Lingzhang

Chapter 9 Using the Nine Palaces as a Furnace

In the huge high school campus, the senior high school teaching building has been placed relatively at the back.

Create a better environment for students with a more secluded environment.

But when Yue Hanzhang followed Qin Linhui to the back of the teaching building and passed through a small patch of artificially planted trees, Yue Hanzhang finally felt what true seclusion was.

Even when Yue Hanzhang looked up, he could see the tall buildings standing in the center of the base city through the sparse branches and over the high walls of the campus.

Yue Hanzhang felt that the creation of tranquility in the bustling city had gone beyond the pure creation of an environment, and that a more elusive and mysterious artistic conception was encompassing the area.

And under the cover of this small forest is a martial arts gym with a strong sense of technology.

I don’t know if it’s because the sound insulation is so good, or because this class of senior high school has just started and hasn’t arrived here yet, but the entire martial arts hall is just lying in the woods, seeming even more quiet.

Led by Qin Linhui, the two did not go straight into the martial arts hall through the main entrance, but walked to the side of the hall.

When he got closer, Yue Hanzhang saw the doors inlaid on the seemingly flat wall on the side, as well as the class names marked on them.

If you look closely, you will see that there are four doors marked as Class 7 that look extremely similar.

When I walked to the first door, a window suddenly popped open on the metal wall on the side, and colorful light suddenly lit up on the screen that was as smooth as black jade.

Then, under the guidance of Qin Linhui, Yue Hanzhang stood in front of the black jade screen, took out his student ID card to swipe and register, and recorded the fingerprints of his ten fingers and the irises of his eyes.

"From now on, except for the collective martial arts lessons for the whole class, you will not have to attend the rest of the courses in the classroom with them. All those courses will be converted into martial arts training time here."

"When you are in the state of boxing, your body and soul are one. You may not feel anything yet, but you are already a true martial arts practitioner!"

“You are standing on the edge of the otherworldly world, but you can already let go of many trivial matters.”

"I've recorded your identity. You can come by yourself from now on. This is the first martial arts studio in our class. For now, you can use it alone."

"Don't underestimate the order of the training rooms. The first two students who break through the unity of body and spirit will be in the first training room, the next four will be in the second, the next six will be in the third, and the rest will be in the last room."

"You don't have to go to the school cafeteria for three meals a day anymore. You can eat at the martial arts training hall. The body and spirit are united, and the energy of qi and blood are condensed. That is a terrifying energy consumption. The importance of food supplements in this process is even greater than that of the previous eight years."

"Although we won't sign a contract for targeted training, and won't have the high-energy food and blood medicine donated by the big companies that are in the same lineage as the Taoist Academy, as long as you practice hard, the school will follow the laws of the Taoist Alliance and provide you with high-energy food every day."

"As for energy, it's definitely enough. As for the taste... you always enjoyed the energy meals at school so much, so it shouldn't be a problem."

"Anyway, the sooner you can master the art of boxing, the sooner you can enjoy these things. When competing for the first place in martial arts and practicing cultivation, the advantages are often reflected in these small details."

Having said this, Qin Linhui finished a dazzling series of operations in front of the black jade screen, registered Yue Hanzhang on it, and enabled numerous permissions.

The screen moved back and, as the window closed, turned back into the smooth metal wall.

Finally, the heavy metal door opened silently.

After entering the martial arts training room, Yue Hanzhang was shocked by the overly spacious space inside. It was as big as two classrooms.

From now on, this spacious training room will be exclusively his. Even if it is full, it will only be shared by the two of them.

Just now, when Qin Linhui opened up many permissions for Yue Hanzhang, he also told Yue Hanzhang clearly that in the future, a vertical take-off and landing soundproof metal wall could be used to separate the training room in the middle.

This ensures that both people can enjoy the spacious space while not disturbing each other during their practice.

This kind of authority is only available in the first two martial arts studios. As Qin Linhui said, the advantages of martial arts competition are all in these ubiquitous details.

Then, Qin Linhui took Yue Hanzhang around the martial arts room, and explained in detail everything from adjusting the ventilation to controlling the temperature, until he went over all the control methods of the martial arts room.

Walk back to the center of the martial arts training room.

Only then, at Qin Linhui's signal, Yue Hanzhang stood in the Tianyuan position in the center palace. Under Qin Linhui's intense gaze, he took a step forward and in the instant, his body and soul became one, mobilizing all his energy.

Whoosh—Snap—

After his mind was refined in the early morning, Yue Hanzhang's palm strike far surpassed all his attempts last night.

It's not just from static to dynamic and then back to static, the overall changes and connections are smoother like a whole. Those clear movements that were originally disassembled are reflected in Yue Hanzhang's body as a whole.

The sound of the palm wind breaking through the air became even crisper and louder, showing its power.

Even though he had already noticed Yue Hanzhang's progress, until this moment, when he witnessed it all with his own eyes, Qin Linhui still subconsciously smiled with satisfaction.

At this moment, Yue Hanzhang retracted his palm, took a step back, and even asked Qin Linhui about his questions and confusions impatiently.

The look of uneasiness and worry over the changes in the fist position on his body all came from Yue Hanzhang's true heart.

Hearing this, Qin Linhui did not hesitate at all, as if he had answered similar questions from too many students before.

"This is normal. The unity of body and spirit is a mutual process. Your mental power is integrating into the boxing stance and further into the physical body."

"Similarly, during this process, the boxing stance is also influencing your spirit, tempering your will, and is gradually becoming part of your instincts, such as how you generate force and so on."

"In this case, only the original fist stance is fixed, but everyone's mind, will, amount of qi and blood, and degree of bone development are different."

"So, starting from the unity of form and spirit, at first it is a pure change in the blood and spirit, but at the same time, the deeper the change, the fist posture itself will also change accordingly."

“It would be strange if it didn’t change.”

"Of course, this doesn't mean there are no problems with your changes."

Having said that, Qin Linhui really began to look at Yue Hanzhang with admiration.

"As expected, just as the past examples have shown, after the nightmare disease, you have turned bad times into good times, and your original talent has now reached a higher level."

"However, fortunately, your talent is not beyond imagination. If this palm had a deeper change to fit the form and spirit, it would have been too much."

"This is also the main point of the lesson that the teacher is going to give you today!"

"After crossing the threshold of unity of body and spirit, the focus of the first step of training is not on the depth of the boxing skills, but on the whole, on the three sets of boxing postures, nine steps, and twenty-seven changes of the Nine Palaces Primordial Palm!"

"The Nine Palaces are complete, and the three changes inside and outside are like being sealed."

"Together, the complete Nine Palaces Primordial Palm is not only a complete set of palm techniques, but also a key step in shaping the body and spirit into a cauldron and furnace in the process of martial arts practice!"

"Only when you have mastered the whole power of sealing and closing, and use the Nine Palaces as a furnace for your body and soul, can you refine the true power of Qi and blood, and truly 'seal' and 'nourish' the power of Qi and blood in your body!"

(End of this chapter)