High Martial Arts: Starting from the Strongest Junior High Student

After completing their plans for the second half of the year, Chen Shi and Zhang Xuexin immediately threw themselves into training.

One is preparing for the provincial competition, and the other is preparing for the municipal competition.

Young boys and girls sweat profusely under the warm winter sun.

One trains with a staff, the other trains in bodyweight exercises.

Di Yun instructed the two on their movements from the side.

Suddenly, Chen Shi asked curiously, "The S-rank criterion for movement technique is that the body and form are integrated, so what about SS-rank?"

Di Yun said indifferently, "Stop here."

"What do you mean?" Chen Shi raised an eyebrow.

"Want to know?" Di Yun beckoned, "Hit me."

Without hesitation, Chen Shi jumped off the plum blossom stake and instantly thrust a long spear at Di Yun. The movement was clean and swift, creating a sharp whistling sound!

But just as the stick was about to touch Di Yun!

"Whoosh!"

Chen Shi's pupils suddenly contracted. He hadn't seen the other person's movements clearly at all. He only knew that his master had dodged his stick, and the stick was less than an inch away from him.

"Don't stand there, strike quickly!" Di Yun said calmly.

Chen Shi's eyes narrowed, and he unleashed a series of impressive staff techniques at Di Yun, smashing, sweeping, stabbing, and chopping, but he failed to hit his opponent with a single strike. Moreover, his master did not move his feet much, but moved left and right within a small circle of one square meter, his movements fluid and seamless.

The boy gritted his teeth and didn't stop. Instead, he increased the speed of his strikes, attracting Zhang Xuexin's attention.

The master leisurely backed away on the lawn, dodging left and right, tilting his head to the side!

At this moment, Di Yun said while dodging, "The standard for SS is 'inch stop'."

"So, would you like to know what the standards for SSS are?"

Chen Shi frowned.

"Watch closely." As soon as Di Yun finished speaking, he walked expressionlessly toward Chen Shi, who was wielding a stick!

He used to step back when he performed "Inch Stop," but now he's moving forward!

Chen Shimeng launched his attack!

suddenly!

"call out!"

A gust of wind whistled past Chen Shi's ear.

Everything happened almost in the blink of an eye.

Di Yun didn't beat around the bush, but charged straight up, leaving a series of afterimages in front of him. Each afterimage was a fleeting dodge as he dashed forward to avoid the attack. He then suddenly appeared behind him, his index finger pressed against the back of his head.

It seemed as if, in an instant, several Di Yuns appeared in this world.

Then, his voice rang out: "SSS Standard: Instant Flash!"

"In the rhythm of ultra-high-speed attacks, perfectly control your movements, perform subtle dodges, and the movements must be fluid and seamless, not just a single dodge, but a continuous series of dodges!"

"The main characteristic is that it leaves an afterimage in the same spot!"

Chen Shi was stunned.

Is my master really that awesome?

Then, Di Yun walked to the wooden table on the lawn, picked up a thermos containing tea, took a sip, crossed his legs, lit a cigarette, and said calmly, "Don't daydream, keep practicing. You're still a long way from perfect!"

Chen Shi took a deep breath, lowered his head, and walked back to the plum blossom stakes.

Beside him, Di Yun casually said, "Basic staff techniques boil down to three moves: thrust, chop, and sweep."

"The remaining short thrust, long thrust, cloud probe, retreating thrust, big chop, retreating chop, small sweep, horizontal sweep, and spinning sweep are all derived moves."

"Then there's orientation. You need to learn to perform the same movements in all five directions—up, down, left, right, and back—while facing forward!"

Chen Shi nodded repeatedly, somewhat bewildered.

Di Yun, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, picked up a stick and walked in front of him, beginning to demonstrate how to aim left, right, up, down, and back.

Especially the attack on Tan Yun afterward, which was actually a counterattack.

Then there's the very cool retreat thrust, a move that's extremely insulting. He made Chen Shi attack him at high speed, but Di Yun, like a nimble ape, lightly leaped backward and thrust forward after jumping out of Chen Shi's attack range!

"Bang!"

Chen Shi was stabbed in the chest and staggered back several steps, clutching his chest with a pained expression.

Di Yun asked in bewilderment, "Is it that soft? I didn't even use any force."

Chen Shi gritted his teeth and stood up, saying, "Again!"

next second.

"Whoosh!"

Di Yun appeared behind him and slammed him in the waist and abdomen, sending him crashing towards the plum blossom stakes!

Chen Shi bumped his head into a plum blossom stake, getting bumps all over his head!

then.

Di Yun stood with his hands behind his back, supporting himself on the stick. Then the stick kept stretching and stretching until it was more than 30 meters high. Standing on the stick, looking up from below, his body overlapped with the clouds, as if he were standing on the clouds.

He sneered, "What else do you want to do?"

Chen Shi was dumbfounded and said, "How can your stick grow longer?!"

Di Yun looked down at the golden staff beneath him and said, "This isn't a staff; this is my martial intent!"

"That's why I had you practice staff techniques!"

"Martial intent can be ever-changing."

"In the future, when you use your dark martial intent to condense a weapon, it may appear as a sweeping strike with a staff, but you can completely transform the staff tip into a sharp blade while sweeping, directly cleaving your opponent in two!"

"The same principle applies to thrusting with a staff and counter-attack; in attacks from all directions, the staff tip is transformed into a spearhead!"

"You can make both sides of the stick into double-edged swords when you're sweeping, or do whatever you want."

Chen Shi's eyes immediately lit up.

After landing, Di Yun snorted, "Don't get excited. Let's talk about it again when your martial intent value is at least 600!"

Suddenly, Zhang Xuexin asked curiously, "Master, can my bones be made like this too?"

"Of course." Di Yun nodded slightly and said, "After mastering martial intent, everyone's fighting style involves imbuing their weapons with martial intent."

"Only Chen Shi doesn't need to carry a weapon; he directly uses his martial intent!"

Chen Shi asked curiously, "Why can't you just use Martial Intent Condensation?"

Di Yun explained, "Normal martial intent, like yours and mine, is mainly used for offense, and has little defensive power."

"Watch closely."

Di Yun pointed to a stone in the distance, golden light gathering at his fingertips, and then...

"call out!"

Golden light pierced the stone!

"Boom!"

The stone split in two, and a large crater was blasted into the ground.

Di Yun said calmly, "Martial intent is a kind of destructive light; when it collides with the power of others, it will cancel each other out!"

"So you still need a basic weapon as a foundation. Purely relying on martial intent is like holding a weapon that breaks every time you hit it."

Chen Shi asked curiously, "Then how did you manage to prop yourself up with your martial intent just now? Shouldn't it have exploded the moment your martial intent touched the ground?"

"Control, that's a more advanced application of martial intent." Di Yun shook his head and said, "You're still far from that."

"But Chen Shi, you are a Black Martial Artist, so you don't need to learn any of those things."

"Just use your dark martial intent as a weapon, it'll be much more effective than what we have!"