Chapter 19 - Marathon Training

Li Yu had begun a marathon training since the day he had discussed with the guard.

Apart from leaving time to eat and time to sleep, the rest of his time was spent on training.

Unfortunately for Li Yu, unlike when he just started training where he had jumped directly to the seventh level in a matter of few hours, his pace of advancement begin to become very slow, that he had only been able to reach the ninth level of Qi Gathering realm after training for almost a week.

Since then Li Yu has been trying with all his effort just to break through the Foundation Establishment Realm, the realm after the Qi Gathering realm, but he couldn't which was caused by the restraint of his weak physique.

When Li Yu realized this, he decided to switch from cultivation to training his martial art skills.

Luckily for him, there was a large armory in the huge palace, although it had almost become deserted by now, there were still few ordinary training weapons that could be used for training and not for fighting in the armory, such as swords, Spears, arrows and bows, darts, daggers, and blades.

Li Yu picked two of the almost completely rusted swords to use for his training.

And so, Li Yu began to train in the trademark skill he was known for in his last life.

Unfortunately, his body was unable to train 0.00005% of the skill, so he saw it as a waste of time, he then switched to the most basic of sword art, just like when he first started training in his last life, he also chose the basic footwork to complement the sword skill.

At this moment, Li Yu was in the little garden, under the tree, with his upper body bare, currently performing a sword dance.

With a fluid movement, Li Yu would stab his sword into the space, then draw it back, cut and trust from time to time.

If any maiden was to see this scene at this moment, they would have become completely enraptured by it and fallen helplessly in Love with Li Yu. Unfortunately, there was no one to enjoy this scene, save from the birds on the tree.

Li Yu seemed to have lost his soul and was only acting instinctively, performing the same four arts of the sword with different styles, and also performing different foot works with his legs.

He did this for several hours before he finally stopped, his arms and legs arching for having overused them.

"I should be able to take on a level two Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator with this sword skill," Li Yu said happily to himself as he cleaned the sweat running off his already shaping biceps.

'Grump!!!'

"_"

"F*ck!! I've forgotten to eat anything since I woke up today," Li Yu suddenly exclaimed to himself when he heard the loud rumble In his stomach.

The weather had already started going dark.

Li Yu immediately threw away the piece of cloth in his hand and ran off.

In the fully lit palace lounge, a neat large table and a chair had already been placed in a corner.

A few jade plates that were all covered were laid on this table.

Li Yu who was feeling like someone who would be able to devour a house at this moment swallowed hard when he felt the mouth-watering aromatic fragrance these plates were emitting.

He immediately opened all the jade plates without standing on ceremony at all.

There were different mouth-watering and beauty to the eyes meals laid on the jade plates, golden brown meats and fish, noodles, spirit fruits that were of better qualities compared to the ones in the palace, and so on.

Li Yu firstly removed a finger size green bottle from his pants pocket, then he picked up a few pieces from each of the plates, he then poured some drops from within the green bottle onto the food pieces.

He waited impatiently for the time that would take to breathe in five times while staring intently at the mixture as if waiting for some kind of reaction.

He finally pushed the mixture to one side after a while when he couldn't find a thing.

The content in the finger-sized bottle was a concoction Li Yu had made on his third day in this palace to check for food poison.

Thankfully for Li Yu, he was also an alchemy guru in his last life, apart from being a cultivation guru, so concocting such low a level poison checker was extremely easy for him.

"Save to eat," Li Yu muttered to himself happily and began to devour the meals laid all over the table.

He looked like someone who had died because of hunger in his last life at this moment.

....

"Li Clan's first elder, are you sure of this decision you're making today."

"I'm one hundred percent sure."

At this moment, two human figures were currently standing facing each other and discussing in a dark deserted alley.

These two figures were dressed in robes that were covering their faces as if they were hiding their identities from some people.

"Do you realize that you might lose at least half of your clan's manpower for this?!" A low voice that sounded like that of an elderly man filled with suspicious sounded from figure A

"Why are you acting like a sissy old man, wasn't it my family, I said I'm okay!" An angered voice that sounded also like that of an elderly man came from the other figure, figure B.

Figure A stared intently at the person opposite him with eyes that were hidden under his hood.

'What a selfish bastard,' He thought in despise.

Although what they were currently planning would only work for his family's advantage, Figure A could not help but become irritated by the person he was discussing with.

"If You say so," Figure A said slowly and quietly.

"All you need to do now is for you to make all the necessary preparations, I will also begin making mine," Figure B said coldly while also staring intently at figure A.

"I will give you a notification when it's time to attack," He finished.

With his heart filled with extreme despise, figure A responded emotionlessly; "Okay, I need to leave now, I will go start making preparation."

Not waiting for Figure B to respond, figure A turned and walked away quietly without looking back.

"hehehe, Li Zhiqiang, there is no way you and your son would be able to avoid this pit I've dug for you this time around."

A killing intent that was not hidden at all busted from figure B's body, then he also walked away.

"F*ck!!!!! What two scary fellows?" A voice was suddenly heard from within the dark alley.

After the two figures had walked away, another figure suddenly became visible to the naked eyes, he walked out from within a building near this alley.

These two figures would never in their lives have known that someone was spying on them and had clearly heard everything they had discussed.

They would have become deeply shocked that someone was within their awareness, yet they had not noticed.

Looking around for a while, the third party also selected a direction and ran off.