44- it's time to clean up the clan

Author: Damn it's been over a month since my last update sorry about that, guys.

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After he finished scolding, the martial arts instructor called out another wooden puppet. This light yellow wooden puppet was two meters tall, its huge wooden feet making sharp sounds as it stepped on the bluestone floor tiles. The wooden puppet stretched open its arms and rushed clumsily towards the instructor.

The instructor dodge its attack, then fiercely hugged its waist and used his strength to push it forward down, causing the huge and tall wooden puppet to fall to the ground. Then the instructor rode on the puppet's waist and swung his fist quickly at the puppet's head.

The wooden puppet resisted for a moment, then its head was smashed broken by the instructor's raining blows. It was paralyzed on the ground, lying motionless.

The martial arts instructor stood up, his breathing calm and long as always. He explained to the students, "When facing a huge and tall enemy in close combat, do not be afraid. Ruining the opponent's center of gravity is a type of sensible tactic to pin down your enemy. Just like how I did it earlier, you must hug the opponent's waist, control his hips and then push forward with your strength. After that you take the opportunity and get on his body and fiercely punch at your enemy. Those with no defensive capabilities will instantly collapse."

The students nodded repeatedly, but most of their eyes showed disapproval. The coach saw all of this and laughed bitterly in his heart.

Every batch was like this. The attitudes of these youngsters were naturally easily attracted by gorgeous things. Without personal understanding and experience, it was hard for them to understand the importance of having a martial arts foundation. In truth especially for a Gu Master in his early stage, while the basic martial arts did not look promising, it was actually more important than the blade attack.

"….Remember, in close combat, your sight must not always stare at the enemy's eye. It should focus on the enemy's shoulder. No matter punching or kicking, the enemy's shoulder will always move first…."

"…In close combat your speed is very important, the speed I am talking about in this context is not the speed of your fists, but the speed of the movement of your legs…."

"….Distance is the best defense…"

"…Keep your legs elastic, then you will be able to easily burst out your strength…"

"When striking with your fists, maintain a triangle support. Otherwise you will lose your footing. The enemy has not fallen, yet instead you fell first…"

The instructor patiently explained while he demonstrated. These were all his valuable experiences that he got from sacrificing blood and tears, experience accumulated from long battles.

Unfortunately the students were unaware of this. They gradually started to whisper again, the focus of the discussion still on the next lesson's Qi-blade assessment.

Liu Yang sighed as he saw how the instructor is teaching the students, he is not good at teaching which made the students lose interest in martial arts.

Liu Yang stood up, attracting the attention of the students and the instructor, and then walked toward the instructor while calmly saying, "Excuse my rudeness but I have to say this. You are very pragmatic, but your teaching style is wrong."

Liu Yin Ai looked at her brother in disbelief, 'Will he show me a vivid example of Rules and Regulation? But that doesn't seem right, he's only criticizing the instructor.'

Although Liu Yang said so calmly and respectfully, his words angered the coach.

"Although you are the son of the clan leader, you have no right to talk to me like that."

Liu Yang sighed deeply and acted as if he did not understand why the coach was angry. "I spoke to you respectfully, but honestly."

"You had no discipline in your teaching; you taught completely by interest, and just taught whatever you thought of. Therefore the things you taught came out in a mess and there was a lot of complicated info. In the beginning many students listened seriously, but gradually they lost interest and diverted their attention to other aspects."

The students looked at Liu Yang with eyes that twinkled with respect and appreciation because everything he said was true. Some of them were interested in martial arts, but because of the instructor's complicated and incomprehensible words, they lost interest.

"If you think you are better than me, come up here and show me your martial arts skills. You can attack me with all your might." The instructor could not bear to be so humiliated in front of the students.

'Is this instructor's brain the same size as a walnut? My big brother criticized his method of teaching and didn't criticize his martial arts.' Liu Yin looked at the coach coldly, 'But if he thinks he will defeat my brother, he is a big fool.'

"Are you sure, won't you regret it later? If you hurt a student without logical reason, you will be punished by the clan." Liu Yang sighed as he walked over to the instructor.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you." The instructor smiled furiously while snapping his fingers. He wasn't lying that he wasn't planning on hurting Liu Yang. All he wanted to do was defeat Liu Yang quickly without hurting him and making him see the difference of experience.

"Instructor, please be careful I will attack you." Liu Yang slowly walked towards but gradually increased his speed.

Liu Yang moved quickly and when he reached near the instructor he jumped up and kicked, but the instructor grabbed Liu Yang's leg easily. "Is that all yo...."

But before he says more than that, Liu Yang's body is turned to drop a strong spin kick against the instructor's head.

Because of the power of the attack, the instructor fell to his knees, but after a moment he stood up completely fine.

The attack power was enough to smash an ordinary person's head, but the instructor didn't hurt.

