"Hey, Senior Brother! Weren't we going to Xiaochi Town to make a wish?" Sixth Senior Brother suddenly remembered why they were going to Xiaochi Town. He felt unwilling to give up, and disappointed.
Everyone froze. That was right! How had they forgotten?
Wu Dayi waved a hand. "There'll be plenty of time later. The full moon has already passed, so if we go back now, we'll have to wait another month. If we have enough time on our way back to the mountain, we can go then."
Since they were heading to Mount Zhugou first, they had to catch some fresh Sleepy Fish. Little Fatty could hardly wait. Once they had rested, he urged everyone to hurry on.
Big Yellow and Little Gray had already run off again, frolicking out of sight. Behind them, the five Yin Spirits had truly taken on the work of servants, carrying the brothers' luggage as they left Changhe City.
With Little Fatty hurrying them along, the others had no choice but to make haste.
Wu Dayi and the others had only just begun learning the Twelve Steps movement technique, and they encountered the same bottleneck Zhang Xiaofan had faced when he first practiced it. After months of diligent practice, the most they could manage was the seventh step. No matter what they tried, they couldn't take the eighth.
The essence of this movement technique was "borrowing momentum." It had been successfully created by exploiting the body's inertia and coordination to find a shortcut within the rules.
With this Footwork, the second step was faster than the first, the third faster than the second, and so on, accelerating with each step. During the first six steps, they could still just barely control their bodies and land in the correct positions.
But by the seventh step,