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Purple Mist Dao Master-Chapter 149 - 130 Enlightenment in the Hidden Scripture Pavilion!
Chapter 149: Chapter 130 Enlightenment in the Hidden Scripture Pavilion!
Yan Chuan first looked through hundreds of boxing manuals in the Hidden Scripture Pavilion, from profound to shallow, leaving an initial impression in his mind.
Then he placed the various boxing techniques together to cross-verify and summarize them.
Afterward, he specifically looked at the interpretations and experiences of predecessors and experts on these boxing techniques.
Step by step!
Continuously advancing!
Continuously deepening!
Yan Chuan absorbed it all like a sponge, becoming increasingly enriched.
While reading, Yan Chuan was also thinking—
Thinking about ’Yijinjing’.
Thinking about ’Xingyi Boxing’.
"Yijinjing!"
"Inner Strength and Divine Courage, Outer Strength Divine Power!"
"From the bones arises divine power, accumulating long-term practice, making the arms, wrists, fingers, and palms uncommon, through intention it becomes as hard as iron and stone, and even the fingers can pierce a cow’s abdomen, the side of the palm can break a cow’s head."
"The cultivation of ’Yijinjing’ should not just target the ’sinews’, but should use the ’sinews’ as a starting point for the cultivation of systems like ’bones’, ’flesh’, ’skin’, etc.!"
"Circulating within all the body’s meridians, linking the spirits of the five internal organs, circulating without dispersing, moving without interruption, Qi arises from within, blood moistens from without."
"When the heart moves, the force is released, accumulating and releasing naturally, unconsciously emerging like the rising tide, like the spreading thunder."
"Qi and Blood!"
"This should also be encompassed!"
"Though called ’Yijinjing’, it encompasses everything, it is all-inclusive!"
Yan Chuan flipped through the boxing manuals, also reviewing numerous cultivation techniques, naturally leading to more thoughts on the research and development of ’Yijinjing’—
[Task One: Inspiration +5]
Yijinjing!
Inspiration surged!
Not just [Task One].
Not just ’Yijinjing’.
What Yan Chuan mainly focused on in the Hidden Scripture Pavilion was boxing techniques, and what he thought about the most was not the ’Yijinjing’, but ’Xingyi Boxing’.
"Three Body Formation."
"Five Elements Boxing."
"Twelve Forms."
Yan Chuan remembered the general framework of Xingyi Boxing from his past life, but he had never practiced it and knew nothing about the specific content, so he couldn’t replicate it, he could only refill based on this life, based on Great Yan Boxing Skills, to recreate based on his own boxing knowledge.
This was not easy.
But Yan Chuan had hopes.
"Three Body Formation!"
"This is Pile Skill!"
"Transporting Qi and Blood, comprehending force, starting from here, using this as the foundation!"
Stance training!
Focus on integration!
Yan Chuan began with ’Cheng Family Boxing’, starting from the most basic ’Horse Stance’, moving on to the ’Tiger Form Boxing’, ’Crane Form Boxing’ within the ’Tiger Stance’, ’Crane Stance’, then to the ’Thousand Pounds Fall’ within the ’Thousand Jin Pile’, further combined with ’Six Harmonies Eight Techniques’, ’Five Forms Eight Techniques’, constantly contemplating.
During this time.
He also took out the pile skills from secret martial arts boxing skills he had already mastered, such as ’Fu Family Boxing’, ’Coiling Silk Fist’, ’Six Harmonies Fist’, ’Floral Fist’, ’Butterfly Palm’, etc., for cross-verification.
Then compared with hundreds of boxing manuals, hundreds of boxing techniques, hundreds of pile skills in the Hidden Scripture Pavilion.
Summarizing!
Classifying!
Yan Chuan had a realization—
"Hands and feet in harmony, elbows and knees aligned, shoulders and hips balanced!"
"This is the external."
"Heart and intent aligned, intent and Qi harmonized, Qi and force integrated!"
"This is the internal."
"Inner and outer unity, this is Six Harmonies!"
"But according to the division of the body, head, hands, feet, this is Three Body."
"Three Tops, Three Clasps, Three Circles, Three Poisons, Three Holds, Three Hangings, Three Curves, Three Straightenings!"
"Three Body Formation!"
"Three Body Posture!"
"Pile Skills forming the stance!"
"Xingyi Boxing, even with changes, it remains close to Three Body Formation!"
"In opening there is integration, in integration there is opening, yin and yang contending, yin and yang arising, contradiction and unity!"
"Whole!"
"Whole Force!"
"Still lacking! Still lacking!"
