novelcrest Chapter 487 - 339: Gaining Initial Fame (Part 2)
Chapter 487 - 339: Gaining Initial Fame (Part 2)
As for Su Bingtian’s event, the 100-meter dash is a sport known to all. If this sport wins an Olympic gold medal and breaks the world record, it will inevitably trigger a butterfly effect and lead to a series of economic developments.
And Su Bingtian, being at the center of the storm, will also gain unimaginable opportunities, with his net worth multiplying several times over.
Naturally, Wu Yanni wouldn’t be willing to let this wave of opportunity pass her by.
So she plans to stay and give it a try.
To see if the Tai Chi taught by Wang Ye can really bring such amazing progress for athletes.
Meanwhile, she’s also curious if other athletes who’ve been learning from Wang Ye for a while have made any progress.
She pondered for a moment and casually grabbed a long jump athlete,
"Brother Zhang, have you made progress after three days of practice with Wang Ye?"
The athlete she grabbed thought for a moment and replied, "My test result last night was 8.25 meters."
Wu Yanni’s eyes widened slightly, realizing he had also made such obvious progress. Having been a part of the Chinese Athletics Team for many years, she naturally knows each athlete’s best performance like the back of her hand, and she can instantly spot their performance changes.
The long jump athlete she asked, named Zhang Mingkun, had a previous best of 8.13 meters. The current world record for the long jump is 8.95 meters.
Logically speaking, with Zhang Mingkun’s performance and talent, he should never touch the world record.
Yet, just after three days of learning Tai Chi with Wang Ye, he achieved such noticeable progress.
Wu Yanni even suspects that after completing the half-month training, he might break the world record for the long jump.
"It seems this Tai Chi... does have substance," Wu Yanni turned her head and gazed at Wang Ye on stage, her eyes slightly aflame.
At this moment, Wang Ye remained warming up in place, looking calm and collected, indifferent to anything happening over here.
In fact, even without seeing, he could clearly perceive situations detailed for kilometers around through his four other senses, so he knew well about the conversation between Wu Yanni and Su Bingtian and the thoughts in their hearts.
Meanwhile, Jiang Yuan standing next to Wang Ye continued to stand there in a daze. Su Bingtian breaking the world record had completely shattered his will.
No matter how much he disbelieves, the truth is already right in front of him.
Tai Chi is indeed useful, and its impact is far beyond what he imagined.
So many sprinters and coaches on the Chinese Athletics Team couldn’t find a way to break into under 9.8 seconds, let alone the world record. And now Wang Ye just lightly trained Su Bingtian with Tai Chi for three days and nonchalantly broke the record for this event...
Calling it a "Divine miracle" wouldn’t be an exaggeration at all!
...
...
As nine o’clock passed, Wang Ye turned around,
spoke a few words to the dozen athletes present, and continued teaching Tai Chi.
Wu Yanni stood at the very back of the formation, carefully observing Wang Ye’s Tai Chi movements up front,
but unfortunately with her perception, she couldn’t see anything at all,
the only thing she could see was that Wang Ye’s movements were handsome.
Even making her face slightly blush from watching.
But people around were focusing on practicing Tai Chi with Wang Ye,
so she could only muddle along, struggling to follow and learn the movements.
Being three days behind, her movements looked much worse than others by quite a bit.
Fortunately, her learning ability was not bad, so after half a day she basically learned the Tai Chi movements and some basic techniques.
Still, she couldn’t truly perceive what was contained within Tai Chi, after all, it was just half a day which was insufficient to sense the presence of Qi Sensitivity.
But as the afternoon advanced with Wang Ye’s deeper explanations, she started to have some conception of Qi Sensitivity, and simultaneously during Tai Chi practice felt some peculiar energy moving within her body.
Initially she was surprised by the body’s changes, doubting this energy could boost her performance.
But until she used Primordial Qi in a punch once, delivering a loud sound of breaking air,
she completely believed this thing could genuinely enhance explosive power.
...
...
After the afternoon training session ended, Wu Yanni, somewhat stubbornly, remained at the training venue.
Once all athletes departed, she decided to test the 100-meter hurdles.
To see if she had truly made progress.
She moved several hurdles to the track according to regulations and set up the starting block and electronic timer,
after preparing everything, she changed into her usual training attire, which was a rather revealing vest and shorts,
and lay on the starting block.
"Sigh—"
"Whether to continue with the training tomorrow depends on this round."
Wu Yanni quickly adjusted her state,
her eyes gradually turned earnest,
although outwardly she seemed to lack respect for sports, when it came to actual training and competitions, she was dead serious, otherwise, she wouldn’t have reached this point today.
With the electronic timer starting, she kicked off fiercely,
beginning to sprint with full force.
With each hurdle she encountered, she used the Primordial Qi to suddenly lift and cross lightly over.
Landing without losing any speed, using Primordial Qi to energize her legs to keep sprinting furiously.
In just more than ten seconds she rushed past the finish line.
She continued running a few more steps owing to inertia before stopping.
She paid no heed to gasping, immediately walking briskly to the electronic timer.
Although she hadn’t seen the result, she had a strong intuition that she surely improved.
She felt her speed and smoothness during the sprint had significantly advanced.
Especially the explosive power, which improved by more than one level.
If these sensations occurred during a regular competition, it’d certainly be exceptional performance.
At that moment, the electronic timer showed a row of numbers.
12.78 seconds.
Indeed, progress was made!!
Wu Yanni couldn’t help but jump up with excitement.
Though the extent of her progress wasn’t as evident as Su Bingtian or Zhang Mingkun, it was real progress because her best competition time to date was only 12.87 seconds, during training it might even be only around 13 seconds.
So achieving a result of 12.78 seconds was surely progress, and unprecedented progress at that!
If she were to participate in a competition now, she’d definitely secure an all Asia record.
Before she could celebrate for long, her phone chimed with a notification.
Wu Yanni opened her phone to check the new messages.
It was from the new group they created yesterday.
[Sister Wu, how’s it going on your end?]
Wu Yanni remained silent momentarily, entering a line of words and sending it. [Though it’s hard to admit, I must acknowledge that the Tai Chi taught by Wang Ye is indeed effective...]
[Huh? You got carried away too?]
[Carried away my ass... you weren’t there to witness Su God break the world record, if you had seen it you’d be as convinced as I am.]
[What? Su God broke the world record?]
[Didn’t he break the Asia record not long ago?]
[Moreover, Su God is now over thirty, nearing forty, how could he possibly still improve?]
[You weren’t fooled, right?]
[Did Su God really break the world record right in front of you?]
[Really...]
Wu Yanni continued typing and sent:
[I saw the numbers on the timer with my own eyes, along with that explosive power, it absolutely can’t be fake.]
...