High Martial Arts: Creating a Prodigy Character from Scratch

"I'll start teaching the Bengquan style today. Anyone who wants to learn the Bengquan style, come with me."

On Thursday afternoon, Lin Bao entered the martial arts classroom on time to announce the day's specific curriculum for the boxing and kicking class.

After teaching the Horizontal Fist stance, Lin Bao finally returned to the normal order and prepared to teach the Crushing Fist stance.

Students who intended to comprehend the imagery of wood gathered around Lin Bao, ready to learn the Bengquan style from him.

"The Crushing Fist belongs to the Wood element... Qin He, why aren't you practicing the Splitting Fist? What are you doing here?"

Lin Bao was preparing to teach the Bengquan style when he inadvertently caught sight of Qin He in the crowd, and his face immediately filled with doubt.

Qin He is practicing Xingyi Piquan, so what is he doing here? Does he want to learn Bengquan?

"Qin He, you're new to martial arts, and practicing two different styles at the same time can easily confuse your movements." Lin Bao seemed to have thought of something, and his expression turned serious. "Although you have good talent, you can't be too ambitious."

The adage "Don't bite off more than you can chew" holds true forever.

Qin He wasn't the first person to have the idea of ​​practicing multiple martial arts styles simultaneously.

After all, the five styles of Xingyi Quan share the same origin, and mastering other Xingyi Quan styles can also bring considerable benefits.

For example, earth generates metal.

If Qin He, who has mastered the Pi Quan style, were to further cultivate the earth-elemental Heng Quan style, using the Heng Quan style to nourish the Pi Quan style, the Pi Quan style would unleash even greater power.

Those who understand the principles of mutual generation and mutual restraint of the Five Elements can appreciate the benefits they offer.

However, as Lin Bao said, for beginners who are just getting started with martial arts, practicing multiple styles of boxing at the same time is actually a burden and will only slow down their training progress.

Every second counts in the three years of high school. Focusing on mastering one skill and achieving a higher score in the college entrance examination is the right approach.

He didn't want Qin He to be arrogant and practice multiple martial arts styles simultaneously, which would ultimately harm him.

"Teacher Lin, I've been practicing the Splitting Fist style these past two days, but I feel that it doesn't quite match my initial conception," Qin He explained, stating a reason he had already thought of. "So I want to learn about other Xingyi Quan styles to see which one is more suitable for me."

Of course, this was just Qin He making things up, and he couldn't tell Lin Bao the real reason.

"Is that so? You stay here for now, and I'll analyze it for you after class."

Lin Bao was skeptical. He wasn't on the path of sword cultivation, and he wasn't sure if the imagery of swordsmanship was like that.

However, as long as Qin He doesn't intend to practice multiple Xingyi Quan styles at the same time, it's fine.

Lin Bao said no more and returned to the classroom to focus on teaching the Bengquan style.

"Bengquan (崩拳) belongs to the Wood element. Its punches are swift and continuous, primarily targeting the Liver (木) element. It emphasizes speed and penetrating power, specifically designed to counter hard, external martial arts techniques..."

With the support of learning-related keywords such as "genius," "intelligence," and "focus," Qin He successfully mastered the Bengquan style after Lin Bao taught him the first Bengquan technique.

At that very moment, the virtual panel changed.

Name: Qin He

【Occupation: Martial Arts Student (See details)】

[Entry: ......]

[Refining to Immortality: 1]

......

[Occupation: Martial Arts Student]

[Severing the Imagery: Unskilled (2.2%)]

[Xingyi Piquan: Not yet a beginner (17.5%)]

[Xingyi Bengquan: Beginner (1.5%)]

"Xingyi Bengquan appeared in the virtual panel, Refinement Points +1. My guess was right after all!"

When Qin He saw the changes on the virtual panel, he pretended to be calm on the surface, but he was overjoyed inside.

He had had this idea in his mind for the past two days.