Yan Chuan continued to test using the same pile skill to practice Cheng Family Boxing, Fu Family Boxing, Six Harmonies Fist, Coiling Silk Fist.
At first, it went smoothly.
But when it came to techniques like Tai Xing Yi Boxing, Yellow Dragon Fist, Buddha Han Fist, Four Gates Fist, there was a blockage.
Looking back again.
It was discovered that this pile skill was also not so compatible with Coiling Silk Fist, Six Harmonies Fist, Fu Family Boxing, even Cheng Family Boxing, a millimeter off, missed by a mile!
"Wrong!"
"All wrong!"
Yan Chuan shook his head and overturned once again.
Over and over with the Three Body Formation!
"Three Body!"
"Three Body!"
"In lay terms, it’s the three levels of the body: upper, middle, and lower."
"I once created ’Six Harmonies Eight Techniques Fist’ on the foundation of ’Cheng Family Boxing’, which emphasizes the ’Three Discs’—"
"The upper body moves like the chasing wind, the middle body like a swimming dragon, the lower body landing reveals true skill."
"If one can achieve the unity of the Three Discs, then it’s the so-called ’whole force’."
"But this is still not enough!"
"Three Body Formation!"
"Not limited to this!"
’Three Body Formation’ will be the basic skill of ’Xingyi Boxing’ and, indeed, all boxing techniques under the heavens. It’s also the starting point for all changes in pile skill and boxing techniques.
Unchanging in the midst of myriad changes with Three Body Formation!
To achieve this, the pile skills Yan Chuan is currently pondering are far from sufficient!
He still needs to keep breaking and rebuilding.
Not just ’Three Body Formation’.
Yan Chuan occasionally changed his focus, turning to contemplate ’Five Elements Boxing’—
"Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, these are the Five Elements!"
"Splitting, Crashing, Drilling, Pounding, Horizontal, these are Five Elements Boxing!"
"Lungs, Kidneys, Liver, Heart, Spleen, these are the five internal organs!"
The so-called ’Five Elements Boxing’, ought to correspond to the Five Elements, and benefit the five internal organs.
Starting from the Five Elements and five internal organs, Yan Chuan combined boxing techniques to reverse deduce the ’Five Elements Boxing’—
"Splitting Fist belongs to metal, as the name implies, must primarily use ’Splitting Force’, and Splitting Force can further be divided into Ming Energy, Dark Force, and Transformation Energy. This is the foundation of Splitting Fist, upon which, capturing, slapping, colliding, pressing these four kinds of force, should also be integrated within."
Yan Chuan searched through boxing techniques resembling ’Splitting Palm’ theories—
Cheng Family Boxing!
Wensheng Fist!
Taixu Fist!
Character Gate Fist!
Unraveling silk to reveal the essence, continuously ruminating.
In the Hidden Scripture Pavilion.
Yan Chuan sometimes deep in thought, sometimes standing in stance, sometimes practicing boxing, sometimes flipping through books, endlessly repeating and cycling, each time having fresh insights.
The sixth floor of the Hidden Scripture Pavilion became exclusive to Yan Chuan, with an endless supply of boxing manuals and books provided for Yan Chuan to peruse, while Shao Yancong and Zhao Ye alternately guarded him, preventing any outsider disturbances.
Both could see that Yan Chuan, well-versed in books, was in a state of epiphany, organizing, and sublimating, this was a crucial time.
From time to time.
The two would check in, seeing Yan Chuan’s ambition to distill the essence of hundreds of families into one.
"Splitting, Crashing, Drilling, Pounding, Horizontal!"
"Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth!"
"Dragon, Tiger, Monkey, Horse, Chicken, Swallow, Kite, Alligator, Snake, Albatross, Eagle, Bear!"
"Move, Still, Rise, Fall, Stand, Advance, Turn, Twist, Light, Heavy, Fast, Slow!"
Zhao Ye looked on and couldn’t help but exclaim: "He’s almost there!"
"This boxing technique!"
Shao Yancong was also astonished.
Whether it’s ’Three Body Formation’, ’Five Elements Boxing’ or ’Twelve Forms’, they are all at the pinnacle of boxing techniques. Even if they are just prototypes, they already stand out, surpassing countless boxing techniques of the Great Yan.
Shao Yancong and Zhao Ye are both experts, both masters of boxing techniques, so they can certainly see clearly.
They saw that Yan Chuan was trying to integrate the pile skills and boxing techniques into one.
Pile Skills!
Training Methods!
Offense and Defense!
Techniques!
Including hand skills, movement skills, leg techniques, stepping techniques, incredibly exquisite, exquisitely incomparable!
