Chapter 13: The Body Has Five Bows
In the following time, Chen Wujun still practiced punching at the martial arts school every morning, went to dentistry in the afternoon to help out, and stood meditation at dentistry when there were no guests.
Without the pressure of money, Chen Wujun’s thoughts settled a lot.
With these days of standing meditation, he could clearly feel that the strength of his toes, soles, legs, and waist had increased a lot, and stability and flexibility had also improved greatly.
A week later, even when standing Golden Rooster Stance, if Senior Brother Li suddenly kicked, Chen Wujun would not fall.
Chen Wujun had just finished practicing 600 knee strikes, holding a towel in one hand to wipe his face, slumped on the ground to rest.
“Heard the news? Someone is offering a reward of ten thousand bucks to find a person! Ten thousand bucks!” Lin Zetao didn’t know where he heard the news, sat beside him and said excitedly.
Ten thousand bucks was a large sum of money.
“Looking for what person?”
“Don’t know, heard this person robbed a sum of money and also killed someone!”
“Don’t know but talk so much!” Chen Wujun slapped the back of his head.
Although those loan shark people were still looking for the murderer in the walled city… and even offered a reward, it hadn’t affected him.
“Just right, go wipe the hemp rope for me.” Chen Wujun said.
“Why?”
“Go when I tell you to go!” Chen Wujun slapped the back of his head again.
Then he pressed his finger on the newly grown skin on his knee, which was full of toughness like cowhide, with a bit of hardness.
Being able to reach this step so quickly, on one hand it was the medicine Senior Brother Li gave him, but more was because in this half month, even if his knees were bloody every day, he didn’t shrink back at all.
The skin and flesh of the knees were constantly destroyed like this, grown after applying medicine, repeated like this, and finally the grown skin and flesh was like cowhide.
Now he smashed a full-force knee strike on the wooden stake, and his knee felt little pain.
So he asked Lin Zetao to wipe the dried and blackened blood on the surface of the hemp rope for him, at least to make it clean.
Lin Zetao said reluctantly: “Give me the towel!”
“Use yours, I still need this one!”
“I’m wiping the hemp rope for you, and I have to use my own towel?” Lin Zetao said angrily at once.
But after being glanced at by Chen Wujun, he immediately got up to find a rag.
He was quite afraid of Chen Wujun in his heart.
At school, Chen Wujun often caused trouble and fought.
Although he came to the martial arts school first, Chen Wujun’s progress speed was much faster than his.
Moreover, even with knees bloody, he gritted his teeth and continued practicing, this ruthless vigor made him even more afraid of the other in his heart.
Chen Wujun was not only ruthless to others, but also to himself; these days watching from the side, he felt pain.
Senior Brother Li drank tea on the side, his gaze swept over Lin Zetao who was wiping the hemp rope, and said to Chen Wujun: “If you want to achieve something in kung fu, you can come in the afternoon too.”
The martial arts school only opened in the morning, closed in the afternoon.
But Senior Brother Li really valued Chen Wujun’s talent and wanted to give him extra lessons.
Chen Wujun nodded at once: “Good!”
Calculating, it had been almost a month since he came to the martial arts school, after that he would say he was working at the martial arts school, cleaning hygiene, so no need to go to dentistry.
At noon he went back to dentistry to eat lunch, every noon his mom Huang Meizhen would send food over.
When Chen Wujun was eating, he said: “In the future, I’ll go to the martial arts school to clean in the afternoon, won’t come to help!”
“If you go, do it well!” Father Chen Hanliang said.
“Got it!”
After eating, Chen Wujun rested for a while, then went directly to the martial arts school.
The door of the martial arts school was closed, Chen Wujun pushed it open, and saw Senior Brother Li sitting on the chair.
Seeing Chen Wujun come, Senior Brother Li stood up and said: “You are different from others, you have talent, and can endure hardship, if you can focus, you will surely achieve something in the future.”
