42 Eagle Claw Kung Fu
After changing into his training clothes in the changing area, Chu Xiao stepped barefoot onto the shiny black floor.
Badong ebony wood flooring has a mirror-like reflective surface, but it has extremely high anti-slip properties, with an anti-slip coefficient comparable to that of an F1 racetrack.
Therefore, Chu Xiao walked steadily to the rosewood weapon rack in the equipment area.
The weapon racks were filled with all kinds of swords and weapons, like exhibits. Han swords, Tang swords, ring-pommel swords, Miao swords, and goose-feather swords were displayed. The hilts were beautifully decorated, and the blades were as white as frost, radiating a chilling light.
Chu Xiao raised an eyebrow, drew a three-foot-long goose-feather saber, and with a flick of his wrist, the blade flashed, cutting the air with a soft, whistling sound.
She suddenly spun around and slashed horizontally, her blade moving with lightning speed. With a soft "clang," the head of the ice sculpture training target flew off and landed on the ground with a "thud," rolling to Chu Xiao's feet.
Li, Chu Xiao's personal assistant, was shocked, her mouth agape. She was startled by her boss's sudden, swift, and precise slash.
What terrifying swordsmanship!
What a sharp sword!
Seeing the smooth, flat surface of the doll's head, she felt a slight pain in her neck.
She unconsciously reached out and touched her perfectly intact neck, then silently hid in a corner five meters away.
Chu Xiao flicked the knife, a satisfied smile playing on his lips.
Although she is used to venting her emotions through boxing.
But compared to boxing, she personally feels that playing with knives is more fun and exciting.
If it weren't for the fear of developing a habit and accidentally causing death by slashing with a knife in a fit of anger, she probably wouldn't be practicing boxing every day, but rather swordsmanship.
She turned around, put the goose-feather saber back into the weapon rack, and began to practice martial arts formally.
Chu Xiao plans to master Eagle Claw Kung Fu first.
This is because it's the only martial art that can be practiced before this useless body can be completely slimmed down; other martial arts have weight requirements.
The name Eagle Claw Kung Fu sounds like a third-rate martial art from a wuxia novel at first glance.
It is indeed a third-rate martial art found in wuxia novels.
So why would a modern novel, which seems very modern and includes elements of business warfare, food, and one-night stands, include martial arts elements?
This brings us to Chu Xiao's background.
As we all know, in many novels, in order to enhance the protagonist's prestige, authors usually give the protagonist an impressive family background, such as being the head of one of the four great families in country X.
Even if the protagonist is a self-made man from humble beginnings, the author will reveal in the middle and later stages of the story that the protagonist is actually the illegitimate child of a powerful figure who is the world's richest man/planet leader/world's number one gang leader or other very powerful figures.
As the protagonist of this novel and the author's beloved daughter, Chu Xiao naturally cannot lag behind others.
Therefore, the author also gave Chu Xiao a very unusual background.
Chu Xiao actually comes from an ancient martial arts family that has been passed down for sixty-six generations.
Starting from the 48th generation of the Chu family, the new dynasty issued the "Prohibition of Martial Arts Order," which clearly stated that "any commoner who practices martial arts shall be executed immediately."
The Chu family was very principled; they did not recognize the rule of the new dynasty and were unwilling to serve as officials or become its lackeys. However, the old dynasty was doomed and beyond saving, so even if the Chu family wanted to cause trouble, they had no suitable opportunity and could only remain calm and wait for the right moment.
Even after becoming commoners, the Chu family refused to give up their family tradition of martial arts and ultimately chose to use business as a cover for their martial arts practice.
For 268 years, the Chu family has outwardly been wealthy merchants, but in secret, they have used secret societies such as "brotherhood associations" and "hometown associations" to teach their martial arts skills to their descendants.
From the age of two, when the children in the tribe can walk, they learn abacus and accounting during the day and practice martial arts and weapons at night.
Until the dynasty was overthrown and a new era arrived, martial arts, though no longer taboo, were regarded as "useless showmanship." However, the Chu family, whether its members were from the mainland or overseas, still maintained the tradition of practicing martial arts, and Chu Xiao naturally practiced martial arts from a young age.
So it's quite normal for Chu Xiao, as the 67th generation inland descendant of the ancient Chu family of martial arts, to know some martial arts skills like Eagle Claw Kung Fu.
Originally, Chu Xiao wasn't in a great hurry to improve his combat skills; at least, it came after losing weight.
But ever since he witnessed the three villainous Wang brothers, who could easily jump down five floors without any training and simply rely on their physical abilities, and even Wang Li, a native of the original world who had never appeared in the novel, being able to carry ten bags of cement by himself, Chu Xiao felt a sense of crisis.
