"Hands bloom like a hundred flowers, dazzling to the eye."
"Inadequate flowers search within the ring, cleverly striking in an unseen chain!"
This is also Floral Fist!
"Floral Fist is not merely a dance of yin and yang, alternating speeds hide illusions and realities, strikes from above defend from below, advancing and retreating guard the center hall!"
This is still Floral Fist!
By combining the characteristics of the Floral Fist and then observing the ’Butterfly Palm’, one can discover that this hand technique surprisingly contains many of the essences of the Floral Fist.
"It is said that the ’Butterfly Palm’ was created by summarizing boxing techniques from the Liyang and Taikang counties."
"But now it seems, it also contains the exquisite techniques of Guangling Boxing."
Yan Chuan fought against Huo Zhen, also using the ’Butterfly Palm.’
However, Huo Zhen is, after all, the Sect Leader of the ’Butterfly Sect’, having been immersed in the ’Butterfly Palm’ for thirty years. Even if Yan Chuan stands at the Fifth Realm, in terms of ’Butterfly Palm’ mastery, he is not as skilled as Huo Zhen.
"Don’t challenge someone’s profession with a hobby!"
Yan Chuan is not yet sufficient.
But his overall boxing skill is high; when ’Butterfly Palm’ is not enough, he integrates ’Floral Fist’—
Sixth Realm Floral Fist!
"One hundred and twenty loose hands!"
"Seventy-two grappling techniques!"
Yan Chuan quietly integrates the essence of ’Floral Fist’ into the ’Butterfly Palm’, fighting and integrating as he explains to the disciples of the academy below, "’Butterfly Palm’ or ’Floral Fist’, the waist is crucial, both use the waist as the basis of the body, spiraling turns, form like a tiger, steps move like flying, eyes coordinate with hands, steps match the body."
Yan Chuan’s hands flutter, his waist agile, his steps shuttle as if butterflies gracefully dance, coordination of hands, eyes, body technique, and steps, an unspeakable beauty.
It’s even a butterfly!
Using ’Floral Fist’ to aid ’Butterfly Palm’, Yan Chuan’s routines integrate, drawing on the essence of both, continuously fighting, continuously explaining, continuously receiving feedback, and continuously making profound progress.
Yan Chuan holds against Huo Zhen.
For a while, he does not falter, initially stabilizing the situation.
Huo Zhen is indeed stronger than Luo Bing.
If Luo Bing is superior to Tu Tiannan in the Martial Arts Competition, then, Huo Zhen is approximately equivalent to the pressure of two Luo Bings, deserving of being the sect leader, a dominant figure in Taikang County—
Exquisite boxing skill!
Moreover, unlike Luo Bing, Huo Zhen’s Qi-Blood is more abundant, and his Inner Strength is more vigorous; each punch and kick appears to flutter like a butterfly, but actually contains Inner Strength, unexpectedly, butterfly flutters, Qi-Blood erupts—
"Golden needles break with a flick, slicing bamboo branches with fierce strength!"
"The sky-reaching furnace sounds roaring, butterflies disturb and expel with breath!"
Inner Strength is issued and withdrawn freely, the release is earth-shattering.
Yan Chuan is secretly shocked.
But opposite him, Huo Zhen is even more shocked—
"Like steel and iron!"
"I heard this Yan Chuan is from the Cheng Family Boxing, in Guangling Cheng Family Boxing, there is a boxing called ’Iron Wire Fist’, once mastered, the Bridge Hand is like iron!"
"Could this be the foundation of ’Iron Wire Fist’?"
Again and again, direct collisions, Huo Zhen senses that Yan Chuan’s arms, legs, and feet are hard as iron, not inferior to him at all.
Strong Inner Strength!
Hitting someone is piercingly painful!
Not only that, when he hits Yan Chuan, Ming Energy and Dark Force frequently erupt, and occasionally Yin Hand and Killer moves are deployed, but when it falls on Yan Chuan, it’s either like hitting a solid iron board or silence like a stone sinking into the sea.
Clever coordination makes Yan Chuan like a hedgehog or the sea, making it impossible to find a way to attack.
Huo Zhen fights with frustration!
He finally understands Luo Bing, knowing how he felt just now.
It’s not just about not being able to win, but Yan Chuan also keeps pointing and nudging, chattering, which makes the Heart Fire erupt.
"Head to the sky, feet to the ground, life depends on a single breath!"
