Chinese Martial Arts: My Super Beast Clone

(The attributes such as Strength, Spirit, and Power have been adjusted in the previous text. Please be aware of this.)

Lin Hai returned to his room, carefully stuffed the cloth bag full of silver dollars under the bed, and then sat cross-legged on the bed.

Concentrate your mind, and the panel appears before your eyes.

Name: Lin Hai

Physical Strength: 12.2

【Spirit: 7.2】

Strength: 1306 jin (approximately 84,000 catties)

Martial Arts: Tiger-Taming Stance (Beginner) + Tiger-Taming Fist (Proficient)

[Talent: Iron Bones]

【Soul Clone: ​​Earth-Splitting Crocodile Dragon】

[Evolutionary Level: 15:1000]

[Spiritual Essence: 32]

Lin Hai's gaze fell on the plus sign behind the Tiger-Taming Stake.

After accumulating 32 points of spiritual energy, a plus sign appeared on the Tiger Subduing Stance, indicating that points could be added to upgrade it. However, the Tiger Subduing Fist remained unchanged, and no plus sign appeared. It seems that 32 points of spiritual energy are not enough for the proficient level of the Tiger Subduing Fist to continue to advance.

With a thought, he focused his mind on the plus sign on the Tiger-Taming Stake.

The text on the panel blurred for a moment, then began to flicker and change. The words "Beginner" quickly stabilized and changed to "Proficient".

Immediately afterwards, a new line of text appeared below:

[Physique +1, Strength +100 jin]

As the text appeared, a scene composed of countless fragments flashed through Lin Hai's mind, all of which depicted him practicing standing meditation. At the same time, he felt a tingling sensation throughout his bones.

After a while, the tingling sensation gradually transformed into a warm current.

A warm current rose from the lower abdomen, climbing up the spine vertebra by vertebra, and then spreading to the limbs and bones. It felt like soaking in a perfectly heated medicinal bath, with bones and muscles being massaged and relaxed simultaneously.

This process lasted for about 15 minutes.

Once the warm current had completely dissipated, Lin Hai opened his eyes and clenched his fists.

He stood up, slowly squatted down in the small room, and set up a tiger-taming stake.

He sensed the difference as soon as the stakes were driven into the ground.

In the past, when practicing Zhan Zhuang (standing meditation), he needed to consciously adjust his center of gravity to find the feeling of "feet firmly on the ground, knees rounded, and hips firmly seated."

It's different now.

The body naturally settles into the most stable position. There's no need to consciously adjust the angle of the knees or repeatedly try to find the right feeling in the hips; the center of gravity is found the moment you squat down. The two legs are firmly planted on the ground, like two wooden stakes driven into the soil.

This is the difference between getting started and becoming proficient in the Tiger-Taming Stance.

Beginner level is knowing how to stand; proficiency is when your body has formed a memory of it.

……

The next day, after breakfast, Lin Hai went to the Fuhu Martial Arts School as usual.

As soon as he stepped through the gate of the martial arts school's outer courtyard, he sensed that something was amiss. At this hour, the sandbags and wooden stakes in the outer courtyard were usually crowded with disciples practicing their strength, but today there were hardly any people training.

A dozen or so young disciples were gathered around several large bluestone slabs in the center of the courtyard. Standing in the middle of the group, speaking, was Ma Liu. He pulled his rickshaw through the streets and alleys of Yangcheng every day, and was the most well-informed.

At that moment, he was gesturing with his hand in mid-air to indicate the name.

"You guys didn't see it yesterday, but those Japanese devils from the Black Dragon Society were absolutely arrogant!" Ma Liu's voice was filled with barely suppressed anger. "Yesterday alone, they took on four martial arts schools. Changwei Martial Arts School, Liuhe Martial Arts Society, He Family Martial Arts School, and the Iron Arm Boxing School on East Street—they all got kicked out!"

A thin disciple asked, "Sixth Brother, do they really dare to kill someone in the street?"

