A few days later, Grabdmaster had decided to teach at Shrek Academy to help the students improve at their weak points.
Finally, after a few days, it was combag training.
"Today officially begins your intensive training. Liu Yan, Xiao San. You two will spar first." Grandmaster ordered, his hands clasped behind his back.
"Remember not to wound the tendons or the bones." He finished announcing the rules set before stepping back.
"Liu Yan, just like old times. I want to see the difference in our abilities." Tang San said with determination. back in Notting Academy, Liu Yan and Fu Tian dominated for the spot of strongest.
"Heh, we shall see." Liu Yan smiled before taking his stance.
Shaak
Blue silver grass grew and shot at Liu Yan, prompting him to duck down.
The blue silver grass was now a purple-ish colour. Looking even thicker than back then.
Shaak, shaak.
Tang San sent waves amd waves of poisonous blue silver grass, trying to trap Liu Yan in a cage.
"Be careful!" Liu Yan said as he suddenly grabbed one of them, yanking them out of the ground and attempting to slam it into Tang San.
"Parasite!" Tang San dodged and yelled out, Blue silver grass grew out of Liu Yan. They were sturdy, but not as sturdy as a Assault-Defense soul master.
Snap
Liu Yan outputted more soul power, snapping the blue silver grass and dashing at Tang San.
"Third soul skill: Binding Spider Web!" Tang San used his third soul skill, throwing out a web of blue silver grass.
"That would have caught me off guard, but I know your moves!" Liu Yan thought as he created crystals forming a hand, swatting away the web.
"What?!" Tang San felt lost for a moment, his best control skill, swatted away.
"You're third soul skill gave me an idea, Xiao San!" Liu Yan jumped over the hand before throwing a small crystal ball, intentionally missing Tang San and landing behind him.
Crystal tendrils shot out and flexibly wrapped around Tang San, mimicking a control type soul master's abilities.
Thud
Liu Yan didn't stop, he landed and swiftly created a crystal sword and swung it, stopping it right at Tang San's neck.
"You lost."
Stunned silence.
"Creation soul skills are hard to come by, Liu Yan really lucked out. He has utilised it very well." Grandmaster accessed the battle very quickly.
He was impressed, talent is simply a boost, if you can utilise it. Hardly anyone could stop you.
"Liu Yan wins!" Grandmaster declared.
"Next up, Ma HongJun and Tang San against Dai MuBai and Xiao Wu." Grandmaster continued.
After a few more battles, everyone was tired. They were ready to be dismissed and end their classes.
Grabdmaster however, was not letting them off.
"Stop! What are you all doing! None of you are taking this seriously." Grandmaster said with anger.
"With such lousy performances, all you will get punishments!" He shouted.
"That's not fair! Fatty and Oscar were flying around and I wasn't at my peak!" Dai MuBai argued. He had been sparring back to back to back.
"If you were encountering an enemy, would they fight you at your peak?" Grandmaster said, shutting MuBai up.
"You couldn't eacape from Tang San's soul skills, even letting a support soul master escape. With such actions, do you believe you can survive in a battle to the death?!"
"Ma HongJun, why did you let Oscar fly down alone?! Don't you know that support soul masters are most important to protect?!"
"Oscar, why did you go down alone and notify Ma HongJun so late?! A support soul master's main objective in battle is to survive and help your teammates. If you put yourself in harms way, do you expect them to save you every time?!" Grandmaster continued furiously.
"Tang San, how could you be so foolish to fall for Xiao Wu's charm skill?! You are too focused on emotions!"
Grandmaster took a few deep breaths, before continuing.
"Xiao Wu, I reckon your third soul skill is from the lightning rabbit, isn't it."
Xiao Wu nodded, still giggling.
"But playing around in battle is a big sin! You could very well die in a real battle!"
"Liu Yan, you did well in countering Xiao San's third soul skill. But you still let him use it! One of the biggest disadvantages is not knowing your opponent's moves, you should not have let him use it in the first place." Grandmaster said, this time not as angrily as the others.
"Blind! Cocky! Is this what you call geniuses?!" Grandmaster said more fiercely again, before having ran to the entrance of the academy.
"Your punishment is to walk the 'Devil's Road' with weights! You must reach Soto City by dark. No soul power at all!" Grandmaster ordered.
All of them reluctantly put on the weights and began jogging.
"To run the devil's road without soul power and having weights. What if they die?" Flender appeared behind Grandmaster, questioning his training methods.
"Don't worry, I've calculated their strengths… They must learn teamwork, but I suspect with Liu Yan's constant body refining training. He might do this solo." Grandmaster was not too clear of Liu Yan's current body condition.
"MuBai, Liu Yan, we have to wait for them." Tang San said as he looked back at the others.
Pant, Pant, Pant
"Damn it… I'm really going to die like this." Ma HongJun collapsed the moment he caught up.
"This is too hard. It won't hurt if we use a little bit of soul power right?" RongRong said as she wiped away her sweat
"That's not going to fool Grandmaster. Dean Flender is probably watching nearby again." Liu Yan spoke up, reminding everyone of the 'incident'.
"…" RongRong said nothing and merely nodded.
"I think Teacher is actually testing us… even though Ying Xuan, RongRong and ZhuQing didn't participate in the match. They still got punished." Tang San pondered before concluding that this was a test.
Everyone checked the rocks in their bags, indeed Tang San was right. There were more rocks in physically stronger members and less in physically weaker members.
"How about this? We all will follow the slowest person, so that we can conserve our energy. If we can't continue, then we pass some rocks to the person behind you." Tang San suggested.
"Great idea!" Oscar perked up immediately.
"I don't think I can take anymore rocks though" Liu Yan added
Everyone looked at him in confusion. Upon closer inspection, they realised that he's bag was filled to the brim with rocks. Adding more would just cause those to fall off the bag.
"Why do you have so much?! And yet you still loon so energetic?!" Ma HongJun asked in shock.
Liu Yan scratched his head in embarrassment.
"Well you see, my martial soulhas actual weight. When I awakened it for the first time, it weighed about 50 jin each. It increased with my soul power, that's why I always train my body. With my current level of 36… it should weigh around… 150 jin per gauntlet."
Ma HongJun almost fell down from the number, Liu Yan had been punching and kicking with something with the weight of 150 jin!
After a moment of rest, they were all filled with determination, they jogged and jogged.
By 2.00 pm, they were two hundred and eighty kilometres away from the entrance of shrek.
The devil's road was about four hundred kilometres long.
Things were looking dire.
Throughout the whole way, they kept exchanging their rocks, even Liu Yan had to give away some of his weight.
Right before the the sun had set, the students of shrek walked to the gates of Soto City, arms in arms.
Grandmaster stood there and smiled.
"Grandmaster, we did it." Dai MuBai spoke before they all fell onto the ground from exhaustion.
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