Chinese Martial Arts: My Super Beast Clone

Lin Hai did not refuse and walked to the Iron Man Stake.

He stood still, his gaze fixed on the center of the iron stake. He planted his feet firmly, shifted his weight onto his hips, and lowered his center of gravity.

Then, the punch is thrown, the power travels from the soles of the feet to the waist and hips, then through the spine, and finally from the shoulder to the fist, the whole process like a whip being lashed out.

Whole strength.

"Bang."

The pointer spun and stopped at 756 jin.

There was a moment of silence, then someone said, "Seven hundred and fifty-six, not bad."

"Junior Brother Lin has only been a student for a month and a half, right? This progress..."

"The key is to look at his punches; they're so smooth. He's channeling his full power."

Chen Wu nodded in satisfaction: "Junior Brother Lin, your punch was clean and powerful. A punch with over 700 jin of force is not weak in actual combat."

Lin Hai withdrew his fist and stepped aside.

He felt somewhat helpless; 756 jin was his limit, and he hadn't wasted any of his strength.

But that barbarian Sun Datou hasn't even mastered integrated power yet, and his punching strength is already close to 800. Once he finally understands and masters integrated power, won't he be able to break 1000 with a single punch?

Some things are truly a gift from God.

"Let's go, let's go." Sun Datou squeezed in, his face flushed, and put his arm around Lin Hai's shoulder. "Junior Brother Lin, once I've mastered my full strength, breaking a thousand enemies with a single punch will be a piece of cake!"

"By then, I'll be a master of Ming Jin!"

"You haven't even mastered the whole-body strength yet, and you're already thinking about the manifest strength." Lin Hai pushed his arm away. "You should master the whole-body strength first."

"Hehe, almost there, almost there."

……

At dusk, Lin Hai returned home.

As soon as the courtyard gate was pushed open, Lin An was seen squatting by a stone in the corner of the courtyard, holding a frog in his hand and putting it into a bamboo box on the ground.

Lin Hai walked over and saw a skink about the size of a palm lying in the wooden box, its grayish-brown scales gleaming dimly in the setting sun. Before the frog could react, the skink had already slithered up, biting its hind leg and swallowing it whole in a few swift movements.

Lin Hai entered the house.

Lin Wan was busy in the kitchen when she heard the noise and poked her head out: "You're back? Dinner will be ready soon."

"Okay, sis." Lin Hai thought for a moment and then said, "After dinner, could you boil some water for me? I want to take a shower tonight."

"Okay, I'll keep the fire burning and add water for you after I finish cooking."

After dinner, Lin Hai and Lin An played around for a while before heading to the small courtyard in front of the house.

He took out a porcelain bottle from his pocket, poured out a tiger essence pill, and swallowed it.

After swallowing the pill, a moment later, a surge of scalding heat exploded from the dantian and flowed through the meridians to the limbs and bones.

Lin Hai's eyelids twitched.

This heat was several times more intense than that of the Tiger Power Pill. The Tiger Power Pill felt like a warm stream flowing through the body, while this Tiger Essence Pill felt like a pot of boiling water being poured into the blood vessels.

Don't just sit there.

Lin Hai straightened up and assumed a fighting stance in the open space of the courtyard.

Tiger-Taming Fist, First Form.

The fist was thrown from the waist, and a surge of heat followed the force of the punch to the arm. It felt as if there was a fire burning inside the body, and with each punch, that fire would wash over the muscles along the direction of the force.

Second move, third move...

Lin Hai practiced his moves meticulously, his movements slow, but each punch delivered with maximum force. A surge of heat seemed to be drawn by the power of his punches, repeatedly washing over his muscles and bones.

Ten minutes later, sweat began to bead on his forehead.

Twenty minutes later, his inner shirt was soaked with sweat.

Forty minutes later, his skin turned an abnormal flush, as if it had been steamed, and his whole body was emitting heat.

After an hour of fighting, Lin Hai put down his stance and leaned on his knees, panting heavily.

His whole body looked as if he had been pulled out of the water, with sweat dripping onto the bluestone slabs on the ground.

"Brother, are you alright?" Lin An approached at some point, his eyes widening as he looked at Lin Hai's appearance.

"It's nothing." Lin Hai waved his hand. "Go do your homework."

"Oh..." Lin An slipped away.

Lin Hai straightened up, feeling the changes within his body. The effects of the Tiger Essence Pill had mostly worn off, with the remaining aftereffects still slowly circulating through his muscles. His body felt a soreness, as if it had been repeatedly washed and hammered, but at the same time, his muscles felt a full, satisfying saturation, as if they were being filled with something.

He went back to his room.

Lin Wan had already prepared hot water; a large bucket of boiling water was placed in the room, covered with a wooden board to keep it warm. Lin Hai used the hot water to wipe away the sweat and dirt from his body, then scooped out a large lump of tiger bone plaster from a jar beside the bed.

The paste is thick and dark brown in color, and has a strange, fishy smell when held in the palm of your hand.

He started applying the ointment from his arms, layering it over his body. His chest, back, legs, neck, wrists, and ankles—every inch of skin was covered with a thin layer of ointment.

It feels cool when you first apply it, like you're applying a layer of mint balm to your body.

But after only a dozen breaths, the coolness subsided, replaced by a fine, stinging sensation. It felt like countless tiny needles were piercing the surface of the skin; not intense, but pervasive throughout the body, leaving nowhere to hide.

Lin Hai gritted his teeth and endured it.

After a few moments, the stinging pain disappeared.

Then comes the burning.

It felt as if someone had lit a fire under his skin, burning from the very bones. The heat was different from that of the Tiger Essence Pill, which burned from the inside out, while the Tiger Bone Ointment seeped in from the outside in. The two heats collided and intertwined between his muscles at that moment.

Lin Hai clenched his teeth so tightly they were grinding, and the veins on his temples were throbbing.

pain.

It really hurts.

He stood in a sturdy position, closing his eyes and enduring the pain. As time passed, the burning sensation gradually changed from intense to warm, and finally to a faint tingling.

By the time the heat had completely dissipated, almost half an hour had passed.

Lin Hai opened his eyes and looked down at his skin.

The once normal skin tone was now covered with a layer of grayish-black grime, which was sticky.

He walked to the bathtub and soaked in it.

As warm water washed over his body, Lin Hai rubbed his arms with his hands, and black grime rolled off in strips.

When he stood up from the bucket, the clear water had turned into an ink-like color, murky and black, with a layer of greasy substance floating on top.

Lin Hai stood by the bucket and stretched his arms and legs.

My body feels lighter.

It's not about lightness in weight, but a sense of openness. It's as if impurities that were previously blocking the meridians have been cleared out, and the flow of qi and blood is smoother than before.

……

Night falls.

The dragon lizard lay quietly beneath the bushes, its scales blending perfectly with the surrounding shadows. A hare it had swallowed half an hour earlier was now rapidly dissolving in its stomach acid, turning into pure heat to replenish the energy it had expended while tracking the prey.

It sticks out its tongue, catching the faint breaths in the air.

The jade-horned deer has been here.

The dragon-snake lizard moved silently through the forest, its limbs twitching. After climbing over a moss-covered fallen log, a small pool of water appeared ahead.

Moonlight filtered through the gaps in the tree canopy, casting a silvery glow on the water's surface.

A faint, bluish-green light flashed by through the gaps in the bushes opposite the pool.

Jade-horned deer.