Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi-Chapter 146: Do You Really Know Sword Flight?
Wang Ye put on his shoes and socks, shouldered his climbing pack, and continued to climb the plank road.
At the same time, he took out his mobile phone to shoot a vlog, intending to water down his content for some easy cash.
In fact, during the past few days on the road, he often found opportunities to shoot some vlog-like short videos and upload them on the "Qi Refining Stage Cultivator" account.
So most of his followers had already learned about Wang Ye’s current itinerary from the videos. They even speculated that Wang Ye would participate in "Happy Forward Rush" and the "Lanzhou Marathon."
Meanwhile, netizens were shocked by Wang Ye’s ability to travel 200 kilometers a day on foot.
Even driving continuously for 200 kilometers is no easy task.
Yet Wang Ye could manage to run 200 kilometers on foot continuously.
Is this still a carbon-based life form?
Wang Ye spent an hour shooting over 70 video clips, each under 30 seconds. The main content was about explaining the strange and interesting incidents he recently encountered, or introducing various scenic spots within Dragon Tiger Mountain.
Without a computer, he used the Cut Studio app to crudely edit the videos, added subtitles, and then uploaded them.
After uploading, Wang Ye proceeded straight to the mountain summit.
Around eleven in the morning, he finally reached a peak with a significantly higher altitude.
The sky was still filled with heavy dark clouds, occasionally rumbling with thunder and drizzling with fine rain.
Wang Ye put on the hood of his rain jacket, sat cross-legged atop the fog-shrouded peak, where the Innate Qi concentration was highest, and began practicing the Innate Skill.
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At the same time.
On the internet.
The short video of Wang Ye soaring in mid-air was going viral online.
On Douyin, Bilibili, WeChat, QQ, the video was everywhere.
In chat groups across various domains, work groups, and gaming groups, people started forwarding this video.
The Bilibili repost of this video had already amassed over 1.5 million views, with 40,000 comments. Scores of colorful comments and regional bullet comments floated over this 3-minute medium-length video. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞
"Is there really an immortal at Dragon Tiger Mountain?"
"Fake, obviously photoshopped."
"So blurry, definitely fake."
"It’s not fake, my friend filmed this and said he saw it with his own eyes."
"I don’t believe it. This guy in the video is flying without any equipment? Does that even make sense? Don’t tell me he flew for three minutes with just a swimming pose."
"To be honest, analyzing from an aerodynamics perspective, his posture does improve lift."
"No shit... even mimicking a sparrow flapping wings with your hands can increase lift. Talking about motion without considering mass is just misleading."
"Either it’s photoshopped, or there’s been a spiritual revival. This can’t happen in reality."
"As everyone knows, videos can’t be photoshopped, so this is real [sarcastic]."
"Looks familiar, doesn’t this figure and clothing resemble Qi Refining Brother?"
"I’ve been watching his videos recently too."
"I remember he’s been walking across the whole country lately. He should be in Jiangxi right now."
"Isn’t Dragon Tiger Mountain located in Yingtan, Jiangxi?"
"It matches up, everything matches up!"
"Whoa, could it be Qi Refining Brother training to fly?"
"What else is this kid capable of that I don’t know about?"
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At this moment, Wang Ye was completely unaware and had been practicing the Innate Skill atop the peak for an entire day.
He breathed in and absorbed the endless Innate Qi into his body, nurturing his spirit and physique.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes, his deep blue irises faintly emanating a piercing brilliance that was hard to look at directly. Despite no change in the shape of his pupils, a single glance from him could induce a sense of oppression and chest tightness.
This is the oppressive feeling brought by Qi.
When humans face a tiger, looking directly into its eyes can evoke a feeling of fear.
This is because the tiger’s Innate Qi is several times greater than that of humans, and just its roar can scare away countless animals in the forest.
Wang Ye stood up and stretched his muscles and bones.
He carefully felt the Innate Qi within his body.
Though still around 3000 units, there was a noticeable slight increase.
This elusive and mysterious form of energy like Innate Qi is very difficult to sense its exact amount.
One can only estimate its quantity roughly based on intuition, with an error range of about a few dozen to a hundred units.
Wang Ye stretched with a crackling sound down his spine, his internal organs and muscles making slight buzzing vibrations. These noisy sounds combined and resembled the roar of a tiger; sound similar to what’s known in the Martial Arts World as "Tiger and Leopard Thunder Sound."
"Feels like I just took a nap... There’s no sense of fatigue in body or spirit."
"Looks like I won’t need to sleep tonight, better hit the road directly."
Seeing the sky covered in crimson clouds, Wang Ye immediately picked up his climbing pack and descended Dragon Tiger Mountain on foot.
He first returned to Shangqing Town for a simple supper in a restaurant.
He then went to a supermarket to buy several dozen kilograms of food and bottled water, stuffing them into his backpack. For emergencies, he also carried a plastic bag with about five pounds of Snickers.
After preparing sufficiently, Wang Ye continued his journey to Shandong.
Since trekking through wild mountains was not suitable at night, he had to keep running along the highway.
Even though he had to take some detours, he was steadily heading north.
One night,
hours.
Wang Ye ran tirelessly on the highway, almost rushing through 150 kilometers.
When dawn broke, he arrived at a well-known region in Jiangxi — Jingdezhen. He lingered there for about an hour, admiring the blue and white porcelain art in various local shops and grabbed a breakfast at a small road-side diner to replenish his energy depleted from a night’s run.
While sitting in the breakfast shop, slurping the local cold noodles, Wang Ye checked the stats of the vlog videos he posted the previous day.
The likes and favorites data were quite average.
However, there were a few comments in the comments section that surprised Wang Ye a bit.
"Seriously, can you really do Sword Flight?"
"Kid, with skills like that, why didn’t you tell us earlier? Why keep it secret?"
"To be honest, isn’t the recent thunderstorm at the Celestial Master’s Mansion also your doing? Stole a trick or two for Thunder Skill, didn’t you?"
"Exaggerated, way too exaggerated, Thunder Skill is just too much..."
"If he can do Sword Flight, what else can’t he do?"
After reading these comments, Wang Ye immediately had a strange expression.
"How do they know I trained flight at Dragon Tiger Mountain?"
"Have I been secretly filmed again?"
