The Man in Power After Being Married into Her Family novel Chapter 2858

Charlie nodded.

In truth, the martial arts path had already declined much ever since its ancient development to the present time.

In fact, there was a period of time where the development of martial arts was relatively prosperous.

After all, during the era of cold weapons, karate was actually very useful. Not only was it used to protect families and the country, but it could also be used to make a living. Therefore, back then, aside from scholars, everyone else wanted to become martial arts masters. 3

However, later on, foreign powers had begun using guns and cannons to hit the country, and all of a sudden, the martial arts practitioners realized that the skills and abilities that they had gained from training hard all their lives could not even match up to a single gun or cannon in the foreigners' hands. 1

Back then, many patriotic martial artists also had the heart and loyalty to serve their country, but their strength was not worth mentioning at all in front of these hot weapons.

One of the most upsetting matters was when thousands of the people in the Boxer Rebellion regiment had besieged hundreds of foreigners in East Jorquay, but they had failed to get in even after attacking for fifty-six days.

Since then, a large number of martial arts practitioners who were originally obsessed with martial arts had instantly ended up becoming the biggest opponents of martial arts. The main reason for this was simply because they had finally seen the huge gap, and they realized that their lifetime of hard work and efforts could never beat a bullet. 4

Ever since then, the country had been suffering from perennial chaos caused by the war as well as internal and external problems, and the ever-increasing speed of weapons development had also widened the gap between martial arts and weapons.

Therefore, it was since that time that martial arts had begun going downhill and had not really re-emerged again until now. 3

Originally, out of two to three hundred million people i n Oskia, there were at least millions or even tens of millions of people practicing martial arts. But now, even though there were more than a billion people in Oskia, there were not more than a few hundred thousand people who were practicing martial arts in total.

Many inner family techniques had been gradually lost during this period of time. So, many martial arts practitioners did not have a complete set of inner family techniques to practice. This could also be considered a great sorrow for the decline of martial arts.

However, the enthusiasm that the martial arts practitioners had for martial arts now was not inferior as compared to those of their predecessors back then. 3