Chapter 61: A feather cannot be added; nor can a fly alight (1/2)

Chapter 61: A feather cannot be added; nor can a fly alight

After watching each video on Zhang Wei, Wang Chao had finally came to the conclusion: “Zhang Wei’s Hidden Jin is superior to mine. Not only can he release it through both his hands with ease, but also his back.”

There was a total of 30 videos on Zhang Wei’s fights. Out of a dozen of them, there had been an opening at Zhang Wei’s back where his enemies had capitalized on. However, when they struck at it, they had been hit with the Hidden Jin and lost the fight straight afterwards.

Out of 30 fights, not a single one lived.

However this much wasn’t too surprising. Any expert at Guoshu would generally been nimble and would arch their backs like a leopard during a fight. Wherever the enemy tried to find a weak spot, the expert would immediately flare up their Jin to counter.

Hidden Jin however was the strongest counter with its natural break out and sending the Jin through the pores. Upon contact with the enemy, it would enter their bodies and damage their muscles and organs. There were very few ways in which an injury like this could be treated.

Right now Wang Chao was very rough with his usage of Hidden Jin. A single fist was able to make an indent within a steel plate; if a fist this destructive were to be used on the frail human body, then what would the effect be?

“I’m only able to use the Hidden Jin through my hands and feet, that’s a big difference in comparison to Zhang Wei. But in a fight, this does not guarantee a victory. Hidden Jin requires the strike to land first; a battle is dependent on the footwork, stance, and Clear Jin.”

After three years of practicing, Wang Chao had his own fair share of experiences from battles.

External practitioner experts could move their bones and muscles with ease. Internal practitioner experts could move about freely and use their pores with ease.

A strike of Hidden Jin was to loosen the pores and let the power flow out in that instant.

For those that controlled the muscles with ease, controlling the pores would be challenging.

Up until now, Wang Chao had previously only been able to control all the points in his hands and palms, his legs and leg joints. From these two parts, he was freely able to manipulate his pores.

The other parts could only be controlled during battle and could not be loosened whenever needed.

In accordance to the theory of the meridian channels, Wang Chao was only able to open up the channels in his arms and legs. The rest of his body was not yet accessible.

The hands and legs were the most nimble parts of the human body and were also the most easily controlled parts. When learning martial arts, one must start practicing with the vertebrae. When practicing the Hidden Jin, once the legs and arms and learned, the next step was to bring it to the vertebrae.

Wang Chao had understood this much, meaning that he could acknowledge just how strong Zhang Wei was.

“The next thing to do is to make sure I can bring the hidden Jin to my spine. These videos of Zhang Wei are also of before he went into seclusion, it has already been years, what if he has improved far too much? If he has learned to bring the Hidden Jin to his chest and head, then he will truly be difficult to handle.”

If a man were to learn to bring the Hidden Jin throughout the entire body, then the next step was to enter the stage of Transforming Jin. From that moment, if any part of the body were to be hit out of nowhere, then the Hidden Jin would naturally respond and repel the attack.

Back when Sun Lu-Tang had disciples, he had encouraged them to attack him at any time.

One day, a disciple had took advantage of when Sun Lu-tang was sleeping and struck at him with a wooden pole to the head. However, to the surprise of the disciple, the pole had instantly splintered because of the Hidden Jin.

But after that incident, the disciple had been expelled from the sect. Although Sun Lu-tang had encouraged any spontaneous attack, this had been over the top. If he had used a knife or even a bayonet instead of a pole, then things would have ended up differently.

When the topic of Transforming Jin was approached, Wang Zongyue had spoken two phrases on his depiction of it.

“A feather cannot be added; nor can a fly alight.”

An expert of Transforming Jin could feel even a fly landing on his body with a keen acuity. In an instant, the Hidden Jin would break out, killing the fly.

“I’ve a long ways to go before I can attain such a state. However, I can bet that Zhang Wei hasn’t reached such a state either. Otherwise, when we pressed hands, I would have lost even faster.”

Wang Chao had tried to imagine what the higher levels of martial was like, and what plans had to be made until he could reach such a stage.

“I have to push the limits of my body first and ignore the issue of Zhang Wei. A clear understanding of my body has to be made.”

“I say, Wang Chao. Your body doesn’t look very muscular, so how do you have such a large amount of strength?”

Within the room, “Boulder” Sun Lei and the group of soldiers were standing by the side and watched him smack the steel plate. Each strike had a loud explosive sound as the measuring device continued to measure up over the thousands.

This was to say that Wang Chao’s every strike was incredibly strong.

“I can only continue to strike this for three minutes and about 90 blows. The Hidden Jin can only be seen in 10 of those strikes before I reach my limit and start to see spots in my eyes. This is what it means to have a deficit in energy in the body.”