Hurrying Through Two Years!

Hurrying Through Two Years!

"Good!"

Ba Liming relaxed his entire body. Seeing Gu Shaoshang throw a Cannon Fist, not only did he not defend himself, he even cried out in approval.

Gu Shaoshang possessed the strength of two thousand jin. How fiercely powerful was a Cannon Fist launched with Tiger Form? Even an iron man would be knocked to the ground!

"Roar!"

Ba Liming took a deep breath, his belly swelling like that of a woman ten months pregnant as his bones emitted a tremendous sound like a tiger's roar!

"Clang!"

When Gu Shaoshang's fist came down, he felt as though he had struck not a human body, but an ancient bronze bell!

A tremendous sound rang out, like a temple monk striking a bronze bell with a wooden log!

"Thud! Thud! Thud!"

Gu Shaoshang retreated three steps in succession, his feet pounding the ground. His right arm ached fiercely; the rebound had actually injured him!

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

Within the cloud of dust, Ba Liming's face suddenly flushed.

"Fine Cannon Fist! Your stance is ordinary, but you've practiced this Tiger Form Cannon Fist quite well!"

Ba Liming's rough voice rang out. Even he had not expected the disciple he had just taken in to possess such natural divine strength. Caught off guard for a moment, he had actually suffered a minor injury!

"So this is the Tiger Roar Golden Bell Shield?" Gu Shaoshang clicked his tongue. He had taken a full-force Tiger Form Cannon Fist head-on without the slightest injury!

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

"The Xingyi Sect has only these two sets of boxing arts: the Five Elements Fist and the Twelve Forms. You've dabbled in both. In the future, slowly combine them with real combat through battle! Then you'll be able to develop a style of fighting that belongs to you alone!"

Ba Liming called Gu Shaoshang over again and carefully explained the various methods of exerting force in the Five Elements Fist, the different postures and transformations of the Twelve Forms, the key points of switching between them, and the regulation of strength.

He held nothing back and explained everything thoroughly.

"From now on, I'll explain for an hour every morning. Spend the rest of the time pondering and practicing on your own! Once I approve, I'll teach you Tai Chi and Bagua!"

After summarizing everything, Ba Liming sent Gu Shaoshang off to practice on his own.

He picked up the notebook recording the Tiger Roar Fist and read it carefully.

Gu Shaoshang swept away all the restlessness in his heart and quietly practiced his boxing.

With Ba Liming's teachings, Gu Shaoshang discovered something different!

The Xingyi Quan of the Nine Cauldrons World and the Xingyi Quan of the Dragon-Snake World had subtle differences! They had taken two similar yet distinct paths!

The Internal Martial Arts in The Nine Cauldrons Chronicle were divided into three levels!

The first level was simply bringing muscular strength to its limit.

At the second level, after cultivating inner strength, one used it to stimulate the deep layers of the muscles, allowing the muscles, tendons, and bones to absorb its energy and grow again, making the body stronger once more.

At the third level, after reaching the Grandmaster Realm, one could surpass the limits of the human body and continue strengthening it.

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

In the Dragon-Snake World, one trained the skin, flesh, tendons, and bones externally, while internally cultivating a single breath of qi! Muscular strength was fundamentally unimportant!

Some old martial arts masters in their eighties or nineties were skinny as skeletons, yet were still incomparably fierce when they fought!

What they relied on were hard bones and tough, resilient tendons!

There was no such thing as inner strength! Even Hidden Force and Transforming Force had nothing to do with strengthening bones and muscles!

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

Gu Shaoshang marveled endlessly, and a longing for the countless wondrous techniques and ultimate arts of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds arose in his heart!

"Three worlds, three different methods of practice!"

Gu Shaoshang quietly accumulated his foundation, listening every day as Ba Liming explained the various boxing arts.

Ba Liming gradually taught Gu Shaoshang Bagua, Tai Chi, Hong Quan, and other boxing arts.

Gu Shaoshang carefully studied them while secretly practicing the martial arts of all three worlds at once, gradually gaining results.

After the Myriad Heavens Mirror arrived in the Dragon-Snake World, all of its functions came to a halt. The flow of time between the Myriad Heavens Mirror and the Dragon-Snake World had synchronized.

