Chapter 125: When Li Huang asks for training
——(POV third person, Li Long and Li Huang)——
Even if you have a heart of steel, when no one could best her in a decade, you would think twice before challenging Su Zhi again. The cultivators of the divine central continent all knew about this event that was a daily routine now, to the point that it was harder to find some who didn't know about this than to find a cultivator at the Nirvana Realm.
Many would bet on the results and it was now an established entertainment across the whole continent. No one was betting on the winner as after the first fifty fights there was no doubt about Su Zhi being the winner, they were betting on how long the challenger would last in the fight before he would be knocked out.
It was such a big event that they created a leaderboard for it after the second month of the challenges. The leaderboard ranked the challengers by the time that they had lasted in the fight. On top of the leaderboard letters 'Su Zhi' were engraved and in front of it, her winning strike was shown. This leaderboard was shown in every major city in the divine central continent and the White Moon sect's reputation was at an all-time high in that decade.
As these fights were also considered training, Su Zhi's technique and movements were getting more refined by the day as these challengers were not your common cultivator with no backing and secret techniques.
Because of this, she accepted more challenges daily so that she can gain more from this and unknowingly wounded her challengers' pride more. The existence of a leaderboard that ranked the 'losers' also didn't help as even if you were ranked first you would only be the best loser, that is to say nothing of those 'geniuses' at the end of the leaderboard.
Luckily for those top geniuses of the other holy lands, they had fought with Su Zhi in multiple competitions so they knew better to even try challenging her so their pride was intact.
They could be angry all they wanted, It wouldn't change the fact that Su Zhi could fight multiple battles per day and still win. Many even would come to challenge again, not to win but to improve their record so that they won't be on the bottom ranks of the rankings. Being a loser amongst thousands of losers was fine but being the loser of the losers was too much for many to accept.
Years passed this way and every month less and less new challengers would be added to the rankings and only the veterans kept fighting to improve their scores and the hype around it slowly disappeared. At this point, marrying Su Zhi would be impossible and she was undoubtedly the top expert of her era so all these fights were getting more meaningless by the day.
The challenge still exists to this day but no one has tried it again as they don't feel confident to do so.
~'…After ten years Su Zhi had fought more than 20,000 times and she didn't even come close to losing a single one of them. Now are you still going to try and court her?'~ Li Long said as he was giving Li Huang a challenging look.
It would be an understatement to say that Li Huang was surprised by these pieces of information, but it didn't matter to him much that the others couldn't do it. When it is a fight in the same cultivation realm it all comes down to your skill so whoever lost to her simply had inferior skills when compared to Su Zhi.
'From what grandpa said, they couldn't even fight her for a couple of minutes in such a fair setting that shows her skills are top-notch.' Li Huang thought. It was clear to him that after this many fights Su Zhi would pick up a trick or two, so it wasn't shocking for her to be on the highest levels of martial arts in the world.
~'What is it, grandpa? Now that I want to train more, you of all people have something against it?'~ Li Huang sent this sound transmission as he looked at grandpa Long expectedly.
Li Long who saw that Huang didn't back away after this was somewhat proud as his grandson didn't deem it impossible just because others couldn't do it. Well, he can use this chance to train him with way more intensity so even if he were to lose that fight with grand elder Su Zhi, he has won because of how hard he has trained his body.
"Good, good, good. Then I will give you the best training so that you can get stronger in the shortest time possible." Li Long gave Li Huang a toothy grin as he slapped his back multiple times.
Li Huang laughed as he knew when it ended with him training more, his grandpa would agree to anything that he asks.
"We will talk later, I have to think of the hars— I mean the most effective training method…" Li Long said and left Li Huang as fast as he could because he almost had a slip of tongue.
Li Huang's smile froze on his lips as he hardly stopped himself from cursing his grandpa. He obviously knew that the most effective methods are usually the harshest methods but the way grandpa Long said it is implied that he was putting the harshness in front of the effectiveness.
Taking a deep breath Li Huang calmed himself and remembered something that he put in the back of his mind in the trials, the Ren twins.
When Li Huang saw them in the trial they didn't have the time to talk leisurely so he told them that they will be talking after the trial and told them to be careful. As they were stationed on the walls Li Huang had no interactions with them when they were fighting the beast hordes in the trial.
Looking around Li Huang tried to locate them. Passing by some other participants Li Huang used his Qi sense to locate the twins easier.
After a few seconds, he was able to find them as it seemed that they were waiting for an opportunity to come closer and talk to him. Now that they showed the storage ring that Li Huang gave them to their sect elders, they knew that this gift would cost more than they can ever pay for. Seeing this their master told them to go to 'young master Li' and ask him about it politely.
Li Huang went toward them and before he could say anything they bowed when they saw him.
"Young Master Li." Ren Tai said and Ren Ru was silent just like before the trial.
It wasn't hard for Li Huang to guess what had happened for them to act this way so he wasn't surprised by this. It was natural for them to panic a little as they didn't know his motivation for helping them after they got to know the real value of it.
Li Huang didn't do anything extra for them as all he gave them was the standard items that heavenly sword sect disciples had for this trial but that is above and beyond what a relatively small sect like the Green lake sect could offer their disciples.
"What happened to big brother, huh?" Li Huang asked as a joke because they called him big brother before.
This seemed to make them panic more as Ren Tai was thinking of a word to say.
"I…We…Uh…" he tried to form a sentence but his thoughts were so chaotic that he was unable to do so.
Seeing this Li Huang raised a hand to stop Ren Tai. He didn't want to create a drama as he still needed to do a few more things here so he directly told them his proposal.
"From what I have seen from you two, you are both very talented so I want you to be under my tutelage, what do you say?" Li Huang said. He wanted to give them training materials and cultivation resources so that they improve faster and in the end, he can gain two powerful followers.
The Ren twins were shell-shocked as they didn't see this coming at all. Getting this offer is what many disciples in the smaller sects strive for because if they were to get this offer from a big family they would gain many resources and their future in that family is guaranteed. Li Huang who saw this didn't give them time to comprehend the situation and continued.
"I will start by giving you the same amount of allowance as an inner core disciple of our heavenly sword sect. Your training will be also under my care as you would have to come and live with me." Li Huang further explained. When a disciple gets a tutelage offer they would mostly have to train where they are getting tutelage from and Li Huang wanted to monitor their training so he told them to come and live with him.
Tutelage is a common occurrence and the disciple doesn't need to leave the sect to do so. They can continue their tutelage as the members of their sect so there isn't any complication there for Li Huang to handle.
"If you have any other things that you might need, you can ask for them now." Li Huang said with a smile.
The twins just looked at Li Huang as to them, this was too good to be true. Ren Ru pinched Ren Tai's cheek to see if they were dreaming or not.
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