Purple Mist Dao Master-Chapter 121 - 106 ’Inner Strength System’ and ’Inner Strength System’!

Chapter 121: Chapter 106 ’Inner Strength System’ and ’Inner Strength System’!

"I see that child has shallow foundations, a dull nature, not material for martial training, only his perseverance and brute force are commendable. Can you even teach such a disciple?"

At the top of White Rock Mountain, Cheng Fengxiao wondered.

Shallow foundations!

Slow-witted!

Language barrier!

In this situation, Yan Chuan can still teach?

Yan Chuan laughed: "Even Jinpeng, Yutang, and Wei Quan I can teach, what could be too difficult about teaching this child no matter how dull he is."

"Yes indeed!"

Upon hearing this, Cheng Fengxiao slapped his forehead, chuckling. Recently, he had been so dazzled by Yan Chuan’s talent and the martial progress of Yu Jinpeng and the other two, that he nearly forgot that just four or five months ago, Yu Jinpeng, Jin Yutang, and Wei Quan were all blockheads, all ugly ducklings.

Even Yan Chuan himself, was dull and unenlightened.

Until July and August.

Children rebelled against their families.

These disciples, the three apprentices, then made rapid progress.

Reflecting on it, Cheng Fengxiao still found it unbelievable.

Upon deeper thought.

In fact, not only Yu Jinpeng and others, but also over a hundred apprentices who joined the Iron Wire Martial Arts Hall since July, Cheng Fengxiao recently saw a record kept by Yu Jinpeng on Yan Chuan’s orders. It listed 134 disciples, the longest practicing martial arts for four months, the shortest less than a month, but each progressing rapidly, in a month or two they had mastered the ’Horse Stance’ and ’Twelve Bridge Hands’, with many already advancing to ’Tiger Form Boxing’ and ’Crane Form Boxing’. Remarkably, some have even started practicing the ’Thousand Pounds Fall’ and ’Gongzi Fuhu Fist’, which can only be described as astonishing speed.

Most of those who came to the Iron Wire Martial Arts Hall were of extremely poor qualifications, so much so that even the academies would not admit them. They came to the Iron Wire Martial Arts Hall, initially attracted by the gimmick of ’guaranteed teaching’ of the ’Seventy-two Skills’ and the fame of ’Guangling Golden Hand’ Yan Chuan.

Intending to learn the ’Seventy-two Skills’.

As a result, the speed at which they picked up the ’Horse Stance’ and ’Twelve Bridge Hands’ was beyond imagination, so it was natural for them to continue learning ’Tiger Form Boxing’ and ’Crane Form Boxing’.

Paid more tuition.

Learned deeper skills.

Martial Arts Hall.

Apprentices.

Everyone delighted.

Iron Wire Martial Arts Hall, thoroughly revived.

No choice before, hence accepted all comers.

Now popular as can be, starts to pick and choose.

Martial Arts Hall!

Getting better and better!

"Even Jinpeng and the others you can teach well."

"In the Martial Arts Hall, more than a hundred disciples you can attend to thoroughly, not missing any one."

"Now just teaching one child, even if the aptitude is poor, it is not difficult."

Cheng Fengxiao marveled, Yan Chuan’s teaching ability, he couldn’t catch up no matter how hard he tried.

After the casual conversation.

Cheng Fengxiao said to Yan Chuan: "Then, for the next period, we will stay here, you teach that child, mainly learning the local language and script, I will scout around during the day, I see there are deep mountains to the south, perhaps hiding unknown treasures."

Each master of their own trade!

The master and apprentice, went their separate ways!

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At nightfall.

Yan Chuan sat meditating amidst the rocky crags of White Rock Mountain, pondering the essence of cultivation.

"Practicing boxing can circulate Qi and Blood, can temper sinew and bone, can cultivate skin and flesh. In the process of practicing boxing, comprehending the changes in strength, practice to a profound realm, Qi and Blood become vigorous, Qi power strong, and profound Inner Strength generates from the muscles, with the movement of the fists, Inner Strength flickers uncertainly, born when moving, vanishing when still."

