Chapter 1100: You Arranged Me There On Purpose!!!
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
The True Essence energy released by Kuwako Yamamoto could force backthe enormous pressure by the seawater, but she couldn’t speak since theseawater would fill her mouth once she opened it. Hence, she could onlynod with difficulty while struggling to withstand the pressure.
“You can nod, so that means this depth isn’t your limit yet,”continued Tang Xiu. “Keep going down, but you must stop when you can’twithstand it anymore.”
Kuwako herself already felt very uncomfortable at this time. Shecouldn’t help but feel cold when she heard Tang Xiu’s order. Althoughshe wasn’t able to figure out how Tang Xiu would train her, she had afaint hunch that she was about to face torture.
Just as she had thought, when she sank down to 260 meters depth, herbeautiful body began to tremble violently. Green veins protruded out onher forehead and even blood threads could be seen appearing on herretina.
‘I can’t withstand any more than this!’
Kuwako finally stopped. Although the released True Essence energyprotected her from being pressured into meat paste by the seawater, shehad no strength left to even talk. The True Essence energy even began toprotect her eyes from the pressure of seawater.
Tang Xiu, who had been following her closely, saw her stop andimmediately said, “Stop here if you sense this is your critical lime,and do your best to circulate the True Essence in your system. Try toabsorb the water energy in the seawater to supplement the consumed TrueEssence.”
Kuwako didn’t reply and just followed Tang Xiu’s instructions, goingall out to circulate the True Essence in her system to flow into themeridians to her limbs and the five major bones. Yet, she felt helplessupon sensing the rate of consumption of her True Essence and tried tosense the energy contained in the seawater. After absorbing it, shefound that the absorption rate was far less than the consumption speed.
‘Ten minutes. I can only hold up to 10 minutes at most before I run out of True Essence.’
‘I’ll be likely to end up dead if I can’t leave the seabed in time once my True Essence fully runs out.’
These thoughts flashed in Kuwako’s mind as she tried to persist. Shebelieved that Tang Xiu wouldn’t harm her, because such means wasunnecessary since it would only need a move or thought for Tang Xiu tokill her.
Time ticked by every second and minute, and 6 minutes pa.s.sed in the blink of an eye.
Kuwako’s body trembling got more intense and she realized that sheoverestimated herself, because the consumption rate was getting fasterthe more time pa.s.sed. Moreover, she could clearly feel a pain that beganto wrap her body, like being p.r.i.c.ked by countless needles.
‘Spiritual energy. I need spiritual energy!’
Her character could be said to be the manifestation of perseveranceand resoluteness. She had been tempered by her clan and trained by theNorthstar One Blade swordsmans.h.i.+p since childhood. The inhuman traininghad polished her willpower to steel.
Persevere!
Persevere!
Just as Kuwako’s senses began to blur due to the pressure and herconsciousness was blurring, a stream of heat suddenly emerged from allparts of her pained body. It was like the warmth of a mother’s handssoothing her body. At that moment, countless streams of warm energyflowed and gathered in her Dantian.
In just 10 seconds, the change felt like h.e.l.l had transformed intoHeaven. The rending pains torturing her body were all gone, replaced by acomfortable sensation—the change made her ecstatic.
Then, as time went on, she could feel the pain engulf her whole bodyagain. As the pain got more and more intense, her body finally reachedthe limit and led her to a huge breakthrough. A trace of warmth appearedagain and the medicinal efficacy hidden in her body was constantlybeing forced out to then be absorbed and refined into True Essence.
Once, twice, thrice…
In just 15 minutes, Kuwako broke through her limits thrice andabsorbed two-thirds of the medicinal efficacy hidden in her system.
‘It’s nearly done.’
Tang Xiu quietly floated in front of Kuwako, looking at the painfulexpression on her face. He immediately grabbed her hand and quicklytowed her upward.
Splash…
Along with the splas.h.i.+ng water, Tang Xiu towed Kuwako to piercethrough the water surface. After returning to the speedboat, hestraightly put her down and took out a pill from his interspatial ring.After stuffing it into her mouth, he ordered. “Don’t think aboutanything. Empty your mind and circulate your energy according to yourcultivation technique.”
Sitting cross-legged on the floor, Kuwako kept her eyes shut frombeginning to end. As she continued cultivating, she found that herability to sense the world’s energy around her became much clearer. Evenwhen she ran out of energy, she found that she could sense and findsome other energy apart from the Heaven and Earth spiritual qi.
The process was like reeling silk from coc.o.o.n as a forceful suction followed.
A suction force emitted from Kuwako’s body and continuously absorbed the drifting world energy around.
Four hours later, when she opened her eyes, an intense pleasantsurprise filled her eyes. She floated up, knelt on one knee and placedher right fist on her left chest, saluting respectfully. “Thank you foryour instruction in cultivation, Sect Master. I can sense I’ve madegreat progress from cultivating just now. I’ve almost reached thecritical point of the mid-stage of Golden Core. I’m sure I can breakthrough to the late-stage of Golden Core if I continue practicing withthis method.”
