Martial Saint!.

Chapter 144 Tiger Shadow (4k)

night.

Lu Chenzhou finished practicing the Iron Crotch Kung Fu alone in his bedroom. The energy in his kidneys flowed like a stream, giving him the illusion that he had drunk tiger bone aphrodisiac wine. A mysterious force flowed into his genitals from the acupoints that had been opened, causing his face to flush.

"Hiss... This crotch reconstruction hurts a bit."

Every man can understand the pain in his vitals.

Not only does it hurt, it also itches.

After a while, Lu Chenzhou's expression relaxed.

"Huh... feel good."

"This Iron Crotch Kung Fu is really different from ordinary hard Qigong."

Come to think of it, being able to practice the martial arts of his second brother must be extraordinary. In Lu Chenzhou's opinion, among the third-rate hard qigong, only the "Iron Crotch Kung Fu" is worth practicing. Others such as "Iron Leg Kung Fu" and "Iron Head Kung Fu" are completely unnecessary to practice. Because after the "Arhat Kung Fu" is perfected, he can practice the "Eighteen Arhats Golden Body Kung Fu"!
Among the 72 Shaolin Kung Fu skills, the Golden Body Kung Fu is the most difficult one, and it is also one of the most difficult existing first-class hard Qigongs. This is because this martial art not only trains the upper body, but also the lower body, head, and palms.

In addition to the crotch and some weak spots, the Golden Body Kungfu must be practiced. The difficulty of hard qigong is closely related to the location and area of ​​the hit. Therefore, even a horizontal training genius like Chen Jiu must be a martial artist to complete the Golden Body Kungfu.

The difficulty of the Golden Body Technique was such that most hard Qigong practitioners were daunted. Even Wang Gang, an extreme horizontal training enthusiast, did not dare to practice it, and could only settle for the next best thing, using third-rate hard Qigong to piece together a complete hard Qigong full body puzzle.

Lu Chenzhou was not afraid of the difficulty of the Golden Body Technique. With the foundation of Luohan Technique, the difficulty of the Golden Body Technique upper body training was reduced sharply, and the practice was twice as effective with half the effort. Only the lower body, head, palms and other special parts required more effort. With the martial arts tree, the Golden Body Technique was not as difficult as ascending to heaven for him.

A bit challenging at best.

Lu Chenzhou looked at the martial arts tree panel.

[Iron Crotch Skill: Mastery (1%)]

He ran to the Qi and Blood Measurement Room and practiced basic boxing techniques.

[Qi and blood value 5.44]

"Although it is a third-rate hard Qigong, it does improve Qi and blood quite a lot, which is normal. The stimulation area of ​​Iron Crotch Qigong practice has a low overlap with most martial arts."

It was late at night, but Lu Chenzhou still felt that he had endless energy.

"Is this the legendary dragon spirit and tiger fierceness?"

He had a headache.

"It seems that I can't practice Iron Crotch Kung Fu at night in the future. It's easy to fall asleep. It's not good if I can't vent all the excess energy... How about I practice boxing?"

Originally, he had finished his boxing exercises for the day. But now he felt a heat in his lower abdomen, which was unbearable and needed to be relieved. Lu Chenzhou could only stay up late to practice boxing until midnight, when he felt the heat subside, and then he took a bath and fell asleep.

The next morning.

Lu Chenzhou got up early and began to massage his core area. After practicing the "Iron Crotch Skill", he continued to practice the Tianzhuang to consume his energy.

"It's much more comfortable this way."

Get up early and practice Iron Crotch Kung Fu, and you’ll be like a living god for the whole day.

He remembered Chen Jiu's warning before he left for the apprenticeship:

"Iron Crotch Kungfu is the best way to strengthen your vitality. If your willpower is not strong enough, there is no need to practice it every day. It is also okay to practice it every other day... Otherwise, it is like eating braised turtle, scrambled eggs with leeks, oysters with garlic sauce, and goat's eggs every day. You know what I mean."

