Ancient Strengthening Techniques
Chapter 8 – Innate superhuman strength?
Chapter 8 The Divine Power.
Starting from the second day, Qing Shui joined the 3rd generation clan members in their daily training sessions. This had always been Qing Shui's dream. Many times in the past, when he passed through the training grounds, he had no choice but to look at them from afar as the members of the 3rd generation strengthened themselves, he said, intensely practice their martial techniques vigorously.
Now that he had recovered, the first decision he made was to cultivate. The second decision was to join the daily training sessions of the Qing Clan. The elder in charge of overseeing the daily training was named Qing Hai, he was the 4th son of Qing Luo and the father of his best friend, Qing Hu.
The cultivation of the Blue Lotus Art, only counted when the practitioner reached the realm of Martial Soldier, Martial General and Martial Commander. Each realm is further divided into 10 classes. As a result, the Qing Clan had a total of 3 versions to practice in the Blue Lotus Art. These three versions are, low level, intermediate level, and upper level.
As for the practitioners at the Martial Arts Student stage, there was no need to separate them into 10 classes. As long as one cultivated, he could be considered to be at the Martial Student level. After a practitioner at the Martial Student level cultivates for at least 3 years, forming Qi, he can be considered a Martial Fighter, although one of the lowest levels - Martial Fighter, Level 1.
After condensing a single strand of Qi, Qing Shui was naturally considered to have reached Martial Warrior, Class 1. He was considered one of the weakest among the members of the 3rd generation, yet strangely, he was the happiest and most confident among all of them.
"Qing Shui, congratulations on finally achieving your wish!" Qing Hu smiled.
Qing Shui nodded. Today was the first day on which he officially entered the Qing Clan's training grounds. At this moment, Qing Shui slowly observed the simple-looking practice page. The enormous floor tiles were made of pieces of blue stone, and the roof was shaped like a pavilion.
Those who practiced here were all cultivators, neither rain nor shine they would never shy away from their goals. Their top priority would always remain deep within their hearts, cultivating regardless of anything else!
Cultivating the Blue Lotus Art would always be done in one's basement. No matter which generation you are in, as long as you cultivate, you will be given your own dungeon. The practice pages were used for the purpose of increasing one's strength, improving one's martial arts position and one's bare-handed fighting skills.
It was the Qing Clan's custom to only allow younger members to practice martial arts techniques after they had built up their basic foundation and internal strength. No matter how impressive a technique was, it would only be able to fully display its power with the support of one's internal energy. Without first establishing one's foundation, practicing martial arts techniques would only result in more harm than good.
In the training grounds, the younger members practiced the strongest low-level foundation building arts as well as simple boxing techniques, helping them practice their coordination, movement, and flexibility of the body.
Normally, one would only be allowed to practice martial techniques when one had developed the Blue Lotus Art up to Martial Soldiers, Grade 6!
Currently among the members of the 3rd generation Qing Clan, only Qing Zi and Qing You had the qualifications to practice martial techniques. The rest have no permission to do so. The 3rd generation members all eagerly anticipated the day when they finally had the ability to do so. Moreover, they could not wait for the day they would reach the first Lotus Manifestation stage, only obtainable in the Martial Commander, Class 7. Once one's protective lotus materializes, one can either attack or defend with it.
In the Qing Clan, once your strength breaks through Martial Warrior, Class 6, you are no longer required to join the daily training sessions. Therefore, Qing Shui did not see Qing You's eldest granddaughter, or the Qing Clan's top genius, Qing Zi!
Qing Shui saw as Qing Hu was lifting a large stone, the stone looked to be roughly around 200 Jin [1]. Qing Shui originally wanted to go and give it a try, but in hindsight, after considering that Qing Hu, who was in the 3rd grade of the Blue Lotus Art seemed to have a little problem lifting it, he threw away the idea. He did not want to cause a ruckus successfully when he was clearly only at the first stage of the Blue Lotus Art.
After all, Qing Shui had an adult temperament. He was not afraid of losing face, not to mention that he had never considered himself to be on a level with this brat.
At the young age of 8, if he could lift 20 jin of rock, it was already considered a miracle in the previous world.
Qing Shui looked around and decided to test his strength by challenging the 50 jin stone. Even though he had a small body, with the power bestowed upon him by the Ancient Strengthening Technique, he could use a higher energy level than most people.
Qing Shui put his hands around the stone, harnessing all the power he was capable of and tried to lift it.
