Chapter 178 Tai Chi in the Sea
But he quickly came to his senses. He didn't plan to practice boxing directly yet, but instead planned to let his body adapt to the underwater environment first.
The visibility in the water was unexpectedly high, and more importantly, at this time when a typhoon was about to approach, there were unexpectedly many fish under the reef where Du Ruo was located.
These fish are not running around everywhere, but hiding densely in the crevices of the reefs, and occasionally some of them come out to look for food.
"I originally thought that fish might flee the shore during typhoon weather, but I didn't expect that on the contrary, these fish would gather in such large numbers towards the coast. I think they must be using the reefs to avoid the typhoon."
Du Ruo looked at the various fish of all sizes in the crevices of the reefs and couldn't help but sigh. Of course, he was also happier because today's lunch would definitely be taken care of.
Du Ruo was moving his body in the water while observing the big fish in the reefs. He moved his body mainly because there were occasional undercurrents in the water and Du Ruo needed some time to adapt. As for how to adapt, it was of course to use Tai Chi power to remove these undercurrents that pulled his body so that he could move his body freely.
Soon, Du Ruo used his body's energy to dissipate the undercurrents on the seabed while figuring out the situation around the reef. At the same time, Du Ruo was silently timing in his mind. He needed to figure out how long he could hold his breath while diving.
After about eight or nine minutes, Du Ruo sensitively noticed a tightness in his chest, which was a sign of oxygen shortage in his body. Du Ruo was just breathing simply before going into the water, and he was able to hold on for such a long time, which showed that Du Ruo's body had a strong adaptability and a high tolerance to hypoxia.
However, Du Ruo did not intend to go up empty-handed. He glanced around and saw several moving roots in a larger gap. Du Ruo knew that this was the lobster that Xiang Yuanyuan liked to eat the most. Without hesitation, he came to the edge of the reef and attacked with both hands like lightning.
Speaking of the boxing style with the fastest attack speed, Mantis Boxing ranks at the top, and speaking of the boxing style with the highest attack frequency, it is definitely Wing Chun.
Du Ruo didn't waste any time. He placed his hands in front of his chest and punched from the center line, using the Wing Chun Sun Punch. However, when he was approaching the lobsters, Du Ruo quietly extended the index fingers of both hands and pierced through the bodies of the two lobsters in one go, using a mantis-like punch.
Then he withdrew his hand, and the two big lobsters were already dead, and were obediently hooked by Du Ruo's fingers.
After doing all this, Du Ruo bent his knees slightly and squatted down, putting his feet on the reef, completely ignoring the knife-sharp edges on it. Then he exerted force with his feet and rushed towards the water like an arrow.
"Wow~~"
Du Ruo rushed out of the water, then stepped on the water from time to time, and his entire body above the abdomen floated on the water.
"Nine minutes and thirty seconds!!"
When Xiang Yuanyuan saw Du Ruo surfacing, she quickly glanced at her cell phone, put her hands to her mouth, and shouted at Du Ruo in a megaphone shape.
"Okay, no need to be so loud, I can hear you, pick it up~"
Du Ruo gathered a small amount of "air" in his throat and spoke in a normal voice, but it was clearly heard by Xiang Yuanyuan.
Then Du Ruo swung his hands, and the two big lobsters drew an arc in the air and flew towards Xiang Yuanyuan's back.
"Wow~~"
Xiang Yuanyuan didn't see it clearly until the big lobster landed on the rocks on the shore, then she exclaimed in surprise.
"It will take me a little longer this time, don't worry, breathe in and out."
After Du Ruo threw the lobster up, his abdomen collapsed and he exhaled a long breath from his mouth, making a dent of more than ten centimeters on the sea surface. Then he opened his eyes wide and inhaled sharply. The sound of his inhalation was so loud that it seemed to break through the air, and even Xiang Yuanyuan on the shore could faintly hear it.
But before Xiang Yuanyuan could make a clear distinction, Du Ruo dived underwater again.
Xiang Yuanyuan could only pick up her phone again, watch over the two big lobsters, and start timing for Du Ruo by looking at the water surface.
Coming back to the bottom of the water, Du Ruo found a place under the water with his back against the reef and sat cross-legged. This time, Du Ruo needed to test something.
If he could only hold out for ten minutes each time before needing to breathe, even if he could extend the time by inhaling a large amount of air with his strong cardiopulmonary function like he did just now, it would be difficult for Du Ruo to maintain high-intensity exercise to practice boxing. Du Ruo was unwilling to breathe so frequently.
Therefore, Du Ruo needs to find a good way to prolong the breath-holding time, and the best way is naturally Hunyuan Qigong.
Hunyuan Yi Qigong is a process of regulating the "essence, qi and spirit" in the body, refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit into emptiness, and finally achieving the circulation to form "one qi". This process can be practiced to the end to form a large circulation in the body.
After the Great Circulation was formed, internal breathing became natural, which was one of the reasons why Du Ruo wanted to come to the beach. Du Ruo had already completed the constant operation of Hunyuan Yi Qigong a long time ago, but it was the first time for Du Ruo to do it in the water, so Du Ruo now needed some time to adjust.
