
Chapter 31: Reading Pulses (1)
"Group 1 . ”
"Group 3. ”
"Group 4. "Lorist looked at a young noble who was dressed well before shaking his head in surrender. The young man's eyes contained no trace of energy and his face looked ashen as a ghost. Another spoiled brat .. As it engages in full ual activities, even though its body appears young and strong, the internal energy of the body has been damaged. Without proper rest and recovery, there was no way he could awaken his Battle Strength. No wonder he failed in his first War Force revival course.
“Go, complete the procedure. Your body has been severely damaged, I'm sure you yourself continue to feel a pressing feeling in your chest and sweat a lot and get tired easily when you exert strength. You will also get tired quickly with just a little exercise and not have a lot to eat, right? Do you also have nightmares? "
"Ah? How do you know? ”Ask the noble youth with a face full of astonishment. That's too amazing. He did not think that the rumors about Instructor Locke could understand the condition of his body by using only three fingers to read the pulse on his wrist! He even knew about the nightmare he had – something he kept even from his own family!
The young man stood up, looked at Lorist with a moved expression and left after respectfully bowing.
"hereinafter. ”
"Group 1 . ”
"Group 1 . ”
"Group 2. ”
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Inside the spacious hall, there were four tables lined up in the left corner. Lorist sat at the first table and small pillows could be seen on the table. Instructing each student to put their hands on the pillow with their wrists on top, Lorist read their pulse one by one. If he was wearing a white suit, there was no doubt he would look like the doctor who gave the diagnosis.
At the three tables next to him sat Instructors Anfya, Marlin and Hughes. Lorist often had them reread the pulses of the students whose pulses had been read by him. The three of them tried to replicate the way Lorist did it. Among them, Instructor Anfya looked like she knew what she was doing, Instructor Hughes seemed like she was getting the idea and Instructor Marlin could only scratch her head in confusion.
Behind the four of them were ten or so Silver and Iron ranked instructors. One of the Iron-ranked female instructors wrote the names of the students according to their respective groups as decided by Lorist while the others around him saw the instructor reading the pulse with interest and started chatting. Ten or more instructors distributed uniforms and other necessities on the right side of the hall to the students.The other 24 newly appointed assistant instructors were the busiest. Not only did they have to maintain order in the hall, they also had to guide the students to their respective dormitories according to their group, often having to politely respond to the questions they had on the way.
The school bell rings and signals a break. Lorist stood up and stretched his body before saying to the other students, “Alright, that's it for the morning session. We'll start again at 2 p.m. Remember your number and don't be late. ”
The students who were already queuing up could only leave in frustration. Some of them even voiced it out, clearly disappointed at having to wait longer even though their turn was already very close.
"How much more is left, Instructor Grisha?" Lorist asked the Iron ranked female instructor who helped register the student's name.
"106 again" he answered.
“Gah, we're finally done. I am very tired .. The schedule later will be a little more rigorous, we have to assign instructors to manage different groups as well as decide on a regimen for each group of students. "Lorist turned his head and asked Anfya, Marlin and Hughes," What about the three of you? Did you learn anything today? ”
"I really don't know. I felt nothing when I touched their wrists, ” Instructor Marlin said.
“The noble youth's pulse earlier was quite weak and did not feel stable enough. The other students assigned to the Group 1 pulse were much stronger than and could be felt clearly. Although that noble youth looks quite healthy and healthy, his veins are hard to feel and I even have to press harder to only detect the slightest pulse, ” Instructor Anfya explained clearly. It seemed that Lorist was not wrong about how Anfya was most adept at reading pulses.
"You are right . The boy had been toying with women from a young age and that had damaged the harmony of his internal energy, causing a difference between his outer health condition and the weak constitution within him, that's reflected in the feeling you get from feeling his pulse. The thirty students just now were mostly children from noble families and usually had quite a lot of problems with their internal state. Many of them have engaged in worldly activities and have detrimental life habits, causing them to have a weak pulse and circulation that would cause them to have a low chance of awakening their Battle Strength. Therefore, their food and living habits should be planned and closely monitored, ” Lorist said as he praised Anfya's judgment.
“Actually, Instructor Hughes, for you to be able to sense that in just three days is already a pretty impressive feat. The reason Anfya is so good at this is because I have started teaching her since the last course. As long as you practice hard and feel the pulse with a calm mind, you will be able to do better with more experience. This time, the number of students is rather high so you should try taking a pulse of 100 students every day to try to feel the difference of each. You can even compare it to your own. By the time the course ends, you might even be able to surpass Instructor Anfya in this case, ” Lorist said with a smile.
“About you guys, try if you are interested and ask me if you have any questions. As long as you master the pulse reading, then you will be able to easily tell the condition of the student body and understand when the blood circulation is the strongest in each of them. Only then could one successfully awaken their Battle Strength by one hundred percent. This is the secret of how I managed to help each of my students awaken their Battle Strength, ” Lorist said against the Silver and Iron ranked instructor standing nearby.
Some of them are very enthusiastic in trying it while some others are hesitant and do not bother trying. The failure of Marlin, a Gold-ranked instructor, to understand pulse readings only showed that it was not as easy as it seemed.
That year when Lorist was assigned to his first War Force revival course, there were only 17 students from ordinary families. Due to the theory that the Battle Strength had a higher chance of being awakened if one's ferocious beast factor in blood was higher, it was believed that the descendants of nobles, and ultimately, the descendants of the Sacred Sword, were, have a much higher chance of rising up. awakening their Battle Strength.
