Rise from a Low-class Family to Martial Artist

Chapter 198: Chapter 55: It’s Over, Lin Chen Has Been Taken Away!

Switching palms!

But whether it was the Water Cloud Palm or the Clear Wind Palm, the speed of the palm strikes was getting slower and slower.

The chill entering his body brought Lin Chen a sensation of pain.

This was because the cold had reached a terrifying degree, rendering Lin Chen unable to feel the cold any longer.

The Qi Blood within his body also slowed down with the influx of this chill.

He swung the Clear Wind Palm.

Lin Chen could clearly sense the trajectory of the flow of Qi Blood within his body.

It was like a slow-motion scene, the flow of Qi Blood within him slowed down tenfold.

At the moment he prepared to strike, the Qi Blood from fourteen acupoints around his body began to gather towards his abdomen, then flowed towards his chest, passed through the shoulder joints, and finally converged in his right hand.

So it was with the Clear Wind Palm, and the Water Cloud Palm was the same.

Before, although he could perceive the Qi Blood trajectory when deploying Clear Wind Palm and Water Cloud Palm, the process was too fast to catch.

At his current realm, the speed at which Qi Blood flowed was like an electric current; he knew where it started and where it ultimately converged, and even the trajectory it followed, but he couldn’t fully and clearly see the process.

Now, the chill entering his body created a pause for him.

Once, twice, thrice...

As the Clear Wind Palm and Water Cloud Palm were being executed, the trajectory of the Qi Blood’s flow was deeply imprinted into his mind.

The starting and end points of the Qi Blood’s flow during these palm techniques were the same.

Like two buses in a city with the same starting and ending stops, the difference lies in the stops in between.

So, if he wanted to merge these two cultivation techniques, he should make subtle changes in the Qi Blood’s flow during their execution.

It’s easy to say, but extremely difficult to do.

He could find ways to alter the flow of Qi Blood, but a cultivation technique can’t be created just by Qi Blood flow.

It’s easy to change the Qi Blood flow, but maintaining its power is hard.

For techniques like Clear Wind Palm and Water Cloud Palm, which are Grade-Entering Techniques, the higher the proficiency, the stronger the power drawn from oneself. Especially transitioning from Great Success to Perfection, the change lies within the understanding of the technique’s true meaning, where alterations in the speed and direction of Qi Blood flow occur during execution.

No...

This logic doesn’t make sense!

Why should just understanding the true meaning alter the speed and direction of Qi Blood flow within?

Where is the connection between these?

Until today, Lin Chen always believed that the higher the technique’s proficiency, the stronger the power, and even reaching Perfection from Great Success didn’t require training, just understanding.

Like a firearms expert, who trains shooting for years, mastering shooting techniques, only to be one step away from hitting every single target.

The missing part is integrating with the firearm, being one with the gun.

Once this is realized, one could hit every target, shooting wherever intended.

Until today, Lin Chen held the same view on martial arts cultivation techniques.

But now, with the help of the chill, he saw clearly the trajectory of Qi Blood flow at the time of the palm strike, realizing his previous ideas were too simplistic.

The transition between Great Success and Perfection is not just about understanding the true meaning, which multiplies the power unleashed; there’s another crucial point.

After Perfection, the trajectory of Qi Blood flow differs from Great Success.

Whether it’s the Clear Wind Palm or the Water Cloud Palm, it’s the same.

But how does this difference arise?

The Qi Circulation Mantra of Clear Wind Palm and Water Cloud Palm remains unchanged from start to finish, whether Small Success, Great Success, or Perfection.

Is it Idealist Martial Arts Path?

Because I understood the true meaning, it naturally changes?

Even in this unbelievably powerful martial arts world, Lin Chen still felt it wasn’t this simple; there must be something he didn’t comprehend.

”Not good, why has his Qi Blood suddenly become so chaotic?”

Jiang Kui and Ji Feng saw Lin Chen’s eyes turn blood-red, both wearing looks of disbelief.

This was the sign of Qi deviation!

The thought emerged in Ji Feng’s mind, even he found it hard to believe, as it was rare for even Grade-Entering Martial Artists to encounter such a predicament, now manifesting in a student of the Opening Acupoints Realm.

What on earth is this kid thinking?

Ji Feng was startled, his eyes filled with helplessness, unsure whether to interrupt Lin Chen.

According to the rules, all students’ actions within the Thousand-Step Mist must remain uninfluenced as a recorder, but if left alone, Lin Chen would inevitably face Qi deviation.

”The situation is special, it must be interrupted.”

Jiang Kui exchanged a glance with Ji Feng, prepared to call Lin Chen back to awareness, but before he could, an elder’s figure appeared before the two.

”Retreat.”

Hearing the voice, although the two didn’t know the identity of the figure with his back to them, the ability to appear without a sound couldn’t be an ordinary person, but rather a certain mysterious master from the special training ground.

”Yes!”

The two replied respectfully, exchanged glances, and headed towards the exit of the Thousand-Step Mist.

”You two are going the wrong way!”

The elder’s voice sounded again, Ji Feng and Jiang Kui paused, instinctively confirmed the direction, no mistake.

This was the exit indeed.

”You should turn back.”

Turn back?

Going back would just return them, wouldn’t it?