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Chapter 251 - 228 Sixth Sense, Subconscious

Chapter 251: Chapter 228 Sixth Sense, Subconscious

Rune Street stretched from west to east, with Wu Li and Charles approximately 1200 meters apart, almost simultaneously setting off towards the central crossroads of the street.

Chen Gang, followed by a cameraman, trailed behind Wu Li. The live broadcast featured shared camera feeds from both the Seeking Martial Arts film crew and UFC, allowing online viewers to switch perspectives freely through multiple small windows in the live stream room.

At that moment, the live stream split the main camera feed, one following Wu Li and the other Charles.

Wu Li, donned in protective equipment, walked down the street, drawing the attention of passersby.

Lu’en Street was a commercial pedestrian avenue inaccessible to vehicles. Pedestrians filled the street, which was lined with various shops on both sides.

A few meters into his walk, Wu Li noticed someone emerging from the crowd behind him.

The individual was also wearing protective gear, having previously hidden within the throng in front of a shop. Once Wu Li passed the shop, the person quietly followed.

Chen Gang and the cameraman, situated not far behind, had a clear view of this sequence and felt a surge of internal tension, yet they could not warn Wu Li.

The figure approached silently to within about two meters behind Wu Li, as viewers in the live stream could now see a newly appeared subtitle:

"Tam, 32 years old, professional wrestler, former wrestling champion of Texas, United States."

Clearly, should such a man launch a surprise attack from behind, Wu Li was at risk of being easily thrown to the ground.

In a street brawl, the power of wrestling is greatly magnified due to the concrete ground, which is much harder and more dangerous than the mat in a ring. With irregularities here and there, not much force is needed for a wrestler to injure their opponent simply by bringing them down, their own body weight and the hard ground doing enough damage.

Even with both parties wearing protective gear, the pain of hitting the ground far exceeds that in the ring.

With only two meters of distance between them, Tam reached out his hands, preparing to grab Wu Li from the front.

But at that moment, as if he had eyes on the back of his head, Wu Li suddenly kicked backward, twisting his waist and looking behind.

His kicking speed was rapid, his foot stretched flat, and his power reached his sole.

Bam! Wu Li’s foot struck Tam squarely in the groin.

Piercing Kick, Yuan Yang Leg!

"Oh!"

Tam’s face contorted as he let out a loud cry of pain, collapsing to the ground while clutching his groin.

Despite wearing protective groin gear, Tam was in excruciating agony from Wu Li’s kick.

Two bystanders quickly stepped forward to check on him; they were staff members hidden among the crowd, in place to prevent accidents. Aside from more than a hundred extras, many staff members were on Rune Street, with two medical stations and two ambulances stationed at each end of the street.

For this competition, UFC had indeed made comprehensive preparations.

The two staff members were already helping Tam towards a medical station. In reality, Wu Li had controlled the intensity of his kick, ensuring it would not cause injury, merely pain for a while.

Of course, any man would find such agony unbearable.

Wu Li’s choice of techniques against his adversary was deliberate; he wanted more Americans to witness the practicality of Hua Country’s Kung Fu. With protective gear and few restrictions in the rules coupled with a live audience, Wu Li saw it as an excellent opportunity!

"Wow, that kick was brutal. It looks painful just watching it."

"That’s a Piercing Kick! I didn’t expect Wu Li’s Xingyi to be so powerful, even his Piercing Kick is fierce, fast and crisp!"

"That’s how you fight, street combat—the groin if you can hit the groin!"

"Haha, I knew this kind of competition suits Wu Li well, is there even a need to mention his combat skills?"

...

Hua Country viewers watching ’Seeking Martial Arts’ all became excited.

At the same time, American viewers were quite surprised:

"OH my God! How did he know someone was behind him?"

"Did he hear the footsteps?"

"Impossible, this is a commercial pedestrian street, it’s so noisy around here, how could he have heard footsteps?"

"So cool, you don’t see this kind of move in the ring!"

...

With a single kick, Wu Li took down Tam; according to the rules, the opponent was eliminated, and Wu Li continued onward.

Surrounded by music, the chatter of the crowd, and the ambient noise all mingling together, discerning deliberately concealed footsteps was a challenge. However, Wu Li could still hear them.

The Monkey Form’s Great Saint Posture in Xingyi is a stance specifically designed to exercise the ears, which can enhance the trigeminal nerve below the ears and improve resistance to hits, preventing one from being knocked unconscious by a slap. It also increases the ears’ flexibility and hearing.

Wu had practiced the stances of the Twelve Forms, and he had trained every small muscle in his body to perfection, including the Great Saint Posture. Therefore, his hearing was stronger than that of an ordinary person.

