Chapter Seventy-six: Lightness Skill

  Kaishuo finished speaking, and from the large trunk behind him, he took out a wooden frame as tall as a person. On top of the frame was placed a large piece of 3mm thick glass. He hooked his fingers around it and tapped the glass with his finger joints, making a "ding ding" sound.

  It looks like glass and sounds like glass, it must be real glass.

  He placed the glass-filled rack aside and adjusted it properly. The square piece of glass was reflecting a pale green color under the sunlight.

  He picked up a five-centimeter-long steel needle from the desktop next to him, weighed it in his hand, pinched it with two fingers, and walked around the people around him again.

  His move was to let everyone see that this steel needle is real.

  Xiao Xiao saw the steel needle in Gai Shi's hand on the bicycle, shining brightly under the sunlight, and the sharp tip of the needle made people feel a chill.

  Kai Shi let the people around him determine the authenticity of the steel needle, then came to a place five meters away from the wooden frame with glass, stood still, calmed down, and shouted loudly at the people around him: "Old and young masters, take a good look."

  After this cry.

  He suddenly raised his right arm and swung it, the steel needle flying out of his hand like a small bullet hitting the glass, making a soft "hiss" sound, and the needle was inserted into the glass with precision.

  If you use a bit more force, the steel needle will fall out from inside.

  If the force used is not enough, the steel needle cannot penetrate the glass.

  This force is just right.

  Everyone around him saw his powerful move and opened their eyes wide in surprise, shouting out in admiration.

  Some people directly took out money and threw it into the iron plate. Among them, several large steel balls fell into the iron plate, making a loud clanging sound.

  "This is interesting. The flying needle can pierce through glass, this is a legendary hidden weapon in the Jianghu. It seems that you really have some skills. I didn't expect to encounter such an unusual person in this remote corner of Tianjing City, it's fate."

  It seems that this capital city is indeed the ancient capital of six dynasties, truly a place where heroes and talents are hidden among the common people.

  "I'll take a look and see if there's anything even more awesome." Xiao Xiao was the type of person who, once she encountered something she liked, wouldn't care even if a knife was held to her throat.

  He pushed his bicycle to the table, sat down in a chair without any courtesy, picked up some melon seeds with one hand and started cracking them open while watching the performance.

  Someone threw money into an iron plate, and immediately a surge of strength emerged from his chest. He grabbed five or six steel needles with one hand and threw them out in quick succession. Although his arm looked sturdy and clumsy, the moment he released the needles, his movements were swift and elegant. Each needle pierced the glass, shining brightly without falling off, turning a flat piece of glass into a porcupine-like surface.

  People around cheered and applauded continuously, but those who threw money were fewer.

  "My god! This is so fierce!" Xiao Xiao looked at the steel needles on the glass and thought to himself, "This is even more powerful than bullets. Is this a technique or qigong?" He continued to look down.

  Kai saw that the people around him were having a great time, but he noticed that there was very little money in the iron plate, not even a single 10-yuan bill, just a few small bills of several yuan each.

  This is a good fellow, but nobody recognizes him.

  He thought for a moment, let out a soft sigh, and then said to the crowd, "It seems that you all think my previous move was not impressive enough, so you're not willing to give me more rewards. Alright, since that's the case, I'll show you our family's special skill. Next, I'll perform a lightness technique for the young masters." After he finished speaking, he took out a paper board with nine holes in it, arranged in a square shape. Each hole had an egg placed inside, and he put the paper board on the ground.

  "What's going on?" The people around all looked up with anticipation.

  Xiao Xiao temporarily stopped cracking melon seeds and watched how Gai Shi would act.

  But then Gai Shi faced the nine eggs, looked at them for a while, spread his feet shoulder-width apart, took a deep breath, and suddenly jumped forward.

  Jumping onto the floor, both feet landed on those eggs.

  Kai Xi is about 1.75 meters tall and weighs over 100 pounds, standing still with both feet on the ground.

  Those nine eggs were trampled by him, but none of them was damaged in the slightest.

  "What the...? Is there really such a thing as lightness skill? It seems I've been practicing the wrong thing all along." Xiao Xiao gazed at Gai Shi standing on the egg, and couldn't help but think of her own childhood.

