CHAPTER 61: CHAPTER 61: THE KEY TO LIMIT BREAKING

Time slipped away slowly amidst the punches and kicks.

An entire afternoon.

Meng Chuan spent it teaching the students Cannon Fist. Since Meng Chuan’s mastery of Cannon Fist was close to the limit breaking point, instructing them was as easy as pie for him.

Whenever a doubt arose during practice, a few words from Meng Chuan would make everyone suddenly enlightened.

"How does it feel like Senior Brother is even better than Instructor Liu? I’ve got it, I’ve got it!"

"Hahaha, so this is what a Double Boom is, I’ve managed it!"

Meng Chuan moved around the arena, observing the students’ movements, and corrected them immediately when he spotted mistakes.

"When setting up the cannon, the left hand must be raised above the head and held firmly!"

"If you set it so low, once you start moving, your posture will block your eyes, won’t it?"

Meng Chuan strolled around, not only providing verbal guidance upon spotting issues with the students’ fist skills.

For those students with slightly less comprehension, who couldn’t quite understand his verbal instructions, Meng Chuan would step forward and offer hands-on teaching.

"Senior Brother, why does my Cannon Fist feel like it lacks power?"

Meng Chuan replied:

"You’re only using your arms. The waist is the core of power release."

"Come, let me hold onto you a bit, and you can carefully feel it."

The student showed a shy face, yet hid a hint of delight.

Meng Chuan seriously placed his hand on their waist, allowing them to sense the power coming from the waist.

Afterwards, the student blushed and quietly said:

"Senior Brother, you’re awesome~"

Upon seeing this, Wang Yue twisted his waist towards Meng Chuan, and in a coquettish voice said:

"Senior Brother~ I also want to feel the waist power."

Meng Chuan didn’t want to bother with him and threw a glance at Le Ping who was laughing on the side.

Le Ping got the hint and immediately stepped forward, grabbing Wang Yue’s waist.

He grinned evilly and said:

"Alright, Brother Le will help you find the feel of power release!"

"Eh? No, buddy."

"Brother Le? Brother Le!"

"Ah, damn it!"

...

As the sky grew darker.

Meng Chuan’s teaching not only satisfied many senior students, but also brought many new learners of Cannon Fist up to speed.

Moreover, Teacher Meng himself reaped substantial rewards.

He looked towards the Martial Arts Limit Breaking panel, and the border color of the Cannon Fist entry became increasingly profound.

[Cannon Fist: Perfection (76%) Pending Limit Breaking]

[Limit Breaking Trait: Heavy Hit (Basic)]

From the state of Perfection onwards, the process of advancing Cannon Fist towards limit breaking differed entirely from that of the Guoyi Fist at the time.

As it got closer to the limit breaking point, the proficiency of Cannon Fist did not decrease, instead it increased.

After demonstrating Cannon Fist to everyone one last time, Meng Chuan pondered over the key points he had summarized.

"The next focus should be on feeling the way power transmits within the body while punching."

Just like one of the essentials of Luo’s Eight Extremes, [Integration of Virtual and Reality, Combining Strength and Flexibility].

It’s like forging a blade or sword; one must first integrate the desired shape in their mind with the real-world requirements.

Next, during the actual forging process, it requires not only sufficient hardness and sharpness but also adequate toughness and ductility.

This is what is called the integration of virtual and reality, combining strength and flexibility.

Applying it to fist skills, one punch should be like a steel whip, both powerful and flexible.

Currently, Meng Chuan is using Luo’s Eight Extremes principles to improve Cannon Fist, embodying the essence of learning fist skills and drawing parallels among them.

For Martial Arts Families at this level, learning ordinary fist skills below True Skill presents no barriers, even mastering the top-notch first-class fist skills with ease.

Once reaching the level of a Martial Arts Grandmaster, sometimes seeing someone else casually demonstrate a simple fist skill allows them to memorize it immediately, practicing it repeatedly until mastery is quickly achieved.

