Chapter 13: Dawn (Part 2)

  In the hot spring, Qin Yu stood upright with a firm gaze.

  Don't think that Qin Yu is soaking in the hot spring, he's actually doing explosive training with water resistance. Water resistance explosive training helps improve one's explosive power. Rather than training in other lakes, it's better to train in the hot spring, where the water provides resistance and also nourishes the body at the same time, killing two birds with one stone.

  Punch! Withdraw punch!

  Out legs! In legs!

  Qin Yu punched and kicked at high speed in the water, each time Qin Yu burst out with the strongest power, making his own speed reach the fastest. Qin Yu's horse step was steady, and even in the water, he didn't waver, this was also a skill that could be achieved after long-term practice of the horse step.

  The water flows rapidly, with its own trajectory. Qin Yu makes his fists and legs move faster each time, naturally starting to change the trajectory of his punches or kicks. What should be the trajectory of a punch?

  Straight line?

  Curve?

  None of that is correct! Nothing is absolute, straight lines and curves blend together, everything is to make the punch faster, stronger, and receive less resistance. Everything pursues even greater power, speed, Qin Yu continues to attack non-stop.

  At this moment, Qin Yu's arms and legs were still bound by small iron blocks...

  ……

  On the training ground, Qin Yu was only wearing his pants and had tied up his hair in a bun. Beside him stood a burly guard holding a wooden staff. At this moment, Qin Yu was engaged in intense fist training, his body constantly punching and absorbing medicinal wine to make himself stronger and more resilient. Training to the extreme, he could even withstand swords and guns.

  "Uncle Yang, use a bit more strength." Qin Yu said discontentedly to the big man Yang Shan beside him.

  Yang Shan hastily advised: "Third Young Master, that's enough, the punishment can end now." Yang Shan looked at the red marks on Qin Yu's body and then at his innocent face with an expression of not caring, feeling a pang of heartache. When Qin Yu was six years old, Yang Shan and the others had come to Yunwu Mountain Villa together, and over the past three years, they had all watched this child grow up. Who could bear to hit this child?

  But Yang Shan was forced to fight because this was a hard qigong training of fighting against strikes.

  "Let you hit it then just hit it, forget it, I'll do it myself." Qin Yu shook his head with a smile and said as he reached for the wooden stick.

  Yang Shan took a look and hastily retreated, refusing to let Qin Yu take the wooden stick himself. He said in a flurry: "Alright, alright, I'll continue hitting, with more force, got it." Yang Shan didn't dare let Qin Yu hit himself, as Qin Yu's self-inflicted blows were always extreme, and Yang Shan still remembered the day when Qin Yu's body was even broken from his own hits.

  "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"...

  The wooden stick hit Qin Yu's body repeatedly, Qin Yu stood with his horse stance, pursed his lips, and endured it silently, not making a sound. Red marks appeared on Qin Yu's body, which made Yang Shan feel uncomfortable in his heart. Although he was now a soldier, at the age of nine, he was still herding cattle at home. However, as the third son of the Town East King's mansion, Qin Yu did not waste any time and kept training to reach the limit of human endurance.

  Qin Yu's eyes were like stars, and his determination could be judged from his gaze, which was as unshakeable as Mount Tai.

  ……

  "Xiao Yu, today's training volume is a bit too much, reduce it a bit tomorrow."

  Qin Yu was lying on the couch, an old man with a head full of white hair massaging him while speaking to him with concern. This old man was Weng Xian, a master of medicine, and one of the top medical experts in the Eastern King's palace. Qin De had originally sent Weng Xian to Yunwu Mountain Villa, which had also surprised the people in the palace, wondering how the king could bear to send such a skilled doctor to a mountain villa.

  "No big deal, Grandpa Weng's unique massage technique plus the medicinal wine and I was completely fine by the next day." Qin Yu flicked his lips, not caring in the slightest.

  Weng Xian's hands moved slowly, but with a rhythm, sometimes slapping, sometimes pressing, sometimes dotting, and sometimes stroking. Each hand movement was different, and Weng Xian's hands were also coated with medicinal liquor. With his unique massage technique, the medicinal effects of the liquor quickly penetrated into Qin Yu's body.

  Seeing Qin Yu's nonchalant appearance, Weng Xian smiled and shook his head, while involuntarily infusing the true energy within his body into the massage technique.

  "It feels so good!" Qin Yu felt his body warm and comfortable, and he couldn't help but let out a relaxed cry.

  Weng Xian smiled, if it wasn't for his willingness, no matter how high the outsider's status was, he wouldn't have been so thorough and unreserved, not even holding back a bit of internal energy. As for Qin Yu, Weng Xian was quite concerned, after all, seeing a child training like that every day, how could he not feel soft-hearted and pity him?

