29: Chapter 29 The Three Great Masters of Internal Martial Arts

Li Changsheng stood with both feet on a water basin, his body leaning forward slowly as his center of gravity shifted with it. When his center of gravity extended beyond the iron basin, he took a half-step forward with his front foot, and his back foot once again formed a diagonal.

He repeated this process, constantly adjusting his center of gravity, yet he always kept his body from swaying in the slightest, and the water level in the basin beneath his feet remained at the same height.

This type of training was extremely exhausting. Li Changsheng was also holding dumbbells, so the extra weight only increased the impact on his Standing Stake.

Fortunately, after the initial swaying, Li Changsheng calmed his mind and adapted quite quickly. Gradually, the water surface stopped swaying, with only faint ripples appearing each time he moved his feet.

"Has the streamer reached a new level with this Standing Stake? Increasing the difficulty?"

"Yeah, streamer. Last time I saw you, you were on flat ground. Are you really going this big this time?"

As soon as the stream opened, most of those speaking were old viewers; there hadn't been any newcomers to the channel in a while.

Furthermore, quite a few people had gradually left the channel because they simply couldn't stand Li Changsheng's boring and monotonous streaming environment.

Li Changsheng felt like a still pond in the face of this; right now was a critical period in his battle against cancer.

He had finally managed to temporarily stabilize the spread of the cancer. If he didn't press his advantage, the danger index would skyrocket if it spread again.

Li Changsheng was well aware that the damage caused to his body by the spread of cancer cells doubled every time.

Because every spread meant that part of his bodily functions would become paralyzed, and this cycle would eventually crush his entire body.

After standing firmly on the water basin for a full twenty minutes, Li Changsheng landed lightly.

He opened his panel to take a look, but upon seeing it, Li Changsheng was immediately stunned.

[Stamina: 5.3] [Energy: 7] [Lifespan: 172.]

How did his stamina suddenly skyrocket so much?

One had to know that these two stats, Stamina and Energy, had always progressed slowly, especially Stamina.

Because of the constant influence of cancer cells, this value, which directly reflected his physical fitness, fluctuated up and down.

Even with the constant nourishment of Health-preserving Qigong and medicinal soup, it had taken over a month to barely reach 5, which was the standard level for a normal person.

It increased by 0.3 all of a sudden today?

"Could it be..."

Li Changsheng's gaze quickly fell upon the pair of large dumbbells not far away.

If there was one thing most likely, it was moving these big guys.

Previously, with the training method of combining Bazhen Soup and Health-preserving Qigong, his stamina had never increased this fiercely.

After thinking about it, Li Changsheng was in no rush to Cultivate. He went to the dumbbells, lifted one with both hands, and began to exert force, performing simple lifts.

After all, he still didn't have enough strength; doing training like bicep curls was impossible, so he could only do lifts.

"Holy crap, has the streamer switched to being a fitness blogger?"

"Good grief, this pair of dumbbells doesn't look light. The streamer has such thin arms and legs; he needs to be careful not to snap them."

The viewers were watching with trepidation.

It was really because while Li Changsheng was tall, he was just too thin. He wasn't a stick insect, but he wasn't much better.

"I estimate that pair of solid steel dumbbells is at least two hundred kilograms. By the way, I used to own a gym."

"Two hundred kilograms? That's incredible. I remember when I went to the gym before, some of the big guys couldn't even handle that kind of weight."

"The person above is mistaken. Let me explain: what the streamer is doing is a dumbbell deadlift. If it's someone with the streamer's muscle mass, I can guarantee it, it's absolutely impossible! Usually, it takes someone who has trained for more than two years, or someone who is naturally blessed with high muscle mass."

"Damn it, gym owner, right? You liar, I've been training for six years and still can't handle that weight."

"Seeing you all say that, I silently picked up my phone, ready to call 120."

Li Changsheng had no time to pay attention to the comments in the barrage. At this moment, he was fully focused, his consciousness highly concentrated.

He gripped the dumbbells tightly, not using the Taiji Stance, but a simple, standard gym standing posture.

After all, with this kind of dumbbell deadlift, using the Taiji Stance would be very damaging to his knees and waist, while the standard gym deadlift posture was the best for protecting the waist and knees.

This was the result of years of research by the fitness community, and Li Changsheng felt that he should learn from their professional field.

However, when he exerted force, the pores on Li Changsheng's skin began to open and close, wisps of heat began to steam, his veins stood out all over his body, and a flush of red was visibly rendered on the surface of his skin.

"Up!"

Breathing through his mouth and nose connected the inside and the outside; this was the meaning of sinking the Qi into the Dantian in Taiji. Reverse abdominal breathing and the expansion and contraction of the Dantian harmonized at this moment.

His legs exerted force, driving his waist and spine, which then quickly spread to his hands, forming the cold, elastic, crisp, and fast explosive force of Taiji. Its external manifestation was like shivering.

In this, the legs were of paramount importance, because the root of Taiji was in the feet; force was generated in the legs, controlled by the waist, and expressed in the hands.

There was a saying in Taiji: if you want to practice Taiji, first seek the connection between inside and outside. Yin and Yang are each other's roots, all sought in the crotch and hips.

This was also the essence of Taiji: the movement of force arises from the formless, and the stimulation occurs in the unaware.

At the same time, he heard a "Heng" sound from Li Changsheng's mouth and nose, accompanied by an exhalation that formed a "Ha" sound.

The emission of these sounds also represented the completion of a cycle of steam expulsion from the body's surface. "Heng" represented the sinking of the breath, and "Ha" represented the rise of the Dantian's force, with strength and power surging.

When they looked again, Li Changsheng had steadily lifted the two-hundred-kilogram dumbbells.

At this moment, the viewers in the channel who had seen this whole scene were blown away.

"Holy, holy, holy! The streamer actually lifted it?!"

"Is that the point? The point is that the streamer is steaming all over. Good grief, if I hadn't seen that the streamer's location was marked as Shenzhen, I would have thought he was in the North."

"I used to think he was a hypnosis streamer; then I thought he was a Card Throwing entertainment streamer; now I know he's a cultivation streamer."

"What cultivation streamer? The streamer has real Kung Fu. The expulsion of breath and the connection between inside and outside—this is clearly a sign that his Internal Martial Arts have reached a high level!"

"Can the person above explain what Internal Martial Arts are?"

"Take the streamer, for example. Judging from his ability to expel breath so freely, the streamer must have been sensing Qi for many years. Going from sensing Qi to achieving internal and external connection is not that simple."

Indeed, Li Changsheng had been streaming for so long that there were those among the viewers who understood.

The person who just spoke was naturally Jiang Tingting. She was secretly shocked at this moment as well.

Her grandfather had been practicing Xiaohongquan for nearly forty or fifty years; although he had become a bit lax later on, he was at about the same level as the streamer.

Actually, she was mistaken. Strictly speaking, Xiaohongquan is a practical martial art equivalent to External Martial Arts. To achieve success in nourishing and practicing Qi, the best are none other than the three schools: Xingyi, Taiji, and Bagua.

Practicing External Martial Arts to generate Qi is naturally half the result with twice the effort.

But even so, Li Changsheng's current level could be considered as having entered the hall, of course, only limited to the area of nourishing and practicing Qi.

However, his Foundation was already very solid, and in the future, whether he Cultivates Internal Martial Arts or External Martial Arts, he will advance exceptionally well.