Chapter 31: Using people to test one’s Taichi and Jin (1/2)

Chapter 31: Using people to test one’s Taichi and Jin

Ha! Wang Chao’s footwork began to slow down for a moment. Stepping to the left and treading to the right, he looked at the two bodyguards. “Rise, fall, cross, pierce.” The four words were constantly running through his mind as if he was mentally reciting the scripture written within a textbook.

The two bodyguards coming at him was truly a significant increase of pressure. If it were two regular fighters, then this would have been over, but they were mercenaries who were adept at Chinese boxing and experts on any sort of killing technique. Even their physique was alarming, combined with their willingness to ignore any damage to their own body in order to kill the enemy, they were a terrifying force to deal with.

When Wang Chao had touched hands with his enemies, he had been able to listen to the Jin as was taught by Taichi. With the ability to turn strength against the weak, he had been able to take the opportunity to throw the bodyguard to the ground. But now that there were two people fighting him at the same time, if he were to try and throw one person to the ground, the other person would take advantage. By that point, he would only be able to dodge without being able to retaliate.

“This type of fighting is annoying!” Wang Chao dodged strike after strike as he tried to look for an opportunity.

But after some time, even Wang Chao could gradually sense his weakness. One reason was that he wasn’t strong enough–against regular people, he would be able to. But these men were specially trained to be resilient to most blows. A single strike would not be enough to do any significant harm to them.

The second reason was that he was not perfect with his ability to listen to the Jin within. His pores were just barely able to detect the person’s distribution of power within and counteract against it in the best possible way.

Tang Zichen had been able to immediately feel one’s center of gravity and then manipulate it without using Hidden Jin at all.

This ability to listen to Jin was compatible with being able to do more with less was the genuine ability of Taichi. If it didn’t require instantaneous thinking, it was dodgeable.

Even the realm of not moving when the enemy doesn’t move, and making the first move when the enemy does was one of the highest levels of accomplishments in Taichi.

“Instinctual movement!”

Wang Chao’s strength in Taichi was still lacking and so required having to touch his opponent’s first in order to gauge their center of gravity. After this, he would be able to influence their next movements. With this intentional movement, the speed would naturally be slower.

To be able to do this without thinking would require a high level of martial arts. To have to think before moving would require a lower level.

This difference in skill would only take less than a second of hesitation in an actual fight. But a second of hesitation was enough to kill someone.

In a battle of life and death, a second or two was enough time to walk the path to hell or heaven.

From the very start of the two bodyguards coming up to fight Wang Chao, the three men were locked into a tight battle within the office room. Although the two bodyguards were extremely strong, Wang Chao was similarly fast and slippery in his movements. Every single time, he had been able to just barely escape from peril.

After 10 minutes or so, the three men had finally began to wear out in terms of energy. While the two bodyguards were trained rigorously, Wang Chao’s continuous circular motion had forced them to feel a little dizzy. Droplets of sweat could be seen dripping down their foreheads down onto their suits.

But yet their eyes continued to carry the fierce cold look on their impassive faces. They hadn’t even blinked even when sweat had dripped down into it. It was almost as if they were waiting for the most optimal time to strike Wang Chao down.

While Wang Chao wasn’t sweating at all, his inner Qi was boiling as his iron like pores struggled to keep the heat down.

After 10 minutes of an intense struggle, Wang Chao practically exhausted all of his strength dodging and keeping the Qi from leaking out.

When the Qi escapes, so would one’s strength.

Wang Chao knew completely well what sort of situation he was in.

“Who would have thought that this experiment became my hardest battle yet instead of a simple spar?”

Throwing a look across the crimson red desk, Wang Chao could see that Zhang Tong was still looking at him with a smile.

“Hssssh!” Wang Chao let out a long breath of air before expelling the Qi from his mouth. Immediately, he felt no more pressure in his pores, but when he let out the Qi, he grew tired almost instantly.

With a great amount of effort, he stilled his heart and brought his nerves back together. Sensing that one of the bodyguard’s eyes had closed due to his sweat dropping in on it, Wang Chao quickly straightened his back and lashed out a fist like it was an arrow towards the bodyguard’s shoulder.

Although the bodyguard had sweat in his eye, there was no fear. At the same time as Wang Chao, he lashed out with his own fist.

Bang! The two men’s fists struck at the same time with a bone shattering sound. The joint of the bodyguard’s shoulder had been crushed, sending him flying backwards and rolling onto the ground as a result. As he stood back up, his shoulder could only flop in place lifelessly–he would not be fighting with that arm any time soon.

As for Wang Chao, he could only feel a sharp pain as his intestines felt the blow. The pain had been so severe, his breath had been lost and his control over his pores slackened, causing a layer of sweat to appear.

Another large wave of weakness entered his body.

“I’m lucky that this guy’s strength is pretty much gone. Otherwise, this guy’s fist would have been strong enough to destroy my intestines.” Wang Chao had only took this risk after making sure the two bodyguards were spent in energy.

All of a sudden, another bodyguard had quickly flashed behind Wang Chao. His left hand grabbed for Wang Chao’s neck while his right hand wrapped around his chest. Simultaneously, the bodyguard’s knee came up to strike behind Wang Chao.

Against such a thrilling killing move like this, Wang Chao was not panicked. His left hand flew behind as if it was a tail to obstruct the knee as his vertebrae transformed to act like a snake. With a violent twist, his center of gravity flew down to his tailbone and his hair spiked up as Wang Chao began to regain the energy he had lost.

The bodyguard that was trying to grab Wang Chao could only feel as if he was trying to wrestle a writhing python. With such a large amount of strength coming out from Wang Chao, the bodyguard couldn’t help but let out a grunt as he used all of his power!

In that split second, Wang Chao had managed to get a read on his opponent’s potential directional path and immediately issued power by jumping backwards. This course of action had allowed him to counter against the bodyguard’s strength.

But then Wang Chao suddenly changed his direction and tried to go forward with the help of the forward momentum the bodyguard was outputting.

Suddenly, it seemed as if the bodyguard had became a scarecrow after being launched forward into the sky towards the broken shouldered bodyguard.