Martial Arts Song

Chapter 10 Tiger Claw Skill

The sun is shining brightly in the sky, and the cicadas are chirping in the summer sky.

Qianyang City in July ushered in the highest peak of summer temperatures.

Although people who have been to other cities in other provinces say that summer in Qian Province is the most comfortable province in the country except for the three northern provinces, and it is also the coolest place in the south.

But for natives who have lived in Qian Province since childhood and have never been to other places, the heat in July is already unbearable.

However, no matter how hot the weather is, students from major martial arts schools in Qianyang City still have to continue practicing as usual under the scorching sun above their heads.

Because there is an old saying in martial arts, which is called "three nines for winter training, three volts for summer training".

There are four seasons of the year, with severe cold and scorching heat taking up two of them. If you don’t practice because of this, what will be left in the year?
Tiger-shaped gate, front yard.

The sound of rapid breathing came one after another.

In front of the human piles, teenagers were walking around the piles sweating profusely in the sun.

But it is obvious that due to the high temperature, the movements and detours of this group of teenagers have been deformed. Their movements frequently make mistakes and are not standard, and their detours also get stuck from time to time - because they have to raise their hands from time to time to wipe the spots that slipped from their foreheads to their eyes. Sweat.

This greatly increased the workload of Yang Ming and Ren Yan.

On weekdays, the two only need one person to supervise and correct the movements of this group of teenagers, and they are even able to do so with ease.

But now, the two people's corrections and scoldings have never stopped!
"Fang Yu, take your hand off!"

"Xing Zhaowu, what are you stopping for? Keep practicing!"

"Mu Dachao, how many times have you stopped today? Practice if you can, and if you can't, go home!"

"Zhang Hai, if you continue to cheat on me, believe it or not, I will tell you to get out!"

The shouts made Yang Ming and Ren Yan, who were also exposed to the strong sun, have smoke in their throats.

But compared to the smoke in their throats, the two of them were more tired.

Each student kept making mistakes, giving them a never-ending feeling.

At this time, the two of them would unconsciously look behind the crowd, where a figure was moving smoothly without any mistakes or lags, perfectly rehearsing the "Tiger Step".

This person is none other than Chen Qing!

Compared with a month ago, Chen Qing has changed tremendously.

A month ago, Chen Qing was less than 1.7 meters tall and so thin that he felt like he could break all the bones in his body if he fell.

But now Chen Qing has grown a little taller, reaching over 1.7 meters, with a bronze complexion, strong muscles all over his body, and clear lines, giving people a solid sense of strength!
If they hadn't witnessed it with their own eyes, Yang Ming and Ren Yan wouldn't have believed that someone could achieve this effect in a month!

However, while Yang Ming and Ren Yan were enjoying Chen Qing's smooth and smooth performance, they couldn't help but feel that only such effects were worthy of Chen Qing's efforts.

After looking at Chen Qing and then looking back at the others, Yang Ming and Ren Yan almost stopped wanting to kill.

After taking a few deep breaths to calm down, the two continued to supervise again.

Chen Qing, who was immersed in the "Tiger Step" drill, didn't know what was happening in the outside world.

Even if he knew, he wouldn't care.

At this moment, he was closing his eyes and immersed himself in practicing the "tiger step" - this was also his way to prevent sweat from flowing into his eyes.

As for whether the practice movements will be out of shape after closing your eyes.

Others may be able to do it, but Chen Qing has the three values ​​​​of [Essence, Energy and Spirit] in his eyes as a reference. Coupled with this month of standard training, his body has already formed muscle memory, which makes him unable to do it even with his eyes closed. Practice wrong.

During this month of practice, he could always see his progress through the three values ​​​​of [Essence, Qi, Shen] under his left eye.

When he wakes up after adequate sleep every day, his [Essence] value has been greatly improved. On average, the improvement is around 0.01 almost every day.

Now, the three values ​​​​of [Essence, Energy and Spirit] in his eyes have become like this:

【Fine: 1.175345896】

【Qi: 0.536489427】

【God: 1.015348976】

[Fine] The value has exceeded 1 for a normal person, and even exceeded 0.17.

This is why he now looks muscular and muscular.

[Essence] values ​​represent all aspects of his body. After this series of values ​​increases, his body will naturally improve as well.

As the [Fine] value increased, Chen Qing discovered that the other two values ​​also had a chain reaction and were improved one after another.

In the past, after he woke up every morning, his Qi value, which was responsible for the body's energy supply, was usually only a few 0.3 after a night of body digestion.

But now, with the improvement of [Essence] value, [Qi] value has also been significantly improved, and there is still between 0.5 and 0.6 after waking up every day.