Du Ruo was sitting in the water holding her breath. Soon tiny bubbles began to appear on her skin. This was because her pores were opening to replace breathing through her lungs.
Internal breathing does not mean that blood circulation in the body can replace oxygen. In fact, it is a process in which the body is highly compatible with nature after refining the spirit and returning to emptiness, and then absorbs oxygen through the body.
After more than ten minutes, the dense bubbles around Du Ruo's body began to grow larger, and then began to gather into large bubbles, eventually separating from the body and beginning to float toward the sea surface.
At the same time, Du Ruo opened his eyes and looked delighted.
Of course, at present, Du Ruo's internal breathing cannot completely replace lung breathing, perhaps because the "three flowers and five qi" have not reached a certain level, and the operation efficiency of "essence, energy and spirit" is limited, but this can greatly extend Du Ruo's activity time in the sea.
More importantly, Du Ruo no longer needs to inhale a large amount of air into his chest and abdomen. He can even expel the air to reduce the water pressure when diving into deeper water.
To put it simply, Du Ruo can dive into deeper water without worrying about exploding lungs, which greatly increases Du Ruo's safety factor in the water.
Thinking of this, Du Ruo's abdomen contracted, and he opened his mouth, and a stream of air shot out like an air arrow. It was also a coincidence, because when Du Ruo was meditating, his whole body was integrated into nature. A big grouper was swimming defenselessly in front of Du Ruo, and the air arrow shot by Du Ruo hit the grouper's head right.
With one blow, the four or five-pound grouper seemed to be stunned. Its belly turned over and it fainted.
Seeing this, Du Ruo was not polite. He thought that the delicious food offered to him could not be wasted. After catching the fish, he began to float to the surface. After throwing the fish to Xiang Yuanyuan, he said something and started to dive again. This time, Du Ruo was going to start practicing boxing.
There was no need to practice Wing Chun Tingqiao specifically, Du Ruo just started practicing Tai Chi under the water.
Du Ruo's Tai Chi no longer requires fixed routines. It only needs to use the Eight Methods of Tai Chi, namely peng, lu, ji, an, cai, lie, zhou, kao and other force-generating methods and then practice with basic routines.
As Du Ruo began to perform Tai Chi in the water, all the surrounding fish were alarmed and stopped swimming in the crevices of the reefs to look for food.
There is a huge difference between boxing in water and on land. When boxing on land, even if you are sending your Qi force into the air, because the air can compress and unload the force, even if Du Ruo uses all his strength, it is actually very difficult to hurt people with Qi force through the air.
But it was different in the water. The water could not be simply compressed. It would only be driven by Du Ruo's strength and then spread to the surroundings. So as Du Ruo began to practice Tai Chi, all the sand and rocks on the seabed were driven.
Gradually, as Du Ruo practiced, countless sand and stones gradually formed a Hunyuan sphere around Du Ruo. At this time, Du Ruo closed his eyes, imagined the water as countless enemies, and then used the Tai Chi power to push them away from his body, preventing them from getting close to his body.
Water can penetrate any pore, and its flow will generate force. The more Du Ruo dissolves and removes the water that wraps his body, the more water will flow around his body.
Gradually, Du Ruo got into the groove. Although he couldn't drain the water completely, he was able to use the strength of his whole body more skillfully. He could listen to the strength, transform the strength, use the opponent's force to counter attack, and use a little force to move a large object. With various means, Du Ruo became more and more proficient in understanding and using the strength.
And slowly, Du Ruo integrated the true meaning of water into Tai Chi, and was able to understand more properties of water.
Water is invisible but has thousands of shapes, it is shapeless but has thousands of shapes. It has no power but has thousands of powers, it has no authority but contains thousands of powers. Being in the water and surrounded by water, Du Ruo can perceive the meaning of this sentence more clearly.
Gradually, Du Ruo's body in the water was wrapped by countless sands and stones, which began to rotate around Du Ruo, and the speed was getting faster and faster.
Xiang Yuanyuan, who was on the reef, was looking at the water and poking the dead grouper with a wooden stick out of boredom.
There were some waves hitting the rocks and the sea was relatively calm, but suddenly a stream of yellow and black mud surged upwards from the bottom of the water.
Xiang Yuanyuan had been paying attention to the sea all the time, and this change immediately attracted her attention. However, she was not worried about Du Ruo's safety. She just stretched her neck to observe carefully, curious about what Du Ruo did underwater. At the same time, she imagined the scene of Du Ruo fighting with a big fish under water.
"Such a big commotion, what a big fish it must be, wow~ whirlpool!"
Xiang Yuanyuan was still sighing at first, but soon, the mud and sand did not spread outward, but began to rotate.
Moreover, the rotating mud and sand were very regular, starting to rotate with a point as the center. Slowly, not only the mud and sand, but also the water flow under the reef seemed to be affected and began to rotate regularly. Gradually, a small vortex was formed, which surprised Xiang Yuanyuan.
(End of this chapter)