Yan Chuan, learned in a hundred schools, is continuously advancing, a brand-new boxing technique is about to be born in his hands. Even Shao Yancong and Zhao Ye, having observed so much, felt that the unfamiliar boxing techniques Yan Chuan casually demonstrated were already superior, already more exquisite than the Eight Gates Secret Martial Arts of Taikang Academy, more refined than the Eighteen Families of Widespread Boxing of Guangling Academy, already rare in the world.
But Yan Chuan was not yet satisfied, not yet content!
"The secret martial arts techniques he can create at will are not his pursuit!"
"What Yan Chuan is pursuing is unique, is the best in the world!"
Shao Yancong marveled at Yan Chuan’s ambition, yet couldn’t help but worry: "Can he achieve it? If he succeeds, the future is boundless, but if he fails, and gets stuck, his martial path might be hindered!"
Just like Jiang Bianliu.
He was obsessed with creating a ’Guangling Fist’, to integrate the boxing techniques of Guangling County into one, then assimilate ’Tiger and Leopard Thunder Sound’, enabling the martial artists of Guangling County and the entire world to rely on this boxing technique, reaching the pinnacle of boxing skills easily breaking limits.
But it’s too difficult!
So much so that.
For the past eight years, Jiang Bianliu had devoted himself entirely to it, his progress in boxing practice, and tempering progress were all delayed; although his theoretical understanding of boxing techniques became more solid, deeper, and broader, his improvement in strength was not significant. If he had focused solely on martial arts and boxing practice, today, his strength would be much greater!
Jiang Bianliu of Guangling is like this!
Zhou Chuanzong of Taikang is like this too!
In each state or county under heaven, too many masters of boxing suffered because they were immersed in creating techniques; persistence turned into obsession, ultimately hindering their martial progress instead.
If the creation of boxing techniques succeeds, naturally, it takes off soaring into the sky.
But more often, it doesn’t succeed.
Obsessively, they disappear among the common people.
Shao Yancong worried that Yan Chuan would follow the footsteps of Jiang Bianliu, Zhou Chuanzong, and others, sinking into decadence for the rest of his life.
Moreover.
If Yan Chuan was fixated on creating boxing techniques and turned a deaf ear to anything outside the window, then: "Could we count on him next February?"
In Shao Yancong’s view, in two to three months’ time, it was very difficult for Yan Chuan to create his ideal boxing technique. To create unparalleled, invincible boxing techniques, it requires years.
This posed a problem!
On the side.
Zhao Ye looked at Yan Chuan, suddenly thought: "Yan Chuan is different from others. Jiang Bianliu, Zhou Chuanzong, they research and create boxing techniques, all leading secluded lives, at best communicating with like-minded individuals. But Yan Chuan, he competed in the martial arts competition of Guangling, and from there on, had lessons at the academy a few days ago, and even plans to establish a sect at Suanzao Mountain, all involving fierce competition, allowing him to meet one boxing expert after another! One mountain after another, climbing over one mountain, and yet another, higher one! It is under such circumstances, through constant competition and challenges, that Yan Chuan rapidly grows. I suspect, the grand scale of this time intending to establish a sect, perhaps, it has these considerations. He wants to create boxing techniques, not by living in seclusion but by fighting! Sweeping through thousands of armies, trampling upon the hundred schools, and then achieving his goal!"
Zhao Ye turned his head to look at Shao Yancong, his eyes bright: "The martial arts competition is a battle, establishing a sect is also a battle! Yan Chuan loves to contest, he does not have a compliant nature! Next February will be an unprecedented grand contention conference, Yan Chuan will certainly not miss it! This is his opportunity! Also, an opportunity for my Taikang Academy!"
The process is all wrong!
The result is all right!
To some extent, Zhao Ye had indeed speculated correctly—
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"I just love to contest!"
"I just want to take advantage of the conflicts when establishing the sect, to meet masters from the Three Counties, striving to create the ’Xingyi Boxing’ in one go!"
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[Task One: Inspiration +6]
[Task Two: Inspiration +40]
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[Task One]
[Inspiration: 61]
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[Task Two]
[Inspiration: 85]
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Unknowingly.
Over ten days have passed.
The boxing manuals in the Hidden Scripture Pavilion of Taikang Academy had all been read by Yan Chuan.
Yan Chuan glanced at the inspiration progress of ’Yijinjing’ and ’Xingyi Boxing’, stood up, and stretched lazily—
Comfortable!
"December 11!"
"It’s time to set off!"
After more than ten days, Yan Chuan stepped out of the Hidden Scripture Pavilion for the first time.
Outside the house.
The sun was rising.
The future was full of promise!
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