Two Years in a Hurry!

Chapter 32: Two Years Fly By!

"Good!"

Ba Liming relaxed his body and praised Gu Shaoshang's Cannon Fist, not bothering to defend.

Gu Shaoshang possessed a strength of two thousand jin. How fierce would his Tiger Form Cannon Fist be! It could knock down even an iron man!

"Roar!"

Ba Liming took a deep breath, his belly swelling like a woman in her tenth month of pregnancy. His bones let out a roar like a fierce tiger!

"Clang!"

Gu Shaoshang's punch landed, but it felt like he had struck an ancient bronze bell, not a human body!

A massive sound, like a monk striking a bronze bell with a wooden post in a temple, rang out!

"Dong! Dong! Dong!"

Gu Shaoshang staggered back three steps, his feet pounding the ground. His right arm ached, injured by the rebound!

Ba Liming exhaled a stream of air, blowing up the dust in the cell.

Through the dust, Ba Liming's face flushed slightly.

"Good Cannon Fist! Your basic stance is average, but you've practiced the Tiger Form Cannon Fist very well!"

Ba Liming's rough voice echoed. He hadn't expected that this disciple he had just taken in possessed such natural divine strength. He had been caught off guard and suffered a minor injury!

"Is this the Tiger Roar Golden Bell Shield?" Gu Shaoshang clicked his tongue. He had taken Ba Liming's full-power Tiger Form Cannon Fist head-on and suffered no injuries!

"Haha!" Ba Liming's old face reddened, and he changed the subject.

"The Xingyi school only has these two sets of techniques: one is the Five Elements Fist, and the other is the Twelve Forms. You've touched upon both. In future fights, you'll combine them with practical experience to develop your own fighting style!"

Ba Liming called Gu Shaoshang over again and meticulously explained the various ways to generate force in the Five Elements Fist, the different postures of the Twelve Forms, the key points of transitions, and the regulation of power.

He held nothing back, explaining everything thoroughly.

"From now on, I will explain to you for an hour every morning. The rest of the time is for you to ponder and practice! When I am satisfied, I will teach you Tai Chi and Bagua!"

Ba Liming concluded, then sent Gu Shaoshang off to practice on his own.

He, meanwhile, picked up the notebook containing the Tiger Roar Fist and began to read it carefully.

Gu Shaoshang cleared his mind of all restlessness and began to practice his fist techniques quietly.

As Ba Liming taught him, Gu Shaoshang noticed a difference!

The Xingyi Quan of the Nine Cauldrons world and the Xingyi Quan of the Dragon-Snake world! There were subtle differences! They had embarked on two similar yet distinct paths!

In the Nine Cauldrons Record, Internal Martial Arts were divided into three levels!

The first level was purely reaching the limit of muscular strength.

The second level involved cultivating internal force, using it to stimulate the deep muscles, allowing the muscles, tendons, and bones to absorb the energy of the internal force and grow again, strengthening the body once more.

The third level, reaching the realm of a grandmaster, allowed one to surpass human limits and continue to strengthen the body.

But the Guoshu of the Dragon-Snake world was different!

In the Dragon-Snake world, it was "externally train tendons, bones, and skin; internally train a breath!" The strength of the muscles was not important at all!

Some old martial artists in their eighties and nineties were as thin as skin and bones, yet they were still incredibly powerful when they moved!

They relied on their hardened bones and resilient tendons!

There was no concept of internal force at all! Hidden Force or Transforming Force did not involve strengthening bones and muscles in any way!

"Such similar Xingyi Quan, yet they evolved into two different effects simply because the worlds are different!"

Gu Shaoshang marveled, his heart filled with longing for the infinite wondrous techniques and skills of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds!

"The training methods of three worlds, the differences of three worlds!"

Gu Shaoshang quietly settled himself, listening to Ba Liming explain various fist techniques every day.

Ba Liming slowly taught Gu Shaoshang Bagua, Tai Chi, Hong Quan, and other martial arts.

Gu Shaoshang, while diligently studying, secretly practiced the martial arts from the three worlds simultaneously, gradually gaining results.