He gains 1 point of True Refinement for each image or martial art he masters.

Perhaps for this reason, he grasped the rudiments of the cutting and slicing imagery and the Xingyi Piquan (a type of martial arts fist), and immediately gained 2 points of Refinement Realm.

This is Qin He's conjecture; its veracity is unknown.

That's why, despite Lin Bao's advice, he wanted to learn the Bengquan style during this afternoon's boxing lesson, all to verify his conjecture.

As it turns out, his guess was correct!

Imagery and martial arts are the sources of Refinement Points; mastering one of them grants 1 Refinement Point.

As a result, his martial arts path needs to be re-planned.

Qin He originally wanted to become a sword cultivator, using the imagery of slashing and cutting as his starting point, and continued to pursue advanced studies in the direction of sword cultivation.

But now it seems he needs to become a master of martial arts who can embrace all styles, and learn as many different concepts or martial arts techniques as possible.

Since that's the case, let's start with the Five Forms of Xingyi Quan. Let's learn all five forms of Xingyi Quan and get our hands on the Refining Points first.

Qin He had made his decision. He retreated to a corner of the martial arts classroom and began practicing... the Chopping Fist Style!

Although Qin He wanted to practice more imagery and martial arts techniques, he still listened to Lin Bao's suggestions.

Mastering a particular form of Xingyi Quan is the most important thing, as it relates to his future development.

Qin He hadn't forgotten Principal Lu Tiankuo's requirement that he maintain his position in the top ten of his grade.

Most importantly, obtaining Refinement Points only requires him to learn imagery or martial arts techniques; it does not require him to fully master them.

Even 1% of the cultivation progress is still the initial learning stage.

He could simply imitate the Bengquan style, learn it briefly, and then stop, focusing on acquiring the Refinement Points.

In a way, Qin He also managed to exploit a loophole in the virtual panel.

Qin He focused his mind and concentrated on practicing the Splitting Fist style.

This training lasted the entire afternoon, until the school bell rang, at which point Qin He finished practicing the chopping fist technique.

[Occupation: Martial Arts Student]

[Severing the Imagery: Unskilled (2.2%)]

[Xingyi Piquan: Not yet a beginner (17.5%→23.75%)]

[Xingyi Bengquan: Beginner (1.5%)]

Originally, it took Qin He some time to learn the Bengquan style, but thanks to the rapid recovery of his [vigorous energy] and the help of a blood-activating powder, Qin He managed to complete five rounds of Xingyi Piquan training.

In other words, Qin He practiced one round of Bengquan (崩拳) and five rounds of Piquan (劈拳) today.

This efficiency is far superior to what it was a few days ago.

"You did well today. It seems you've stayed true to yourself."

Lin Bao's voice came from behind Qin He, who appeared at some point and looked at Qin He with a smile on his face.

He paid special attention to Qinhe today.

He had initially thought Qin He had become overly ambitious and wanted to learn multiple martial arts styles simultaneously, but he noticed that when Qin He practiced alone, he still insisted on practicing Xingyi Piquan.

This showed that Qin He listened to his advice, which naturally pleased Lin Bao.

"Teacher Lin, I'm very rational, you really don't need to worry." Qin He understood Lin Bao's meaning and felt helpless, so he could only explain again.

"You know what I mean, so I won't say anything more." Lin Bao nodded and didn't say anything more, but instead brought up another matter.

"You said this afternoon that the splitting fist stance doesn't quite match your initial conception. I don't practice swordsmanship and don't understand swordsmanship conception very well, so I can't give you much advice. That's why I'm taking you to see someone."

"That's a true master of swordsmanship, and he'll be your swordsmanship teacher for your upcoming weapons course."

The weapons course that Principal Lu Tiankuo promised has been arranged in the last two days.

Just today, Qin He brought up the topic of sword imagery, and Lin Bao seized the opportunity to help Qin He get acquainted with the field.