by Fat Bread
"Oh... oh! Very good. Keep going!" Sitting on his back, Casina knew the movement of his every muscle. She found that her disciple quickly learned the skill of the Treasure Ship Style.
He was still a bit inexperienced at first, but quickly got himself into it.
In Casina's eyes, he didn't look like a newbie who only practiced the Treasure Ship Style one night, but like a man who had practiced it countless days and nights.
This was the so-called talent, the talent about practicing.
After repeating the Treasure Ship Style for a thousand times, Yun Xi gasped for air. Sweat broke out all over his body.
He could clearly feel that Casina became two times heavier than before when the practice was drawing to an end. If he didn't use the skill he learned from the memory of the Killing Blood, he would have laid on his stomach like a dead body.
"Good. You have mastered the skill of the Treasure Ship Style. The next is to increase the training intensity." Casina squinted at him, who was probably the most excellent disciple of hers.
"It's time to teach you the third style."
Chapter 363: The Swing Style
"The third style?" Wiping away the sweat on his forehead, Yun Xi felt that his body had been exhausted. Practicing the Treasure Ship Style a thousand times was already his limit, it wasn't possible to study any new style now.
"There are seven basic styles in the Battle God Genre, and it'd be better to master them as soon as possible. You have great talent, but to learn the third style you must have a strong will too." Looking at Yun Xi, Casina also considered whether it was too early to teach him the third style.
In the past, her best disciple learned the third style after practicing the Treasure Ship Style a week.
"Can I become strong after learning the third style?" Yun Xi took a deep breath and looked at Casina seriously.
In order to have a wonderful future, in order to escape away from his four ex-girlfriends, he pursued powers.
Even though the stars had pointed out a road for him, which could let him become stronger and stronger as long as he kept experiencing the trial worlds.
However, it wasn't enough. He had a strong sense of crisis in his heart. Therefore, even though his body had groaned with pain, he still wanted to try it now.
"Yes, the third style can greatly help you improve your physique, but it's really a harsh trial for you. Because there isn't an upper limit when talking about its difficulty." A mysterious smile appeared on the corners of Casina's mouth.
It was really rare to find such an enterprising disciple.
Most people with great talents were proud and arrogant, including her previous disciples, they couldn't understand the meaning of doing basic training.
Now, she found a new pleasure in her life, that was to cultivate this new disciple and wait for him to grow up. Then one day, he would be able to challenge his predecessors, her previous disciples whose fame had spread far and wide.
"I will do it!" Yun Xi ground his teeth. Regardless that his body was protesting with aching pain, he stood up steadily.
After the limit practice in the valley, his soul had been reborn. His body was improved, and his will too.
He believed that he could accomplish Casina's special training, even though it was obviously much more difficult and dangerous.
"Ok, then let's start. I can tell you, none of your previous predecessors accomplished the third style perfectly." Casina looked at her poor disciple, who was trying to challenge the third style without even knowing anything about it.
Even his predecessors, her disciples who had reached the hero rank didn't want to remember the experience of practicing this again!
"May I ask the name of the third style?" Yun Xi raised his hand. He suddenly had an ominous presentiment.
"I named it 'the Swing Style'." Casina smiled with expectation. She gently stretched out her hand and pulled out a thread from her ear.
"Gee?" Yun Xi looked at the thread in surprise. Undoubtedly, it was the same thread that hung down from the floating ship.
Can the thread be just a strand of her hair?
"Shuffle!" Before he reacted, the thread had bound his waist.
"Listen, the Swing Style follows the rule of the ring of all things. You need to experience the limit of 'softness' in the endless circular rings."
"And remember, it will be a test to your physique. Before you lose consciousness, it won't stop."
Before Yun Xi understood the meaning of it, his body had been thrown out.
"Puff!" In the violent wind, he lost the control of his body, flying in the air like a kite.
And this was just the beginning of his hell!
"Shuffle!" The boundary between sky and earth became nebulous in his eyes. His stomach twisted, because he was experiencing a terrible acceleration that ordinary people could never withstand.
Spinning around the Sands of Time, he started to "practice" the "Swing Style", which really should be called "endless circling motion".
At first, he could still move his hands and legs, trying to adjust the balance of his body.
Then, he ground his teeth, trying to preserve bearing.
Soon afterwards, he felt dazzled and saw illusions in his sight.
The name "Swing Style" deceived him, although it looked really like swinging in the air.
However, when it was swinging on a strand of hair, spinning around a ship that was suspended in the sky that was thousands of metres high, it wasn't enjoyable at all.
