Chapter 1100: You Arranged Me There On Purpose!!!

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The True Essence energy released by Kuwako Yamamoto could force back

the enormous pressure by the seawater, but she couldn’t speak since the

seawater would fill her mouth once she opened it. Hence, she could only

nod with difficulty while struggling to withstand the pressure.

“You can nod, so that means this depth isn’t your limit yet,”

continued Tang Xiu. “Keep going down, but you must stop when you can’t

withstand it anymore.”

Kuwako herself already felt very uncomfortable at this time. She

couldn’t help but feel cold when she heard Tang Xiu’s order. Although

she wasn’t able to figure out how Tang Xiu would train her, she had a

faint hunch that she was about to face torture.

Just as she had thought, when she sank down to 260 meters depth, her

beautiful body began to tremble violently. Green veins protruded out on

her forehead and even blood threads could be seen appearing on her

retina.

‘I can’t withstand any more than this!’

Kuwako finally stopped. Although the released True Essence energy

protected her from being pressured into meat paste by the seawater, she

had no strength left to even talk. The True Essence energy even began to

protect her eyes from the pressure of seawater.

Tang Xiu, who had been following her closely, saw her stop and

immediately said, “Stop here if you sense this is your critical lime,

and do your best to circulate the True Essence in your system. Try to

absorb the water energy in the seawater to supplement the consumed True

Essence.”

Kuwako didn’t reply and just followed Tang Xiu’s instructions, going

all out to circulate the True Essence in her system to flow into the

meridians to her limbs and the five major bones. Yet, she felt helpless

upon sensing the rate of consumption of her True Essence and tried to

sense the energy contained in the seawater. After absorbing it, she

found that the absorption rate was far less than the consumption speed.

‘Ten minutes. I can only hold up to 10 minutes at most before I run out of True Essence.’

‘I’ll be likely to end up dead if I can’t leave the seabed in time once my True Essence fully runs out.’

These thoughts flashed in Kuwako’s mind as she tried to persist. She

believed that Tang Xiu wouldn’t harm her, because such means was

unnecessary since it would only need a move or thought for Tang Xiu to

kill her.

Time ticked by every second and minute, and 6 minutes pa.s.sed in the blink of an eye.

Kuwako’s body trembling got more intense and she realized that she

overestimated herself, because the consumption rate was getting faster

the more time pa.s.sed. Moreover, she could clearly feel a pain that began

to wrap her body, like being p.r.i.c.ked by countless needles.

‘Spiritual energy. I need spiritual energy!’

Her character could be said to be the manifestation of perseverance

and resoluteness. She had been tempered by her clan and trained by the

Northstar One Blade swordsmans.h.i.+p since childhood. The inhuman training

had polished her willpower to steel.

Persevere!

Persevere!

Just as Kuwako’s senses began to blur due to the pressure and her

consciousness was blurring, a stream of heat suddenly emerged from all

parts of her pained body. It was like the warmth of a mother’s hands

soothing her body. At that moment, countless streams of warm energy

flowed and gathered in her Dantian.

In just 10 seconds, the change felt like h.e.l.l had transformed into

Heaven. The rending pains torturing her body were all gone, replaced by a

comfortable sensation—the change made her ecstatic.

Then, as time went on, she could feel the pain engulf her whole body

again. As the pain got more and more intense, her body finally reached

the limit and led her to a huge breakthrough. A trace of warmth appeared

again and the medicinal efficacy hidden in her body was constantly

being forced out to then be absorbed and refined into True Essence.

Once, twice, thrice…

In just 15 minutes, Kuwako broke through her limits thrice and

absorbed two-thirds of the medicinal efficacy hidden in her system.

‘It’s nearly done.’

Tang Xiu quietly floated in front of Kuwako, looking at the painful

expression on her face. He immediately grabbed her hand and quickly

towed her upward.

Splash…

Along with the splas.h.i.+ng water, Tang Xiu towed Kuwako to pierce

through the water surface. After returning to the speedboat, he

straightly put her down and took out a pill from his interspatial ring.

After stuffing it into her mouth, he ordered. “Don’t think about

anything. Empty your mind and circulate your energy according to your

cultivation technique.”

Sitting cross-legged on the floor, Kuwako kept her eyes shut from

beginning to end. As she continued cultivating, she found that her

ability to sense the world’s energy around her became much clearer. Even

when she ran out of energy, she found that she could sense and find

some other energy apart from the Heaven and Earth spiritual qi.

The process was like reeling silk from coc.o.o.n as a forceful suction followed.

A suction force emitted from Kuwako’s body and continuously absorbed the drifting world energy around.

Four hours later, when she opened her eyes, an intense pleasant

surprise filled her eyes. She floated up, knelt on one knee and placed

her right fist on her left chest, saluting respectfully. “Thank you for

your instruction in cultivation, Sect Master. I can sense I’ve made

great progress from cultivating just now. I’ve almost reached the

critical point of the mid-stage of Golden Core. I’m sure I can break

through to the late-stage of Golden Core if I continue practicing with

this method.”

