Although Taoism is declining, it will take a long time before it truly declines.

It's just that it's a little more difficult to recruit disciples at the moment. For the various Daoist leaders, the situation is not that difficult.

However, compared to Taoism, martial arts is the real pain.

Seven or eight years of hard training is not as good as two or three years of studying quietly. Therefore, many people who practice martial arts at the bottom have turned to the path of literature as long as they feel that they can study.

Many small martial arts schools in the martial arts world have been severely affected. Those famous martial arts sects can still sustain themselves, but it is difficult for them to recruit talented disciples.

This excellent talent not only refers to the physical ability to practice martial arts, but also the understanding of the true meaning of martial arts. Without the bonus of understanding, a stupid person will never be able to achieve the level of a master.

A person who can become a Grandmaster or even a Martial Saint, if he studies literature, will definitely be worse than those who are talented and intelligent.

Now, an easy and convenient shortcut is in front of everyone, and no one will choose to work hard to practice martial arts.

For this reason, Daluo Sect, Yaochi Sect, Songyue Tower, Lanyumen, Guxuanyuan... dozens of famous sects of all sizes in the fourteen states in the south united and held a meeting to come up with a solution.

method.

But after much discussion, they couldn't find a solution.

"Fuck, are we going to let those scholars be so proud that they take away our future disciples?" A grumpy master slammed the table at the meeting, "Let's just kill all those scholars and see how they spread the word.

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"Kill?" Someone retorted with a sneer, "What you said is simple. Literary skills are not as good as Taoist skills. Taoist skills are also restrained by martial arts, while literary arts are not restrained by martial arts at all. Someone came from a distance and was hit by a literary skill.

It will make us busy."

"Besides, where are you going to put the imperial court in the context of killing people wantonly?"

"It won't work this way, that won't work either. Are we going to watch our various sects completely decline?" The unshaven grandmaster asked with a bored look on his face.

"How can we maintain our sects if we cannot recruit talented disciples? Are we just going to watch our sect become a thing of the past?"

"You can't say that. There must be a way to solve this problem."

"How to solve it?" Someone on the other side interrupted and said, "Cultivation in literary arts is easier than martial arts, and you can get the same longevity as Taoism, and you can get results after practicing for two or three years. How can martial arts compare with it?"

yes!

After hearing this man's words, everyone present fell into silence.

Cultivation is easy, it can prolong life, and the social status is high. Compared with martial arts and Taoism, which are restricted by the imperial court, literary Tao is obviously more suitable for spreading.

However, we can’t let martial arts decline just like that, right?

The foundation for the survival of these Jianghu sects is the common people. Do they want to give up this foundation in vain?

No one here is willing, but in the face of the general trend, they have nothing to do!

At this moment, someone among the representatives present suddenly spoke up and said: "Since we can't exclude the Tao of Literature, why not introduce the Tao of Hearing into each of our sects and make it a concurrent cultivation method?"

After hearing this proposal, everyone fell into deep thought.

But some people objected: "How can this be done? How can we introduce literature and morality into our various sects and make them civilized and military?"

The key point is that if we introduce literary education into various sects and make it a method for disciples to practice at the same time, wouldn’t it be a disguised way of saying that they are inferior to those scholars?

Of course, these opponents are all pure martial arts sects. There is no profound Taoist inheritance in these sects, and the style of martial arts is extremely pure.

They disliked scholars to begin with, so naturally they did not want those scholars who called them reckless men to become their disciples.

However, those sects with Taoist heritage were somewhat interested in this proposal.

According to rumors, the ancient scholars devoted themselves to studying knowledge for decades and survived seven thunder tribulations as soon as they emerged from the body.

Just ordinary reading can strengthen the soul, let alone those scholars who develop literary talent.

These sects with Taoist inheritance all know that literary energy can nourish the soul and is of great help in practicing Taoism.

If literary education is introduced into the sect, it is impossible to cultivate a real person like Lei Jie.

Thinking of this, the leader of the Da Luo Sect, who was the host of the party, knocked on the armrest of the chair, attracted everyone's attention, and then slowly spoke.

"It is a good thing and a bad thing to introduce literary methods into various sects. The good thing is that we can recruit talented disciples through this. Those who can cultivate literary skills will mostly have good talents."

"The disadvantage is that the cultural heritage of our various sects is ultimately not as good as that of the major academies. In addition, the literary methods spread outside only reach the Wenxin state, and we have no specific knowledge about the higher levels of Wengu state and Shenhua state.

Methods of practice.”

"If you take liberal arts as your major, I'm afraid you will be restricted by major academies in the future."

"Therefore, it is not impossible to introduce literary education into various sects, but we cannot use literary education as the main way of cultivation. We can only use disciples as intensive training assistants to practice Taoism and martial arts."

"Sect Leader Zhao is absolutely right!" The Sect Leader of the Yaochi Sect also nodded in agreement.

Seeing that the two sects closest to the Holy Land had made such a decision, other sects, large and small, also began to think deeply.

Right and left, the spread of culture and Taoism is the general trend. Sects like them cannot resist, so they might as well join in and follow the trend, and maybe they can also reap miraculous results.

Looking at the shaken people below, the leader of the Daluo sect and the sect leader of the Yaochi sect looked at each other, with a smile on their lips.

As the two sects that dominate Nanzhou and Yinzhou, their every move involves many interests.

Such an important matter cannot be decided at once.

As the two sects that are deeply involved with Hong Xuanji, their decision naturally came from Hong Xuanji's instruction.

At the same time, there will be such a gathering, and they are jointly promoting it behind the scenes.

On the surface, they are to solve the inheritance crisis of various sects, but their real purpose is to promote each sect and incorporate the literary and Taoist practice system into each sect.

The purpose of this is not just to solve the inheritance crisis of each faction.

Looking at the situation in the world, since the spread of Wen Dao, it has changed almost every day. Especially as Wen Dao caused this change, it has attracted the attention of all parties.

Originally, the wealthy families, gentry and landlords of the old era occupied the vast majority of the world's resources, while ordinary people could only own a small number of resources.

With the spread of literature and art, the literature and art system with extraordinary power gave birth to new interest groups.

As mentioned before, the oppression of wealthy families cannot suppress the larger number of civilians after all.

When a large number of civilian scribes from civilian backgrounds united, a new interest class was born.

However, in the eyes of Qian Emperor Yang Pan and Hong Xuanji, both scribes from wealthy families and ordinary people were the source of trouble for the country.

According to their ideas, none of these people should appear!
Chapter completed!