The Return of the Greatest Sect Leader
Chapter 23 ~ An Exhausting Day

Before Li Yao's foot stepped out of Tao Zhen's room, Li Yao turned around then asked him something that had been bothering him all along.

"I almost forgot. Chief, did you guys really throw away the stone inscription that was in the ancestral room?"

"Stone inscription? Oh, that ugly rock," said Tao Zhen, just remembering the stone in the ancestral room.

"We did throw it away because the stone was ugly and useless, was there a problem? Why are you asking that?"

"Nothing, the students are just curious. In that case, now the disciple will retreat!"

As soon as Li Yao was outside the room, her innocent face in an instant instantly changed.

"I pulled my words a moment ago! You guys are idiots."

Li Yao immediately left the place. Arriving at the training ground, Li Yao walked over to Gao Ming who appeared to be casting the Cloud-Penetrating Sword Technique.

Li Yao's arrival enraged Gao Ming. Of course Gao Ming was angry. After Li Yao said all that, the boy instead went out of nowhere and came late to the training ground.

"Coach Gao, Sect Chief calls you to his room."

Gao Ming's mouth was about to open, yet Li Yao had already spoken first. Li Yao knew Gao Ming wanted to scold her. That was why Li Yao cut Gao Ming's words before he could even open his mouth.

"What business is it?" gao Ming asked, his body stopped previewing the Cloud Penetrating Sword Technique.

"I don't know much, but it seems like Sect Chief wants to hold an important meeting with all the Elders," Li Yao replied innocently.

"So," Gao Ming muttered, he looked at all the disciples who were practicing using wooden swords.

"Continue your training! Let no one laze around, when I'm not here to watch over you!" gao Ming exclaimed to all third level disciples.

Gao Ming's gaze returned towards Li Yao. Before Gao Ming went to the sect head's place, he wanted to warn the child to be afraid of him.

"Later we will discuss the reason for your delay."

The figure of Gao Ming leaving the training ground, Li Yao sighed then smiled. All the children in that place remained training seriously as instructed by Gao Ming.

Even though their bodies were already very tired from the hell training this morning, they still underwent the sword training in earnest.

Li Yao took out a wooden sword then practiced. In contrast to the training done by all the disciples, Li Yao simply did a basic exercise like putting up the horses then slashing forward vertically many times.

The entire disciple was not well versed with the tedious training done by Li Yao. After being satisfied watching Li Yao for some time, they refocused themselves on the training they were going through.

Now is a good time to get used to it. Li Yao realized that he had to adapt to his small and weak new body. That was the reason Li Yao practiced with basic techniques, for his body to get used to performing basic movements correctly and accurately.

Every small mistake in the fight, life can be at stake. Therefore how to hold a sword, how to swing a sword, how to draw a sword, how to step, how to step, how to move the body, and others are very important to master.

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In less than an hour, Gao Ming had returned to the training ground to announce something very important. Gao Ming's gaze turned to Li Yao, then looked back at the curious disciples.

"From today on, we will not practice using the Cloud-Penetrating Sword Technique and the Basic Technique of Traveling to the Mountain! We will focus on forging the body and purifying Qi using the Basic Technique of Starting the Journey!" exclaimed Gao Ming, occasionally glancing at Li Yao. He knew this change was caused by the boy.

All the disciples were shocked, except for Li Yao. They had never expected, if the techniques they had learned would be replaced with old techniques that had been considered ancient.

The training of the new third level disciples had begun. Gao Ming forged their bodies with quite hard physical training. In the afternoon, Gao Ming taught his students the Basic Technique of Starting a Journey to purify the Qi within their bodies.

Ever since joining the Mountainous Road Sect, they had never been this small. Today was the most exhausting day of their lives. As if after their energy was exhausted in squeezing, their flesh and bones were also squeezed out.

Their bodies hurt.

Dinner time was almost here, but no students were excited. After bathing and cleaning himself, Li Yao sneaked into the kitchen and put a sprig of blood grass into the vegetable soup.

Blood grass was a low rank rare resource that could increase vitality. Li Yao had to skimp on blood grass, as he only had 30 stalks.

In front of the dining table, the disciples looked very appetizing for dinner. In addition to their entire body being in pain, the color of the vegetable soup in front of them also looked very suspicious.

Since when is the vegetable soup they usually eat red? Some disciples with trembling hands tried the taste of the soup. As a result, they immediately vomited it.

It tastes very salty, sour, and bitter. Even though they were used to eating potluck, eating food with such taste was very torturous with their tongues.

Only one disciple in that place ate dinner so voraciously, who else would that disciple be if not Li Yao. All the disciples in the room looked at Li Yao as if he was a freak.

Actually Li Yao was not bothered by that gaze. Li Yao simply did not like them wasting food and resources. Moreover, they need extra energy and rest to continue training tomorrow.

That was the reason Li Yao put the blood grass into the dinner, for the vitality of the other disciples to grow stronger.

Unable to do so, Li Yao had already given them such a precious resource for nothing. They should not waste their resources.

Brak!!!

Li Yao suddenly kicked down the table, both ends of his lips raised carving an extremely innocent smile.

"Sister I respect, is the dinner so bad?

Li Yao's innocent smile instantly made all the disciples in the place shudder, horrified. When Li Yao smiled like that, they all knew that Li Yao was considering beating up people he disliked.

The entire student was forced to eat such disgusting food. They all know that they need a lot of energy to train tomorrow. Eating is one of the simplest ways to get energy.

The room was wide open, all the disciples had no strength to speak. They just focus on spending the food on the table.