Besides Zhou Yuanjue, the youngest person present was over eighty, and nearly half were centenarians. Throughout their long lives, they had dedicated themselves to war, to the Martial Dao, and to their country, but none had ever applied themselves to academia.
From ancient times to the present, the transmission of the Martial Dao had always been clandestine. Even as techniques were continuously exchanged and evolved, the true core secrets were almost never passed to outsiders or altered.
Martial Artists had always been seen as simple brutes—training their bodies, spilling blood in a fit of rage, and having nothing to do with intellectual pursuits. This was even more true for the Saint Awakening Realm, which was profound beyond measure and difficult to describe.
Therefore, when they saw that the documents before them were, of all things, a short and incomplete academic paper, metaphorical question marks slowly formed over the elders' heads.
