In the virtual battlefield brimming with passion and glory, Ray Willow's team secured a victory with an almost flawless performance. The audience erupted in cheers, their voices crashing like waves, celebrating the thrilling moment.

"Beautiful!"

"Great job!" The crowd roared, and among them, Jamie Smith's mother was ecstatic, May Lee was beaming with joy, and Jamie Smith's grandfather was all smiles, chuckling heartily. Emily Johnson, Finn Brown, Quincy Shawn, and Chase Ron also looked at the veteran with admiration. Yet, in the midst of this jubilation, Jamie Smith himself stood there, dazed, his eyes fixed on the scene before him.

His father, wielding dual shields, exuded an aura of vigor and fervor, his eyes ablaze with a passion that made him seem like a living, breathing, ferocious tiger.

With a single pounce, enemies were sent flying!

Scenes flashed through Jamie Smith's mind.

He recalled his early years when his father taught him the Baji Tiger Pounce, hand in hand. His father's love for this move was so profound that he practiced it every morning and evening for forty years. For him, it had become a move ingrained in his very being.

"I understand now," Jamie Smith murmured to himself.

"Jamie, what's up?" May Lee, noticing her boyfriend's strange demeanor, asked with concern.

"I'm going to the training ground to practice for a while. Call me when the match starts," Jamie Smith said.

"We're up in the eleventh round, and there's plenty of time. It's still early," May Lee, sensing her boyfriend's state, quickly added.

Jamie Smith nodded and then vanished from the stands.

******

In the personal space training ground, Jamie Smith appeared. It was a place filled with strength and sweat, a sanctuary for warriors to hone their skills. Nowadays, very few people chose to stay in the training ground instead of watching the match.

"I love spear techniques, every single move and style!" Jamie Smith muttered to himself, his voice filled with obsession and determination.

"I'm obsessed with the speed of spear techniques. I practice thrusting the spear thousands of times a day. I remember when my thrusting speed reached 18 meters per second, I was so excited in the national team that I jumped and danced, unable to sleep all night," Jamie Smith reminisced, his eyes sparkling with memories of the past and hopes for the future.

"I even gave up the coherence of spear techniques in pursuit of ultimate speed. For this, I studied anatomical charts, the anatomy of muscles and tendons, drawing numerous diagrams of muscles and tendons. I studied my own power from a physics perspective with more diligence than I ever did for exams. Finally, I created the 'Shadowless Thrust'! By abandoning the coherence and defense of spear techniques, the ultimate speed thrust... reached 25 meters per second! At the World Martial Arts Competition, as long as I find an opportunity to perform the Shadowless Thrust, my opponents are destined to lose!"

"I love Baji Quan, and with the power technique of Baji Iron Mountain, I created the ultimate move 'Breaking the Mountain.'"

Jamie Smith thought, "I've been practicing Baji since I was a child, practicing spear techniques. In the virtual world, I practiced the most with spear techniques."

"But what about shield techniques?"

Jamie Smith recalled the past, his eyes filled with confusion and doubt.

"That was purely a tool, taught to me by my master Ray Willow, to better control my body's strength, a practice belonging to Tai Chi. I practiced shield techniques, and indeed, my control over the whole body's strength became more and more refined... But from beginning to end, shield techniques were just a tool."

"When have I ever loved shield techniques?"

"Perhaps... only when using shield techniques to perform the Baji Tiger Pounce," Jamie Smith thought.

He remembered the first divine battle, when he used shield techniques to perform the Baji Tiger Pounce and blasted Yvonne Green away, his heart was filled with joy and delight.

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Because performing this move carried a strong emotional charge, it was a feeling naturally integrated from practicing the Baji Tiger Pounce since childhood.

Jamie Smith thought, "My father didn't practice shield techniques much in the past. It was only after entering the virtual world that he started to practice shield techniques. Using dual shields to perform Baji! Everything was very smooth."

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

"I also love Baji very much."

"This was the first martial art I practiced since I was a child, Baji Elbow, Shoulder, Back, Fist, Palm... Every part can exert force." Jamie Smith thought, "The shield techniques passed down by my master are very profound, using the enemy's force against them, controlling the enemy are very profound, I have reached 99% of the second stage just by practicing the basics, but profound shield techniques do not mean they are suitable for me."

"No matter what kind of shield techniques, I have to love them from the bottom of my heart." Jamie Smith suddenly realized, "If the heart does not love, how can the soul perfectly mobilize every part of the body?"

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

Jamie Smith's eyes were filled with fervor, and he immediately clicked on the panel to set up a training assistant. A metal dummy appeared in front of him: "Set to 100 tons."

