Chapter 381: Chapter 381
Two days later, the sky was near dusk.
Meng Chuan’s body was seated cross-legged in the courtyard.
His spirit had already flown beyond the nine heavens.
In front of Meng Chuan, the elder stood in a dark blue close-fitting jacket, a set of short martial arts attire.
He stroked his beard and sighed, saying:
"Drilling Fist is a Water Attribute, like flashing but not flashing, if cleverly unleashed, I suspect it could have the power to topple mountains and collapse ridges."
"Master Ji, Meng Chuan understands."
Stepping out of the War Soul space, Meng Chuan showed a joyful expression.
Regarding the final point of Limit Breaking for Drilling Fist, thanks to the guidance of the ancient Xingyi Boxing master "Ji Jike," Meng Chuan fully comprehended.
Since he practiced the Water Attribute, he consistently believed its characteristics were agility, penetration, and infiltrating every crevice.
Striking with soft power, avoiding the solid to attack the void, and resolving through borrowed momentum.
Today, he comprehended what "clever unleashing" meant.
Smoke curled up from his chest as his body and arms took on an unusual posture, like twisting a rope.
His waist and hips rotated, and his arms stretched forward like a "drill."
A crisp sound rang out, and the fierce wind roared.
Power concentrated at the root of the palm, then the wrist flipped instantly, once again consolidating the power at the fist’s edge.
Ultimately, the upper arm trembled, and with a second surge, it became the true— "power to topple mountains and collapse ridges."
In simple terms, Meng Chuan summarized eight significant words.
It is exactly "Twist, Wrap, Drill, Flip, Power Concentrating at a Point"!
What seemed like an ordinary punch, the fist’s edge was fierce and brutal.
Spiral Strength penetrated the rock, the air exploded into a long conical white wave.
Before the alert sounded, Meng Chuan stood still, confidently looking at the panel:
[Drilling Fist: Perfection (100%) → Limit Broken]
[Obtained Limit Breaking Feature: Cold Drill (Basic)]
Function One: Seeping Crevices, mastering special force techniques, transforming Water Attribute power. Like icy water seeping into crevices, breaking through the surface, directly touching muscles and bones.
Function Two: Cold Sensation, increases sensitivity of the skin to temperature changes, enabling prediction of Qi Strength trajectory, slightly enhancing neural reflex speed.
It’s been a while since I obtained a basic feature with two functions.
Meng Chuan couldn’t help but feel amazed.
I’ve already experienced the usefulness of the former’s technique.
The latter speaks for itself, he nodded in satisfaction.
With enhanced neural reflex speed, one gains the upper hand in combat.
Especially when dealing with rapid combos or certain concealed weapons.
Even without sensing them, one can attempt evasion through reflex speed, greatly enhancing survival and counterattack capabilities.
Meng Chuan was quite pleased with this.
Dusk arrived, yet Meng Chuan had not ceased, still practicing punches.
Gradually, as the fist stance shifted, his spirit trembled, suddenly realizing.
The world before him became increasingly translucent, and that familiar feeling emerged spontaneously.
[Dawn and Dusk Enlightenment] was triggered!
Meng Chuan’s hand continued horizontal fist movements, the stance weighty as a mountain.
"Seems today will bring threefold joy..."
Aside from the horizontal fist, about to reach Limit Breaking under enlightenment.
This morning during body refinement, his Doma Iron Body proficiency had elevated to (Perfection: 99%).
Once the body fully recovers, it can also break limits.
Meng Chuan wished to call today [International Limit Breaking Day], breaking three gates in one day — exhilarating!
A stick of incense time passed.
Meng Chuan exhaled, his body like a weight, legs like elephant feet stepping into the mud.
Standing like a pine, upright like a bell!
With muscular force, his body rose in momentum, [Horizontal Strength] pressed layer by layer between muscles and bones.
Twisting waist, turning hips, the fist edge converted from collapse to horizontal, Earth Attribute true qi wrapped around the solid force and erupted, kicking up a vortex of dust with the punch wind.
Within the courtyard.
