[Research Project Name: Five Animals Qigong (Difficulty: Ren★★)]
[Complete the task to receive ’Experience+600’, ’Spiritual+600’.]
This is an ancient Qigong cultivation technique from a previous life, and among the many ancient Dao Yin skills, ’Five Animals Qigong’ is the most widely spread and has the greatest influence on the development of Dao Yin skills.
Yan Chuan wants to prolong his life, using the ’Qi’ of ’Health preservation skill’ to aid his own cultivation, maintain his peak condition, and delay decay. The first thing that comes to his mind is ’Five Animals Qigong’.
In the Hou Han Shu·Fang Shu Lie Zhuan·Hua Tuo Chuan, it is recorded: "I have a technique, named the play of five animals: first the tiger, second the deer, third the bear, fourth the ape, and fifth the bird. It can cure illness and is beneficial for hoofs and feet, appropriate for Dao Yin. When one is not feeling well, they can play one of the five animals, feeling happy and sweating. Afterward, they apply powder, making their body light and increasing appetite. If practiced widely, one can live to over ninety, with sharp hearing and sight, and strong teeth."
This is ’Five Animals Qigong’.
Yan Chuan practices ’Cheng Family Boxing’, which includes ’Tiger Form Boxing’, ’Crane Form Boxing’, ’Ten Forms Boxing’, ’Tiger Crane Double Forms’, and ’Five Forms Eight Techniques Fist’, all of which contain ’Elephant Form Boxing’.
Especially in the ’Five Forms Eight Techniques Fist’, where the five forms—dragon, tiger, leopard, crane, snake—are greatly beneficial to one’s cultivation.
Based on the ’Cheng Family Boxing’, combined with many health care books and health preservation concepts from his previous and current lives, and integrated with the health preservation concept of ’Five Animals Qigong’, he eventually created this skill.
Moreover, compared to the widespread ’Five Animals Qigong’ of his previous life, which only had Dao Yin movements, Yan Chuan’s creation includes even the ’Eight Pieces of Brocade’ from his previous life, with much more mystery involved. The content has expanded from one volume to eight, containing the essence of many health preservation methods and skills from both previous and current lives.
"Cheng Fist practicing martial arts."
"Five Animals health preservation."
Seeing the big pit of [Task One: Yijinjing] in front, Yan Chuan didn’t dare to jump straight into researching internal skills and divine skills like ’True Heart Skill’, ’Purple Mist Divine Skill’, or ’Tai Chi Boxing’. Even for this ’Five Animals Qigong’, he used common health preservation methods from his previous life, combined with the martial arts principles of this world. The level isn’t high, far from being at the ’immortal heroes level’ or ’mythical level’. The deepest cultivation only results in ’prolonging life’, not ’immortality’ or ’ascending’.
Of course, Yan Chuan wants immortality! He wants to ascend!
But developing such cultivation techniques will surely be more challenging than ascending the heavens, possibly taking a lifetime without completion, wasting time and years in vain. Eventually, he might end up occupying a pit forever, or he could spend five thousand experience points to abandon the current task. Either way, it’s unnecessary.
"’Yijinjing’ occupies a pit."
"I only have one ’task slot’ left now, I must be cautious."
Not afraid of the martial arts level being too low or the difficulty too low, but afraid of it being too high and difficult to complete.
This is the right path!
At the Iron Wire Martial Arts Hall, a crowd of new and old disciples watched Yan Chuan practicing boxing.
Watching and watching.
They gradually became puzzled.
"Master Yan’s boxing is so slow!"
"Soft and gentle, can it even hit people?"
"You don’t understand, right? A master practicing boxing combines movement and stillness, speed, and slowness. Don’t be fooled by Master Yan’s slow boxing; this is a realm. He has long surpassed the ’fast punch’ level and entered the ’slow punch’ realm."
Among the apprentices, some were puzzled, and some understood like masters.
Che Qi listened nearby, bewildered.
Even Wei Quan was somewhat skeptical: "Fast punch, slow punch? Is that really a thing?"
Yu Jinpeng saw someone spreading rumors and raised his eyebrows, turning around to dispel the rumors: "’Cheng Family Boxing’ doesn’t have the concept of fast punch or slow punch. What the senior brother is performing is his recently self-created ’Health Care Boxing’, aiming at prolonging life. Slow punches and slow cultivation are for health preservation. Those interested should watch more. Those who aren’t, go practice boxing and stop talking nonsense."
Fast punch, slow punch.
Appear to be credible.
