Compared to actual combat drills, with Chu providing guidance and the visceral stimulation of punches, ordinary strength training is extremely tedious and arduous. After actual combat drills, the rest time is not only longer than that of strength training, but the food is also said to be better. Back in the team, Li Qing began to do the same repetitive and tedious movements again. He had to admit that his body's recovery ability was indeed better than he had imagined. After going out for a walk and coming back, his muscles had almost fully recovered.
Li Qing felt somewhat helpless, but he understood Chu's good intentions. They hadn't even mastered walking yet, let alone running. If they went to the battlefield later, without sufficient physical strength and power, they would be helpless against the enemy. His current strength was too weak, and Li Qing himself was very dissatisfied with his own abilities. So even though the repetitive movements were somewhat monotonous, Li Qing didn't feel uncomfortable. On one hand, he had figured it out, and on the other hand... he had a beautiful young girl practicing with him!
Yun was doing the same things as the others around her, her face soaked with sweat. Li Qing would sometimes notice her calves, her hands were trembling slightly, and her body would sway occasionally. Obviously, this level of exertion was still a bit too much for a woman like Yun.
However, Yun persevered through sheer grit, a quality that impressed Chu, who had come to urge him on several times. Like Li Qing, Chu had initially thought Yun had only made the decision to learn martial arts on a whim and hadn't taken it seriously. But as time went on, Chu even began to see Yun as a role model and shared his experience with others who were complaining of being tired.
"Look at Yun, and then look at you. Aren't you ashamed? Yun is a girl, but she's just as good as you in training!"
"But I'm really tired, Chu. Can you let us rest for a bit? We still have three days left."
"That's right, that's right. Didn't we just have a great victory over the Black Wind Tribe and even kill Thornface? It seems that the Black Wind Tribe isn't so powerful after all."
"asshole!"
Chu Qi stomped his foot and cursed, "If the Black Wind Tribe were really that easy to defeat, we would have been suppressed by them for so long, and we would have wiped them out long ago!"
Chu knew very well that if it weren't for the help of the Vajra Giant Ape, even if their tribe still won the battle against Thornface, many people would definitely have died. If these people didn't take this matter seriously now, their fate would be very tragic in three days!
"You people think you're something special just because you won one game. From now on, if I see anyone complaining, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
Chu brandished his fist, which was as big as a clay pot, and cursed.
The crowd fell silent instantly. During this time, Li Qing kept an eye on Yun. When she heard Chu praise her, she did not show any smugness on her face. Instead, she worked even harder at her task, only occasionally stopping to wipe her sweat.
Yun's hard work astonished her peers, who, seeing Chu leave, hurriedly asked, "Yun, aren't you tired?"
"You're covered in sweat. You didn't even rest during your break. You stopped for a bit and then went back to practicing."
Yun paused slightly, as if afraid of delaying the training, and quickly said, "I'm not tired. I'm the weakest of all of you. I have to catch up with you quickly, otherwise I'll hold you back!"
The two people who asked the question were speechless after Yun's retort, and scratched their heads with their faces turning red.
"Damn it, who's afraid of who? It's just a broken rock. I'll lift it two hundred times without resting. I can't lose to Yun, that would be too embarrassing!"
"Two hundred reps is nothing, you're too weak. I can do two hundred and fifty!"
"Three hundred times!"
The two men's shouting grew louder and louder, finally eliciting a furious roar from Chu in the distance: "Which of you said you were going to lift three hundred? Step forward and do three hundred in front of me!"
"No, it wasn't me who said it, it was him."
"It wasn't me who said that, he's talking nonsense, okay... hehe... it was me who said it, Chu, I was just joking..."
"If you can't do it, stop talking nonsense all day. After you finish this set of 100, run 30 laps around the tribe. It's still 30 laps per set. Take a break!"
"Ah, we still have to run... No, I mean, we should run!"
Li Qing looked at these complaining guys and found it somewhat amusing. He knew that these people were just talking; it was normal for them to have such emotions at their age. If they were really on the battlefield, they would definitely go and fight without hesitation, just like when they fought the enemy.
Li Qing had completed more than half of his work. He put down the boulder, stretched his back a little, and said to Yun, "You should also take a break. A balance between work and rest will help your body grow faster."
With a "thud," Yun threw the boulder to the ground and looked at Li Qing with a determined gaze: "I'm done. I'm going to run around the tribe now."
Without even taking a break, they jogged away from the tribe.
"This guy."
Li Qing could only smile and shake his head.
"Yun is a strong-willed girl, I hope nothing bad happens to her."
Lifting it up again, Li Qing encouraged himself, "Thirty-five left. Keep going! After I finish, I'll train my endurance too!"
After Chu's lecture, and with what Yun had just said to them, the young people's confidence was not dampened. Instead, it created a positive cycle that encouraged them to train even harder. This time, no one complained. Everyone was seriously doing their own exercises. A few of them were fast. After lifting the boulder a hundred times, they threw it on the ground, reported to Chu, and followed Yun.
Chu seemed to find it troublesome for each of them to come and report to him, so he simply walked directly to the soldiers who had not yet completed their tasks and said to them, "You can finish the tasks you have on hand without telling me. Just go. I'm very busy here. However, you must not slack off just because I can't supervise you in time. My training method is very scientific. I trained like this when I was a child. So as long as you do as I say, you will definitely make a huge improvement within three days!"
...
Soon, Li Qing also completed his task. He felt that he was in good condition, so he simply did not rest and went out of the tribe to run a few laps to test his limits.
Just as Li Qing stepped out of the tribe, he saw Dian and Jiewu walking back to the tribe in silence.
Their behavior was strange. They ran around and happened to see their warriors. They greeted them warmly, but the warriors didn't even respond. They just silently walked back to their tribe.
"...Will the prophecy bring bad news?"
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