Cheng Lee Built up his strength and power but he wasn't the only one, the top five never trained anymore since they reached their rankings seeing how no one really contested them and they were busy running guild and running around to train properly.
But Zeus felt like he got humiliated he wanted to train, he wanted to make Cheng beg for mercy. He wanted to humiliate Cheng the same way he was humiliated.
So Zeus took a hand full of other Olympians and went to train leaving the guild in the hands of the weaker Olympians.
They went to the mountains to train, the Olympians spread out to were they could get the most effective training done for themselves. Zeus was at the very top, Apollo trained in the woods close to the top working on air combat and strength training. Then Athena, Right below her was Poseidon who trained beside a lake on the mountain. Then at the base of the mountain was Hermes running trying to get even faster. In a cave in the center of the mountain was Hades who trained his connection to the dark arts and necromancy.
They all had two orbs each they placed on a cloth as they trained their bodies, The orbs absorbed the natural energy in the air. Each orb absorbed a different type of natural energy they used these orbs to collect the energy as they trained.
Zeus was focused on his skills and each day that passed he would spar with a different Olympian. Building his sense of fighting and seeing his strength grow with time. He learned a new skill witch increased his lightnings strength based on the times he has been hit by lightning and the strength of the lightning.
So every day he would strike himself with his strongest lightning bolts until he couldn't with stand it becoming stronger. He trained his body up so it could with stand the blows and he could survive the barrage.
His strength grew and so did his wisdom as he learned to control eagles and see through their eyes where he could learn what was going on out side. He tracked the other big five and saw what they were doing.
Zeus felt like he let himself down and everyone made him into a laughing stock seeing how they all went to his aid and Cheng Lee lost all his original strength.
He couldn't understand why he lost his strength in the trial no one in the past lost their strength, and after going back he saw the trial wasn't there anymore which meant Chang Lee completed it.
He believed Chang must have sacrificed his strength to beat the golem and pass the trial. Cheng must have found some way to boost his strength for a short period of time but has to recover afterwards.
'Maybe he was still recovering.' Zeus thought to himself, either way he needed to become stronger and he needed his fellow men to become stronger as well.
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Back in the forest where Cheng Lee was training a eagle sat watching him seeing any change in his training style to see if how he got so strong so fast.
Cheng Lee was focused on cultivating his inner soul and his dragon physique. It seemed his inner planet shrunk and become more dense as if something had compressed it with a weight in gravity. Rin noticed this change as it got harder for her to move but she used this to help her train her body. she found it use full.
Unknowing why, but it was the bloodline inside Cheng Lee growing so slightly. It would consume energy in Cheng's soul realm and strengthen his bones, his muscles, his skin, and his mind.
Cheng hadn't noticed the changes to his body as he cultivated the dragon physique and become stronger through its methods as well. His dragon seed had turned into a sapling as roots started to form deep within his soul planet.
Rin was also working on her human essence seed, so she can turn into a human and walk with Cheng instead of being in his soul realm where her cultivation was having a lack of energy to cultivate with.
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Zeus was confused to why Cheng Lee just sat there cultivating not training his body to handle that energy. Zeus then had a sudden idea as he sat down and got in a meditative state. He condensed the elemental energy in his body forming a planet made of lightning and earth.
He found there was so much more room to absorb energy into himself and condense it. Zeus then went down the mountain and informed everyone of his discovery. With the elemental orbs absorbing elemental energy while they trained their bodies.
Their strength grew even faster, finding they could do things they didn't think possible. All of their abilities more than doubled in strength. After training a few weeks like this the Olympians went back to the city. Stronger than ever before, Zeus walked with pride as he entered the city a few men walked up. It was the runner up to the big five it was the sixth strongest and his men.
"What do you want Robin." Zeus said with a stern look knowing he was probably here to fight.
"I'm here to take the fifth seat, everyone knows that you lost to a boy and that you've fell behind on your training." Robin replied with a grin.
Suddenly Robin went flying as a fist hit him across the face knocking him into a sales men's stand. "Does it look like I've fallen behind." Zeus roared as thunder came down from the sky hitting his men making them immobile and unable to move.
Robin barley able to get up after one hit looked at his men "You will pay for this!" He roared falling to the ground passing out.
Zeus walked back to his guild hall, and got to work on everyone's training. He told them not to inform any of the other guilds of their training technique and to become stronger then ever before. Zeus went into their guild vault and pulled out a scroll it read Lightning Physique, he unrolled it and started reading it carefully.