Ren Yongfeng and his companions were concerned about the situation at the research institute. After boarding the aircraft, they immediately contacted the institute's staff to inquire about the institute's recruitment of ancient martial arts practitioners.

Over the course of several hours, the research institute staff interacted with more than a dozen ancient martial arts practitioners, both online and offline.

Besides collecting information related to the Five Elements from these ancient martial arts practitioners, they also purchased several ancient martial arts manuals.

They sent a copy of the collected information and ancient martial arts techniques to Ren Yongfeng and the others.

Ren Yongfeng opened the file, glanced at its contents, and then paused: "Is this all the information we've gathered about the Five Elements?"

The document contains only about two hundred words of information about the Five Elements.

Moreover, the content involved only covers the basic concepts of the Five Elements and their mutual generation and restraint.

Furthermore, the content regarding mutual generation and restraint is incomplete, and some parts are even incorrect...

As for Ling Luo's mention of Yin and Yang, directions, and the Eight Trigrams, there was none of it.

You know, Ling Luo went on and on about location for ages and still wasn't finished...

Wu Xianheng, director of the research institute, said, "Yes, among these dozen or so ancient martial arts practitioners, almost everyone knows what the Five Elements are. However, most of them only know that the Five Elements refer to metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Only one-third of them know that there are mutual generating and restraining relationships between them. As for how these relationships work, only one or two people know. However, they said that they thought it was useless to know these things before, so they did not study them seriously. There may be more detailed records in some of their ancestral books. They need to go back and look for them carefully before they can give us a more detailed answer."

Ren Yongfeng: "Is there any record of this in their ancestral books?"

"Judging from their reaction, it should be true. It is said that the development of ancient martial arts techniques seems to have started with the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, so it is easy to understand why they have related books. It's just that they didn't pay attention to it before, and only learned ancient martial arts based on the techniques, without learning the theoretical knowledge of the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams."

Upon hearing this, Ren Yongfeng and Zhou Yuan exchanged glances.

When they heard Wu Xianheng say that, they thought that the ancient martial arts practitioners knew so little about the Five Elements because they had limited access to information. After all, they couldn't find any records about this topic online or in libraries throughout the empire.

Only after listening to the end did they realize that they had kept relevant information, but they hadn't put in the effort to learn it, which was why they knew so little about it.

Ling Luo probably put in the effort to learn and master the skills, which is why he has achieved such remarkable results in the cultivation of ancient martial arts.

With that in mind, they put aside their thoughts and began to look at the ancient martial arts techniques they had collected.

They glanced at it and found that these ancient martial arts techniques were categorized into several types, including fist techniques, sword techniques, knife techniques, and spear techniques.

Regardless of the type of exercise, they basically only have illustrations of the movements, without detailed diagrams of the energy flow and control direction, and many of the movements are quite ordinary.

Ren Yongfeng stood up and tried out the movements in the exercise manual in a simple and continuous manner. He found that the feeling after completing one section of the movement was indeed different from the training method they had developed, but it was really similar to the training method that Ling Luo had written for them.

Not only him, but Zhou Yuan and Gu Yang also felt the same way.

Ren Yongfeng smiled and ordered, "Increase efforts to recruit ancient martial arts practitioners."

Wu Xianheng said, "After sensing the similarities between these techniques and the training methods written by the Crown Princess, I instructed people to do so. And it wasn't just us; other imperial research institutes did the same. So, the ancient martial arts practitioners who contacted us in the last half hour have become less agreeable. We raised our prices by one or two times to try to buy their techniques, but they are still observing and haven't agreed immediately."

This situation was within Ren Yongfeng's expectations: "Then we'll try to win them over from other angles."

"yes."