He was imprisoned in Nibelungen for a thousand years, only to find out upon his release that he was

If her mortal enemy, Luo Ya, doesn't come, how could Bai Ji possibly wake up and chase after him to kill him?

"It's alright. The actual sacrifice needed is not simply Shirahime, but 'Earth' (Dayuan) itself!"

Bai Yigong waved his hand confidently, saying, "The spiritual veins here are excellent, and the environment even shows signs of returning to the Age of Gods. The Great Source is becoming increasingly active; we only need to supplement a few elements—"

“But there are only five ancestors! This ceremony can’t be held at all!” Roseanne blinked.

Bai Yigong felt embarrassed and glared at him.

You talk too much, you're so inexperienced!

......

The Nibelungen has had its most awkward episode of the day.

Ishtar thought she could "threaten and manipulate" Lu Ming by contacting the outside world, but little did she know that Lu Ming already had Jack the Ripper as a backup option.

This could very well turn into a real withdrawal from the team.

She felt an embarrassment so intense it seemed she could carve out a three-bedroom apartment.

"You want to leave the team?" Lu Ming's reaction was expressionless.

"Uh, I..."

"You're leaving the team!?" Ai Lei, standing next to Lu Ming, was quite different; her tone was excited, and her smile was radiant.

They looked as if they couldn't wait to see Ishtar pack up and run away.

At the same time, Ai Lei also linked arms with Lu Ming, pretending to be intimate, which instantly turned the third party present into a third wheel, making the awkward atmosphere even more intense!

Ishtar: "......"

Those two scoundrels, may they die a horrible death!

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and the stronger her desire to leave the team grew.

But just as she was about to make the decision, she changed her mind:

Wait a minute! If I just quit the team like this, wouldn't my arch-enemy be even happier and live a more carefree life?

Is she, Ishtar, destined to become a benevolent, altruistic character? Absolutely not!

"I was just kidding, hahaha, I'm not backing out!"

Lu Ming watched Ishtar leave, laughing and crying at the same time, reluctant but unwilling to go.

As expected, she ran into Haruri again, who was blocking her way, and the goddess's expression became even more distraught.

"?"

Divine gold.

Should Ishtar get her head checked out lately?

"Aileen, let's continue practicing martial arts. How do you generate that 'inch punch' again?"

Lu Ming didn't think about anything else. He needed to focus on improving his combat strength to deal with the increasingly powerful crises in the future!

He had seen the martial arts techniques that Ai Lei had used before and thought they were worth referencing.

Ai Lei replied, "Actually, I don't really understand either, so let me explain again... But is this really useful for someone at your level, Lu Ming?"

"Of course it's useful! Ellie, you need to understand that when masters clash, the difference lies in that one finer point! Details determine success or failure, and victory or defeat is decided by the smallest margin!"

"Alright!" Ereshkigal said helplessly. Her knowledge of 'Bajiquan' actually relied on Rin Tohsaka's physical memory, and Rin Tohsaka herself had hardly ever taught anyone, let alone her.

Moreover, martial arts are not like magic; they rely more on years of physical training and are very much based on experience.

What can you really learn just by lecturing?

As expected, Ai Lei searched her memory and pieced together a few key points of Bajiquan's "inch power," explaining them vaguely over and over again, but Lu Ming still couldn't grasp them.

Because of what Ellie meant, it can be summarized into only a few basic points—

The "inch strike" technique can concentrate the power of the entire body at a single point of force, resulting in an extraordinary burst of power.

Inch power requires specific posture, stance, center of gravity, and movements to transmit the power of the whole body, avoiding the isolated localized power generation pattern of ordinary people.

But how do I adjust my posture? How do I stand? How do I twist my body? How do I engage my muscle groups?

There was absolutely no clear and concise explanation.

"It seems this method won't work..."

Lu Ming was somewhat dejected; he knew he wasn't a genius.

Having talent in alchemy does not mean having talent in martial arts.

His fighting skills are only the "my style" he has honed through decades of trial and error.

With years of experience and Ai Lei's repeated explanations, I still can't quickly master even a simple "inch punch" martial arts technique.

It is clear that his talent in martial arts was quite ordinary.

"However, humanity's greatest advantage lies in its ability to use its brain and wisdom, and to find shortcuts through flexible thinking!"

Lu Ming activated his extraordinary wisdom and felt that there was still a breakthrough in this matter.

"Although I come from a self-taught background and don't know martial arts, I understand physics."

"When those martial arts techniques are used, they make it hurt more when you hit someone. To put it simply, they can effectively transmit various stresses, making the force generated by the body greater!"

"When ordinary people exert force, they usually rely only on their arms and shoulders, so their punches are relatively weak."

"Aile said that the inch punch requires a specific posture, with requirements for the legs, waist twisting, and shoulder swinging. This clearly shows that this technique constructs a chain-like stress transmission mechanism, which can create a mechanical transmission path that runs through the feet, legs, waist, hips, shoulders, and hands!"

"I need to perform a human stress analysis!"

After saying that, Lu Ming picked up a pen and paper and began to write and draw on the table, listing a bunch of formulas for the stress structure of the human body.

Volume 1: Chapter 70 Become a Martial Arts Master in a Crash Course! Fully Automatic Inch Punch! (3k5)

The room was filled with densely packed numbers, symbols, and formulas piled on the paper.

Lu Ming sat on the ground, gripping a pen and scribbling rapidly on the paper. Mechanical formulas, stress curves, and human anatomy models surged, collided, and reorganized in his mind like flowing water.

High-speed thinking, activate! Groundbreaking wisdom, activate!

