Chapter 15: Let us paddle this boat together!!!!! (1/2)

Chapter 15: Let us paddle this boat together!!!!!

Tang Zichen stood with the spear pressed against her waist in the three integral position. suddenly, her waist and legs seemed to have buckled as if there was a shaking horse underneath her.

This type of posture was the standard position for riding a horse!

But the spear in Tang Zichen’s hands faced outwards as if like an arrow which was similar to the Crushing Fist.

But just as her body compressed downwards, her upwards momentum was almost as if she was using the Jin of the Pounding Fist.

The spearhead seemed to tremble and shake as if it was the head of a snake searching for a moment to strike out at a person with the Jin of the Drilling Fist.

This single move seemed to have combined the “Three Integrals”, the “Horse Stance”, the Crushing Fist” of an arrow, the “Pounding Fist” while high in the sky, and the “Drilling Fist” like the “Overturning Wave Jin”.

“This is the true standard of the fists, the fists that an expert would use” Wang Chao turned to look at the spear in Tang Zichen’s hands with some awe in his mind as if he had thought the things he was previously learning was all crap.

Suddenly, Tang Zichen’s body flew forward as if she was urging her horse forward and borrowed that forward momentum to stab forward as well.

As the spearhead broke through the air, the light flashed luminously like a silver light.

Pa! Tang Zichen had stabbed her spear into the mercury balls from the stone trough.

The instant the point of the spear had made contact with the ball, Wang Chao noticed Tang Zichen’s body drop slightly as her arm shook, causing the spear to lower as well. As if drawing a circle, the ball began to spin before flying up from the ground.

Whoosh! The ball left the trough and spun around on the spear almost as if it was stuck to it.

Ding ding ding… with each hop of Tang Zichen’s spear, the mercury filled ball leapt up into the air and back onto the spear.

Pa! With a shake of her spear, the mercury filled ball fell back down onto the trough and continued to spin.

This process of spear stabbing, ball jumping, spear sticking and ball juggling had only taken a few moments, but it had already explained the refined motions of martial arts.

“The revolution of Jin, listening to the mercury inside the lead ball, changing the center of gravity, and borrowing the power of rotation, these are some of the major principles of Taichi with no special styles within.” Tang Zichen spoke as she demonstrated her “Assault of the Dragon and Snake”. When she leapt into the air, it seemed as if she had reached the highest points of heaven.

“Do you understand this move that combines the dragon and snake styles?”

“About 70%, but I’ve got a good gist of it! I just need to try my hand at it!” Wang Chao answered.

Wang Chao had been captivated by Tang Zichen and watched her movements without distraction. The things he had learned in this half year he was slowly linking together and so his comprehension was slowly raising. The black and white details were still not there yet.

This feeling of nearly understanding didn’t suit well with Wang Chao. But he could only contemplate this to himself and continue to polish his own skills in the meantime.

“Ai, I was originally planning on stopping here, but seeing how interested you, I’ll demonstrate another spear move. Follow me!” Tang Zichen spoke as she walked out of the room.

Wang Chao followed her out to what seemed to be the garage.

The garage was quite expansive and had a silver racing bike on the terrazzo.

After turning on the lights, Wang Chao realized that there was a single handprint on the wall along with the remnants of some blood.

“Take a good look!” Tang Zichen broke off Wang Chao’s train of thought and brought him back to focus just in time to see Tang Zichen’s spear to strike like a viper at the chassis of the silver racing bike.

The staff of the spear pressed against the ground at an angle as Tang Zichen leapt into the air! The silver racing bicycle was sent flying into the air before making two revolutions and then falling back on the ground like a leaf without any sign of damage.

“There is something in Beijing Opera called the iron pulley block. When they put on a play for Yue Fei’s assault on Gao Chong of the Jin army, the Jin army constructed an iron carriage that could travel downhill. Yue Feng was forced up into the air using his spear by this. My assault of dragon and snake is similar in concept to that.”

Wang Chao silently nodded his head.

“The essence of my martial arts has all culminated within these two spear techniques to the utmost limit. You should learn your own.” Tang Zichen threw the spear at Wang Chao and walked out of the room.

Wang Chao silently grabbed onto the spear and followed behind.

For the next ten days, Wang Chao practiced to himself quietly. However, he could only think about Tang Zichen’s style of the “Assault of Dragon and Snake”. He had even often times brought the spear nearby, but Tang Zichen had never once been interested.