Full-Time Martial Saint

Passing past the first two rows of students, Chen Cong calmly approached Su Nanyue and bowed again:

"Thank you, Teacher Su."

Su Nanyue nodded slightly, only glancing at him casually before her brows furrowed, and she blurted out in surprise, "Chen Cong's overall physical fitness is less than level 3?"

The training ground for stance training wasn't very big to begin with, and her words were heard by all the students in Class 2 of Senior Three in an instant.

In an instant, whispers and suppressed laughter followed one after another.

Su Nanyue then realized that her unintentional remark seemed to have caused Chen Cong some trouble.

"I'm sorry, Chen Cong, the teacher thought you were a martial arts student who transferred from another high school, I didn't expect..."

"Teacher Su, I transferred from the Cultural Studies Department of our No. 1 High School. My overall physical fitness level is 2.8." Chen Cong interrupted Su Nanyue's apology with a smile.

He knew that even if Su Nanyue didn't say it, everyone would probably know about his overall physical fitness level of 2.8 during the afternoon physical training class, so he might as well say it now.

Having lived two lives, he was no longer the kind of person who dared not face his own flaws because of his pride.

"Level 2.8!? Really!?"

"How did someone with such terrible overall physical abilities transfer to a martial arts academy?"

"Are all first-year students at the martial arts academy required to have a comprehensive physical fitness level of 3?"

"I remember he was brought here by Teacher Zhang, he must have gotten in through connections!"

"Hilarious! Using connections now? Are they going to use connections for the college entrance exam too?"

……

Inside the training hall, the discussions grew louder and louder, accompanied by various sarcastic remarks.

"Shut the fuck up!"

In the third row, Zhao Cheng looked around angrily and suddenly roared!

"So what if it's level 2.8? Were you born with overall physical fitness levels of 4 or 5?"

"Trying to feel superior, huh? Why don't you all go and compare yourselves to Xu Baiwei and Zhou Hao from Class One?"

Zhao Cheng's voice was like rolling thunder, echoing continuously within the stance training hall.

Ahead of him, several male classmates who were no less muscular than him turned around and stared at him with hostile eyes after a brief moment of surprise.

"Alright."

When the atmosphere became slightly tense, Su Nanyue spoke up.

"Zhao Cheng is right. Overall physical fitness varies from person to person. When Ye Qiucheng, the newly promoted Martial Saint of our Great Xia Martial Temple, was eighteen years old, his overall physical fitness was not as good as Chen Cong's."

Seeing that Su Nanyue compared Chen Cong to the Martial Saint Ye Qiucheng, many people present felt somewhat unconvinced.

But Su Nanyue's face was clearly showing displeasure, and none of them dared to say anything more.

After the little farce ended, Su Nanyue took a deep breath and said slowly, "Let's begin cultivating."

"Chen Cong, watch carefully and learn well."

As soon as Su Nanyue finished speaking, she slowly stood up, moved her feet to a position parallel to her shoulders, and slightly bent her knees.

"The Three Elements Stance Begins".

"Support the Mingmen point from behind, tuck the chest and straighten the back, keep the head upright and spirited, sink the shoulders and drop the elbows, and round the tiger's mouth (between the thumb and index finger)."

Su Nanyue recited the mantra of the stance training while demonstrating the extremely standard movements.

"Embrace the tree, open and close your mind, calm your spirit, and visualize..."

Chen did not follow her actions, but simply stood quietly to the side, listening and observing.

"What happened?"

"Why isn't the cheat code working?"

"Could it be that my cheat system can only analyze martial arts techniques, but not cultivation methods like stance training?"

As Chen pondered this in his heart, a sense of loss slowly began to creep in.

The movements and key points of this Sanyuan Zhuang exercise are not too many. In just over ten minutes, Su Nanyue had already finished demonstrating it. Next, the students practiced and persisted in following the steps she had just taken.

"Chen Cong, why didn't you follow along?" Su Nanyue asked curiously after finishing her routine, seeing Chen Cong still standing quietly in place.

Chen bowed slightly and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, Teacher Su. I'm thinking about the formula you just explained. I want to understand it before I start practicing."

He wasn't lying.

