Thirteen Grand Protectors' Horizontal Training contained thirteen martial arts techniques.
The horizontal training method of tempering the body with external objects was only one form of training among them.
For instance, filling a wooden bucket with iron sand and thrusting one's fingers into it every day could make the fingers as hard as iron and stone. Grinding the heels of one's palms against boulders and iron blocks, inside and out, every day could make the skin of the palms as tough as iron.
This was used to cultivate the Iron Sand Palm Technique, Iron Fist Technique, and Eagle Claw Technique within Thirteen Grand Protectors' Horizontal Training.
Striking the head with a wooden stick every day, or smashing bricks against it, was the Iron Head Technique.
Zhou Wu devised a detailed training plan for Qin Fen. Apart from training in Thirteen Grand Protectors' Horizontal Training, it included strength and body conditioning exercises such as calf raises, planks, jump rope, push-ups, crunches, leg kicks, and stretching the ligaments.
Every day was packed with training.
Naturally, the nutrition and medicine required for such high-intensity limit training were several times greater than what ordinary Martial Arts Students needed.
Nutritional Meals, Secret Medicinal Oil to invigorate the blood and qi, medicinal paste to strengthen the body and bones, medicine to nourish the internal organs, as well as specialized massages, acupuncture, and tendon-and-bone treatments every night—his daily expenses came to around one thousand yuan.
Even with the eighty-thousand-yuan reward, Qin Fen could only hold out until the end of the semester.
Friday, October 16.
Qin Fen added his remaining 50 Righteous Qi Value to Thirteen Grand Protectors' Horizontal Training, reaching the First Glimpse of the Path realm.
His skin and flesh visibly became tougher and rougher. He could withstand being scorched by flames for more than