Liu Hai's team had won.

"Beautiful!"

"Well done!" People around them cheered. Mother Xu and Li Miaomiao were happy as well. Old Master Xu was beaming. Wang Yi, Heng Fang, Yang Qingshuo, and Liu Chongyuan were also filled with admiration for the old veteran. Only Xu Jingming himself... stared blankly at the scene before him.

His father's double shields shot out, his entire being bursting with energy. The fervor in his eyes made him seem like a living, breathing tiger.

One pounce, and the enemy was sent flying!

Scenes flashed through Xu Jingming's mind.

When he was young, his father had taught him the Bajiquan Tiger Pounce (Bajiquan is a Chinese martial art that features explosive, short-range power).

His father loved this move, practicing it every morning and evening. He had been practicing it for forty years. To his father, it was a move that had become ingrained in his life.

"I understand."

Xu Jingming murmured.

"Jingming, what's wrong?" Li Miaomiao looked at Xu Jingming.

"I'm going to the training grounds to practice for a while. Call me before the competition starts," Xu Jingming said.

"We're in the eleventh match, there are still about five hours. There's still plenty of time," Li Miaomiao said immediately, noticing her boyfriend's state.

Xu Jingming nodded and disappeared from the stands.

******

Xu Jingming appeared in the personal space training grounds.

Nowadays, very few people stayed in the training grounds instead of watching the competition.

"I love spearmanship. I love every move and stance of it!"

"I'm obsessed with the speed of the spear. I thrust my spear thousands of times every day. I remember when my spear thrust speed reached 18 meters per second, I was so excited in the national team that I jumped up and down and couldn't sleep all night," Xu Jingming murmured. "I even abandoned the continuity of spearmanship to pursue extreme speed. To this end, I studied anatomy charts, dissecting the muscles and bones, and drawing muscle and bone diagrams. I studied my own exertion from a physics point of view, more diligently than I ever studied for exams. Finally, I created the Shadowless Thrust! Abandoning the continuity of spearmanship and defense, I unleashed an ultimate speed thrust... reaching 25 meters per second! In the World Martial Arts Tournament, as long as I find an opportunity to use the Shadowless Thrust, my enemy will undoubtedly be defeated!"

"I love Bajiquan, and I created the ultimate move, Mountain Breaker, using the force-exertion techniques of the Bajiquan Iron Mountain Lean."

Xu Jingming thought, "I've practiced Bajiquan Stomping Feet and spear since I was a child. As for weapons, I only love the spear. In the virtual world, I still practice the spear the most."

"And what about shield techniques?"

Xu Jingming recalled the past. "That was purely a tool. It was taught to me by my master, Liu Hai, to better control my body strength. It belonged to the Tai Chi practice method. My practice of shield techniques did make my control of my entire body's strength more and more precise... But from beginning to end, shield techniques were just a tool."

"When have I ever loved shield techniques?"

"Perhaps... only when I used shield techniques to unleash the Bajiquan Tiger Pounce."

Xu Jingming thought.

He remembered the first time he used the Bajiquan Tiger Pounce with shield techniques in a God-level battle, when he sent Sun Yuting flying. He felt joyful and delighted.

Because the execution of this move was filled with intense emotion, emotion that had naturally integrated from his childhood practice of the Bajiquan Tiger Pounce.

Xu Jingming thought, "My father didn't practice shield techniques much in the past. He only started practicing shield techniques after entering the virtual world. Using double shields to unleash Bajiquan! Everything went very smoothly."

"Actually, after retiring, I also gradually integrated Bajiquan into shield techniques. But I didn't continue in the virtual world!"

"I also love Bajiquan very much."

"This is the first martial art I practiced since I was a child. Bajiquan elbows, shoulders, back, fists, palms... any part of the body can be used to generate force." Xu Jingming thought, "The shield techniques taught by my master are very brilliant. Using force to counter force, controlling the enemy is also very brilliant. I only practiced a smattering and already reached Tier 2 99%, but brilliant shield techniques don't necessarily suit me."

"No matter what kind of shield techniques, I must love it from the bottom of my heart." Xu Jingming realized at this moment, "If I don't love it in my heart, how can my mind perfectly mobilize every part of my body?"

"I want to practice shield techniques, Bajiquan shield techniques!"

There was ardor in Xu Jingming's eyes. He immediately clicked on the panel, set up a sparring partner, and a metal dummy appeared before him. "Set the weight to 100 tons."

The metal dummy was connected to a base, and the base probably accounted for half of the weight. It was very stable when it landed on the ground.

