Chapter 285: Training Methods
Jack lost himself in the feeling of experiencing the sharpness. His body was being completely damaged and recovered slowly. Unknowingly, his body is being tempered slowly but surely.
But for the viewers, the scene is terrifying. The blood is flowing down along with the water that is flowing off of Jack's body, even his face was being cut in various places.
All of them can only stare at him as if he is a madman.
Some of them stopped their jobs and stared intently at Jack to see what will happen and see how long he can take it.
"What is so amazing about it? Anyone can do it."
One of the spectators said these words and took off his shirt, he held his saber and stood right under the waterfall.
His skin immediately started lacerating and he felt immense pain. Instinctively, he blocked his body with the spiritual energy and left the place. He was horrified by the experience. He is a Grand Realm cultivator. Although he is from the initial stage, his body is still strong.
At least as strong as Jack's who practiced body strengthening. But he wasn't able to bear the pain for even a second. The waterfall is really dangerous.
Everyone now has deeper respect when they looked at Jack.
But Jack didn't know what they are thinking. In his mind, he is completely in a trance as an image of a swordsman formed. For every wound, he received from the waterfall.
At first, he wasn't able to perceive a single movement, all he could see is a flash of an image in his mind.
But he didn't stop. He kept on receiving the wounds one after another and kept on observing.
Time passed slowly. Only after one day, could he observe the image in his mind and perceive a single movement. The easiest one. It is a sword drawn.
The sword is drawn from the sheath in a particular manner such that move is sharp yet gentle at the same time, flowing like water.
He was completely immersed in a whole new world of swordsmanship.
Meanwhile, at the same time Jack entered the waterfall, Philip also reached his destination.
He actually came back to the lava rock city.
And now, he is on the top of the Volcano staring at the Magma inside.
There are two inheritances which he received on the island. One of them is a metal element and another one is a fire element one.
The Fire element one only has a secret art that will save him in extremely life-threatening situations.
As for the metal element one, this is used for many aspects either for close combats or forging purposes. This is a complete method of metal molding. But before he could practice that technique, Philip has something else to do first and that understands his own elemental powers and spiritual core's nature properly.
He has a combination of dual elements and he is also a warrior. He used the dual elements in many ways by combining them to create molten metal in battles. They indeed helped him create more damage.
But he felt that he can use it more flexibly and create more possibilities in the battle.
So, what is the natural resource that is closer to molten metal? The magma. So, he came to the Lava Rock village, which is the closest volcano he could think of.
However, Philip had more peace of mind than Jack as there are not many people within the Lava Rock village.
He climbed down into the volcano and stood on the small rocky platform which is on the edge of the magma pool.
He looked at the nature of lava which is moving slowly. From what he can see there seemed to be a small underground Lava river.
He didn't think much and sat cross-legged on the bank as he keenly observed the nature of the magma.
He observed the intensity of the heat that it could create, the occasional burst of gas that come out due to the formation of bubbles, the sudden increase of heat, and melting the rock at the boundary of the pool albeit a small portion. He observed everything that could be perceived by the eyes.
Next, he took off the clothes and took out the breathing device, Sam used for diving. He borrowed one for this purpose. He equipped the device and covered his whole body with fire elemental spiritual energy and slowly walked inside the pool.
He didn't dare to spiritual energy shield no matter what. The Lava is far dangerous and with his current level at the peak of a great realm, it is impossible for him to resist. He can still manage the lava near the boundaries, but if he wants to go deeper, he would be done for.
He even specifically asked Sam to create a series on inscriptions so that he wouldn't be troubled by the gas and the mask itself reacting to lava and the heat.
He closed his eyes as he floated over the Lava surface and he started feeling what the lava could do to his body.
His approach is somewhat similar to Jack. He is also using the crudest way to gauge the strength of something and that is experiencing the strength by using his body.
He would just take all the damage he could do determine the strength and benefits of this lava.
As he experienced the feeling, he kept on increasing the strength of the spiritual energy shield as he started sinking inside slowly but steadily.
As the depth increased, the heat increased. At this moment, he could feel the Lava flowing densely. His initial guess was right.
There was indeed a Lava river flowing down. Even though he doesn't know where it goes, he let it flow, and then only he understood the nature of Lava.
