The Unkillable Swordsman - Chapter 22

Chapter 22: Advancement

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
After recruiting four disciples and earning forty thousand easily, Baili Qingfeng handed the money over to Ran Tianchi, asking him to prepare the herbs for the next month.

Meanwhile, he discussed with them and agreed to teach them for three hours at night every Wednesday and Sunday.

Today was the first session.

“A master can teach you the tricks, but training eventually boils down to yourself.” Baili Qingfeng said, “Everybody has different talents. To achieve something, you have to work hard. You are all from noble families and you may not have as much time for martial arts as I do. I won’t ask you to develop fist vibe in three months, but you have to accomplish something after half a year so that your ten thousand tuition fees won’t be for nothing.”

They nodded in agreement.

Now that they had finally met an expert, they would certainly practice hard.

“Rest assured, master. We’ll try our best.”

“Alright. Even the tallest house has to be built from the ground. I’ll teach you the basic thirty-six moves of the 108 Moves of the Primordial Thunder God. After you grasp the basics, I’ll teach you the advanced seventy-two moves.”

As he spoke, Baili Qingfeng showed them the Rumbling Thunder Thirty-Six Moves.

The four of them did it once after him.

Half an hour later…

“This… seems rather simple.”

Wang Yang and his companions had practiced martial arts before. It wasn’t too difficult for them.

Ran Tianchi frowned. “This body-training technique looks familiar. I think I have seen it somewhere.”

Baili Qingfeng was untouched. “Have you remembered everything? If you haven’t, I’ll show it again.”

“We have. It’s not very hard.”

“Not bad. You have remarkable talents.”

Baili Qingfeng nodded. “In that case, do it thirty times for a start.”

“???” Wang Yang and Ran Tianchi stared at Baili Qingfeng at a loss.

“It’s just thirty times. I did it slowly to just demonstrate. Look…”

Baili Qingfeng practiced it on his own.

Since he could finish it three times in ten minutes, he did twenty times in less than an hour.

After he finished twenty times, he said in great easiness without even breathing hard. “Do you see? Isn’t it very simple? I’ve done twenty times in an hour. Do I seem exhausted to you? Not at all. I can do it another forty times. However, if you find it too difficult, you can try doing it ten times in an hour and finish thirty times in three hours. Of course, if you lower the difficulty, it will take a longer time for you to achieve something. It’s your own choice. Even if I teach you the best arts, it will be in vain if you don’t practice.”

“Yes, you’re right, Master Baili.”

“It seems… indeed rather easy…”

“We can’t compare to Master Baili, but if we lower the difficulty, I think… we can give it a try…”

His disciples were rather suspicious.

Baili Qingfeng’s performance made them feel that thirty times in three hours was not an impossible mission.

“Practice it well. Learning martial arts can be very exhausting, particularly at the beginning, but as long as you persist, you realize that… it’s nothing at all…” Baili Qingfeng spoke patiently.

Wang Yang nodded solemnly. “Master Baili, rest assured. Many masters have told us that martial arts was exhausting and required perseverance. We failed to manage through it because of the obscure prospect, but this time, we will stick to the end however challenging it is!”

“Then, I’ll wait for your performance. Don’t give up halfway. There will be nothing I can do if you give up.” Baili Qingfeng said.

It was getting late. He needed to come back.

Wang Yang drove the car in person and dropped Baili Qingfeng back to the remote house he had rented.

Baili Qingfeng entered the yard and looked at the herbs. “I need a pot.”

And a bucket.

So, he went to a grocery market not far away.

The grocery market was messy and untidy, but one could buy a myriad of things that could not be bought in regular markets there. Lucky dogs could often find what they wanted.

In addition…

The items were also cheap.

Baili Qingfeng spent half a day buying everything he needed. Then, he began cooking the herbs.

Soon…

He identified a problem.

Since he was alone…

How was he going to add hot water?

If the pores were not stimulated by the heat, the absorption rate would be greatly affected.

Baili Qingfeng looked around…

When his eyes fell upon the pot which was big enough…

He found the answer.

So, he adjusted the flames, stripped himself naked, and jumped into the pot.

“It’s boiling!”

Baili Qingfeng sensed it.

He felt that he would be burnt.

Thankfully, no oil was needed to cook the herbs, so the water temperature was limited. Thanks to his amazing recovery abilities, such heat was still bearable.

Besides…

Absorbing the herbs in such a way…

It was particularly effective.

Baili Qingfeng felt that the absorption efficiency was forty percent higher than that in the warm pot!

One portion of herbs was worth forty thousand bucks. He had essentially saved sixteen thousand, which was equal to a regular worker’s wages for three years.

In the next couple of days, to find his limits and make himself as exhausted as he could, Baili Qingfeng tried his best to train.

A hundred times?

Not good enough!

On the first day, he practiced a hundred and forty times!

Then, a hundred and fifty, a hundred and sixty, a hundred and seventy…

Eventually, he discovered, to his disappointment, that his recovery abilities…

They seemed to have been enhanced?!

He could not reach his limits, but his recovery abilities had climbed to a new height.

Therefore, his goal to reach his limits and make himself exhausted seemed unachievable now.

Thankfully, by practicing the Rumbling Thunder Thirty-Six Moves two hundred times every day, his body hardness had been increasing exponentially. After he completely digested the power in the herbs, which was the sixth day after he got the four disciples, he was finally able to finish the Rumbling Thunder Thirty-Six Moves four times in ten minutes.

“Am I a level-three martial fighter now?”

Baili Qingfeng was prepared for it, but still…

It seemed too easy.

Was martial arts easier now because of technological development and a better life?

He hadn’t even been as exhausted as his uncle Baili Tianxing had described yet.

“Perhaps, I am not technically a level-three martial fighter yet, whose feature is spirit-refining,” Baili Qingfeng said calmly.

At this phase, the body was vigorous enough to nurture the soul, and it was the spirit that needed refining. As long as the cultivator’s body remained healthy, they would always be in high spirits.

Once, somebody conducted an experiment. A martial fighter in such a level lived one month without sleeping while eating regularly, while the limit for ordinary people was seven days.

That was a four-time gap!

“Spirit refining…”

Baili Qingfeng did not quite understand spirit refining yet.

He sensed how his body nurtured his soul carefully…

Three hours later, he gradually became grave.

The efficiency…

It was very low!

It was less than one-fifth of when he cultivated the Thunderous Juggernaut Method.

Although the soul was more active under the nurturing, the quantitative growth was…

It was too slow!

“I’m afraid that something is wrong with my training… I have to ask second grandpa…”

However, when Baili Qingfeng considered his second grandpa’s health…

He dropped it.

His second grandpa had just left the hospital after his back injuries had healed. If he got too ecstatic and was sent to the hospital again after learning of his grandson’s progress, Baili Qingfeng would be to blame.

Therefore…

He would continue as it was for now.

It was possible that the effect was not obvious because he just became a level-three martial fighter. He would wait and see if it changed in a few months.

If he really couldn’t find any solution…

He could always look for a level-three martial fighter and fight with him!