It wasn't just Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun.
Even Xiao Wu was left astonished after hearing the specialized training plans Ye Yu had created for Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.
She couldn't help but click her tongue in amazement.
This Ye Yu's training plan… honestly seemed way better than the one from the "Master."
Wasn't the Master completely outclassed here?
That Ye Yu could come up with such a training method in mere moments—it left both Flender and Tang San in disbelief.
All these years, and they had never realized...
That Zhao Wuji's third Spirit Ability—Gravity Increase—could actually be used to train students?
Flender scratched his head, feeling deeply ashamed.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
"How could Ye Yu come up with a better training method than I did?!"
"I clearly have more knowledge, more experience!"
"I've eaten more salt than he's walked roads!"
"Why… why am I inferior to a low-born commoner?!"
Yu Xiaogang's eyes were bloodshot, his fists clenched tight. His stiff face was twisted with bitterness and fury as he raged inwardly.
"Why?! Why the hell is this happening?!"
"If Ye Yu exists… what's the point of me?!"
—
Soon after, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing began Ye Yu's training regimen at Shrek Academy.
Meanwhile, Tang San, Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun stuck with Yu Xiaogang's plan: strapping on bamboo baskets filled with stones and running back and forth between Shrek Academy and Suotuo City—ten round trips every day.
Essentially, it was running from dawn to dusk.
In contrast, Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing trained under Zhao Wuji's Gravity Enhancement every morning for just two hours before wrapping up—and even had time afterward to visit Suotuo City for a feast.
In the afternoon, the girls practiced dodging, tossing balls at each other to sharpen their reflexes.
Once that was done, Zhu Zhuqing began refining her second Spirit Ability, Nether Hundred Claws, based on Ye Yu's guidance.
—
On Ye Yu's side, he had once again crafted two new external Spirit Bones: Demon Willow Fluff, implanting them into both of his arms.
They formed two fully independent Willow Meridian Systems, separate from his normal meridians.
Using these, he began developing his self-created Spirit Abilities—Railgun and Chidori.
Thanks to his body's incredible regenerative abilities—
Plus the second ability from the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone:
Wildfire Cannot Kill It, Spring Breeze Revives It Again
—and the external Spirit Bone: Undying Laurel Heart, Ye Yu could afford to go all out in experimentation without worrying about injuries.
His body could take it.
—
While developing Railgun and Chidori, Ye Yu also started practicing the Mysterious Heaven Skill through the first internal Willow Meridian System—the one fully integrated with his original meridians.
Initially, he thought he could simply channel a portion of his Spirit Power into the Willow Meridians and circulate it along the third-layer path of the Mysterious Heaven Skill—
That would convert his Spirit Power into internal energy, right?
But it didn't work.
Apparently, the internal energy cultivated by the Mysterious Heaven Skill had to be generated through step-by-step refinement, starting from the first level.
So Ye Yu realized he still needed the first and second layers of the Mysterious Heaven Skill's circulation method.
Then he had an idea.
—
While Tang San was doing his endurance training, burning through all the Spirit Power in both his main and Willow Meridians, Ye Yu took control of the Demon Willow Fluff parasitically embedded in Tang San.
He used it to rapidly drain every bit of Spirit Power Tang San was regenerating—leaving him utterly empty.
Terrified by the sudden depletion of power, Tang San tried every method he could to recover, but nothing worked.
Desperate, he finally returned to basics—retraining the first level of the Mysterious Heaven Skill, gradually rebuilding his internal energy.
That was exactly what Ye Yu wanted.
Once he acquired the first level, he had the Willow Fluff slow its drain, allowing Tang San's power to recover to around Spirit Grandmaster level (Rank 21), then cut it off again.
Panicked, Tang San activated the second layer of the Mysterious Heaven Skill.
Ye Yu got that one too.
Only then did he stop draining Tang San's power entirely, letting it regenerate normally.
When Tang San finally felt his Spirit Power recover fully, it was like surviving a near-death experience.
He suspected the whole thing had been caused by depleting both his real meridians and the Willow Meridian System at the same time—
Perhaps because he had only fully trained the Mysterious Heaven Skill from level one to three in his main meridians, not in the Willow Meridians?
That was the only explanation he could think of.
—
With all three layers of the Mysterious Heaven Skill now in hand, Ye Yu finally began cultivating it through his internal Willow Meridians.
Before long, he successfully condensed internal energy.
It worked.
But internal energy needed to be stored in a dantian—a core energy reservoir.
Fortunately, Ye Yu already had that covered.
In his past life, while practicing his Inner Core Method, he had studied Daoist teachings.
He knew the human body had three major dantians:
Upper Dantian: Niwan Palace (center of the brain)
Middle Dantian: Yellow Court (chest)
Lower Dantian: Qi of Sea (abdomen)
His Inner Core Method stored energy in the Middle Dantian.
The Mysterious Heaven Skill, however, used the Lower Dantian, specifically the Qi Sea point.
That was fine.
There were actually multiple acupuncture points that could serve as the lower dantian—such as Guanyuan (Gate of Origin), Qihai (Sea of Qi), and Shimen (Stone Gate).
But traditionally, the Qihai (Sea of Qi)point was regarded as the Lower Dantian.
—
To quickly boost his Mysterious Heaven Skill level, Ye Yu tapped into the massive stock of spiritual herbs stored in his Wishful Hundred Treasure Purse, a soul tool.
He began consuming Thousand-Year Ginseng, Ten-Thousand-Year Ginseng Kings, and Thousand-Year Ganoderma, and other top-tier herbs like snacks.
As for the excess medicinal energy building up in his body?
Simple.
He just stepped out of Shrek Academy, found a quiet spot, and activated his third Spirit Ability:
Heavenly Tribulation Ascension – Lightning Body Tempering.
A few rounds of divine thunder later, all the residual medicine was completely digested.
—
In the blink of an eye, two months passed.
By relying on these spirit herbs, Ye Yu had advanced his Mysterious Heaven Skill to the equivalent of Spirit Elder (Rank 37).
Meanwhile, Tang San—outside of practicing Purple Demon Eye—rarely used the other Tang Sect techniques like Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, Mysterious Jade Hand, or Controlling Crane Catching Dragon.
But ever since receiving Ye Yu's Demon Willow Fluff, which he integrated as an external Spirit Bone meridian system, Tang San began experimenting.
He tried using both his regular and Willow Meridians simultaneously to cast Tang Sect skills.
It turned out the combined circulation significantly boosted their power.
So naturally, Ye Yu learned them all—Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, Mysterious Jade Hand, and Controlling Crane, Capturing Dragon—as he observed through the Willow Fluff.
—
Now that he had successfully acquired the core Tang Sect martial arts…
Ye Yu had effectively achieved his original goal for coming to Shrek Academy.
But before leaving—
There was still one more thing he had to do.
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