The metal dummy was connected to a base, which probably accounted for half of the weight, very stable, and fell to the ground.

"Complete Baji shield techniques! Just thinking about it, I'm a little excited!" Jamie Smith stretched out his hands, each holding a shield, and walked in front of the metal dummy. He raised his right hand with a shield, leaned his shoulder against the shield, and directly hit the dummy.

"Bang."

The dummy vibrated slightly, and the base moved back a little.

"First, I'll get the whole body moving." Jamie Smith leaned his right shoulder against the shield and hit the metal dummy a few times. He leaned his right shoulder against the shield and hit the dummy a few more times.

Then he simply hit the dummy directly with his body, hitting with his chest, hitting with his back, Jamie Smith was enjoying himself. He swayed back and forth, like a bear, sometimes leaning against the dummy here, sometimes leaning against the dummy there.

Each 'bear lean' made the 100-ton dummy tremble and move, showing that Jamie Smith could explode through every part of his body.

"Weapons are just an extension of the body. The body must first be able to exert force perfectly, and then the weapon can exert force perfectly." Jamie Smith thought, exerting force with the body is the most basic part of the weapon realm.

Jamie Smith 'bear leaned' the metal dummy for hundreds of times before stopping.

"The warm-up is over, actually, the bear lean is quite comfortable." Jamie Smith looked at the dummy in front of him, "Next is... Baji Collapse!"

His father loved the Baji Tiger Pounce the most.

Jamie Smith was not as obsessed as his father, he loved many moves of Baji, such as 'Baji Collapse', his love for it was no less than the Baji Tiger Pounce.

"Bang." He stomped his foot to exert force, and the earth vibrated faintly. The dual shields in Jamie Smith's hands were like thunderbolts hitting the dummy, and the dummy was hit back several tens of centimeters, plowing a groove in the ground.

"Baji Collapse, like a thunderbolt bursting, exerts force faster and more abruptly." Jamie Smith practiced happily, stomping his foot, and the shield hit the dummy, and the dummy moved back several tens of centimeters again.

Jamie Smith kept practicing, each move was close-range, and each time the shield hit the metal dummy, the impact was quite terrifying.

Baji Collapse, in Baji Quan, is practiced by the most practitioners, and 'Baji Tiger Pounce' is relatively less practiced.

The Baji Tiger Pounce is the fiercest, but it's a 'pounce', it requires the distance to pounce! It requires rushing out two or three steps to let the body's speed rise to the limit, it's a pounce that carries the whole body's momentum. Sometimes in a fight, there's no chance to perform.

Just like the first divine battle, Jamie Smith also rushed out abruptly when Yvonne Green rushed towards the archer, and performed a pounce.

Baji Collapse is different, it doesn't need distance, it can be performed even in close contact. The collapse and sweep moves in Jamie Smith's spear techniques come from Baji Collapse.

After practicing hundreds of times of Baji Collapse in one breath.

"Baji, Split the Mountain!" Jamie Smith changed his move again, holding the dual shields and looking at the metal dummy in front of him, he suddenly raised the dual shields and stepped forward.

Whoosh!

The raised right shield suddenly exerted force, and the right arm holding the shield was like a big axe, suddenly chopped down!

"Heaven and earth, in one breath! Split the Mountain!" Jamie Smith still remembers the Baji Quan mantra in the books at home, the ancients may not have studied the body so thoroughly, they could only

use the artistic conception to lead.

Jamie Smith's shield chop down, with the edge of the shield chopping on the metal dummy. The edge of the shield is also very sharp, no less than the heavy weapon chop!

This chop, the body's strength naturally unified. From a physics perspective, it is also a blow carrying 'gravitational potential energy'!

"Bang." The chest of the metal dummy was chopped out of a dent, and it also vibrated back a little.

"Baji, Split the Mountain!" Jamie Smith continued to practice, each time the edge of the shield like a big axe chopped down on the metal dummy.

As Jamie Smith practiced, a smile unconsciously appeared on his face.

Just like when he was a child, happily practicing Baji Quan in front of the post target. At that time, he practiced bear lean, shoulder lean, back lean, elbow strike... and also practiced his father's Baji killer moves: Tiger Pounce, Collapse, Split the Mountain, Cannon Fist, and Tough Tiger Climbs the Mountain.

Other children were interested in playing football and attending interest classes for other entertainment, but Jamie Smith was practicing Baji Quan, and he was happy practicing.

After practicing Baji Quan successfully, he practiced poking feet, and then practiced the big spear.

Baji Quan is the one he has practiced the longest.