[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-becoming-a-saint-through-physical-cultivation-st":3,"chapter-becoming-a-saint-through-physical-cultivation-st-starting-with-the-diamond-exercise-to-achieve-sa-chapter-13":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Starting with the Diamond Exercise to Achieve Sagehood Through the Physical Body",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2126486,3478,"Chapter 13: Mountain-Shaking Bear Fist","starting-with-the-diamond-exercise-to-achieve-sa-chapter-13",13,"\u003Cp>\"Not arrogant or impatient, and able to initiate it so quickly. It seems your talent and temperament are not bad, and you haven't been affected by Zhou Yang and the others.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Cheng looked at the youth before him, showing a look of approval.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the hall master, he naturally knew what was happening in the outer courtyard, but it was impossible for him to manage such things. If someone was affected by a few words from others and lacked their own judgment, it would be difficult for such a person to achieve anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Disciple just treated them as farting!\" Xu Yang shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Cheng showed a meaningful expression: \"They aren't farting; everything they said is true. You have only just initiated the Turtle-Snake Great Stance and haven't truly realized the importance of money.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In a few days, you will find that you don't dare to practice the Turtle-Snake Great Stance much, because the food you eat simply cannot support your cultivation. If your nutrition doesn't keep up, you will instead harm your body.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yang had actually already discovered that after initiating the Turtle-Snake Great Stance, he felt hungry faster than before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If your family situation is still okay, invest more in food. If not, reduce your practice of the Turtle-Snake Great Stance. Remember not to harm yourself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yang bowed: \"Thank you for your instruction, Master.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Cheng nodded and didn't say much more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having run a martial arts hall for many years, he had seen too many disciples like Xu Yang. How many could he help?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in his view, Xu Yang's talent was just so-so. He hadn't even paid much attention to Lu Ren, let alone Xu Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing he could do was to treat everyone equally, teach what should be taught, and leave the rest to their own fortunes. A ten percent success rate didn't mean there was no chance at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come with me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Cheng stood up from his seat and walked out, with Xu Yang following behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Turtle-Snake Great Stance is a static skill, mainly for storing blood and Qi and tempering the body. Fist techniques are dynamic skills, methods for killing enemies and saving one's life, and also methods for operating force and gathering Qi to wash the marrow. Only by practicing both can one catch a glimpse of the mysteries of the Martial Dao.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Watch carefully. The fist technique of our school is the Mountain-Shaking Bear Fist, which is the most rigid and fierce.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Cheng leaped out suddenly, and a fierce and sharp set of fist techniques was immediately unfolded. His whole body's joints made a roaring sound, and a wild wind rose all around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The powerful pressure made Xu Yang feel as if a giant rock were pressing on his heart, and he couldn't help but retreat again and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is this what a martial artist is? So strong!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, an ordinary martial artist isn't as fierce as Master!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yang shook his head inwardly. Lin Cheng was definitely not an ordinary martial artist; he must be among the top in Qingyuan County.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Watch with your heart and feel the artistic conception of your master's fist techniques.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After one round, Lin Cheng didn't ask how much Xu Yang had memorized but threw him a fist technique manual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Watch for half an hour, and then hand it to your Senior Brother Sun Tao in a while. From now on, every seven days, you can come to the backyard to ask me for advice. If you have any doubts in the future, you can also find your Senior Brother Sun Tao to answer them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xu Yang bowed: \"Thank you, Master, for passing on the technique!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Cheng nodded with a smile: \"The Mountain-Shaking Bear Fist emphasizes killing and actual combat. After you initiate the practice, practice more with the senior brothers in the outer courtyard. In your spare time, walk on the plum blossom stakes to steady your lower body so you have the strength to kill.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After saying this, he left directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Go slowly, Master!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Lin Cheng leave, Xu Yang found a cool place to sit down and slowly opened the fist technique manual in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Mountain-Shaking Bear Fist · Not Yet Initiated (0\u002F10)】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half an hour later, Xu Yang stood up from the ground and glanced at the panel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fist techniques are indeed much harder to practice than stance training. No wonder that group in the outer courtyard almost always practices fist techniques but rarely practices stance training.