Chapter 155: Special Training Mode

Gu Fatty's ultimate counterattack mode lasted for a full two hours and more.

Nearly ten thousand mischievous mystic beast cubs had been thoroughly tortured by him, and all of them were now sprawled out on the ground in all directions, panting heavily.

After giving them half an incense stick of time to rest, Gu Fatty, who had already dismissed his primordial energy spheres, forcibly pulled a solemn expression over his handsome little face, which had previously been beaming with joy.

"Ahem, listen up, everyone. Remember, from now on, you will all address this Deputy Chief Instructor as Boss!"

"As your Chief Instructor—though a deputy one—this Boss naturally needs to shoulder the responsibility of helping you all advance your cultivation!"

"Next up is your first special training task!"

With those words, Gu Fatty combined his spiritual sense with his mental power and swept across the training ground in a flash, sealing the cultivation of every single mystic beast cub.

"This Boss will not personally lift the seals on your cultivation for you."

"Starting from today, all of you will carry mountains. Whenever your cultivation automatically breaks through by one rank, the seal on your body will shatter on its own."

"And those who successfully break their seals on their own will be qualified to enter this Boss's second special training task!"

"Now, target! The mountain range thirty thousand miles to the west!"

"All personnel, listen up! Move out with the Boss!"

Though puzzled, the mystic beast cubs, well aware that Gu Fatty possessed terrifying combat prowess despite only being at the Golden Core stage, raised no objections whatsoever to having their cultivation sealed.

At the command, relying entirely on their robust physical bodies, they began to charge across the earth with a rumbling sound, heading toward the distant mountain ranges.

"Faster, faster!"

"You, you, and you over there, how can you still be falling behind?"

"Bang!"

"Roar!"

Gu Fatty hovered in mid-air to supervise, occasionally shouting for them to accelerate and accelerate again, and at other times lingering at the tail end of the procession, raising his foot to kick the rears of one, two, countless lagging mystic beast cubs.

Thirty thousand miles was certainly a long distance, but it was nothing out of the ordinary for these mystic beast cubs.

Because their cultivation was sealed and they were being driven along in a mad dash, it was undeniably tiring, extremely tiring, and overwhelmingly exhausting.

At this moment, Gu Fatty acted like a dedicated sheepdog, running all around the flock of nearly ten thousand to herd and urge them onward, refusing to let a single one fall behind.

"Hurry up, we are almost there, everyone pick up the pace!"

Up ahead, Gu Fatty kept urging them on; in the middle, the mighty and massive main force was putting forth every ounce of strength to sprint wildly; far behind them, Bai Ling'er and Lü Xinrou followed at a distance, filled with curiosity.

When the mystic beast cubs finally reached their destination, every single one of them was panting with their tongues hanging out, breathing heavily, and glaring at Gu Fatty with wide eyes.

"Snap to it! I'll give you twenty breaths of time to catch your breath and adjust."

"Roar!"

"Got complaints? What's this, you brat want to be a coward?"

"Roar!"

"That's right, that's a good boy."

"Now, scatter and find yourselves suitable peaks!"

"Remember, rank-one beasts carry one ton, rank-two beasts carry two tons, rank-three beasts carry four tons, and rank-four beasts carry eight tons!"

Just as nearly ten thousand mystic beast cubs wore bitter expressions upon hearing this, Lü Xinrou, who was standing in mid-air, let out a cold snort. Hearing it, they scattered in all directions as if facing a formidable enemy, scurrying off to find suitable mountain peaks.

The space of a single cup of tea later, the nearly ten thousand mystic beast cubs—some tackling small hilltops individually, others collaborating to knock down large peaks—had each hoisted a mountain peak suited to their strength onto their backs, forming a long winding line.

"Starting now, run or fly around the inner circle of the thick fog! Keep running or flying until you collapse or pass out. The thousand beasts that run the fewest laps will get no dinner tonight."

"Roar, roar, roar, roar..."

The moment Gu Fatty finished speaking, under Lü Xinrou's stern gaze, nearly ten thousand mystic beast cubs began a frantic circular charge. Billowing dust rose like smoke, and the ground and boulders trembled violently as if in an earthquake.