After the Myriad Heavens Mirror arrived in the Dragon-Snake world, all its functions were suspended. The Myriad Heavens Mirror and the Dragon-Snake world's time flow had synchronized.

Although Gu Shaoshang lost the extra twenty-four hours of practice time provided by the Myriad Heavens Mirror each day, it did not affect his progress in martial arts! His advancements surprised even Ba Liming!

Time quietly slipped away as Gu Shaoshang meticulously studied martial arts. In the blink of an eye, Gu Shaoshang had been in the Dragon-Snake world for two and a half years!

In the open space in front of the house.

"Pa! Pa!" "Hoo!" "Ha!" "Swish..."

His fists moved like a dragon and a snake, the wind from his punches whistling.

The sky was slightly bright, the sun yet to rise. It was midsummer, and Gu Shaoshang, dressed in a black tracksuit, practiced his fist techniques in the open space.

The wind from his fists struck the air, making cracking sounds. His movements were as agile as a dragon or a snake, his toes lifting slightly as if treading through mud. Sometimes his soft hands held emptiness, and sometimes his fists shot out like a dragon tearing through the air!

Tai Chi!

Xingyi Quan!

Bagua Palm!

Baji Quan!

Tiger Roar Fist!

Various fist techniques, practiced to the point of mastery, were gradually merging into one!

Though still a bit unrefined, they already carried the shadow of a boxing master!

After a long while, he slowly retracted his fists, his mouth slightly open, and slowly exhaled a breath of white air. It shot out like a Qi Arrow for over a foot before slowly dissipating.

This was Internal Martial Arts. Legends said some grandmasters could exhale white air several inches long, which would remain condensed and not disperse, a truly superhuman feat.

As for the ancient legends of Daoists flying swords and killing in an instant, those were still a bit far off for Gu Shaoshang.

"More than two years!" Gu Shaoshang sighed, this was the longest period he had ever practiced martial arts with undivided focus.

The aimlessness before crossing over to the Vast Continent, the ten years of cautious living on the Vast Continent, the turbulent emotions upon activating the Myriad Heavens Projection Mirror! And then two years of settling and accumulating in Guoshu.

Various thoughts surfaced in his mind, finally settling deep within his heart. Gu Shaoshang smiled faintly.

"In this life, I will never be mediocre!"

"Your boxing has reached a bottleneck!"

Ba Liming stood with his hands behind his back, exuding a heroic and domineering aura.

Since practicing the Tiger Roar Fist, Ba Liming's skills had improved by leaps and bounds. The strength accumulated over thirty years of practicing in prison erupted like a volcano! Gu Shaoshang even suspected if he had already activated his blood energy and successfully established his fate!

"To practice martial arts, you not only need diligence and immersion, but most importantly, you need emotion! Boxing techniques must incorporate feelings to come alive and achieve divine mastery! Otherwise, no matter how much you practice, you won't reach the highest realm!"

Ba Liming suddenly extended a fist forward, flatly. There was no explosive power, no exquisite technique. It was just a simple straight punch.

It was so simple that even a small child could throw such a punch.

But Gu Shaoshang felt as if he was suffocating. A surging momentum, like "daring to change the sky and sun," crashed down upon him like a tsunami!

Gu Shaoshang's hair stood on end like a startled cat, his spine arching high!

He felt like he was facing a formidable enemy!

With a simple punch, Gu Shaoshang could feel an unparalleled, fanatical power emanating from Ba Liming's technique, like the overwhelming fervor of a nationwide mass movement thirty years ago, unstoppable.

What kind of era a person lived in left its imprint.

Ba Liming's boxing style bore this imprint, achieving true unity of spirit and fist, and unity of mind and intention!

The punch thrown was like the red tide of that year, striking down all demons and monsters, unparalleled!

Invincible Divine Fist!

Gu Shaoshang's heart was shaken, deeply moved by this majestic boxing intent that felt like an era crushing down on him!

"Find strength in emotion! When your mind and intention enter the fist like a soul entering a body! Only then can your boxing be invincible!"

Ba Liming's eyes were deep, as profound as the ocean.

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