“Very good. Your performance is better than I expected.” Tang Xiu

lightly smiled and said, “It seems you have very strong willpower. And

you do need this strength on the cultivation path to go much further.

Anyhow, we’ll cease the seabed training for now since you need to

undergo another training.”

“May I know what kind of training is it?” asked Kuwako hurriedly.

Although Tang Xiu’s training was very painful, the benefits she

received gave her a happy surprise. Therefore, she was willing to take

on this brutal training.

Tang Xiu raised his hand and moved lightning-fast to seal a few

acupoints on Kuwako’s body. Then, he slightly smiled. “You have abundant

True Essence, but if your physique is very poor. It will eventually

cause your body to explode since it can’t withstand the energy. You are

different from Awu and the rest. They have been training their

const.i.tutions with intense training to strengthen their physique many

times, but you haven’t. I just found you have bad endurance and

physique.

“What you need to do next is some heavyweight training. This training

is even more inhuman, though it can whet your willpower, destroy your

nerves, and temper your physique. Be sure to be mentally prepared, for

you will fall to insanity if you fail to withstand the torturing pain

from the training.”

Kuwako’s complexion changed. There was a slight fear when she looked

at Tang Xiu. She had expected the next training would be inhuman, but to

be that brutal was unexpected to her. It was likely that physical

training was more than just physical pain.

“Master!”

Gu Yin was as though a streak of light as she flashed toward the speedboat from the distant horizon.

Tang Xiu’s brows furrowed and he s.h.i.+fted his focus to the flying Gu

Yin. He was silent for a few seconds. After Gu Yin appeared in front of

him, he looked at her and inquired. “Why did you come here? Is there

anything urgent?”

“You haven’t gone too far, fortunately, Master, else it would’ve been

difficult to find you,” said Gu Yin. “It’s about Big Sis Yannan, she’s

looking for you.”

“What does she want from me?” asked Tang Xiu. “Haven’t I already made Awu take her to the training camp?”

Gu Yin laughed and said, “Ah, you’ll know about it when you see her,

Master. Sis Yannan, she… uh, well, she’s angry, shouting she wants to

leave Nine Dragons Island and go back to the South China Sea to plant

herbs and rear fierce beasts.”

With his sharp mind, Tang Xiu immediately realized the root of the

problem upon hearing Gu Yin’s report. A strange smile unknowingly

appeared on his handsome face as he nodded. “Well, let’s go back and see

her since she’s throwing a tantrum now. Really, though. This girl needs

to be polished since she wants to be useful!”

“Well, Big Sis Yannan is actually very stern and powerful, though, Master.” Gu Yin chuckled.

“Bah, leave it.” Tang Xiu reprimanded smilingly. “You’re not to

meddle in her training, alright? If you have some free time, study more

and help your mom. She’s already old and her cultivation talent is

lacking. It would be very difficult to turn into an expert and bring her

with us if we don’t give her special care.”

Gu Yin’s countenance slightly changed and she respectfully replied immediately, “I understand, Master.”

Immediately after, Tang Xiu returned to Nine Dragons Island with Gu

Yin and Kuwako. Before the speedboat was even docked, he already saw the

angry-looking Cheng Yannan standing on the sh.o.r.e along with a

helpless-looking Mo Awu.

“Did you plan it on purpose, Tang Xiu?!!”

Cheng Yannan didn’t wait until Tang Xiu jumped ash.o.r.e before angrily hitting him with a question.

Tang Xiu’s face turned cold and coldly said, “Did you forget what I told you? You’re not allowed to address me by my name!”

Cheng Yannan held her breath and suddenly remembered Tang Xiu’s

status. Her scowling face eased up, but she still said discontentedly,

“I know you’re a Sect Master now, but I still want to ask you, why did

you throw me to that group of children soldiers? How old are they? 4, 5

years old, or 7 or 8 years old? Do you think I haven’t stepped on the

cultivation path, so you put me there on purpose?”

“I looked into the account that we are old cla.s.smates and friends, so

I accepted you into the Tang Sect to shelter you, Cheng Yannan,” said

Tang Xiu indifferently. “But it doesn’t mean I can tolerate your

ignorance. Do you think I did that to you on purpose just because

they’re young?”

Cheng Yannan’s face turned a bit ugly, but she gritted her teeth and

said, “That’s right, you just threw me to the group of children. What

result I can get from training with them?”

“You must have come out of the training ground for a long time now, right?” asked Tang Xiu.

Though she was unable to understand Tang Xiu’s question, Cheng Yannan still nodded. “Yeah, I’ve waited for 4 hours.”

“Let me tell you, Cheng Yannan. Cultivators never care about people’s

age. Only the strong have the right to speak or dislike others. You

feel you’re already an adult, so training with a group of children is

shameful to you, isn’t that so?” Tang Xiu sneered.

“Isn’t that obvious?” replied Cheng Yannan with a headstrong att.i.tude.