Black Tiger Fist Fundamentals, Strength Training Secret Medicine!

"Tiger meat?"

"This stuff is hard to get!"

"It has a market, but no price."

"Even tiger bone is an extremely precious medicinal herb."

"An ordinary skeleton costs tens of thousands of silver dollars. Normal families can't afford it at all."

"Luckily, beef can still serve as a substitute. Meat prices nowadays are roughly one silver dollar for ten jin of pork, or ten copper coins per jin."

"Beef costs about twice as much as pork. Eating ten jin of beef a day would take at least two silver dollars."

"But there's a problem. I'm homeless right now, living in the back courtyard of Hongyun Mahjong Hall. There are too many people and too many eyes there, so I don't even have a place to cook beef."

"So it'd be best if I ate cooked beef instead. Cooked beef costs twice as much as raw beef. Ten jin of cooked beef a day, four silver dollars. Five days would be twenty silver dollars."

"I guessed right. Even if it's a quick-success method, I still have to whale money into it!"

"And I'd better find a place to live too, somewhere I can secretly practice martial arts. It has to be hidden, with private space, a little remote so it won't cause trouble, and most importantly, a standalone place."

"A house like that would cost at least ten silver dollars a month. That's another expense!"

Jiang Wangzu sighed inwardly.

He carefully flipped through the Black Tiger Fist Manual several more times, then, after memorizing every word written in it, set the manual on his sister-in-law's bed.

Then he patted his sister-in-law on the butt and left.

With this Attribute Panel of his, as long as someone read a martial arts manual through once, it could permanently lock in the status and imprint every word of the contents into his mind.

So when it came to memorizing martial arts manuals, he was also a little genius with a photographic memory!

After leaving his sister-in-law's residence, Jiang Wangzu first went to a real estate company and rented a standalone little courtyard in the outskirts of the Lower District for ten silver dollars a month.

Then he went to a braised-meat deli and bought ten jin of cooked beef in one go, decisively throwing his money around for once and going wild on the beef.

Ever since he had mastered the Iron Crotch Technique, he had often felt hungry.

Sometimes, even if he ate three meals a day, ten buns or five meat pies in a single meal would not leave him feeling stuffed.

So now, eating beef was no effort at all for him. He ate five jin of cooked beef in one sitting, but this time, he really was full.

There were still about five jin of cooked beef left. He decided he would come back at night and keep eating, then practice the Tiger-Subduing Stance and Black Tiger Fist.

Stance training was a prerequisite for the martial cultivation of many sects. Many people had to practice stance training for several years before they could systematically learn moves, fighting methods, training methods, and so on.

Practice martial arts without practicing the fundamentals, and when you're old, it all comes up empty!

The "fundamentals" here actually referred to stance training!

First learn to stand firm, then talk about being ruthless. This was the proper way to open the door to martial cultivation.

Standing firm mainly referred to a martial artist's lower-body skill.

Impossible to pull, impossible to push over.

Only then could the foundation be considered properly laid.

As for how to stand firm, stance training was publicly acknowledged by every sect and school as the best method for training the lower body.

Of course, some people trained their lower-body skill through other methods, such as pulling rickshaws.

In the Great Xin Republic, quite a few martial artists had started out as rickshaw pullers.

It was precisely because they pulled carts day after day, year after year, that their strength increased and their lower bodies became as steady as Mount Tai. When they practiced martial arts, they naturally achieved twice the result with half the effort.

For example, Zhao Changgeng, one of Shen City's top martial arts experts, had started out pulling rickshaws. Now he had already become a renowned big shot in Shen City.

As for Jiang Wangzu learning the hard-body skill Iron Crotch Technique first, that was entirely an act of pulling up seedlings to make them grow.

If an ordinary person trained like this, they would not amount to anything, and they would easily ruin themselves in the process.

But he was different. He had a cheat!

After eating and drinking his fill, Jiang Wangzu went to Hongyun Mahjong Hall and took Big Ox and Second Tiger to Dragon River Pier.

The three of them stated their purpose and were assigned to the patrol team.

Their task was also very simple: patrol all around Dragon River Pier, and as soon as they discovered anything wrong, report it immediately.

For five days in a row, Jiang Wangzu patrolled Dragon River Pier.

And every day, he practiced Black Tiger Fist three times and ate ten jin of beef. Finally, he reached entry level in Black Tiger Fist!

He felt countless images of standing posture training and fist practice flood into his mind. Things he had not been able to figure out before instantly became clear.

He felt a warm current flowing throughout his body. The movement was even greater than when he had mastered the Iron Crotch Technique back then!

"My strength has increased a lot. The current me might not be able to punch someone's brains into splattering mush like Chen Tai, but at the very least, I can fight way better than an ordinary grown strong man!"

"And this is only entry level!"

"If I grind it to minor mastery, major mastery, or even perfection, wouldn't my strength be enough to hang Chen Tai up and beat him?"

"Kekekeke!"

"I'd been in this world for more than a month, and I finally had a little strength to protect myself!"

Sensing the power inside his body, as well as his steady lower stance, Jiang Wangzu smiled in satisfaction, then looked at the quick-completion requirements for the next stage of Black Tiger Fist.

[Cultivation Method: Black Tiger Fist (Beginner)]

[Quick-Completion Method: Practice three times daily, supplemented by one dose of the secret medicine Black Tiger Powder each day; minor achievement in ten days. Or practice ten times daily, eat ten jin of beef a day; minor achievement in half a year!]

Jiang Wangzu: "???"

"Why is the gap between the two choices so huge this time?"

"If I choose the second method, though it's simple, it'll take half a year before I can cultivate Black Tiger Fist to minor achievement. But if I take the secret medicine Black Tiger Powder, it only takes ten days!"

"But the medicinal ingredients needed for this secret Black Tiger Powder really aren't ordinary. One dose probably costs more than a hundred silver dollars, right?"

"The money I have now probably isn't even enough to buy ten doses of the secret Black Tiger Powder!"

"Forget it. I'll get the secret Black Tiger Powder first. As for the money, I'll think of some other way!"

Jiang Wangzu thought to himself.

What Chen Tai practiced was Virgin Skill.

He had stood in Standing Posture for five years.

He had practiced Black Tiger Fist for more than ten years.

He had endured bitter cultivation for decades as if each day were one.

Only then had he cultivated Black Tiger Fist to the major achievement level and become a martial artist at major achievement in Strength Training.

And that was with Chen Tai investing many cultivation resources.

On top of that, his own talent had been decent.

And he had been hardworking enough besides.

But even if Jiang Wangzu chose the second quick-completion method, it would only take half a year for him to bring Black Tiger Fist to minor achievement.

He would need only three to five years to cultivate Black Tiger Fist to major achievement.

Within ten years, he would definitely be able to cultivate it to perfection.

And by then, Jiang Wangzu would only be twenty-eight years old.

He would still have at least a dozen years before reaching the peak of his physical body.

That would be enough for him to charge toward the next martial realm.

In three to five years, he could walk the path Chen Tai had taken nearly thirty years to finish.

In ten years, he could walk the path Chen Tai would never finish in his entire life.

Such cultivation speed could not be called slow.

But Jiang Wangzu was not satisfied!

Half a year was too long. He fought only for every day, every hour!

In troubled times, monsters and devils ran rampant.

Even Chen Tai did not dare say he had enough strength to protect himself.

Let alone him?

Half a year was enough time for countless unforeseen changes to occur.

So he had to grasp the present!

He had to get his hands on the secret Black Tiger Powder no matter what!