Chapter 3: Wood breaking Fist
Next day, Tian repeatedly practiced the wood breaking fist. At first he had some trouble understanding the concept but as his body had become considerably stronger, his punchs were fast and packed more energy than before.
As he practiced Contiuesly, sweat rolled down his cheek and his muscles also started to get strained from repeated stress from the technique. Tian took a small rest and decided to study the instructions for wood breaking fist art again.
As he was reading the fist art, a senior old monk patted his shoulder " Tian, here.... " The senior monk gave Tian a peach as he smiled. The monk was muscular and had a towering presence. A thick nose and hard skin that was filled with scars." It's good to see the younger generation focus on martial arts...maybe this peach will help you understand the concept of the wood breaking fist... " The monk said as he left.
It was Tian's first time meeting this monk but there were many such muscular monks in the temple so ignored the person and focused on the peach. He knew that monk wanted to instruct him in right path. This meant that he was doing something wrong.
He tried to remember all the old martial arts movies from his previous life and came to a small conclusion. " I should focus more on the essence of the technique instead of trying to follow the description. "
Tian then put the book down, the wood breaking art was a way to channel the whole body's energy to concentrate on the fist to break through any resistance. A trained monk will be able to break a thick log of wood or fracture the strongest and thickest bone in a human body, the thigh bone with one punch.
Tian then remembered that he had seen some videos of MMA fighters in his previous life where they would gather energy with legs, pass it along with the rotation of the waist and then through the rotation of the shoulder, the energy would explode through the fist resulting in a jaw breaking punch.
Tian tried did see some similarity in the wood breaking fist art. Here only thing additional was that in wood breaking fist art, there were additional requirements to contract and certain muscles while throwing punch for extra added power.
Tian tried going along the movement he remembered from his previous life and followed the same pattern for muscle movement given in the manual as a swoosh sound was produced as his fist sliced the air and stopped mid air.
He almost performed the technique but without target, it wasn't considered success. Tian then picked up the peach and smiled as he ate the peach. As he finished, he buried the seed in the soil near the temple and went to the wooden dummy for final practice of the wood breaking fist art.
He once again followed the same method as a huge amount of energy was passed from his body, the rotation of his body was so fast that his fist made swoosh sound.
*Crack! *
The wooden dummy was almost uprooted and the place where the punch hit had some cracks as Tian retracted his hand and rubbed his fist. His bronze body wanst at the level where he won't feel any pain as he had a pained expression on his face.
Soon his mood was instantly lifted as he saw a golden screen and a button with cursor floating in front of him.
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Tian Looked at his hand, there was some redness and swelling around his knuckles but overall it looked like his hand would heal in a day or two.
He stopped practicing as he looked at the muscular monk standing a little bit far away, he then smiled as he bowed to the monk and went back to his room.
That day, although he didn't use up much energy, he was still drained after doing a few cycles of bronze body sutra.
[Bronze Body Sutra] - Level 0
Progress - 11/100
Limit - Level 5
Evolves at Level 5
[Remark - A basic body-strengthening technique which is able to evolve as there are known evolution paths.]
He had completed 11 cycles so far. Tian sighed as he decided to take it easy for the couple of days, he was only 10 years old and cultivating in a hurry might lead to hidden complications later on in his life. There was also a problem of food, although he did try to find a way to get out of the temple, there was always strict watch around the temple.
The world was filled with demonic beings and demon beasts, there were also spiritual beasts and divine beasts, the temple which was located in the forest near a small hill. The resources and food required was grown on the mountain and collected from the forest. The food mostly contained some fruits, rice and some crops grown on the mountain slopes.
The nearby villages also sent some rice from time to time. Tian thought that sneaking out on the rice delivering cart was his best chance at sneaking out but he decided to give up on that idea as the monks that handled the security were too strong for him at the moment.
Tian continued to practice both Body strengthening technique and wood breaking fist art as he progressed faster than any other kid his age everyday, he wanted to master some other martial arts and get even stronger but at his age, he was only allowed access to the basic techniques of the temple.
The shaolin temple that he stayed at was considered a local protector of the weak and maintained peace throughout the nearby Forrest, helping lost travelers, warding off the demonic beasts and monsters and spreading Buddhist teachings were one of teh many tasks performed by the disciples of the temple.
Tian was only 10 years old so he wasn't yet exposed to outside world's difficulties.
"Tian, you are improving at a faster pace than your peers, that is a really good thing, but remember, we shaolin monks strive to use our strength and power for the good. Each person has a core belief, you should also decide what your core belief is and focus on that belief."
The elderly monk said, the monk was old and often gave guidance to the other young monks. Tian went to this old monk as this monk was the head of the library in which other martial arts techniques were stored.
"Master, Doing good is just a general guideline, one person's good is bad for other, how can everyone be right when there are so many things wrong in this world."
Tian replied as he looked at the library "I wish to learn a new martial art, please allow me inside "
The Old monk who listened to Tian had bright eyes, after listning to the answer of the young monk in front of him, the old monk remembred his own past herioc days.
"Brat, when i was your age, i didnt even know how to swing fist and you are already debating about right and wrong? hmph! why cant you just listen to our elders teachings and nod yes? as for entering the library and learning a new technique, you are not ready yet "
Tian sighed, as always he returned empty handed today as well as the old man looked at his departing back and harrumphed "What a persistent kid, at least he knows to respect me, its worth teaching him. "
The old man repeatly nodded his head as Tian left.
Tian looked at the monks practicing martial arts with a rhythm as he smiled and joined them in training. In his previous life, he was a normal guy, with a few close friend that drifted apart after collage, a few girls he likes who were out of his league, and a job that he hated but did anyway because it paid well. Only thing good in life was his love for novels, Games and food.
Here in another world although he missed those things but he enjoyed peace and quite life, no deadlines, no complicated social interaction and just pure dicipline that pushed him to work harder. there was certain kind of harmony in practicing martial arts that he liked. as he was thinking about all this, he stopped and he sat down under a small peach tree to rest as he looked at the leaf.
He remembered that in his previous life, he used to make butterfly from tree branch and leaves as he started bending and tying the leaves around the branch to make a butterfly. soon a beautiful butterfly was made from the leaves as Tian smiled and tied the butterfly to the tree as a decoration. soon a golden screen floated in front of him
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