Hunting God Era

Chapter 3 A man over twenty-eight is sixty

Ignoring his parents' conversation outside, Li Ye entered the room, stood in the center, took a deep breath, stood with his feet together, and swept his arms out like a roc spreading its wings, stretching his muscles and bones, and his breathing became deep and powerful.

Five minutes later, Li Ye's hands hooked like dragon claws and suddenly pulled upwards, trying his best to stretch his spine segment by segment. As his breathing became rhythmic, his outstretched arms were straight up to the sky.

It opens the shoulders and straightens the spine, activates the meridians, promotes blood and qi circulation, and invigorates the spirit.

After maintaining this position for a while, Li Ye changed his posture again, planted his feet firmly, exerted force from his waist and hips, and slowly and heavily impacted the air with his shoulders and back, exhaling at that moment, causing his muscles and bones to tremble.

The movements and breathing we are doing now are guided exercises that people in China have been practicing since elementary school. These exercises can help people strengthen their muscles and bones and improve their blood circulation.

There are eighteen sets of movements in total. Those with the qualifications to become martial artists can use these moves to directly enter the Dragon Gate.

The first of the nine realms of martial arts is the Dragon Gate Realm, also known as the 'Fish Leap'.

Qi and blood leap nine times, breaking through the mortal realm to become a martial artist.

Each leap represents a qualitative leap in the flow of Qi and blood.

It is also the foundation for fighting against demons.

It's not that the weapons are ineffective; on the contrary, gunpowder has been used to ward off evil spirits since ancient Tang Dynasty texts, so the larger the amount, the greater the effect.

However, the corruption of demons is not something ordinary people can deal with; only those with vigorous blood and energy can achieve twice the result with half the effort when using weapons.

But it doesn't mean that everything will be fine once you cross the Dragon Gate. If you can't fully consolidate your Qi and blood by leaping nine times, you will still decline as you get older.

When people get old, they no longer rely on their muscles and bones for strength.

Especially for those who have only undergone one leap in Qi and Blood, as they age, they are only slightly healthier than the average person.

Many people give up practicing martial arts for this reason. After all, if you can't break through the Dragon Gate and enter the martial arts path when you're young and full of energy, how can you do it when you're older?
If you don't break through at eighteen, are you going to wait until twenty-eight? A man over twenty-eight is already sixty!

People like Fu Yan are truly rare.

Although I've given up martial arts, I can still practice guiding exercises from time to time, since they're good for my health.

After completing the entire set of movements, Li Ye stood still and regulated his breathing for a while. Suddenly, he twisted his left foot, and although he was only wearing socks, the floor beneath his feet made a strange 'squeak' sound.

call!
His right foot, straight as a sword, whistled through the air as it slashed diagonally into the air.

Immediately afterwards, Li Ye pressed his upper body down, his legs like swinging iron rods, slamming down with great force, then gently touching the ground just before landing, propelling his body high into the air, his legs kicking out in a continuous series of kicks.

Whoohoo!
With a whooshing sound as his legs pierced the air, Li Ye landed. Upon landing, he delivered three more kicks, from bottom to top, as if striking a person's knee, heart, and brain. The kicks were swift, powerful, and sharp, like cold stars, precise and forceful!
Training Method: Springing Leg!

The bullet!

This is the result of Li Ye's five years of learning at the martial arts school.

If guiding exercises are the foundation, then practice is to further apply that foundation, to enhance qi and blood again, so as to reach a state of dynamism.

This is the training method used in martial arts schools, and it is also a mainstream path for most preparatory students to learn martial arts.

It's like a cram school from my past life.

Preparatory courses at schools are at most two years long, and what they teach is to strengthen physical foundations.

Running laps, climbing, weightlifting, obstacle courses, punching targets, standing meditation, and swimming meditation all strengthen physical fitness, resilience, and flexibility. When combined with guided exercises, this is also a form of indirect enhancement.

After all, the improvement of Qi and blood is unrelated to physical strength, but physical strength is definitely related to Qi and blood.

The martial arts training methods, according to the previous life, are equivalent to killing martial arts.

To some extent, Li Ye was a martial arts master.

This is the source of his 'excellent' rating in the pre-college physical fitness test.

This source is also the most expensive!
The Jing Lei Martial Arts School he enrolled in was quite well-known locally. Their training method, "Springing Leg," was a way to raise blood and qi from the soles of the feet to the whole body through leg exercises.

Tuition is 100,000 yuan per year.

This does not include food, medicinal baths, or other supplementary supplies provided by the martial arts school.

The guided exercises and preparatory training, as long as the family provides timely replenishment, like the soup we drank today, will not cause any problems. It is very peaceful and suitable for the general public.

The training methods at a martial arts school must be combined with the school's specially provided food and medicinal baths in order to compensate for the damage caused by the training.

Li Ye has spent nearly 300,000 yuan on these tonics and medicinal baths over the past five years, especially during his second year of high school preparatory course, when tuition and supplementary expenses totaled 200,000 yuan.

