In the earliest Simulacrum, Chen Xiaojin had leaped up to attack at the outset, but this time he did not.
Although leaping could add a little power, he had discovered that he could make up for that shortfall by adjusting his posture in specific ways.
He had also discovered that no matter which direction he attacked from, his opponent would always raise a fist to meet him and would invariably remain rooted to the spot.
He thought this might have something to do with the opponent's unusual way of exerting force afterward, so he changed his approach to the attack and thereby avoided the subsequent grab.
Seeing the change he made, Chen Chuan nodded. This showed that Chen Xiaojin was not stubbornly single-minded. Although his ability to seize openings in combat was quite ordinary, he knew how to think and question.
Though Chen Chuan had offered him an approach, he had not blindly accepted it as the truth and the best possible choice. Instead, he had made a useful change of his own. With that sort of potential, there was some chance he could forge his own path in the future.
It might have looked easy, but it required overturning the approach Chen Chuan had initially given him while finding another way to exert force and compensate for his lack of strength.
Chen Chuan had hoped Chen Xiaojin could do precisely that.
If Chen Xiaojin had failed to do so himself, it would only have shown that, despite his tremendous concentration, his thinking still lacked flexibility. In that case, Chen Chuan would have discarded his original teaching approach and adopted another method.
Different personalities and traits called for different methods of teaching and guidance. Only then could a person's inner potential be fully unearthed.
But that was a matter for