Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Yan Yu left the principal's office and took out his cell phone to send a message to everyone.

[Yi De Fu Ren]: Where is everyone? Sound off!

[Ningning]: I'm at the new training ground.

Seeing that no one else had replied, Yan Yu headed to the training ground to find Lin Ning.

In this life, because someone had privately spread slander, the school's training plan had been massively altered—now it emphasized the combined use of the Three Arts.

The new training ground was set up with a long wall made of semi-solid fire foam. The collision resilience was impressive, so even hitting it wouldn't cause bleeding wounds.

The instructor commanded the students to wear protective gear and then launch a Shifting Technique charge at the wall, requiring them to switch to the Cloud Ascension Technique and brake sharply when approaching the wall.

Because the wall was intentionally shaped to look just like a normal concrete wall, the students generally felt a great deal of psychological pressure. When they sprinted over with the Shifting Technique, they braked early, with their stopping points ranging from 3 to 5 meters.

Amid many difficult-to-watch performances, Yan Yu almost instantly spotted the most dazzling girl… Not only was she beautiful and shapely, but her training results were also outstanding, managing to brake within 1 meter every time.

Lin Ning, Sister Lin, the problem-solving Lin family member. Her black hair was tied into a ponytail and bunched up with a rubber band at the back of her head; she wore a small sports tank top, shorts that revealed her fit thighs, as well as clean sports shoes and half-length white socks. The unique youthful charm of a young girl attracted the gaze of boys and girls around her like a magnet.

"Why are you training again?" Yan Yu came up to her and asked in surprise.

"Isn't this afternoon our training time?" Lin Ning, already with a slight sweat and breathing rapidly, rested with one hand on her waist and responded to him curiously.

"But we had a mission yesterday," Yan Yu said.

"You didn't say that we could take the entire next day off after completing the mission," Lin Ning said.

"So, you only act upon orders, huh?" Yan Yu was immediately amused by her, almost as if he were being spoon-fed, "If I told you to rest, you would rest? What if I told you to go out on a date and book a room with me, you would agree without a second thought?"

"Don't talk rubbish and make up stories," Lin Ning gave him a gentle kick and then crossed her arms, asking, "What did you want to see me about?"

"Of course, it's about setting up a new training plan," Yan Yu said, looking towards the students training in the distance, "Your Shifting Technique braking is already within an arm's reach. There's no point in practicing it further."

"Not yet," Lin Ning corrected him, "I can now consistently control it at about one meter; an arm's reach should be about half a meter."

"When I first mentioned it, I was talking about one meter," Yan Yu casually replied.

"You said an arm's reach," Lin Ning insisted.

"It was one meter," Yan Yu raised his eyebrows slightly, "Who's the captain here, you or me? Who decides the training standards?"

Lin Ning was instantly aggravated but left without a retort, secretly thinking to herself that she needed to buy a recording pen next time. She'd record everything he said when setting the training plan, to see how he would argue then!

"What do you plan to do with this time's reward money?" Yan Yu shifted the subject upon seeing her puff up in anger.

"I don't know, haven't decided yet," Lin Ning said, "That much money, I can't spend it all, so I might as well give it to my family. How about you?"

"I plan to buy a house nearby... but of course, that's not the point," Yan Yu said, seeing she was no longer angry, then got back to the main topic, "I've already fixed your new training plan."

"What is it specifically?"

"Quite simple, spar with me," Yan Yu said.

Lin Ning was silent for a moment:

"I can't beat you, right?"

"Of course," Yan Yu said, "But the purpose of sparring isn't to win, it's to help you find out where your issues currently lie through actual combat."

"Alright, I get it," Lin Ning said, her expression a bit uneasy as she adjusted the strap of her tank top, "Right here? Should I go change into something else?"

I didn't say we were going to spar right now, and what's with that little move of pulling at your clothes?

"Let's wait until I've arranged the entire team's training plans, and then I'll come to find you," Yan Yu replied, "Tell me anytime if you have any ideas."

"I don't have any thoughts," Lin Ning seemed to let out a sigh of relief, then asked tentatively, "Sparring... is it like when you trained Sister Zhao before?"

"Sister Zhao?"

"Zhao Jiuzhen, because Ling Yun usually calls her Sister Zhao, so we followed and called her that too," Lin Ning explained.

"Oh, I see," Yan Yu thought to himself that the Demonic Sect Enchantress deserved a good beating, as mischievous as a monkey, the harder you hit her, the more obedient and attentive she became, not like the ordinary girls at all, "Well... that's hard to say specifically."

