86: Chapter 86 Keep Up the Good Work

Chapter 86: Keep Up the Good Work

The city's skyline faintly revealed a trace of pale white.

Soon, rosy clouds bloomed, piercing through countless high-rises and reflecting on a ruddy face.

Fang Cheng's body rose and fell as he lay on the cement platform, supporting himself with one hand and continuously doing fist Push-ups.

"……"

"597."

"598."

"599."

"600."

When he silently counted to the number 600, he leaped up, standing his muscular and well-built body straight once again.

Gazing at the rising morning sun, his eyes refracted a brilliant radiance as he muttered to himself:

"A new year, a new day, keep up the hard work!"

At this moment, the place where he was standing...

was on top of a concrete water tank on the Tubular Building where he lived.

After watching the fireworks show on the rooftop with Zhou Xiumei and Wen Xin last night...

Fang Cheng suddenly felt that this place was actually also an ideal training ground.

Quiet, convenient, with no outsiders disturbing him, and the facility conditions were relatively complete.

Thus, he made the decision to transfer his main training venue here from now on.

Consequently, he also changed his physical training plan to further increase exercise intensity and improve efficiency.

After waking up at five in the morning...

he first trained frog-jump Squats along the stairwell, jumping from the first floor to the ninth floor.

Then, as he walked back downstairs to relax his legs and feet, he would start jumping up from the first floor again.

Repeating this cycle for twenty trips counted as his daily Squat training volume.

The subsequent physical fitness items were Hanging Leg Raise and Pull-up.

Fang Cheng could make use of the water pipe networks spread all over the roof, choosing thinner pipes in higher positions to exercise.

After finishing 500 single-arm Hanging Leg Raises and 500 single-arm Pull-ups...

next were the practices of Back Bridge, Handstand Push-up, and Push-up.

Fang Cheng chose to stand on the concrete water tank, overlooking from above, to continue doing 300 Iron Bridge risings, 150 two-handed Handstand Push-ups, plus 600 single-arm fist Push-ups.

By the time the sun first rose, he had already completed all physical training items.

Fang Cheng's eyes shone brightly as he looked at the interface, examining the growth of skill experience.

[Focus Experience + 5]

[Push-up Experience + 20]

[Squat Experience + 20]

[Leg Raise Experience + 22]

[Pull-up Experience + 21]

[Back Bridge Experience + 19]

[Handstand Push-up Experience + 23]

The recovery ability further enhanced by having a Physique exceeding 30 points allowed him to complete such a high-intensity training plan in such a short time.

It also allowed the skill experience gained from daily training to return to a relatively high growth rate once again.

Fang Cheng moved his limbs, relaxed his body, and then facing the morning sun, parted his legs at the hips, settled his mind, and set up a horse stance.

The skill "Stance Training" belonged to the art of grinding down iron into a needle; it required persistent practice to see results.

However...

Although the progress of experience enhancement was slightly slower compared to other skills, it was not without other gains.

Fang Cheng had paid attention to the specific growth values of each attribute in the attribute column.

Eight days ago, it was:

Strength 37%, Agility 21%, Physique 69%, Spirit 23%.

Now it was:

Strength 45%, Agility 36%, Physique 78%, Spirit 30%.

With his current physical attributes, the effects of ordinary workouts were far inferior to when he was an ordinary person with only a dozen or so base attributes.

Yet the attribute growth values over these past few days seemed as if he had taken some kind of drug, strongly resembling the scene of returning to the beginning.

The only difference between the two was that he had additionally added a Stance Training exercise of holding a horse stance.

The so-called Stance Training was an art of stretching tendons and pulling bones, and activating Qi and blood.

Regarding the first point...

Fang Cheng had indeed deeply experienced that during the process of standing in a stance, his stiff and inflexible legs, feet, waist, hip meridians, and joints were opened up—that refreshing feeling of first pain followed by pleasure.

Compared with Squat training...

One was active, the other was quiet.

