Chapter 401: Chapter 283: Training the Five Extremes! 4th Rank Purple Equipment: Level 3 Yin-Shen Lead Destroying Yang Bomb! [Vote for monthly tickets!]
"Jing Bao, you have integrated the strengths of many, established your own school, and created a unique system!"
"The movements of point, rotate, sink, shift, resolve, fall, carry, advance appear to be a ’Shovel Technique’ derived from Spear Technique, Swordsmanship, Saber Skill, and Staff Technique, but in essence, it is still Boxing."
"The stepping technique primarily employs the Tuo Ma Step. The stance frequently uses the ’split’, with an emphasis on a sideways posture, referred to in jargon as ’One-piece Body’, minimizing exposure on defense and aligning attacks on a straight line for a swift and direct approach."
"Actions are clear in illusion and reality, focusing on dodge, evade, lead, strike in combat, avoiding the opponent’s strengths, attacking their weaknesses, advancing like a storm, with courage and agility."
"Eight-direction Step!"
"Also called ’Group Step’!"
"This stepping technique facilitates dodging, turning, and seizing the opportunity to attack, truly fitting the ’Shunshi Sect’."
"However!"
"Jing Bao!"
"Your ’Eight-direction Step’ can only be considered a ’Small Eight-direction Step’. I’ve seen how you’ve pondered deeply into the ’Eight-direction Step’ and discerned its shortcomings, especially in real-world combat and group battles, and you’re already trying changes and derivation."
"The direction is correct!"
"But details need to be corrected."
Yan Chuan saw Jing Bao’s extraordinary comprehension, able to create her own martial arts based on ’Shunshi Sect’, and couldn’t help but feel a kinship, speaking more and more, leading to guidance.
In terms of stepping techniques and body techniques, he had successively practiced "Wave Riding Micro Steps" and "Shadowy Charm", also known as ’You Body Eight Trigrams Palm’, which he was most skilled in was stepping technique.
"Three left, forward two!"
"Four east, one south!"
"This is the ’Great Eight Directions Step’ I created, designed to handle multiple opponents, fast but orderly, free to advance and retreat, capable of seizing advantageous positions, changing with the situation, up and down, transformation with method, movement and stillness with technique."
’Great Eight Directions Step!’
This is derived from ’Eight Diagram Palm’.
But since he intended to guide and teach, Yan Chuan was not stingy, after ’Eight Diagram Palm’s ’Eight-direction Step’, he also imparted the ’ Tai Chi Boxing’ ’Walking’ in its entirety——
"In ’Shunshi Sect’, the ’Walking’ has three methods, namely Swinging Method, Stabbing Skill, Withdrawal."
"There’s a saying in boxing: the two legs should separate illusion and reality, moving like a cat."
"The saying goes: STEP like a cat, move energy like drawing silk."
"My ’Walking’ is akin to a raccoon’s soft and firm steps, called ’Cat Walk’, or ’Tiger Step’, ’ Tai Chi Step’."
Yan Chuan rarely encountered someone as single-minded as Jing Bao, who incorporated diverse strengths to create martial arts, and she even elevated ’Shunshi Sect’ to a level comparable to Xin Martial and approaching Geng Wu, which was indeed commendable.
Talented!
Persistent!
Willing to put in hard work!
For this type of genius, Yan Chuan was willing to lend a hand.
Thus, combining what he had seen in Tian Jing Mansion’s original version of ’Shunshi Sect’, with Jing Bao’s improved version of ’Shunshi Sect’, Yan Chuan selected and imparted specific small skills from his disciplines of ’Eight Diagram Palm’, ’ Tai Chi Boxing’, and so forth to Jing Bao.
These skills, though seemingly inconspicuous and easy, with Yan Chuan’s "Derivation Skill", the inspiration came simply, and through "Mutual Teaching and Learning", it was as if thousands were researching with him, inspiration naturally wasn’t lacking.
But Jing Bao was alone.
Even though she was a genius, the abundance of skills required too much inspiration, and inevitably there were oversights, defects existing, making it rare for ’Shunshi Sect’ to reach perfection.
Therefore, Jing Bao’s main task in coming to Cang Mountain, to guard the arena, was to utilize each opponent, or by observing battles, further draw on strengths to make up for weaknesses, gather diverse strengths, and acquire inspiration to further perfect the ’Shunshi Sect’.
This trip was mainly for patching work.
And Yan Chuan’s guidance was precise and clear.
"Eight-direction Step!"
"Cat Walk!"
"Mud Stepping!"
From stepping techniques to movement techniques, from hand skills to using strength.
Yan Chuan started from Jing Bao’s own ’Shunshi Sect’, going over everything in great detail, helping her sort through it, find and fix gaps, correct and amend.
’Shunshi Sect’s main theme is ’Smooth’.
"Thank you, Master Yan!"
Jing Bao could not contain her happiness.
Listening to Yan Chuan’s guidance, Jing Bao wielded the ’Crescent Moon Spade’ more and more smoothly.
On one side, Sun Gui Fen whirled a golden knife in a red robe, while Jing Bao wielded the Crescent Moon Spade on the other.
The grand golden knife resembled a White Tiger coming out of the mountain!
The Crescent Moon Spade was like a crescent moon hanging high!
That one flung out, causing flying sand and stones.
This one attacked, splitting wood and scattering pine cones.
On the stage, it turned dim and indistinct, the sun was bright; mist swirled, the world was hazy.
’Chufeng’ twelve Sun Gui Fen was indeed formidable, presenting Jing Bao with considerable pressure, but with Yan Chuan’s guidance and teaching, such pressure instead became the heavy hammer that forged steel, prompting Jing Bao to rapidly mature and enhance her ’Shunshi Sect’, swiftly perfecting and comprehending it.
And so.
Finally——
"Lift, step, swing, hook, rotate left and right, continuously."
"With walking as paramount, intention like a fluttering flag, energy like moving clouds, rolling, drilling, contending, wrapping, movement and stillness roundly supporting, integrating Yin and Yang, creating life from surprises and normality."
"So that’s how it is!"
"So that’s how it is!"
"Master Yan, I understand now!"
Jing Bao’s face suddenly shone with great joy, as her Crescent Moon Spade danced tightly, her stepping technique swiftly reached Great Success, moving like a dragon swimming, visible head but invisible tail, swift as a breeze, its shadow visible but not its form, appearing ahead, suddenly behind, truly unpredictable.
The newly refined ’Shunshi Sect’ based on body technique and stepping technique finally had a distinctive character.
At times tilted, at times east or west, at times south or north, suddenly left or right, forward or backward, the body technique was elusive and unpredictable.
Looking at Jing Bao, with the Crescent Moon Spade in hand, her stepping technique maneuvering, her body twisting, resembling the winding of a snake, the flight of a bird, advancing and retreating with rotation, pointing left and striking right, striking above and hitting below, illusion and reality indistinct.