infodatos Chapter 14 Pointing Out the Clouds and Smoke
Chapter 14 Pointing Out the Clouds and Smoke
On the other side, after bidding farewell to Wang Hui, Chen Lie immediately went to the Dongchuan Martial Arts School.
He had arranged to teach his sister's classmate, Li Xianyu, the Cloud Smoke Step at the Dongchuan Martial Arts School this morning. His plan was to get the exotic beast meat first thing in the morning before coming to the Dongchuan Martial Arts School, but he didn't expect this incident to happen.
When Chen Lie arrived at the Dongchuan Martial Arts School, it was already past noon. After glancing at the time, he quickly went inside.
Li Xianyu is in a very bad mood right now.
Yesterday, following her parents' instructions, she enrolled in a Cloud Smoke Step instruction course, but was captivated by Chen Lie's superb footwork. He promised that 100,000 Star Coins would allow her to master the footwork.
It was originally agreed that I would start teaching her this morning. Li Xianyu got up early today and arrived at Dongchuan Martial Arts School before eight o'clock to wait.
When it was 10 o'clock, Li Xianyu was not in a hurry, because the appointment was in the morning and no specific time was mentioned. But when it was past noon, she became a little restless.
Will Chen Xingyao's brother stand her up? She doesn't even know his name.
Could it be that he swindled her out of 100,000 star coins and ran away? But can a monk run away and then disappear? It's not like she doesn't know where Chen Xingyao's home is.
Because she didn't have Chen Lie's contact information, Li Xianyu wanted to call Chen Xingyao's communicator several times to find out what was going on, but she held back each time.
Just as Li Xianyu was feeling lost and anxious, Chen Lie strode over from a distance.
"Something came up, so I'm a little late. Sorry."
Seeing Chen Lie arrive late, Li Xianyu finally breathed a sigh of relief, feeling as if she had finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel. She replied, "It's alright, senior has finally arrived."
"Let's begin now." Chen Lie put the things in his hands aside.
"As the saying goes, if you want to do something well, you must first have the right tools."
Practicing any footwork technique relies on the coordination between the waist and legs. Therefore, before learning any footwork technique, I have specially designed a set of exercises to stretch your legs and waist.
"Follow me, the first step is to stretch your legs."
As he spoke, Chen Lie walked over to a set of exercise equipment and demonstrated a leg press to Li Xianyu.
Li Xianyu was somewhat confused. When instructors at the martial arts school guided students in martial arts, they would start teaching directly. Why was Chen Lie making him stretch his legs first?
Although somewhat confused, Li Xianyu nodded, lifted her long leg, and followed Chen Lie's movements.
After Chen Lie finished demonstrating, he watched from the sidelines. When he saw that Li Xianyu's movements were not standard, he would point them out.
Seeing the standard of Li Xianyu's preparatory movements, Chen Lie nodded and said, "Very good, first do the leg press a hundred times."
"A hundred times?"
Li Xianyu looked at Chen Lie with confusion, but seeing Chen Lie's serious expression, she could only nod: "Okay, I'll do it."
About half an hour later, Li Xianyu finally completed the leg-pressing exercise a hundred times.
Her legs felt weak and numb. She came to Chen Lie's side and said, "Senior, I've finished the hundred leg presses."
Chen Lie nodded: "Follow me to the next step, bend over."
As he spoke, he went to the appropriate training equipment and demonstrated it again.
Li Xianyu was puzzled. She was learning the Cloud and Mist Steps, so what was the point of practicing these unnecessary waist twisting and leg pressing movements?
"What are you standing there for? Do as I say!" Seeing that Li Xianyu was not moving, Chen Lie urged him immediately.
"Okay!"
Li Xianyu quickly put aside his thoughts and followed Chen Lie in bending over.
After Chen Lie's repeated corrections, Li Xianyu's bowing posture became more standard.
"That's it, hold on for twenty minutes."
And so, Li Xianyu remained hunched over, motionless.
Bending over was a piece of cake for her, after all, she was in the top class of the first year of high school and her blood energy level was very close to 1 calorie. However, Chen Lie's bending over motion was designed to be very tricky. In less than two minutes, she felt her waist begin to feel sore and weak.
