"Forget it, you can turn around and punch on the water tank now without being knocked down by sandbags. Baguazhang's 'swimming body' already has a foundation." Tang Zichen changed the subject, let alone the matter of the lead and mercury ball The words moved to comment on the progress of Wang Chao's kung fu practiced in the past fifteen days.
"What, is it called a little foundation?"
Hearing this, Wang Chao couldn't help but feel a little discouraged. In the past few days, under Tang Zichen's supervision, he has been practicing hard day and night, especially in the past ten days, he has played sandbags on the water tank every day, practiced eight trigrams hand knives, and poked. , Cut the three-door style of play, I don’t know how many somersaults I fell, half of my life was lost, the hard work involved, I don’t even want to recall it, if it wasn’t for Tang Zichen’s supervision and help, Wang Chao himself couldn’t believe that he could persevere have to come down.
"Exercising how to play is really too painful." Wang Chao understands why there are so few masters in modern society, and most of them are put on airs. Although it is difficult to master the tricks of Baguazhang practice, it is very comfortable to practice. The style of play is purely suffering.
After practicing for so many days, Wang Chao's body skills became more and more flexible, and his footwork was steady, strong, and fast. He thought that even if he was not a master, he was not far behind, but Tang Zichen said that he just had the foundation.
"The flexibility of your body has increased. If you fight with someone, you can at least avoid their fists, but your strength is far from enough, the hardness of your body is not enough, your ligaments are not soft enough, and your muscles are not stretchable, elastic, or explosive. Practice it out. Even if you meet that Captain Cao again, you will lose without any suspense."
Tang Zichen criticized sharply: "The training method of boxing is the method used by ancient Taoists and doctors to exercise the body and keep in good health. You can watch Hua Tuo's Wu Qin Xi, it is excellent to exercise the body, but can it be used to beat people? Boxing to fight Skills are the fighting skills that are obtained by killing the enemy on the battlefield. Only training methods without fighting skills, no matter how well-conditioned the body is, cannot kill the enemy quickly. Only fighting skills without training skills, people will easily collapse. Unless you have enough However, even if there is sufficient nutrition, the strength of the body can only be exercised to the limit, and the mystery of dark energy will never be experienced. However, this kind of person is also very scary, and he is first-rate when it comes to killing people Yes. Modern society is materially developed and there are plenty of nutrients to supplement the consumption of the body. When you go out in the future, you will meet many such people. Don’t take it lightly, think that the other party is not an inner family and look down on it. You know, after the strength is in place , any blow is enough to kill a person. A life-and-death fight is only in the blink of an eye. Can you still adjust your spine and send out hidden strength? However, if you practice to the point of transforming strength, then there is nothing wrong with underestimating it. "
"Baguazhang's style of fighting evolved from swordsmanship, and the most important thing is a poke. You see street gangsters fighting and stabbing people with knives. Generally, they still have fighting power when they bleed all over. One shot kills a person. Stabbing is worse than cutting. Xingyiquan’s fighting style is also a change in spear art. The gun is a head, and it also stabs. Including the bayonet on the battlefield later, it is the same. When you fight with people in the future If you want to kill, use poking. If you don’t want to kill, use chopping and whipping, remember.”
"Killing is worse than stabbing, that's true." Wang Chao nodded, thinking of what Tang Zichen said earlier, he thought of the competition with Captain Cao, and he also deeply agreed.
Captain Cao reacted quickly and had great strength, and Wang Chao could clearly feel that day that he didn't use his full strength at all, and even from the looks of it, he didn't show his normal strength.
"Even if I can practice to the point where I can release my dark energy and smash bricks with one palm, I still need to adjust my spine beforehand. If I have those few seconds, I would have been knocked down by others." Wang Chao secretly planned in his heart to improve himself. He raised his vigilance: "It seems that the skill of play is very profound. Especially now that I haven't practiced dark energy well, I really need to pay attention in the future."
From the mental state, Wang Chao once again took a small step forward.
"What exactly does Huajin look like?" Wang Chao was very curious, and hoped that Tang Zichen could practice it for himself, so that he could have a reference to practice in the future.
"Okay, you have a good look." Tang Zichen knew Wang Chao's intentions, thought for a while, got up and walked to the big lead-mercury ball in front of the stone trough, hugged both sides of the ball with both hands, turned his waist, and his arms vigorously, boom! The whole big ball is like the leaves of an electric fan, spinning violently.
The ball rubbed against the stone groove, making a rattling sound, which was also mixed with the mercury sealed inside rotating at high speed to make a more crisp silver bell sound.
The two voices mixed together and fell into Wang Chao's ears, which was actually somewhat similar to Tiger Leopard Lei Yin.
"Lead and mercury were necessary for alchemy by ancient Taoists. Mercury is heavy but fluid. It is a magical substance. It is the most suitable metaphor for human bone marrow. This ball is equivalent to a human body. You have a good experience."
While Tang Zichen was speaking, he turned his arm again, and with some force, the whole lead-mercury ball jumped up from the stone trough lightly like a basketball.
Then, Tang Zichen flicked the ball with his hand, and the ball continued to jump up. When it fell, Tang Zichen switched to his shoulders, and with his shoulders, he bounced the ball into the air again.
Afterwards, Tang Zichen changed his strength to bounce the ball again and again, either with his hands, or with his feet, shoulders, head, back, hips, waist, elbows, knees, and sometimes he even raised his fingers to let the ball rest on top of it. rotate.
