The Venerable Monster Tamer – Chapter 388

Section 8: Did You Train Today?

By Author: Gu Zhenren
Date: 2013-02-09

Warm steam rose, filling the air and obscuring vision.

Gentle medicinal power permeated the skin, penetrating the meridians and internal organs from the outside in.

Chu Yun closed his eyes, as if in a daze, feeling the surging medicinal power enter his body. His bones, blood, and skin were all being nourished and steadily improved by the medicinal power, following a profound fluctuation.

This was at the newly built hot spring in the Young Lord’s Estate of Huode City.

Because Chu Yun needed to take a medicinal bath with the Marrow Cleansing Cauldron twice a day, he couldn’t always use the cauldron itself as a bathtub. Doing so too often would displease the Marrow Cleansing Cauldron.

While its displeasure could be ignored under Chu Yun’s forceful nature, he wasn’t unreasonable when circumstances allowed.

“This profound fluctuation follows some Heavenly and Earthly Dao. This should be the reason why the Marrow Cleansing medicinal bath can eliminate drug resistance and infinitely improve physical fitness.”

Time flew by. It had been over a month since Chu Yun returned to Shu Family Island.

About a month ago, Chu Yun had eliminated the flaws in his body, achieving perfect harmony between his body, soul, and spirit. Only then did he begin taking the baths.

As the medicinal power required time to be absorbed, he could only bathe twice a day.

However, with the accumulation of time, he had gradually gained considerable insight into this Marrow Cleansing medicinal liquid.

There were indeed many pills that could improve physical fitness. But Chu Yun discovered that the biggest difference between those pills and the Marrow Cleansing liquid was the absence of this profound fluctuation.

He had also attempted to refine the Marrow Cleansing liquid using the little bun. However, this medicinal liquid still lacked this profound and miraculous Dao fluctuation, becoming an acquired substance with drug resistance.

A short while ago, on a certain day, Chu Yun suddenly grasped the key.

The little bun, a Dan Demon, possessed unique properties no less miraculous than the Marrow Cleansing Cauldron, but it lacked Innate Original Essence.

The Marrow Cleansing Cauldron possessed Innate Original Essence, Innate Water Essence, Wood Essence, and Gold Essence. When refining the Marrow Cleansing liquid, it relied on the Great Dao trajectories contained within these Innate Essences, thus creating an Innate-grade Marrow Cleansing liquid that would not produce drug resistance when consumed.

Thinking of this, Chu Yun couldn’t help but recall the Golden Sand Strange Book.

This was a peculiar Demon Soldier that could derive various Cultivation Methods based on the Great Dao trajectories of Innate Essences sealed within the book.

Each Innate Essence represented an ultimate aspect of the Grand Dao of Heaven and Earth, containing the essence of a certain Dao and Reason.

Both the Golden Sand Strange Book and the Marrow Cleansing Cauldron were successful examples of utilizing Innate Essences. In comparison, Chu Yun’s Innate, the Drunken Snow Saber, only exhibited its unparalleled sharpness.

Was it because the inherent mysteries of the Drunken Snow Saber had not been fully explored? Or was it related to the contracted Contract? After all, an Ally Contract was not as close as a Master-Servant Contract.

Shaking his head, Chu Yun felt extremely troubled.

He had too many Demonic creatures, which severely scattered his focus. During his initial inventory, there were already 22 Tribulation Demons. Yet, the next day, upon reviewing, he discovered he had missed two Tribulation Demon Soldiers!

The first was the Great Thunder Marsh Profound Gold Armor from Chu Bawang, which combined offense and defense. The second was the Samsara Mirror, originally belonging to the Nine-tailed Demon Lord, capable of reflecting Dao methods with its mirror surface, returning attacks to their source.

Twenty-four Tribulation Demons!

If this news were to be announced, it would likely shake the entire Xingzhou, attracting stunned disbelief from all under heaven.

But Chu Yun was not blinded by this impressive facade. He clearly knew that these Demonic creatures lacked any combat system. While each possessed miraculous qualities, they were a scattered mess, unable to be integrated.

This was a fatal weakness.

In past battles, Chu Yun had always lacked a tactical system. Sometimes he would slash with the Drunken Snow Saber, sometimes strike indirectly with the Spirit Snake, and sometimes… he simply lacked mature tactical thinking, and there was a lack of deep cooperation between his Demonic creatures.

Chu Yun also knew that what he needed to do was to refine the crude into the refined, to summarize combat experience, and to form a tactical system.

However, this matter was truly difficult.

Forming a combat lineup that could handle most challenges was not something that could be achieved overnight. It required deep consideration and practical testing.

More importantly, Chu Yun was also very lost regarding his tactical direction; he lacked a guiding principle.

His vision was too broad, and his Demonic creatures were too outstanding. Each Demonic creature could be cultivated as the core of a combat lineup.

Once a tactic was established, reducing the number of Demonic creatures he possessed would certainly be necessary.

His current Demonic creature lineup was too large, even bloated. After streamlining, his combat power would actually increase.

“It still needs time. It’s so complicated, I’ll stop thinking about it for now,” he sighed internally, rising from the hot spring and ending his medicinal bath.

He dried himself with a towel, put on comfortable, soft silk clothes, and opened the door.

Instantly, the eastern dawn glowed like fire, and a red sun rose slowly, piercing the cool morning air and illuminating Chu Yun.

Chu Yun exhaled a breath of stale air, feeling an inexhaustible surge of strength throughout his body. His entire mind felt warm and lively, unlike the tension of traveling outside. He felt relaxed, filled with agility and vitality.