Remembering Chen Lie's requirement of twenty minutes, Li Xianyu could only grit her teeth and persevere. She kept watching the time, and the moment the time was up, she did a somersault to stand up, but almost lost her balance and stumbled and fell to the ground.
Li Xianyu felt numbness and soreness in her legs and feet, and her waist was weak and powerless. She came to Chen Lie and said, "Senior, the twenty minutes are up."
"Hmm, next up is the ankle."
"Senior!"
Before Chen Lie could finish speaking, Li Xianyu interrupted her, saying, "Let's start learning the Cloud Mist Steps."
She didn't want to waste any more time, feeling that doing these things was pointless.
"Can't wait?" Chen Lie thought about his important matters tomorrow and his limited time, so he said, "Alright, let's start learning the Cloud Mist Step."
Chen Lie began to instruct Li Xianyu. He first had Li Xianyu practice the Cloud and Smoke Steps carefully, and then pointed out a few shortcomings and corrected them.
Chen Lie's understanding of martial arts is at the Grandmaster level. His experience in the Central Galaxy Empire has made his understanding far surpass that of the Grandmasters on Blue Star. In addition, he is the deacon of the Scripture Pavilion of the Martial Arts Training Academy in Tai'a Star Province. He has seen the instructors of the Martial Arts Training Academy guiding their disciples on many occasions.
Compared to teaching students, even if you find a martial arts master who has been famous in Dongchuan Province for a long time, they may not be able to compare to one percent of Chen Lie's ability.
Li Xianyu practiced the Cloud and Smoke Steps and felt as if he were divinely aided.
Chen Lie's guidance sounded like pearls of wisdom to her.
Compared to his previous martial arts instructors, Li Xianyu felt that spending 100,000 star coins was well worth it.
The martial arts instructors' guidance made her feel that it made a lot of sense, and it seemed that this was how it should be done, but she didn't know where to start to improve. However, Chen Lie's guidance made her suddenly enlightened and realized that she clearly understood where her shortcomings were and spontaneously made her correct them.
Just as Li Xianyu was immersed in the joy of practicing the Cloud Smoke Step and rapidly improving, Chen Lie's guidance came to an abrupt end.
"That's enough for today, we'll practice again tomorrow."
"Wha...what's wrong?"
Li Xianyu's train of thought was interrupted, prompting him to ask a question.
Chen Lie said, "I have an urgent matter to attend to. I'll come back to guide you tomorrow."
"Is today over?"
That's way too short!
Including the bending and leg stretching exercises just now, Chen Lie's actual instruction time for her was less than two hours.
She admitted that Chen Lie's guidance in less than two hours was more useful than ten days of instruction from a martial arts instructor, but the time was indeed too short.
"Yes, you can study at the martial arts gym. Also, I have some things to do tomorrow morning, so come to the gym in the afternoon and wait for me," Chen Lie said.
"Tomorrow...afternoon?"
Chen Lie also felt that he was being somewhat irresponsible, after all, he had just received 100,000 star coins from Li Xianyu yesterday, and he had only taught her for a few hours. So he said, "I do have important matters to attend to tomorrow. If you are worried, you can come with me, and I will give you some pointers when I have time."
Upon hearing this, Li Xianyu could only nod: "I'll go with my senior."
If Chen Lie's guidance progressed as slowly as that of a martial arts instructor, she would definitely have already begun to accuse Chen Lie of being irresponsible.
But after Chen Lie's two hours of instruction, she realized that she was actually the one who benefited. Even if she spent 200,000 star coins to enroll in the martial arts school's "Cloud Smoke Step Instruction Course," the entire course would still not be as good as Chen Lie's two hours of guidance.
She was also afraid that her rude remarks would offend this senior.
"But senior, I still don't know your name or how to contact you," Li Xianyu said leisurely.
"My name is Chen Lie. Turn on your communicator and I'll send you my contact information."
"Um!"
Li Xianyu took out his communicator and quickly wrote down Chen Lie's contact information.
"Then I'll be going."
With that, Chen Lie picked up the Spirit-Nourishing Flower and twenty catties of raw exotic beast meat and left the martial arts school.