I Got a Gallery in the Wild - Chapter 770

In the distant past, the Goddess of War Aris passed down her breathing method to her two disciples.

The two disciples traveled to the West and the East respectively, passing down the breathing methods they had mastered to the people.

This became the origin of today’s Mana Cultivation Methods and Internal Cultivation Arts, which branched out into various forms over a vast span of time.

Although both breathing methods had their own strengths and weaknesses, they shared one thing in common.

Namely, as time passed, instead of developing further, they often became strangely corrupted.

In fact, since breathing methods are also a type of "skill," it is only natural for them to change over time.

The problem was that in most cases, this change was not an improvement, but a devolution into bizarre forms.

This was true not only for the easily accessible Mana Cultivation Methods but also for the Internal Cultivation Arts, which were closely guarded family secrets.

The more they were passed through human hands, the further they drifted from their original source, leaving only derivative forms behind.

Title) Honestly, the principle of breathing methods is all the same, yeah

Accumulating mana in the dantian through breathing.

This is the alpha and omega, but they mixed in their own know-how, which resulted in Mana Cultivation Methods and Internal Cultivation Arts.

So, what’s the key here? It’s lowering the barrier to entry.

You might ask what that means. Mana Cultivation Methods were modified so that any random Joe could learn them, which lowered their quality. On the other hand, Internal Cultivation Arts were modified to fit the specific physical build and temperament of a family, thereby lowering the barrier to entry for their descendants.

Boo... I don’t understand what this Gallerite is saying...

It means even a dumbass like you can learn the Mana Cultivation Method.

Then isn’t that a good thing?

The downside is that you can only absorb a dirt-speck amount of mana lol

Due to this phenomenon, they inevitably drifted further away from the original versions.

Mana Cultivation Methods degraded in quality to lower the barrier to entry, while Internal Cultivation Arts became extremely restrictive.

In the case of Internal Cultivation Arts, there was a particularly major issue: if the "transmission" was cut off midway, there was absolutely no way to recover it.

Furthermore, even if someone had learned it, if that person lacked the talent to teach, the art would undergo massive corruption.

Title) The reason why there are so many fortuitous encounters and hidden secret manuals in the Central Plains?

It’s simple. When a family goes extinct, their heirloom martial arts get completely destroyed along with them.

So some people write them down, thinking, "Sigh... I should probably leave a backup copy, right?"

Of course, the moment they get caught by their contemporaries, their heads roll, but historically, there have been so fucking many cases of martial arts being recovered this way.

But what happens if an evil person gets that fortuitous encounter?

???: "This martial art is mine now."

Hahahahaha

Hahahahaha

Holy shit, that’s fucking hilarious lololol

There are probably tons of cases like that in reality.

Even Wi Ho-chang’s martial arts are widely accepted to have been stolen from somewhere else lol

Title) Why the Western Kingdoms have almost no fortuitous encounters

Because over there, entire nations get wiped off the map at the drop of a hat lol

The ridiculous thing is that the Holy Kingdom gets raided by the Demon Race all the time, yet the nation itself is perfectly fine lol

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