Ugh… Should I just try to break out of here with my hands? That's a stupid idea now that I think about it. Breaking out with my hands? This wood is thick… Ugh, I have no other choice; either I try to learn this stupid technique or die here of thirst…
I guess I will struggle; if this fails, I will die faster… The chances of someone coming to save me here are minimum. Even if I screamed, I bet my voice would go outside… Plus I would waste so much energy…
Fuck it, I won't die just like this… It would be a sin for someone like me to die in a dark place like this…
I stand up and do the first form of lion fist one, two…
A few minutes later…
I pant hard and grab my knees… What the fuck? I swear I was never this unfit before. Ugh, the chances of this not being my body again are just getting higher…
Phew~ I breathe out and sit down…
Hmm, this is not working; I can't do it. Forget about mastering all 4 forms and then doing them in a row fast; I can't even do one at this rate… and I can't waste energy; I have to think logically.
I know this martial art, and if it's even real, it's flawed… So there is no point in learning this, but there is a point in solving it. If I can't learn it, why not solve it? A different word for a flaw is 'question.' If I can fix the flaw with this technique, it would be easier to learn for sure.
Look at this technique in a different way. How can I fix this? Well, first of all, doing all 4 forms at first is a stretch. I don't even think that's possible. There has to be a different way of doing this…
I look through the book again… Read it again and again…
Ha, got it… It's actually quite simple: the First Form—The Lion's Step… and Third Form—The Lion's Pounce… are pretty much a movement that can be done in a flow while the Second Form—The Lion's Prowl… and Fourth Form—The Lion's Breath… very alike…
So pretty much the way to solve this problem or 'fix' this flaw in this technique is to first learn the first form and then move on to the third form and then the second form, and after that the fourth form; it would be much easier.
Huh, it would be easier to learn and also master since breathing and flow, or the pattern of movement, are not parallel in this way; it's more like a series now…
And series movement would be easier to do again and again. Ha, I did it, I think, with pure logic and a little bit of swag. Ha, I am the best, really…
Now the only thing left is to do this… And ugh, I hope this shit works… Or I would just be a clown who died trying to learn a martial art, which I don't even know if it's real…
Punch… breathe in, then breathe out, move… Punch again… again… again… again… again… again...
Ha, a breath in…
Punch… whoosh…
Whoosh… Whoosh…
breathe out… Phew~
Ha, hell yeah, it's much easier now… Now just keep doing it till I master it or something. Ugh, this is so stupid!
Punch!
Breathe in…
Who even am I right now? Am I inside someone else's body?
Punch!
If so, then what about my other body? What about my last life?
Breathe out, phew…
Punch!
Whoosh!…
Ugh, the past never matters… It's only the now; the future is based on your today… There is no point in thinking… It's meaningless.
Breathe in…
Punch!
Whooosh…
Ha, what I do today matters; it's the only thing that matters… and I won't die alone in this dame hut…
Punch!
Because that's who I am. I am fucking me! I won't allow myself to die like this! It's too pathetic!
punch…
Huff… ha breath in… and breath out…
I close my eyes… And just for a second something happened; I could not understand it at that time, but when I punched again… Something straight out of a magic cultivation shit happened…
Punch!
Whoosh…
There was this golden flash for a second, which came right from my fist… My eyes went wide, and I fell down, breathing hard…
HA fuck, I forgot to breathe… Shit, ah ha… What the hell was that? Did my hand just glow? ain't no way that book is actually fucking real? I thought that shit was fake, and I was done for!
Hahahahahahahah. Ah, great goodness, lion fist, huh? If I am not wrong, that should be about the sign of someone getting close to mastering it or something like that…
Huh? When did I even learn it? I am already close to mastering it. How? Uh, wait a sec…
I stand up again and take a breath in and move fast to the end of the wall, and I hold my fist back… but I don't punch… Because I moved a little too fast. What the hell? I did not expect myself to move that fast. How did I not notice I was getting faster while doing this shit?
Uh, if I got a faster dose, does that mean I also got… stronger?
Uh, should I try to punch the wall now?
Stupid question no matter Even if this martial art is real, it won't just make my fist stronger than wood!
I should keep training and try to master it…
It took me, if I am not wrong, one hour to learn this. Mastering it should take another hour or so, right??