14 C1-14
"This is so hard"
Sun Zhen was standing inside his yard, surrounded by bunch of small wood logs.
"You still haven't figured out? I already told you, just surround your hand with Qi then punch it out" Xiao Ying said while eating her snack.
"You make it sound so easy"
As he slowly breathing in and out, Qi was coming out of his body then it started surrounding his hand.
When Qi fully covered his hand, Sun Zhen was ready to punch as he aimed at a wood log.
He then punched at the log and...Nothing happens. It supposed to be blown into pieces but it didn't work or even budge.
"Fail again" He sighed.
What he just did was using an Art. Sun Zhen could now bring out Qi of his body and control it to a degree. This happened after the challenge.
*2 days ago*
"Seem like you can bring out your Qi now" First Elder was looking at Sun Zhen who could now easily hold up 2 Qi balls now.
"So can I practice your Art now?" Sun Zhen was excited, he saw how the guy's fire Art did and he knew First Elder's Art must be stronger.
"Haha, you are eager, good but you are not ready yet. Even if you had mastered Qi control and reached Peak-Stage Juqi, you still far from it...But I do have some Arts that you can train with"
He then brought out 3 Art books:
+Wind Step (Movement)
+Copper Body (Defense)
+Qi Punch (Attack)
"These Arts are the 3 basics in the city and you can train with these anytime but I recommend train with Qi punch first"
"..."
"What? Too ordinary?"
"Kind of. Laoshi, do you have any Arts that similar to Fire Art or better?"
"Don't go chew something without realizing that it is too big to chew. Like I said before, you aren't ready yet but I will tell you a small secret.
If you train well enough, there is a chance that you can create a better technique"
"Really?"
"Of course, every Art origin were made from more basic Arts themselves. These 3 Arts are famous for making cultivators create more powerful Arts but the chance is slim, even for a genius"
"Then I will try my best" Sun Zhen took the books and listened to his Laoshi to learn Qi punch first.
*Present time*
"Well, you tried" Xiao Ying said as she just finished her snack.
"But not enough" Sun Zhen sat down and tried to come up with a plan.
He was out of option as he already tried his Touch Scan on Xiao Ying's Qi punch and almost every Juqi students in the class.
The code lines were the same as his and no error had occurred but the result was different. Their punches could destroy the wood logs while he could not.
He came up with his own theory:
1 code line and 2 (N1; N2) computers, not the same brand.
N1 could execute the code line perfectly while N2 did wrong.
The code line then translated to fit N2 but still execute wrong result because it wasn't translated well enough.
Or he could just really bad at it.
As he was thinking, Xiao Ying went in front of him and called.
"Sun Zhen, I know who can train you"
"Please do not ask your dad"
"No, my dad won't help even if I asked. I am talking about a Senior and he is always trained at Art Training (AT) Class"
"AT class? Isn't that the place that we passed during our tour...and are you sure he won't mind?"
"You can count on him, he loves helping the new people like you"
*AT Class*
When they came into the class, they could see many people training Arts ranged from bizarre attacks to hitting each other to test how tough the defense Art for.
He also noticed that almost all the people here were older than 20 and some of them were looking at him.
"Is that Sun Zhen that defeat Xiao ___, he doesn't look that tough"
"Don't look down on him, he has Arts that no one ever seen. That isn't a surprise for me as First Elder is his teacher"
"A few days ago, some people said that he asked for favors. What favors, 2 days and already beat Mid-Stage Juqi already, that what I called talents"
Sun Zhen kept hearing bad and good words about him which he felt like a famous person.
About 2 minutes later, they reached the Senior place. There weren't many people on this floor, only about 4 to 5 people.
They then walked to the center of the room and Sun Zhen saw an extremely thin person meditating.
"Senior Zhong. It is me, Junior Xing" She said to the thin guy.
After hearing what she said, the thin guy stood up and Sun Zhen impressed on how tall the guy was.
This is was the 3rd time he saw an over 2m tall person in the clan. First was the Patriarch, then First Elder and now this guy but he was thin so he looked less intimidating than those 2.
"Junior Ying, what are you doing here? And Sun Zhen too?" The thin guy said.
"Senior Zhong we come here to ask for your help. Only my friend need help" She then introduced Senior to Sun Zhen.
"This is Xiao Zhong, Late-Stage Juqi and in the top 4 strongest in Senior class" (This character was introduced in C1-9)
"Nice to meet you, Senior Zhong" Sun Zhen said.
"You too. And what do you want me to help?"
Xiao Ying and Sun Zhen then described the problem to Senior Zhong.
"I see... Then I will demonstrate the Qi punch for you to see" Senior Zhong stood up and walked to a wooden dummy.
As he used Qi punch, Sun Zhen was shocked to see how fast he gathered in in his hand. It only took the guy 3 seconds while Sun Zhen almost took 15 seconds to do it.
<BOOM> The dummy was destroyed after getting hit by Senior Zhong. It was a very powerful punch despite his thin physic.
What came next made Sun Zhen "doubted" his mind. The dummy slowly built back into what it had been like.
"I must get that dummy code" He thought.
"Ok, show me your" Senior Zhong pointed him to the dummy.
Sun Zhen used Qi punch and it was like he expected, nothing happens but he did get the dummy code and it got 98 code lines, a very high number for him right now.
"Again" Senior Zhong said.
The training went on until he said stop as Sun Zhen hadn't dealt any damage to the dummy.
"Sorry, I can not find any problem and you may have to change to a new Art" Senior Zhong said.
"That Ok, I understand" Sun Zhen sighed then he left with Xiao Ying.
"If he has First Elder's Art, why he needs to train such thing as Qi punch" Senior Zhong thought as he saw they walking away.
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"Hey don't be sad, we can change to new Arts as Senior Zhong suggested" Xiao Ying said.
"Nah I am going to stick with it until I can do it properly"
When they were out, Sun Zhen saw a group of kids was playing a small game. They were playing the game who can copy the other person's pose.
Sun Zhen stopped and looked at them. One kid copied another kid pose, not perfectly but they looked the same no matter what.
It was at that moment he had come up with an idea. He started running back to his house after telling Xiao Ying that he had something to do.
*8 days later*
For 8 days, Sun Zhen was coming to the training ground and headed straight back to his house while asking servants to deliver food to his door.
"Finally some result"
As Sun Zhen finished 2 extremely complicated commands, he also called Xiao Ying to come.
"So you figured out how to use Qi punch?"
"Yes, I just need you to do it for me"
When she used the Qi punch, Sun Zhen gave a command.
[Copy]
In his eyes, Qi and the punch slowed down as every action were recorded down into his mind.
He then gave another command when she was done.
[Analyze And Remodel]
[...Time to finish: 5 minutes...]
After 5 minutes, the command gave him a whole new way to do Qi punch.
Sun Zhen soon to follow the instruction in his head and Qi flow around his arm.
"Hey you are doing wrong" Xiao Ying noticed how he used Qi punch in a wrong way but then she was shocked.
As Sun Zhen punched out, it created strong wind that blew her hair around.
"It works" Sun Zhen was very happy about the result.
What he had been working on for 8 days, called "Movement Code"
In animation or cutscenes in games, every movement is related to code. Even the finger moves, it is the work of code.
(Animation like Unreal Engine 4, Source Engine and Any Animation movie makers are being made from codes)
So his idea was to make his own and helped him analyze movement to make it into codes then remodel it to fit him better.
Now he is one step closer to the truth about the Goddess
