Chapter 27

Romance of Dragons and Snakes Chapter 27

As he struck the sandbags, a sudden thought had popped up in his mind about how to make his practice even harder.

With this new thought in mind, Wang Chao immediately headed for the kitchens where he grabbed a few buckets of cooking oil before slathering it onto the vats of water until it shined with the sauce. Taking off his shoes, he carefully stood back onto the vat.

Sure enough, the slipperiness of the vats was astounding to see. The moment he had settled on top of the vat, Wang Chao felt his stance grow unsteady. His feet were nearly on the verge of slipping, and then with a sudden bang, he fell off.

Fortunately, his leg strength was strong enough for him to leap into the air before landing safely on the ground in order to avoid injuring himself.

“Good, this is a challenge!” Wang Chao was overjoyed. Jumping back onto the vat and exerting pressure onto his toes, he managed to cling to the vat as he tauted the muscles in his legs with all the muscles he could use.

It went without saying that after some time, he had made some improvements. Slowly but surely, he had grasped control of the vat, and with each footwork he made, it grew more and more steady.

After two days from when Wang Chao began, he had fallen several times. But with time, he had fallen less and less.

With his increased understanding of how to move and distribute his weight, he had begun to move faster and faster. Now, he was capable of moving with the same fluidity of when the vat hadn’t been greased.

“Would I be able to hit the sandbags like this now?” Wang Chao wondered.

Bang! Wang Chao’s palm slammed against the sandbag and felt a vibration go through his legs, causing him to hurry to steady himself once more. But his body had struck against another sandbag and sent him flying to the ground.

Needless to say, the greased up vat of oil was far more difficult to practice martial arts than before.

This time, Wang Chao had returned to practicing once more while falling to the ground. The only difference this time was that there was no sis Chen here to lead him.

But the Wang Chao of today was much more mature than the past. Trying to compare the two now was impossible. Even after falling, he hadn’t sustained any damages.

Continuing onwards for half a month, Wang Chao had continued to eat, sleep, and practice on top of the water vats. Aside from Bagua, he had practiced both Xingyi and the Assault of Dragon and Snake.

Gradually, Wang Chao’s feet could feel the greased vats with ease. His legs could move about the vat while his hands struck the sandbag without falling down even once. Instead of falling, he grew even more nimble and could stay on top of the vat without feeling a disturbance in his movements even as he iterated through 12 of the Xingyi stances.

Finally, Wang Chao began to feel that with each turn, his joints and muscles within the body began to have a pinching feeling as if something had penetrated into him.

“Aha, this must be having the Jin obey when one feels this sensation. This has to be when one reaches the upper levels of the Clear Jin stage.”

The winter break had quickly went by with Wang Chao being completely engrossed in martial arts. he had only returned once to give his parents 5000 RMB and said that it was his salary, causing his parents to be overjoyed at his success.

Even up to the very last few days of the winter break, Wang Chao had continued to practice on the vats. In the final day, no matter how much he had moved, there had been no chance of falling.

Planting his feet on the ground, Wang Chao felt completely as ease before striking downwards once. Pa! A crisp sound range through the air.

Having practiced perfectly, his entire body was perfectly full of power, allowing his strikes to be crisp in sound.

“Why is it in this entire winter break, there has been no challenger at all?” Tomorrow would be the official end to the winter break, and so Wang Chao was prepared to head back home when all of a sudden, his cellphone began to ring.

Picking up his phone, the icy tone of Li Wanji could be heard, “Hurry up and come to the dojo!”

When he heard this, Wang Chao knew that this could only mean one thing. Hanging up the phone, he immediately called for a taxi and drove over to the dojo. In these two months, Li Wanji had always made timely payments without any defaults. Wang Chao would naturally try not to neglect his duties either.