Even so, there are still many people who fail to break through the Dragon Gate.

His family was already penniless, and he knew his parents had borrowed money elsewhere, so he had to cut his losses as soon as possible.

If he trains for another year, he probably won't even be able to earn 200,000.

Martial arts are indeed fascinating. Just the training methods alone allowed Li Ye to experience what it means to be a martial arts master.

As someone with experience from two lifetimes, he was very curious about what the higher levels of martial arts would look like.

But that's just the reality.

Li Ye kicked a few times before stopping to catch his breath. He stood still and took long, deep breaths for ten minutes before pulling out a chair to start working on the test paper. The only difference between Shenzhou and his previous life in terms of knowledge was that the academic subjects were Chinese, mathematics, and general knowledge; there were no foreign languages—those were only electives in university.

From now on, he will work harder on his grades in this area and strive to get into a better university in a year.

An hour later, Li Ye stopped writing, glanced at the time, and saw it was exactly nine o'clock in the evening.

Time for a night run.

Li Ye pulled a backpack and a box out from under the bed and stuffed the contents of the box into the backpack.

Items included salt water guns, peach wood daggers, high-powered flashlights, small fire extinguishers, righteous songs, and even two homemade Molotov cocktails.

Salt has a suppressive effect on some demons.

Peach wood is believed to ward off evil spirits.

Light dispels evil spirits.

Foul air fears clean air.

Flames extinguish yin energy.

He was righteous and avoided demons and ghosts.

These ancient methods are not uncommon in history, and Li Ye always carries them with him when he goes for a night run, so that he will have a way to deal with demons if he encounters them.

As for why this is done.
Because night running is the only exercise method for 'TanTui' that doesn't require spending money.

After getting ready, he put on his backpack, left home, and started his night run.

While running, the legs should be used to generate power and vibrate according to the training method, so that each step can be trained from the thigh to the sole of the foot. After one foot steps over, the other foot should quickly kick straight, and then vibrate to the ground.

If this continues for two hours, it can achieve a consolidation effect.

Practicing martial arts is like rowing against the current; if you don't advance, you fall behind.

We've spent the money, so we can't waste it; at least we need to maintain the current strength.

At 11 p.m., Li Ye ran back to the residential area.

There are no night markets around the old neighborhood, and most people have already gone to bed. Only a few windows still have light coming through, making the neighborhood very quiet.

Li Ye adjusted his backpack and continued forward, but the faint, strange smell in his nose became increasingly pungent.

The smell was even stronger than when he came home from school, making him hold his breath.

I'll call the property management tomorrow and tell them to fix it quickly, otherwise the smell will be even stronger in another day.

There are few streetlights inside the old residential area; only scattered lights from the buildings and the moon in the sky provide a little illumination, making the surrounding environment appear and disappear.

Li Ye walked forward despite the strange smell. When he got close to the building next to his house, he saw a figure rummaging through the stinking garbage can.

Only when you get close can you see that it is a hunched figure with gray hair.

Li Ye recognized this person; he lived on the fourth floor of the building next door. His surname was Zhao, and like many other elderly people, he enjoyed scavenging at night.

But unlike others who might collect plastic bottles and cans, this old man Zhao would collect everything he could find and bring home.

Expired food, leaky dolls, discarded cigarette butts. It seems like they'd take anything except swill.

The house smelled even worse. Li Ye had seen the neighbors in that building arguing with this person several times because of this.

But he had no children, was an old man living alone, and was someone who couldn't be chosen.

No one can do anything about his quirk.

Li Ye didn't want to pay attention to it and sped up a bit, but the closer the distance made it easier for him to see things more clearly.

Old Zhao was still dressed in dirty clothes, clothes he had picked up from who-knows-where, but his actions at that moment stunned Li Ye more than his clothes.

He was surrounded by rummaged-out garbage, and he himself was rummaging through the trash can, reaching in to pick out a clump of food scraps mixed with fish bones and other rotten matter. He grabbed it in his hand, and it was like mud, so he stuffed it into his mouth!
He's eating garbage!
Old Zhao didn't make a sound, like a puppet. His blank face chewed a couple of times, and his hands kept rummaging through the trash can, as if he hadn't eaten for a long time.

The bizarre scene left Li Ye stunned.

Old Zhao seemed to have sensed something, and looked up and to the side, allowing Li Ye to see a pair of eyes that looked like those of a dead man, with gray and empty sockets, and in his open mouth, something was still wriggling among the mud-like food.

Something is wrong.
"what!"

Just as he was thinking this, a hoarse, piercing sound like a broken gong suddenly rang in his ears, startling Li Ye.

Old Zhao leaned forward like a mad zombie, baring his teeth and claws as he lunged at Li Ye!

In the dim light, he could even see the black on Old Zhao's fingernails and the moldy green nail polish growing on the back of his hand!

In an instant, Li Ye thought of many things.

Zombie? Wandering corpse? Puppet corpse? Rotting monster? Returning spirit?
demon!

(End of this chapter)