C139 (1/2)

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.