To a martial artist, putting aside the initial-stage knowledge of martial techniques, the first stage that needed to be experienced was the Overlord Body Realm.
Specifically, the so-called Overlord Body was actually to continuously temper the body and increase the various skills in the body. For example, muscle strength, reaction speed, bone strength, resistance to attacks, and so on.
Under normal circumstances, martial artists would choose an internal cultivation method to cultivate. When you were able to successfully mobilize the Internal Breath in your dantian through this internal cultivation method and use it to strengthen your body, it meant that you had officially stepped through the door of martial arts and could be considered an initial-stage Overlord Body Realm Martial Artist.
The previous Chu Nan was at this stage.
If he wanted to continue rising in the initial-stage Overlord Body realm, he could only persist in cultivating the Internal Breath cultivation method and continuously use his Internal Breath to strengthen and refine his body.
When the body was tempered to a certain extent, the Internal Breath would also be powerful to a certain extent. If one could circulate Internal Breath in their entire body at will and unleash their intent as they pleased, it meant that they had officially stepped from the Overlord Body Realm to the Internal Breath Realm.
Although Chu Nan could rely on his powerful data ability to calculate all the changes in his moves in advance and circulate the Nine Revolutions Technique in advance to mobilize his Internal Breath, allowing his Internal Breath to perfectly match the Hong Clan’s Long Fist and attach Internal Breath to his fist in battle, strictly speaking, he was still not a true Internal Breath Martial Artist.
The reason was very simple. He was still unable to casually circulate his Internal Breath to any part of his body. He could only mobilize it according to the trajectory of the Internal Breath cultivated by the Nine Revolutions Technique and cooperate with the Hong Clan’s Long Fist to increase its power.
If he was a true Internal Breath Martial Artist, it would not be so troublesome. As long as he wanted to mobilize his Internal Breath in battle, he could use it at any time. The fundamental reason for this difference was the huge difference in the degree of tempering between an Overlord Body Realm Martial Artist and an Internal Breath Realm Martial Artist.
The problem that Chu Nan was considering now was what the exact difference displayed by this so-called “body tempering” was. If it was in terms of muscle strength, there was undoubtedly an extremely huge difference between Chu Nan and an Internal Breath Martial Artist who had already passed the Overlord Body realm and had completed the initial refinement of the body. He was even clearly inferior to a fifth-stage Overlord Body Martial Artist like Luo Li.
For example, Luo Li could easily achieve 3-400 kilograms with a casual punch. Chu Nan had to use his powerful data ability to mobilize every muscle in his body and perfectly cooperate in order to allow his pure fist strength to break through 400 kilograms.
However, this was clearly not enough to cause the most important difference between Chu Nan and an Internal Breath Martial Artist. The key was still the difference between the two sides in using their Internal Breath.
In the battle with Saha in the afternoon, if Chu Nan’s every punch could contain Internal Breath, even if Saha had a special and extremely defensive Internal Breath cultivation method like the Black Rock Turtle Breath, it was impossible for him to take so many of Chu Nan’s punches without any injuries.
However, it was obvious that Chu Nan could not do this.
Firstly, his Internal Breath was far from enough to support him mobilizing his Internal Breath with every punch.
Although he had already broken through to the third level of the Nine Revolutions Technique and his Internal Breath had greatly increased, the strength of Chu Nan’s current Internal Breath was at most that of a low-level Overlord Body Martial Artist.
With the special trait of the Nine Revolutions Technique, he could mobilize a powerful Internal Breath that was even comparable to low-level Internal Breath Realm experts.
However, it was fine to do this once or twice. In fact, according to his experiment, it was not a problem to do this more than ten times. However, if in the battle with Saha in the afternoon, hundreds of punches were filled with Internal Breath, that was impossible. Therefore, in the battle in the afternoon, other than the first two punches and the few critical moments after that, Chu Nan only relied on his physical strength to fight Saha.
Secondly, Chu Nan was unable to successfully mobilize his Internal Breath with every punch.
The reason why he was able to successfully mobilize his Internal Breath to assist him when cultivating the Hong Clan’s Long Fist was because the fist technique was indeed very outstanding. Every punch could successfully mobilize the muscles and meridians in his entire body, allowing him to use the Nine Revolutions Technique to fuse his Internal Breath.