Although Gu Shaoshang had lost the extra twenty-four hours of daily training time provided by the Myriad Heavens Mirror, it did not affect his progress in boxing! Even Ba Liming was startled by how quickly he advanced!

Time quietly slipped away as Gu Shaoshang devoted himself to studying boxing. In the blink of an eye, two and a half years had passed since he arrived in the Dragon-Snake World!

In the open space before the house.

"Pop! Pop!" "Whoosh!" "Ha!" "Rustle..."

His fists moved like dragons and snakes, his fist wind howling.

The sky was just beginning to brighten, the sun not yet risen. It was midsummer, and Gu Shaoshang, dressed in black athletic clothes, practiced boxing in the open space.

His fist wind struck the air with popping sounds as it pierced the void. His body was agile, like a dragon and a snake, his toes slightly raised as though wading through mud. At times his hands were soft and round, held empty before him; at times his fist shot forth like a dragon, tearing through the air!

Tai Chi!

Xingyi Quan!

Bagua Palm!

Baji Quan!

Tiger Roar Fist!

The various boxing arts had become so practiced that they flowed naturally, gradually showing signs of merging into one!

Though still somewhat immature, they already carried a trace of a boxing master's bearing!

After a long while, he slowly withdrew his fists. His mouth opened slightly as he gradually exhaled a stream of white vapor, which shot out like a Qi Arrow for more than a foot before slowly dispersing.

This was the skill of Internal Martial Arts. It was said that Grandmasters could exhale several inches of white vapor that remained condensed without dispersing—a truly superhuman feat.

As for those Daoist legends of flying swords, leaping pellets, and killing people in an instant, they were still somewhat far from Gu Shaoshang.

"More than two years!" Gu Shaoshang felt somewhat moved. This had been the longest period he had ever spent practicing boxing with no distractions in his heart.

The aimlessness before he transmigrated to the Vast Continent, the ten years of cautious vigilance in the Vast Continent, the surging excitement of activating the Myriad Heavens Projection Mirror, and the two years of accumulation through Guoshu.

All kinds of thoughts rose in his heart before finally sinking deep within it. Gu Shaoshang smiled faintly.

In this lifetime, I will never drift through life!

"Your boxing has reached a bottleneck!"

Ba Liming stood with his hands behind his back, naturally emanating a bold and domineering aura.

Since practicing the Tiger Roar Fist, Ba Liming's martial arts had advanced by leaps and bounds. The power he had accumulated through thirty years of bitter training in prison surged forth like an erupting volcano! Gu Shaoshang even suspected that he had already awakened his blood qi and successfully achieved Life Establishment!

"When practicing boxing, not only must you be diligent and immerse yourself in it, but most importantly, you must be moved! Emotion must be woven into your boxing before it can come alive and become spiritual! Otherwise, no matter how much you practice, you can never reach the highest realm!"

Ba Liming suddenly extended a fist straight ahead. There was no explosive force, no exquisite technique. It was merely a simple straight punch.

So simple that even a small child could throw such a punch.

Yet Gu Shaoshang felt as though he were suffocating. A surging, immense momentum that dared to make the sun and moon shine upon a new world crashed toward him like a tsunami!

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

He faced it as though confronting a great enemy!

From that simple punch, Gu Shaoshang could feel an incomparably fanatical and mighty force in Ba Liming's boxing, like the great nationwide movement of thirty years ago, an unstoppable tide!

Every era left its mark upon its people.

The character of Ba Liming's boxing bore that mark. Only then was it true unity of fist and spirit, unity of heart and intent!

With one punch, it was as though the red tide of those years had risen again, sweeping aside all monsters and demons, peerless and unmatched!

Invincible Divine Fist!

Gu Shaoshang's heart shook, deeply stunned by that vast fist intent that seemed to crush him beneath the weight of an era!

"Seek strength through what moves you! When your heart and intent enter your fist, it is like a person gaining a soul! Only then can your boxing be invincible!"

Ba Liming's eyes were unfathomable, as deep as the sea.

Thanks to reader Wuqu Hanbing oniy for the reward, as well as to the many readers for your recommendation votes! Tu Gou is a newcomer and writes part-time, but I will work hard to write better! Lastly, to Tian Shi Ye Diao Mao, who built up posts for me when I first began writing: I hope that when I write better books, you will return! Thank you all for your support. Tu Gou bows in gratitude!