Humans possess three treasures: essence, qi, and spirit. Among them, essence and qi are stored within the body, representing a person's physical form, nerves, and so on. Only the spirit remains elusive and ethereal. They say intuition is the spirit; they say thought is the spirit; they say that more idealistic sixth sense is also the spirit. The spirit is something that truly exists, yet cannot be proven or located through material means.
Hao Qi had not only heard of this concept of the "spirit" in this world, but he had actually encountered it on martial arts forums back on Earth in his previous life. For instance, there were concepts like the unification of intent and spirit, or sayings in Tai Chi Fist and Tai Chi Sword about prioritizing intent over brute force. This "intent" was essentially a manifestation of the spirit. Because it could not be proven materially, the saying arose that "it can only be grasped intuitively, never put into words"—because once you understood it, you understood it; if you didn't, you still didn't.
Yet this world was, after all, different from the Earth of Hao Qi's past life. Earth had no such concepts as inner force or inner qi. Although legends of inner force existed in the martial arts of that world, by modern times they had basically vanished. All that remained were forms and physical conditioning methods, whether in external martial arts or internal martial arts. Thus, even if there were any discoveries or training theories concerning the…
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