Chapter 173: The Abnormality of Having Strong Martial Arts Despite Having Many Girlfriends (1/2)

Chapter 173: The Abnormality of Having Strong Martial Arts Despite Having Many Girlfriends

When Wang Chao and Liu Qing had sparred, Wang Chao had ultimately used the Crocodile Ram in order to send his opponent flying, but it was not a fatal strike. Cao Yi had warned him beforehand, and Liu QIng was here to introduce himself through this spar as an inheritor of the Han school of Baguazhang.

The Han school of Baguazhang had elder Li upholding it at its very core. Wang Chao had received guidance from him during his time in Beijing many years ago. It was that chance meeting that gave Wang Chao a feeling of sensitivity towards Liu Qing.

A martial artist had to be careful in a competition. But when the time came for fight, one could not hold back. Kill until you are the last one standing and eliminate your opponents completely. Otherwise if the opponent were to survive and train hard to kill you, then you would be the ultimate loser.

If that had been the case just now, then Wang Chao would have used a far stronger move than the Crocodile Ram. If Liu Qing wasn’t crippled by that, then his internal organs would at the very least be grievously injured. A wound like that would hinder any martial artist’s path to improvement or make it extremely difficult at the very least.

The Crocodile Ram did not require much movement other than from the force of the waist and rib. Its usage was just to knock someone off-balance.

But something like a force push was different than from a ram. The leg would be used to move forward and combine that momentum into the strike like a stampeding cow. For an expert like Wang Chao, using this strike would break bones at the very least and rupture the organs.

But there was a difference between a ram and a force push and had their pros and cons. A ram did use much power and would only knock the opponent back onto their butts. It was easy to use and could be done in a flash though. With a touch as shallow as a dragonfly touching the water, the enemy would often time not even know what had hit them.

But a force push required momentum which meant that the time it took to release this power was slower.

One had small power but was very fast. The other had great power but was slow. In a competition or fight, it was up to circumstances to see which would be used.

Wang Chao had capitalized on Liu Qing’s mistake when he had used the “Golden Eagle Throwing Wolf” and failed to throw Wang Chao down. There had been ample time for Wang Chao to use a force push or even the Cutting Tail of the Crocodile without Liu Qing being able to dodge it.

Liu Qing was an expert as well and knew that Wang Chao had taken mercy on him, and that was why he spoke out about it. Knowing that Liu Qing was about to leave, Wang Chao had decided that he might as well speak the reason why to avoid any potential trouble that come back to bite him.

This was what it meant to make friends after making fight.

“You….” Just when Liu Qing was about to leave, he had heard Wang Chao mention elder Li’s name and had been stunned.

“Three years ago, elder Li had given me some pointers. That would make our spar today a comparison of notes between members of the same school.” Wang Chao looked at the remnants of the glass table on the ground, but there had been a wistful expression on his face.

“What? But your Baguazhang isn’t the same as my Han school Baguazhang.” Liu Qing had been incredulous, “Our Han school Baguazhang emphasizes grappling and tripping. Your Baguazhang emphasizes tearing, dividing the muscles, and diverting power away from the joints to somewhere else. Those two paths aren’t the same at all.

“Every martial arts have their own distinctive style, but even brothers from the same school of martial arts will often be taught something different from the same master. In the end, their fighting styles differ, but that is not anything strange. You are right however, my Baguazhang is not the same one elder Li teaches. Our philosophies run in parallel though.”

“That I can see!” Liu Qing picked the glass shards out from his body, “Your aura is similar to elder Li. I just didn’t think that your Baguazhang would be perfected since you became known for your Xingyiquan.”

“You flatter me.” Wang Chao waved his hands, “I wouldn’t be able to win against you with Baguazhang alone. In the end, I had to rely on the crocodile stance to win over you. In my eyes, you’ve inherited the genuine teachings of elder Li.”

“My martial arts was nonetheless beneath your own. My name is nowhere as famous as your own either. So me losing to you wouldn’t be as bad as losing to an unknown, and thus, there is no harm in losing. And since you were also taught by elder Li, then I have not yet lost face for elder Li for losing either.” Because of his loss today, Liu Qing had felt rather sad. But after listening to Wang Chao, he felt much better than before.