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking to the pavilion from before, he handed the fist technique manual to Sun Tao and returned to the outer courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing him return empty-handed, Zhang Yong and the others couldn't help but have ugly expressions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look, the senior brothers and sisters in the inner courtyard have the same view as me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yang couldn't help but be triumphant and started to bewitch them again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Family! ===== CHAPTER 25 =====\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Second Brother, news just came in that Xu Yang has also initiated the Turtle-Snake Great Stance. How much should his cultivation investment be increased to?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifth Master Huang Jin of the Huang family found Second Master Huang Ping and reported the news that Xu Yang had initiated the Turtle-Snake Great Stance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This nephew of Zhou Shunchang has good talent. Increase the cultivation investment; there's a great chance he can become a martial artist.\" Huang Ping showed a look of surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Jin nodded: \"Initiating it in six days is very rare.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Ping said: \"Indeed rare, but he cannot be used by my Huang family.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Jin's expression changed slightly: \"What does Second Brother mean by this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Ping sipped his tea and said unhurriedly: \"My Huang family lacks martial artists, but we can't afford to support so many. A martial artist retainer has a minimum monthly salary of ten silver taels. For every extra one, the Huang family has to spend an extra one hundred and twenty taels a year.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For the Huang family, having one Lu Ren is enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Practicing martial arts burns money, and supporting martial artists burns even more money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten silver taels was still the minimum; some martial artists supported by families were paid fifteen taels a month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Huang family's business profits added up to only two or three hundred taels a month, and there was a whole family to support. Supporting one more martial artist would increase the pressure significantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xu Yang is Zhou Shunchang's nephew, so he counts as half one of our own. If we cultivate him, we can use him with more peace of mind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huang Jin already understood what Huang Ping meant—that he wouldn't increase the cultivation investment in Xu Yang—and immediately emphasized Xu Yang's identity again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to Lu Ren, Xu Yang had a closer relationship with the Huang family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He can't be cultivated. He has Grade C-Lower root bone. Even if we increase the investment and he luckily breaks into the first barrier of the Martial Dao, he won't go any further in the future. My Huang family doesn't lack Qi-Gathering martial artists.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lu Ren has impressive talent. I estimate he will be able to successfully gather Qi in less than two months, and in at most seven or eight more months, he will be able to break through the second major barrier of the Martial Dao and become a Marrow-Washing Martial Master.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you know what the retainer fee for a Marrow-Washing martial artist is? Even the lowest is forty taels a month. A genius like Lu Ren needs at least fifty taels, which is six hundred taels a year.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After doing the math, Huang Jin also felt that Xu Yang wasn't needed. A Marrow-Washing expert was enough to keep the Huang family safe and sound; they really didn't lack a Qi-Gathering martial artist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, you're right. Xu Yang is Zhou Shunchang's nephew after all, and Zhou Shunchang followed the Huang family before we rose to power. We can't show nothing when his nephew has such talent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In this way, go to the Mighty Far Hall, take one tael of resources from Zhang Yong and give it to Xu Yang, increasing him to four taels.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If all ten of you became martial artists, the Huang family's annual retainer fee would be one thousand two hundred taels. Where would the Huang family get so much money to support you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They might have needed two or three martial artists at the beginning, but after the genius Lu Ren appeared, the Huang family only needed Lu Ren.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If it weren't for the fear of affecting their reputation, the Huang family would have already swept you out the door after Lu Ren appeared.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yang talked eloquently. Zhang Hong, Qian Jiaxing, and the others listened with expressions of despair. Only then did they understand that from the moment Lu Ren, with his Grade B-Upper root bone, appeared, everyone had already been abandoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just out of regard for their reputation that the Huang family fulfilled their promise and sent them all to the Mighty Far Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long after, Huang Jin appeared at the Mighty Far Hall, first talking to Zhang Yong, who returned with an ashen face, and then talking to Xu Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, everyone knew that Zhang Yong's one silver tael of Body-Strengthening Soup had been reallocated to Xu Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Zhou Yang said, the Huang family wasn't willing to spend even one extra tael, only reallocating resources among the few of them. ===== CHAPTER 26 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",1591,"2026-06-16T12:13:30.304Z","2026-06-16T12:23:14.066Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","f46da75e30cc7a2bac8d17c67babb46e65cc7eb68c2efaab68e6225a4b7d10aa","starting-with-the-diamond-exercise-to-achieve-sa-chapter-14","starting-with-the-diamond-exercise-to-achieve-sa-chapter-12",410,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-with-the-diamond-exercise-to-achieve-sa-cover.jpg"]