Chapter 230 – Obscure Taiji, Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Hammer Blows

With the sound of a bang, he continued with his Taichi. There was a series of slightly explosive sounds that made him feel very comfortable. Qing Shui never expected that he could use the physical strength of an ordinary person to create a ‘surface force’ pinnacle effect.

Surface Force was able to exert the body’s strength before one actually attained Xiantian. For cultivators that were at the pinnacle of Houtian, the strength which they circulated could all be considered as ‘surface force.’

Surface Force [1] requires both legs to be standing slightly bent. One should be relaxed, have locked shoulders, straighten one’s head, circulate the force from your Dantian and through the back of one’s knee. One should push forward, and retract the force back by pulling it towards the back and waist before tightening one gluteus to summon the force again. The exterior body must be loose and not rigid, as the force seeps into muscles and flesh. It is neither too gentle nor too unyielding. This is what surface force does.

(TL: tried my best, chinese martial arts descriptions and mantra is too hard for me T_T)

When arms are raised, they are filled with brute strength. The upper limb is tough and inflexible, while the lower body drifts like the wind, and exerts pure strength. This is also surface force. Qing Shui knew that users of surface force in the Greencloud Continent also couldn’t be considered an expert, let alone in this world of the nine continents.

Qing Shui was surprised because he actually used the power of his surface force, a type of force that was used by ordinary...