Having said that, Lu Chenzhou believes in his own martial arts will.

If you have any excess energy, you can release it by boxing.

When I opened my phone, the message from the Hidden Dragon List popped up again.

[Your Hidden Dragon Ranking points increased by 1000...]

[Your Hidden Dragon Ranking points increased by 123...]

……

[Your total score on the Potential Dragon Ranking has reached 7066 points, and your ranking on the Potential Ranking has risen to 788th. If you can maintain this ranking before the end of this month, you will receive 1 great merit.]

"Sure enough, we've made it into the top 1,000."

Lu Chenzhou stretched lazily, already indifferent. With the martial arts tree, it is normal to rise 2,000th in half a year, but after entering the top 1,000, it is difficult to move forward. In this ranking range, the starting cultivation level is almost all ninth-level masters.

"That's enough. I can get one merit for free every month without doing anything. That's 1 merits a year. By the time I'm 12 and off the list, I'll have gotten more than 35 merits for free."

Lu Chenzhou glanced forward.

"Chen Xiaoyun is ranked 656th. The next one will surpass her."

……

Breakfast time.

Master called Lu Chenzhou.

[Chen Zhou, you are 9th dan? ]

"Yes, Master, how did you know? I just broke through not long ago."

【I see your ranking has soared. 】

Every morning when the rankings are changed, Lao Ji will check it on time. He cares about it more than Lu Chenzhou. He is looking forward to the day when his apprentice will reach the top, just like playing a development game.

【Keep up the good work, and tell me if you have any difficulties. 】

Old Ji hung up the phone with satisfaction. After returning from the Talent Exchange Competition, he felt elated, as if he was the one who would win the championship. Lu Chenzhou's fame had already begun to spread in the Jiangnan area, and his name was already showing promise!
In Suzhou, Lu Chenzhou's household name has surpassed those martial arts talents cultivated by Pingjiang Wuda, and he can be said to be the best. Because compared with the six Tenglongs who just arrived, Lu Chenzhou, who has a lower physique, is more topical, and is a good reason for the country and the school to promote and give chicken soup.

Although professionals are aware that Lu Chenzhou's achievements are inseparable from his epiphany and awakening of his acquired talents, the general public will only remember:

"Lu Chenzhou's achievements today are all due to his hard work!"

After knowing that Lu Chenzhou had reached the ninth level, the two senior sisters were the first to send their congratulations. Ji Feiyan was a little shocked, but people like Shi Ruyu, who had witnessed Lu Chenzhou's rise against the odds, were no longer surprised and looked at it calmly.

It’s no big deal to go from the eighth dan to the ninth dan in three months.

Because he is Lu Chenzhou!
...Two o'clock in the afternoon, boxing class.

"Chen Zhou, you are at the ninth level? You are almost catching up with me in the rankings."

Chen Xiaoyun was wearing a belly-baring vest today, with her whip worth 1300 million tied around her slender waist. Lu Chenzhou couldn't help but take a second look every time.

What a great whip.

Seeing Chen Xiaoyun looking suspicious.

He smiled and said:
“Just broke through yesterday.”

Chen Xiaoyun calculated. She remembered that Lu Chenzhou had enrolled in school in early February. At that time, he was only at the peak of the sixth stage. It had only been half a year, and he had risen from the last in the class to break through three realms... Was he really just an epiphany genius? If this continued, it would only be a matter of time before someone with such a superior aptitude would be surpassed.

"Xiaoyun, I'm going to class."

Seeing that Chen Xiaoyun was still in a daze, Lu Chenzhou left.

Chen Xiaoyun looked at his back. As a talented person who had studied in the gifted class of Wuhan University since childhood, she had the illusion for the first time that she was very ordinary.

"No wonder Iron-faced Tiger is so nice to Shen Zhou."

……

stadium.

