Cultivating through increasing my stats in America-Chapter 45 - Iron Crotch

Chapter 45: Chapter 45 Iron Crotch

Chapter 45: Chapter 45 Iron Crotch

Li Ang ultimately decided not to recommend the Sideways Training Martial Arts he was practicing to Charles.

Because for most people, the cost-effectiveness of practicing it is simply too low.

First of all, the entry phase for Sideways Training Martial Arts is lengthy, often taking over five years, even up to a decade or two, to see noticeable results.

Moreover, the training process of Sideways Training Martial Arts is extremely taxing on one’s willpower, a long-term and painful endeavor.

In the end, even if one achieves some success in Sideways Training Martial Arts, the actual benefits generated are not that significant.

In terms of combat, you might not be able to beat someone who has practiced modern combat sports for just two or three years.

In terms of making money, at best you could post videos of splitting bricks or kicking trees online, and whether they go viral is all up to fate.

When he had Charles practice moves against a tree, it wasn’t about training him in hard qigong, but just to enhance his combat capabilities.

After listening to Li Ang’s explanation, Charles finally understood all these aspects.

Seeing Charles’s forehead even redder than his own, Li Ang could no longer bear to tell him that the marks on his own forehead were from lipstick.

“When you first start practicing, don’t be too eager for success. You just need to gradually increase your strength and slowly get used to the pain you feel when striking,” he said.

“And don’t worry, when you really get into a fight, with the help of adrenaline, your body won’t feel that much pain.”

Looking at Charles’s somewhat perplexed expression, Li Ang began to doubt whether he should have taught him these things in the first place.

After finishing their practice, Li Ang also called Charles into the house, intending to apply some medicinal wine on him.

Normally, with his level of training intensity, it wouldn’t be necessary, but the key issue was that today he had used his head to ram the tree too aggressively.

Before opening the medicinal wine, Li Ang carefully checked and found that the two bottles Yan Tianqi had given and the one from Old Master Hua were exactly the same.

Moreover, judging by the seal, they hadn’t been opened for a long time. It was unlikely someone would plot for so long just to trick him.

Perhaps it was because the content of the Sports Massage skill wasn’t very profound, the proficiency gained from practicing it was quite substantial.

After massaging both himself and Charles, Li Ang had just managed to level up this skill.

He opened the attribute panel and the information he saw made his eyes light up.

Sports Massage 3/200 (Proficient)

(Trait: After being massaged, recovery ability increases by 10% for the next 12 hours.)

The effect of this trait, though seemingly time-limited and not a very high percentage increase, was exactly what he needed at the moment.

With his Constitution nearly 40% above that of an average adult male, and combined with medicinal wine, medicinal baths, and now the increased recovery ability, he could significantly intensify his training.

After Charles left, Li Ang did not rest but persisted, trying all the horizontal components of the Thirteen Taibao Horizontal Training one by one.

Originally, he thought using his head to hit the tree was painful enough until he saw the last item.

“Iron Crotch? I have to train this too?”

Li Ang was numb, as if he had climbed over a mountain only to find Mount Everest on the other side.

He didn’t even need to practice; just reading about the training methods below was enough to make him feel the pain.

“This involves punching it? Holy shit, hanging sandbags too? And after mastering it, people can kick it?”

As Li Ang continued to read, his understanding kept getting challenged.

However, after reading through all the content, Li Ang realized that this Iron Crotch wasn’t as mystical as it seemed.

Iron Crotch consists of hard and soft techniques; the hard part requires starting from a young age, reaching the ability of “retracting the testicles into the abdomen.”

This way, no matter how others kick your groin, they aren’t actually hitting your testicles, and your bones absorb the impacts instead.

Only then can you achieve the effect where you can be hit with bricks or kicked without getting hurt.

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Adults generally practice the soft part of these exercises.

The effect of this portion is quite simple, it strengthens virility, turning you into a more vigorous man.

However, one thing to note is that because of this function, there are many scammers online using this gimmick to open classes and collect fees.

Any practice that includes “hanging method,” which involves hanging weights for exercise, is essentially a scam.

The original practice doesn’t have this method at all.

Upon reading this, Li Ang also sighed with a sense of relief that the author was quite conscientious, not only teaching martial arts but also including anti-fraud knowledge.

The “Iron Crotch” mentioned in the book is actually derived from one of the Seventy-two Shaolin Martial Arts, “Mendang Gong,” also known as “Golden Cicada Skill.”

Mendang Gong is essentially a form of “soft external strengthening,” rather than the typical “hard external strengthening” pursuing surface hardness.

It involves using one’s inner qi sensation to control the lower body and then supplementing it with external forces for stimulative training.

Li Ang closed the book and took off his pants.

“Now I have no choice but to practice.”

…

Meanwhile, after taking a shower, Catina poured herself a nice glass of iced cola, and as usual, walked to her desk and turned on her computer.

“Wow, there’s really a lot of news today,” she exclaimed as she saw the continuous stream of notifications popping up in the bottom right corner of her monitor.

But soon, she noticed something was off, why were there continuous notifications? Was her computer frozen?

With a sense of doubt, she clicked on YouTube, and straight away saw a massive “999+” in her inbox.

After clicking in, she realized that it was the surveillance video she posted online last night that had gone viral.

She looked at her profile and saw that her subscription count had reached over four thousand, that is, she had gained over four thousand fans.

You should know that previously, she had been posting everyday videos of scenery and pets for almost a year to barely accumulate a thousand subscribers, thereby unlocking the revenue feature.

And now, in just one day, a single video had equated to three years of her efforts.

She read through the comments and saw that most people were divided into two camps.

One camp was mainly admiring Li Ang’s impressive actions in beating up the criminals.

“I’ve always said it, those Chinese all know martial arts, told you not to mess with them.”

“I feel like I see a shadow of Jet Li in him.”

“If this were a movie, then I can only say, the action scenes are too realistic.”

The other camp sympathized with the African-Americans.

“Doesn’t anyone care about the consequences for the poor house owner wearing only underwear?”

“This is truly a horrifying act of violence!”

“Black lives matter too.”

Seeing that everyone was about to label Li Ang a criminal, Catina felt quite helpless and uploaded the unedited full version of the video.

She also added supplementary explanations to the video.

“In fact, this was a serious criminal case where two criminals broke into a homeowner’s house, and both were eventually subdued by the homeowner’s friend. Moreover, this hero who subdued the criminals is just a high school student.”

After dealing with all these matters, Catina, full of anticipation, shifted her gaze to the anticipated revenue from the video.