Since Jinshouzhi showed no reaction to Su Nanyue's demonstration of the Three Elements Stance Technique, he immediately abandoned all illusions and began to carefully comprehend the incantation of this stance technique, hoping to gain a preliminary understanding of the Three Elements Stance Technique before practicing it further.

Su Nanyue nodded with a smile: "Your idea is very good."

"The so-called stance training focuses on 'structural adjustment' and 'power flow.' Through special movements and breathing methods, it massages the internal organs and muscles, mobilizes the power of qi and blood, and generates a kind of 'whole-body power' in the body."

"The essence of the Bajiquan style practiced in your class is 'Hardness and softness, smoothness and fluidity, connection between upper and lower body,' which requires body coordination and unity of upper and lower body. In a sense, it has something in common with stance training..."

As Chen listened intently, everything around him slowly disappeared, and a phantom figure seemed to appear before his eyes, practicing the Three Elements Stance Technique in a way that was even more standard and smooth than Su Nanyue's movements.

Instinctively, Chen Cong followed the movements of the illusory little figure, slightly shifting his feet to shoulder level, raising his elbows to assume a stance, and slightly bending his knees...

"Chen..." Su Nanyue, who was standing to the side, saw that Chen Cong had already moved before she could finish speaking. She wanted to interrupt him, but was surprised to find that Chen Cong's movements were very precise!

In fact, with her keen eyesight, she could clearly see that Chen Cong's exertion of every muscle in his body was perfect during his practice of stance training.

"His body is like a cast iron..." Gradually, Su Nanyue was surprised to find that Chen Cong seemed to have grasped the core essence of the Three Elements Stance - his body was like a cast iron!

She had previously stated that stance training is an important prerequisite for cultivation methods.

The Three Elements Stance is a simplified version of the orthodox cultivation method. It was created by several sages of the Great Xia Martial Temple who, through a rigorous selection process, chose the "Three Elements Skill," which was the gentlest and most suitable for martial arts students who had not yet reached the entry level, from among many existing cultivation methods.

One of the core essences of this stance training is to maintain a sturdy and unwavering posture, requiring practitioners to be absolutely calm and composed during the practice, with their bodies resembling cast iron blocks.

"Um?"

Just as Su Nanyue was marveling at Chen Cong's comprehension, she suddenly noticed that his movements deviated slightly from what she had just practiced.

"Still not familiar with it?"

Seeing that Chen Cong's movements had clearly gone wrong, Su Nanyue thought to herself, and was about to correct him when she noticed that Chen Cong's face had turned deathly pale for some reason, and then he collapsed to the ground.

Pfft!

Inside the stance training hall, all the students were practicing stance training with complete concentration, and it was already very quiet.

The sound of Chen Cong falling to the ground instantly drew everyone's attention.

"Hahaha……"

"You can even knock yourself over while practicing stance training? Chen Cong, are you kidding me?"

"I don't know what the teacher was thinking. What's the point of taking in this burden? Won't he just lower our class average score in the year-end evaluation?"

……

"Standing meditation requires a calm mind, so everyone keep quiet!"

Su Nanyue's pretty face turned slightly cold as she gave a reprimand.

Although Chen Cong couldn't even finish one round of stance training before she couldn't hold on any longer, she had clearly seen all the movements she had just made.

She has been a stance training teacher at Xiangcheng No. 1 Middle School for several years, but she has never seen any student perform stance training as well as Chen Cong on their first time. In fact, in her opinion, the martial arts students in front of her who have been practicing stance training for more than two years are not necessarily more standard or refined than Chen Cong.

"Chen Cong, are you alright?"

Although stance training may not seem to involve any strenuous movements, it places extremely strict demands on the practitioner's overall physical fitness.

Chen Cong's overall physical fitness level is only 2.8. Su Nanyue thinks that he fell down because his foundation is too weak and he couldn't hold on.

However, only Chen Cong himself knew that the reason he fell was not because his overall physical condition was too poor, but because being in that state had greatly depleted his energy.

He looks like he's been working through the night for several nights in a row, and his mental energy is severely depleted.

He smiled and waved his hand, saying "It's nothing," but in his heart he was thinking about another question.

The action was wrong.

Su Nanyue's Sanyuan Zhuang stance training movements were incorrect.