A Thousand Li: the Fourth Stage by Wong Tao

Author:Wong, Tao
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Starlit Publishing
Published: 2024-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

A week later and Wu Ying had found a new method to train himself and his new students. Gathered below, working on tilling the fields and planting the spirit herbs he had tasked them with, the cultivators also labored under the intense pressure of Wu Ying’s unfurled aura while constraining their own.

This was but another facet of their aura training. Pressure testing their ability to move, to focus and work while an overbearing pressure was present. For the students, it was the second day of such testing. More than one student had lost control, either pushing back too violently or, worse, having their aura crumple under the pressure.

For those unfortunate students, they lay on the ground, unconscious, their souls and minds bruised. In time, they would awaken with a headache and be forced to begin again.

As for Wu Ying—well, he had learned to control his aura, to retract and keep it contained. But the other way, to apply it as a weapon, to reveal his presence? It was not an area he had practiced and so, here and now, he began that process.

Hours passed as the group struggled to complete their task list. When nearly half the group were collapsed, the exhausted apprentices no longer bothering to drag their friends to the side, Wu Ying relented and retracted his aura.

“Class is over. Finish cleaning up the fields and continue studying,” Wu Ying announced as he stood. He surveyed the field one last time, nodding to Xia Hui, the only one who had managed to not collapse the entire time and who had, over the course of the last few days, taken on the role of leader.

Wu Ying had barely managed to make it a few hundred feet from the training grounds before he was intercepted, Yang Mu arriving by his side and matching his steps as he traversed the roadway.

“Are you willing to talk about it yet?” Yang Mu said without preamble.

“Speak about what?”

“Whatever it is that has upset you.” Yang Mu replied, ignoring his tone. “I have given you time to process whatever it is, but I am here for you, if you need someone to speak to.”

Wu Ying grunted. She flashed him half a smile before continuing to follow him. It was only as they passed the border of the residences for the Elders and began to approach the border of the inner complex for the core members of the Sect that she stopped.

A slight flexing of his will and senses indicated the reason for her pause, as he sensed the gathering energy of a protective formation. So far, and no further, could she go or risk being attacked by the formation. After all, she was but an honored guest, not a true member of the Sect.

“Do you think I’m a calamity?” Wu Ying said. “A living cyclone that destroys all that cross my path and leaves behind broken dreams and grief?”

Yang Mu stared at Wu Ying for a long moment before she burst out laughing. He growled, offended at her mirth at the thoughts that had plagued him for so long.

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