“The path of martial arts, entering mysterious lands, vendettas, vying for treasure, destroying the devil within, escaping death, surviving tragedies! Which one of those doesn’t have deaths? You are only at the beginning stages. If you don’t dare to eat Guanyin clay, then don’t practice martial arts. Just die in this vast wilderness!”
Zhang Yuxian had no more demands from the likes of these people. He also did not say how much Guanyin clay or wood a beginner of the Elephant Swallowing Technique should consume.
It was up to a person’s courage to determine how much he should eat.
The warrior preparation camp members looked at each other. They unknowingly began to slow down their eating speeds.
As for Yi Yun, he paused for a while. After a short silence, he began eating at a constant speed, not affected by those words.
Zhang Yuxian noticed Yi Yun and nodded. This courage was admirable.
As for Zhao Tiezhu and company, they naturally noticed Yi Yun non-stop eating of the wood and Guanyin clay. Zhao Tiezhu maliciously whispered, “That little bastard, he may be showing off now, but he will die from bursting later!”
“Don’t mind the idiot, Brother Zhao. We are just beginners. Let’s not eat too much. Half a pound, no…four to five ounces should do…”
The men from the warrior preparation camp began to carefully weigh the amount they ate. They ate it sparingly like a gluttonous child unwilling to finish a cake.
“Brother Zhao, don’t bite off more than you can chew. Let’s do it step by step. We will do it steadily. We will let Lord Zhang see our martial arts talent! How could we not match up to a little kid!”
The men from the warrior preparation camp suppressed their anger. Zhang Yuxian had looked down on them, and his words implied that he had chosen them just to fill the numbers.
They had conceded to that, but they could not agree to Zhang Yuxian’s high appraisal of a sickly child like Yi Yun!
They thought they could lift stone rollers while practicing martial arts with Zhang Yuxian. It was their forte where they could act cool and easily pushover Yi Yun. It would have been fun.
But they never expected that they were required to eat a tree for their cultivation!
It was like a bolt out of the blue!
“It’s just eating wood and Guanyin clay. What’s there to fear? Bros, eat! We have to exceed Yi Yun. This little chick is just here to play afterall.”
Zhao Tiezhu grew madder and madder just thinking. If the other men did not dare eat, he would purposely eat more. He did not believe he would be unable to learn the Elephant Swallowing Technique.
At this point, Yi Yun had already eaten about a kilogram of Guanyin clay at a leisurely speed. The Guanyin clay had begun to expand in his stomach. He felt as if a lead block had been stuffed into his stomach and was falling.
Yi Yun’s stomach began to hurt.
This kind of pain is not obvious in the beginning, but it becomes worse as time goes by, to the point of causing people to die from pain.
Suddenly, Yi Yun heard a voice say, “Follow me, do these twelve moves.”
Yi Yun raised his head and saw Zhang Yuxian standing in front of everyone. Zhang Yuxian eyes were on him, with an encouraging smile.
With that, Zhang Yuxian began to move.
It was hard to describe Zhang Yuxian’s movements. His movements looked blurry. It seemed like he was standing in another space-time dimension, having cut off contact from the outside world.
He demonstrated each of the moves. Each move was extremely strange. But when the actions connected, it gave off a consistent natural feel.
Zhang Yuxian’s speed varied. It contained a hard to describe charm.
These actions appeared in the irides of the people, but it was as if seeing a shadow that didn’t exist. It looked like an illusion.
Dreamy…
Yi Yun suddenly thought of something, he felt like it was a dream seeing Zhang Yuxian’s movements.
In a dream, the things seen, the words said were all very real and clear.
It was possible to have utmost creativity in the dreams, creating beautiful poems.
One could feel that his literary talent was excellent in the dream, but no matter what, he would never be able to remember what was written or said.
Upon waking up, everything would be forgotten.
Seeing Zhang Yuxian’s movements, Yi Yun had such a strange idea.
Is the “Elephant Swallowing Technique” just a fundamental skill? Why do I find it much better than the “Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist”?
Yi Yun could not believe it.
At this point, Zhang Yuxian had already finished. Although he could not remember most of the moves, Yi Yun knew that Zhang Yuxian had done the entire set of movements three times!
“Alright, these are the twelve moves of the Elephant Swallowing Technique. Do it accordingly. If you can do it, you will have some small success with the Elephant Swallowing Technique, and it wouldn’t be hard to digest that bit of Guanyin clay.”
Wh…What?
Hearing Zhang Yuxian’s words, Zhao Tiezhu and company stared wide-eyed!