Chapter 880 - 878: Missing Chen Kong
This is the world of cultivation, where they face not just petty thieves, but wave after wave of masters.
The six of them now feel strength throughout their bodies. With their coach being like this, can they afford to slack off or complain?
Thus, in the following intensive training, everyone’s enthusiasm was incredibly high, gradually forgetting their previous identities and fully immersing themselves in the new training mode designed by Chen Tianlong.
Just like that, they trained for a full eight hours, until past eight o’clock in the evening, when all seven of them lay down directly on the grass. Yet, they were happy; this moment of rest was so precious, so comfortable.
"Actually, I want to tell everyone something important. The reason I have you do head and neck exercises is so that in case of a sneak attack, you can protect your vitals. I don’t want anyone who leaves my hands to lose a single one," said Chen Tianlong, no longer stern but with a deep sentiment.
"Coach...."
The five were very moved and didn’t know what to say, only staring blankly at the night sky filled with stars.
"Once, I had a brother, he was more enduring than any of us, so he was selected to join the army and endured countless hardships, but he never gave up. He was once the best in the military....."
Under this starry sky, Chen Tianlong suddenly thought of Chen Kong, "He was like the night sky, always making people feel immensely vast."
"Brother Chen Tianlong, are you recalling something again..." Lin Jun, with a keen mind, sensed something amiss from Chen Tianlong’s sentimentality.
"Haha, nothing, everyone must be hungry, let’s retreat."
Chen Tianlong knew that the daunting task of training special forces couldn’t be accomplished in a day or two. Today, there was some minor progress, but Chen Tianlong felt that even if they trained into iron giants, it might not be enough to deal with those advanced practitioners.
Therefore, Chen Tianlong decided to first transform these five ordinary cultivators into advanced practitioners. Upon observation, only Lin Jun was a Yellow Dao Seven Star practitioner, while the others were ordinary cultivators.
Transforming them directly from ordinary practitioners to advanced practitioners was somewhat difficult unless they had their own unique cultivation technique.
Otherwise, even with dense Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, they could not become advanced practitioners, forever stuck between Yellow Dao One Star to Three Stars because they couldn’t absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, let alone transform it into effective powerful Qi.
Thinking of this, Chen Tianlong suddenly said, "Do you want to become advanced practitioners?"
"Huh? Advanced practitioners?"
The five exclaimed in unison, for this term was too far-fetched for them as ordinary cultivators. It was said that upgrading required enduring many trials, especially breaking through from an ordinary cultivator to an advanced practitioner, a very complex process.
What they didn’t know was that it wasn’t that difficult, just that in this era, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was too sparse, making it indeed hard to break through that barrier. Thus, they needed to keep slowly accumulating until bursting all at once after reaching a certain level to break through and become advanced practitioners.
However, those with conditions were different, like the big families and sects. They practiced from a young age, and their cultivation techniques were excellent. As a result, with the aid of some treasured materials, they could quickly break through and become advanced practitioners in the true sense, beyond the Profound Dao.
"Yes, you need to become advanced practitioners because I’ve found many advanced practitioners appearing in Ice City recently. To protect our home, we must possess great power; we cannot sit idly by," Chen Tianlong stated frankly.
This was probably Lin Kaifeng’s ultimate goal too.
"Wow? That powerful," one of the team members exclaimed in surprise.
"Yes, that’s why I’ve been training you with such high intensity, but as long as you have your own Secret Manual of cultivation technique, it’s not hard. Just follow my method, and you should break through soon."
Actually, Chen Tianlong was only comforting them, breakthrough was not that easy. After he learned the Nine Yang Celestial Dragon Technique, it still took more than two years of cultivation to break through and become an actual cultivator.
Chen Tianlong dared not say his aptitude was exceptional, but his comprehension was decent. He also needed two years of hellish training every day with his little junior sister, starting at five, carrying a basket of stones up a mountain more than eight hundred meters high, then hunting beasts and only coming down after a successful hunt, bringing it back as well.
This undoubtedly increased the difficulty a lot. First, carrying a basket of twenty kilograms of stones up the mountain was exhausting. After reaching the top, they needed to hunt, then personally carry the game back down.
Though going downhill was easier, imagine carrying dozens of pounds downhill, not on flat ground. A slight slip could send you rolling down to the foot of the mountain.
Last time, Chen Tianlong actually had such an experience, rolling from halfway up the mountain to the bottom, nearly ending it all, but fortunately Fang Zun discovered him and, with his superb medical skills, saved Chen Tianlong’s little life.
"Cultivation technique? It seems there’s a book at my home, I’ll ask my father tonight."
"It seems we have one too."
"Haha, I have one myself, and I’ve always practiced it, but it’s useless now. With the current spiritual Qi, it can’t break through, just good for strengthening the body."
Everyone shared their views, causing a commotion. Then, Chen Tianlong’s eyes fell on the remaining two people, and he asked, "Do you two have your own cultivation techniques?"
The two shook their heads, indicating no, which made Chen Tianlong frown and sigh. He was at his wit’s end; he only had one book and no idea how to get more.
"Coach, it seems I have several Heart Methods at home. I’ll see if they want them, as for their quality, I don’t know." Lin Jun, after all, being from the Chen Family, had no shortage of family secret techniques. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be a practitioner, only because he practiced a relatively good Heart Method since childhood, accumulating over the years to break through to Yellow Dao Seven Star, which wasn’t easy.
"We have no issue; as long as we can become advanced practitioners, it doesn’t matter about other cultivation techniques." The two who lacked them were delighted to hear Lin Jun’s words, far from being picky.
"Haha, it’s settled then. Next time I come, you all should bring your cultivation techniques and recite the Heart Method. I’ll think of a way to help you quickly become advanced practitioners."
Chen Tianlong thought that following the normal process would take an unknown amount of time to break through, so he planned to go back and think about it carefully, to see if he could find a better way.
"Well... why not tomorrow?" Lin Jun asked with some doubt after hearing Chen Tianlong’s words.