71: Chapter 71 Training Gu Yue
“Also, look at Zhi Zhi, who only has a Black Iron Rank Ten Rank, but with a Bronze Rank Talent. With the help of a Bronze Rank true spirit artifact, she can barely exchange a few blows with a Bronze Level One monster.
Gu Yue, you girl must be thoroughly trained. From now on, every day when you return, you must practice. Fang Yuan kid, I’m giving this task to you.”
Li Yuxuan still couldn't ignore Gu Yue's poor combat skills, so she assigned her another task.
Every time they returned, she had to continue training for several hours until eleven at night.
Of course, Li Yuxuan couldn't accompany Gu Yue herself for this task; her primary responsibility was her niece, so the two of them naturally wouldn't do it.
Of the remaining two, Lin Zhizhi's Rank was too low and unsuitable, so this task could only be assigned to Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan, who was implicated, could only silently accept it. There was no other way; after all, the other party was the boss, and he was just a small fry now.
“Okay!”
As for the protagonist who was to be trained, Gu Yue couldn't refuse either, only responding in a low voice.
“It’s still early, let’s continue to find monsters to fight.”
After speaking, Li Yuxuan continued to lead Squad of four, ensuring their safety while allowing them to hone their combat skills.
During this time, she didn't forget Gu Yue, the combat idiot; each time, she would specifically leave a monster for her to slowly adapt to combat.
Perhaps Li Yuxuan's lessons had an effect; Gu Yue's performance after that was barely passable... “Remember, you must practice for four hours.”
After returning to Sea City's Inner City through the passage, Li Yuxuan specifically admonished her, then left with her niece.
“Cousin, Sister Yueyue, I’ll be leaving too.”
After they left, Lin Zhizhi also said goodbye to the two. Staying here wouldn't help much, and she also needed to improve her strength quickly, so she had to eat food cooked from monster ingredients.
“Sister Gu Yue, let’s start now.”
With the departure of the three, Fang Yuan began to carry out the task Li Yuxuan had assigned him.
The location of the two was the Martial Training Area in the northern part of Sea City, which had many empty plazas for people to train.
A man and a woman quickly came to a small plaza and picked up the wooden swords provided for training.
“Come on, don’t go easy on me.”
Gu Yue also wanted to improve her combat skills; after all, she didn't want to keep her disastrous combat skills forever.
“Good!”
As the two finished speaking, the training for Gu Yue began.
Initially, Fang Yuan maintained his strength at around 3,600 points, fighting Gu Yue with the same strength as her.
He truly didn't go easy on her as she wished. With the same strength, Gu Yue suffered blow after blow.
At this moment, Fang Yuan transformed into a ruthless instructor, correcting Gu Yue's combat posture while fighting her.
Gu Yue truly deserved to be the person who made Li Yuxuan angry; her combat skills were truly abysmal. Fang Yuan easily parried her attacks.
He didn't go easy on her just because she was a great beauty. The wooden sword in his hand repeatedly struck Gu Yue's body, making her gasp in pain.
“Continue.”
After being hit several times, Gu Yue shouted to continue. The wooden sword hitting her body was painful, but this injury was nothing for her, who was already Bronze Level Two; she would recover by tomorrow.
Seeing her so full of fighting spirit, Fang Yuan couldn't help but nod. Such an attitude was what training should look like.
Next, it was Fang Yuan's absolute crushing of Gu Yue. With the same strength, she couldn't even touch him, yet his wooden sword could accurately strike her body.
An hour later.
“Hoo~, I can’t anymore!”
The girl, aching and exhausted, lay sprawled on the ground, disregarding her image. At this moment, her entire body below her face was red and swollen, with only her face unharmed.
Every minute of that hour, she was struck by the wooden sword several times.
“Hiss~, you really don’t know how to cherish and pity women.”
Lying on the ground, Gu Yue felt as if she was falling apart, her whole body aching. She then looked at Fang Yuan, who was sitting on the ground, with a resentful gaze.
Fang Yuan was oblivious to this. When the other party said to stop, he had already started his own business, taking out a crystal core to absorb its energy.
These past few days, his 【Source Devour】 had devoured enough Origin energy, and his strength had increased to 4,600 points.
Fang Yuan
Rank: Bronze Level One (73%)
True Spirit Talent: Origin Devouring (Silver)
Talent: Origin Enhancement (28.2%)
What Fang Yuan was more concerned about was another thing: after absorbing the Origin of hundreds of Bronze Level One, Two, and Three monsters, the progress of another unknown aspect had greatly improved, almost reaching thirty percent.
It had been five days since he Broke through to the Bronze Rank. These days, he would take time to absorb crystal cores. Now, he was less than thirty percent away from Breaking through to Bronze Level Two.
At this rate, he would be able to Breakthrough the night after tomorrow.
“Fang Yuan, what are you doing?”
Gu Yue, lying on the ground, saw that the other party was ignoring her. Feeling a bit bored, she continued to ask.
As she spoke, she barely propped herself up and slowly came to sit beside Fang Yuan, curiously looking at the young man who had made her like this.
“Absorbing crystal core energy, Sister Gu Yue, you have twenty minutes to rest.”
Feeling the person beside him approach, Fang Yuan calmly uttered a sentence. After speaking, he ignored everything else and continued to absorb crystal core energy.
“...!”
Upon hearing this, Gu Yue looked at the young man in front of her with her large, dark eyes, full of curiosity. Directly absorbing crystal cores? Could this be a secret of his?
She couldn't believe that someone like Fang Yuan, who could obtain 300,000 energy points every week, would absorb crystal core energy because he was short on money.
Clearly, there was a secret she didn't know.
Gu Yue didn't delve deeper into this secret. She dragged her heavy body to a shop and bought some water and energy-replenishing food.
After buying things and returning, she placed a portion of them in front of Fang Yuan, while she herself ate her share beside him, grimacing.
“Alright, let’s continue.”
Twenty minutes later, Fang Yuan got up on time. The crystal core in his hand had noticeably faded due to half of its energy being lost.
“You should eat something first.”
At this moment, Gu Yue's energy had almost recovered, though she looked very disheveled. Seeing Fang Yuan prepare to continue, she quickly pointed at the pile of food and water on the ground and said.
Seeing the food on the ground, Fang Yuan didn't stand on ceremony. He grabbed it and quickly began to eat.
Gu Yue watched him with an inquisitive gaze. Although she didn't want to delve deeper into his secret.
However, curiosity eventually emerged. She had clearly seen the crystal core's color become much lighter just now.