With a mere inch of force, it will surely be captured in no time!

Ai Lei, who was watching from the sidelines, was almost stunned.

She could hear Lu Ming muttering to himself as his lips moved, and she could also see him scribbling and drawing on the paper with a flourish.

She recognized every single word that came out of his mouth, but when they were put together, they sounded like gibberish.

No problem. Lu Ming's handwriting was already ridiculously crooked, and with that kind of outrageous, unorthodox learning, it became even more difficult to understand.

"Wait... what are you doing?" Ellie couldn't help but lean forward and ask cautiously.

She initially thought Lu Ming was researching some unique alchemy technique. But upon closer inspection, she realized that his mind was filled with... levers, torques, and stress transmission?

So this has absolutely nothing to do with martial arts?

"It's the 'inch strike' you just mentioned."

Lu Ming said, "I am deriving a human stress model. As long as the path of mechanical transmission is thoroughly understood, the so-called 'force' can be replicated from a theoretical level."

"what?"

Ai Lei was stunned.

The original owner of her body, Rin Tohsaka, was also a master of Bajiquan, having practiced it since childhood. The power generation techniques of general martial arts emphasize "power originating from the ground" and "unity of waist and stance," which are profound skills that require more than ten or even decades of hard training to master.

But... deriving a model? Can this thing really be calculated?

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't rush. I'll write this down and explain it to you as I go."

Lu Ming took a deep breath, activating his 'high-speed thinking' to its fullest extent, and continued writing the derivation, "First, the first part of the force transmission lies in the legs and feet..."

"When you push off the ground, your feet apply pressure to the ground. According to Newton's third law, the ground will generate a reverse supporting stress."

“When an ordinary person pushes off the ground, they only use the muscle groups in the lower leg. Most of the stress dissipates by the time it reaches the knee and doesn’t reach the pelvis at all.”

"But martial arts are different."

"With the correct way of exerting force, the lower limbs can form a complete rigid lever - from the soles of the feet, ankles, knees to hip joints, each joint is locked at the optimal angle, and the reaction force from the ground can be transmitted upward along this lever, converting all of one's own weight into transmitted stress."

"This is the essence of 'power originating from the earth'."

Ereshkigal: "......"

She thought she knew a bit about Bajiquan, so she opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but found that she couldn't get a single word out.

Is that correct?

It seems right, but something just doesn't feel right.

That's so strange.

"The second part is about the waist and hips." Lu Ming didn't pay special attention to her expression and continued speaking on his own, even speeding up his speech.

"An ordinary person's waist is either too flexible, causing stress to dissipate directly, or too stiff, creating a new stress-blocking point. But the 'twisting the waist and rotating the hips' in martial arts is different—"

"When you twist your waist, the lumbar fascia is stretched; when you rotate your hips, the oblique abdominal muscles and iliopsoas muscles tighten at the same time. Just like drawing the bowstring taut before shooting an arrow, the entire waist and hip area stores huge elastic potential energy."

"At this time, the ground stress transmitted from the lower limbs and the elastic stress of the waist and hips themselves are superimposed at the same point in time, which forms a stress superposition amplification effect."

"Part Three, the Spiral Ridge..."

"Part Four, Relax Your Shoulders..."

"Part Five, Wrist Shaking..."

"At the last moment, the wrist explodes instantly, concentrating all the accumulated stress along the entire transmission chain and releasing it onto the fist in an extremely short time... This is the entire process of inch power!"

Lu Ming stopped after speaking all at once.

The paper in front of me was already filled with more than ten pages.

The theoretical model works.

There was nothing Lu Ming could do, he sighed inwardly, after all, he wasn't a martial arts genius.

Without good talent, one can only rely on rudimentary writing skills, learning martial arts step by step, one stroke at a time.

Ereshkigal: "......"

He hesitated to speak, yet still wanted to; he wanted to speak, yet hesitated to speak.

She had come to help Lu Ming, but she felt like she couldn't join the conversation at all.

Who exactly is the newcomer to martial arts?

"But just because the theory is sound doesn't mean it can be used."

Lu Ming changed the subject, his expression turning serious again.

He stood up and paced back and forth in the room a couple of times.

"To successfully deliver a complete short-range punch, one must complete a whole set of movements in a very short time, including pushing off the ground, rotating the hips, spinning the spine, sinking the shoulders, and flicking the wrist."

"And it's not simply done sequentially—it's done collaboratively."

"The body has hundreds of muscles of all sizes that must contract and relax precisely and synchronously to maintain the integrity of the stress transmission pathway at the moment of force exertion. If any muscle is half a beat slow or the angle of force exertion is a few degrees off, the entire transmission chain will break down."

"This is why traditional martial arts require years of practice—essentially, it's about repeatedly training to etch this complex muscle coordination pattern into the neural reflexes."

Lu Ming stopped in his tracks, his brows furrowed.

Over the years?

He doesn't have the time.

With the threat of Odin, the crisis in Nibelungen, the increasingly frequent actions of the enemy, and countless enemies including the White King and the Black King, how could he possibly have the leisure to spend ten or eight years practicing martial arts?

It must be... quick.

Ai Lei also realized the problem, and her heart skipped a beat, thinking that she could finally help!

In her view, there is no other way to master this skill that requires muscle memory except through hard practice.

Oh dear! Why am I suddenly feeling a sense of relief and secret joy? Is this kind of thinking a bad thing?

"How about this, Lu Ming? I'll delegate some of the redundant work from the base construction to Ishtar, and then I'll practice your one-inch punch technique with you, how about that!"

—Ishtar: You gloomy woman!