"Qi and blood are my shortcoming."
"In the past, with dual support from my boxing skills and the secret medicine ’Dragon Tiger Powder’, my progress was already swift, but catching up was still too difficult."
"With the ’Star Stone Star Gate’s ’Star Gate Domain’, gravity pressing down on me, compressing my entire body, I can accelerate the absorption of the secret medicine and also enhance my physical quality."
"Including advancements in boxing and spear technique, all can see significant improvement, rapid progress!"
The ’Gravity Field’ of the ’Academy Star Gate’ greatly benefits martial artists with qi and blood between twenty to thirty, but as qi and blood reaches thirty and forty, its effects diminish.
By forty, it’s already of no use.
But the ’Star Stone Star Gate’ is different.
At least Xun Guilan personally experienced that even after reaching qi and blood forty, the effects remain significant, allowing her qi-blood and muscle-bone to continue advancing, leaving behind elites who were once on par with her or even surpassed her, with just one ’Star Stone’.
Xun Guilan, advancing rapidly!
Currently, his qi-blood is only thirty, but he can quickly grow and cultivate himself by using the ’Star Stone Star Gate’.
Regarding the Mountain and Sea Realm behind the Star Gate, according to Xun Guilan, Yan Chuan needs to increase his qi-blood to at least forty to shuttle through the ’Star Stone Star Gate’ and cross the ’Star River’ to reach the ’Star Gate’.
"Qi-blood forty, cross the Star Gate!"
"Still ten points away!"
Yan Chuan held the Star Stone, his eyes shining; with the oppression of the ’Star Gate Domain’, reaching qi-blood forty is not hard.
Yan Chuan started a new round of cultivation.
He still mainly practices ’Cheng Family Boxing’.
Horse Stance, Twelve Bridge Hands, Tiger Form Boxing, Crane Form Boxing, Thousand Pounds Fall, Gongzi Fuhu Fist, Ten Forms Boxing, Iron Wire Fist!
This is the legacy of ’Cheng Family Boxing’, where each set of boxing is profound and comprehensive, not only encompassing ’striking methods’ and ’striking techniques’ but also incorporating ’strengthening qi-blood’ and ’enhancing muscle and bone’ as ’inner strength’.
As the saying goes: Practicing boxing without practicing skill, all is in vain in old age!
’Cheng Family Boxing’ is renowned in Guangling City for naturally not neglecting the practice of inner strength.
What is inner strength?
Sitting in meditation, controlling breath, and qi training, this is inner strength!
Standing stance, horse stance, and strengthening bones, this is inner strength!
Boxing, practicing boxing, and transporting blood, this is also inner strength!
Inner strength is divided into ’active’ and ’static’.
The inner strength of Cheng Family Boxing is often ’active skill’.
For example, the most basic ’Horse Stance’, during the stance, transporting qi-blood, this is of course inner strength.
Another example is the ’Tiger Stance’ in ’Tiger Form Boxing’, suitable for both movement and stillness, which is also inner strength.
Additionally, the ’Crane Stance’ in ’Crane Form Boxing’, ’Eight Great Power Diagrams’ in ’Thousand Pounds Fall’, ’Ten Form Stance’ in ’Ten Forms Boxing’, and ’Five Great Plate Skills’ in ’Iron Wire Fist’—
They’re all methods in ’Cheng Family Boxing’ for training qi-blood and striking muscle and bone, internal cultivation of a breath, all the methods are here.
Including the self-created ’Tiger Crane Double Forms’, ’Six Harmonies Eight Techniques Fist’, and ’Five Forms Eight Techniques Fist’ by Yan Chuan, they all contain ’inner strength’.
The secret technique in ’Tiger Crane Double Forms’—
"Tiger Form Divine Technique!"
The strength for tigers’ pile body is issued from the hip and tail.
If the punch is executed in sequence, the clean energy rises upwards, whereas reverse punching causes dull qi to not descend, blocking the Du Meridian.
The ’Tiger Stance’ in ’Tiger Form Boxing’ is divided into both static and moving postures, combining stillness and motion, the quiet requiring the stance of a crouching tiger, while movement should resemble the agility of a cat. The body posture often maintains a hunchback and shoulder and elbow sinking. The movement technique requires mastery of inhale, exhale, float, and sink, with force originating from the waist, reaching the fingertips.