This is the so-called overwhelming martial arts insight, wherein mastering more advanced martial arts techniques makes revisiting other lesser ones become much simpler.

Currently, while Meng Chuan may not be comparable to those superhumans who have broken through nine Qi and Blood Gates, his way of thinking about and understanding fist skills is aligning with theirs.

Thinking of this, Meng Chuan once again felt that familiar sensation of enlightenment, and immediately sat cross-legged, plunging into a mental brainstorming session.

Since it was already late, some students had followed their parents’ instructions to return home.

The remaining students who were planning to attend the celebratory feast stayed in the martial arts hall, and upon seeing Meng Chuan’s state of enlightenment, held their breath, fearing to disturb Senior Brother.

Wang Yue observed this, nudged Le Ping beside him with his finger, and whispered:

"What’s up with Brother Chuan, did he also achieve enlightenment?"

Le Ping leaned close to Wang Yue’s ear and whispered:

"It’s very possible."

Thus, the senior brother Wang Dong, along with Le Ping and Wang Yue, gestured to the surrounding students to back away from Meng Chuan.

The martial arts hall remained silent, and after about twenty minutes, Meng Chuan opened his eyes with a knowing smile.

After this enlightenment, he finally obtained the key to unlock the treasure!

"Whether it’s the strong and fierce Ming Strength or the secretly lethal Dark Strength, their activation is completed by the internal Qi and blood."

"A punch delivered to a point, power transmitted along a line, the former mainly tests the cohesion of Qi and blood."

"The latter, punch intention contained, bright and transparent, builds on the Ming Strength by testing the technique of Qi and blood transmission."

"But in any case, both emphasize the martial artist’s control over Qi and blood, with Ming Strength as the first layer, and Dark Strength as the second layer."

"Now I want the cannonball to become an armor-piercing shell, the core lies in finding the Qi and blood transmission frequency that harmonizes the two kinds of power during release, achieving resonance between the two types of power so they do not conflict when activated together!"

With clarity in his heart, he looked at the panel.

[Cannon Fist: Perfection (76%) → (90%) Pending Limit Breaking]

After enlightenment, the proficiency advanced significantly, just one step away from limit breaking.

"The next step is to use the key to unlock the keyhole, [Heavy Hit] is within reach!"

Having decided, Meng Chuan collected his thoughts.

Seeing everyone waiting for him, he hurriedly gathered the crowd to head to the restaurant for dinner.

It was still the Eternal Blessing Banquet they visited last time, just a ten-minute walk away from Greenland Plaza.

Because the Grade Four Demon Nest outside the city was still under lockdown and not completely resolved.

Yong’an City continued to enforce an implicit "curfew," leaving the empty streets with only their group laughing and joking, surrounded by silence.

Yet Meng Chuan wasn’t worried about encountering Celestial Demons.

A group of young martial artists, their Qi and blood gathered like wolf smoke, would cause ordinary minor Celestial Demons to evade them.

Moreover, in recent days, Yong’an City updated the city’s Skynet system, discovering many "stray demons" within the city through the "Cleansing the Net" operation.

If not for the lingering threat of the Demon Nest outside the city, Yong’an City would have already returned to its former reputation as the "Sleepless City."

Inside the Eternal Blessing Banquet, in the Fortune Room.

The Fortune Room, the largest room in the Eternal Blessing Banquet, has an indoor space of 200 square meters, dedicated to large gatherings.

Meng Chuan was ordering the dishes downstairs, while Wang Yue, Le Ping, and others took their seats, tacitly leaving the main position at the opposite door and the secondary main position next to it open.

Wang Yue and Le Ping, so-called left and right guardians, sat separately beside the two empty chairs.

A meal costing over twenty thousand, Meng Chuan felt a sting of pain.

But remembering the prize money waiting after tomorrow’s competition at the owner level, he suddenly felt much better.