Bang Bang Bang!

Amidst the rocks, Yan Chuan was practicing the Ten Forms Boxing—

Dragon, Snake, Tiger, Leopard, Crane, Lion, Elephant, Horse, Monkey, Panther!

Every move, muscle quivering, with bursts of Inner Strength, coordinated with skin, flesh, sinew, and bone, exerting greater power.

During this process, Inner Strength can further temper the sinew, bone, skin, and flesh, making the body increasingly robust.

Yan Chuan practiced the boxing, feeling the birth and extinction of Inner Strength, feeling the tempering of the body by Inner Strength.

Constantly gaining insight.

After a while.

The ’Ten Forms Boxing’ transitioned to ’Divine Movement Transformation’—

"Feet move, legs move, waist moves, arms move!"

"In running, the whole body is in motion."

"Sinew and bone connect the flesh, Inner Strength nourishes, gathering in the legs and feet."

Whoosh!

Whoosh Whoosh Whoosh!

Amidst the chaotic rocks, Yan Chuan dashed here and there, speed reaching its utmost, seemingly, the vast mountain top, amidst the rocks large and small, all were the figures of Yan Chuan.

Everywhere at once.

Speed at an unreasonable level!

"This is not just the body moving, more fundamentally, it’s about ’Inner Strength’."

"The mystery of Inner Strength, empowering the body, through the driving and use of ’Divine Movement Transformation’, allows my sinew, bone, skin, and flesh to explode far beyond conventional levels."

From one ’Divine Movement Transformation’, one can observe the martial skills of the world: "A Martial Arts Practitioner builds Qi and Blood, strengthens sinew, bone, skin, and flesh as the foundation. Then, through martial arts practice, mastering skills, subsequently cultivating ’Inner Strength’. ’Inner Strength’ supports ’sinew, bone, skin, and flesh’, ’Qi and Blood’ increase Qi power, combined with ’martial arts technique’, these collectively determine the basic strength of a martial artist."

Qi and Blood represent Qi power.

Sinew, bone, skin, and flesh represent endurance.

Inner Strength represents explosive power.

Martial arts accomplishment represents skills.

These, in a broad sense, can actually all be categorized as ’foundation’.

On top of foundation, for instance, insight, courage, weapons, these are additional, these can also determine the strength level of a martial artist.

But overall, the foundational elements in front are the real deciding factors.

"In the past—"

"Practicing boxing to train Inner Strength."

"Standing stance to strengthen Qi and Blood."

"This was the main way for traditional martial artists to improve strength, but the efficiency was too slow, so much that the ’Guangling Ten Tigers’ were almost the peak of martial artists, beyond that, either extraordinary talent, unmatched by others, or a prodigy astounding to the world."

"In the conventional sense, to go further, too difficult too difficult!"

Why is it difficult?

Because training boxing and stance, efficiency too low.

Thus, Inner Strength is weak, flickering uncertainly.

Thus, Qi and Blood flourish, but have limits.

Therefore, the emergence of the New Faction, or rather, the emergence of the Mountain and Sea Realm, provided a breakthrough for the traditional martial arts of Great Yan—

Secret medicine!

Secret martial arts!

The former can specifically enhance the Qi and Blood, or the sinew, bone, skin, and flesh, directly increasing, or speeding up the cultivation efficiency.

The latter improves the speed of transporting Qi and Blood, one’s own Inner Strength, these two enhancements, martial practice efficiency and progress, as well as physical quality enhancement, naturally accelerated.

Thus, the New Faction grows rapidly, New Faction experts stronger.

But even the New Faction, more still follow the path of the Old School, practicing martial arts and boxing, following the Inner Strength route, perhaps calling it ’Qi Blood Martial Arts’, or ’Internal Strength Martial Arts’, or ’Inner Boxing System’, the New Faction is just a strengthened version of the Old School, with the same route.

And Yan Chuan, at this time, is different again.

"Besides boxing."

"Beyond Qi and Blood and Inner Strength, there is also ’Mixed Element Skill’!"