"Going for the kill?" Ma Liu sneered. "That disciple from Changwei Martial Arts School, who was in the late stage of strength training, didn't even last three rounds. That Japanese guy swept his neck with a whip kick and he died on the spot. The disciples from the other three martial arts schools either had their legs broken or their spines crushed."

A collective gasp rippled through the crowd, and several people turned deathly pale.

"Yesterday alone, we killed six people!" Ma Liu stretched out a few fingers and shook them vigorously in the air.

After listening, Lin Hai did not participate in the discussion, but went directly into the inner courtyard.

The inner courtyard is much quieter than the outer courtyard.

Lin Hai walked into the courtyard, spread his feet apart, bent his knees slightly, lowered his shoulders and elbows, and assumed the stance of the Tiger-Taming Stance.

The effects of mastering the Tiger-Taming Stance were immediately apparent. Today, as soon as he stood still, he immediately found that feeling of "the stance being as firmly rooted as an old tree".

An hour passed.

Lin Hai finished his practice and stood up. His legs felt very relaxed, without any soreness or stiffness. In the past, after standing for a full hour, his knees and thighs would feel stiff to some extent.

In the words of his master Lu Zhengchuan, only when the stance training is solid can the boxing techniques truly unleash their power.

"Hmm, that was an interesting punch."

The voice of Senior Brother Chen Wu came from behind.

Lin Hai turned around, and his senior brother Chen Wu was standing behind him at some point.

"Senior Brother." Lin Hai cupped his hands in greeting.

"If the ground is uneven, I will level it myself." Chen Wu nodded and walked up to him.

"Your stance training has improved very quickly, much more solid than last time. Once you complete the second stage of Foundation Building, Bone Transformation, your stance training will advance further, and you will reach the realm of 'bones like iron, joints like springs.'"

"Senior brother is right." Lin Hai followed up, "Senior brother, I'd like to accelerate my cultivation progress; could I buy a few bottles of Tiger Essence Pills?"

"You have the money to buy this? Don't tell me you borrowed money at exorbitant interest rates." Chen Wu frowned. He knew a little about Lin Hai's family situation.

Lin Hai pulled out three silver dollars wrapped in red paper from his pocket. "Don't worry, senior brother, the money is clean. I dug up some mountain produce a few days ago and sold it for a good price."

Seeing that he had taken out real gold and silver, Chen Wu didn't ask any more questions. Every martial artist has their own methods. He stood up and walked into the courtyard where his master, Lu Zhengchuan, lived.

Unlike Lin Hai and other inner court disciples who were not allowed to enter Lu Zhengchuan's residence without his summons, Chen Wu, the eldest disciple, was half Lu Zhengchuan's apprentice and half his son. He could not only freely enter and leave Lu Zhengchuan's residence, but also managed the martial arts school's training supplies.

After a while, Chen Wu came out with three small porcelain bottles and handed them to Lin Hai.

"Three bottles, nine pills in total. Take no more than one a day; your body won't be able to handle more," Chen Wu instructed.

"Thank you, senior brother." Lin Hai put away the porcelain bottle, took the medicine, and left the martial arts school.

In the afternoon, Lin Hai returned home.

He closed the door, took out a bottle of tiger essence pills from his cloth bag, poured out one pill, and swallowed it with a mouthful of cold water.

After swallowing the pill, a warm current quickly appeared in the body.

The heat came quickly, like a fire burning in my stomach, then spreading through my blood vessels to my limbs.

Lin Hai immediately got up and planted his tiger-taming stake.

The medicinal properties and the qi and blood mobilized by the standing meditation collided, repeatedly washing over the muscles and bones throughout the body. The feeling was like countless fine needles pricking and poking in the muscles, with four sensations—soreness, distension, heat, and numbness—appearing alternately.

An hour later, Lin Hai stopped practicing the standing meditation, scooped a clump of tiger bone ointment from the jar on the table, and carefully applied it to his body. The burning sensation of the ointment mixed with the medicinal power of the tiger essence pills refined after practicing the standing meditation, creating another round of cleansing.