Chapter 43

Chapter 43 — Train, Train, Train, and Train.

After the end of the sparring session, all of the Emperor Team were feeling bitter and ashamed of their defeat.

Xie Lingling soon woke up from her sleep and was quickly instructed to heal the injured Emperor Team.

While she was healing them, Qin Ming asked a question toward Ning Chen.

"Ning Chen, what do you think those children are lacking?"

Ning Chen started rubbing his chin and pondered over this question deeply.

"I think it would be them completely relying on their spirit ring's abilities. Their teamwork with each other is also so-so and they're not using their own individual quirks to their best."

Yu Feng grew puzzled hearing that and quickly interrupted, "Can you explain it more detailedly?"

Ning Chen nodded and pointed his finger toward Yu Feng.

"Just like what I said about you earlier, don't just rely on your power and stop neglecting your speed. I can tell that your talent and martial spirit excells at speed. Don't think so narrow-minded, speed is also power."

Yu Feng didn't answered or refuted back at Ning Chen and just grew silent.

Xie Lingling raised her hand and expressionlessly asked about her own weakness.

Ning Chen quickly answered her, "Hmmm, you should not just sit there to heal and observe. Learn how to evade yourself and go to the best, safest place. Also, since you're at the very back, send some signals to alert your team."

After Yu Feng and Xie Lingling's weaknesses were quickly pointed by Ning Chen, the others also started asking his thoughts about them.

Even Qin Ming was surprised himself because he didn't expected Ning Chen to learn so much by just having a single sparring session with them.

Ning Chen wasn't selfish and decided to tell their weaknesses.

The end results depended entirely on their own determination.

"Ning Chen's words are right. You guys have many weaknesses, so think carefully about it to improve yourself. I'll take my leave now," Qin Ming said and left the training ground.

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The Emperor Team were eager to train after their weaknesses were pointed out. Ning Chen even gave them a basic training method to improve their physique.

After a few weeks of training, however, the Emperor Team lost their interest in training after seeing no progress to their cultivation aside from their body growing slightly stronger.

The training didn't exactly affected their cultivation, which they find more better to focus on, than the body training that was also straining and painful to do.

Ning Chen didn't bothered with them and just felt disappointed. It was hard to change their mindset of growing stronger through the fastest and easiest method which was cultivating.

He could only sigh at them, thinking they were missing a lot by not training their body properly.

However, Ning Chen was quite surprised to see one person doing the opposite thing.

It was Yu Feng who continued to train his body even though the others had already quitted long time ago.

Ning Chen watched Yu Feng determinedly striving to grow stronger which earned his respect.

Yu Feng wasn't the only person training under Ning Chen's guidance.

It was the same for Xue Beng who was secretly training and also gotten to get along with Yu Feng.

After one month had passed with them repeatedly training their body, the two of them were shocked to feel their entire body being extremely light, sturdy and powerful compared to before.

There was also an overflowing vigor coursing through their veins and their spirit power also grew in quantity after their body, the vessel expanded.

It also circulated smoothly which was gonna improve their cultivation speed.

Ning Chen applauded them for their effort and unhesitantly gave them their next training regime.

He first instructed them how to improve their spirit power control through sticking leaves into their body.

Ning Chen then gave Yu Feng a training regime to train his unrefined speed, aerial combat and how to efficiently use his abilities.

Yu Feng was reluctant about training his speed and instead asked him more about training to increase his attack power.

Ning Chen wasn't happy hearing that and quickly convinced Yu Feng that he should also train his speed and not just his power.

However, Yu Feng continuesly refused training his speed, but Ning Chen was stubborn.

He constantly asked Yu Feng why he didn't wanted to train his speed for several days until Yu Feng finally revealed something.

Yu Feng was actually from the Speed Clan, one of the four attribute clan.

The Four Attribute Clans were the speed clan, strength clan, defense clan, and breaking clan.

Yu Feng said that their speed clan focused completely in speed, but it was because of them having no other choice.

They have the best speed type spirit in the world, but It was at the price of them lacking attack power.

The speed clan members must completely focus in speed and if they decided to defy this rule, they wouldn't able to advance higher than rank 38.

Yu Feng didn't wanted to walk the same path as the other speed clan members and wanted to walk into his own path.

This was his reason for his obsession with power — he wanted to walk into an untrodden path.

Yu Feng wanted to surpassed rank 38 and prove to the world that his speed clan weren't cowards that only knew how to flee and gather information throughout the continent.

However, Ning Chen didn't entirely liked Yu Feng's path.

Focus solely on power?

That sounded nonsense to Ning Chen.

He was just wasting his talent in speed if he solely focused in power. He should at least try to think differently and unique than normal people.

Ning Chen resolutely told Yu Feng that instead of discarding anything, he should combine his power and speed to create his own path.

Speed and power complemented each other greatly.

Ning Chen believed that in life, you shouldn't discard good things, but hold into it dearly.

A mortal may reach immortality, but what's the use of it if you're all alone with everyone fearing you?

To tread on this path, you've discarded everything — your family, love, and comrades until you're finally all alone in the end.

It was a lonely and desolate path.

Yu Feng was stunned and realized how narrow-minded he was.

Why did he ever thought of forsaking his speed? It was the spirit of his clan and something he inwardly loved.

There was an easy, but also difficult solution just in front of him. That was to combine both of his speed and power.

Since this enlightenment, Yu Feng placed all of his maximum effort in training until he drop dead from exhaustion to train his speed and power.

And for Xue Beng, his martial spirit was like the same as Xue Qinghe.

The only difference was him being rank 28 and his large wings were completely white, resembling a swan's beautiful and graceful wings.

