239: Chapter 236 Subduing Dragons and Tigers

"So, Mr. Li, it is your turn. Which item do you choose to challenge?"

Anya's attitude toward Li Changsheng was truly extraordinary. Even without Li Changsheng noticing it, Kanai Shuichi had already picked up on it by now.

He eyed Li Changsheng with some suspicion, a faint trace of resentment on his face.

It was very much the feeling of, 'We are all candidates, so why the differential treatment?'

Several people's gazes fell upon Li Changsheng, and even the tall, nearly two-meter-tall man looked over.

"Then let's test speed and strength."

Li Changsheng said indifferently. Part of it was to show off, but he also wanted to see what progress he had made recently.

The last rigorous test was during the recording session, and it had been nearly two months since then.

Back then, he hadn't mastered Dark Force yet; now, not only had he mastered Dark Force, but his physical stats had broken through nine, and all his metrics had increased significantly.

Anya seemed to know a bit of the inside story and didn't ask Li Changsheng why he didn't just test everything. Instead, she asked again, "Mr. Li, are you sure you want to test both speed and strength? Actually, one is enough."

"Let's begin."

Li Changsheng went straight to the starting line of the track.

This remark successfully caught Kenneth's attention; he crossed his arms and watched this Asian man with a chuckle.

"Hey, buddy, why use your hobby to challenge someone else's livelihood?"

Kenneth shook his head with a light laugh. He felt that this Asian man probably hadn't recovered from his overconfidence in the previous round.

Kanai Shuichi remained calm, but the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, indicating that he was waiting to see a joke.

Only Zhang Zhao looked at Li Changsheng thoughtfully.

Seeing this, Anya also came to the side of the track and reached out to the table nearby. On the table was something similar to an electric bell; pressing it would make a sound and start the timer simultaneously.

"Mr. Li, please get ready."

Li Changsheng nodded and began to adjust his breathing.

Click~ Click~ Click~

Suddenly, everyone heard a series of very rhythmic, crisp sounds, like a spiritual bone serpent slowly undulating its spine.

They saw the young Asian Mr. Li in front of them lower his center of gravity slightly. The spine under his short sleeves arched slightly, and his vertebrae moved like a swimming Dragon, slowly adjusting his posture.

His legs were in the Trinity Stance, his figure resembling a taut bowstring.

His hands were one in front and one behind, extending forward with a slightly downward pressure, like a fierce Tiger preparing to pounce.

The movement was very strange. To Kenneth, a professional sprinter, this posture had absolutely nothing to do with sprinting.

"Buddy, are you pretending to be a cat?"

Kenneth joked with a smile, but he didn't notice that Kanai Shuichi's expression beside him had become slightly more solemn, while Zhang Zhao's eyes were shining.

"This Mr. Li's Xingyi foundation is quite impressive!"

Zhang Zhao thought to himself. He was quite knowledgeable, so how could he not recognize that Li Changsheng's posture had a name?

Name: Subduing the Dragon and Taming the Tiger!

In Traditional Martial Arts, the "Dragon" is the great dragon of the spine, and the "Tiger" is the great hip bone.

The so-called Subduing the Dragon and Taming the Tiger is a concept in Xingyi and many other Traditional Martial Arts styles. Generally, when practicing Xingyi, one needs to constantly practice and familiarize oneself with the force generation within it while practicing the Trinity Stance.

But it is very difficult. To train until the force permeates the whole body, true Subduing the Dragon and Taming the Tiger is a very dangerous thing.

In Xingyi practice, both hands must be extended up and down, high and low, creating a tension like a fully drawn bow.

The fingers are constantly exerting force and contracting. The force from the two hands drives the tendons. Then, the tendons transmit this force downwards, segment by segment.

At the same time, the toes pull the foot tendons to transmit force upwards. Finally, it pulls the hip bone upwards, and one pulls the great dragon of the spine downwards.

If Integrated Force is the key to force permeating the whole body in Traditional Martial Arts, then Subduing the Dragon and Taming the Tiger is the connecting link, the key to truly activating the Integrated Force of the whole body.

Zhang Zhao was very amazed because Taiji also has a similar concept, which is carrying the five bows.

The four limbs plus the spine are the five bows. The five bows are a whole.

When practicing with both hands, it leads the hand tendons all the way to the spine; the same applies to the four limbs.

Pulling one hair moves the whole body.

This means activating the Integrated Force of the whole body. Only the tendons can be plucked to make an entire tendon tremble.

Precisely because he knew this, Zhang Zhao felt that this move alone was very difficult; only an expert could see the real deal.

"This Mr. Li is showing that his entire body's tendons and bones have been trained to the extreme; pulling one hair moves the whole body."

Force is actually tendons!

Spiral Force and Drilling Force are all about adjusting the frequency of the tendons and using them. This is an analysis and understanding at a subtle level, just like playing the pipa, plucking the strings; it can cause the strings to vibrate and can also cause your fingers to trigger the same vibration frequency.

Li Changsheng was indeed already walking the path of refined application of force.

Just like the masters of Traditional Martial Arts in the old society, hitting people was like an electric discharge.

A punch landing on someone else would make them feel especially numb.

And right now, Li Changsheng was just like that. Whether hitting others or being hit by others, besides the tremor of tendons and bones, the opponent would also feel a tingling numbness.

Just like yesterday, when facing the beating from two top fighters, he used the Transformative Stance combined with the Twelve Forms of Tendon Transformation and Marrow Cleansing to form a force-deflecting counter-shock. Besides that, the opponents must have also felt a tingling numbness, but because they exerted force too violently, the pain from the rebound masked the numbness.

However, seeing how their faces only twisted in pain after a delay, it was clear there was indeed a sense of tingling numbness.

By comparison, the subsequent Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound did not surprise Zhang Zhao at all.

But Kenneth looked suspicious. He even looked around, not understanding where this sound, like a cat purring, was coming from.

"Is there a cat here?"

"Idiot!"

Kanai Shuichi cursed in a low voice, looking at Kenneth with full disdain.

At this moment, cold sweat was already flowing from his forehead. When he looked at Li Changsheng again, his expression was incomparably solemn.

He knew he might have misjudged him earlier.

"Was that some kind of phenomenon that only Chinese Kung Fu could trigger? I know about the Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound, but this seems to be a manifestation that only experts of Huaxia Traditional Martial Arts have, right?"

Kanai Shuichi was not a novice who knew nothing about Chinese Kung Fu; the fact that his Karate had traces of many ancient Tang Shou techniques was proof of that.

However, his horizon was still limited, and the Huaxia experts he had come into contact with only stopped at the Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound; many couldn't even do that.

Most of what he heard were just rumors, which actually made him quite disappointed during his many years of traveling in Huaxia.

But now, he vaguely felt that this Mr. Li's previous posture and movements seemed even more extraordinary, but his limited vision held him back.

The Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound was already the limit of what he could understand.

"Mr. Li, are you really ready?"

Gradually, Anya had originally wanted to press the bell, but seeing Li Changsheng, who had just been so serious, now looking so relaxed and soft, she couldn't help but pause.

"He has long been ready. This is what he looks like when he is storing power. Start!"

Zhang Zhao, unable to watch any longer, hurriedly said.