119: Chapter 119 Master-Level Jiu-Jitsu

Chapter 119: Great Master Jiu-Jitsu

After the snow melted, the temperature became even lower.

The clouds drifted in the glacier-silent air as if frozen stiff.

The city's skyline gradually began to gleam.

A wisp of golden sunlight darted like a sharp arrow, piercing through the thick dark clouds and landing on top of the Tubular Building.

It finally illuminated a shirtless, muscular figure.

Fang Cheng squatted atop the concrete water tank, his face flushed and dripping with sweat.

Suddenly, his eyes flashed slightly, and steamy white vapor exhaled from his mouth and nose.

From the state of practicing Stance Training, he quickly stood up and wrapped up his regimen.

After resting for a brief moment,

he immediately pushed off with the soles of his feet, swung his arms, and abruptly leaped up, bounding forward into the air.

In mid-air, he performed three consecutive tuck-roll movements, his feet landing steadily on the ground.

He straightened his waist and back, stretching his posture.

Afterwards, he immediately pushed off the ground and swung his arms, vaulting up from below onto the water tank with a tucked flip, steadily standing atop it once again.

Fang Cheng chose to practice the Jiu-Jitsu skill using this method of front and back flips.

Flips involve the coordinated movement of multiple muscle groups throughout the body, such as the legs, waist, back, and buttocks, which can effectively improve bodily balance and coordination.

Most importantly, it exerts full strength on the waist, maintains a stable center of gravity, and increases the elasticity when the toes touch the ground, thereby preventing falls and jarring injuries.

After performing nearly 80 consecutive flipping movements, the experience progress bar for the soon-to-be-upgraded Jiu-Jitsu completed its Breakthrough.

[Congratulations, through unremitting efforts, your craft has reached a higher level, already attaining the Great Master level]

[Jiu-Jitsu Lv2 (0/500)]

[Obtained skill enhancement reward, 9 attribute points]

Looking at the glowing panel before him, Fang Cheng raised his brows slightly and pondered for a moment.

Although no skill special effects appeared, he was still quite satisfied with the reward contents.

After the battle with Experimental Subject One, it was evident that improving basic bodily attributes was actually extremely important.

This is the cornerstone ensuring the lower limit of combat capability.

If his Agility attribute had only been in the twenties back then, he probably wouldn't even have found a chance to retaliate against the enemy.

At most, he could rely on skill special effects to put up a slight resistance, with running away being the best policy.

If his Physique and Spirit attributes were insufficient, he wouldn't even be able to unleash the power of the Blade Storm skill special effects.

After calculating for a moment, Fang Cheng immediately made specific allocations for the 9 attribute points.

Spirit plus 7 points, Physique plus 2 points.

As a result, the Spirit attribute reached 40 points, allowing for a minor qualitative change.

As for Physique, receiving a slight enhancement had a considerable effect on improving training efficiency and accelerating bodily recovery speed.

After finishing the point allocation, Fang Cheng suddenly noticed something unusual about the progress bar on the left side of the attribute column.

Looking closely, he saw that after long-term daily exercise, the values after the decimal point in the four basic attributes had all experienced significant growth.

Strength 76%, Agility 53%, Physique 99%, Spirit 48%.

Looking at the Physique attribute nearing a Breakthrough, a wave of warmth surged in Fang Cheng's heart, and he muttered softly:

"Then let's keep pushing harder!"

He immediately leaned down to lie on the cold concrete ground, straightened his waist and back, and extended his feet backward together.

Supporting the ground with the ten fingers of both hands, he began practicing Push-ups.

Ten-finger Push-ups could not only improve the strength of the upper limb muscles, but were also an effective means of increasing the hardness and strength of the finger joints.

On this basis, by gradually reducing the number of fingers touching the ground, he would progress sequentially to two-finger Push-ups, and even single-finger Push-ups.

The ultimate goal was to train terrifying finger strength akin to an eagle's iron claws, capable of tearing enemies apart alive.

In one breath, he completed 1 set of 100 movements.