"Miss Xinrou, since you are the Chief Instructor, I'll leave the supervision to you."

"By the way, since you are the master of this place, contact the outside to have some spiritual herbs and medicinal plants transported over."

"What for?"

"To refine pills, of course. Did you expect me to eat them raw?"

"Uh..."

Lü Xinrou produced a milky-white jade slip and gave a few brief instructions. Before long, two figures emanating the powerful auras of fifth-rank experts appeared high in the sky, truly delivering a massive quantity of medicinal herbs of various ranks, piled up like several mountain peaks.

Gu Fatty cupped his fists in a salute and wasted no time, diving straight into the mountain of herbs to sort and categorize them.

Next, with a wave of Gu Fatty's hand, fifty large cauldrons arranged themselves in a circle and lined up sequentially.

Countless dragons formed from fire- and wood-attribute spiritual energy roared across the sky and plunged into the cauldrons, instantly raising the surrounding temperature significantly.

Handfuls of spiritual herbs were flicked into the fifty large cauldrons, where they were refined into liquid. The art of revolving and condensing pills came to him as naturally as breathing, and furnace after furnace of various-ranked medicinal pills were successfully refined, every single one of them being of supreme quality.

There were Qi Recovery Pills, Origin Replenishing Pills, Sky Cloud Pills...

The piles of herbs decreased, while the piles of pills grew. Bai Ling'er, who had long since grown used to this, remained unperturbed, but Lü Xinrou was genuinely shocked yet again.

Over an hour later, Gu Fatty finally stopped. Opening his eyes, he looked at the distant mystic beast cubs that were still frantically running or marching forward, and then glanced at the massive pile of refined pills beside him. He nodded in satisfaction.

Putting away the cauldrons, the unflappable Gu Fatty floated into the air, standing with his hands clasped behind his back beside the two women with a slight smile at the corners of his mouth. Bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun, he looked the absolute picture of a dashing and handsome young gentleman.

Lü Xinrou stared in a daze, while Bai Ling'er covered her mouth and smiled knowingly.

"Roar, roar, roar, roar..."

"Screech, screech..."

Another two hours later, rank-one and even rank-two cubs had started to fall behind, and even a small number of rank-three flying mystic beast cubs had to stop and rest their breath multiple times.

All the other mystic beasts still pushing forward were moving at speeds far slower than before.

Yet even so, not a single mystic beast cub dared to truly discard the mountain peak on its back, because they all knew that the demonic Lü Xinrou was watching them.

To them, going without food was a trivial matter, but incurring the wrath of their Sister Lü was a catastrophe.

"They all seem quite afraid of you?!"

"Is that so? This lady is so gentle and virtuous, how could they possibly be afraid of a little maiden like me?"

"Is that true?"

"It has to be!"

"Alright, is it just my imagination then? That shouldn't be..."

Time passed quickly, yet for the mystic beast cubs, it felt agonizingly slow.

The first day of special training lasted until the sun sank behind the western mountains and night fell before it finally ceased. By this point, not a single beast cub could remain standing; every one of them wore an expression of utter despair beneath their furry faces, exhausted in both body and mind.

Just as Gu Fatty had guessed, though these cubs were mischievous, they were also truly determined. Quite a few beast cubs really did bite down hard and carry their burdens until they collapsed and passed out from exhaustion, and Alu as well as A Mei were no exception.

With a grand wave of Gu Fatty's hand, nearly ten thousand pre-prepared medicinal pills exploded into powdery mist above their heads, raining down upon them.

All the mystic beast cubs, as if discovering some delectable delicacy, opened their mouths wide and inhaled deeply. Many simply stuck out their large tongues to lick the air greedily, while for those who had passed out, the immense medicinal power directly seeped into their bodies.

"Not bad, your performance today is barely passable."

"Roar, roar..."

Hearing this, countless mystic beast cubs lodged endless protests, accompanied by looks of profound grievance in their eyes.

"Oh, it seems none of you are convinced? Back in the day, your Boss here possessed strength capable of uprooting mountains and pulling rivers, a slash of my blade could sever water, and shaking peaks and moving mountains was mere child's play for me..."

