"Old maniac... you were right. Books do have a lot of power after all..."
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"Pant...pant...at this rate... pant..." Mo Fan panted as a smile formed on his face, his body all covered by sweat "At this rate, i'll breaktrough to the 5th Stage Tempered Body in only a month now, compared to before it's a huge improvement"
"I've been training for an entire day now, and I have accomplished the same results I used to achieve in ten days" the gold haired kid said, as he was satisfied with the improvements he had made: he reached the complete mastery of the White Crane Arts, both in the spear arts and in the hand to hand parts.
"I only have two days until Yang Kai returns and I must beat him or he'll make fun of me, so I guess it's time to start training again afte-"
~Ding~
~Dong~
As he was talking, the bell of his workshop rang, meaning that a customer entered "sigh... guess i'll have to forge another weapon before returning to training..."
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Mo Fan quickly made and sold the weapon he was requested for, and, like nearly always, he wasn't given a penny for it as the customer was clearly stronger than him.
"I really need to get stronger if I want to survive in this world... sigh..." the gold haired kid muttered as the customer left his shop.
When the entrance door closed, he immediately headed towards his courtyard to train, but just when he was about to open the door that led to his garden, he slipped on something and fell with his head first to the ground, that something flying on his face.
"Shit, why do I have such bad luck today? First the customer and now this..." a sigh escaped from his mouth as he slowly lifted what was covering his face, only to see that it was just a book.
'When the white crane falls, the black crane will rise from its grave, turning the laughs of joy into cries of despair' those were the words that his eyes couldn't help but read as they were right in front of them. He immediately got curious about them and so he continued to read the book, and, soon, he discovered something amazing: it was another martial skill.
With the thought of being able to learn another martial skill in mind, he quickly read all of the book's pages, but he found something strange: some of the words didn't have any meaning at all. And this happened in a lot of pages!
"What is this fricking book? Out of a hundred pages, only two have a real sense" Mo Fan said, as he quickly took a look at the book's cover and noticed that it was familiar to him "Wait! An upside down crane? Isn't this the same cover as that of the White Crane Arts' book just upside down?"
He quickly turned the book on the other way to see if he was right and he soon he realized that he was indeed right. "Hahaha, that woman was a genius! Putting two martial skills in a single book, one of them being avaible just by reading the book backwards is truly a brilliant idea!" He yelled so loud that almost everyone near his shop could hear him since he couldn't contain his excitement.
"And she didn't even put a weak martial skill in, these Black Crane Arts are amazing!" Mo Fan continued to yell as his excitement only kept increasing.
Well, that much excitement was reasonable since those arts were indeed incredible. Its fighting style was the opposite of the White Crane's style as, instead of being pointed more towards grace, agility and balance like the latter, the former was far more powerful in terms of sheer force, but way behind in speed. And the same was for its spear arts as it had those too!
But it had something the White Crane Arts didn't have... a body refining technique. It's method of strengthening the physique was quite simple as it only required to take as much Qi as possible inside of the body and practice the fighting style while holding the breath as to not let this energy exit.
But... wouldn't the Qi still be able to exit from the body as, just like it could enter from the acupuncture points, it could also exit from them, right? Well, yes, but that's the very same reason why it was required to hold the breath for the method to work since, when one doesn't breath, the acupuncture points would immediately close by themselves, not letting even an ounce of Qi to either enter or leave the body. That's why breathing techniques actually existed because as one's breath was more clear and powerful, his acupuncture points would work way better.
In this way, as one kept training, his muscles would be continuosly washed by the Qi and thus becoming stronger faster than usual. "Just what kind of luck do I have? This body refining technique is simply perfect for me since, by making my acupuncture points bigger, I am now able to take more Qi in my body than the average person can and this will speed this physique refining technique a lot"
" I should go and try those arts immediately then..." he said excitedly as he went to his courtyard and immediately started training again.
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After two hours
"Fuck! I was able to hold my breath for only five minutes this time!" Mo Fan, irritated by how short was the time he could hold his breath for, said, as he was laying on his courtyard's green grass, taking a little rest before trying to give it another go.
But, without him realizing anything, his eyes closed by themselves and soon he fell into a deep sleep. He was really tired.
...to be continued
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I hope you guys understood what the body refining technique actually worked since I didn't find that much words to explain it since I just invented it and if you don't i am sorry, as always, english isn't my first language.
Remember to check my other work "Uniqueness Emperor"