The lead-mercury ball, which Wang Chao had difficulty turning, turned out to be as nimble as a real basketball in Tang Zichen's hands. Over the past ten days, Wang Chao has become a little numb after seeing Tang Zichen perform all kinds of miraculous kung fu.
Wang Chao reckoned that a ball a circle larger than a basketball would weigh one or two hundred catties even if it was pure iron, not to mention mercury, which was almost twice as heavy as iron.
Snapped! Tang Zichen turned the ball around with every joint of his body, and when he gave it away, the big ball fell into the stone trough and spun around for many times before coming to a steady stop.
"Although the flexibility of Baguazhang has been practiced, the palm strength is not enough, and you haven't realized the mellow artistic conception. From now on, in addition to hitting sandbags in the water tank every day, you also need to rub the big ball with your palms. When you can twist it so that it jumps up, the palm strength is basically enough."
From then on, Wang Chao added another homework, in addition to getting up at three o'clock every morning, he walked around the entire Tianxing Lake with mud-digging footwork, and then practiced Baguazhang. Wang Chao first squatted in front of the stone trough and rubbed the big ball of lead and mercury. When rubbing, his arm strength, palm strength, waist strength, and leg strength all improved. Under Tang Zichen's guidance, they were in place one by one. In the last whole night, I still changed my body and footwork on the water tank to pump, chop, and poke sandbags.
Tang Zichen's martial arts are so high, his eyes are sharp, and his thinking is even faster. Every time he points and speaks, Wang Chao can feel a sense of enlightenment.
"Sister Chen seems to have trained many people?" Gradually, Wang Chao felt that Tang Zichen must have trained many people.
I practiced for more than ten days in a row. During this period, I only called home and didn't go home even during the Chinese New Year. Afterwards, the winter vacation was over, so Wang Chao left Tang Zichen's villa and went home to attend classes.
After returning home, Wang Chao's parents naturally scolded him, but they were relieved to see their son returning safely. In particular, when Wang Chao came back, his body had grown by ten centimeters from the original 1.65 meters to 1.75 meters, and his body was even stronger. The energy is very full and exuberant, and there is a sense of vigor and vitality, sweeping away the previous introversion, dullness, and wretchedness.
Editor-in-Chief Wang Chao made up a special lie to deceive his parents, but everything was fine. Although Wang Chao's kung fu has improved a lot, when he returned to school, he hadn't tried it out with anyone, because he took Captain Cao's lesson to heart last time.
"Everything waits until I have learned sister Chen's boxing skills and defeated Captain Cao. If this confidence is not regained, it is meaningless to fight with others. Captain Cao is my best touchstone." Through practicing boxing, Wang Chao has grown in character and character. Not a lot.
The things in the school are the same, especially the high school life, which is extremely boring, and there is nothing new, but because of Wang Chao's interest in Captain Cao, he often talks to the monitor and study committee member Cao Jingjing. She inquired about some situations in her family.
In the past, Wang Chao didn't dare to take the initiative to talk to girls at all, but after practicing boxing, his self-confidence has also inflated, and he can talk to girls freely.
It has to be said that boxing has changed Wang Chao's mind, temperament and spirit, which is really in line with the realm of practicing qi and transforming into gods.
A semester passed quickly. During this period, Wang Chao practiced hard in secret every day and thought about it. Every Saturday when he was on holiday, he would wake up in the middle of the night and walk along the road to Tianxing Lake in the provincial capital to meet Tang Zichen. Came back after two days of training.
But during this period, Tang Zichen only asked Wang Chao to practice Baguazhang all the time, and never taught anything else.
Wang Chao didn't ask too many questions, and practiced silently. His palm strength became stronger and stronger, and his physical strength became better and better. Every time he hit the sandbag, it made a crackling sound. There was a hint of brittleness indistinctly.
Wang Chao's movement became more and more flexible, and his steps became more and more steady. When half a year passed, it was almost summer vacation. Wang Chao punched sandbags on the edge of the tank, and they never fell off.
The temples also bulged slightly, but the bulging was very slow. Only a little change from before.
"If your temples can bulge, it means that you are talented at the beginning, but if you want to go deep, it will not happen overnight. If you can't even enter the door, you don't need to learn."
"Sister Chen, you said that I am only practicing martial arts at this time, is it a little late!" Wang Chao once asked Tang Zichen.
"Boxing is not about practicing acrobatics. Children's bones have not yet grown up, and if they practice a little improperly, they will become deformed. Your age is just right. Li Cunyi, the Xingyi master, started learning boxing at the age of twenty. Shang Yunxiang I learned it later. I am too young, and I may not understand some things in boxing." Tang Zichen said.
Until the end of the second semester of high school, just after the summer vacation, Wang Chao came to Tang Zichen again without saying a word.
But this time Tang Zichen's face was very serious: "The only time I can teach you is this summer vacation. After this summer vacation is over, I will be leaving. However, you have already established a pretty good foundation after eight months of hard training. , I will also understand some things with you, and you will practice on your own in the future, and to what extent you can grow, everything depends on opportunities and your own efforts."
After Wang Chao heard this, he felt very melancholy and reluctant, but he had no choice but to nod his head vigorously, and he couldn't ask any more questions.
"Okay, starting today, I'll teach you Xingyiquan." Tang Zichen said.