Lorist disagreed with the theory in the slightest. From his experience in training in Blazing Battle Force, he understood that the key lies in blood circulation and felt that the awakening of Battle Force must have something to do with it. As long as everyone tried to awaken their Battle Strength by the time their circulation reached its peak, the chances of succeeding would definitely increase. And, the key to good circulation is a good diet and healthy living habits.
The reason why the more noble descendants managed to awaken their Battle Strength was probably related to better living conditions. Given that they had more access to food than other commoners, they had naturally taken in more nutrients than others, hence increasing their chances of success. From his observations, Lorist discovered that the reason the noble students who had not managed to awaken their Battle Strength was not the low amount of factor ferocious beasts in their blood, either, but their tendency to lead an unhealthy life of debauchery as every one of them is either a maniac or an alcoholic. This was the main reason Lorist rejected the general theory about the revival of the War Force.
As for the reason why ordinary students tended to fail in the War Force revival, it was because they had to live frugally and were unable to eat enough nutritious food every day, causing their circulation to weaken in the long run. Lorist at that time made a bold hypothesis and used the 17 students in his class as guinea pigs to test his theory.
But how can he ascertain the circulation status of the students? Born into a family with a long line of traditional Chinese healers, although Lorist did not personally receive instructions from his physician grandfather, he still knew about the basic principle of pulse reading. Although he could not diagnose individual diseases in the body, he could still use them to identify the strength of one's circulation and he used this technique on his students.
As Lorist predicted, all the students in his class were malnourished. Lorist thought back to his time in the army. The new members he had trained for three months had all transformed from sickly baby-faced people into healthy, able-bodied people. However, there is a small problem. How could he give these students proper nutrition, given that they did not have enough money to buy good food in the first place?
It was then that he decided to let the students work part-time to get the money they needed. Even if they did not awaken their Battle Strength, there would be no problem for them to handle simple jobs such as sweeping trash, watering flowers, washing clothes etc. Reaching out to the janitor manager at the academy, he had the students work under him and collected the money they made and used it to prepare nutritious meals for them.
The equivalent profession of a doctor in Grindia is an herbalist, who is very skilled in creating combinations of herbal recipes to cure various diseases. While most medicines could be made with potions on their own, quite a lot of ingredients were needed from magical beasts as well. Although she was forced to recall all the Chinese herbal recipes in her previous life, she could not find any of those ingredients at all on Grindia. Lorist could only rely on the knowledge he obtained from the herbs and the magical beast biology course he attended to produce a menu that was suitable for his students.
After three months of difficult physical training and eating well, all 17 ordinary students managed to awaken their Battle Strength, many surprises and surprises from the academy. That resulted in Lorist being selected as an instructor for the War Force revival course once again next year with a class of 31 students of various ages and family backgrounds who had not been selected by any other instructor. Once again using his pulse reading skills, he adjusted making a regimen for each of his students and had them all successfully awaken their Battle Power in one semester as well.
This time the administration of the academy was completely astonished. They even suspected whether Lorist had some sort of secret technique that could help the War Force awaken. That was why in the third year, Lorist's class had up to 59 students with 10 of them being nobles who specifically nominated him, 3 of whom had failed once before in the War Force revival. The government had also sent Instructor Anfya to become Lorist's assistant and hoped that he would be able to find out how Lorist could be so successful.
The condition of these 59 students was even worse than Lorist's class in the previous year, especially those with noble descendants. Half of them had weak constitutions. The three that failed earlier were even worse; they were already unable to pick it up after running around the school grounds for two rounds. Lorist was quite impressed that they even dared to try to awaken their Battle Strength.
Adequate nutrition was not enough to heal the noble student body as the damage was quite severe. Given that the nobles would naturally have a sufficient amount of money, he collected the pay from each and teamed up with the herbalist researchers in the academy to collect potions made with some kind of magical beast blood and some expensive herbs to improve their circulation. The noble students had to consume potions regularly along with adequate physical training. Coupled with the pulse reading, Lorist had every single one of them successfully awaken their Battle Strength when their circulation was in peak condition.
Throughout the entire process, Lorist made no attempt to hide the secret of the pulse reading and even generously showed it to Instructor Anfya and enthusiastically explained every detail of the method to him.
Lorist did not expect Anfya to be able to pick up the art quickly because even though reading the pulse might look easy, it was easy, he wouldn't have been able to understand it had he not spent several years in his past life helping out and seeing his grandfather do the technique himself. Even students who study art in theory or foreign researchers who have studied those theories cannot really practice it without the real guidance of a proper master.
Having grown up by his grandfather's side in his previous life, Lorist had only managed to learn but a small part of the complicated techniques by observing his grandfather's work. He himself did not dare to claim that he had a good understanding of pulse readings. The following things happened just as he had predicted. The other four instructors, including his good friend, Instructor Yuriy who had recently been promoted to a horse riding instructor to earn the Silver rank, stopped studying rather quickly.
As for Anfya, she persisted and believed Lorist's words and gradually became able to discern a clearer difference in the student's pulse. There were rumors that she even practiced it on her husband and children so often that they fled once she entered their sight.
Of course, all the students in Lorist's third War Force awakening course had graduated as well, so he was awarded the Gold ranked instructor medal for the War Force awakening. Along with his gold sword medal, he became a renowned Gold dual rank instructor in the academy.
After going to the Relic Islands for the expedition last year, Lorist was unable to hold classes at that time. Currently, this was the fourth time when the chief instructor of the awakening Force and his students numbered up to 879 people, all of which had determined Lorist to be their instructor for his fame as a Gold-ranked War Force instructor and was even willing to pay double his price.