However, if he could not use the Hong Clan’s Long Fist, it would be very difficult for the Nine Revolutions Technique to be circulated perfectly. Since his Internal Breath could not be fused, he naturally could not mobilize his Internal Breath.
He had not paid much attention to this when he was practicing previously, but the battle with Saha today made him pay attention to this problem. The pressure brought about by an Internal Breath Realm Martial Artist was too great. Even if he had the support of a powerful data ability, it was impossible for him to ensure that he could perfectly unleash the Hong Clan’s Long Fist every time. Therefore, he could not guarantee that every punch contained Internal Breath, so the threat to an Internal Breath Realm Martial Artist would definitely be much smaller.
If it was said that Chu Nan did not understand this problem in the past, after sparring with that unknown senior and being pointed out the difference between the Internal Breath cultivation method and the Internal Breath circulation method, he had a certain understanding now.
In the end, he lacked an Internal Breath circulation method that could complement the Nine Revolutions Technique. His Internal Breath was not strong enough, so it was naturally impossible for him to casually mobilize his Internal Breath in battle.
If he could do it, he would be an Internal Breath Realm Martial Artist.
“But what about that kick in the afternoon?” The last kick that ended the battle with Saha in the afternoon flashed through Chu Nan’s mind.
The last move was a meticulously designed trap. Originally, he only wanted to try and kick Saha’s vital points. Perhaps he could find the greatest weakness of Saha’s Black Rock Internal Breath.
However, he did not expect that when he kicked out, the Internal Breath that had circulated in the Sitting Horse Rush Fist, which had just cooperated with that move to hit the vital part of Saha’s dantian, happened to flow along the trajectory of the Nine Revolutions Technique to his left leg and flow to the tip of his foot. As a result, the force of his kick was as high as 793.712866 kilograms, directly crushing Saha.
This puzzled Chu Nan.
What was the Internal Breath circulation method that that unknown senior mentioned?
If circulating his Internal Breath required a cultivation method to mobilize it, then wouldn’t circulating the Nine Revolutions Technique with the Hong Clan’s Long Fist be a cultivation method for circulating Internal Breath?
The most important thing was that the last kick had nothing to do with the Hong Clan’s Long Fist. However, he could follow the situation at that time and circulate his Internal Breath to his foot to bring out his Internal Breath.
This… should be considered a method to control the circulation of Internal Breath, right?
In the end, when cultivating the Nine Revolutions Technique, wasn’t it just controlling the process of Internal Breath circulating in the body?
“Therefore, the so-called Internal Breath circulation method is not strange at all. It’s only to change the trajectory when circulating the Internal Breath? In that case, why can’t I create it myself?”
Chu Nan glanced at the busy sensors on his body and glanced at the exquisite and complicated equipment in the surrounding logistics rehabilitation center. He did not hesitate and directly jumped up.
“Warning, Student Chu Nan, your muscle activity stimulation has only reached 78%. Please lie down and continue your treatment.”
“There’s no need.” Chu Nan waved his hand, “A.I., I want you to test my physical condition at any time. If I encounter any danger, treat me immediately.”
“Alright.” The female voice representing the mainframe A.I. paused for a moment and actually agreed.
Chu Nan smiled and confirmed again that the mainframe A.I. of this data rehabilitation center indeed had extraordinary intelligence. It was far from what the ancient computers produced by the Earth Federation could compare to.
After carefully recalling the situation when he proposed the kick in the afternoon, Chu Nan first Sitting Horse Rush Fist and circulated his Internal Breath.
When he felt his Internal Breath retract from his fist and turn around, Chu Nan immediately kicked it.
Pew!
After spitting out a mouthful of blood, Chu Nan’s body went soft and he fell onto the treatment bed.
Two robotic arms reached out from nowhere and carried Chu Nan to the bed to lie down. Then, several probes were already pasted on his skin and a needle quietly stabbed into the blood vessels in his upper arm.
Not long after, Chu Nan completely recovered.
He jumped down from the bed and kicked again.