“Very good. Your performance is better than I expected.” Tang Xiulightly smiled and said, “It seems you have very strong willpower. Andyou do need this strength on the cultivation path to go much further.Anyhow, we’ll cease the seabed training for now since you need toundergo another training.”
“May I know what kind of training is it?” asked Kuwako hurriedly.
Although Tang Xiu’s training was very painful, the benefits shereceived gave her a happy surprise. Therefore, she was willing to takeon this brutal training.
Tang Xiu raised his hand and moved lightning-fast to seal a fewacupoints on Kuwako’s body. Then, he slightly smiled. “You have abundantTrue Essence, but if your physique is very poor. It will eventuallycause your body to explode since it can’t withstand the energy. You aredifferent from Awu and the rest. They have been training theirconst.i.tutions with intense training to strengthen their physique manytimes, but you haven’t. I just found you have bad endurance andphysique.
“What you need to do next is some heavyweight training. This trainingis even more inhuman, though it can whet your willpower, destroy yournerves, and temper your physique. Be sure to be mentally prepared, foryou will fall to insanity if you fail to withstand the torturing painfrom the training.”
Kuwako’s complexion changed. There was a slight fear when she lookedat Tang Xiu. She had expected the next training would be inhuman, but tobe that brutal was unexpected to her. It was likely that physicaltraining was more than just physical pain.
“Master!”
Gu Yin was as though a streak of light as she flashed toward the speedboat from the distant horizon.
Tang Xiu’s brows furrowed and he s.h.i.+fted his focus to the flying GuYin. He was silent for a few seconds. After Gu Yin appeared in front ofhim, he looked at her and inquired. “Why did you come here? Is thereanything urgent?”
“You haven’t gone too far, fortunately, Master, else it would’ve beendifficult to find you,” said Gu Yin. “It’s about Big Sis Yannan, she’slooking for you.”
“What does she want from me?” asked Tang Xiu. “Haven’t I already made Awu take her to the training camp?”
Gu Yin laughed and said, “Ah, you’ll know about it when you see her,Master. Sis Yannan, she… uh, well, she’s angry, shouting she wants toleave Nine Dragons Island and go back to the South China Sea to plantherbs and rear fierce beasts.”
With his sharp mind, Tang Xiu immediately realized the root of theproblem upon hearing Gu Yin’s report. A strange smile unknowinglyappeared on his handsome face as he nodded. “Well, let’s go back and seeher since she’s throwing a tantrum now. Really, though. This girl needsto be polished since she wants to be useful!”
“Well, Big Sis Yannan is actually very stern and powerful, though, Master.” Gu Yin chuckled.
“Bah, leave it.” Tang Xiu reprimanded smilingly. “You’re not tomeddle in her training, alright? If you have some free time, study moreand help your mom. She’s already old and her cultivation talent islacking. It would be very difficult to turn into an expert and bring herwith us if we don’t give her special care.”
Gu Yin’s countenance slightly changed and she respectfully replied immediately, “I understand, Master.”
Immediately after, Tang Xiu returned to Nine Dragons Island with GuYin and Kuwako. Before the speedboat was even docked, he already saw theangry-looking Cheng Yannan standing on the sh.o.r.e along with ahelpless-looking Mo Awu.
“Did you plan it on purpose, Tang Xiu?!!”
Cheng Yannan didn’t wait until Tang Xiu jumped ash.o.r.e before angrily hitting him with a question.
Tang Xiu’s face turned cold and coldly said, “Did you forget what I told you? You’re not allowed to address me by my name!”
Cheng Yannan held her breath and suddenly remembered Tang Xiu’sstatus. Her scowling face eased up, but she still said discontentedly,“I know you’re a Sect Master now, but I still want to ask you, why didyou throw me to that group of children soldiers? How old are they? 4, 5years old, or 7 or 8 years old? Do you think I haven’t stepped on thecultivation path, so you put me there on purpose?”
“I looked into the account that we are old cla.s.smates and friends, soI accepted you into the Tang Sect to shelter you, Cheng Yannan,” saidTang Xiu indifferently. “But it doesn’t mean I can tolerate yourignorance. Do you think I did that to you on purpose just becausethey’re young?”
Cheng Yannan’s face turned a bit ugly, but she gritted her teeth andsaid, “That’s right, you just threw me to the group of children. Whatresult I can get from training with them?”
“You must have come out of the training ground for a long time now, right?” asked Tang Xiu.
Though she was unable to understand Tang Xiu’s question, Cheng Yannan still nodded. “Yeah, I’ve waited for 4 hours.”
“Let me tell you, Cheng Yannan. Cultivators never care about people’sage. Only the strong have the right to speak or dislike others. Youfeel you’re already an adult, so training with a group of children isshameful to you, isn’t that so?” Tang Xiu sneered.
“Isn’t that obvious?” replied Cheng Yannan with a headstrong att.i.tude.