Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi-Chapter 54: Herbal Bath to Enhance Power

The ancient martial arts like the Golden Bell Shield and Iron Cloth Shirt have been passed down through generations. These horizontal training skills are primarily used to defend against unexpected attacks from weapons, wild beasts, and so forth. Thus, they focus more on strengthening the hardness of bones, the toughness of the skin, and the profound study of hard Qi cultivation.

The main practice is "Inner Strength," which involves extending "Qi" to various parts of the body, gradually reducing the body’s vulnerable points. Over years of practice, the entire body, including each weak spot, becomes as tough as iron, impervious to blades and spears.

Although it is less efficient and takes many years to achieve great success and perfection,

once mastered, it has almost no weaknesses.

In comparison, modern combat training for resilience is too specialized for competition in the ring. For the sake of efficiency, many so-called "useless parts" have been discarded, leaving only neck and abdominal muscle resilience training, which specializes in defending against facial strikes or heavy body blows. This isolated training is highly effective against opponents skilled in boxing, but if faced with a weapon-wielding attacker targeting weak spots like the knees and groin, its protective abilities are significantly limited.

It must be said that the scientific resilience training methods of modern combat are indeed more efficient and have a higher upper limit, facilitating the bulk production of boxers by trainers, but are not suitable for ordinary people who are not athletes.

After a comprehensive consideration, Wang Ye still believed that ancient martial arts like the Golden Bell Shield were relatively more suitable for him.

After all, they have broader applications.

Moreover, compared to modern combat’s resilience training, the Golden Bell Shield has another advantage: it has a clear and rigorous system.

This is also the main reason why Wang Ye favored the Golden Bell Shield, because only skills that form a system can be recognized by his system.

Wang Ye stuffed the remaining half of the Snickers bar into his mouth and stood up from the sofa.

He stood up and followed a video to practice a few moves.

With a foundation in Tai Chi, learning the Golden Bell Shield was much easier for him.

Most of the techniques for emitting force could be seen as reflections in Tai Chi.

Wang Ye used a bit of force, trying to hit the wall hard with his back. With his current strength, striking the wall with his back could produce a loud "thump." His back also registered a significant sense of pain. The other moves involved hitting, striking to train each part’s resilience, supplemented by force application methods to reduce the impact damage to the body.

Wang Ye spent half an hour performing the moves from the first form to the twenty-sixth.

At this point, his entire body was thoroughly tempered, resulting in severe pain.

Bruises and swelling appeared in numerous places.

Wang Ye rubbed the sore spots on his body and summoned the panel.

The panel now showed the words [Golden Bell Shield].

[Golden Bell Shield lv1 (0.5%)]

"Learning it isn’t difficult; it’s much easier to get started than Tai Chi." Wang Ye was delighted.

This Golden Bell Shield skill should currently be the easiest to start with, aside from Running and Walking.

Just following the tutorial and going through the moves once, the system recorded it as a skill.

Wang Ye glanced back at his phone screen on the table.

The Golden Bell Shield tutorial video ended with a posted prescription.

[1 qian of cassia wood, 2 qian of clove, 1 liang of Nepeta, 1 liang of vitex, 3 qian of ligusticum chuanxiong, 3 qian of aniseed, 1 liang of saposhnikovia, 3 qian of wild ginger, 1 liang of notopterygium, 3 qian of frankincense, 3 qian of myrrh, 3 qian of licorice. Method: Grind all the above herbs into a fine powder, 1 liang of each, add 6 qian 8 fen of salt and 5 scallions with roots, boil into a soup and wash the struck or fallen areas. Usage: The wash should be warm, no limit to the number of times, the more the better. Function: It removes toxins, reduces swelling, strengthens muscles, and repairs bones, which can accelerate the progress of the cultivation technique.]

It contains various Chinese herbs with unfamiliar names.

From the description of its use and function, it seems you have to prepare this formula to create a medicinal bath. Using this medicinal bath to train the Golden Bell Shield skill can promote injury recovery and enhance the efficiency of training.

Wang Ye pinched his chin.

He wasn’t worried about swelling recovery.

With his own evolutionary speed, as long as the injury didn’t harm muscles or internal organs,

he could recover overnight without aftereffects.

But whether this formula could "accelerate the speed of cultivation progress" is unknown.

"It doesn’t matter, trying it will tell, let’s first go to the Chinese medicine store downstairs and buy a few sets to try."

Now he had a little spare cash, spending a bit wasn’t a burden.

Wang Ye immediately grabbed his bag and went downstairs.

He navigated to a nearby Chinese medicine store, handed the prescription saved in his phone’s memo to the store owner, and asked him to prepare a few sets according to the prescription.

The shopkeeper looked to be in his fifties or sixties, with a tuft of gray-white goatee, smoking an old-fashioned pipe, exuding an aura of mystical charm.

The shopkeeper glanced at the prescription and then looked Wang Ye up and down with a peculiar gaze.

"Young man, practicing the Golden Bell Shield?"

"Just for fun." Wang Ye nodded, continuing, "If I get good at it, I might still look to you for herbs."

"Alright." The shopkeeper shook his head, not inquiring further, seemingly thinking Wang Ye was just practicing for fun. He put down the pipe, fetched, weighed, ground, and packed the herbs from the wooden cabinets according to the prescription, and placed them into plastic bags.

Wang Ye paid several hundred yuan, carrying the packed plastic bags home.

As soon as he got home,

Wang Ye took out one set of herbs and prepared to boil the medicine.

Since the Chinese medicine store owner had already ground the herbs,

he just needed to pour the ground herbs into a pot and bring it to a boil.

The operation was quite simple.

Wang Ye poured the herb powder into the pot, filled it with water, and simmered it for half an hour.

Finally, he boiled a pot of dark red medicinal soup, emitting a steaming aroma of herbs, with much sediment at the bottom mixed from various herb residues.

Wang Ye poured it all into the bathtub.

He then stripped off his clothes and got in, and immediately, a scorching sensation like needle pricks swiftly spread over his body. Wang Ye hissed, and after his body slightly got accustomed, he began scrubbing the areas he’d trained.

Needless to say, soaking in the steaming herbal bath indeed had an obvious effect on relaxing muscles and bones.

All the fatigue and impurities seemed to be absorbed by this bath. The active ingredients within the herbal soup seeped into his body during the soak, promoting the recovery of his muscle and skin damage. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Just when Wang Ye was immersed in the pleasure brought by the soak,

suddenly.

There was a slight change in the panel before his eyes.

[You performed a herbal bath, stimulating the damaged areas, increasing your Golden Bell Shield skill level by 5.1%.]

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