Ninety-Nine, Bagua Palm

  Tonight was very quiet and nothing happened, nor did anyone discover a stolen corpse like in the movie.

  As soon as he woke up, the sky was just beginning to brighten, and Bai Yu was woken up by the crowing of chickens. He got out of bed, put on his clothes, opened the door, and looked at the hazy night sky. He couldn't help but smile bitterly, this really is hearing the chicken's call and starting to dance.

  Shaking his head, Bai Yu came out of the house and happened to see Jiu Shu punching, Jiu Shu's punch was the Bagua Palm of the internal family fist.

  Baguazhang is a widely spread Han Chinese martial art, one of the three major internal styles, and also a manifestation of Taoist health preservation, physical fitness, and self-defense. It uses eight big stake methods as turning palm work, and combines eight big circle hands into one body. The basic movement route is to walk around in circles, with palm techniques as the core, and the whole body moves in harmony. The footwork requires: twisting, spinning, and coordination, walking like a dragon, flipping like an eagle. Hand techniques mainly include: penetrating, inserting, chopping, sweeping, horizontal, colliding, hooking, turning, and supporting. Baguazhang is a martial art that combines health preservation and combat skills, cultivating moral character. It was created by Dong Haichuan, who combined his rich experience with the strengths of others, creating a unique technique based on palm movements. The exercise form includes walking along the circle, "treading mud step, scissors leg, stable like sitting in a sedan chair", hooking and turning, as well as avoiding direct attacks, which is different from other martial arts. Moreover, it has obvious effects in terms of treating diseases, internal strength, combat skills, and cultivating moral character. Especially in terms of internal strength and moral cultivation, the effect is more pronounced.

  Just then, Ninth Uncle's fist technique was about to conclude, his footsteps sliding back and forth on the ground. Then with a flying leap, in the next moment he stood several zhang away on an empty space. And at the place where he originally practiced his fist technique, an Eight Trigrams diagram appeared.

  Bai Yu couldn't help but cheer and applaud when he saw this set of boxing techniques come down.

  Jiū Shū turned around and looked at Bái Yǔ with a smile: "Fellow Taoist, you're up too? How's your stay here, getting used to it?"

  Bai Yu laughed and said, "Naturally accustomed to it. However, I saw that the set of fist techniques you used earlier seemed to be Baguazhang? I've long heard of its reputation, and today I see that it's indeed not in vain. It seems that when you use it, the power is extraordinary and the killing power is not trivial."

  "Brother Jiu shook his head and smiled, 'Fist techniques are originally used for strengthening the body and not for fighting with others. This Bagua Palm is also quite powerful, so when I fight with others, I rarely use it, fearing unnecessary harm.'"

  "Oh?" White Feather was taken aback. He hadn't expected that Ninth Uncle's extraordinary skill would be so rarely displayed.

  However, in his view, this palm technique was indeed extraordinary and couldn't help but arouse the desire to learn it. At this time, Bai Yu smiled at Jiu Shu and said: "Brother Dao, I don't know if I can learn this palm technique? To be honest, my fist and footwork are my weaknesses, and I usually win against demons with magic."

  Ninth Uncle heard this and was taken aback, saying: "This is indeed not a problem, but learning boxing is not something that can be accomplished overnight. Only with a persistent heart, practicing in the cold of winter for 39 days, and in the heat of summer for three periods of ten days, can one reach the highest level."

  Bai Yu nodded and smiled: "Brother Dao, this is no problem, I can still bear this hardship."

  "Since that's the case, there's one more thing you need to remember. When fighting with others, try not to use the killing moves in this fist technique as much as possible. If you end up hurting someone who is inherently not evil, you will be plagued by karma and it will be very difficult to resolve."

  Bai Yu hurriedly replied, "This is natural, I am not a bloodthirsty person and will not harm anyone without reason."

  Jiǔ shū wén yán mǎn yì de yī xiào, suí hòu biàn kāi shǐ le zhǐ diǎn qǐ le bái yǔ liàn xí zhè bā guà zhǎng.

  Translation:

  Ninth Uncle smiled with satisfaction and then began to instruct Bai Yu in practicing the Bagua Palm.

  Bagua Palm needs to rest. To do this, one must first learn its steps, which are arranged in a special angle according to the Bagua position. It's relatively complicated and ordinary people need at least a month to remember the walking rules of these steps.

  So he handed over the direction of this step to Bai Yu, letting him practice on his own and see how today's practice went.

  However, what surprised Jiu Shu was that Bai Yu's memory was against the sky. The common people could only master it in a month, but Bai Yu only practiced for one morning and one afternoon, and he could already walk with style. It seemed that as long as he practiced more, he would become proficient.

  Jiǔ shū kàn dào zhè lǐ bù yóu dé àn àn zàn tàn Bái Yǔ de tiān fù zhī gāo, bú lùn xiū dào hái shì xí wǔ jiē yǒu zhe cháng rén nán yǐ qǐ jì de tiān fèn.

  But since he didn't want to have him remember all these steps, Ninth Uncle naturally wouldn't let him practice all the time, so he stopped and began teaching him real boxing techniques.

