In the early hours of the day, the group finally left behind the world of evil cultivators, quickly appearing in the desert outside once again. The infernal climate and the draining sands haunted all the women and the kid straight away.
The whale quickly initiated training, providing each of the fifteen women with a spear or short sword. Then, he saturated their meridians with "QI," pushing them to the limit without exceeding their current level. They all felt their bodies heavy and dense, becoming invigorated and filled with energy.
However, after the first few minutes in the desert, they noticed a strange sensation in their bodies, and any slight muscle movement caused intense pain as if their blood was solidifying within them.
"I don’t have time to teach you how to control QI or complex theories. You’ll have to feel everything with your own body to learn through pain. Over time, it will get worse, so get used to it quickly," commented the whale with a sinister smile, making all the women tremble slightly.
"You were lucky. Almin managed, with much pain and sweat, to obtain demon blood of pure Yin. I placed an exact minimal amount of Yin inside your meridians, along with QI. If you can’t feel and manipulate QI correctly, this pain won’t subside because it’s mixed with the Yin of the blood."
At that moment, Almin froze. The Yin that the whale placed in them was the same that almost killed him in pain just from the curse. He dared not try to understand the pure and dense Yin of these women. Could they really endure this?
Bruno noticed Almin’s pleading looks and desperation, so he took over, trying to reassure them. "All the curse has been removed. Only the Yin Energy remains. I divided a drop into five thousand portions. They are women, and Yin is something inherent to their essence. If they move and train, their bodies will adapt, and they won’t die."
"As soon as you make a breakthrough, you’ll level up, and I’ll add more QI along with double the Yin Energy again. To help you adapt, you must train the techniques with your weapons. It will be a divine training that enhances your cultivation, technique, and understanding simultaneously. Now walk and stop complaining!"
The whale concluded and moved forward, leading the way. Almin looked apprehensive as he glanced at the women, but despite their contorted faces, they forced themselves to follow the whale.
Ruri, who was on the whale’s shoulder, looked back and saw the girls suffering. She then waved in satisfaction. Further back, she saw Langrum walking slowly, and on her shoulder was the newly arrived boy. He looked around with bright and excited eyes, as if in a dream. Langrum, on the other hand, was somewhat grumpy; she was the carrier and was forced to take care of this boy.
Ruri smiled cheerfully. The boy finally realized he was no longer a slave. The day before, as soon as they bought and brought him to the camp at night, he ate until he fell asleep. On the next day, Ruri and Langrum talked to him calmly. His name was Loeus. He was 14 years old, but he was so thin and malnourished that he looked the same age as Ruri.
His parents died two years ago, and since then, he practically had no company or talked to anyone. Despite Langrum being grumpy, she never refused to take care of this boy. He had never cultivated and needed full-time protection.
After a few hours, the first woman collapsed from exhaustion. Almin quickly rushed to help her and carried her on his back. Then, as soon as the woman woke up, she resumed walking forcefully when all the others stared at her intensely. Of course, it didn’t take long for another and another to fall.
It was at that moment that the whale snorted and made a detour. In a few minutes, a gigantic demon beast in the form of a scorpion emerged from the ground, exuding a poisonous and powerful aura.
"Almin, you handle it alone. Go all out!" The whale spoke dryly.
Langrum narrowed her eyes. That demon beast was at the fifth level of the Foundation Establishment Realm, two levels above Almin. But, to her surprise, Almin simply drew his spear and advanced rapidly.
All the women saw Almin taking steady and unhesitant steps in front of that monster, and they sighed in admiration. When he stepped five meters away, hundreds of earth runes emerged from the sand and created a defensive dome around the group. At that moment, Almin exploded into flames.
The world outside the dome was completely covered in dark red and demonic flames. The whale watched those flames touch the earth runes and felt the power of the curse embedded in them satisfied.
In all his free time, Almin focused on understanding and further merging the curse into his flames. Now, he even managed to fuse a bit of infernal laws into them. This flame became something abnormal and peculiar; in a fight against an unsuspecting opponent, this flame invariably hit their body and brought serious mental problems due to the curse.
Only the whale and Langrum could perfectly understand what was happening in the midst of the flames, which covered the view of everything outside. But in a few seconds, thunderous sounds made the sands tremble. Soon, a poison mist mixed with the fire, and several gaps between the flames appeared, making the fight visible to everyone.
There was Almin, dodging at the last second the strikes that could have torn his body in half by the giant scorpion. With each dodge, fire runes slowly burned the beast’s armor. Then, after almost two hours of dodging and walking on a thin line between life and death, the scorpion fell completely blackened and burnt.
"Having confidence in your instincts is good. But just dodging against someone experienced is asking to die," the whale said slowly, after sweeping away all the fire and undoing the defensive dome. Almin then turned to the whale, waving in understanding.
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"Study more methods of using fire to attack quickly. You should always try to kill as fast as you can when you have an opening. Don’t risk unnecessary danger by extending a fight," the whale added.
Almin heard everything and soon after passed out from using all his QI. The women let out muffled screams, thinking he was injured, but Ruri waved, calming them down. Soon, Langrum took steps forward and once again placed the new dead weight under her arm, carrying him. He looked more like some kind of luggage than a person at that moment.
All the women looked at the giant green strangely, but none said anything. Then, after the whale collected everything, they turned to move forward. But the whale didn’t budge.
They all looked at the leader and saw a dreadful smile on him. Immediately, they all broke into a cold sweat, feeling a sinister premonition.
"Now that he’s no longer here to interfere, let’s start the real training," the whale said lightly.
They had already found every second in the desert very tough and challenging. But after Almin passed out, they realized that it was just a warm-up. The first few days passed, and whenever Almin passed out after a fight, the whale made the whole group enter a sandstorm. It was a training that Ruri had gone through before, and now all of them were experiencing it.
Their bodies felt like they were going to split in half inside the storm; every second, grains of sand penetrated and cut their skin, and blood quickly covered them. When one fainted, in a few seconds, they were lightly healed and awakened to return to training. Either they learned to use QI correctly to defend themselves in all directions without fail, or the suffering would never cease. There was no rest during the day, and hell wasn’t a word capable of describing this training.
Almin didn’t understand why he always woke up when it was already night, and all the women were passed out without time to exchange a word with them. Then, early in the morning, he was forced to fight on the brink of death and would sleep again.
So, the days passed, and the results began to explode. In a week, Almin could already kill a demonic beast without resorting to a war of attrition. And all the women had already broken through a level each, managing to master a bit of that Yin and understand how to manipulate QI with their own bodies.
They smiled excitedly, but the whale’s gaze made them stop dead in their tracks. It seemed like things were about to get even worse.