Inside-out Mixed Element Skill—

With sinew, bone, skin, and flesh as the foundation!

With Qi and Blood as the great medicine!

With Inner Strength as nourishment!

’Mixed Element Skill’ is based on Yan Chuan’s twenty years of ’Inner Boxing’, conducting Qi cultivation, refining vast Qi and Blood, flickering Inner Strength, internally refining one breath, transforming into ’Mixed Element Inner Power’, the power flowing through the meridians, compared to Inner Strength, it is gentler, more lasting, traversing the meridians, nourishing them, cultivated daily, night and day without dissipating, distinctly different from the ’born when used, dispersed when unused’ Inner Strength.

Inner power ever present in oneself.

Nourishing the body anytime, naturally healthy, progressing every day.

Not only that.

In combat with others, there is no need to specifically use certain boxing forms, no need to operate to unleash corresponding Inner Strength, a plain palm strike, with inner power support, has great might.

This makes it more difficult for others to defend.

Rather than formal boxing like ’Tiger Form Boxing’, if someone employs the move, reveals the technique, without engaging, the opponent can discern—

Oh!

Tiger Form Boxing!

You’re going to use the ’three forces’.

Another look—

Body lowers, Dantian Qi is lifted up!

Hmm!

More specific!

This is ’Hugging Force’!

Both arms inward, both palms supporting each other, wrists twisting!

Without saying!

This is ’Drawing Strength’!

Another look—

Both palms’ ten fingers drop forward slightly!

This is about to unleash ’Throwing Force’.

Inner Strength follows the form, experts or those with broad vision, naturally can see through at a glance, thus anticipating the enemy, making corresponding responses.

Counter the moves!

Counter not just the moves, but also the Inner Strength.

This is precisely why.

Yan Chuan at the Martial Arts Competition, using ’Flowers Mistake Fist’ could achieve strange success, because those elites had considerable knowledge of the Hundred Schools Boxing, they thought Yan Chuan was using ’Coiling Silk Fist’, employing ’Coiling silk power’, so they responded, but upon contact, after engagement, they realized it was ’Taixu Fist’, employing ’Water-dipping Force’, this contact, this matchup, unexpected, naturally gained the upper hand.

This is the downside of Inner Strength.

Inner power is different—

Silent in its release!

Invisible in its release!

Making it unpredictable, difficult to defend, this is also ’unexpected’!

Actually, ’inner power’ or ’Inner Strength’, essentially, are of the same origin, only ’inner power’ has two additional steps over ’Inner Strength’—

One is refining.

Two is storage.

The difficulty of the two, lies in these additional steps.

Therefore, while inner power is good, it is difficult to learn and master.

In the old martial arts world, there were internal cultivation methods, but the difficulty of cultivation was extremely high, ten years and perhaps one could only cultivate a trickling stream of inner power, pitifully flowing in the meridians, a fight may deplete it completely, requiring accumulation again. Thus, it could be seen that many top experts rarely made a move, or when they made a move, they would not use full force right away, their inner power was only used critically, in key moments, for victory.

In the past, such internal cultivation, training inner power, the cost-to-benefit ratio was too low!

Until the appearance of the Mountain and Sea Realm, gaining secret martial arts, obtaining secret medicine, the difficulty of cultivating inner power dropped sharply, the speed of inner power cultivation improved, inner power became scalable, giving ’internal cultivation’ a place!

And Yan Chuan, though without the help of corresponding secret medicine, he has ’Mixed Element Skill’—

"Xin Level One Star!"

"My internal cultivation, stronger than all internal cultivation of Guangling Academy!"

From outside to inside.

Inside-out cultivation.

Yan Chuan sat on a rock, Qi and Blood flourishing, Inner Strength appearing and disappearing, in the meridians, inner power on the basis of absorbing Qi and Blood, and Inner Strength, continuously grows, gradually converging into a river, initially trickling, later robust.

The speed of this inner power accumulation, compared to the previous ’Five Animals Qigong’, is faster by ten or a hundred times!

Mixed Element Skill!

Truly powerful!

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