Chapter 77: Six doors to good practices (1/2)

Chapter 77: Six doors to good practices

“The techniques of the scholarly disciplines are truly inconceivable.”

Seeing Chen Aiyang demonstrate the “Fishing Toad Jin” by vibrating his entire body and his chest puff up slightly as if sucking in the world, Wang Chao closed his eyes. In his mind, he could imagine a giant bull and a tiny toad that were both sucking in a large amount of air.

Chen Aiyang’s voice was much louder than the Tiger’s Thunder that Wang Chao knew.

When Wang Chao opened his eyes, Chen Aiyang’s entire body had shook with enough force that even his inner organs shook. A loud “Guu, guuguu” sound could be heard as Chen Aiyang’s throat vibrated with sound.

“My Tiger’s Thunder has only reached to my muscles, but yours has already reached your inner organs.” Wang Chao sighed in admiration.

If three men walk together, one of them will be a teacher to the others.

Even if one was lacking, they still had something worth learning from, what about a Taichi master then? Wang Chao knew that after removing the fickle and impatient side to him. So he knew when he was lacking and had naturally wished to ask for guidance.

All of the grandmasters and experts of the past had learned by asking.

It was only through this method that one would be able to reach the peak. No one entered the world stage without an equal.

Chen Aiyang was also a person who had trained his impurities away. When he had heard the heartfelt praise and admiration from Wang Chao, he naturally did not feel arrogant.

His entire body had loosened up and collected the energy and sound. Almost as if all of the frogs within a pond had disappeared, the sound before had completely disappeared.

“The methods to good health from the scholarly families have been past down since the ancient times. The Yellow Emperor’s Internal Canon, Zhuangzi, Laozi, and so forth, they have expounded upon the topics and passed down their teachings for thousands of years with many people adding to it. How is this not a miraculous thing?”

When Chen Aiyang heard Wang Chao refer to the “Fishing Toad Jin” as a method for good health rather than a technique for fighting, he had understood Wang Chao had understood the meaning and difference between the two.

And that was correct! No matter if it was the “Tiger’s Thunder”, or the “Hengha”, the “Fishin Toad Jin”, the “Rash Bull Jin”, the 12 stances of Xingyi, the greater and lesser stances to Taichi, they were all methods to improving the body and health. They were meant to prolong one’s life and not for use in a competition of martial arts.

Hua Tuo had created the “Five Animal Exercises”: the ape, bear, crane, tiger and deer. These five animal forms were the basis on which Xingyi Quan was founded upon.

In the past, Daoist priests were all doctors who concocted pills of immortality. As they observed the living beings of the world generation after generation, they were able to figure out the human body down to the finest details like it was the back of their hands. Countless men were able to develop many different ways to nourish and cultivate the body.

Later on, these methods to good health had coincided with ways to fight people on the battleground. That was how martial arts was formed.

To fight without this nourishment was to have a root with no water. To have this method of nourishment without being able to fight had simply meant one could not fight in actual combat.

The methods to cultivating a good health symbolized softness where all internal practitioners must learn slowly without impatience. The methods to fighting symbolize hardness, so each strike an expert did was mighty and strong, capable of destroying stone.

No matter the fighting techniques from any country or nationality, they were all the same in practicality. But when it came to cultivation methods for nourishment, only the Chinese had such a thorough and extensive research. After so many years, who else but the Daoist priests tried so hard?

That was why Guoshu stood over all other nationalities in terms of fighting prowess.

The ways to killing were all the same. But nourishment methods varied against each other greatly.

Martial art’s most important feature was to exercise and not to fight. That was why Tang Zichen had been so meticulous when she taught Wang Chao, clearly separating the training method, fighting method, and performance to him so as to avoid any confusion.

Having such an expert to talk to, Wang Chao did not want to miss this chance. Chen Aiyang had not been secretive at all and revealed his secret method. Wang Chao had done the same with his Bagua, Xingyi, and even Taichi by explaining what Tang Zichen spoke to him.

And through this, Wang Chao had spent the entire day and night talking. By the second day, the cruiser had finally arrived at the docks to Hong Kong.

The Chenshi Corporation had many assets in Hong Kong, and while Chen Aiyang and Chen Bin were not the leaders of the Chenshi Corporation, the amount of power they could exercise was still inconceivable to say the least.

Chen Aiyang himself had major sway over real estate.

The Chenshi Corporation was a major family that held major political power in the Singaporean circles. Singapore was originally managed by a single family. Lee Kuan Yew and Lee Hsien Loong had both lead the Singaporean world.

Although the Chen family was not as strong as the Lee family, it was within the top 10 in the Singapore. Of course, both families had fought against each other, and now the ones in charge was Chen Aiyang’s great uncle, Chen Libo.

Chen Libo was already old, but he hadn’t come to a decision on who the next successor should be. But Chen Aiyang and Chen Bin’s parents had both passed away a long time ago. If it were not for Chen Aiyang’s reputation, they would have no position in their own families. But now that Chen Aiyang was so strong, his name was like a golden business card, making him very likely to be the next family leader.

Wang Chao was now at Chen Aiyang’s villa in Hong Kong. For another dozen days, the two had spent the day investigating the mysteries of martial arts. They had also talked about several other things like what Chen Bin would sometimes say in regards to the Chen family.

After another ten days, Chen Aiyang had diagnosed Wang Chao once more only to realize that he was fully healed.

With his injuries gone, Wang Chao could use martial arts once more. The two would often compare notes, but Chen Aiyang’s skill was always a level higher than Wang Chao’s.

But Wang Chao had been able to detect the most exquisite fighting methods of Taichi from him. Whip, pound, and hammer.

Chen Aiyang’s whip, pound and hammer Jin had been excruciatingly merciless and could deliver a shocking force of over a thousand kilograms.

Having discussed with Chen Aiyang everyday, Wang Chao had accumulated even more battle experience that increased his own comprehension by a deep amount.