  "Alright, Xiao Yu, don't overexert yourself during training from now on. And you too, Zhao Yun Xing! What's with this extreme training method? If it weren't for the hot springs of Cloud Mist Mountain Villa and me helping you unblock your meridians every day, allowing the medicinal effects to enter your body, how could a child like you handle it?" Weng Xian sighed, clearly dissatisfied with Zhao Yun Xing.

  Qin Yu smiled brightly at Weng Xian and said, "I know, Grandpa Weng is the best. Grandpa Weng should go to bed early, goodbye!" Weng Xian nodded with a smile and also entrusted Qin Yu with some words before Qin Yu left his residence.

  Tonight, the starry sky is extremely beautiful.

  "The teacher has left, and with each day's training, my body will become stronger and stronger. The amount of training must be increased, and... other methods should also be added." Qin Yu thought to himself as he gazed at the stars in the sky.

  Then Qin Yu directly walked into the underground secret room group in Bei Yuan, and the methods of opening various mechanisms were all familiar to him.

  Entering the secret room where the secret books were stored, on the long table were placed a few secret books that Qin Yu had not put away. After all, only he and Lian Yan knew the method to open this secret room. Qin Yu immediately looked at the twenty-eight external skill secret books.

  There are various training methods on these external skill manuals, Qin Yu wants to find some suitable methods for himself from here.

  Suddenly, Qin Yu's gaze was involuntarily drawn to the only golden page in the secret books. Among the ninety-six secret books, only one was made of gold paper, shining with a dazzling golden light, and it was naturally eye-catching - the "Ancestral Dragon Manual".

  An idea suddenly appeared in Qin Yu's mind.

  "At first, I didn't succeed in cultivating my inner strength, but now that I've been exercising for over a year, I'm much stronger than before. Maybe the problem with my dantian will automatically disappear." Qin Yu thought to himself, after all, people who are generally sick and then cultivate their skills usually have their illnesses automatically disappear.

  But Qin Yu had forgotten, his dantian was different from ordinary people, that wasn't an illness, but something innate.

  Ke Qin Yu was still a child and had always hoped for his strength to increase rapidly, having such thoughts was normal.

  "In any case, let's give it a try first. It won't waste much time anyway." Qin Yu immediately sat cross-legged on the bed, took up the "Ancestral Dragon Manual" and began to cultivate according to the contents of the first chapter. His mind was empty and clear, entering a state of profound emptiness...

  In just a moment, Qin Yu felt the spiritual energy of heaven and earth being absorbed into his body, turning into a hot flow, which was much larger than the one from more than a year ago.

  "Sure enough, the body is strong and absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth much faster. Start running the small week." Qin Yu immediately controlled the hot flow in his body with his mind, following the trajectory of the Small Week of the "Ancestral Dragon Classic", the hot flow constantly changed and was then merged into the dantian.

  Qin Yu's heart was stirred with excitement as he carefully sensed whether this small amount of inner energy would disperse.

  "Don't disperse, don't disperse." Qin Yu's heart was filled with anticipation, his attention even more focused, all his spirit fully sensing this small stream of inner energy. Extreme training, the most tempering for one's spirit, Qin Yu's long period of training had made his spiritual power far stronger than ordinary people, and many times stronger than when he first started cultivating.

  He clearly felt the inner force spreading slowly from his dantian, and then dispersing in all directions along his limbs.

  "Alas, failed again." Qin Yu sighed in his heart.

  Suddenly——

  "Not possible!" Qin Yu's eyes widened as if he had discovered a shocking secret, his entire spirit focused on the scattered internal energy. Although most of it had dispersed into space from his limbs and body, surprisingly, some of it had actually merged into his muscles and bones.

  To put it accurately, Qin Yu's muscles and bones were like sand, while his internal energy was like flowing water. The water flowed over the sand but still absorbed a portion of it. This is a principle: although internal energy flows out into the external world, some of its energy is still absorbed.

  Qin Yu's eyes lit up instantly.

  "Great, great, great!" Qin Yu's whole body trembled with excitement. "Absorbing the medicinal wine's effect, although it allows my body's muscles to be replenished, how can it compare to internal energy? I'm unable to accumulate internal energy, yet my muscles are able to absorb internal energy, making my muscles stronger and allowing me to cultivate external skills faster and more quickly!"

  Qin Yu was extremely excited at this moment, and he could even hear his heart beating violently.

  "My king, I will definitely succeed." Qin Yu's eyes shone with a fierce light, and for the first time, he was so confident.

  Qin Yu's arduous and dark journey of cultivating external skills was about to be illuminated by a glimmer of dawn...