Li Gui was in high spirits today. He looked calm on the surface, but in fact he was so excited that he couldn't sleep the whole night. Yesterday he told Principal Wang about Lu Chenzhou's ninth dan. The principal was quite satisfied and told him to pay special attention. Such a seedling with the potential of a master is a hot commodity for top-level martial arts universities. Even in the modern world with so many masters and an explosion of population and science, there are still very few masters. For every additional master in a top-level martial arts university, its foundation will be deeper and its international ranking will rise.

Hongfu has sent a good disciple here.

Lu Chenzhou is a genius in the form of a tiger!
It's up to him to make Tiger Form even greater.

Li Gui looked at Lu Chenzhou who was eagerly waiting and said:

"You have the foundation of "Mountain Body", so you don't have to worry too much about "Tiger Shadow Mysterious Step". Just remember that the boxing theory foundation of any tiger-shaped body technique is derived from the third-rate body technique. The so-called quality of martial arts is also the differentiation caused by the continuous improvement of the predecessors based on the successors, and the same is true for boxing. This is why the top martial arts schools let everyone start from the third-rate martial arts, just to lay the foundation!"

“Students understand.”

"The training ground for Tiger Shadow Mystery Step is more complicated. The conventional wooden stake formation will not allow you to make any progress. Come with me."

Lu Chenzhou followed Li Gui to a special martial arts room. Half of the area was covered with shrubs, strange pines, rugged rocks, vines that covered the sky like spider webs, upside-down wooden cones, moss and ferns on the wet bluestone. The other half was covered with ice, snow, frozen ice, and coniferous forests... In a trance, he seemed to have come to the primeval forests of Bengal and the snowy forests of Siberia.

Ice and fire meet here.

Li Gui said:
"The tiger form is best at fighting in mountainous forests. The Tiger Shadow Mysterious Step is a high-level martial art created by senior masters who took the essence of various martial arts such as Mysterious Fist, Shadowless Step, and Mountain Body. If you can achieve [hitting the target without getting a single leaf on you] in such a complex environment, then it will be no problem on flat ground. If you encounter actual combat in the future, whether it is in a steel jungle or in the wild mountains and forests, it is actually the same principle. On the one hand, ignore the disadvantages of the environment, and on the other hand, use the surrounding environment to give yourself an advantage over the enemy!
This is the essence of the Tiger Shadow Step!"

Lu Chenzhou seemed to understand something, and he asked:
"Teacher, in today's society, there seem to be very few operations in mountainous environments."

His divine seed that can cross mountains has increased power in mountain and forest environments.

Li Gui said:
"If you reach my level, the Iron Jungle will be a forest to you, and this city will be your hunting ground. Why bother with superficial things? Besides, you may not know that as a student, in some forests and wild places, there are also virtual evil spirits lurking, and they all need to be cleared out by martial artists, not to mention the legendary virtual realm, which is a primitive world that is completely different from our world. If we humans want to eradicate virtual things, we will have to flatten the virtual realm and seal its source one day!"

Lu Chenzhou couldn't help but ask:

"Teacher, have you ever been to the Void Realm?"

Li Gui shook his head:
"With my strength, I am not qualified to enter. Currently, only professional national scientific expedition teams, wearing special equipment that can function in the virtual world, led by martial arts masters, can enter. However, they are limited to the outer areas. The virtual world is vast and boundless, as unknown and mysterious as the endless deep sea. If you step in rashly, you will die! Why are the top masters and above the masters the pillars of the country? It is because they silently guard the intersection for us in the foreign world and leave the terrifying existence behind the gate.

This is our...gatekeeper."

Li Gui's tone was solemn, and his words were full of admiration.

Figures of top-level warriors flashed through Lu Chenzhou's mind, especially those who broke the shackles of level six and level seven and became famous in the Wanbang Martial Arts Conference a long time ago. It seemed that they had disappeared into history and never appeared again. They were probably gatekeepers.

