: Terrible

[Anchor point: The Three Forms of the Spirit Crane, personally passed down.]

[Time: Summer of July 10th, 3171, six years ago.]

Before Qiao Yuan's eyes, time rapidly rewound, eventually revealing a garden on the rooftop of a floating building. It looked quite large, but it was old, with the walls covered in a large number of green vines.

On the tin table next to the wall were two bottles of baijiu and peanuts. In the garden, there was also a big yellow dog and two metal clothes racks. In the summer breeze, the washed, translucent corners of the clothes fluttered in the sky and returned to the wisps of white mist in the high sky.

Master Li of the White Crane Martial Arts School was a bald, middle-aged man who looked to be in his fifties. He had similar strength to a senior high school homeroom teacher and had both reached the second stage of advancement.

At this moment, the martial arts master, dressed in a black martial arts uniform, spoke earnestly to his son: "Your mother passed away early, and I didn't want to spread rumors because I didn't want you to get involved in the trouble."

"Your personality is too flamboyant, Haoran. You should just focus on improving yourself and choose a martial artist path."

The robust young man had a long face and was not particularly handsome. He was probably still a high school student, after all, it was six years ago.

Faced with his father's worry, the boy said frankly, "It's not that exaggerated. I'm not a child anymore. After I've reached a higher level, I will definitely bring glory to our family's martial arts school, and of course, I will also find that traitor."

"No!" The bald curator Li immediately rebuked him with concern, "Don't concern yourself with his affairs. You must swear to your mother today, otherwise I will absolutely not pass on the information. There is no room for negotiation."

The boy's lips twitched, and after a few words of argument, he saw Director Li walk into the room in disappointment.

"Dad! I swear it's true!"

Only then did Director Li stop, a faint look of satisfaction on his face.

Qiao Yuan had been watching from the sidelines. When the old curator turned around and patted the boy's shoulder earnestly, he said, "You should try to get into the main city in the future, and don't end up like me, staying in Huanxi Prefecture for the rest of your life."

The boy nodded as if he understood, lit an incense stick in front of his mother's memorial tablet, and then began to learn the Three Forms of the Crane with his father in the room.

Qiao Yuan frowned slightly as he listened. Logically speaking, the son of the martial arts school owner was quite talented. Six years ago, his father had told him to work hard to get into the main city, but it seemed that he had not achieved his goal at the martial arts school.

They even treated these high school students who practiced martial arts quite badly.

Never mind, let's learn from them first.

He stood by and watched as Director Li taught him by example, and gradually benefited greatly.

"This technique originated from Crane Fist, which is neither entirely hard nor entirely soft. Watch closely."

"The Three Forms of the Crane, also known as the Crane Great Scattered Hand, is a sublimated martial art comprehended by our Li family ancestors. It uses the lightness of a crane to coordinate with the movement of spiritual atoms in the universe to achieve the effect of borrowing force, and its upper limit is quite high."

"As the saying goes, one borrows three forces, masters three transformations, and eventually grasps the ten forces of the force field. Finally, the magnetic field rotates, stacking ten thousand layers to reach the supreme realm of overturning the universe with a single thought, stepping into the absolute domain. But how vast is the multiverse, how boundless is the deep space, how limitless is the martial arts..."

Director Li's words, tinged with a longing for the universe, stirred up Qiao Yuan's memories. Back in his senior year of high school, his homeroom teacher had also mentioned the division of power into leveraging, controlling, mastering, force fields, magnetic fields, mental realms, and absolute domains, combined with the twelve stages of sublimation and godhood.

This idea originated from martial arts, but it was later extended to all those who have transcended their limits, because regardless of the ability, the key is always lethality.

The nine ways of sublimation are: genetic sublimation, mechanical sublimation, psionic sublimation, destiny sublimation, cloud sublimation, blessing sublimation, symbiotic sublimation, apostolic sublimation, and ascetic sublimation.

Yan Baobao is following the Destiny Ascension King sequence, constantly breaking her own limits, becoming the only one of her kind, with an extremely high ceiling, but also a great difficulty.