Huo Zhen recites the Don’t Be Angry mnemonic, suppressing the Heart Fire, calming himself, and continues to fight with Yan Chuan.
No matter how Yan Chuan rambles, he remains unmoved, even able to dual-task, thinking about what exactly Yan Chuan is rambling about, whether there is any reason in it.
And as he listens, Huo Zhen is shocked—
"Rapid Thunder Overhead!"
"This move emphasizes swiftness."
"This is ’strategy’!"
"Sect Leader Huo is truly an old Jianghu, excellent in boxing expertise and wisdom!"
"Unity of form and spirit, quick hands and eyes!"
"Spirit and energy unify, Qi sinks to the Elixir Field!"
"Look, Sect Leader Huo’s ’Butterfly Palm’ stores gentleness within rigidity, iron-like, cotton-soft, body like willow, arm like a whip, ’Butterfly Palm’ indeed a fusion of the essence of Hundred Schools Boxing Skill, a delightful mix, unspeakable mysteries."
"Not only Floral Fist."
"It also includes the mysteries of ’Nine Palace Capturing Fall Hand’."
Yan Chuan explains from ’Butterfly Palm’ to ’Floral Fist’, then naturally extends to Taikang Academy’s Eight Gates Secret Martial Fist Techniques - ’Nine Palace Capturing Fall Hand’.
Nine Palace Capturing Fall Hand!
Also known as Can Closed Gate!
When performing boxing, like a silkworm spinning silk, continuous and uninterrupted, this is ’silkworm’.
When facing an opponent, it tightly seals the opponent, avoiding reality to hit illusion, this is ’closed’.
This set of boxing contains nine palaces, complex and variable, divided into ’thirty-six hands’, also known as ’thirty-six sealing hands’, also called ’Heavenly Gang Hand’.
But regardless of the name, they are all ’Nine Palace Capturing Fall Hand’.
"Nine Palace Capturing Fall Hand?"
Huo Zhen listens carefully.
He listens as Yan Chuan elaborates, "’Nine Palace Capturing Fall Hand’ combines the methods of ’strike, fall, take’. One moves like a cat darting, a dog dodging, a rabbit rolling, an eagle flipping, a turtle back, a cow rump, a fish soaring, a snake drilling. The mind can be like the waters of a cold pond, the energy like a sun-piercing rainbow, the momentum like a hungry tiger out of the mountains, swift as a dragon thirsty in the river."
The focus of ’Nine Palace Capturing Fall Hand’ is on ’sealing’, making the opponent’s attacks fall into the void, unable to exhibit their strengths. The effects of sealing and closing are different; sealing is external connection, closing is internal reliance.
And both connecting and relying refer to the contact with the opponent’s hands, emphasizing one word, ’transform’.
First is ’yield’, avoiding competition, introducing it to the void.
Second is ’adhere’, once it adheres, it progresses, capitalizing on force and momentum.
This resembles the subtle wonder of the ’Butterfly Palm’—
"When the flank is attacked, it can be reused, the butterfly divides and flies for a reason."
"If encountering a strong wind, one must quickly evade, stepping to grab the Yin gains the advantage."
"Butterfly Flower attacking from below, Yu Gate jumps, rolling waves."
"Winning from defeat is appropriate with knee rebounds, venomous snakes attack the face, the enemy cannot escape."
Yan Chuan mixes several boxing techniques in his explanations——
From ’Mantis Fist’ to ’Butterfly Palm’, from ’Butterfly Palm’ to ’Floral Fist’, from ’Floral Fist’ to ’Nine Palace Capturing Fall Hand’, ultimately returning to ’Butterfly Palm’.
Those learning Mantis Fist!
Those practicing Floral Fist!
Those studying Nine Palace Capturing Fall Hand!
Every one gains understanding, every one gains improvement!
But the ones who gain the most are those practicing ’Butterfly Palm’, and those practicing ’Butterfly Palm’ techniques are the masters—
"Rest while others toil, remain still waiting to move."
"Know yourself and the enemy, leverage the force and seize the momentum."
"Relax for comfort, tense for restraint."
"Lure the enemy to create doubt, divide attention to gain the upper hand."
"So that’s how it is!"
"So that’s how it is!"
Listening over and over, Huo Zhen comprehends thoroughly, suddenly filling with great joy. Through Yan Chuan’s intricate explanations, as he integrates the diverse influences into the ’Butterfly Palm’, then spreads out again, and finally returning to the ’Butterfly Palm’, achieving Great Enlightenment—