"Completely Bajiquan shield techniques! Just thinking about it is exciting!" Xu Jingming stretched out his hands, grabbed a shield in each, and walked to the metal dummy. He raised his right shield, leaned his shoulder against the shield, and directly rammed into the dummy.

"Bang."

The dummy shook, and the base moved back slightly.

"Let's warm up my whole body first." Xu Jingming leaned his right shoulder against the shield and rammed into the metal dummy a few times. He leaned his right shoulder against the shield and rammed into the dummy a few more times.

Then he simply rammed the dummy directly with his body, chest, and back. Xu Jingming was enjoying himself. His whole body swayed, like a bear, leaning against the dummy here for a while, and there for a while.

Each 'bear lean' made the 100-ton dummy tremble and move, showing that Xu Jingming was able to explode the force of his entire body through every part of his body.

"Weapons are just an extension of the body. The body must first be able to exert force perfectly, then the weapon can exert force perfectly." Xu Jingming thought, the body's exertion of force is the most basic part of the weapon's realm.

Xu Jingming 'bear leaned' against the metal dummy hundreds of times before stopping.

"Warm-up is over. Actually, bear leaning is quite comfortable." Xu Jingming looked at the dummy in front of him. "Next is... Bajiquan Blast!"

His father loved Bajiquan Tiger Pounce the most.

Xu Jingming wasn't as persistent as his father. He loved many Bajiquan moves, and his love for 'Bajiquan Blast' was no less than that of Bajiquan Tiger Pounce.

"Bang." Stomping his foot to exert force, the earth trembled faintly. The pair of shields in Xu Jingming's hand slammed into the dummy like thunder, and the dummy was knocked back more than ten centimeters, plowing a groove in the ground.

"Bajiquan Blast, like a thunderbolt erupting, the exertion of force is faster and more abrupt." Xu Jingming practiced happily. With a stomp of his foot, the shield slammed into the dummy with a boom, and the dummy moved back another ten centimeters.

Xu Jingming kept using it. Every move was at close range, and every time the shield slammed into the metal dummy, the power of the impact was quite terrifying.

Bajiquan Blast is the most practiced move among Bajiquan practitioners. Relatively fewer practitioners practice 'Bajiquan Tiger Pounce'.

Bajiquan Tiger Pounce is the fiercest, but it is a 'pounce', it needs the distance to pounce! It requires rushing out two or three steps to allow the body speed to completely soar. It is a pounce that explodes with the momentum of the entire body. Sometimes in a fight, there is no chance to use it at all.

Just like in the first God-level battle, Xu Jingming suddenly rushed out and made a sudden pounce when Sun Yuting was running towards the archer.

But Bajiquan Blast is different. It doesn't need distance, it can be used even at close range. The sweeping moves in Xu Jingming's spearmanship originated from Bajiquan Blast.

He practiced Bajiquan Blast a hundred times in one breath.

"Bajiquan, Mountain Split!" Xu Jingming changed his move again. Holding double shields, he looked at the metal dummy in front of him and suddenly raised his shields and stepped forward.

Whoosh!

The raised right shield suddenly exerted force. The right arm holding the shield was like a large axe, suddenly chopping down!

"Heaven and earth, a single breath runs through it! Mountain Split!" Xu Jingming still remembered the Bajiquan martial arts formulas in the books at home. The ancients may not have studied the body so thoroughly, so they could only use artistic conception to guide it.

Xu Jingming's shield was chopped down, using the edge of the shield to chop the metal dummy. The edge of the shield was also very sharp, no less than a heavy weapon chop!

With this chop, the power of the body naturally merged into one. From a physics point of view, it was also a strike carrying 'gravitational potential energy'!

"Bang." The chest of the metal dummy was chopped with a dent, and it also trembled and moved back slightly.

"Bajiquan, Mountain Split!" Xu Jingming continued to practice, again and again, the edge of the shield chopped down like a large axe, chopping on the metal dummy.

As Xu Jingming practiced, a smile appeared on his face without him realizing it.

Just like when he was a child, he happily practiced Bajiquan in front of the wooden dummy. At that time, he practiced bear leaning, shoulder leaning, back leaning, elbow strikes... and also practiced the five killing moves of Bajiquan taught by his father: Tiger Pounce, Blast, Mountain Split, Sky-Piercing Cannon, Fierce Tiger Climbing the Mountain.

While other children were playing soccer, taking interest classes, and doing other entertainment, Xu Jingming was practicing Bajiquan. He practiced happily.

After mastering Bajiquan, he then practiced Stomping Feet, and then the spear.

Bajiquan was the martial art he practiced the longest.