Chapter 8: Fixed Mountain Stake

After painting a big picture for them.

Xu Dahu began to formally teach everyone the Fixed Mountain Stake.

This Stance Technique belongs to the basics of Martial Arts and is not very difficult, so after only half an hour, everyone could set their posture in a decent manner.

Of course, this was only knowing the posture; subsequently, one still needs to sense Qi and blood, temper strength, and continue until one develops the so-called Rolling Stone Force to enter the Force Refining Realm—every step requires talent and even a great deal of energy and sweat.

The sun rose, and the sunlight was scorching.

After everyone became familiar with the Stance Technique, they squatted in a horse stance under the patrol of Xu Dahu; whenever anyone slacked off or had an incorrect posture, a whip would immediately lash out.

Almost everyone had been whipped several times and was screaming repeatedly; only Lu Yuan had a standard posture and did not get whipped from beginning to end.

This was naturally due to the original owner's experience in practicing martial arts.

Although the original owner had not been practicing martial arts for two years and had not even reached the Force Refining Realm, he had long since mastered the basics of Stance Technique; with Lu Yuan's ability to draw inferences, practicing this Fixed Mountain Stake was not difficult at all.

Moreover.

Benefiting from his physical fitness, his stance posture was not only more standard, but he could also hold it for much longer than the others.

After only two quarter-hours, the others were basically trembling in their legs, swaying in their forms, and drenched in sweat, yet he remained calm and composed, neither moving nor shaking, far from his limit.

However, after showing off appropriately, he soon put on an exhausted appearance to avoid being too conspicuous.

Even so, Xu Dahu, who was merciless with the whip, spoke words of praise for him and appreciated him even more.

Soon, a morning of hard training passed, and it was time for the meal.

The disaster victims, who had never undergone such harsh training, ended their stance training with grimaces and limped to the side courtyard to eat.

Today's meal was better than yesterday's; besides the salted vegetables and a large bucket of rice, there was an extra slice of fatty meat in everyone's bowl.

Lu Yuan received even more fulfillment; the kitchen gave him an extra half of a stewed large pork knuckle, which made the others' eyes turn red with envy.

Ignoring the gazes of others, Lu Yuan finished the half pork knuckle with his rice in a few quick bites.

Furthermore, under the eyes of everyone, he quietly activated his Ingestion Technique while eating, thereby confirming that no one could discover the anomaly in his body.

This also caused his food intake today to break his peak, reaching a full seven large bowls, leaving everyone at the table dumbfounded.

And at the same time.

Outside the side courtyard, Li Shu, who had not appeared all morning, stood with his hands behind his back, looking at Lu Yuan's table in the courtyard with interest, and smiled:

"Is that the kid you were talking about? This appetite is truly not small; ordinary families probably couldn't afford to raise him."

Xu Dahu, who had reported the morning's teaching situation, also had a strange look in his eyes:

"This kid hasn't even reached the Force Refining Realm, yet his appetite is about the same as mine? I didn't take it seriously when he said earlier that he had a big appetite and great strength since he was a child, but now my eyes have truly been opened."

People who practice martial arts have larger appetites than ordinary people, and the higher their Martial Arts, the greater their daily food requirements; it is rumored that those Martial Arts Grandmasters who are famous throughout the world eat a whole cow in two days.

However, for a kid who hasn't even reached the first stage of Force Refining to have such a large appetite is truly a bit rare.

"Forget it, it's just some food; we can still afford to supply it here."

Li Shu was, after all, well-informed and smiled faintly:

"Since you say this kid is a talent, then give him enough food and cultivate him well; I hope he can bring more face to the Qinglong Gang in the future and not fall on the stage too early."

Xu Dahu nodded:

"Yes, Master."

Naturally, he was unaware of the conversation between these two.

After eating and drinking his fill at noon and digesting for a while, Lu Yuan and the others began training again in the afternoon.

The content of the training was no longer stance training, but rather weight-bearing to temper strength, plus various basic wrestling techniques.

The people responsible for teaching them were no longer Xu Dahu, but several veteran Wrestlers from the Boxiyuan.

This process was even more arduous than the morning's stance training, because these Wrestlers were all in the Force Refining Realm, with sturdy builds and great strength; their method of teaching wrestling was to directly use hands-on instruction.

Everyone, including Lu Yuan, was thrown into a daze and left bruised and swollen as soon as they went up, looking extremely miserable.

In fact, Lu Yuan felt that he was not bad in terms of pure physical fitness and even strength; it was just that he was a complete layman in terms of technique and strength control, which led to him not being an opponent.

The Force Refining Realm is about exercising the strength of the whole body and then concentrating it into one force, capable of making a punch explode in the air.

This was also the fundamental reason why he could not compare to those Wrestlers.

The subsequent Tendon-Changing Realm is about the whole body's tendons being flexible and strong, with fierce explosive power and agility, capable of defeating several armored soldiers with bare hands.

In the original owner's memory, he had once seen the senior apprentice of a martial arts hall wrestle with a water buffalo and even be able to subdue it.

And in this back courtyard, Lu Yuan roughly saw that the martial arts of Xu Dahu and Xu Erhu seemed to be at the second realm, the level of Tendon-Changing.

Don't look at it as only the second realm.

Historical records state that since the Jin Dynasty entered the pass five hundred years ago, they have banned and destroyed many sects, confiscated martial arts manuals, and long since thoroughly swept through the Jianghu, leading to a serious lack of folk martial arts inheritance.

It is precisely because of this that ordinary Jianghu forces mostly have mediocre skills; even the first stage of Force Refining is not everywhere, and reaching the Tendon-Changing level can completely be called a good Martial Arts expert.

However, these were irrelevant to Lu Yuan, a reserve cultivator; no matter how powerful the martial arts were, they could not compare to his Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend.

By the time the afternoon's practical training ended, he and everyone else were covered in bruises and wounds.

Fortunately, after eating, Xu Dahu arranged for people to distribute medicinal oil, and after everyone applied it to each other, they immediately felt much relief.

Then the next day, and every day thereafter, was the same.

In the morning, stance training; at noon, squatting while carrying sandbags to temper strength; and by evening, learning wrestling techniques.

The high-intensity training made the vast majority of the disaster victims complain bitterly, and within a few days, they had thrown the satisfaction of being able to eat their fill to the back of their minds.

It was just a pity that with the warning of the two runaways before, no one dared to escape; even if someone wanted to slack off, once discovered, they would be whipped until they were half-dead.

Moreover, it seemed to be to stimulate everyone's potential and enthusiasm; within a few days, Xu Dahu began to implement a bottom-elimination system, where the two best performers each day could receive extra meat or even alcohol during mealtime;

While those who performed the worst would have their food halved.

It must be said that this point indeed stimulated everyone's potential very well, and everyone became a desperate fighter, fearing hunger.

As for Lu Yuan, although he was considered an excellent performer almost every day, he did not slack off in the slightest and practiced tirelessly.

Because according to Xu Dahu's words, they would only be trained for at most half a month before they would have to go on stage for formal wrestling.

It is not just the Wrestlers of the Qinglong Gang participating; if one's skills are not refined when the time comes, one might not be able to walk off the stage alive!

(End of this chapter)