Crossing the stars, I live-streamed my cultivation in kindergarten

Chapter 446 The Journey to the Imperial Star 6: Using Force Against Force, Overcoming Hardness with Softness

Faced with Ruan Hao's horizontal punch, Teacher Andrew's usually powerful strength, which seemed capable of splitting mountains and cutting rivers, turned into a stream of water, meandering along the force of his attack.

It appeared soft and weak, yet it tightly entangled the opponent's punching force, diverting the momentum and neutralizing its fierceness.

As Ruan Hao's punches slowed and his body leaned forward due to inertia, Andrew seized the opportunity to counterattack, using the opponent's remaining force to transform the entanglement into a palm strike. With just a light palm strike, he caused the opponent to lose his balance, perfectly breaking the opponent's offensive.

"When encountering a fierce fighting style like Ruan Hao's, the best way to deal with it is to use softness to overcome hardness."

"The core of the 'using softness to overcome hardness' fighting style is to borrow the opponent's force. The force referred to here could be Ruan Hao's force or Feng Hanyang's force."

Just now, the teacher used Ruan Hao's own strength to hit himself. Now, let you experience how to use Feng Hanyang's strength to hit Ruan Hao.

As he spoke, Andrew demonstrated how to "borrow" the force of Feng Hanyang's sweeping leg and use it to attack Ruan Hao.

Feng Hanyang used all his strength when he kicked.

Under Andrew's control, Ruan Hao had nowhere to hide and was swept a full ten meters away.

Teacher Andrew continued, “What is softness? It is relaxation, perception, and yielding. When both muscles and mind are relaxed to their optimal state, that is the best state. Only by not being misled by the opponent's momentum, speed, or force, and by maintaining inner clarity, can you clearly see every change in the opponent's force…”

"The so-called perception is not simply predicting the opponent's move, but rather accurately capturing the momentum and gaps in the opponent's force through perfect control of one's own body and strength. The simplest of these is momentum, which is what is called the wind of the fist and the wind of the foot."

Remember, the enemy may deceive us, but the wind will not. As long as you can understand the wind, it will tell us the strength, speed, and deception of the enemy's attack..."

He held Hei Mo in his arms, letting him experience firsthand the surging wind and changing air currents.

"Finally, there is adaptation, which is to retreat in order to advance. Like water adapting to its container or wind passing through a valley, it is a proactive way of yielding, moving with the flow, adjusting one's own state according to the situation, dislodging the opponent's point of force, and silently changing the direction of the enemy's force, thereby turning the opponent's offensive into an advantage for one's own counterattack..."

Andrew held Hei Mo's small hand, leading him slightly forward in the direction of Feng Hanyang's attack, then used skillful force to block and neutralize the attack with gentle force.

A level 6 mid-tier orc and a level 8 peak orc were like weak cubs in his eyes, easily manipulated in his palm.

He explained the "softness overcomes hardness" fighting style in the simplest and clearest language, protecting the students from harm while guiding them to feel and understand its mysteries.

Teacher Andrew concluded by saying: "Use the opponent's strength against them, and use softness to overcome hardness. Softness is the essence, using is the means, and overcoming is the result."

The key lies in the interplay between 'strength and weakness, initiative and passivity, opposition and transformation,' and understanding how to appropriately follow and leverage trends…

Andrew's unique teaching method has overturned the perceptions of viewers and onlookers in the live broadcast room.

A male bystander stood there dumbfounded, repeatedly repeating Andrew's words: "Strong and weak, active and passive, opposition and transformation... going with the flow, leveraging the momentum..."

Another male, grabbing his hair, laughed loudly: "Using softness to overcome hardness? Using softness to overcome hardness! I understand, I finally understand! Hahaha!"

Another male orc dialed the intercom, excitedly shouting into the other end, "You know what? I just watched an ultimate demonstration of using softness to overcome hardness! This is the real deal! I never imagined that true softness could be so powerful..."

……

The onlookers, including orcs, expressed their shock at the experience.

The viewers in the live stream felt the same way. [Oh no, I think I've learned what true "using someone else's strength against them, overcoming strength with softness" really means.]

[This is unrealistic. I spent years in school and still couldn't understand this knowledge, and now I've learned it so easily in a live stream? This is illogical.]

What rubbish I learned in school! Every time I learned about the old-fashioned Chinese saying "using the opponent's strength against them, overcoming strength with softness," I didn't understand what it meant. How could softness overcome hardness? But after this explanation and demonstration, it's like a magic bullet!

[What insightful comments! Dude, this is truly enlightening!]

[I heard the kids calling out "Teacher Andrew" to the guy in the live stream! Could you tell me which college Teacher Andrew teaches at? I want to transfer! I absolutely must become Teacher Andrew's student!]

【Um... however, you don't meet Mr. Andrew's student standards.】

"Impossible! Don't mistake me for someone like Ruan Hao, all show and no substance. I am the top student of the seventh grade at the Imperial Military Academy! I've been the leaderboard in the Imperial Military Academy's dueling arena for three consecutive years!"

[Ruan Hao, all show and no substance? Listen to what you're saying upstairs.]

[Is the seventh-grade top student Fang? If it is Fang, then Ruan Hao is indeed just a pretty face compared to him. That's the renowned genius of the Fang family!]

No matter how talented he is, Mr. Andrew won't accept him as a student!

Yes, yes, we really won't accept it!

That's right, Mr. Andrew won't accept it!

[Bullshit! You're all just jealous of Fang's talent! I don't believe any teacher could refuse such a genius student!]

[You all understood? Am I the only one who didn't understand?]

After listening obediently to Teacher Andrew's summary, Hei Mo tried hard to understand. Finally, he hugged Teacher Andrew's neck and said happily, "Teacher, I think I understand. It's like water, soft and cool, seemingly without any temper."

But I can't beat it.

It's like throwing a small stone into water. Clever water won't block the stone hard; instead, it will splash beautifully with the force of the stone's fall, allowing the stone to sink into the water more quickly.

But the water was completely unharmed; instead, with the help of the nest and the small stone, it 'defeated' the small stone even faster...

Not far away, Gacio seemed lost in thought: "Using softness to overcome hardness is like a third-grade jade willow vine, growing in the crevices of a steep cliff, without any shelter. In the daily gales, it uses the force of the wind and its direction to take deeper roots. But the golden wood, which is of a higher grade, cannot survive in the gales of the cliff..."

Lin Xihe also shared his understanding: "Using someone's strength to fight them back can also be using someone's strength to return the favor..."

Of course, besides these cubs who understood better, there were also some cubs blinking their big, bewildered eyes, seemingly understanding but not quite.

[Oh no, it seems like I wasn't taught anything by Teacher Andrew, but by a few little cubs?]

[Oh no, I'm starting to develop a brain from all the explanations from these little ones!]

I really like the Tai Chi principle of "using the opponent's force against them, and overcoming the strong with the weak." It is not only a wonderful contest of strength, but also a way of dealing with people and situations.