It might be dense and slow, but that is what gave it that much intensity of heat and the weight behind the damage it could cause. In such a way he was immersed in his own world at the immense amount of possibilities that could be created.
At this moment, Watt is doing something else. He is near a Wild-wind Canyon. Another natural training place in Arian. This Canyon is also quite dangerous as it is shaped in a certain way that there are extremely wild and howling wind currents that go on all around the year.
They might change with every season or other climatic conditions, but they are equally dangerous in every possible way.
No one has ever entered the canyon as it is quite difficult for even Nascent to control themselves in the wind currents. They might not receive any damage, but they will surely be having a hard time. As for Grand realm cultivators, they will definitely receive damage.
And that is not just because of the wind currents but also the hard edges of the whole canyon. They will slowly bleed to death once they are inside if they don't come out in time and receive treatment.
The Wind element users stay at the edge of the canyon as they experience the escaped wind currents and try to gain enlightenment. There are even rumors that the wind elemental spell, Wind Blade lotus which is a combination of wind blades in form of a flower that attacks the enemy from all sides was created here.
Watt, at this moment, is climbing a cliff from the outer side of the canyon. There is no other entrance to it as the two entrances big enough couldn't be used due to the wind force.
After more than two days of climbing, he finally climbed to the top and he can peer into the canyon. The winds are wild and energetic on the top of the cliff.
Watt took out a small space jade and placed it in his mouth.
Then he took a deep breath and jumped into the canyon.
He fell for a few seconds and before he knew it, he was carried away by the wind current.
*BAM* He hit a rocky edge of the canyon strongly and almost saw the stars. He took off his silver coat before landing in the canyon and because of this, his skin cracked slightly due to the impact.
He was no longer in the same wind current, he fell down a bit and another current carried him away and soon enough.
*BAM* another collision.
Watt is like a kite that broke loose of its thread and struck inside a cyclone.
He smashed to the walls of the canyon non-stop and was getting injured badly and soon enough some people at the entrance noticed him and the crowd grew bigger.
"What the hell? Is that guy nuts?"
"Yeah, he is definitely courting death no matter how you look at it."
"Damn it, look at him, he just puked blood for that hit."
"I bet he would die in a minute."
"I bet he wouldn't be able to hold back for more than half-a-minute."
As all of them are discussing, Watt noticed that he is bleeding much and immediately willed for the space jade in his mouth to activate. At this moment, a pill went down his mouth, followed by some meat that could nourish his blood faster.
As the people who are talking about Watt's death watched his wounds getting scabs, they are stunned completely and didn't know what to think of it.
As Sam's three friends are training in some inhumanely extreme methods, some people are watching them from an extremely long distance.
Somewhere near the central continent on a large single island. This Island is called Seer Island. Just like how six major powers that participated in the palace of inheritances exists, there are some other powers that are mostly neutral and auxiliary that occupy a large single island near the central continent.
Apart from the four most major professions, there are some other professions that deal with issues that are rarer and uncommon.
Seer Island is one such place. They are people with a peculiar spiritual core. Their combat power is less, but they have some useful abilities like tracking, prediction, and many others.
Unlike the artisan tower and the remaining professions, they didn't expand much as their abilities are somewhat special.
They only have enough combat power if they are born as Warrior-Mages with the same ability as their tracking, prediction and some other abilities will give them an extreme edge along with the warrior abilities, but those cases are few and far between.
Now, in the major tower of the Seer island, a middle-aged man is using his abilities on the screen as he displayed Watt who is in the canyon, Sam who is teaching the new workers, Jack who is under the waterfall, and Philip who is immersed under the Lava and Hawk who is still traveling.
As he watched, he couldn't help but marvel at the intensity of the training and extremes they are going through to become stronger.
"I couldn't sense that guy named Sam for a few days, but now that I got him, I should note down their coordinates."
After noting somethings down, he came out and passed it to an attendant.
"The youngsters from the six major powers will come. Ask for the name of their targets and sell them these coordinates."
He gave the notes and went back to his room.
"I wonder what method that Sam guy used to block my seer vision. Maybe I should keep an eye on him for a while." He mumbled to himself.