  When I was young, I loved watching martial arts movies. Seeing those heroes flying in the air with their lightness skills, I dug a one-meter-deep pit at the foot of Tianwang Mountain and kept jumping up from inside, but after half a year of continuous jumping, my jumping ability remained the same.

  Later, the one-meter-deep pit was somehow taken as a simple toilet by some passerby and had a dump in it. As time went on, more people went to that pit to have a dump, turning it into a real toilet.

  There were no toilets in the world originally, but after people defecated a lot, they became toilets.

  Facing this pit of feces, I resolutely gave up practicing qinggong.

  "Isn't it difficult? Do you still need some kind of martial arts secret book, martial arts heart method, to open up the Ren and Du meridians, and gather energy in the dantian? So, this Ge Shi is a descendant of some sort of secret book." Xiao Xiao threw a melon seed into her own mouth.

  The people around stared at the eggs under Gai Shi's feet, hoping that one of them would suddenly break. Gai Shi suddenly fell from above, his body covered with egg yolks. If it were really like that, the people around him would definitely burst out laughing.

  There's no way around it, Chinese people just like to see others fail so they can feel superior and mock them.

  Gai Shi stood on the egg, steady and unwavering, without any sign of falling. He was confident in his own skills and glanced around at the audience with a flick of his eyes. With a bow, he said: "Our family's traditional qinggong can make one as light as a swallow, leaving no trace in the snow. If practiced for a long time, it is also possible to pass through walls and fly over rooftops. Gentlemen, take a good look."

  He said, suddenly using force with both feet, jumping up from the egg, jumping over a foot high, shouting loudly, his body spinning 360 degrees in mid-air, heavily falling on top of those eggs.

  Those eggs are still intact and undamaged, as if Gai Shi's body is now light as a feather.

  Louder applause erupted around them, with cheers and shouts of joy. Some people took out more money and threw it into the iron plate again.

  This time, there were several blue tickets in the iron plate.

  "My god!" Xiao Xiao suddenly had some doubts about whether those eggs were filled with cement or something, they didn't break even after being stepped on.

  Gai Shi gazed at the money thrown into the plate, feeling a thrill in his heart, and his face flushed with excitement. He said loudly: "Since the young masters have given us such a big face, we will give them an even more extreme thank you." As he spoke, he jumped down from the egg, put the row of eggs aside, walked to the side table, picked up the teacup, took two sips of tea, and adjusted his breath.

  "This set of light skills has cost him a lot of internal strength." Xiao Xiao munched on melon seeds, still somewhat skeptical about Gai Shi's light skills.

  The acrobat finished his warm-up exercises, cupped his hands and addressed the surrounding audience: "Ladies and gentlemen, the next performance is extremely dangerous. Please do not imitate it after watching. Due to its high difficulty and danger, if I succeed in performing it, those of you who are generous with your money, please give me a bigger reward." He spoke very sincerely.

  "Alright, stop talking nonsense and let's get started." Someone in the crowd couldn't bear to hear a long-winded request for rewards and impatiently shouted out.

  The person shouting obviously doesn't know the difficulty of this performance. He naturally doesn't care about how difficult it is either. All he cares about is whether it looks good or not.

  With his attitude, it's already good enough that I think your performance is okay. Want me to give you money? Let's talk about it when I'm in a good mood.

  Kai Shi knew that no matter how well he performed, the shouting audience would definitely not give him any money. But who made himself shout for someone else's personal gain? No one was there to support him, so there was no way to make any money.

  Surviving in this world is just too damn hard.

  Kai Shi didn't dare to think too much, if his heart was affected, he would be restless and anxious, the air in his body would not flow smoothly, and performing dangerous stunts would be very easy to fail, once failed, it could be fatal.

  In this world, survival is tough and difficult, but first and foremost, one must preserve their own life. With life, there is hope.

  Gai Shi adjusted his breathing, and casually picked up a handful of steel needles from the table beside him. They were about five centimeters long, and there were over twenty of them. As usual, he held out the needles for everyone to see, asking them to verify whether they were real or not.

  The people around him suddenly became clever, they casually picked up one of the steel needles and carefully pinched it with their fingers to prove that it was indeed a sewing needle.

  Kai Shi walked a circle, letting everyone know that the steel needles in his hand were real, then returned to the table, like taking medicine, tilted his head back, opened his mouth, raised his right hand, and poured all the sharp steel needles into his own mouth.