Chapter 34: Go Become the Most Dazzling Idol in Daxia Country
Chu Yuanqing silently worked hard, finishing another set of stretching exercises. She took a deep breath, feeling the trembling and soreness in her waist, hips, and leg muscles, adjusting her breathing rhythm, standing up, and finishing the warm-up.
Dance was indeed a whole new field for her.
But for her, with a body that had undergone grueling physical training like hell, exercising and honing her body was so familiar to the point of being second nature.
Only relying on instincts, she could understand her body’s limits and endurance, and stop at the best moment to prevent real injuries.
This is also what Kirimi Miyuki considers as "talent".
As for the pain and tearing sensation during body development, it is actually the least significant challenge.
After all, even without mentioning the countless death experiences in the Savior’s career, the 17-year curse of the Sea of Truth alone is far more painful than billions of times.
Chu Yuanqing adjusted her breathing, her nostrils flared, her eyes lowered, wiped the sweat with a towel, looked at Kirimi Miyuki, barely restrained the desire to escape, feeling like crying in her heart.
This little idol who used to fall down like a penguin, on her beautiful and innocent face, looked serious and earnest, occasionally showing some expectation and nostalgia in her eyes, looking like she was ready to take full responsibility.
Chu Yuanqing hesitated, swallowed the proposal she wanted to make immediately, and asked sadly, pressing her lips together:
"What should we learn next?"
Kirimi Miyuki pondered seriously and replied:
"Let’s learn about isolation first."
If we say that soft opening is the foundation of dance itself.
Isolation is one of the elements of dance. It refers to the separation of different parts of the body, including the head, shoulders, chest, hips, etc., being able to move independently in different directions or in circular motions.
Since many popular dances incorporate these elements, practicing isolation is essential.
Even if the upcoming theme song dance doesn’t include any isolation elements, if you want to continue on the path of being in a girl group, it’s something you can’t avoid sooner or later.
Chu Wang Shu blinked her eyes, like a mascot, passing towels and bottled water on the side.
Soft opening can be taught to anyone, but unfortunately Chu Yuanqing seems to not need much guidance, relying solely on instinct to avoid making mistakes.
As for the isolation that Kirimi Miyuki needs to teach, it falls into her blind spot of knowledge.
(Translated by Gravity Tales 馃槈)
What Chu Wang Shu learns in ethnic dance focuses more on honing the basics and expressing inner culture.
For example, Daxia Dance, in this category, likes to pursue balance, expressing traditional culture outwardly, such as changing stance, moving left before right, and so on, which can all reflect the cultural significance.
Her previous performance of "Five Poisons" also clearly showed regional cultural characteristics.
The skills and foundation honed in this type of dance are unrelated to isolation.
Unfortunately, the entry difficulty for this type of body movement is much higher than jazz dance, and it is less common in girl group dances, belonging to a type where learning it will definitely be useful, but the short-term benefits are relatively small.
Chu Yuanqing’s current situation shows that learning the basic elements of isolation is undoubtedly the most cost-effective choice.
Therefore, not only can she not be a little teacher, but in order to avoid hurdles in the future, she needs to downgrade to the same level as Chu Yuanqing and carefully listen to the teachings of a certain sakura girl.
That being said.
Ethnic dance and jazz dance are ultimately both forms of dance, and they share some common fundamentals, such as certain key points that beginners may find difficult to understand but are easily grasped by those with experience.
This advantage is the result of accumulated experience.
Chu Wang Shu just feels sad that she can’t be a teacher.
Hmm, maybe it’s a strange connection between father and daughter. She suddenly feels it would be satisfying to have the upper hand in their roles.
The little girl chattered on about all this to Chu Yuanqing, feeling like a character in a movie with three people, yet only seeing the sorrow of two people holding hands.
Chu Yuanqing listened intently. She was the type who couldn’t just brush things off when faced with something, whether interested or not, and asked:
"How flexible do you need to be to be considered good at gymnastics?"
Kirimi Miyuki thought for a moment, describing:
"Probably when you can do splits of 180 degrees, raise your leg to touch your toes, grab your shoulder while kicking, touch your heel while standing with a straight back, and being able to stand with your foot behind your head. At this point, you should be pretty flexible."
"But at this stage, you still need to keep practicing."
Chu Yuanqing was speechless and choked up. Just by imagining herself attempting similar moves, a wave of overwhelming embarrassment would immediately make her wish to leave this wonderful world.
Oh no, will she really one day show herself like this?
This is really strange!
Even though she had gone through the pain and shame of trying hard to develop her body in front of her daughter, enduring a hellish experience, that level of change was still difficult to accept.
In the end, as a man’s habits and beliefs, it was not acceptable for her to openly display the femininity in public.
This can be seen from her choice to learn street dance instead of easier programs to get by.
It can be said that this is the main reason why Chu Yuanqing does not want to practice dancing.
Hmm, unless one day, Chu Yuanqing’s self-awareness is successfully ’corrected’ by the new body, achieving a true transformation, the sense of shame like this will continue no matter how many times.
So...
This sense of shame can actually prove that she is normal now!
Kirimi Miyuki didn’t pick up on someone’s complicated thoughts and started teaching seriously.
Chu Yuanqing felt sad in her heart and wanted to rebel.
Even though facing Sakura Girl’s careful and selfless guidance, still couldn’t say a word, only able to continue training while feeling like crying.
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Time passed by.
The underground base, at the central core of the lowest level.
The space here is so large that it feels magical, as if exploring a secret realm, with a central AI host crafted by nanomachines, virtual cables, and quantum light strips all around, resembling the layout of a Rubik’s cube, detaining many unidentified breeding pods in the edge areas.
Dream Weaver Rabbit sat in front of the host, its crimson eyes constantly flashing through a large amount of data flow, analyzing the recent status of 168 players. After completing a routine data compilation, it continued to watch the looped video on the giant screen.
That is the video of Chu Yuanqing standing on the stage.
"Gemstone."
"And it’s a Gemstone that has already shown its shining ability."
As the words fell, many virtual screens popped up around, replaying the monitoring footage of the magic prison back then.
With Chu Yuanqing’s dancing, the incubation chamber emitted a collective wriggling or trembling sound, even mixed with terrifying wails and whispers.
This almost instantly triggered the base’s alert mechanism. Many nanobots, like flowing metallic liquid, quickly turned into stronger sound-absorbing walls, ensuring that nothing unusual happened underground.
Dream Weaver Rabbit’s mouth curved upwards. No matter how many times it was watched, the moment the treasure was born was so heartwarming, its enthusiastic and joyful whisper:
"According to the Ignition Plan experiment, only a high purity of [Heart Flow] has the probability of causing fluctuations in the magic threshold."
"I didn’t expect that, aside from that person, there would be someone who could achieve this level on their first appearance on stage."
"Chu Yuanqing, there is a bright future ahead of you. Go become the shining idol of Daxia Country."