After that, whenever Mo Hua had time, he went to Mr. Zhuang's Zuowang Abode to spar with Bai Zisheng in movement techniques.
Bai Zisheng's comprehension was very high. With every spar, his movement technique grew a little more practiced, but Mo Hua's progress was a step faster still.
At first, Bai Zisheng held the advantage, but once Mo Hua's Flowing Water Step grew increasingly practiced, within twenty exchanges, it became very hard for Bai Zisheng to snatch the jade pendant from Mo Hua's neck.
In order to spar a while longer, the two of them changed twenty exchanges to forty.
"Something's not right..."
After one spar ended, Bai Zisheng frowned and said.
"What's not right?" Mo Hua asked.
"This movement technique of yours is a little wicked..."
Mo Hua looked puzzled.
"It clearly looks perfectly ordinary, nothing remarkable about it, but it's just slippery as an eel. Just when I'm about to grab you, your figure flashes, and you still slip away from my fingertips. No matter what, I can't catch you..."
"Doesn't that just prove this movement technique isn't ordinary?"
Bai Zisheng shook his head. "At the end of the day, this movement technique uses spiritual power to guide the physical body. But there are many movement techniques that use spiritual power to guide the body. I've never seen one this troublesome."
Mo Hua did not understand. "Isn't it just using divine sense to guide spiritual power, circulating that spiritual power through certain meridians and acupoints, and then drawing the body into motion... Is that supposed to be hard?"
Hard, no, it was not exactly hard. But being able to control spiritual power with divine sense, and to control it with such precision, even down to the finest details, was not simple at all.
Bai Zisheng looked at Mo