Xue Beng's spirit rings abilities were Heavenly Explosion and Heavenly Swan Summon.

Ning Chen decided to train Xue Beng like Xue Qinghe, although it was tweaked to be more suitable for Xue Beng.

He made Xue Beng use his explosion ability like a rocket blast to propel him and also coat his arms with explosion, so his punch can deal additional explosion damage.

For the Heavenly Swan Summon, Xue Beng was able to conjure a white graceful swan that can burn and mentally damage his opponents.

Ning Chen decided to teach him how to control the white swan properly and even the possibility of splitting the white swan into several smaller swans that can fuse again as one.

Ning Chen also didn't forget about his plan that required Xie Lingling. He was even planning on making Yu Feng and Xue Beng attend this.

The more the merrier.

He had a talk with Xie Lingling and told his plan to her. He had also asked if there's anything she wanted in return.

Xie Lingling surprisingly agreed and then requested something toward Ning Chen.

She wanted him to cook for them everyday and also for her to join their training.

And with Xie Lingling in the addition, their body training continued and became more intensely horrifying.

The four of them would wear extremely heavy weights that covered all of their body and then they would ran around.

This caused their muscles to be constantly torn apart, their bones breaking apart, and their organs being grinded with intense pressure.

All of them soon would be healed by Xie Lingling, resulting their body to constantly grow stronger and sturdier.

It was even more apparent toward Ning Chen who constantly destroyed his entire body. He would then cultivate natural energy and be healed by Xie Lingling, making his body evolve to the next level.

There was even a time where Ning Chen's muscles grew massively in size, but it strangely soon compressed, making him appear muscular and lean again.

Ning Chen then thought that his physique reinforced by spirit power can now let him surpass those rank 60.

However, there was something bad that came along this good news.

He earned an unique title called "Perverted Masochist Training Maniac' by Xie Lingling and Yu Feng.

This title was decided after they saw how intense Ning Chen was training. He was basically wrecking his own body, but they were also quite impressed.

This was the first time they saw someone training so hard to become stronger.

As for Xue Beng? He was now starting to worship Ning Chen and thought that was the way of a true man.

A man with the mind and body of steel.

Ning Chen also occasionally met with Dugu Yan and requested something to her.

What was the request you say?

His request was for Dugu Yan to inject her poison into his body.

Ning Chen was trying to create his own resistance toward poison.

He would let Dugu Yan inject a small amount of poison into his body and he would cultivate natural energy and circulate vigor to let his body evolve to have a resistance against poison.

And every time his resistant grew stronger, Ning Chen would let Dugu Yan inject more deadly poison.

This process certainly wasn't easy and painless.

It was instead horrifyingly painful, as if countless flesh devouring ants were eating him from the inside out.

It was also hot and cold at the same with his nerves always getting confused.

To his own surprised, he slightly enjoyed the sensation as it was also a sign that his body was adapting and evolving to have a new stronger resistance against poison.

The entire training event lasted for a whole year and the harvest was certainly bountiful for Ning Chen.

It was also the same with Yu Feng, Xue Beng, and Lingling.

They all didn't improved much in terms of cultivation base, but their entire foundation became extremely sturdy.

Xue Beng was also close to advancing toward rank 30.

Yu Feng had now the chance to defeat Yu Tianheng if he went all out and he also surpassed Osler in terms of speed now.

Xie Lingling was able to defeat Dugu Yan because of her body growing powerful. She was also immune to poison thanks to her heal.

However, despite seeing their massive improvement in foundation, the other Emperor Team didn't joined the training.

Especially, when they saw their cultivation not rising significantly during this one year.

On the other hand, their cultivation had risen by leaps and bounds.

The Emperor Team's arrogance were blinding them, believing everything was about the cultivation rank.

Ning Chen had already given up on changing their mind and thought maybe something will change their mindset in the future. It was all up to their fate since they showed no signs of motivation.

There was also something shocking thing that happened during this one year.

Ning Chen found out that Yu Feng was a girl....

He found it due to a series of unfortunate accidents, but It was a huge shock to him.

Ning Chen couldn't even process anything after learning this truth.

Yu Feng was embarrassed after being found out and said she was actually called Bai Chenxiang of the Speed Clan.

She was cross-dressing in order to not let the academy find out she was from the speed clan. It was because of her focusing in power instead of speed.

If they found about it, she would surely be expelled from the team because of the fact she can't advance past rank 38.

Her spirit was also in fact the needle tailed swift, but after pursuing power, it mutated and became different, so she called it the wind chime bird.

Ning Chen was feeling complicated, but quickly nodded and promised to keep it a secret.

He thought that If Bai Chenxiang managed to defy her fate, she would definitely rise and shine like a star, but if she failed, her only path was to fall and becomes like a dust.

Ning Chen thought of ways to help her, but there wasn't much he could do. He could only help her breakthrough.

Xue Beng and Xie Lingling also got to know about this, but decided to keep it a secret.

Bai Chenxiang was grateful at them and then started to wonder about something.

She wondered what was Ning Chen currently feeling after finding out she was a girl?

Did he fell in love with her beautiful appearance?

Bai Chenxiang quickly tried to charm and seduce Ning Chen while training with her original appearance.

A beautiful girl with a long golden hair and developed body, but it somehow didn't worked.

Ning Chen was just wondering why she was acting so weirdly around him.

As a result, Bai Chenxiang could only pout angrily at him.

Was she not beautiful enough in Ning Chen's eyes?

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I think I did many wrong things here, but my head just feels to painfull.

I think Im gonna start regularly posting 2k words per chapter.

Edit: I've made a character images chapter where you can see Ning Chen's current appearance. Still no long hair, since he currently doesn't have it.