Age: My Small World

"Huh? What are you doing here so late at night instead of sleeping?"

In Hu Baye's courtyard, the old man, wearing a coat, opened the door for Yang Jun.

Although he was muttering to himself, Hu Baye was still quite happy to see him.

"Master, I have mastered the power techniques of the Five Elements Fist."

Yang Jun happily shared his joy with Uncle Hu.

Although he didn't feel like he had become a more powerful master, the sense of accomplishment from creating a new technique was overwhelming, and no one could understand his desire to share at that moment.

"Done?"

Hu Baye turned his head in surprise, then stroked his beard.

"Indeed, I knew I hadn't misjudged your talent."

Even Master Hu was overjoyed by this.

The two entered the house, and Master Hu invited him to sit on the kang (a heated brick bed). Then the master and apprentice sat facing each other.

Seeing the quilt that had been taken off the kang and placed aside, Yang Jun knew that Hu Baye had originally planned to go to sleep, but his sudden arrival had delayed Hu Baye's sleep.

He scratched his head and said, "I'm sorry, Master, I disturbed your rest."

Hu Baye immediately glared and puffed out his beard: "How could an old man like me lack sleep? I sleep all day long when you're not here, and I hardly get any sleep at night either."

That's true for the elderly; they go to bed early and get up early too.

"Hehe, Master, you're in really good health. How about we find you a master's wife?"

Several years have passed since his aunt passed away, and he thought that his master should be able to let go of the past by now.

Who knew that Uncle Hu would suddenly give him a walnut to eat on the forehead.

"Bullshit."

"Alright, enough of that. Show me your technique."

Uncle Hu was too lazy to say anything more to him and got straight to the point.

Yang Jun stopped talking and immediately began to demonstrate.

He easily performed a set of Five Elements Fist in front of the kang (heated brick bed). This time, he used the complete power technique, and the force of his punches was so great that even a grandmaster would probably not be able to withstand it.

As someone who had been through it all, Master Hu could naturally tell that his technique was indeed complete.

He was immediately pleased and said, "Now you have finally created a new style of martial arts. You can focus on creating new styles of fist techniques in the future. Your talent has exceeded my expectations. Perhaps you will become a grandmaster of martial arts in the future."

The title of Grandmaster is not earned by creating a single technique, but by creating a complete and top-level internal martial art.

For example, Master Chen, the founder of Tai Chi, is also known as the Tai Chi Grandmaster. This exclusive title for the martial art signifies that he is the founder of this style of martial art.

"Has Master started creating any new martial arts styles yet?"

Yang Jun was quite curious about this.

Hu Baye has followed in his footsteps. Regardless of their combat prowess, they are now truly on par.

As for Hu Baye's sudden guidance, Yang Jun also realized that the old man was probably unwilling to give up his martial arts path and might be creating a new style of martial arts.

Sure enough, Master Hu nodded and said, "This old man does have this idea, but creating a style of boxing is harder than ascending to heaven." He sighed, "Only by embarking on this path can this old man realize how difficult it was for the great masters of our time to achieve it. I'm afraid I have no hope at all in this lifetime, but you are different, kid."

Hu Baye stared at him intently: "You are not only young, but also insightful. I believe you will definitely become the number one person in decades."

In fact, the fighting power of a grandmaster who creates a boxing style is not necessarily much higher than that of an ordinary grandmaster. More importantly, it represents the creation of boxing styles and shows that there is still room for improvement in boxing styles, rather than being stuck in the past and only picking up the scraps of predecessors.

For the martial arts world, that means martial arts are regressing.

In Yang Jun's memory, decades later, Jeet Kune Do was probably the only martial art that was able to establish its own school and become another style of martial arts.

This is a style of boxing that incorporates the essence of various martial arts schools. Its founder is renowned worldwide, which gives you an idea of ​​how powerful a grandmaster must be.

Of course, Yang Jun believes that he is currently capable of doing just as well as others.

He already possessed the ability to remember everything he saw, and with the aid of the spiritual water, he could endlessly learn about boxing techniques and various energy methods, drawing inferences from one instance to another. Perhaps one day he would have the opportunity to summarize his own boxing style.

It's just that this process will be extremely arduous.

"Master, don't worry, I will definitely create a new style of boxing."

Yang Jun made his promise, which made Master Hu smile with delight.

Tonight, Master Hu didn't let Yang Jun go back, but instead invited him to stay. The two talked until late at night, and the old man imparted all his insights from this period of time to him without reservation.

the following few days.

Aside from work, Yang Jun has always been immersed in martial arts techniques.

He didn't blindly try to create a new style of boxing right now; instead, he summarized all the boxing styles he had learned in the past.

Then he fell into a new comprehension of energy techniques, this time combat techniques.

As the second complete boxing style he learned, martial arts was not difficult to comprehend the internal energy of. However, he had previously devoted his time and energy to the internal energy of the Five Elements Fist, which is why he was unable to comprehend the internal energy of martial arts for so long.

After he created a new internal energy technique and then learned martial arts, Yang Jun was pleasantly surprised to find that his comprehension process became much easier. Often, he only needed a little guidance to understand how the internal energy technique worked. Therefore, his progress in martial arts internal energy techniques was astonishing.

"Perhaps this is one of the hidden benefits of creating a new martial art."

Even though he was immersed in martial arts, he did not neglect his work at the museum. Every day he would scan a large number of documents, identify and register them, or copy and reproduce them.

Yang Jun has already practiced calligraphy again and writes very well, so he doesn't need anyone else to write for him.

If it were in the future, I could simply type it on a computer and then naturally be able to photocopy the complete book. But right now, we don't have that option, so we have to write it by hand.

In fact, this work is usually delegated to assistants, which is why researchers need to be equipped with assistants. However, since he is the only one in the Classical Literature Research Department, he has to write it himself.

The fulfilling work every day, coupled with visiting different people, allowed Yang Jun to live a nearly normal life for a period of time, and also made him forget that he had another identity.

It wasn't until that day, when a phone call came to the museum again, that he realized he hadn't thanked Lao Zhu yet.

On the other end of the phone, Zhu Yong wasn't asking for a thank you; he just wanted him to come to the office as soon as possible.

"Sure enough, life is never smooth sailing, and just when things were starting to calm down, another storm arose."

He sighed deeply, then wrote a letter requesting leave and submitted it before leaving.

Although Old Zhu had given instructions, he couldn't forget his duties. (End of Chapter)