If Qing Yuzi heard this, she would probably pick up her hometown's knife and head out to hack someone, not resting until she turned her father into slices of boiled fish.
"You're right, and that leads us to the third factor, which is also the most critical one, being out of step with the times," Gu Tao raised a finger, "During the heyday of the martial art sects, everyone was ignorant. But with the explosion of knowledge, the role of sects became insignificant. Exorcising ghosts and demons? Ordinary people hardly ever encounter them in their lives. Stand out in life? It's easier to get a university degree or run a business than to cultivate immortality, right? So cultivation lost its practical function, leaving perhaps only fighting and brawling as uses. But let me ask you, is it more convenient to use spells or guns for fighting?"
