The cool feeling that he experiences when he uses the breathing technique is mana from the world entering his body through his two lungs. This mana provides energy for the body and increases cell activity.
The fighting technique breaks the body while the movement technique makes sure the damage is favorable not negative and finally the breathing technique heals the damage.
This way stamina and life force increase over time. The body becomes stronger until it transforms.
So thanks to the three techniques, one single exercise will cover everything he needs to exercise his whole body. The only thing the techniques need from him is dedication.
As long as one is dedicated to the three techniques and uses them together, transformation will increase. It might be slow, but it will be steady.
But if one is wealthy enough to use blood pills after training, then their progress will be faster. Blood pills might be expensive, but they save time.
He smashed the sledgehammer into the metal block for three hours. So his exercise stopped at 1 pm in the afternoon.
He had his bath then and went to have his lunch after. He and Ruff had a quiet lunch on the patio in the company of each other.
Then he took two blood pills before he went to check on the progress of his distillations. He changed barrels and replenished what was running out.
He performed some maintenance and made some adjustments until he was sure that everything was working well. This took 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Blood pills used to make him feel sleepy. But that has stopped ever since he began using the advanced mana techniques.
The advanced mana techniques push his body too much, so his body needs more energy and vitality than what the blood pills can deliver.
The increase to his cell activity also makes digesting it easier and faster. So he doesn't feel sleepy anymore. He can use the time he usually takes to nap to work on his winemaking.
When the time reaches 3 pm, he then begins his evening exercise. He goes to the yard and resumes smashing the metal block for hours.
This time he spends four hours on the exercise. Since he won't be doing anything after the exercise and will be going straight to bed, he decided to push his body farther than earlier.
So he finishes his exercise by 7 pm. Then he has his bath followed by dinner.
After dinner, he spends about an hour doing anything he wants to do. Usually, he spends this time to check on his wine and brushes. But when it gets to 8 pm, he takes 3 blood pills and goes to bed.
He tries to go to bed before or at 9 pm because he has to wake up early. His day starts at 5 am.
The first thing he does in the morning is brush. Then he checks on his wine.
It was the last thing he did yesterday. Then he eats breakfast.
By 6 am the sun has risen, and the shops will begin to open. This is the time he goes to buy bread.
This time he bought two thousand loaves of bread. He needed three carriages to load and carry them for him.
The loading of the carriage took more time than usual. It also took more time to distribute the bread. But he had enough time to spare and was able to make it back to his house before 8 am in preparation for his class.
All in all, his day was good. He spent more money on the bread, but he received more karma as well.
News had spread about his deeds, so there were more people lining up for bread. There were so many that the two thousand loaves of bread he brought still weren't enough for everyone.
So none of the bread went to waste, and the people who received them were full of appreciation for the bread.
Another good effect of his increasing popularity is that the students in his class increased in number. Their number actually tripled.
Apparently, people had heard that he was teaching the breathing technique for free. They were skeptical about the authenticity of the breathing technique, but they were willing to risk it. After all, training is free.
There is also the fact that he is strong and rich. If he is strong enough to defeat the boss of the Black Band gang, then he must have reached the fourth transformation and should have the breathing technique.
That doesn't mean that what he is teaching is the real breathing technique. They can't be sure of that because they don't know themselves. But the fact that he is rich enough to distribute bread every day made them have more faith in him.
They believe that someone as rich as him should have the breathing technique, and someone as generous as him shouldn't lie to them for nothing.
Actually, they don't see a reason for him to lie to them. After all, his training is free.If his training is free, then what will he gain by lying to them?
All of these factors combined to make his dojo increasingly popular. On the first day he had 22 students. That increased to 68 on the second day.
By the third day, he was training 141 students. Come the fourth day, and he had 212 students to train.
They continued to increase in number until they stopped around 300. It didn't increase beyond that number because some students stopped returning to his class.
They found his class boring or difficult to understand. So they gave up.
But as some gave up, new students appeared to keep the number stable at 300. By that time, his yard was jam-packed. He had run out of mats, so they had to bring what they would sit on.
Everyone listened attentively to his lectures and didn't make any noise because they knew that he was strict. He would kick out anyone that disturbed his class without any hesitation, so his students were always well behaved.