"Why is it hard to say?" Lin Ning asked, puzzled.

"Let me use an analogy that you can understand," Yan Yu pondered for a moment and said, "Imagine there's a top student and a poor student. The top student has a solid foundation, so you make him do practice tests repeatedly; the poor student doesn't even remember the formulas, so plunging into a sea of problems will only be counterproductive.

Instead, it's better to start with the knowledge points in the textbook. Do you understand? Everyone's training plan is different; it varies by person, tailored to their abilities. You really shouldn't just apply someone else's training plan to yourself."

"I see now," Lin Ning suddenly realized, and her expression relaxed quite a bit. Curious, she asked, "So am I considered a top student or a poor student?"

"What do you think?" Yan Yu countered her question.

"I don't want what I think; I want what you think," Lin Ning asked subconsciously, then quickly realized it sounded a bit odd and added, "You're the captain, your judgment is more meaningful."

"I said, poor students need to consolidate the basics, while top students, having a solid foundation, can go straight to practical tests," Yan Yu replied.

Oh, so I'm doing practical sparring, which means I'm a top student... hehe.

Upon this thought, Lin Ning's mood instantly lifted, and she said cheerfully:

"Got it. Let me know when you start training, send me a message."Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"Sure, keep in touch," Yan Yu paused for a moment, then added, "Don't train by yourself for now, rest up."

"Understood," Lin Ning nodded.

Having taken care of Sister Lin, Yan Yu once again took out his phone, only to see two more people had replied with their locations.

Su Yunjin was in the library, the closest one, so he decided to find her first.

Upon arriving at the library, Yan Yu was surprised to find that it was not as deserted as the last time but occupied by six or seven boys.

Looking closer, they were seated around where Su Yunjin was positioned, and each of them held some foreign literature such as Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude," and Joyce's "Ulysses"...

It seemed like he understood.

Wake up, guys! A literary girl having a romantic encounter with a boy who loves books is something that only happens in anime and light novels from the Sakura countries!

Unperturbed by the "surveillance" from the surrounding eyes, Yan Yu directly approached Su Yunjin and noticed that she was holding the "Legend of Shushan Swordsmen" by the author of Zhuangyuan Tower.

"You want to understand the cultivation world through classical wuxia novels?" Yan Yu sat down in the chair opposite her and asked.

"No," Su Yunjin shook her head with a smile, "Just to kill time."

"Then I came at the right time," Yan Yu spoke earnestly, "Based on our trip to the Mysterious Realm, I think you've all completed the first phase of training. It's time to start the second phase."

"What exactly do we have to do?" Su Yunjin closed the book she held and put it aside.

"What do you think your main weaknesses are currently?" Yan Yu slowed down his tone and asked.

"Um..." Su Yunjin fell silent for a moment, then said with a wry smile, "I feel like everything is a weakness."

"Hmm," Yan Yu made no direct comment but instead said, "From my perspective, you have a rather cautious personality, so it's better to start with self-defense capabilities. If you always hold back for fear of getting hurt, you won't be able to execute any tactics."

"Self-defense?" Su Yunjin pondered, "Do you mean practice the Earth-Element Sturdiness Curse? Or continue working on switching between the Shifting Technique and the Cloud Ascension Technique?"

"The latter, but we'll need to raise the difficulty," Yan Yu said nonchalantly, "For instance, I will launch attacks at you, and you'll have to keep dodging, which will help you overcome your fear of actual combat more quickly."

Su Yunjin's pretty face turned a bit pale as she asked slowly:

"What if I can't dodge?"

"Don't worry, I'll be careful with the force," Yan Yu assured her seriously, "At most, it will be pain, bleeding, getting hurt, that sort of thing... Of course, you don't have to be overly scared, it's not the kind of serious injury that would send you to the infirmary for emergency treatment, at worst you'll just need to bandage it up."

Su Yunjin fell silent for a moment, then nodded stiffly:

"Alright, I got it."

"That's great..." Yan Yu felt her reaction was a bit off and decided to find a lighter subject, "What do you plan to do with the prize money we got from the last exploration of the Mysterious Realm?"

"I was planning to give it all to my family," Su Yunjin said distantly, "But I think... I'll keep some of it for myself, to buy some ointment for bruises and injuries?"

"You're a bit too sensitive," Yan Yu said helplessly, "I'm not going to use training as an excuse to batter you seriously."

"Like Sister Zhao?" Su Yunjin counter-questioned.

"Uh..."