Almost even he believed it.
No wonder these disciples are confused. After all, Yan Chuan’s strength is strong now, his reputation is great, and even if he farts, others think it’s some sophisticated method of controlling Qi.
Now he’s practicing ’slow punch’, so mysterious that most also think it’s some advanced form of boxing.
Yan Chuan pays no mind to it. He quietly practiced ’Five Animals Qigong’ once, felt it carefully, and during the second time, he started to speak, explaining to the crowd while practicing—
"I have a technique, named the play of five animals: first the tiger, second the deer, third the bear, fourth the ape, and fifth the bird. It can cure illness and is beneficial for hoofs and feet, appropriate for Dao Yin. When one is not feeling well, they can play one of the five animals, feeling happy and sweating. Afterward, they apply powder, making their body light and increasing appetite. If practiced widely, one can live to over ninety, with sharp hearing and sight, and strong teeth."
"The tiger play: Four limbs touch the ground, throw forward three times, retreat twice, extend the waist, lift the foot to the sky, then reverse the movements, each move seven times forward and backward."
"The deer play: Four limbs touch the ground, stretch the neck, look back, left three right two, stretch each foot left and right, each stretch and retract three and two times."
"The bear play: Lie flat, hug the knees with both hands, lift the head, left and right seven times each, squat down, support the ground with hands."
"The ape play: Climb and hang, stretch and retract the body, up and down seven each with feet holding objects for hanging, sideways seven each, hands hooked back standing, head pressed down seven each."
"The bird play: Stand with two hands, lift one foot, stretch both arms, lift eyebrows with force, two sevens each, sitting stretching feet, hands pulling the foot distance each seven, retraction and stretching of arms each seven."
"The methods of the five animals play, utilizing strength, to the point of sweating as the limit. With sweat, powder is applied to the body, promoting digestion, benefiting Qi and strength, curing over a hundred diseases, those who consistently practice it will certainly gain longevity."
Yan Chuan gracefully demonstrated, at first sight, the ’Five Animals Qigong’ seemed slow, superficial, but upon careful examination, it contained intricacies.
The power of the tiger, the comfort of the deer, the steadiness of the bear, the agility of the ape, the lightness of the bird!
All showcased within.
Yan Chuan practiced boxing and stopped after going through it three times, loudly saying: "Five Animals Qigong is a health preservation skill, useless in combat, you all, practicing martial arts and boxing, must prioritize heroic spirit, do not need to practice this skill. But for your parents and elders at home, once they reach forty or fifty, you can mention it to them. After learning it, I dare not say everyone will reach a hundred, but being healthy, reaching sixty or seventy, and moving swiftly won’t be a problem."
"Five Animals Qigong!"
"Health preservation skill!"
Upon hearing Yan Chuan’s words, the disciples realized this wasn’t some powerful ’slow punch’ but merely a health care boxing technique.
All of them being young, had no interest in such a boxing technique.
As for parents and elders at home—
"This is actually possible!"
Those with filial piety were already pondering.
The crowd buzzed, their discussions centered around ’Five Animals Qigong’.
A person had arrived dusty from travel, entering as Yan Chuan began the second round of ’Five Animals Qigong’. With nearly ninety regular and new disciples gathering daily at the Iron Wire Martial Arts Hall, the crowd was packed, so no one noticed the arrival.
This person’s first reaction upon entering was surprise—
"In July, the Martial Arts Hall had only twenty people, and now, in just a few months, it’s nearly a hundred?"
He was astonished by the bustling atmosphere in the Martial Arts Hall, and even doubted whether these people were really disciples of the Martial Arts Hall.
Thus, without raising any commotion, he approached to see that everyone was watching Yan Chuan practicing boxing, and it wasn’t ’Cheng Family Boxing’, but instead a set of boxing techniques without any killing intent or related striking skills.
The more he watched, the more bewildered he became: "Five Animals Qigong? Health preservation skill?"
As he watched from start to finish, once, twice, his eyebrows gradually furrowed until Yan Chuan finally declared ’health preservation skill is useless for combat’ and ’heroism comes first in practicing martial arts’. Only then did this person’s eyebrows slightly relax.
The crowd dispersed after discussions, revealing this person.
With sharp eyes, Wei Quan was the first to see, showing a stunned look on his face, then he quickly called out with joy: "Master!"
It was Cheng Fengxiao!
PS: I made a mistake in the last Chapter, this time no break, I have corrected myself! Wait for 24:00, hoping for the first order!