He took a medicinal bath every six hours. The first thing Chu Yun did each day after waking was to bathe.

After bathing, he would open his room door and always witness this majestic scene of a sunrise over the sea. For ordinary people, seeing it too often would lead to boredom. But Chu Yun, after seeing it so many times, still found new depths of meaning in it every time.

This was the benefit of abundant spirit and profound wisdom.

People with shallow wisdom see mountains as mountains and water as water, only dwelling on the surface of things. Those with deep wisdom can see the essence through phenomena. They can also extrapolate and generalize from the essence.

“The birth of a person is like this rising sun. In Xingzhou, there is the saying, ‘Youth is like the morning sun’…” The divine light in his eyes flickered for a moment. Chu Yun’s understanding of the Dao of Humans deepened by another layer. He then set off, heading towards the training ground.

Now a Marquis-level powerhouse, he walked his own path. This required constant contemplation and a clearer direction for his journey.

Only when he reached the end of the Dao of Humans, achieving its ultimate, would he have the possibility of ascending to the King level.

“The road is long and the journey is far; I will seek high and low,” he recited as he arrived at the training ground and began stretching.

Initially, his movements were slow, like a crawling snail, each action heavy and deliberate. Then, his speed gradually increased, becoming light and fluid, graceful and natural.

When his speed reached its peak, his strength also reached its maximum.

Each punch was like a heavy hammer, splitting the air, making explosive sounds. each kick was swift and powerful, like lightning, possessing the might to split mountains.

He leaped and spun, his body like an illusion, creating gusts of wind in the vast training ground.

Suddenly, he stomped his foot and shot forward, landing with a bang like a javelin striking the ground, instantly transitioning from extreme motion to extreme stillness.

“Hoo!” He cupped his hands and grabbed two stone pedestals in front of him, his fingers like steel, deeply embedding themselves into the stone. Each pedestal was specially made and weighed ten thousand jin.

Chu Yun easily lifted the two stone pedestals, performed some movements, and felt a slight warmth in his body. He put them down and replaced them with another pair of stone pedestals, each weighing twelve thousand jin.

After another set of movements, he switched to even heavier pedestals.

He repeated this process nearly ten times, with the total weight of the stone pedestals reaching a terrifying over forty thousand jin. Only then did Chu Yun stop, marking the end of his morning workout.

After the exercise, his body was warm, and he felt incredibly light.

He stood still, closed his eyes, and listened. Blood flowed rapidly within his body, like a great river surging, making a rushing sound. His heart beat steadily and powerfully, like the thumping of a massive war drum on a battlefield of thousands.

His current physical condition was vastly different from before; he could be called a human-shaped Demonic Beast.

This was not surprising. The cultivation of a Beast Tamer was to rely on the spiritual energy’s feedback to prolong life, strengthen combat power, and break through the Great Dao.

Every Marquis-level Beast Tamer possessed such terrifying physical fitness. Relying solely on themselves, a Marquis-level Beast Tamer could already contend with many Demonic creatures.

Especially those Beast Tamers who possessed Demonic creatures like dragons, oxen, or Qilin, they received even greater benefits in terms of strength, possessing greater power.

Chu Bawang, for instance, owned a pair of supreme and domineering fists. The spiritual energy fed back from them could terrifyingly augment a Beast Tamer’s strength. As a result, his power was immense, and with his fists, no one in all of Xingzhou could match him.

Of course, this was not limited to strength alone. Besides strength, there were also speed, sensitivity, defense, endurance, and so on.

Take Chu Yun for example. Receiving spiritual energy feedback from the Moon Rabbit allowed him to achieve extreme sensitivity to time, becoming a human clock. Without any external reference, he could accurately gauge the passage of time.

As for Xiao Xiaoxian, not long ago he hatched a Purple Hammer Turtle demonic beast egg. Receiving spiritual energy feedback, he could control blood flow at will, nourishing a certain part of his body. He exercised every morning and evening diligently, and now he had reached a state of being as hard as bronze and remaining unyielding for three days and three nights.

After the morning workout came breakfast time, when Xiao Xiaoxian and Jin Bihan would appear.

“Sect Leader, did you train today?” Xiao Xiaoxian’s eyebrows twitched, his words laden with double meaning, a mischievous smile on his face. Ever since hatching the Purple Hammer Turtle, he had become different, radiating renewed vigor. Every day he was engrossed in practicing the “Secret Techniques of the Bridal Chamber,” his passionate nature reaching its peak.

“What do you think?” Chu Yun replied.

“Alas, it’s a pity. Sect Leader, with such talent, you should train it well. Otherwise, it would be too regrettable,” Xiao Xiaoxian clicked his tongue, feigning regret in his expression while his eyes gleamed. “Sect Leader, if you don’t want the Jianmu, you could leave it to your little brother. I really wouldn’t mind having more demonic creatures like that.”

“What do you need Jianmu for? You excel at speed, so you should perfect that tactical system,” Chu Yun refused.

Xiao Xiaoxian flicked his hair: “But Sect Leader, I feel that with my looks, my demeanor, and my temperament, I’m better suited for another kind of tactic. You know!”

He then gave Chu Yun a look that said, “Any man worth his salt understands!”

Chu Yun was speechless. He shook his head, “There’s no Jianmu, but I do have a ring.”

“The Sect Leader Ring of the Divine Thief Gate?” Xiao Xiaoxian stared blankly as he saw what Chu Yun handed him.

(55555555, my condition is not good, I have no face to see the elders of Jiangdong…)