After which, a burst of laughter rang out loud in the training courtyard.
This was because, Qing Shui seemed to have fallen because he had overestimated his strength by trying to lift the heavy stone.
However, deep in her heart, Qing Shui was overjoyed. Qing Shui was able to sense that when he tried to lift the 50 jin stone, he was unable to feel its weight, which resulted in him using his strength excessively and thus losing his balance!
The other children thought Qing Shui was unable to lift the 50 jin stone and fell down because of it.
Qing Hu hurriedly went to Qing Shui's side.
“Are you okay Qing Shui? Maybe it would be better if we started with something smaller? ” Qing Hu said with a worried expression in her eyes.
Qing Shui was very satisfied, as he could feel Qing Hu's sincerity. As for the mocking laughter that echoed before, it was as if Qing Shui didn't care about it.
"I'm fine, thank you Qing Hu." Qing Shui smiled.
At this moment, a young man with a heroic demeanor walked over.
“Qing Shui, are you okay? First of all you should warm up your body by jogging, practicing our basic boxing techniques, and stretch your body before challenging that 50 Jin Stone. " The young man instructed.
"Okay I understand, thanks for the lead". Qing Shui replied with a smile. Qing Shui knew that the young man's name was Qing Yang. Among the 3rd generation clan members, he was the strongest after Qing Zi and Qing You. His cultivation level had broken through to the peak Martial Warrior, Class 5! In the past, he had never ridiculed Qing Shui and even helped him sometimes. Therefore Qing Shui had a pretty good view of her.
Qing Yang also smiled warmly, shortly after he left while reminding Qing Shui to be more careful.
On the training grounds, the number of young members of the Qing Clan, including Qing Shui, numbered 16. On average, the population of the Qing Clan leaned more towards the male side. In addition to the Qing Hu family, which had produced female babies, the other households on average produced 4 male babies.
Qing Hu's younger sister was named Qing Bei, In addition to being the only female in the 3rd generation, she was also the youngest.
“Qing Shui gege [1], you have to take care of yourself. If not Aunt Yi will worry about you again .. ”Qing Bei opened her eyes wide to show the seriousness of the situation as she spoke in a concerned tone with a hint of childishness in it.
Seeing the cute little girl in front of him seriously nodding her head, Qing Shui almost forgot that he himself was only 8 years old, and could easily be considered a cute little boy.
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After the first attempt at lifting ended in failure, Qing Shui tried again for the second time. Adjusting his level of strength, he slowly lifted the 50 jin stone upwards. The success! He felt, to him, the weight of a 50 jin stone could only be classified as a feather light.
After that he moved to 80 jin, then 100 jin, 180 jin ………
In the time it took to brew a cup of tea, Qing Shui had arrived at the place where 200 jin stones were located. All the members of the 3rd generation Qing Clan, including Qin Yang looked at Qing Shui with an amazed expression. If Qing Hai had not left the training ground, he would have also become dumbfounded.
When Qing Shui tried to lift 200 jin stones, it seemed that he had to exert a lot of energy to do so. The success! His success was met with a look of shock and absolute silence.
Qing Shui was overjoyed in his heart, because when he lifted the 180 jin stone, he almost tripped because he was not strong enough. However, at that moment, the yellow strand of Qi from the Ancient Strengthening Technique, automatically circulated without any intention. Qing Shui could feel a boundless wave of energy flowing into him, thus easily lifting the 180 jin stone.
When he was lifting 200 jin rock, he did not want to recklessly cause a commotion and cause the audience to think of him as a monster, or else he would have trouble explaining his level of strength. As a result, he appeared to deceive using his immense strength before lifting 200 jin rock.
“Qing Shui, Wow! I'm absolutely unable to say that you have such power inside your deceptive skinny body. When I lifted the 200 jin heavy stone, I had to use the Blue Lotus Art to help me. However ... You can lift it only with the strength of your body. " Qing Hu exclaimed in admiration, without the slightest hint of jealousy.
Qing Shui smiled shyly and said "This is already my limit."
As the training session ended, everyone slowly left. Initially, Qing Hu wanted to go with Qing Shui, but Qing Shui rejected her by saying that he still wanted to practice more.
When Qing Shui was finally alone in the training courtyard, he went straight to the biggest stone in the 3rd generation disciple section. This stone weighs around 800 jin, only those at the top of Martial Soldiers, Class 5 can lift it…