He also liked this method of sublimation.

After reaching the second sublimation, you can choose from thirty sequence pathways, which are of many kinds.

However, that's still a long way off for him. Right now, he just wants to reach level 5 physique as soon as possible.

He learned quietly, and with the Monkey God Stance from high school as a foundation, it wasn't difficult for him to get started.

Although it is ancient martial arts, it is not the kind of profound technique that requires a high threshold. Qiao Yuan gradually mastered the three martial arts techniques of feinting to the east and attacking in the west, surprise attack, and lotus step by step.

But this is only the first level. The Linghe Great Freehand Technique is divided into four levels based on the level of mastery.

Sanshou, essentially a fusion of boxing, emphasizes movement and punching speed. The characteristics of Linghe Sanshou are even more pronounced here. It takes the agility of Crane Fist and further enhances the combination of hardness and softness, enveloping the spiritual atoms between heaven and earth, to achieve a state of being soft when encountering hardness and even softer when encountering softness, which is quite unique.

For example, the last move, "Lotus Steps," is a remarkable evasive footwork. The more fiercely the enemy attacks, the easier it is to dodge. The entire move has only one point of attack: a surprise attack. Its main principle is to retreat in order to advance. However, once an opportunity is seized, the surprise punch that bursts out in an instant will be like a short-range force, achieving an unexpected intensity.

Qiao Yuan now understood how those two high school students had failed; they were indeed quite capable.

As half an hour passed and it was time to return to reality, his eyes suddenly lit up.

[Constitution +0.05.]

"Wow!" He grinned instinctively.

The increase may seem small, but it's equivalent to ten hours of standing meditation. No wonder it's ancient martial arts.

He now feels that his body is more agile, and every move he makes is more methodical.

I made a lot of money today too.

My constitution is now at 4.87, with only 0.13 left. I'll be able to ascend soon and travel to the future timeline. It's so exciting!

As he walked out of the martial arts gym's restroom, his steps became even more agile.

Actually, every time he used his ability to find an excuse to leave, he felt it was a bit complicated. Since reality would pause when he went to the past and time would pass at zero, others shouldn't be able to notice.

It's as if he spent half an hour in the past in an instant, while nothing really changed in reality.

"Hmm, I'll set up my phone in my room when I get home and start recording to see how it works."

He pondered for a moment, then followed Mr. Wang to the museum owner's office to register. Apparently, GG was going to be photographed tomorrow.

"Huh? Qiao Yuan? What are you doing here?"

As soon as Qiao Yuan entered the office, he frowned slightly and noticed a girl with pigtails wearing a black pleated skirt on the sofa next to him. She was Lin Ya, the class monitor of the class next door in the senior year. She had many admirers at school and was also a rich girl from a well-off family.

On the day the college entrance exam ended, the other party invited him to go out and play. Yan Baobao saw this and was jealous for a long time.

"Cough cough, huh?"

Qiao Yuan gave a perfunctory greeting and went to look at the contract. Even though it was a freebie, he wanted to know the inside story and didn't want to be tricked.

Aside from things like what happened on the car with the embers, contracts can be projected like holographic screens, and can also be linked to one's own biological DNA chip, projected onto the eyelids for private browsing, which is very convenient; paper books are long gone.

Lin Ya stood up and walked over with a reserved air, smiling at Director Li behind the boss's desk, "Uncle Li, tomorrow GG, I want to stand in the center position with Qiao Yuan."

The bald curator, Mr. Li, was drinking tea when he asked, slightly surprised, "You two know each other?"

"Yes, he's from the fourth class next door."

"Okay, no problem." Director Li smiled and readily agreed.

Qiao Yuan, who was still looking at the contract, almost lost his composure. What the hell was going on?

He decisively looked up at Lin Ya and said, "Don't mess around. What do you mean by 'center position'? Dream on."

Lin Ya wasn't angry at all. She even smiled and said with her red lips, "So what? Just tell me if you're going to sign or not, or do you like Yan Baobao?"