In addition, the storage limit of his [Qi] value has also been increased.

In the previous experiments on these three values, the [Qi] value could not exceed the [Essence] value no matter how hard I tried.

Although it is the same now, as the [Essence] value has increased to a few 1.1, the upper limit of the [Qi] value has also been raised to a few 1.1.

And the external manifestation is that he can eat even more than before!
In this month, Chen Qing went from being able to eat enough with one big bowl of rice, meat and vegetables, to one and a half bowls, two bowls, two and a half bowls, three bowls...

This made the chefs in the Huxingmen kitchen remember him.

In addition, the [God] value has also been improved to a certain extent, but it has not been raised to 1.1 like the two values ​​​​of [Essence] and [Qi]. Instead, it is hovering around 1 of a normal person, either higher or lower. At.

When it is higher, it is when you just wake up every day, and when it is lower, it is when you go home after practicing every day.

Chen Qing guessed that the increase in [God] value may be related to his regular exercise and adequate sleep this month.

"Now if I meet these two ruffians Sun Bing and Luo Gang, I should be able to defeat them one on one."

Looking at the numerical values ​​in his eyes, Chen Qing quickly flashed this thought in his mind.

When they were shining shoes on Grand Cross Street, these two people often blackmailed and bullied the original person. Although Chen Qing, who had traveled through time and space, relied on his cleverness, he basically packed up his suitcase and ran away in advance during the three months since he came, and he never really suffered from the two. Bully.

But as he inherited the memories of his original body, those memories of being blackmailed and bullied were extremely clear, as if he was actually there.

He had no idea before because Chen Qing's body was slender and weak and he was unable to retaliate. But now that he had begun to train his body, he suddenly had this idea.

However, as he was currently practicing, this thought just passed through his mind and he did not think about it carefully.

……

"It's time to eat~"

At noon, as a shout came from the kitchen of Hu-shaped Gate, the students practicing in the front yard felt relieved.

Yang Ming and Ren Yan, who had been exposed to the supervision, also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let's eat."

As Yang Ming opened his mouth to let him go to eat, there were bursts of cheers from the students, and then they all rushed towards the kitchen.

Chen Qing, who was practicing, also slowly put away his posture and prepared to eat.

As a health expert in his previous life, he knew the principles of relaxation and balance between work and rest.

Exercising the body is like forging iron, it will break easily if it is too strong.

Metals all have fatigue, and once they exceed a critical point, they will break.

The same goes for exercising.

There is a saying that moderate exercise is good for health; excessive exercise is harmful to health. When exercise is done too much, not only will it not benefit your health, it will actually damage it.

There are many examples in life, such as athletes and farmers.

Athletes exercise excessively for a long time in order to compete, and many of them do not even have the ability to take care of themselves in a normal life after retirement;

Farmers work hard in the fields for a long time and are exposed to the sun, making many farmers who are only in their forties or fifties look old, as if they are sixty or seventy years old.

These are living examples.

Chen Qing, who knew this, had been like everyone else in the past month, stopping to eat as soon as meal time came, taking a lunch break after eating, and then starting training again in the afternoon.

Because of being so "gregarious", Chen Qing has made a huge difference in this month's training, and has not attracted any trouble from other teenagers. At most, he is a little jealous.

Everyone practices the same way, so why do you practice like this?

Many of them practiced more after returning home.

But none of them have the same effect as Chen Qing.

Of course, the one-month exercise of these dozen teenagers was not completely ineffective. The muscles on their bodies were somewhat bulging, but it was not as exaggerated as Chen Qing's.

"Chen Qing, right? Let me meet you, my name is Zhuang Zhiqiang."

When Chen Qing went to the kitchen to prepare a meal and squatted in a corner of the front yard to eat alone, suddenly, a short-haired boy with thick eyebrows came to him, stretched out his hand and said.

Chen Qing raised his head and glanced at the other party. He did not shake hands with the other party. Instead, he slowly stood up and asked calmly: "What's the matter?"

Finally couldn't help but find trouble...

Chen Qing thought.

However, the next moment, the young man with thick eyebrows named Zhuang Zhiqiang didn't care at all that Chen Qing didn't shake hands with him. Instead, he asked with a puzzled look on his face: "I want to ask you, how did you achieve such an effect?" , how many times do you practice extra every day when you go back? I practice extra late every day when I go back, why don’t I get the same effect as you?!”

Chen Qing was startled. He didn't expect the other party to ask this. He thought the other party was here to cause trouble.

Seeing the undisguised confusion on the opponent's face, Chen Qing thought for a while and replied, "I didn't practice any more when I went back."

"No extra practice?!"

