Chapter 78 Bajiquan and Fujian Bronze Figure Art First, the experience gained from the two upgrades of Natural Gate and Bagua Zhang. The Natural Gate's skills have been upgraded, and Du Ruo has gained some new methods for practicing Natural Gate's Qigong, soft skills and weapons. The Natural Gate is a very comprehensive school, which includes light Kung Fu, which Du Ruo acquired at level 0, and some hard Qigong and fighting methods, which he acquired at level 1. Now the upgrade will complete the remaining soft Kung Fu. The upgrade of Baguazhang includes the use of more weapons, such as Bagua double swords, Bagua two-handed swords, etc. Du Ruo learned some of the knowledge and then ignored it. Du Ruo was a little skeptical. If he continued like this, he might become a weapon master. By then, he would be proficient in all kinds of weapons. He didn't know if he would have room to develop his skills. After learning about the upgrade knowledge of the Natural Gate Technique and Bagua Palm, Du Ruo put them aside. Now he is more looking forward to the two new skills he has acquired. Bajiquan. Du Ruo carefully checked the knowledge in his memory. Unfortunately, there was not much special about level 0 Bajiquan. It was just a set of small-frame boxing techniques, and some basic understanding and practice of boxing techniques. The knowledge in it was similar to what Du Ruo had learned on the Internet. Bajiquan is very powerful, which can be seen from the small frame routines. Each move is extremely powerful. If Xingyiquan is: rising like a steel file, falling like a hook, it is about the steady use of force. Each move is not a separate attack, but a connected one. After the attack, the moves are continuous. When you strike out, you are attacking, and when you retract, you are still attacking.
Then the description of Bajiquan should be: exerting strong force, fierce and sudden punches, taking down the opponent with dangerous momentum in leaping forward, and winning with risky tactics in attacking. Simply put, Bajiquan's boxing is fierce, clean and neat, usually using stomping feet to generate force to hit a straight line. It is a simple and crude violent aesthetic that wins by taking risks. Normally when fighting against an enemy, they would open the opponent's middle gate and then use violence to win, often with just one move. This is two extremes compared to Xingyiquan. Du Ruo had some feelings after watching it, that is, it is not suitable to practice on a cliff like this. What a joke, practicing Bajiquan on a cliff is tantamount to committing suicide. Bajiquan walks in a straight line, and there is no straight line for people to walk on on a cliff. So after reading it, Du Ruo just wanted to go back and practice it again. The next thing was the Bronze Man Technique that Du Ruo was most curious about. Du Ruo had been browsing various online knowledge recently, but had never heard of this kung fu. What's more, this kung fu started to upgrade right after it was obtained, which made Du Ruo a little curious. Calming down, Du Ruo absorbed the knowledge in his mind and slowly understood why this Kung Fu could be automatically upgraded without practice. As the name suggests, Fujian Bronze Man Art is a unique martial art from the Fujian area. If we talk about the most famous Fujian martial arts, it would be the Southern Shaolin Temple. It is said that the Shaolin Temple in the movie The God of Cookery at that time was referring to the Southern Shaolin Temple. Apart from Stephen Chow, the biggest impression given by the movie was the Eighteen Bronze Men. Those bronze men had bones of steel and practiced various unique skills of the Shaolin Temple, combined with Shaolin hard qigong, which made them very famous. The Fujian Bronze Man Art and these eighteen bronze men are... completely unrelated. The Bronze Man Technique is a kind of acupoint pressing Kung Fu. The acupoint pressing here is completely different from the sunflower acupoint pressing hand in martial arts novels or TV dramas, which can make people unable to move, laugh, or be unable to speak, etc. In fact, acupoint pressing has also developed in modern times. In the daily life, acupoint pressing is called "urgent rope technique", and in the United States it is called "pressure point fighting" or "pain point fighting". However, no matter in China or abroad, acupoint pressing has a very important point, that is, either a sneak attack or the person being hit needs to stand still, so the application is relatively narrow, and coupled with the difficulty in learning, it has not been widely spread. As for the principle, it is said that all the blood in the human body flows out from the heart and then circulates in the body. The reason why it is not chaotic and maintains a uniform speed is that the blood pumped out from the heart is a kind of blood called "tide head". The "tide" flows out from the heart, and then travels through the body's eight extraordinary meridians and the five internal organs according to the time. People have mastered the pattern of where the "tide" goes from and when. The term "tide head" echoes the term "Ziwu Liuzhu" in traditional Chinese medicine. "Ziwu Liuzhu" believes that the blood heads of human qi and blood should be infused and circulated in the twelve meridians every twelve hours, leading the qi and blood to circulate throughout the body. The Bronze Man Technique is to find such a pattern, and use special techniques to hit or cut off the acupuncture points through which the "tide head" flows, thereby causing damage to the enemy. Sometimes, the location of the "tide head" is even calculated directly, and then the "tide head" is hit to stop the blood from flowing throughout the body, so as to achieve the effect of instant death. The knowledge learned at LV0 of Bronze Man Technique is how to train finger strength and how to identify acupoints. Only when you have mastered these two skills can you be considered qualified to start learning. After reading it, Du Ruo immediately understood why this skill could be upgraded as soon as it was acquired. Du Ruo had learned the distribution of various meridians and acupoints in the human body through the hidden weapon skills, and then he often practiced basic hand skills, whether it was glue or tiger's mouth stick, and even the process of Du Ruo climbing the cliff just now was also exercising his fingers.
So Du Ruo has actually fully met the basic learning requirements of the Bronze Man Art. After the upgrade, Du Ruo gained more insights into the Bronze Man Technique and also gained an additional skill. After learning the art of bronze man, one will have strong finger strength and a set of acupoint-pressing skills, which can be used to attack the enemy's acupoints when fighting against others. Some people may think that since you are hitting someone directly, hitting the acupoints will only aggravate the damage. What does this have to do with acupressure? In fact, one of the most important functions of this set of kung fu is that it can break the opponent's soft and hard qigong. When Du Ruo was fighting with the blond man, he hit him in the stomach with his cannon punch. The man used his Qi to hold up his abdomen, which made the abdominal muscles tightly united and prevented the cannon punch from causing much damage. This is a simple application of Qigong. The more advanced hard Qigong can be as indestructible as the Eighteen Bronze Men, or the soft Qigong masters can train their skin to be as tough as cowhide, and after using Qigong, it is as if lard is spread on it, making it impossible to catch or attack. After Du Ruo practiced the Bronze Man Technique, he could use acupuncture to destroy this kind of qigong. He only needed to hit the corresponding acupoints. After inhaling in the hard qigong, the muscles could not hold together at all. The soft qigong could not circulate the qi in the body, and the qi would be deflated after reaching a certain acupoint. This is what is usually called the life gate. (End of this chapter)