Fang Cheng rested briefly, then proceeded with the second set of exercises.

During this time, the Physique attribute also smoothly broke through the 99% barrier.

The attribute values on the panel were further updated.

[Strength: 32]

[Agility: 30]

[Physique: 33]

[Spirit: 40]

Fang Cheng did not stop his movements there and continued to exercise.

As the morning sun slowly rose, sunlight poured out from behind the clouds, driving away a bit of the early morning chill.

It also made Fang Cheng's body even hotter, with sweat streaming down like raindrops.

Finally, after spending a little over two and a half hours,

just as the clamor of people waking up early for work drifted up from downstairs, all training tasks were completely finished.

Fang Cheng wiped the sweat from his face, raised his head to look at the panel, and inspected the harvest from his first complete morning exercise after his body recovered.

[Focus experience +3]

[Stance Training experience +4]

[Boxing experience +4]

[Sanda experience +5]

[Muay Thai experience +5]

[Without a single mistake, one first, one launch, one inner, one content, one present, look one by one!]

[Jiu-Jitsu experience +9]

[Tai Chi experience +6]

[Push-up experience +13]

[Squat experience +15]

[Leg Raise experience +17]

[Pull-up experience +16]

[Back Bridge experience +13]

[Handstand Push-up experience +18]

After the improvement of physical fitness, although the exercise efficiency of fitness-type skills had declined somewhat, overall it was still quite good.

Combat-type skills now, apart from participating in actual combat, saw very little experience growth from regular Shadow Boxing practice, remaining only at a single-digit level.

Obviously, it would take more time and energy to achieve noticeable improvements like before.

Fang Cheng considered that after receiving his salary, he might be able to customize some weighted iron blocks to strap onto his body, thereby further improving skill practice efficiency.

Putting on his clothes, he came down from the rooftop and returned to the ninth floor.

Just then, he happened to run into a familiar tall and thin figure walking briskly out from the hallway.

"A-Cheng, are you working out?"

Zhou Yongnian raised his head and saw Fang Cheng, who had just come down from the roof with his face covered in sweat, couldn't help showing a hint of surprise.

Fang Cheng smiled and nodded, calmly replying:

"Uncle Zhou, you're heading to work this early?"

Hearing this, Zhou Yongnian shook his head and sighed:

"There's been another home-invasion murder case over at Cuiyuan, and they're urging me to go handle it. Sigh, it's rare nowadays to be able to come home and sleep soundly..."

He was wearing a fleece-lined jacket with a black briefcase tucked under his arm.

His words sounded like a complaint, but between his brows, he was radiant and full of vigor.

Indeed, having successively destroyed a gang's drug-manufacturing syndicate and an illegal human organ trafficking black market, and further cracking a human trafficking case with an especially massive impact,

he had practically become the most sought-after police star in the Jiangbei Police Department.

According to disclosures from Xiumei, the chief had already submitted the application report promoting Zhou Yongnian to captain of the criminal investigation team.

By then, Zhou Yongnian's police rank would also be promoted to Advanced Inspector, and his epaulets would change to two flowers and one bar.

To be honest, such honors had come a bit late.

Fang Cheng looked at the wrinkles appearing on Zhou Yongnian's forehead and the few strands of white hair mixed into his temples,

couldn't help recalling some memories of the past, his gaze drifting slightly.

"A-Cheng, I have to thank you this time!"

Zhou Yongnian suddenly stepped forward, raised his hand to pat Fang Cheng's shoulder, and said in a deep voice:

"After a while, the two of us will have a good drink together and catch up."

He was a man not given to much speech; only in this way could he express the gratitude in his heart.

As for why Fang Cheng could always appear nearby and obtain information at the very first moment whenever a major case occurred,

Zhou Yongnian had never asked.

Fang Cheng had never explained either.

Between the two men, a tacit understanding and trust had always been maintained.

"However..."

Watching Zhou Yongnian's back as he quickly walked down the stairs, Fang Cheng silently thought in his heart:

"Uncle Zhou should be able to guess a little something..."