Huo Yuanhong raised his head slightly and met the gaze of the Tide-Listening Pavilion's sect master atop the mountain from afar.
Then he turned and headed down the mountain.
His journey north had come to an end.
As he descended the stone steps, the old man's demonstrations and applications of inner gang and outer gang replayed slowly in his mind, and he savored their earlier exchange.
Inner gang was the extreme refinement of Internal Force. It could pass through the body and strike outward through the air; its force could land from an inch away, injuring an enemy without direct contact.
Outer gang, meanwhile, was the eruption of Internal Force throughout the body, capable of tearing at the air currents and turning them into gang qi.
This gang qi was not some mysterious true qi. It was simply airflow spinning and vibrating at tremendous speed.
When a Daoist stepped through the Dipper and set out the gang, the air around his body would whirl and burst violently, thunderous gang qi covering him like a dense net. It could knock back ordinary people within three feet, even ward off ordinary fists, kicks, and weapon strikes—as though a god had possessed him. This was outer gang.
Some texts also called it innate gang qi, though in essence it was entirely an acquired skill.
Naturally, outer gang was not merely useful for resisting the combined assault of ordinary Martial Persons. By using the spinning currents of air, it could also enhance one's movement technique. While moving, one could "leap like a pellet, flash past like a shooting star," becoming elusive and unpredictable, with dodging and charging abilities far beyond common sense.
Moreover, an outer gang Grandmaster could set the air currents around his body spinning, disrupting an opponent's balance.
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