Chapter 125 - 112: Tai Chi Divine Fist Master Li
Wu Li planned to visit a man named Li Lei, a famous Tai Chi Master from Su Province.
In the information provided by the production team to Wu Li, it showed that Li Lei was once the vice-president of the sixth session of the Su Province Martial Arts Association and had trained many martial arts routine champions.
After stepping down as vice-president of the Martial Arts Association, Li Lei opened his own Martial Arts Hall to teach others his self-created Divine Intent Tai Chi Fist.
Initially, his students came through personal referrals and his Martial Arts Hall wasn’t that famous, but everything changed when one night, an apprentice using Divine Intent Tai Chi Fist easily inflicted serious injury on a mugger with a simple punch. Only then did Li Lei’s hall gain widespread attention.
This incident made local news and, as the master of the apprentice, Li Lei came out to give an interview and said that his self-created Divine Intent Tai Chi emphasizes Inner Cultivation. Normally they cultivate the mind rather than body, but in critical moments, it can stimulate the body’s potential and unleash tremendous power instantly!
With that student’s example of causing severe injury with a casual punch, Li Lei’s theory seemed to be well substantiated, so more and more local people started signing up. After a few waves of publicity and hype, the legend of Divine Intent Tai Chi became even more divine: things like developing Spiritual Power, hidden potentials within the body, and achieving in an instant what would take ten years of Cultivation...
Not just empty words, there were also some demonstration videos, such as lightly pressing a palm down and splitting a brick in two; or using Tai Chi’s ’Hua Jin’, to push an oncoming person against the wall...
To those outsiders who don’t understand Martial Arts, these feats were already quite impressive. Further fueled by media promotion and with more and more students coming forward to advocate for the effectiveness of Divine Intent Tai Chi, Li Lei, the Master, became known as ’Tai Chi Divine Fist’ in Su Province!
Upon reading through the information, Wu Li could tell it was fake. Spiritual Power, cultivating the mind over body, unleashing human potential, he found it sickening.
If Li Lei were preaching merely about Tai Chi for wellness, Wu Li would have ignored him, considering him just another health product salesman and letting it be.
However, the trend of his boasting seemed to be inflating. A couple of years ago, he was only promoting Divine Intent Tai Chi’s focus on mind cultivation, but now, he was claiming that Spiritual Power is boundless, that if properly harnessed, even the world’s Boxing Champion would not withstand a single punch!