The Seventy-Two Hands of Dislocating Bones and Separating Tendons technique involves unarmed attacks, secretly striking thirty-six major acupoints. It employs a variety of techniques, including grabbing, striking, leaping, kicking, flicking, and sweeping, with endless variations and unpredictable feints. It also includes techniques such as seizing, grabbing, sealing, closing, twisting, sinking, swallowing, and spitting, using feints to attack in the opposite direction and feints to counteract real attacks. The techniques involve the use of hands, eyes, body, techniques, steps, wrists, elbows, knees, and shoulders, with varying speeds of advance and retreat, and skillful seizing and locking. The techniques involve moving forward and backward in a flash, sometimes advancing and sometimes retreating, and the body moves as swiftly as if flying after it has been fully deployed.

It moves like a river, yet remains still as a mountain.

When facing the enemy, the trick is so clever that not even a feather can be added, not even a fly can land; it rises like an eagle soaring into the sky, and falls like a thunderbolt striking the ground.

A poem praises him: “His iron arm stretches lightly like thunder, he lies down like a maiden and glimpses like a wild goose. His iron shoes have trod the rivers and lakes, and his skillful arts of Huaiyang are still admired.”

This is an extremely powerful martial art in the Ming Dynasty martial arts world, considered a pinnacle of fighting techniques. It is also a rare superior external martial art among his first wife’s collection of martial arts, in no way inferior to some of the top boxing techniques of later generations.

Unfortunately, Zhang Weihao hasn’t developed a martial arts version of the Hyuga Fluid Technique yet. He can’t use his Sage Mode and Sharingan to instantly seal the opponent’s Qi circulation with the Eight Trigrams Sixty Palms, nor does he have the Reverse Heaven Technique to deflect all attacks. If he could develop these techniques, they would be of great value and far more powerful than simply engaging in head-on confrontations.

The Seventy-Two Hands of Dislocating Bones and Tendons is a type of acupoint striking technique that involves dislocating bones and tendons. This means dislocating your joints, striking your major acupoints, killing you, or temporarily rendering you unable to resist or move.

This is a common close-combat style in the martial arts world. It originated from the Yue Family San Shou. Ning Daoqi’s San Shou Ba Pu should also follow a similar path, but its power is definitely much stronger.

Zhang Weihao directly countered with Baguazhang, one of the three major styles of Chinese martial arts. Because Baguazhang’s fighting style and footwork are very special, it is agile and flexible, changing with every move. When fighting with the opponent, the body rises and falls and twists, making it agile and unpredictable. This made Gu Santong, who was experienced in fighting and had a wealth of practical experience, unable to find a way to attack.

The boxing proverb says it is “shaped like a swimming dragon, looks like a monkey guarding its prey, sits like a tiger crouching, and turns like an eagle circling.”

Its basic skills are based on stance training and walking techniques.

The body posture requires the head to be upright, the waist to be straight and the hips to be swaying, the shoulders to be relaxed and the elbows to be drooping, the abdomen to be full and the chest to be open, and the hips to be drawn in and the groin to be lifted.

The footwork requires smooth rises and falls, clear swings and hooks, distinct distinctions between emptiness and fullness, walking as if wading through mud, moving forward as if riding in a sedan chair, and the feet should rub against the shins when stepping out (the ankles should touch each other).

When walking in circles, the inner foot should step forward straight, the outer foot should be turned inward, and the knees should be close together, without opening the crotch.

The body movements emphasize twisting, spinning, turning, and flipping, making them fluid and unhindered.

Gu Santong was not innocent either; he brought this upon himself.

This guy really enjoys causing trouble and challenging various sects or famous masters in the martial arts world.

Moreover, he has a terrible character. If others don’t accept his challenge, he will play all sorts of pranks and tricks to force them to accept his challenge. In more serious cases, he might even steal the ancestral tablets from the other party’s ancestral hall or cause a ruckus in the scripture pavilion or incense hall of a famous sect, forcing the other party to fight him.

Of course, Gu Santong wasn’t a bad person; he just enjoyed fighting and sparring with masters to prove his martial arts were unparalleled. Even if others came with the intention of killing him, he never killed anyone.

