Chapter 212 - 190 Celebrity Mentor
The two men who suddenly rushed out of the room exuded a sharp presence, moving with great speed and quickly closing the distance.
However, Wu’s exchange with Xiaoze Wutian was equally swift. At this moment, Wu had struck down with a Splitting Fist, and to Xiaoze Wutian, it felt like a mountain was pressing down on him, making it hard to catch his breath.
"This kind of momentum..."
Xiaoze Wutian was inwardly shocked. The force Wu’s punch had released was astonishing, clearly indicating his Mental State had reached the ’Void’ realm.
Gangrou Style, or traditional Karate for that matter, places a heavy emphasis on Spiritual Cultivation in addition to Martial Arts prowess, dividing it into realms: Whole, Integrated, Variable, Transformed, Void, and Spirit.
The so-called ’Void’ is a state of complete tranquility of the spirit, where all obstacles and distractions disappear, and one can act wholly at will. In the realm of Sword Dao, this could also be referred to as having opened the ’Heart Eye’.
Such a level of spiritual cultivation was something Xiaoze Wutian had not achieved himself. He had only seen it in a few masters of traditional Japanese Karate, each of whom had gone through decades of life’s vicissitudes to finally reach the ’Void’ realm.
Xiaoze Wutian’s spiritual cultivation had reached the ’Transformed’ stage, and even so, he was hailed as a generational prodigy, a talent seen once in five hundred years. Yet, he could not guarantee that he would definitely reach the ’Void’ realm within a few years. But Wu, according to the data, was only 21 years old and had already achieved such a state!?
Xiaoze Wutian steadied his mind, placing his hands in front of his chest to perform a Cross Lock, blocking Wu’s descending palm strike.
Bang!
Due to a moment’s hesitation, Xiaoze Wutian’s force was incompletely mustered, and he failed to fully block Wu’s Fist Power. It felt as if he had been hammered hard by a Heavy Hammer, his center of gravity immediately destabilized.