Although these people haven't done anything to threaten her yet, their very existence is inherently unstable.
It is often said that the best way to solve a problem is to nip it in the bud. However, there are too many anti-scientific people in this world, and simple, brutal, and bloody solutions are not enough.
Therefore, Chu Xiao decided to join them. As long as she became a member of the anti-science movement, these anti-science figures would be no threat to her.
The first step in going against science is to practice some unscientific martial arts, such as those that generally only exist in martial arts novels/kung fu movies. For example, the Eagle Claw Kung Fu that Chu Xiao is preparing to practice.
Eagle Claw Kung Fu, as the name suggests, is a hand technique as flexible and sharp as an eagle's claw.
Many people don't realize that eagle talons are actually one of nature's top biological weapons, with tremendous destructive power.
The pressure exerted by an eagle's talons during a dive can reach 200 kg/cm², equivalent to three times the bite force of a lion. The kinetic energy generated at a dive speed of 130 km/h is equivalent to that of a .22 rifle bullet.
In 2012, a wedge-tailed eagle was recorded in Australia, tearing through a motorcycle helmet and causing serious injury.
This shows that the Eagle Claw's attack power is extremely powerful!
The Eagle Claw Kung Fu passed down by the Chu family is certainly not as powerful as a real eagle's claw, since the practitioner is human, not an eagle. Although the human body has unlimited potential, it is generally difficult to break through physiological limits.
But since the martial art is called Eagle Claw Kung Fu, it's not called that for nothing.
If a human were to master Eagle Claw Kung Fu to its highest level, they could easily eliminate an enemy's fighting ability within 3 seconds by simply pinching their throat, gouging out their eyes, pressing their collarbone, and digging into their lower body.
Although Eagle Claw Kung Fu is considered a third-rate skill in martial arts novels, it is still not easy to master.
Just like in "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber", Yin Li needed to have poisonous spiders repeatedly bite the acupoints on his hands to inject spider venom into his meridians, turning normal, harmless hands into poisonous and harmful hands that would kill anyone who touched them.
Chu Xiao also needs to improve his basic finger strength and increase his grasping speed to practice Eagle Claw Kung Fu, turning his normal hand into a ruthless iron hand like an eagle's.
Therefore, Chu Xiao planned to do three sets of five-finger push-ups with his knees on the ground first.
She cracked her knuckles, making a "click" sound.
Then, Li, who was huddled in the corner, saw his boss prop up his tall and mighty body and start doing push-ups.
Furthermore, the push-up was not a regular push-up that uses the palms as a support surface and involves the shoulders, pectoralis major, and triceps brachii.
Instead, it uses the five fingers as the support point and exerts force through finger strength and core control, making it an extremely difficult and legendary five-finger push-up!
As a personal assistant, Assistant Li's job is to solve problems for her boss.
Over the years, she has gradually risen from a fresh graduate to become the right-hand woman of the second daughter of the Jian family, a multi-billion-dollar pancake group. Of course, she has her own secrets to success in the workplace.
Assistant Li's first workplace rule: Try to understand the leader's intentions and accurately grasp the key points of the work.
She couldn't help but touch her chin and begin to ponder.
Why would your boss skip regular push-ups and insist on doing the more difficult five-finger push-ups?
It is known that people often take on difficult tasks, much like a peacock spreading its tail feathers, in order to show off their abilities, attract the attention of specific individuals, or intimidate competitors.
Assistant Li turned his head and looked left and right. This luxurious private martial arts school, which covered an area of 888 square meters, now only had the owner and himself.
There were neither beauties nor competitors.
So... this was to record a video and post it on WeChat Moments, so that the beauty would casually scroll through it, improving his image in her eyes, and unintentionally intimidating his competitors?
As expected of her brilliant and capable boss, she can even kill two birds with one stone by doing push-ups!
Assistant Li thought he had grasped his boss's intentions and admired him greatly.
She took out her phone, turned on the camera, pointed it at her boss, and pressed the start button.
In the video, the boss's arms were bulging with veins, his face was flushed, he was covered in sweat, and his expression was distorted.
After shakily completing a set, Chu Xiao's heavy body slammed to the ground with a loud thud, and she lay motionless with her eyes closed.
"boss!"
Assistant Li screamed and rushed over.
...
Seeing this, some of my lovely readers, like Assistant Li, must have thought that Chu Xiao had knocked herself unconscious by falling down while trying to be brave.
However, Chu Xiao is the author's favorite character, and it's impossible for the author's favorite character to make a fool of herself (not really). Such unfortunate plots usually only happen to cannon fodder/villains and other ugly characters.
So Chu Xiao wasn't actually dizzy or injured; she was just tired.
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