"Finger Force, the best way is to practice One Finger Zen with a one-handed handstand. However, your Finger Force is still too weak, so start by training as the Iron Sand Palm method dictates. Here is the Heavenly Silkworm Silk set; wear it first. When training your Finger Force, be careful not to damage the skin and muscles on your hands." Zhao Yunxing threw the pre-prepared Heavenly Silkworm Silk set to Qin Yu.
Qin Yu immediately received the Heavenly Silkworm Silk set with glee and put it on.
"This is beach white sand. Use your hands to shovel with all your might, keep shoveling, and only stop when I tell you to," Zhao Yunxing pointed to the white sand in an iron pot not far away.
"Yes, Teacher!"
Qin Yu instead took the training as a game. Although his legs were indeed sore and painful, he endured the pain and gritted his teeth to walk to the iron pot ten meters away. Wearing the Heavenly Silkworm Silk set, he kept shoveling relentlessly, every shovel a maximum effort.
"Ah!"
Qin Yu couldn't help but groan, even though the Heavenly Silkworm Silk could protect his fingers. The sand merely couldn't touch his fingers, but shoveling with one hand, the force still applied to his hand.
The rapid shoveling and the force from the white sand gradually caused Qin Yu's fingers to hurt terribly. Unintentionally, Qin Yu began to lessen the depth of his shovels. Initially, he shoveled to the bottom, but now he stretched out mid-way, which was much easier.
"Shovel to the bottom; don't be lazy."
Zhao Yunxing said coldly.
Qin Yu felt a jolt in his heart and could only grit his teeth and continue to endure.
Although Qin Yu liked the feeling of surpassing limits, the piercing pain in his fingers, as they are all connected, caused him genuine agony. After all, he was just an eight-year-old child and the third son of Prince Zhen Dong, never having suffered this much due to his prestigious status.
"Pfft!"
The shovel suddenly hit the bottom, and the intense pain made tears involuntarily stream down Qin Yu's face.
Zhao Yunxing looked on coldly. Watching the eight-year-old child tearfully and defiantly continue to shovel the sand, Zhao Yunxing seemed completely unsympathetic, still making demands...
With tears, but still shoveling.
...
The training had already lasted six months, and daily exercises, along with an increased food intake, had significantly strengthened Qin Yu's body.
At a waterfall on Donglan Mountain.
"Ha!"
Zhao Yunxing kicked out, sending several large rocks flying down the waterfall. In a moment, a platform formed by several rocks appeared below the waterfall, and the water cascading from a height crashed onto the rock surface, causing countless white splashes.
"Your legs must be as solid as a mountain, quick as lightning. This waterfall isn't considered large, with the squatting you've done for so long, your leg strength should enable you to stand firm in horse stance under this waterfall," Zhao Yunxing pointed to a slate rock and said, "Stand on it, make sure to stand firm."
"Not considered a large waterfall?" Qin Yu looked at the waterfall plunging from an incredible height, its massive force hitting the rocks and creating a thunderous roar. If such a waterfall isn't considered large, what kind of waterfall is?
After six months of squat training, Qin Yu's leg muscles had become far stronger than before.
"Yes!" Qin Yu immediately stepped slowly to the edge of the slate, where the waterfall plunged down. The pressure at the edge of the slate wasn't too great. Standing on the edge, in horse stance, he was still able to resist the pressure relatively easily.
"Move to the center," Zhao Yunxing ordered coldly.
With no choice, Qin Yu slowly moved his steps towards the center. The closer he got to the center, the stronger the water's impact force became. Qin Yu already felt his body swaying, but he had to reach the central position.
"Not good!"
Qin Yu felt his body sway, and unable to support himself, he was abruptly thrust into the lake.
"Continue!" Zhao Yunxing said indifferently.
...
As night fell, Qin Yu lay in the hot spring, his eyes squinted comfortably. Soaking in the hot spring each day had become Qin Yu's greatest pleasure. He had not felt this way in the past, but now, after pushing himself to the limit daily, entering the hot spring brought a delightful soreness to all his muscles.
Little Black had only grown a little in half a year, yet golden feathers had surprisingly appeared on top of its head, while the rest of it remained black. Little Black's growth rate was much slower than ordinary eagles', and at the moment, it was also beside the hot spring, moving around aimlessly.
Qin Yu fell asleep, right there in the hot spring.
Every day he trained during the daytime and soaked in the hot spring for six hours at night. He had specially fixed a lounge chair in the hot spring to sleep in it, and in the late hours of the night, Weng Xian, a medical expert, would help him with massages and apply medicinal liquor. At that time, Qin Yu could read some books.
One could say, he wasted no minute of his time.
By the hot spring, suddenly appeared two figures, Lian Yan and Zhao Yunxing, both watching Qin Yu deep in sleep.
"Little Yu is not even nine years old; he's still a child," Lian Yan said, feeling a surge of affection as he watched the drool glistening at the corners of Qin Yu's mouth and his still juvenile face. Having raised Qin Yu from a young age, Lian Yan truly regarded him as his own grandson.
Zhao Yunxing, with a rare smile, nodded and said, "Little Yu is a very strong child. The training I give him is absolutely his real limit. Exceeding this limit might break his body. And yet, he has managed to keep up... When Prince Zhen Dong once ordered me to train his troops, I conducted extreme training with an army of one hundred thousand, pushing them to a normal soldier's limit. But only a thousand could endure it for a year."
Zhao Yunxing's military training differed primarily because ordinary soldiers did not have access to precious medicinal diets, nor soaking in hot springs to relieve fatigue, nor specialized medical experts to provide massages, et cetera.
However…
Those soldiers were all adults, whereas Qin Yu was only a child. That a child could persist was indeed surprising and gratifying to Zhao Yunxing.
Watching Qin Yu asleep, Lian Yan and Zhao Yunxing walked away smiling, leaving Qin Yu still asleep, blissfully unaware of their presence. His mouth slightly open, his face bore a sweet, contented smile, and the thread of drool on his lips was crystal clear.
Perhaps... in his dreams, he was with his father.
His father had not visited in almost two years.
...
Weighted running training, weighted squat training, horse stance training under a waterfall, continuous explosive training under resistant conditions, boxing in water against water resistance, all-day movement in weighted gear, flexibility training, finger strength training, responsiveness training, speed training…
All these training methods were organized in a certain regimen. Zhao Yunxing provided comprehensive training for Qin Yu. Under Zhao Yunxing's training, Qin Yu continually broke through his physiological limits, and his physical skills rapidly improved.
A year later.
The nine-year-old Qin Yu, wearing long pants and with his torso bare, displayed muscles that were not bulging but nearly perfect in streamline, resembling a cheetah.
"Qin Yu, your will is very strong. In extreme training, nothing is more important than a strong will," Zhao Yunxing looked at Qin Yu with an unprecedented smile, "Your teacher has to return to the army now. Remember, the limit, challenge the limit, surpass the limit. As long as you keep working hard, one day you will succeed."
Qin Yu looked at his teacher. Over the past year, he had even secretly resented his teacher's ruthlessness; Qin Yu always trained until he cried. But today, seeing the contented smile on his teacher's face, he suddenly understood everything.
"Teacher, I will not disappoint you," Qin Yu said firmly to Zhao Yunxing.
Zhao Yunxing nodded with a smile, then suddenly turned around and strode away, directly exiting Cloud Mist Villa. Accompanied by the roar of a tiger, Fierce Tiger, Qin Yu's eyes welled up slightly. He knew, from today on…
he would be training alone.