Chapter 274

"Mr. Chen, is the method you just used to take my final blade what you call the 'Wuji Fist'?" Takashima Seirai leaned on his sword, slowly stood up, turned to face Chen Feiyu, and spoke with a voice that held three parts astonishment, three parts respect, three parts bewilderment, and one part desolation. Chen Feiyu nodded. "Indeed, it is the 'Wuji Fist'. However, although it is called a boxing technique, it is actually a wondrous method of channeling internal energy. As the Daoists say, 'The Dao generates One, One generates Two, Two generates Three, and Three generates all things', or as the *Tao Te Ching* puts it: 'Dao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets the myriad creatures'. The Wuji Fist gathers the yin and yang in the palms to return them to the primordial chaos, reducing all things to a single breath so that I may employ them. In other words, it is the reverse: from three back to two, from two back to one, and from one back to the Dao. One could say the 'Wuji Fist' is the boxing technique most perfectly aligned with the Great Dao."