Although he doesn’t kill people, this guy not only likes to challenge others, but also plays pranks on the masters he defeats (such as shaving their heads, having their beards ripped off, or having their eyebrows shaved off if they lose), and even wagers to win their opponents’ secret techniques.

He might just think it’s fun, but that’s a major taboo in the martial arts world.

Most of those masters were prominent figures in the martial arts world. Being humiliated like this was even more painful for them than being killed, not to mention the enormous risks and incalculable losses caused by the leakage of their sect’s secret techniques.

Being challenged by the eight major sects to fight against evil and uphold justice was something he brought upon himself; it wasn’t Zhu Wushi who wronged him.

Moreover, he neglected his fiancée. Even though they had slept together, he didn’t explain it to anyone and didn’t even have a normal wedding. It was almost like a reckless affair.

This gave Zhu Wushi an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

Su Xin entrusted the child to her fellow villager sisters to raise, which meant she didn’t want the child anymore and planned to marry Zhu Wushi as his legal wife.

After all, Zhu Wushi was much more reliable than Gu Santong in this regard. He even offended his own father, the emperor, for the sake of a title, which was undoubtedly true love.

Of course, you can’t say Su Xin is a bitch. Any normal woman knows how to choose. Zhang Weihao can actually understand her. If he becomes a troublemaker, he will become the next Yang Kang.

Since Zhu Wushi has no sons and loves his own mother so much, why not just acknowledge him as his father? After all, who else can he leave the empire he’s built to besides himself after he passes away?

Unfortunately, Zhang Weihao was reincarnated in this life and did not recognize Zhu Wushi as his father, so they were destined to be apart.

“What kind of martial art is this? Tai Chi? It doesn’t seem like it. It’s a very powerful way to deflect force, and the way you use someone else’s force against them is also very clever.” When Gu Santong, a martial arts fanatic, realized that many of his moves had been easily neutralized by his opponent, who had even used the iron chains to force him to defend, he was immediately intrigued.

Gu Santong hadn’t expected this young man to be so powerful, even surpassing him in moves and fighting style.

“Baguazhang is a Taoist martial art… Old man, you’re not being fair. You actually took advantage of our chat to steal my true energy. Fine, I’ll give you a little bit, that’ll be enough.”

While they were discussing the Dao, Gu Santong, disregarding martial ethics, directly used the Absorption Technique, and was greatly surprised by the purity and strength of his opponent’s true energy.

I originally thought Zhang Weihao was just good at fighting techniques and focused on body cultivation, but I didn’t expect his true qi cultivation to be even more terrifying.

It was extremely nourishing, and it was intentionally given to him to absorb; otherwise, with such power and purity, he wouldn’t have been able to absorb it.

Having quickly recovered much of his energy, Gu Santong immediately began to circulate his internal energy, intending to unleash his true trump card, the Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill.

Zhang Weihao watched with his Sharingan activated, but he quickly realized something was wrong. He knew that the old man’s current physical condition was such that he would die soon after using up all his energy. He immediately used the Golden Light Mantra with all his might, and a giant golden palm stretched out from the top of his head, directly swatting Gu Santong to the ground like swatting a fly, pressing him firmly under his palm.

Just as his entire body was about to be covered in gold and transform into a golden Saiyan, Gu Santong was caught off guard and struck by a giant golden palm formed from primordial Qi. He was instantly forced back to his original form. With a loud “boom” and the clanging sound of the iron chains falling, Gu Santong was just like Sun Wukong in the storybook, pinned to the ground by the Buddha’s palm and unable to move. He was directly controlled.

Cao Zhengchun, who was standing behind Zhang Weihao, was completely dumbfounded, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

Just how powerful is this new master? This is another way of using the Golden Light Mantra, and it’s just too strong.

Although Gu Santong, who was being pressed firmly to the ground by the golden giant hand, was old, he was not really senile. Even though he would occasionally have a fit of madness, his mind was still sharp most of the time. He knew that the person who came this time was different from those who came to test him before. This was a Grandmaster of the Innate Realm, stronger than Zhu Wushi. How could he possibly listen to Zhu Wushi?