The world is in a constant state of progress. Over the last hundred years, advancements in technology have brought tremendous benefits to the path of martial arts, particularly for the first three major realms.
The first three realms of martial arts focus primarily on unlocking the body's potential and strengthening one's Qi Blood. As technology has progressed, breakthroughs in microscopic fields and material science have driven immense achievements in related areas like pharmaceutics, medicine, and weaponry.
The resulting impact on martial arts has been an endless stream of innovation.
A first-realm Martial Artist from a century ago would be significantly weaker than their modern counterpart across all metrics.
Go back even further to the dawn of martial arts, and even the greatest prodigies of that era were in worse physical condition than an average high schooler of the same realm today.