Emphasizing external training of the body, foundation, horse, and internal training of essence, energy, and spirit.
Sometimes like a fierce tiger descending the mountain, sometimes like an angry tiger exiting the forest, sometimes like a hungry tiger capturing a sheep.
’Tiger Crane Double Forms’ is based on the ’Tiger Stance’ in ’Tiger Form Boxing’, merging with the essence of ’Crane Form Refining Essence’ in ’Crane Form Boxing’, combining the best, and ultimately transcending into a ’Tiger Form Divine Technique’ that significantly enhances inner qi and qi-blood!
Yan Chuan coiled and lay like a crouching tiger; with every breath in and out, it was like a tiger’s roar, resembling both in form and spirit, with qi-blood inside his body surging like lead, boiling.
Swallowing a dose of ’Dragon Tiger Powder’, its medicinal power continuously refined inside.
Another ’Star Stone’ emitted invisible starlight, enveloping a radius of one yard.
Layer upon layer of pressure applied.
All were being oppressed.
Where there’s oppression, there’s resistance. Yan Chuan maintained ’Tiger Form Divine Technique’, using the ’Tiger Stance’ as the foundation, feverishly transporting qi and blood, resisting the immense oppressive force.
Qi and blood wandered, carrying potent medicinal power, spreading to every corner of the body.
What should have been a slow and gradual process, taking three to five days to completely digest the medicinal power, was accelerated tenfold or a hundredfold under the pressure of the ’Star Gate Domain’.
Not only is the speed faster, but also the effect is stronger.
Medicinal power absorbed, increasingly thorough.
Yan Chuan once again experienced the exhilarating advancement of his physical quality.
He resisted with all his might.
Both inside and outside his body were resisting; the more oppressed, the more growth.
After rounds of cultivation—
Refreshed in mind and spirit!
Two completely different states appeared simultaneously on Yan Chuan.
Yan Chuan was too exhausted to maintain ’Tiger Form Divine Technique’, unable to continue cultivating.
But the refreshing feeling after cultivation was intoxicating.
"Tiger Form Divine Technique!"
"The secret technique within the ’Tiger Crane Double Forms’ is even stronger than the ’Five Great Plate Skills’ in the ’Iron Wire Fist’."
"Currently in the ’Star Stone Star Gate Domain’, I can’t freely practice boxing. The ’Five Forms Fist’ within the ’Five Forms Eight Techniques Fist’, which is stronger than the ’Tiger Form Divine Technique’, can’t be used or trained for the moment."
"With ’Tiger Form Divine Technique’ combined with the ’Star Stone Star Gate Domain’, the cultivation effect is far beyond just the ’Five Forms Fist’!"
Several rounds of cultivation.
Yan Chuan was pleasantly surprised.
With the help of the ’Star Stone’, his progress sped up significantly.
Previously, his main internal cultivation was the ’Five Forms Fist’—
Dragon Form Spirit Cultivation, Tiger Form Bone Training, Leopard Shaped Strength Training, Snake Form Qi Training, Crane Form Refining Essence!
The entire essence energy spirit of the body can be refined.
This is the highest method of ’inner strength’ and ’training method’ of ’Cheng Family Boxing’, an exquisite cultivation technique summarized and innovated by Yan Chuan, achieving ultimate transcendence.
With Yan Chuan’s boxing skills, practicing this set of boxing while consuming the Dragon Tiger Powder, his qi-blood and physical quality improvement were incredibly swift.
Throughout July, Yan Chuan’s qi-blood surged by eight points, reaching twenty-three.
Throughout August, the qi-blood continued to advance rapidly, surging by seven points, reaching thirty.
Among this, aside from ’Dragon Tiger Powder’, much credit goes to the ’Five Forms Fist’ within the ’Five Forms Eight Techniques Fist’.
Now, once Yan Chuan gets accustomed to the gravity of the ’Star Stone Star Gate Domain’ and can barely practice boxing under immense pressure, he can switch from ’Tiger Form Divine Technique’ to ’Five Forms Fist’ cultivation, and then, Yan Chuan’s cultivation speed could accelerate further.
The speed of progress constantly increased, breaking through the original limits continuously.
Yet, Yan Chuan still feels unsatisfied, still searching for more and faster methods to strengthen himself.