Chapter 36 The Secret of the Eight Limits (1/2)
”What we learn in the sect is called the Eight Limits Heavenly Kung Fu. Do you know what it is?” Yun Jinghong asked Wang Bugui. The latter thought for a second, and answered, ”Nope. But I seem to have heard that there was a martial art in Japan named the Eight Inner Gates. Is there any connection between them?”
”Yes, there is. Actually, the Eight Inner Gates was passed to Japan from China, as well as the Gestures. I will explain it briefly. The Gestures originated in the early stage of the Xia Dynasty of China and was later introduced to Nepal, India, and finally Japan.”
”However, the Gestures are usually used as a kind of assistance by those who don't own enough power to resort to the martial arts, while those real kung fu masters, such as the true immortals, can do so at their own will. They resort to martial arts as they mentioned them, and rarely have to gesture.”
”The Eight Inner Gates was born in the Yellow Emperor period, also known as the Magical Inner Gates. It was created by the Heavenly Girl, the strongest goddess of war of our Chinese descendant. The Taoist priests also respectfully regard her as the Mother Emperor of Heaven.” Yun Jinghong carefully answered, which made Wang Bugui so excited.
Yun Jinghong continued, ”Based on the Prana Power Kung Fu in the Taoism, the Eight Limits was created by our ancestors according to the study of the eight gates of the Magical Inner Gates. The Eight Limits is a kind of powerful martial art which requests cultivators to cultivate both their primordial spirit and physiques. It focuses on the development of human potential, and can help cultivators reach the eight human body limits through cultivation.”
”What introduced into the normal society is just a set of boxing kung fu suitable for people without the talent of cultivation. The Eight Inner Gates that was introduced into the ninjas does exist, but it is imperfect, but just a forbidden art of the Eight Limits series.”
”Because without the combination of the primordial spirit and the prana power, just cultivating the physique alone is not enough to reach the highest level of the Eight Limits. The ninjas can only temporarily improve their combat power through the help of the eight inner gates, but can't use the imperfect Eight Inner Gates to truly strengthen their body and reach the immortal state. What's more, they will possibly win when they open all their eight inner gates to insistently fight against some stronger one, but the price is that they will also die after they kill the enemy.”
Wang Bugui fell into a deep sense of shock. He never expected the martial art his father learned was so overbearing, no wonder in the very end his father could rely on his own strength to entangle with Dracula for saving time to seal him.
”Then, if someone has cultivated the perfect Eight Limits and reached its highest level, will he still pay the death price for resorting to the Eight Inner Gates?” Wang Bugui asked out of curiosity. If people would not die, then the Eight Limits was really incomparably terrible.
”The negative effects can be minimized. But the danger still exists after the safe time.” Yun Jinghong replied.
”How long is it?”
”Depending on your cultivation and bearing capacity. You own a good body. You might have been baptized by some kind of precious blood. But your physique is still too weak. If you resort to the forbidden art, you will die of broken muscles, veins, and bones after one minute at most.”
”So short?!” Wang Bugui was surprised. When he was young, his family bought the Black Dragon Blood for him at the auction house of the Treasure Hunter to improve his physique. Reasonably, his body was strong enough in the West.
There were only a few ones comparable with him among the Sanctuary knights. Even so, resorting to the forbidden art, he could only last for one minute before death, which could tell how terrible it was, and how difficult to reach its physical requirements!
Wang Bugui was curious about how strong his master was. ”How long can you use it, Master?” Thinking for a while, Yun Jinghong answered, ”About an hour. We call the forbidden art as the Eight Limits Universal Order, so there is a proverb spread in the ordinary society. It goes as 'The Tai Chi to govern the world, the Eight Limits to order the universe.'”
Wang Bugui felt that the power of the person in front of him was unimaginable. Was him the one who juggled Wang Bugui's watch away? Wang Bugui continued to ask, ”You said that the Eight Limits Universal Order is just one of the forbidden arts. Are there any other?”
Suddenly, Yun Jinghong became serious. After a moment of silence, he said solemnly, ”There is another one. But, listen carefully, these two kinds of forbidden arts can never be used together, otherwise, as long as you haven't become immortal, no matter how high-cultivated you are, you will absolutely die! According to legends, even the true immortals will die if they resort to these two kinds of forbidden arts together, and their primordial spirit will be seriously injured. It will take them nearly a thousand years to become a casual immortal.”