Chapter 14 Skill Upgrade and Xingyi Twelve Forms He completed the single-weight three-body pose again, this time lasting two minutes and fifty-five seconds. The three-minute mark of the single-weight three-body pose was just around the corner. Du Ruo did not force the progress, as that was not a good thing and might even hurt himself. Du Ruo put away his standing posture, and saw that the attribute panel in front of him suddenly jumped. The original 99/100 experience bar changed, and there was one more choice below the panel, and at the same time, there were more memories in his mind. Name: Du Ruo Age: 31 Fine: Qi: God: Attribute points: Skills: Xingyiquan LV1 (0/200) Get a chance to draw a lottery and choose whether to draw a new skill. "Extract new skills!" Du Ruo temporarily ignored the extra memories in his mind and silently recited the extraction skill in his mind. Skills: Xingyiquan LV1 (0/200) Natural Gate Technique Level 0 (0/100) Immediately, a new skill appeared on Du Ruo's panel.
"Natural Gate? Is this the Natural Gate created by modern martial arts master Du Xinwu?" When Du Ruo saw the three words "Natural Gate", a famous figure immediately came to his mind. Du Ruo had not been watching the young ladies in short videos in his spare time recently. He also had a basic understanding of many figures and sects related to Chinese martial arts. Many people are not familiar with Du Xinwu, but he used to be a bodyguard for Mr. Sun and was well-known to the world and was called the number one bodyguard at the time. This shows how powerful this man is. Suddenly, Du Ruo stopped practicing, sat down on a recliner beside him, and began to recall the memories he had just gained. The first one was Xingyiquan. After Xingyiquan was upgraded, the memory of the Twelve Forms of Xingyiquan immediately appeared in Du Ruo's mind. The twelve forms of boxing are dragon form, tiger form, bear form, snake form, ox form, monkey form, horse form, chicken form, swallow form, crocodile form, kite form and eagle form. In addition to the basic boxing techniques, it also involves the most critical fighting methods, training methods, and even some miscellaneous boxing training methods. It can be said that what you get this time is equivalent to an encyclopedia of Xingyiquan boxing types. Du Ruo checked the knowledge about Xingyiquan in his mind, suppressed the urge to practice immediately, and began to recall the Natural Gate skills he had just obtained. As far as Du Ruo knew, the Natural Gate included hard, soft and light skills, and Du Ruo was looking forward to it. It was a pity that only one training method appeared in Du Ruo's mind, that is, the Natural Gate's light skills, and there was no practice method for hard and soft skills. "Tsk~ It's only Qinggong training, but luckily it's not boxing. If it was the boxing of the Natural Gate, I would be speechless." It is understandable that Du Ruo would have such an idea, because the Natural Gate does have boxing skills, but that boxing skills are not completely useless, it can only be said to be useless. The martial arts of the Natural Gate are about skills, not fists. If the fists here are not supported by strong skills, they will not be powerful and particularly ugly, and they will not have the training effect of other fists. Du Ruo flipped through the part about the Natural Gate's lightness skills in his mind. He was even more curious about this. Lightness skills, the kind that allows one to fly over eaves and walk on walls, who wouldn't want to? It’s a pity that after watching it, Du Ruo felt disappointed again. The purpose of the Natural Gate's light Kung Fu training is not to make the body lighter, but to train the leg strength and the balance of the whole body. Although it seems in the mind that when the Natural Gate's light Kung Fu is practiced to the extreme, one can fly over eaves and walls, pull up onions on dry land, and the body is as fast as lightning, but this is not the kind of flying around in the TV dramas that Du Ruo has watched. "Forget it, why do I need a bicycle? This is good enough. We must not lose sight of the main goal. The body is the root of everything. The exercises are just for better training. When the spirit and energy attributes are improved, we may be able to fly around like in TV dramas." Du Ruo tried to comfort himself, then stood up and prepared to start practicing again. Du Ruo put the natural door's light work aside for the time being, because this was not what Du Ruo needed urgently at the moment, and Du Ruo had an idea in his mind, and he needed some time to confirm it. Coming back to the open space, Du Ruo decided to practice Xingyi Twelve Forms Boxing first. There is an essential difference between Xingyi Twelve Forms Boxing and Five Elements Boxing. The Five Elements Boxing requires a complete set of practice to maximize the effect of the practice. This is not necessary for the Twelve Forms Boxing. You can choose the corresponding boxing method and focus on practicing it according to your own preferences or habits, and it is more considered from the practical combat aspect.
But now, Du Ruo has not planned to consider the issue of preferences. Preferences can only be chosen after he has practiced and understood them. Xingyi Twelve Forms Boxing is not twelve moves, but twelve routines, each of which has its core point. For example, the Dragon Form in the Twelve Forms Boxing, the moves in this routine are all large and open. If you use this routine to hit someone, it will definitely not work. The purpose of practicing the Dragon Form is to exercise the spine, and practicing using the spine to generate power is the core of this routine. Another example is the tiger form in the Twelve Forms Boxing. This routine is mainly practiced by pouncing. The essence of practicing the tiger form is to train the hip bones and practice using the hip bones to exert force. When practicing the twelve forms of Xingyi, you should experience the force characteristics of each part, and then apply them in actual combat. Moreover, in the routines of Twelve Forms Boxing, they basically start with the Three-Body Eagle Catching Style, so the routines also include the five ways of using force of the Five Elements Boxing: chop, drill, collapse, cannon and horizontal. This is also the most fundamental reason why the Twelve Forms of Xingyiquan can become the mother fist of Xingyiquan. Du Ruo practiced the Twelve Forms of Boxing over and over again, carefully experiencing how the corresponding parts of the body in each form exerted force. This could not be neglected at all, because only when the exertion of force in each part was trained into physical instinct, could he put aside the routine and engage in actual combat. Du Ruo practiced for more than 40 minutes until he felt unwell. Du Ruo opened the attribute panel again and added the attribute points he had just obtained, but unexpectedly discovered that the Natural Gate skill, which he had never practiced, actually increased his skill experience points a little. Name: Du Ruo Age: 31 Fine: Qi: God: Attribute points: Skills: Xingyiquan LV1 (2/200) Natural Gate Technique: LV0 (1/100) "Yes, that's right. The essence of Ziran Men's Qinggong is actually to train leg strength and body balance. When practicing Xingyiquan, the legs can also be trained naturally, so the improvement is also expected." Du Ruo looked at the experience gained from the Natural Gate Technique and thought to himself that this was the reason why he had not actively practiced the Natural Gate Technique just now. He also wanted to know whether he had to practice each skill he acquired in order to gain experience. Now the conclusion is that as long as they are related, or because their core purpose is the same, practicing Xingyiquan can actually improve the experience of other exercises. This is also reasonable. After all, your kung fu will become more and more advanced as you practice. When you reach a high level, you may be able to take a look at other kung fu and then master the core of them right away. It’s a pity that attribute points don’t increase just because of skill growth, they require actual practice to increase. (End of this chapter)