Chapter 16: Fist Practice

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

After walking around the martial arts exchange area for a while, Chu Nan did not obtain anything else.

However, this was within his expectations, so he was not too disappointed.

Moreover, he had even bought the “Hong Clan’s Long Fist” this time, which was enough to comfort him.

At first, this Hong Clan’s Long Fist looked ordinary, but when Chu Nan memorized these three stances and twelve moves and used a large amount of data to continuously simulate and practice them in his mind, he was surprised to discover that although these three stances and twelve moves looked simple, each could unleash extremely powerful strength.

Through the calculations in his mind, Chu Nan discovered that if a martial artist was proficient in these three stances, they would be able to unleash more than 90% of their physical strength.

This was a terrifying number.

In terms of this alone, this martial technique could even be compared to an A-rank martial technique!

Of course, being able to unleash his physical strength was only one aspect of martial techniques. Other than true powerful martial techniques, there were also many other advantages.

However, just relying on this point, Chu Nan’s 5,000 federation coins were already worth it.

Moreover, Chu Nan also had the terrifying ability to collect, analyze, and process data. He could use any martial skill to its limit with the support of huge amounts of data.

To other martial artists, this Hong Clan’s Long Fist might be too simple and crude, but to Chu Nan who was only at the Overlord Body realm and did not have a powerful Internal Breath, it was very suitable.

When he arrived at the entrance of the venue, he did not see the figures of Dong Fang and the other two.

Chu Nan turned around and looked at the still crowded venue, giving up on the thought of squeezing in to find the three of them.

Looking around, Chu Nan walked towards the underground area of the building.

After finding a quiet place in the underground parking lot, Chu Nan could not wait to take out the Hong Clan’s Long Fist and read it again.

After confirming that he did not remember any of the statistics regarding the positions of the three stances and twelve moves, Chu Nan took a deep breath and his knees sank. His left hand formed a fist and he held it at his waist. His right palm retracted and brushed past his waist. His five fingers gathered into a fist and he struck out forcefully.

It was the first move of the first stance, Sitting Horse Rush Fist.

As soon as his fist reached out from his waist, it brought about a gust of wind. When Chu Nan’s right arm straightened and the fist arrived at the end, the air at the tip of his fist suddenly exploded as if something had been broken.

“Good!” Chu Nan could not help but shout in a low voice, “It’s indeed a good fist technique! Just the first move alone can cause an air explosion!”

With Chu Nan’s current physical strength that was equivalent to a third-stage Overlord Body Martial Artist, it was very difficult for the power of his punch to produce an air explosion under normal circumstances. This was a phenomenon that only happened when one’s speed and strength were extremely strong.

Now, he was only using the first move of this Hong Clan’s Long Fist Technique to produce such power. It could be seen that this martial technique was indeed extraordinary.

However, Chu Nan was actually not very satisfied with this result. When he threw this punch, he clearly felt that his body was a little awkward. Moreover, some of his muscles did not exert any strength, so it could be seen that his posture was not perfect and could not completely unleash the power of this punch.

After using the data in his mind to replicate it a few times, Chu Nan sank his knees and punched again.

Bang!

This time, the strength in his fist was slightly higher than the previous round.

However, Chu Nan was still unsatisfied because he could still sense that a portion of his muscles had not been mobilized.

“I strictly followed the posture on this map. There’s no deviation at all…” Chu Nan flipped open the secret manual of the Hong Clan’s Long Fist in wonder.

After looking at the two diagrams for a few times, Chu Nan finally noticed that there were a few lines of small words beside them.

The first part was only the introduction of the Hong Clan’s Long Fist, but the last line attracted Chu Nan’s attention.

Water is unpredictable, and fists have no fixed momentum. If the intent is there, the fist will be there. If the intent moves, the fist will move.

When he saw this line of words, Chu Nan felt as if something had knocked on his head and was about to jump out.

“Water is unpredictable, and fists have no fixed momentum?” Chu Nan recalled the tens of thousands of battles in the virtual space and could not help but nod.

In those tens of thousands of battles, had he ever used the same method to defeat his enemies?

“What does ‘If the intent is there, the fist will be there. If the intent moves, the fist will move’ mean?” Chu Nan frowned as he pondered for a moment and could not understand. “Forget it, I’ll settle the first half first.”

Chu Nan calmed himself down and sized up the two diagrams again. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly laughed.

No wonder he always felt that something was wrong. After all this time, he had gotten the most basic thing wrong. The figure of the small person on the pattern was much shorter than him.

It would be strange if it was not awkward for a 1.8-meter-tall guy like Chu Nan to assume this posture.

After figuring this out, Chu Nan immediately understood the solution.

He made a comparative analysis of the notes and posture related to this small person in his mind, Chu Nan quickly came up with the exact posture he should take.

After confirming that there was no mistake, Chu Nan sank his knees again. However, he sank slightly deeper than before and threw a punch.

His right fist whistled out from his waist. When it reached the end, he suddenly stopped, and an intense explosion sounded in the air.

Even though he had punched out, Chu Nan could not help but be shocked.

The speed of this punch was actually 82.663846 meters per second. The force even exceeded 500 kilograms!

In terms of this punch, although it could not compare to an Internal Breath Realm Martial Artist, it had already vividly displayed the strength of Chu Nan’s Overlord Body realm body.

“It’s indeed a good fist technique!” Chu Nan could not help but praise in a low voice. “That guy doesn’t know anything. This has benefited me greatly.”

Earlier, this punch could be said to have moved all the muscles in his body and displayed almost every inch of strength in his body. Only this could allow this punch to possess such a terrifying might.

Ordinary external martial techniques were definitely not so powerful. For example, the fist technique Luo Li practiced was the Overlord Tiger Subduing Fist, one of the top ten fist techniques in the federation. At the same time, he also had the strength of a fifth-stage Overlord Body. A punch could at most reach 300 to 400 kilograms of strength.

Of course, this was also because Chu Nan had an abnormal ability to collect data, analyze, and process information that allowed him to unleash the full potential of the Hong Clan’s Long Fist. Otherwise, if it was any other martial artist of the same level as Chu Nan, it would already be very good if they could master more than 80% of this fist technique and unleash 300 kilograms of strength.

However, even if he could unleash 300 kilograms of strength, it was enough to prove that this Hong Clan’s Long Fist was actually an abnormally outstanding martial technique.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Chu Nan threw out dozens of punches in a row. Every punch had a slight change in posture.

He made adjustments according to his various statistics and data after the punch in order to obtain the best effect.

Soon, he confirmed the most powerful posture based on the data and firmly etched it in his mind.

With his experience in learning the first move, Chu Nan quickly mastered the next eleven moves.

However, what made him feel a little regretful was that even after he used these three stances and twelve moves perfectly, he still did not understand the meaning of ‘If the intent is there, the fist will be there. If the intent moves, the fist will move’.

Just as Chu Nan was thinking hard, the personal terminal on his wrist suddenly rang.