When the vortex of sand reached a certain level, it contracted, compressed, rebounded, and exploded!
Wrapped in this dust storm-like fan-shaped horizontal force, nowhere to vent, it could only explode upward.
Arm bones crackled with thunder, horizontal force penetrated the fist edge instantly —
In mid-air, it exploded in a visible ring of white airwaves.
The sand and dust particles condensed into an earthy yellow mushroom cloud nearly ten meters in diameter, climbing higher toward a hundred meters in the sky.
Then, as the shock wave swept through, the bricks and stones of the courtyard wall crumbled.
Meng Chuan sighed inwardly, thinking he’ll have to spend money repairing the wall again...
He let go and stood, with only a few wisps of yellow smoke escaping through his fingers.
Fists halted, the wind stopped.
He clenched his fists and looked at the panel.
[Horizontal Fist: Limit Broken]
[Obtained Limit Breaking Feature: Penetrating Power (Basic)]
Function One: The fist stance heavy as a mountain bottom, horizontal force more thoroughly exerted, slightly enhancing destructive power;
Function Two: Body stance heavy as a bell, slight enhancement in stability of stance, improving the progression speed in Xingyi Three Talents Pile Skill.
"Body stance heavy as a bell... Penetrating Power, if only we had met sooner..."
Meng Chuan inwardly smiled bitterly, if this technique had been limit broken during his Martial Artist days.
The speed of progression as a Martial Arts Family would surely be improved greatly.
But now, it’s not too late; its strongest point is that it enhances the Heaven, Earth, and Man Three Talents Posture Skill.
His Earth Posture, under the support of One Proof, is already faster than others’ practice.
With the enhancement from Penetrating Power, speed is elevated to another level.
Currently, his first major limit of Pile Skill cultivation is completed; he can’t fully experience its effect.
After progressing beyond the second limit, he’ll be able to glimpse its function.
Completing the posture skill practice within the realm sooner, he’ll free up several hours daily to study other aspects of Martial Arts.
In summary, it’s indeed worthy of ancient Martial Arts Limit Breaking Feature, both functions are highly useful.
Coming to his senses, feeling the fading of Enlightenment’s support, the world in his eyes returned to its original state.
Meng Chuan continued to place both into the Five Element Wheel, and moments later:
[Five Elements Qiankun Method: Second Limit Breaking (35%) → (45%)]
The Five Element Wheel clicked, and martial reasoning improved accordingly.
Although the Five Elements Qiankun Method is a core method, it cannot generate new Qi Blood.
The reason Meng Chuan persistently committed to honing those "mat" characteristics lies here:
Aside from increasing the number of times the Five Qi Chaoyuan can break limits and boosting the amount of Five Element True Qi, it also can enhance his Five Element Martial Reasoning.
The importance of martial reasoning goes without saying.
At this moment, countless sparks of inspiration erupted in his mind.
With the success of the last two ancient martial arts fist from the three streams of the Five Elements breaking limits.
Just as he was about to adjust his breath, his Heart Spirit suddenly boomed!
Without realizing it, something happened to his body.
At that moment, it was as if his soul ascended to the heavens, and his eyes no longer saw the original world.
In his eyes appeared endless, multicolored patches once again.
But Meng Chuan knew, this was not the Five Elements World.
Because it had already turned into a ’seed’, a characteristic that eternally existed within him.
A strong urge for exploration arose abruptly in his Heart Spirit.
Meng Chuan realized by intuition that the countless color patches in his eyes were the encapsulated [Five Elements Spiritual Aura] of all things in the world.
Meng Chuan was always a rather persistent person, for nothing more than practicing boxing.
As the Five Qi circulated, various color patches seemed to be in formation.
With the summoning of his fist stance, they were all absorbed into his palm, coming at his call and leaving at his wish.
The Five Elements Spiritual Aura in his palm fluctuated with his thoughts, and in the void, Meng Chuan had an enlightenment.
The next moment, the fist stance suddenly changed, and the five-colored spiritual aura intertwined into a vortex in his palm.
