Immortality starts from the liver proficiency

Chapter 167: Training Strength Like Flowing Water

Finally, the awkward atmosphere that had unconsciously arisen between the two of them was broken.

The heat waves from the furnace area stirred up sparks, weaving a red web around the master and disciple.

Despite the scorching heat, the two of them didn't feel hot at all.

Zhan Yan picked up an unsharpened black steel forging hammer.

"A thousand-pound mountain-shaking exercise consists of three parts."

He exhaled and spoke, his heels pounding the ground, creating spider-web-like cracks in the three-foot-thick rock.

"The first practice, 'Black Steel Hundred Forging Body', trains the tendons, bones, and membranes horizontally, seeking invulnerability to swords and spears. When the blood and energy are vigorous, more emphasis is placed on recoil and absorbing the shock. The second practice, 'Red Dragon Coiling Mountain Power', uses the spine as a dragon, and the twenty-four joints explode with power one by one. The ulna and radius twist and turn the direct attack into a strangulation, and the fascia chain transmits the vibration, striking a bull from a distance, penetrating three layers of steel armor.

"The third practice is the Thousand-pound Mountain-Shaking Hammer Technique. Swing the hammer with a force of a thousand pounds to shake the mountain. When the hammer falls, the tiger's mouth opens and closes like the earth's veins breathing in and out. The recoil force is channeled through the Yongquan acupoint three inches into the ground and then dissipates!"

Before he finished speaking, the forging hammer turned into black light and smashed into the anvil.

This hammer strike was simple and unpretentious, but the moment the hammer touched the steel billet, a circular air wave was emitted.

Xu Yunfan's pupils shrank slightly. He clearly saw that the protruding olecranon of the master's elbow joint had shifted half an inch under the skin, directing the impact force to the shoulder blade, and then dissipating it layer by layer through the large tendons of the spine.

The steel blank flattened like paper, but the forging table didn't even tremble.

"Muscles are not made of iron, they must be like flowing water."

Zhan Yan flipped his wrist, revealing the blue veins on his forearm wriggling like earthworms. “When the hammer force enters the body, the muscles will undulate like waves.

Remember, horizontal training is about resisting, but also about channeling! Only in this way can you minimize the enemy's lethality. You must understand that even a body made of fine steel will crumble if subjected to high-frequency attacks. However, if you have the ability to dissipate force, you can persist longer and your resistance will exceed your original value.

After some explanation, Zhan Yan explained in detail how to guide the force.

"Dissipate your energy. If you can reach the pinnacle of understanding one day, you might be able to perform a task with immense strength and still appear calm and composed. Give it a try."

Xu Yunfan closed his eyes and concentrated, and his spine suddenly arched like a full moon.

He imitated the force trajectory just now and smashed the hammer at the spare forging table.

The wind from the hammer caused the sparks to swirl back, but the force was lost by three-quarters the instant it touched the anvil. The recoil went through the tiger's mouth and into the elbow, causing him to grimace in shock.

"You followed the training of a powerful warrior and seem to have understood the power dissipation of the Thousand-Force Shaking Mountain Hammer Technique. Your proficiency in the Thousand-Force Shaking Mountain Hammer Technique has increased."

"Stupid!" Zhan Yan flicked his finger at his nerves. "Who told you to hold back? You should charge forward like a flash flood!"

Xu Yunfan suddenly retracted his arm and couldn't help shivering. The horizontal training skills he had practiced were full of mistakes in front of Zhan Yan.

You have to practice quickly to the Flesh Refining Realm to fill in the gaps.

When the second hammer was swung, Xu Yunfan simply gave up control.

The hammer head smashed down with a sharp scream, and the recoil force rushed into the meridians like a wild horse.

He groaned, and his arm muscles suddenly vibrated at a strange high frequency. The moment the hammer head touched the anvil, the hairs on the back of Xu Yunfan's hand suddenly fell flat.

Visible tremor ripples spread from the wrist bones to the shoulders, and the surface of the triceps brachii actually showed diamond-shaped cortical undulations.

Zhan Yan's pupils suddenly shrank. He saw the olecranon at his apprentice's elbow joint slide half an inch under the skin, directing 70% of the recoil into the trapezius muscles.

"Crack!"

The spare forging platform uttered a teeth-grinding groan.

