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Chapter 26 - Surprising Discoveries PT 1 .

Whatever is that window tab in my consciousness was, it seemed to be completely under my full control, I checked the other red dots on the illustration and found that all of them had the exact same window tabs appearing the second I wanted to check these dots, all of these windows were telling me of the same things .

Telling me about the negative effects, the status of them and what caused them, seeing these window tabs appearing for some reason eased my heart, it was at least good to know that whatever it was, it was under my control .

All these tabs were all mentioning the same thing more or less, some were mentioning just fractions, some were mentioning cuts and bruising in the skin, some were mentioning things of a smaller caliber, like rough skin and callouses, but the things that made me almost fly out of happiness was seeing all of these negative effects have removed in their status .

I wanted for those tabs to disappear and they without a second wasted did, I returned to reality and saw that the heat in my body was gone, so I felt a bit disappointed at the fact that it seemed time will continue to flow normally and that I sadly wasn't able to benefit from another round of Tempering but I didn't fret about it much .

In the end with that weird message tabs, I was now able to gain something that other Martial Practitioners need to pay most of their welth for ' Time ' .

Martial Practitioners at least according to my current knowledge of them required the use of Medicinal bath or ointments like the ones given to me and there maybe a few other items to allow them a few more times to practice, these previously mentioned items were needed to limit the side effects that hastily practicing Martial Techniques in particular might cause .

How many times these Martial Techniques might be practiced must go according to how bad the side effects they may cause and in accordance to that, the Martial Practitioner will decide for himself, if he was a poor person he might practice that technique 1 time a day .

A rich person can use the previously mentioned resources like that ointments I have to help allowing them more times of practice, I now was someone poor but have a great opportunity to practice without giving the side effects of practicing any mind .

The limit of how many times I can practice is no longer set, they were adjusting their training time according to how severe the Martial Technique they practice, that with the apperance of that message tab and its ability to negate negative effects, I might be at a huge advantage compared to others .

But I'm not completely sure of that yet, I had not seen it reaching its limit, but this doesn't mean that it didn't have one, there might be also some side effects that were negative effects that it might not be able to remove .

The latter was difficult to test currently, but my body is still completely fine and I don't feel any discomfort here or there, so I believe that there was no side effect currently from the 4 postures I just executed that it can't remove, so that was a relief as for testing the limits to how many times it can remove the side effects of the technique, that was still something that I should be able to found out .

I once again recalled the instructions and illustrations of this technique in my mind, I also recalled the way senior brother Fu executed this Martial Technique and was able to recall that scene in my mind with quite accuracy, I saw how he changed his first four postures in my mind and kept repeating the scene over and over, until finally I was able to regain a few new ideas about how to execute the Martial Technique more proficiently .

I wanted to test something in mind with doing so, I first went back to the hut and brought some of the meat I brought and finished eating inside the hut, as I was eating, I discovered surprisingly that the amount of food I left earlier for the rodent from before and his family of rodents seemed to be untouched .

I don't believe that guy would say no to a free meal, the hole was big enough for me to pass my head through, but I won't do so, not wanting to pry on his privacy would be a good excuse as any .

I also couldn't help but contemplate a little on the size of the animals I saw today and even yesterday, the rodent was as big as a well-fed wild rabbit in size, not to mention the sharp talons of his, even though the hut walls were made of old wood, that rodent was able to make a perfect hole through it with ease, they indeed looked to be quite sharp .

Not to mention the horse that was almost like a rhino in size and even looked to be on par with him in strength or the horse here seemed to be even more stronger, outside the family I saw other horses that even though they looked more normal, I was able to see their muscles were quite big and strong, even though their sizes were completely like the normal ones I had seen before .

Is that something related to what they ate, I was responsible on feeding them today, but all I was doing was tossing an already prepared meals in a sack, I had no clue of what was inside of it at first, only a guess I made after seeing bones while I was cleaning .

Those horses were very much eating raw meat, from which animal that was completely unclear to me and I wasn't much interested in dwelling about it much either, I will leave the guess of mine as one of the possible answers and if I got the chance I will ask the instructor about it later .

I looked at the food left on hand and concluded that my original speculation about it lasting for two weeks was wrong, I don't know if it was related to my practice, or something else, it seemed that my appetite had become quite big, I now believe that the food in front of me would last for at most a week, if my appetite didn't grow again during that period of time .

I took the lantern and got back to the training ground I was convincing myself of it being as such, I completely let my guard down, if someone was already hiding and waiting for an opportunity, he should have had plenty to attack me and since no one did, then no one will .

I repositioned myself and once again calmed down and reached a complete focus state, recalled the moves of senior brother Fu, then directly began executing the first 4 postures, then punched forward, the moment I did, I saw the message pop up again on my mind telling me that the execution was once again wrong and the negative effects were removed, yet I felt the heat in my body appearing exactly like the last time .

I sat cross legged and began to regulate my breathing to help guide that heat out my waist and into my other body parts, i was able to feel the great feeling from before and was about to try and make it spread more than before towards my neck and shoulders, but just as I tried to do so, as if something went out with that mysterious energy swirling inside me, it suddenly stopped flowing anymore and just dissipated .