“Today I’ll properly teach you Wolf Fist, Wolf Fist is a boxing method for the battlefield, the purpose is to kill, so don’t strike if you can avoid it, otherwise if you beat someone to death, you will go to prison.”
When Senior Brother Li said this, there wasn’t much warning meaning, his gaze carried a bit of profundity.
“The main stance of Wolf Fist is Charge Stance, this builds kung fu, and can also raise your mind to the highest.”
“In Wolf Fist combat, Golden Rooster Stance is the core, can defend or attack, and besides Golden Rooster Stance there is also footwork. The footwork of Wolf Fist is to walk Serpentine Footwork, cutting to the opponent’s side.”
“In addition, Wolf Fist has twenty-four stances.”
“Common attack methods of Wolf Fist, fists have straight, swing, hook punch; elbows have straight elbow, chopping elbow, horizontal elbow, upward elbow, reverse elbow; leg methods have straight kick, side kick, back leg low sweep, reverse kick; knees have straight knee, diagonal knee, jumping knee and such…”
“Wolf Fist twenty-four stances include these striking methods and power generation methods.”
“In addition, there is a set of Four Gates Eight Locks, including seize, wrap, lock, hook, twist, break, hug, press and such techniques, specialized for close-range entanglement and tearing, to tear out an opening.”
“Next I will teach you these one by one, once you practice these well, Wolf Fist is considered small achievement.”
Chen Wujun was puzzled in his heart, if it was a normal martial arts school, should teach Wolf Fist twenty-four stances first, so students have interest to continue practicing.
However, from entering the martial arts school, first standing meditation, then knee training, almost a month, before teaching Wolf Fist twenty-four stances.
This was still because his talent was good, if changed to others, at least it would take several months of kung fu.
Lin Zetao had been here for two months, still practicing knee training, already complained multiple times privately.
Chen Wujun still remembered when Lin Zetao mentioned the martial arts school owner before, full of pride, now he wanted to quit practicing.
Other students were the same, when he first came there were nine students total, five of whom were standing meditation.
Now including Lin Zetao, these five people only had two left.
Now high school was about to start, Lin Zetao couldn’t come in a few days either.
Chen Wujun felt the martial arts school owner opened this martial arts school not for making money.
Teaching students like this, how many people can persist?
Another point was, he hadn’t seen the martial arts school owner until now, it was always Senior Brother Li managing.
When asked, Senior Brother Li just said the martial arts school owner was very busy, me teaching you is enough, if you practice Wolf Fist well, you will have opportunity to see the martial arts school owner.
Although Chen Wujun was puzzled in his heart, his face showed nothing, immediately agreed, and his eyes were full of expectation.
“Today I’ll first teach you Wolf Fist twenty-four stances! Watch carefully!”
“Apprentice Ceremony Stance… Opening Stance… Horse Stance… Pounding Horse Stance… Immortal Points the Way… Gong Da Ding… Tiger Killing Heart Stab…”
For every sentence Senior Brother Li said, it was one move executed, the movement although not fast, but each step landed, the ground’s green stone bricks emitted extremely loud sounds, one elbow one knee struck out, even more with great force and momentum, ferociously powerful, clearly looking not very fast in speed, yet struck with whooshing air-breaking sound.
Chen Wujun on the side kept marveling in his heart.
What Senior Brother Li said was not false, with his one knee one elbow, the opponent at least bones broken tendons torn.
To know, the destructive power of elbow and knee was much greater than fist!
Ordinary people one elbow one knee naturally can’t kill, but long-term martial arts practitioners reaching a certain level, striking out can kill, not empty talk exaggeration.
Just some move names were very strange, what Gong Da Ding, Sunning Grain Sunning Rice…
Senior Brother Li finished a set of fist, turned and asked Chen Wujun: “Did you see clearly?”
“Saw clearly, but didn’t remember!” Chen Wujun said honestly.
Twenty-four stances, actually still a bit complex.
“Seeing clearly is fine, you should have also noticed, although Wolf Fist combines fist and elbow, most of the time offense uses elbow and knee, because these two parts have the strongest destructive power.”
