Chapter 127: One Has to Run before One Can Walk
Yang Ru sprinted across the clearing and slammed his spear into the tree, using qi to increase his Momentum with each step. At the moment of impact, that qi erupted from the tip, transferred from his Momentum into the wood.
He stopped. Or more accurately, he was stopped.
As his Momentum shifted from him to the tree, all his inertia dissolved, leaving him standing still. It was the oddest feeling.
One moment he was running flat out. The next, he hit the trunk at full speed.
Experience told him that the result should be one of two things. Either the object he collided with should yield or he should end up on his butt. Again.
Instead, all the Momentum he’d built up disappeared, turned into pure qi, and was channeled through his spear into his target, leaving a big divot in the wood. Which didn’t seem like a significant result but considering the wood, when properly treated, could stand up to attacks from rank four and higher beasts, the result was pretty impressive.
Success! His first.
Accomplishing something once didn’t mean he’d be able to do it again when it mattered, so he retreated across the clearing and tried again.
Fail.
And again.
Fail.
And again.