The next day,
The sky was clear and bright.
In the open space on the farm, Jiang Hao prepared to teach Spider-Man an advanced martial art: the Meteor Hammer. Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver had come along as well, and even the dog sat nearby as a spectator.
But they could not watch for free. Jiang Hao gave Scarlet Witch a task: record this demonstration.
More than a dozen empty oil drums had been placed several dozen meters around the clearing. Jiang Hao said to Spider-Man, "The meteor hammer is a flexible weapon. It can be divided into single meteors and double meteors. There is a verse that goes: A meteor is but a rope, yet when wielded it resembles a dragon. Swing it forward and the dragon flicks its tail; strike behind and the tiger turns over. Above, snowflakes cover the crown; below, ancient roots coil around the ground."
"Strike upward like three sticks of incense reaching heaven; strike downward like a black dog crawling between the legs. Strike left with left flower inserts, strike right with right flower inserts; single flower inserts, double flower inserts, a single strike like an embroidered ball flower..."
Spider-Man was completely baffled, his face blank and his eyes unfocused.
"Now I'll demonstrate it for you. Step aside."
Spider-Man ran to the side. Jiang Hao shot out a strand of webbing that stuck to an empty oil drum, then yanked it over with a whoosh. Halfway through its flight, Jiang Hao twisted sharply and flung it with force toward another empty drum more than ten meters away.
Boom!
The drum was immediately smashed flat.
Then Jiang Hao began spinning it rapidly. The oil drum flipped up and down nonstop, smashing into the other empty drums with clangs and bangs without missing once. Soon, Jiang Hao