High-level martial arts: Starting with a heart of steel, stats crush everything.

The next day, Chen Mo continued doing the same things he did every day.

First, go to the Boxing King Academy to find Xue Le to be your human form gravity tempering room. After tempering your bones, go to Zhu Long to temper your muscles.

However, today's schedule includes one more thing than usual: learning Bajiquan from Zhu Long.

Chen Mo had already started training the muscles in his right forearm, sitting on the bench press and looking at Zhu Long, who was lifting weights not far away.

"Senior Brother Zhu Long, there's something I've always been curious about."

"Just ask me anything you want to ask," Zhu Long replied while still doing bench presses, unaffected by Chen Mo's interruption.

"I've noticed that when you fight with Senior Sister Dai, you always like to shout out the names of your moves. Doesn't that give you away?"

"Besides... it feels a little embarrassing to do this."

Chen Mo scratched his face. He noticed that everyone liked to shout out the names of their moves during battles.

Especially those extremely powerful special moves, which seem to have become a consensus among everyone.

"shame?"

With a muffled thud, Zhu Long put the barbell back on the bench press rack, sat up, and stared straight at Chen Mo.

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"Do you know that when you're about to unleash your most powerful special move, you have to shout out the name of the move?"

"This is an ironclad rule, understand?"

"Why?" Chen Mo was taken aback, startled by Zhu Long's self-righteous manner.

"Because it looks fucking cool!" Zhu Long's eyes lit up, his tone extremely serious.

"......?" A question mark slowly appeared above Chen Mo's head.

It took him so long to realize that Zhu Long actually had this kind of personality.

That's true, the way the moves are shouted out does look pretty cool...

At this moment, a man nearing thirty and an eighteen-year-old boy experienced a strange resonance.

"Getting back to the main point, since you want to practice Bajiquan with me, I will hold you to the highest standards."

"Your physical strength is already very high, much stronger than when I learned Bajiquan. The requirements for you will be correspondingly higher."

Zhu Long coughed lightly, realizing that he seemed to be having a relapse, and quickly became serious.

"Okay." Chen Mo nodded. It's not difficult to get started with Bajiquan, but it's very difficult to become a master like Zhu Long.

"Before we begin, let me tell you why martial artists who use their fists are the coolest."

Zhu Long looked serious and began to use a rigorous theory to prove his point.

"Following the principle, a martial artist's body is the best weapon, especially for martial artists like you and me who have honed their muscles."

"A single punch can shake the heavens and the earth, relying entirely on external aids—that's the power of two fists!"

"But... Senior Brother Zhu Long, don't you also know the Six Harmonies Spear?" Chen Mo raised his hand and asked a crucial question.

"I only said that the fist technique is the coolest, I didn't say that nothing else is needed." Zhu Long waved his hand to indicate to Chen Mo that he shouldn't worry about such trivial matters.

"Alright, I'll start teaching you Bajiquan from the beginning."

"The characteristic of Bajiquan's power generation is its short and fast speed; its power generation techniques are 'beng' (崩), 'shaking' (撼), and 'tu' (突)..."

Despite his burly build and somewhat eccentric personality, Zhu Long is incredibly detailed when he talks about Bajiquan.

With his hands-on instruction, Chen Mo mastered the basic stances of Bajiquan in just two hours.

However, this is merely a grasp of the basics; it's still far from satisfying Zhu Long and allowing him to proceed to the next stage of learning.

......

Boxing techniques are easy to learn but extremely difficult to master.

After several days of systematic learning and practice, Chen Mo is still struggling with the basic stances.

"Don't be discouraged. Normally, it takes about a month to learn the basic stances. You've only had three days, which is very short."

Zhu Long was quite satisfied with Chen Mo's learning progress; it was much better than when he first started learning Bajiquan.

"You are now very proficient in the basic stances, so you can start training your power generation next."

"First, practice brute force like a madman; second, practice soft, gentle techniques of sealing, closing, and deflecting."

"These are the skills you need to master in the second stage."

As Zhu Long spoke, he demonstrated the technique he was describing to Chen Mo.

This method of exerting force is incredibly powerful; it completely avoids the concept of using softness to overcome hardness, and instead relies entirely on hardness to overcome hardness.

"That's all for today. How's your steel bone tempering going lately?"

Zhu Long was somewhat expectant, hoping that Chen Mo would take him to the Abyss Rift to "scrape the ground" after Chen Mo reached the sixth level of the Steel Bone Realm.

Zhu Long was really thrilled with that last round of bluffing. Who wouldn't like a teammate who's decisive and daring?

"It's alright. My pelvis has been fully tempered. Now all that's left is my spine, ribs, and skull."

Chen Mo glanced at the progress of his steel bone tempering, which had reached 67%, increasing by an average of 4% per day. He would be able to complete the steel bone tempering in about eight more days.

My credits... seem to be not enough again.

Fortunately, he still had 15,000 gold coins left, so he didn't have to worry about getting stuck in the last 1% and failing to complete the perfect Steel Bone.

"So, when are we going to go to the Abyss Rift again to scrape the ground? I'm running out of credits again."

Chen Mo could also see Zhu Long's expectation. Why not take advantage of such a powerful figure who had come to him of his own accord?

"Are you sure? You almost died in the deep abyss last time."

Zhu Long was somewhat surprised that Chen Mo was still willing to follow him down into the abyss rift after such a dangerous experience last time.

"He's not dead, is he?"

Chen Mo patted his chest, making a muffled thud.

"Martial artists must be brave and willing to fight. What's the use of all that strength if they just stay at home and never go out to train?"

"Besides, our exploitation of the land not only benefits ourselves, but also weakens the resource supply of the Abyss Warriors to some extent. It's a win-win situation."

"Really, I always thought you were just a genius in martial arts."

Zhu Long suddenly stood up and grabbed Chen Mo's hand.

"Only now do I truly understand you."

"You're a genius in every way! Our ideas are completely aligned!"

"How about we ask Senior Sister Dai to go again tomorrow?"

Chen Mo raised an eyebrow and firmly grasped Zhu Long's large hand.

"Xiao Dai hasn't had any time lately; she's about to complete the forging of her golden body and advance to the tenth level of martial artist."

Zhu Long shook his head, pondering what other suitable candidates might be available.

"How about this, let's go to that medicinal herb farm in the Silver Wolf Mountains this time."

Chen Mo suddenly remembered the medicinal herb farm recorded in his file.

"That medicinal herb farm isn't very strong overall. Senior Brother Zhu Long, you take care of the guards, and we'll take care of ripping people off."

"I can't guarantee anything else, but I can guarantee that the people I've hired are absolutely top-notch at extorting money!"