“The saying is, better take ten punches than one elbow, better take ten elbows than one knee!”
“And feet most of the time are used for moving and destroying opponent’s center of gravity!”
“Now follow me, learn one movement at a time, Wolf Fist is all close-range short strikes, fierce solid force…”
“Apprentice Ceremony Stance, Opening Stance,” this is condensing spirit, perceiving the surrounding environment.”
“Horse Stance, Pounding Horse Stance! First defend, then counterattack, opponent punches, raise hand to block, double fists counterstrike!”
“Immortal Points the Way, Gong Da Ding… After pulling distance from opponent, advance swing punch, elbow strike opponent’s chest face, or advance top elbow!”
“Sunning Grain Sunning Rice… Opponent kicks, side body to receive opponent’s foot, chopping elbow smash to break opponent’s leg bone, turn body horizontal elbow smash opponent’s neck, chin, temple and other vitals…”
“Remember, your spine must accumulate power like a bowstring bounce and spring, transmit waist hip force to four limbs, issue overall force… only then in power generation can strength connect section by section, instantly explode at one point.”
“Just like throwing a stone, how far can you throw? Forty meters, fifty meters, ordinary people at best can throw one hundred meters. But shooting arrow easily can shoot two three hundred meters! Skilled ordinary people can shoot four five hundred meters.”
“Why? Because bow accumulates power! Then explodes!”
“When practicing also match with sound emission, use voice to boost morale, use qi to urge force! You just starting practice, must shout this breath out, to let qi flow unimpeded.”
Senior Brother Li explained one movement at a time to Chen Wujun, Chen Wujun learned one movement at a time.
“Senior Brother Li, why are some move names so strange?”
“Feel vulgar? This boxing method originally isn’t some profound fist method, previously used in army, many moves transformed from dry farm work and some animal movements.” Senior Brother Li explained.
“Senior Brother Li, are there profound fist methods?” Chen Wujun after hearing Senior Brother Li’s explanation, moved in his heart.
“Naturally there are, but wait until you practice Wolf Fist well, martial arts school owner nods then can teach you!” Senior Brother Li seeing Chen Wujun’s expectant look, smiled.
He also went through this stage.
Getting the answer, Chen Wujun immediately felt some yearning in his heart.
Such crude Wolf Fist was already so ferocious, those profound fist methods didn’t know how powerful.
“But although this Wolf Fist is crude, in actual combat it’s not weak at all.” Senior Brother Li added.
Although Senior Brother Li said so, Chen Wujun still felt profound fist methods were the good ones.
Otherwise why call them profound fist methods?
Chen Wujun learned very fast, one movement only needed correcting once or twice, his body could remember.
Senior Brother Li while demonstrating and helping him correct movements, said:
“Spine is body bow, big tendons, joints these are bowstrings!”
“Your body has five bows, one body bow, two arm bows, two leg bows!”
“Body bow, from cervical spine to tailbone is bow body, waist is bow grip… arm bow from wrist to shoulder, elbow is bow grip, leg bow from hip to heel, knee is bow grip…”
“Every movement must employ this power of five bows!”
This Wolf Fist has no profound or overly complex movements, the most important core is spine’s bounce and spring power generation, every movement must employ power of five bows.
Chen Wujun spent more than two hours, then remembered the movements and power generation of these twenty-four stances.
But only just remembered.
Then he went to the side to practice himself, when practicing punching, with power generation emitted “Ha” shout.
Senior Brother Li while drinking tea, watched Chen Wujun practicing punching on the side.
Chen Wujun’s movements were very slow, after finishing each movement needed to think before doing the next movement.
Even if initially movements not standard, without Senior Brother Li reminding, Chen Wujun practicing a few times himself could correct.
“Taught once and all remembered, practice a few more times himself, can be roughly correct!”
Senior Brother Li watched Chen Wujun from initially not feeling the five bows, to after practicing a few times slightly grasping a bit.