However, Wu’s detection of Tam’s stealth attack relied not on hearing but on the Sixth Sense, that acute perception brought about by Fist Intent.

Many people have had this experience: Sometimes, you suddenly feel someone approaching from behind, yet you have not heard any sound; or you feel someone’s gaze upon you, even though you have not seen them.

If one’s attention is particularly focused, this feeling can become much sharper.

This is actually the Sixth Sense, which everyone possesses to varying degrees of sensitivity.

If one’s conscious mind is the master of the brain, then the subconscious is the brain’s steward.

The human body comes into contact with a vast array of information every second: sounds, scents, sensations from air movement, tactile sense, and everything seen by the eyes...

The conscious mind cannot instantaneously process all this information; it automatically filters out most of it and hands it over to the subconscious to handle.

The sudden feeling that something is approaching from behind or that someone is watching you is not a conclusion actively drawn by the conscious mind, but rather, the subconscious has collected countless pieces of external information relayed by the pores and deduced some results before concluding that something is approaching from behind or someone is watching.

Our conscious mind merely receives a cryptic result and attributes it to the Sixth Sense, when in reality it is an outcome silently calculated by the subconscious.

Many of our judgments are the result of the subconscious silently processing data and relaying the parts that the conscious mind can understand to the brain.

The ability of ordinary people’s subconscious to process data is not strong; sometimes, you feel someone behind you, but when you turn around, there’s actually no one there, or you feel watched, but it’s just a misconception, and no one is really looking at you.

However, martial artists who have mastered Fist Intent are different; their subconscious data processing ability is enhanced, reflected in a very sharp so-called Sixth Sense. When someone gazes at them, the data collected by the millions of pores all over their bodies is immediately processed by the subconscious, signaling the conscious mind with a high accuracy rate, with almost no false positives.

In fact, it’s not only martial artists who have learned Fist Intent who can have such a Sixth Sense. Old soldiers on the battlefield and specially trained Kings of Soldiers or Special Agents also have a Sixth Sense, though to varying degrees of sensitivity.

If even a gaze is perceivable, what about a person sneaking up quietly?

Thus, this so-called live combat match and those stealth attacks hiding in the crowd posed no threat to Wu.

Although he was now walking on a crowded street with many eyes on him, Wu couldn’t tell which gazes belonged to the stealth attackers, but as long as the attackers had the intention to strike, they couldn’t hide their hostility before making a move, because this was information released by the subconscious, beyond conscious control.

As soon as he sensed hostility, Wu could immediately detect the location of the person; thus, stealth attacks were almost nonexistent for him.

Unless there exists someone in this world who can perfectly conceal their hostility before making a move and control their subconscious, it might be possible to stealthily attack a martial artist like Wu.

Does such a person exist? At least until now, Wu hadn’t encountered anyone like that. Even though he had now comprehended Fist Intent and had a very strong control over his own mind, he couldn’t prevent his intentions from fluctuating and revealing his hostility before striking.

Wu did not believe that there would be such individuals among those participating in the stealth attacks, so he walked casually on the street.

A few seconds later, he sensed hostility coming from both left and right in front and from behind.

It seemed that this time, three ordinary people were carrying out the stealth attack.

In front, on the left, a couple were walking hand in hand, and on the right, three men walked side by side. Stealth attackers wearing protective equipment were hiding behind each of them, all crouching and sneakily peeking at Wu through the gaps in the crowd from time to time.

And behind Wu, a stealth attacker was quietly approaching.

The couple in front and the three men deliberately controlled their pace so that they passed by Wu from both left and right, then the attackers hiding behind them suddenly pounced forward, extending their arms towards Wu.

At the same time, the person behind Wu, about four or five steps away, also accelerated, aiming to coordinate with his accomplices to grab Wu.

Before the two on his sides could pounce, Wu suddenly took a step back, whipped around, raised his right arm, and his elbow thrust out like a Big Spear, striking the chest of the man rushing from behind.

Baji, Top Heart Elbow!

Bang!

The burly man who charged from behind had his chest struck by Wu’s elbow and instantly turned pale. One second he was moving forward quickly, and the next he was flying backward a meter, crashing heavily onto the ground.

After delivering the elbow strike, Wu did not even glance back but immediately turned around, stomped down heavily, and his body soared into the air.

In mid-air, his feet kicked out both left and right, striking the chests of the two people in front.

Bang! Bang!

Both staggered backward a few steps and fell to the ground.

Flying Horse Stepping on Swallow!

Wu landed, his movements graceful and effortless.

This was being broadcast live across the United States. If it had just been simple punching and kicking, it wouldn’t have stood out, so Wu deliberately used these techniques, almost never seen in the ring, to show the American audience:

Oh, this is Hua Country’s Kung Fu!