  We all know that there is a saying of internal practice of one breath, external practice of tendons and bones, and the so-called internal family fist mainly practices this one breath.

  This is not the internal power of legend, but a way of operating force. When practicing fist methods, martial artists often condense a mouthful of air in their chest, which must not be dispersed when shouting during practice. This air can also be said to be not air, but a strand of force. Using this air with one's own intention and applying it to the four limbs will make one's power more solid.

  And so, Ninth Uncle is going to teach White Feather a method of containing this unscattered energy.

  Jiushu explained these minor details one by one, and then demonstrated them without making a show. After an afternoon of practice, Bai Yu finally mastered the subtle technique.

  At this time, the sky was already late. Ninth uncle shook his head and said: "Fellow Taoist, now the sky is not early either. Why don't we go back and rest?"

  But Bai Yu shook his head and said: "Brother Dao, I'll practice for a while longer. After a while, I will go back to rest on my own."

  "Alright, since that's the case, I'll be off first. Remember to head back to your room for some rest later." With that, Ninth Uncle patted Bai Yu's shoulder and walked away by himself.

  Watching the figure of Ninth Uncle gradually disappear into the distance, Bai Yu only then turned his body around, closed his eyes and concentrated his spirit, after a while he opened his eyes again, seeing a ray of light flash through his eyes, immediately followed by a loud shout, his feet already moving swiftly.

  At this moment, he seemed to have transformed into a swimming dragon, his body twisting and turning extremely quickly, and was still accelerating. In just an instant, he had already brought out several afterimages, his body movement was so fast that it was hard to see the direction of his movements.

  He waited for him to stop, but it was already half a time. At this time, with his physical quality, the top of his forehead was also slightly sweaty. Bai Yu stopped his pace and slowly let out a long breath, which seemed very long, just enough to make him breathe for about half a minute.

  Wiping away the sweat on his forehead, Bai Yu stretched his body and felt incredibly refreshed and relaxed.

  He shook his head with a smile, took a towel from the side and wiped the sweat while heading towards the house of Ninth Uncle. At that time, there were no such advanced facilities, if you wanted to take a hot bath, you had to boil water yourself, and if you wanted to take a cool shower, you also had to fetch water yourself.

  White Feather first drew a bucket of water from the well and then came to this small pavilion that was called a bathroom but looked more like a latrine.

  After washing off all the stinky sweat on his body with the well water, he then headed back towards his own room.

  After a day of martial arts training, he felt that his body was somewhat tired, so he came to the room and lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

  But just as he was fast asleep, his sensitive ears suddenly picked up a muffled horn sound that came from afar. The horn sound was very muffled, although it didn't seem loud, but it spread throughout the entire town. The whole town was in an uproar, and one by one, the torches were all lit up at once.

  The whole town was also illuminated by torches.

  Bai Yu hastened to jump out of bed, hastily put on his clothes and came to the outside of the house.

  At this time, Ninth Uncle was also hastily coming out in his clothes and saw Bai Yu's serious expression, saying: "Fellow Taoist, it seems that something has happened. This is Ah Qiang's signal to gather the townspeople. Let's hurry over."

  Bai Yu nodded and said: "Alright, let's go quickly. It should be the leader of the horse thieves coming to raid the prison."

  The two of them immediately ran quickly towards the source of the sound.

  The source of the sound was outside the town, where a crowd had also gathered, surrounding Ah Qiang.

  Jiu Shu led him over, and asked Ah Qiang: "What's going on?"

  A Qiang said: "I'm not clear either, but I heard the night watchman Li Shu say that he saw a black shadow, and it seemed to be carrying two corpses, heading towards the outskirts of the town."

  Ninth Uncle's face changed colour in shock and he said: "This is bad, let's quickly go to each family's ancestral tomb to take a look, see if the graves are all intact."

  Everyone was shocked upon hearing this and rushed back to their ancestral tombs at incredible speed.

  After a while, many people came back, all panting and out of breath. The first one to return was the first to recover, gasping for air: "Ninth Uncle, something's wrong! My family's ancestral tomb has been robbed, my father's body is gone!"

  "Uncle Jiu, ours is like that too... My grandfather's body is also gone..."

  "Our ninth uncle's ancestral tomb was also robbed..."

  Seeing the scene in front of him, Bai Yu secretly estimated that he was shocked to find that dozens of corpses had disappeared at once.

  The corpse is gone, it must have been stolen by the leader of the horse thieves. He has moved so many corpses, his purpose is naturally obvious, he is going to make a zombie.

  But Bai Yu still secretly wondered, could this bandit leader control so many zombies? Moreover, creating zombies would take a lot of time, wouldn't he be afraid of delaying and getting her two brothers killed in the process?

  However, he suddenly had an epiphany because he discovered that the zombie made from Da Bao's soul in the movie couldn't actually be called a zombie, but should be called a Dou Shi instead.

  P.S: Ah, it's a bit late, sorry about that. There's still one more chapter tonight, and I'll try to release a lot tomorrow.

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