Seeing Gu Fatty start spinning yarns and boasting again, Bai Ling'er turned her head away in embarrassment to look at the petal-like evening glow in the distance. Lü Xinrou, on the other hand, found this quite novel and listened with great relish.

After all the unconscious mystic beast cubs had regained consciousness, Gu Fatty waved his hand again, and another ten thousand supreme-grade spiritual pills were orderly distributed right in front of every beast's mouth, snapped up or inhaled into their mouths by the beasts.

Although the mystic beasts were still thoroughly exhausted, they felt noticeably more refreshed and comfortable than before, with a sharp glint returning to their eyes.

"Gurgle, gurgle..."

With their cultivation sealed and their physical strength drained, the bellies of the cubs also began to emit strange gurgling noises at that moment, sounding like muffled thunder.

Gu Fatty happily looked at Lü Xinrou. Lü Xinrou immediately understood, took out her jade slip, and began arranging for food. Of course, the thousand or so cubs who had run the fewest laps were left with no choice but to watch with wide, eager eyes and watering mouths.

When night fell, at Gu Fatty's request, all the mystic beast cubs simply slumped down right where they stood with the mountain peaks still on their backs and began to snore loudly, their snores resounding like thunder.

As for the three of them, they returned straight to the wooden cabin, exchanged pleasantries, and went back to their respective rooms to enter a state of cultivation.

...

As dawn broke and after a night of rest and recuperation, when the three of them returned to the training ground, they found that the mystic beast cubs were still fast asleep.

"Humph!"

Lü Xinrou let out a cold snort that echoed thunderously across the entire training ground. All the mystic beast cubs jerked awake as if jolted by lightning and scrambled to their feet in a flash, the mountain peaks on many of the beasts swaying violently and nearly losing balance.

Gu Fatty opened his eyes wide in awe and dropped his jaw as he stared at Lü Xinrou, causing her face to flush red. Deep down, she cursed herself repeatedly for failing to keep her composure. She had only managed to maintain her impeccable lady-like image for a single day... surely it wasn't ruined just like that?!

"Impressive! As expected of the Chief Instructor... the real deal!"

"Little ones, back to the drill! Start running!"

Hearing Gu Fatty's words, the nearly ten thousand mystic beast cubs, as if granted a general amnesty, immediately scrambled and sprinted desperately toward the inner circle of thick fog.

There were roars of beasts once again, billowing dust filling the air, and the ground and stones trembling violently...

"Fatty, can training them like this actually yield results?"

"Rest assured, this is only the first step. Your little brother here has plenty of ultimate moves lined up for later, more than enough to satisfy everyone."

Although it had only been a day, Lü Xinrou had grown familiar with Gu Fatty and Bai Ling'er, and she had started calling him Fatty just like Bai Ling'er did.

Hearing Gu Fatty's answer delivered with a slightly exaggerated expression, Lü Xinrou immediately began to doubt: Was this training method reliable? Was it truly reliable? Why did it look so completely unreliable?

Yet inside the training ground, an obvious phenomenon was taking place: today, the cubs carrying mountain peaks as they ran their laps seemed much more at ease than yesterday.

Even the flying mystic beast cubs, who were not suited for brute physical strength and favored speed as king, were now darting much faster than yesterday despite the mountain peaks on their backs.

Time flew by. As the mystic beast cubs completed lap after lap, they seemed to have already caught up to yesterday's total lap count, yet their momentum showed no signs of stopping, continuing to dash forward as if they still had plenty of stamina left.

This genuinely shocked Lü Xinrou, who had harbored doubts just moments before.

"Not bad, everyone's performance today is acceptable."

"Though it still can't compare to your Boss here back in the day, you've all shown clear improvement compared to yourselves yesterday."

"Therefore, today's reward will be one extra spiritual pill per beast."

"Roar, roar, roar, roar..."

With a wave of Gu Fatty's hand, a massive shower of medicinal pills rained down like pearls, which the nearly ten thousand mystic beast cubs greedily swallowed into their mouths like cows chewing peonies, crunching them to pieces before the pills could even dissolve on their own.