Leaving me once again with a feeling of loss, but I was still able to tell that I'm able temper my body for another time, I felt no uncomfortable feeling in my body, so that most likely meant that I hadn't reached my limit, it also seemed that I was wrong with my initial conclusion about the effect that massage had .

Even though my execution this time was still a bit of, not to mention that I still hadn't gotten a clue about what unique flowing rhythm, senior brother Fu before, but my new discoveries regarding to what was that thing in mind able to do, was a bit mind-blowing to me, even though the execution wasn't perfect, I was still able to enjoy the Tempering effect nonetheless and it wasn't even lesser than before at all .

So that was another effect that weird message in my mind have, I'm actually able to completely just focus on following what the Martial Technique was mentioning and I will still be able to get good results even though, I might miss up the rhythm of breathing or my training postures, all I was needed to do was executing that technique and I would be able to get the result, even with the threat of getting severely injured looming over me .

Even though I was completely engrossed in trying to control my breathing rhythm, I was still focusing a little bit of my mind on not allowing that message to disappear, luckily I seemed to be able to do so just fine and without much of a problem, it seem that people here seemed to have quite the strong mind .

I began noticing that the tabs once again were appearing in my mind and seeing the results, I couldn't help but have a wide grin on my face and the reason to why I was reacting like that, was quite simple actually, the thing I wanted to check by revising the instructions on my head and the scene of my senior brother executing these moves before, it was indeed the correct choice to test how correct was my suspicion .

The illustration once again appeard on front of me, I looked directly at the red dots and found that before there were exactly 5 red dots, but now they were actually reduced to 3 red dots, the one on left and right shoulder both disappeared, giving me all the confirmation I need to know that my suspicion was indeed correct .

Through the panel or tab like thing in front of me, I might be able to correct my posture and achieve a perfect form, I might be able to achieve Perfect Mastery over the execution of these four postures and later I could also be able to achieve the same results with the other postures as, even though this way of improving proficiency was quite dangerous and some might even call it ineffective .

Since it was quite time consuming, not to mention that it might end up in severely injuring the person trying to improve his Martial Technique Mastery through it, but in my case I can have the privilege of doing so without considering much of the consequences that might follow, with that weird thing in my mind, I can be allowed to ignore the things that might be blocking others from going through this way .

Not to mention that I can literally see the places that I still need to improve my execution on and see what kind of side effect might appear after I try and improve my execution of the postures I'm currently practicing, so the process was actually quite simple, I will be improving my proficiency through using Trial-and-error method, a method that I believe will be unique to me .

Even though it didn't seem to mean much since even if I just executed the postures and made sure my rhythm was syncing with my execution, then I will be able to still enjoy the Tempering effect, at least that what I currently believe .

So it really didn't seem much when I look at it from this sort of angle, but even though increasing my proficiency of technique, no longer mean that much, there were still Martial Skills, if the same method of Trial-and-error can be used to improve the mastery, then I will be soaring into heaven out of excitement .

I wanted to test this, but first I wanted more to know what the limit to how many times I can practice before reaching the limit of what that weird message in my mind can do .

Just as I was about to start executing the 4 postures once more, I stopped for a second to contemplate about the weird feeling, I kept on getting when practicing, something was wrong with my way of practicing, no, it wasn't wrong but I felt that something was missing, that mysterious energy that came with the heat that appeared on my body, was stopping after reaching my neck and shoulders, I first thought that this was normal .

But now I kept feeling that I seem to be missing out on a crucial fact, I can't continue to practice until I found a way to solve that mystery, what exactly was I missing .

I kept searching through what Senior Brother Fu said when he was giving me some tips and my mind also wandered all the way back and recalled how the other disciple were practicing inside the Dojo .

I felt as I suddenly had a spark of enlightenment about what was going on, that spark become more intense after I remembered a question that Senior Brother asked me before he executed Thunderclap Fist in front of me .

I couldn't help but look at my hands and the big rock in front of me and couldn't help but believe that what I'm currently thinking might indeed be correct, I stood in front of that big rock and began executing the 4 postures as before, but this time I didn't finish the practice with fisting the air, I punched the huge rock in front of me .

The heat in my body appeared again, but due to the recoil force that was swept towards me through my arms and legs, I felt that the heat in my body grow a little bit more stronger, my hands were a bit numb, I went all out just now with punching that rock in front me, but didn't even leave a shallow mark on it, all I got was that recoil force .

I heard the message once again appearing on my mind, telling me that it removed bruises and cuts, the numbness in my arms was still there, but I paid those things completely no mind currently, I was completely engrossed on checking the results of my try this time .

I saw that the heat on my body even without me controlling it began to go up from where it was in my waist, I hurriedly sat down and regulate my breathing rhythm, the mysterious energy appeared it swirled first on my chest then went up to my neck, it was then heading towards my shoulders, but then I felt that under the naval area, I suddenly began to feel a tremendous pain, enough to make me grit my teeth to the point that I was beginning to sense that they were about to shatter .

That mysterious energy suddenly disappeared and I was only left with the tremendous pain above my pubic area, but it soon receded as well, I finally understood why senior brother Fu asked me if I'm okay with hurting myself to become stronger, so that was what he meant .

The sudden pain that I was under was also a surprise to me, but luckily it didn't last for long, will the message in mind have a clue on what was going on, I hope so .

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