddhism; the righteous academies, the Six Joins School and other schools were the martial arts sects developed by Confucianism; and the gang inherited the Mo family's theory of love and non-aggression.

It could be said that the various sects with historical legacies all evolved from a hundred different clans.

The Taoists included some of the Yin and Yang family's theories, and the Confucians included the Jianjia family's farming theories. Now, only the three Taoists were left in this world.

However, no one would look into the root cause of these divisions.

In this world, there was no such thing as a devil sect or devil sect. Only the theory of righteous and evil ways was not based on martial arts. A person helping others in need was considered a righteous hero, while a person killing innocent people was considered an evil demon.

However, Li Dao didn't care about this. What he was concerned about was that he could finally transfer to another inner force skill of a higher grade.

Taoism developed many powerful martial arts sects, such as the Free and Unrestrained Sects of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Without exception, the martial arts that Li Dao practiced were all evolved from Taoism. There was no conflict at all between the cultivation of the Green Lotus Sword Spell and the cultivation of the Green Lotus Sword Spell.

The Grand Dao Song of All True and the fundamental internal energy of All True were, needless to say, both righteous and peaceful Taoistic martial arts. The Nine Yin True Scriptures was also compiled by Huang Chang from the Daoist Canon of Comprehension.

Among them, the Nanhua Sword Art was derived from Zhuang Zi's theory.

The Blue Lotus Sword Canon was a martial art evolved from Taoism, but most of it came from Li Taibai's own insights.

Huang Shuang had compiled the Nine Yin Sutra through reading the Daoist Canon and understanding all sorts of Daoist philosophy, thus creating it. To put it bluntly, Huang Chang was only a summary of the martial arts principles left behind by her predecessors.

However, the Green Lotus Sword Manual was different. Most of it was Li Taibai's personal enlightenment, which was his life's work.

Li Taibai was a Confucian scholar for the first half of his life, and the Taixuan scripture he cultivated was also a Confucian technique. In the latter half of his life, he studied Taoism, sought immortality, and created the Blue Lotus Sword Scripture.

These were all speculations made by Li Dao based on the words that Li Bai had left behind in the book.

Actually, martial arts were not all that complicated. It was just that people's comprehension of heaven and earth, no matter which guild it was, was still the same. It was just that their comprehension of the principles were different.

The calmness and inactivity of the Taoists was carefree and unrestrained. The cycle of karma in Buddhism is benevolent. Confucian righteousness.

It was just an explanation of the world. The later generations did not know about this, they only knew how to copy the secret manuals left behind by their predecessors, and did not understand the philosophy behind it.

Thus, later on, people's martial arts were getting lower and lower, and even Xiantian cultivators were becoming rarer.

Those who had comprehended the concept and philosophy of martial arts had all achieved great results.

For example, Zhang Sanfeng, the grandmaster of the later generation, was the eunuch who created the Sunflower Encyclopedia.