Chapter 9: This really is a big charade

The small group then walked around for an hour before stopping in front of the main training. The powerful roars from the training martial artists have been turned down a lot and were a hollow version of themselves.

It was obvious to Yoze that none of the Martial Artists present today were training and instead just acting like real-life ornaments.

"Here is our main training ground. We previously treated this area as a dueling arena but thanks to our advisors we changed it to be our main training ground. Do you have anything to add advisors?"

Eric stepped forward with an elegance that Yoze never saw before and commented on the reason why they gave their advice. According to Eric the reason for changing this area to the main training area was to promote teamwork and make the martial artist feel a stronger connection to the court.

The reason that Eric gave was filled with holes and any person who wanted to find out why would have asked some follow-up questions. However, seeing the investigator taking a single note before stopping made it clear that the investigator didn't care.

The rest of the charade lasted a few more hours as Yoze was dragged along with the group that treated this more as a tour than anything else. After finishing up the fake investigation and bidding the investigator farewell, Yoze was called up by Eric.

"Yoze, as I told you when you first arrived we are just symbolic placeholders. This 'investigation' is when we 'work'. The next one will be three months from now and you will have a shot at trying to give a convincing reason for any of the fake changes made."

Yoze nodded his head, agreeing to the arrangement but didn't pay it much mind. He was too occupied with training to care for this fake job of his.

"Dad, I'm back." Greeting his father, Yoze was assaulted by the smell of meat and seasonings.

He saw that his father was making a big pot of meaty soup for him since he knew that Yoze needed to eat a lot for his cultivation.

"Come eat."

While his father had a bowl of soup, Yoze ate the rest in the pot and was completely stuffed. But after his training, he would have digested most of it.

"Whoosh!"

A huge gust of wind followed after Yoze's punches as they sounded like cannons flying through the air.

"I need to get another place to train." Yoze frowned as he saw the mess he had created with his single punch. The wind he generated was enough to cause trouble and generate issues with noise.

Yoze thought of moving his training to the Martial Court Yard and rejected it because he would never get permission to do so. After being an advisor for the court for three months and bearing witness to the fake investigation, Yoze knew that he was reaching the limits of what his advisor role allowed him to do.

He could visit the courtyard every day and could go to the library and check out books on the first floor but he couldn't enter the training grounds without reason.

"That only leaves me going to the forest."

After making up his mind to head to the forest, Yoze left the comforts of the city and reached Pine Tree Forest. This forest was the city's main source of wood and was quite safe so Yoze didn't have to worry about getting attacked during training.

"Woosh Woosh Woosh..."

Yoze seemed to have gained four more arms as he left after images from his sheer speed. He was finally able to let loose and see how strong he had gotten.

"bam bam bam,"

With each punch, Yoze's punch shook a meter-wide tree and left deep Fists imprints. With each punch Yoze koi Fists became stronger and faster. By the end of it, chunks of wood littered the floor as half of the tree trunk was gone.

The pure display of power exhilarated Yoze and he continued to train his Twin Fists and train his body to put on more muscle. The more he weighed the more power would be behind his punches.

Yoze only returned to the city when he had exhausted his body and was hungry. Six months soon passed by and other than Yoze having to do the fake investigation he was focusing on trying to break through to the second level of the Big Golem Cultivation method.

Deep inside the forest, a two-headed and six-armed hulking human was destroying a 3-meter wide pine tree with his bare hands. It led to the usually quiet forest being filled with sounds as if a natural disaster was wreaking havoc.

"Whoosh, Boom!"

Finally, with a final punch the tree that had survived for decades toppled. The hulking two-headed human quickly lost his extra head and arms to reveal that it was Yoze.

After half a year of training, he had grown a couple of inches and had reached close to 6 feet tall.

[Name: Yoze]

[Age: 21 years]

[Talents: Literature Comprehension(Grade 3), Martial Arts Comprehension (Grade 3), Body Cultivation (Grade 5), Fist Arts(Grade 6), Movements(Grade 3), Networking (Grade 2), Logical Reasoning (Grade 1), Mathematics (Grade 1)]

[Techniques: Twin Fists (Rank 3: 99%), Big Golem(Level 1: 99%)]

[Talent Mark: 1]

"Come on, I'm so close." Yoze frowned as he felt he had reached a bottleneck.

He had been at 99% for both Twin Fists and the Big Golem cultivation method for a week now. But his real frustration came from Twin Fists. He could form a chain of 69 koi Fists but every time he tried to throw out another punch he felt extreme fatigue and numbness spread across his arm.

As for his cultivation with the Big Golem Cultivation method, Yoze was confident that he could break through tonight. He had even brought a hefty amount of food with him to the forest so he could practice all night.

"By tonight I should reach level 2 of my cultivation method and should be at the peak of being considered a third-rate Martial artist."

"I just need to digest all this food and convert it to the last pound of muscle."