Then, mimicking the flower mark on his chest, the center of the spiritual aura vortex burst into radiant light.
The radiance wavered and gradually took shape.
Golden rays, green gleams, blue ripples, red flames, and yellow halos blossomed like lotus flowers.
As the five-colored lotus grew more magnificent, it was time for Meng Chuan to let go.
He threw it into the air, and the courtyard instantly became radiant, with colored reflections on the bricks and stones.
Even the fallen leaves were coated with a glaze, like a heavenly realm descending to the mortal world.
His Five Element Martial Reasoning rapidly climbed under this celestial scene.
In a flash, he returned to reality, as if an entire world had passed!
While practicing again, he suddenly remembered.
The day he broke the first major limit, the [Five Qi Chaoyuan] was also born.
This core characteristic, Five Qi Chaoyuan, once again helped him today.
Under this characteristic’s name and its effect, a mysterious phrase echoed, enlightening him:
"When the spiritual aura returns to one place, the divine realm shines with immortal light."
Scouting today, Meng Chuan suddenly realized.
Perhaps the content enshrined in this phrase is precisely the true essence of the Five Elements Qiankun Method’s martial arts!
... ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴠɪsɪᴛ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵•𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒•𝙣𝙚𝙩
Meng Chuan’s Heart Spirit moved, dispersing the Five Elements Spiritual Aura, and everything around returned to its original state.
He looked at the panel, which seemed to hint at something, faintly flickering with light.
Meng Chuan immersed his Heart Spirit into it, searching for a moment.
He saw the column of cultivation techniques he broke the limit on, the flickering growing more intense.
Thoughts flowed in his mind, it seemed unrelated to the true essence understanding of the core method.
It was his Five Element Martial Reasoning’s significant advancement that prompted a new change on the panel.
He focused on the source of the flickering, which was precisely those five... ancient martial arts of the three streams of the Five Elements.
Metal, wood, water, fire, earth, split, collapse, drill, cannon, collapse.
The more tightly he stared, the more he felt a subtle impulse in his heart.
Recalling what he heard from Professor Li at the United University headquarters, about the process of creating modern fist techniques.
This impulse instantly expanded boundlessly.
By referencing and blending, to penetrate [similar] existing fist techniques.
Using one concept to understand all, walking a path... a unique road of his own!
Creating a new martial art completely from 0 to 1.
Meng Chuan couldn’t achieve this, and was far from it.
But using one concept to understand all, today was easily attainable.
The light gradually stopped flickering, and the characters on the panel merged with Meng Chuan’s Heart Spirit and fused gradually into one.
Through the throbbing of the Heart Spirit, Meng Chuan’s hands never stopped, constantly deducing these five fist techniques.
With the surge of Five Element Martial Reasoning, he practiced the Five Elements Fist with a kind of excitement he never had before.
The night star hung high, until the fish-belly white of the east emerged.
Meng Chuan completely forgot the time, another half a quarter passed before he showed a suddenly enlightened expression.
At the same time, a new prompt also emerged on the panel.
He looked at the fist technique column, just to see a new fist technique born, one never seen before:
[To be named Fist Technique: Perfection (1%) Waiting for Limit Breaking]
[Limit Breaking Characteristic: Five Elements Marvelous Body (Intermediate)]
The panel was waiting for him to name it.
Meng Chuan’s Heart Spirit moved, and a line of small characters slowly covered it.
"Five Elements Spiritual Aura Fist."
Is this his original martial arts fist technique?
He merely fused the split, collapse, drill, cannon, collapse, the five ancient martial arts fists of the Five Elements, into one.
Finally adding his own understanding, and interconnected it into a fist technique.
"This counts as an innovation, perhaps it’s... the way of creating improved ancient martial arts fists."
Meng Chuan inexplicably thought of a saying, "We do not produce water, we are just movers for nature."
With the panel, one day, he would be the greatest mover in the Martial Arts Realm...
Of course, this cannot be separated from the help of the [War Soul] characteristic.
Through ancient and modern studies, the effects of both are very evident in the creation process.