Looking at the instructor's bronze skin, Liu Yin understood why the coach had not been defeated by her brother's kick.

This was of course not his own skin colour, but it was a type of copper skin Gu's effect. The copper skin Gu would increase the Gu Master's skin toughness and defence by a lot, letting the Gu Master be able to endure more damage.

It is not that the trainer cheats by using worms Gu, but copper skin Gu is a consumable type that is applied once and then disappears, but it permanently transforms normal skin into copper skin unless special methods are used to remove the effect.

Although he wasn't hurt, he felt humiliated. He thought the reason he got into this situation was because he underestimated Liu Yang so he decided to get serious.

Liu Yang moved towards the coach again and then threw a quick and sharp punch, the coach could withstand this blow but decided to avoid it because if he received it, it means that Liu Yang's martial arts is better while he will appear to rely only on his physical strength.

After dodging he threw a kick at Liu Yang but suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground while thinking, 'What happened?'

The punch was just a trick while the real attack came from below, as soon as the coach raised his leg to kick, Liu Yang kicked the other leg and made the coach fall to the ground.

The students looked at Liu Yang with twinkling eyes, the first time they thought Liu Yang was lucky but the second time proved that he was more proficient in martial arts than a coach.

After the coach was shot down, Liu Yang retreated and then started talking to the students.

"A Gu Master's method of fighting is usually divided between melee and ranged. The Qi-blade attack is a type of ranged attack, but when strictly speaking, it is considered medium range due to its effective distance only being ten meters."

"A single Qi-blade would consume 10% of primeval essence. How many times can a Rank one Gu Master throw a Qi-blade during battle? The number is few, especially for beginners who have difficulty forming effective blows."

"It can only be used as a type of trump card, the terrorizing factor is greater than its lethality. To a Rank one Gu Master, the truly useful skill would be martial arts kung fu. This is because the martial art offence is more durable and reliable."

Liu Yang acted as a coach instead of their coach and started teaching the students and directing them to the right path, while the students looked at him with admiration and engraved his words in their hearts.

Actually, Liu Yang doesn't care about these students, but to have a strong defender fodder would be a good thing.

The humiliating feeling the coach received from this could not be described in words.

Liu Yang looked at the coach who stood with a red face of anger, "Can I go back to my place now."

"No, earlier I allowed you to attack me, now it's my turn to attack." The instructor's eyes lit up in anger as he quickly advanced toward Liu Yang and then delivered a swift, whip-like punch.

Liu Yang waiting and understanding the rhythm of his instructor attack and then deflecting his instructor's attack with their own power.

The instructor's punch was redirected to his face and then he fell to the ground as blood spurted out and a few teeth fell out.

"How did you do that?" The coach grabbed his face while standing with difficulty.

"It's a martial art called Aiki, which is the principle or tactic in which the defender blends (without clashing) with the attacker, then goes on to dominate the assailant through the strength of their application of internal dynamics to affect techniques."

"Blending with an attacker's movements allows the Aiki practitioner to control the actions of the attacker with minimal effort. One applies Aiki by understanding the rhythm and intent of the attacker to find the optimal position and timing to apply a counter-technique."

"The stronger the opponent, the stronger the counter attack. No matter how strong the attack, mine will always be stronger." Liu Yang simply explained this technique and didn't go into much detail.

"I had never heard of this martial art before, did you create it." The instructor was in awe.

"No one in this world knows how to use it but me." Liu Yang didn't lie, in this world he's the only one who knows how to use Aiki but he didn't say that he created it. After all, Aiki is a Japanese martial art and is a secret technique of ancient jujutsu.

'At such an age he has created his own martial art, and his martial art is probably one of the strongest in the entire world.' The instructor's body trembled, 'I have to tell Elder Liu Bang about this.'

At this moment, the martial arts class ended and Liu Yang walked beside his sister away from the place amidst the admiration of the students but noticed the confusion on her face, "What makes you so confused?"

"I don't understand, what does what you just did have to do with Rules and Regulation?"

Liu Yang smiled and patted his sister's head. "The coach couldn't use all his strength because of the clan's rules of not hurting the students and I took advantage of that to defeat and insult him."

"Although he was humiliated by the defeat, he would not be able to take his revenge depending on the clan because he was the one who wanted to fight while me in front of the students wanted to reject him while mentioning the clan rules. For this reason, even if he went to complain to the clan, no one would care about him."

Although Liu Yang was the one who started all this, he was never wrong according to the clan rules. Rather, the coach will be considered at fault and will be punished, and there is a possibility that he will be expelled from the academy and bring in a different coach.

After Liu Yang finished explaining, a gentle smile appeared on his face but that smile hid an intense killing intent behind it, 'It's all just bait to get the snake out of its hole, it's time to clean up the clan.'