Chapter 30

The next day, Ding Qi followed his plan and went to the waterfall for cultivation. After reaching saturation in the afternoon, he returned.

Back in the medicinal garden, he began to busy himself with preparing for future martial arts techniques and body coordination training.

The Iron Sand Palm manual recorded many methods for training physical functions. Some of these methods only required an open space to complete, while others needed various facilities.

Today, he planned to set up some of the facilities needed for training.

Looking at the methods for building various training facilities recorded in the latter part of the Iron Sand Palm manual, Ding Qi pondered for a long time. Finally, he smiled lightly and said, "To train body coordination, the Plum Blossom Piles are indispensable. So, let's start with building these Plum Blossom Piles."

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In the days that followed, Ding Qi went to the waterfall in Qixia Mountain every day for cultivation and busied himself with setting up the training facilities.

With his hard work, various training facilities were quickly set up.

Using these facilities, Ding Qi began to train his physical functions according to the content in the book.

Time passed day by day as Ding Qi was busy. Before he knew it, two months had already passed. During this period, with the help of the 'Water Depth' method, he was about to complete the second level of the Innate Skill.

One day, Ding Qi was practicing body coordination in the courtyard of the medicinal garden. The courtyard had changed significantly from what it was two months ago. In the southern part of the courtyard, there were many wooden piles of varying heights and thicknesses.

These wooden piles were the Plum Blossom Piles, a training facility for body coordination and balance that Ding Qi had seen in the book.

Today, Ding Qi was using the Plum Blossom Piles to train his body coordination.

Ding Qi stood quietly on one of the wooden piles. The pile looked quite slender and seemed unable to support a person's weight. However, Ding Qi was standing steadily on it without any wobble, looking very relaxed.

In fact, despite his current ease, two months ago, Ding Qi had fallen off this slender wooden pile many times, often bruising his head and bleeding profusely.

The slender wooden pile was a tool for training balance, as recorded in the book. The wooden pile was as fragile as it appeared, barely able to support a person's weight. If one lost balance, the wooden pile would immediately break. It was extremely difficult to stand steadily on it, and Ding Qi had put in a lot of effort to achieve this.

Such slender wooden piles were not uncommon in the Plum Blossom Pile array. This meant that when Ding Qi practiced on the Plum Blossom Piles, he had to maintain balance at all times to avoid breaking them, making it an extremely effective training method.

Ding Qi first stood on the slender wooden pile for a while, then began to move, performing the routine pole-walking practice. At first, Ding Qi moved at a normal walking speed, changing his position on the wooden piles of varying heights.

However, later, Ding Qi's speed increased, almost like running. Despite his vigorous movements, none of the slender wooden piles broke, and they hardly even wobbled.

The wooden piles with significant height differences felt no different from running on flat ground under Ding Qi's feet.

In the end, Ding Qi's speed became even faster. The unique arrangement of the wooden piles created an illusion of shape-shifting. It seemed as if Ding Qi's figure disappeared from one wooden pile and reappeared on another far away. Without careful observation, it was impossible to determine how he moved.

After running on the Plum Blossom Piles for a long time, he eventually came down from them.

"The 'Shadowless Plum Blossom Piles' recorded in the book, I have finally mastered them completely today." After landing on the ground, Ding Qi looked at the Plum Blossom Piles behind him, a look of inexplicable joy on his face.

What he had just done was a training exercise called 'Shadowless Plum Blossom Piles,' which trained body coordination.

Over the past two months, Ding Qi had followed the training programs described in the book and performed many types of training. The 'Shadowless Plum Blossom Piles' was one of the most advanced training programs.

Previously, every time he attempted this training, he failed. He would either fall off the wooden piles during the shape-shifting or break the slender wooden piles during the training. It wasn't until today that he truly succeeded.

In addition to body coordination training, Ding Qi did not neglect the cultivation of palm techniques and other martial arts.

More precisely, because of the continuous training in body coordination and flexibility, he found it much easier to cultivate martial arts techniques during this period.

He knew that improving physical functions was beneficial for cultivating martial arts techniques.

Therefore, while cultivating martial arts techniques, he spent half of his time each day on flexibility and other physical training as described in the book.

The Iron Sand Palm manual recorded many methods for training physical functions. According to the descriptions, the initial training content was not difficult. Ding Qi's subsequent training confirmed this. He easily completed the required training programs by following the methods described in the book.

However, the later training content greatly surprised Ding Qi.

According to the book, the training to develop physical functions should become increasingly difficult. However, this was not the case for Ding Qi.

For example, the 'Shadowless Plum Blossom Piles' training, as described in the book, should have been an extremely difficult and arduous task. Even someone with exceptional talent, dedicating all their energy and practicing diligently every day, would need more than three years of hard work to achieve the level Ding Qi had just demonstrated. Yet, Ding Qi accomplished it in just over ten days.

This discovery brought both surprise and confusion to Ding Qi.

He had never considered himself to be someone with exceptional talent; otherwise, he would not have been rejected during the Qingyun Sect's selection of inner disciples.

He had always known that he was just an ordinary person.

After much reflection, he finally understood the reason for this abnormal phenomenon.

It all had to do with the Innate Skill he was cultivating.

After cultivating the Innate Skill, especially after completing the first level, Ding Qi's senses and other physical functions had far exceeded the normal human level, becoming extremely powerful. It was precisely because of these far superior physical functions that he could complete advanced training like the 'Shadowless Plum Blossom Piles' in a short time.

Coordination, after all, relies on the cooperation of the senses and other physical functions. The 'Shadowless Plum Blossom Piles' training merely fully developed the already superior physical functions that Ding Qi had cultivated through the Innate Skill.

Subsequent training also confirmed Ding Qi's thoughts. He completed several advanced training programs, like the 'Shadowless Plum Blossom Piles,' at a rapid pace due to his physical advantages.

Relying on the physical advantages brought by the Innate Skill, he made rapid progress in various training programs every day. Through the development of these training programs, his utilization of his physical functions greatly improved.

As a result, with the significant improvement in body coordination and other aspects brought by the training, Ding Qi's cultivation of martial arts techniques became extremely fast.

In the two months, he had completely mastered all the martial arts techniques he could cultivate from the Iron Sand Palm manual.

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