The surface of the three-hundred-pound cast iron square anvil is sunken three inches, but strangely, no sparks fly from the edge. All the impact force is locked in the texture of the anvil surface.

The sleeves of Xu Yunfan's arms were blown into pieces, and the blue veins on his exposed skin were moving like living snakes, outlining the spiral trajectory of a dragon pattern under his skin.

The entire casting platform was silent for a long time. Xu Yunfan became impatient and turned to ask Zhan Yan.

"Master, is this how you fight?"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but glance at the information about the improvement of proficiency in the Thousand-pound Mountain-Shaking Hammer Technique that appeared in his field of vision.

At most, swing the hammer three more times, and you will definitely get started with the Thousand-Weight Mountain-Shaking Hammer!
"Yes!" Zhan Yan's expression was uncertain under the illumination of the underground fire, and he was silent for a long time.

Xu Yunfan looked at Zhan Yan's face, which had suddenly aged, and couldn't help but step forward and ask, "What's wrong, Master?"

Zhan Yan sighed and said, "Once upon a time, I was also a genius, and I also had true blood!"

It was not until he met Xu Yunfan that he realized that there are always people better than you.

Anyone who practices with Xu Yunfan for a period of time will become depressed.

Xu Yunfan was surprised: "Master also has real blood?!"

"Don't talk about this."

Zhan Yan waved his hand calmly and took the opportunity to demonstrate the second realm: "The Red Dragon Coiling Mountain Power emphasizes the unity of waist and horse. The spine is the dragon, and the tendons throughout the body are the bowstrings. The twenty-four joints exert force one by one, step by step, and one can shake the mountain with one's body."

He turned sideways and twisted his waist, and the forging hammer was lifted up from under his armpit.

The trajectory of the hammer was as tricky as a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue, and the wind from the hammer actually overturned the iron bucket three meters away.

Xu Yunfan saw it clearly: his master's ilium and shoulder blades simultaneously made the sound of a taut bowstring, and his latissimus dorsi muscles spread out like wings, just like a fully drawn thousand-stone hard bow.

"Alright!"

Zhan Yan suddenly threw the forging hammer into the air.

The moment the hammer fell, he touched the ground with his toes and spun around, his heel coming down like a battle axe, hitting the end of the hammer handle.

"boom!"

The forging hammer penetrated the rock layer like a meteorite, leaving only the hammer handle vibrating at a high frequency outside.

Amidst the flying debris, a crack spread ten feet along the veins of the earth, and steam wells erupted wherever it passed.

After a while, shouts and curses from the Tiangong Department quickly came from above.

"Well, hurry up and go. Let's get out of the city first and find a suitable place to continue practicing."

"..."

Outside Tiangong City, in the depression of an unnamed mountain ridge.

"Remember, only when your strength penetrates three inches of the earth veins can you be considered to have entered the realm of enlightenment."

Zhan Yan pulled out the forging hammer, and the hammer head was twisted into a twisted shape. "Now that you have mastered the outer three combinations, try to push the blood and energy up to the spine behind you, and you will become a red dragon..."

Xu Yunfan took a deep breath of the hot air, and his spine suddenly twisted like a python.

He imitated his master's spinning kick, but felt his hamstrings twitching at the moment of exerting force. This was because the blood and energy had not yet been able to penetrate into the hair tips.

To achieve this, one must reach the Flesh Refining Stage.

The moment the sole of his boot collided with the hammer handle, the recoil force pierced his knee like a steel needle, causing him to kneel on one knee in pain.

"What's the rush?" Zhan Yan kicked him at the junction of his buttocks and thighs. "The ilium should be depressed, the knee pit should be weak, and imagine the Yongquan acupoint as a spring!"

On the seventh attempt, Xu Yunfan finally captured that mysterious feeling.

The moment his heel touched the hammer, he deliberately relaxed his knee, allowing the recoil force to flow along the Achilles tendon into his waist and hips.

His waist suddenly felt hot, and the pure Yang energy hidden deep in his flesh and blood was like a flood that opened a dam, driving the forging hammer two inches into the rock!

"Master, is that so?"

"...Not much different. If I weren't at the Flesh Refining Stage, my Qi and blood wouldn't be able to reach my extremities. This is considered acceptable."

"The third training is the 'Thousand-pound Mountain-shaking Hammer', which requires the Flesh Refining Realm to perform."

(End of this chapter)