Zhuang Zhiqiang looked stunned, then frowned and looked at Chen Qing suspiciously, "I've read books, don't try to lie to me! You were still looking like a skinny monkey a month ago, and you are now like this a month later. So, you’re telling me that you don’t practice any more when you go back every day?!”

"I really didn't practice any more after I went back, believe it or not."

Chen Qing replied calmly.

While the human body needs nutrients to synthesize muscle or fat, it also needs adequate sleep.

It's a pity that people in this world don't understand this truth.

After practicing during the day, if you go back and don't sleep well, you will practice more. This will only give your body no time to synthesize muscle or fat.

Of course, Chen Qing's ability to practice like this is not only a matter of sleeping well, but also the credit of practicing extremely standard movements every day.

The people who practiced with him seemed to have similar movements to him, but many of them were actually not up to standard.

If there is no standard, the effect of exercise will be greatly reduced. This is the saying "a slight difference is a thousand miles away".

"Hmph! I don't believe it! Unless you let me go to your house, or you come back to my house with me to stay for a while! I want to see with my own eyes that you haven't practiced more!"

Zhuang Zhiqiang said with a hum.

"?"

Chen Qing felt that there was something wrong with this person's brain.

Not wanting to pay attention to the other party anymore, Chen Qing took the bowl and prepared to walk away.

At this moment, Yang Ming just walked out of the middle courtyard. After scanning the front yard, he locked eyes on Chen Qing and waved: "Chen Qing, come here."

Chen Qing saw this and walked over.

The young man with short hair and thick eyebrows named Zhuang Zhiqiang didn't dare to pester Yang Ming when he saw that his name was Chen Qing.

"what's up?"

Chen Qing came to Yang Ming's side and asked.

Yang Ming smiled and said, "Senior Sister Hong asked you to go to the Central Courtyard."

Chen Qing was a little surprised when he heard this.

In this month, he has not seen He Xihong again.

He was very grateful to this senior sister who brought him into the Tiger-shaped Gate.

I wanted to say thank you, but I never had the chance or money to take action, so I delayed it.

Unexpectedly, a month later, the other party actually asked him to go to the Intermediate Court, which made him feel at a loss for a while. He asked: "What did Senior Sister Hong ask me to do?"

"Who knows."

Yang Ming shrugged and spread his hands: "You won't know until you get in."

Seeing this, Chen Qing could only helplessly pass the big bowl with half of the rice, meat and vegetables in his hand to Yang Ming, leaving Yang Ming, who was a little confused, to walk into the middle courtyard alone.

Soon, Chen Qing came to the spacious middle courtyard again.

In the martial arts training ground of the Central Courtyard, He Xihong was already waiting there with her hands behind her hands.

Today, He Xihong is wearing a white training suit, her hair is simply tied into a ponytail, and she shows her capable temperament.

After seeing Chen Qing, she smiled slightly and said: "Little shoemaker, I haven't seen you for a month. You are practicing very well."

When Chen Qing heard this, he scratched his head in embarrassment.

Suddenly, he noticed that there was a bamboo basket at He Xihong's feet. When he got closer, he saw that there were green and small fruits in the bamboo basket.

Seemingly noticing Chen Qing's gaze, He Xihong also looked down at the bamboo basket at her feet. She smiled and said, "I've been craving for raw walnuts lately, so I asked the kitchen to buy a basket."

It turns out to be walnuts...

Chen Qing had a look of realization on his face, then looked away and asked: "Senior sister, did you ask me to come here for something?"

"It's nothing, I just want you to help me open these walnuts."

He Xihong leaned over with a smile, stretched out her right hand, grabbed three raw walnuts from the bamboo basket at her feet, handed them to Chen Qing, and said at the same time.

After hearing this, Chen Qing wondered why he was specifically asked to open the walnuts, but he still reached out and prepared to take the walnuts first and then find tools to open them.

But at this moment, He Xihong suddenly retracted the right hand that he handed over and said with a smile: "Don't use tools, use your fingers to open."

"Open with my fingers?"

Chen Qing was stunned when he heard this, "How can I open it with my fingers?"

"like this."

He Xihong chuckled lightly, turned the hand holding the walnut, moved a raw walnut from the palm of her hand to between her thumb, index finger, and middle finger, and then clasped it inward with three fingers!
"Snapped!"

The raw walnuts covered with green peel shattered instantly.

Chen Qing's eyes widened immediately.

At this time, He Xihong said calmly: "You have already gained a foundation in your 'Tiger Step' training. Today I will teach you how to fight my Tiger-shaped Gate. What you just saw is my Tiger-shaped Gate's technique." One of the methods is 'Tiger Claw Kung Fu'."

(End of this chapter)