Seeing Lu Chenzhou silent, Li Gui said:

"But the virtual realm is not all bad for us humans. After entering the modern era, the number of our powerful humans has achieved a qualitative leap compared to the old times. From breaking through five shackles to breaking through seven shackles, on the one hand, it is due to the advancement of science and technology, the population explosion and other modern factors...

There is another important reason, that is the virtual world. In the virtual world, there are many great medicines and rare items that can help humans break free from their shackles, which were considered as "natural treasures" in the old days. Otherwise, how can so many people break free from their shackles by relying solely on herbs or materials on Earth?
Because the things that we martial artists use now were all treasures of heaven and earth in ancient times. The virtual realm can bring resources! So those top masters will take the initiative to be gatekeepers, also for resources. The country organizes scientific expedition teams, also to bring back resources and cultivate more martial artists! This will form a virtuous circle, using the virtual to cultivate martial arts, making martial arts stronger and wider, striving for everyone to be like a dragon, and finally using martial arts to defeat the virtual, and using martial arts to suppress all monsters and demons! "

Lu Chenzhou remembered that in the formula of the Mingshen potion, there seemed to be several ingredients that he had not found in the conventional herbal books. It turned out that they came from the virtual realm.

No wonder this medicine is so expensive.

Ordinary herbs can always be mass-produced to a greater or lesser extent with the help of human high technology, but herbs from the virtual realm would probably be difficult to produce on a large scale in a short period of time.

"Good fortune and misfortune are interdependent. It turns out that the virtual realm is so important."

"It's enough for you to know a little bit about these. When you become a martial artist, you will know many things naturally. There are those top masters guarding our teachers and students in the rear. My task is to teach well, and your task is to learn well!"

Li Gui suddenly turned on a switch, and then all the artificial environments, such as bushes, old trees, strange rocks, etc., imitated by metal, began to buzz and tremble.

"The Tiger Shadow Mysterious Step is mainly divided into two stages, the first is [Tiger Shadow] and the second is [Mysterious Tracking]. Tiger Shadow is to further strengthen and train your body movements, while Mysterious Tracking allows you to master the changes between reality and illusion, confuse the enemy, and interfere with the enemy through body movements, so as to kill the enemy with one move, or... the best option is to run away!"

Li Gui entered the room, the mechanism started to work, dead trees swept across, strange rocks shook, vines whipped, and in an instant, it was like entering a ghostland, surrounded by enemies! He crawled on the ground with his feet like tiger claws, and walked in it. His figure turned into a black phantom, which was difficult for Lu Chenzhou to see clearly. He always felt that the teacher had turned into a ghost and disappeared.

"There are many steps and moves in Tiger Shadow Mystery, with a total of 72 variations. When encountering stone, [Tiger Dare to Stand], when encountering wood, [Tiger Turns Around], when encountering water, [Tiger Jumps over the Stream], when encountering abyss, [Tiger Turns Back], when encountering an enemy, [Tiger Transforms into Wind]... But the essence of all the variations is to adapt to local conditions, treat the mountains and forests as your own home, and be free and natural!"

Under the guidance of the teacher, Lu Chenzhou also tried to enter the venue. He passed the mountain body perfectly and was able to hold on for a while. However, compared with the teacher's smooth movement, he looked a little uncoordinated, like a tiger cub just learning to walk.

"To learn martial arts, you must practice all at once. If you have nothing important to do this afternoon, just follow me and practice. If you get tired, take a short break. I want to see if you can learn before dinner."

Li Gui looked at the embarrassed Lu Chenzhou and stopped cursing.

Lu Chenzhou also had a fighting spirit in his heart, he said:

“Good, the students have confidence!”

Li Gui smiled slightly, which was a rare moment for him. If it were in the past, he would have thought that Lu Chenzhou was just bragging, but now, the person in front of him was the tiger-shaped genius praised by the principal.

Looking at Lu Chenzhou practicing hard, Li Gui felt very relieved.

It was worth it to be transferred from the main campus to the branch campus this time.

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