Increasing Intensity

On the second day,

Zhu Shen woke up early because of his master's orders… he finished his daily routine and came to the courtyard.

He saw that his master was waiting for him on an open space in the courtyard.

"Greetings… master…"

Zhu Shen bowed in front of his master. Old man Ao looked at him and slightly nodded.

"You know why i asked you to came this early in the courtyard?"

Old man Ao looked at zhu shen and asked. Zhu Shen obviously had no idea why his master would ask him this early in the morning so he shocked his head.

Knowingly old man Ao explained..

"The sun will arise soon… this is the best time to practice for beginners..."

As old man Ao said and passed a paper to Zhu Shen. Zhu Shen looked down on the paper and what he saw shocked him…

"100 pushups, 100 pullups, 100 situps, 22 laps around the courtyard….."

The list was going on and on…

"This…."

Zhu Shen was a little embarrassed, he thought he was in a gym instead of a sect.

"If you dont finish it before lunch break you will not eat lunch today…"

As soon as old man Ao finished his sentence, he disappeared without a trace.

Zhu Shen gritted his teeth. In his mind he was telling himself that,

'I need to persist.. and became stronger… this pain is nothing…'

Old man Ao looked at Zhu Shen from afar. Obviously this training routine was near to impossible for anybody who havent cultivated yet….

'Kid, you need to persist… if you complete the foundation training this way, nobody will be your match…'

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Time passed and soon Zhu Shen was in the courtyard for one month.

In this month, Zhu Shen's training routine was same…

In morning, doing a lot of exercise. In Afternoon, doing the strange movements to free up the muscles and in the evening taking medicinal bath.

In this month Zhu Shen's body got used to his daily training. He was able to persist the whole training section without much effort.

Old man Ao looked at His disciple's progress and felt satisfied.

'I think its time to change the intensity…'

A sinister smile appeared on old man Ao's face…

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On the next day,

For Zhu Shen today was no different from before, but there was a slight change. When Zhu Shen opened the paper for morning exercise… his body shook.

All the routine exercises have been doubled. He looked at his master like he was wronged with tears in his eyes.

Old man Ao looked at his cute appearance and pretended to be angry,

"What… dont you said that you want to be the strongest person ?.. Now you are cowering with just this much amount of exercise?"

Hearing his master's angry voice, Zhu Shen wiped the tears on his face and started exercising. Along with his morning exercises, the size of buckets also increased for afternoon exercise.

Slap…

"Wrong step… watch your balance…"

Slap…

"Look at your hands…"

Slap…

The whole day was really tormenting for Zhu Shen. His master was extra hard on him today but he cant deny that his body was getting stronger and stronger…

Along with increased exercise, Zhu Shen noticed that his appetite was also increasing.

Today at dinner old man Ao bought special meat for his Disciple. Zhu Shen looked at the glowing meat in front of him only one thought remained in his mind.

'Demonic beast meat…'

The glowing fragrant meat in front of him was meat of Demonic Beast…

"This is meat of 1 star demonic beast, from today onwards you will only eat the meat of demonic beast."

Old man Ao passed the meat dish infront of Zhu Shen.

"Delicious….!"

Zhu Shen took one bite of the meat in front of him and thought it was really delicious. He never tased meat so delicious before. The foodie inside Zhu Shen woke up and soon started devouring the meat dish in front of him.

"Eat slowly… you will choke if you eat this way…"

Old man Ao looked at two round cheeks full of food and chuckled.

As Zhu Shen was eating the meat he also noticed that a strange heat generating from his stomach. Confusingly, Zhu Shen looked at old man Ao.

"Demonic beast meat contains energy similar to any cultivator. In body tempering, we use this external energy to nourish our bodies to make them stronger…."

"There are 5 stages to body tempering… Skin refinement, muscle refinement, organ refinement, blood refinement and lastly bone refinement."

Zhu Shen was listening attentively as the heat emitting from his stomach became stronger and stronger. This time, the heat was not as strong as the heat from the medicinal bath. Zhu Shen's whole bady became warm and comfortable as he soon slept beside old man Ao…

Old man Ao looked at Zhu Shen sleeping peacefully as he stroked his head.

'I know this is really taxing on your body… but this is the only way for you to catch up to your peers…'

Zhu Shen was almost 18 years old this year and havent started cultivating yet… compared to him some genius disciples from dragon palace have already reached the Qi fusion stage.

'This is the best i can do for you now…!'

Old man Ao also had a goal in his mind. The first time he saw Zhu Shen release Dragon Might on the magnetic mountain, he decided to take Zhu Shen as his disciple-in-name. Afterwards he discovered that he was his own brother's descendant he changed his mind and started teaching Zhu Shen personally.

'10 years… i will make him catch up to the geniuses from the dragon palace..'

Old man Ao picked Zhu Shen up and bought him to his room. After looking at his descendant he disappeared from the courtyard.