One required explosion, while the other valued persistence.

According to the martial arts theory told by Ma Jianguo, the body was like a strong bow and hard crossbow, and the tendons were the strings pulling the bow.

And practicing the horse stance trained the "major tendons" connecting the legs and the waist.

Judging from Fang Cheng's personal realization during actual stance standing...

The so-called "meridians and tendons" in martial arts should include those deep-seated invisible bundle-like muscle groups, as well as the tendon and ligament tissues connecting bones and muscles, shouldering the role of hubs and pathways for transmitting bodily strength.

Most of the time, ordinary people's tendons were soft and could not generate much force.

When starting to stand in a stance, the body seemed motionless, but the muscles, tendons, and bones were always in a state of tension or contraction.

The parts focused on training would therefore generate an internal rebound tension, even driving deep-seated tendon and meridian tissues that could not be touched by ordinary exercises.

During intense exercise, muscle groups at most only stretched and expanded from their usual state to exert force, rarely activating the hidden strength of tendons and bones.

Therefore, practicing Stance Training was equivalent to making the stroke of a spring from compression to tension longer, resulting in a greater rebound force.

Without a single error, a single launch, a single internal, a single containment, a single presence, look one by one!

Ultimately, the erupted strength would naturally become even greater!

This was also the main reason why the growth rate of the "Agility" attribute was particularly obvious.

As for the second point, activating Qi and blood...

it was mainly manifested in the Physique attribute.

While practicing, Fang Cheng could faintly feel a trace of weak warmth generated in his abdomen.

If he cooperated with the Breathing Technique of Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound and tried to guide it with his mind...

this extremely weak warmth could also perform irregular diffusion movements towards the surroundings.

It was just that it quickly vanished like a clay ox entering the sea, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Such a futile training method seemed to have no effect.

But every time Fang Cheng finished standing in his stance, although his legs, waist, and hip areas felt somewhat sore and numb, his whole body had an unusual sense of comfort.

It was just like soaking in hot water, warm and extremely cozy and comfortable.

The recovery speed of muscle fatigue also seemed to have accelerated to a certain extent.

One hour later...

Fang Cheng faced the sunlight, his eyes slightly narrowed.

Several prompt messages of skill experience growth faintly blocked the distant view of the city.

[Stance Training Experience + 1]

[Stance Training Experience + 1]

[Stance Training Experience + 1]

...

Looking at the 5 points of experience harvested from this stance standing in total, Fang Cheng immediately let out a long breath, finished his stance, and stood steady.

At this moment, the sunlight shone on the outer walls of the distant high-rises, reflecting a patch of golden radiance.

His body was also drenched in sweat, shimmering and gleaming.

But it was still early.

Next, he still needed to conduct combat skill training.

Fang Cheng stood on top of the concrete water tank, throwing Shadow Boxing punches in this narrow space with a diameter of 2 meters.

Straight punch, low kick.

Hook punch, roundhouse kick fake, instantly changing to a knee strike.

Straight punch, middle kick, shoulder lock with knee strike, dual elbow smash to the head.

Hook punch, stepping forward with a flying knee strike to the chest, turning around for a back slash...

Every move and every form was crisp and neat, with strength reaching straight to the tips of his limbs.

Along with throwing punches and lifting legs, crisp bone-cracking sounds and the sound of breaking through the air were emitted.

His entire posture was full of resilient and steady power, faintly carrying a fierce and sharp intent.

Because time was limited, Fang Cheng focused his Shadow Boxing training on Muay Thai, which was about to Breakthrough.

Half an hour later...

The interface shone with a radiance even more brilliant than the rising sun.

[Congratulations, through unremitting efforts, your skill has reached the Expert level.]

[Muay Thai lv1 (0 / 250)]

[Obtained skill enhancement reward, please choose between the two enhancement directions.]

[Enhancement One: 3 points of Strength attribute, 3 points of Agility attribute.]

[Enhancement Two: Skill Effect "Steel Bone"]