Moreover, it was accelerating!
In the tenth round, Yun Xi thought that he had seen the world of the afterlife, where he was surrounded by countless golden stars.
"Well... well... he’s created a new record..." Looking at him, Casina praised.
Her best disciple before could only hold on seven rounds. He had experienced ten rounds and was still up and running.
It seemed that he hadn't reached his limit.
Well, why don't we challenge a higher threshold? Casina snapped, then the floating ship moved bit by bit, flying to the sky above.
From thousands of metres high to tens of thousands of metres high, the "Swing Style" didn't have a limit. If she wanted, she could even let the ship fly out of the atmosphere, making him experience the "Planet Swinging".
Of course, he was still a mortal, he couldn't breathe after leaving the atmosphere, so she didn't really consider this alluring idea seriously.
"Arrrghhh!" Although his eyes were bleary, he still immediately felt the increase in the speed. His stomach turned flips, and his mind finally went blank in the 18th rounds.
"Hum... very well, a new record!" Taking him aboard, Casina kicked his body and murmured with satisfaction.
The next second, her god weapon, gravel-like lights diffused from the sword "the Sands of Time" and fell onto Yun Xi's body.
Chapter 364: The Gravel of Time
The Sands of Time was the only known sky sword about the rules of "time". It was inherited in Casina's desert tribe from generation to generation, which was said that it could reverse time.
After becoming the sixth Sky Sword, Casina inherited it from the previous clan elder, however, she never used it in battle.
Many people doubted if Casina could really use the real power inside of this god weapon, after all, the rules of time were mysterious, it was a realm that even gods couldn't easily set foot in.
However, as long as any people saw this scene, they would understand that Casina was the sword's veritable master. Undoubtedly, the gravel-like lights were the power of the Sands of Time.
Stepping her bare feet onto Yun Xi's body, Casina checked his changes after practicing. "Hum... his physique was improved 3%, the flexibility of his body was improved 5%, and his bone and nerves were improved by 1%."
If scholars saw this data, they would go crazy. Theoretically, humans couldn't improve their bodies so much after just practicing for a night. It was a miracle!
In fact, Yun Xi's body had reached
the peak of the third rank in the Water God's world. He just couldn't be compared to the "monsters" like Hua Huo, but was far better than ordinary people.
The three styles Casina taught him helped him increase the speed to surpass the limit of flesh and blood.
"The Sands of Time, tell me the lifetime of my disciple," Casina ordered her sky sword in a casual tone.
One of the abilities of her sky sword, the Sands of Time was to predict the lifetime of any target in front of it.
Of course, it just judged the lifetime of the target from the target's current life force. If the target was killed or died by disease in the future, it wouldn't be able to predict these accidents.
Before reaching the hero rank, mortals could only live about 100 years. Very few people could live 150 years even if their genes were very excellent, but their lifetimes couldn’t be higher.
After reaching the hero rank, the number would become different from person to person. According to their conditions when entering the hero rank and the practicing roads they had chosen, the highest record of a lifetime was ten thousands of years, and the shortest was three years.
The person whose lifetime was ten thousands of years was because of his bloodline. One of the person's ancestors was a long lived creature.
The person who could only live three years was because he used a very special method to break through the barrier between the mortal rank and the hero rank, which caused an untreatable sequela inside of his body.
Most people who used forbidden methods to enter the hero rank knew the cost they would pay very well. But sometimes, for some purposes, they didn't mind to paying with the cost of their lives.
The gravel on Yun Xi's body started trembling. Casina never saw such a weird scene before.
Why is it so difficult to predict my disciple's lifetime? Casina looked at Yun Xi in confusion. Generally, it wouldn't take the sword a second to give her the answer.
One minute... two minutes... five minutes later, the sands on the ground arranged and formed a number, which really shocked Casina.
"Three months... you must be kidding me..." Casina lightly kicked Yun Xi's body. She didn't feel any wound, illness or curse in or on his body. He was just exhausted because of excessive fatigue, but… at any rate, it wouldn't shorten his life to only three months!
While Casina doubted, the gravel moved on the ground again. This time, the chaos was longer. After ten minutes, they formed a new number.
"One, two, three, four..." It was such a large number that Casina didn't believe her eyes. The entire history of the endless god's domains was like nothing compared to that number. How could that be a mortal's life?!
"Hey, what does this mean? Even the so-called immortal gods can't have such a long life!" Casina didn't believe it at all.
"Shuffle!" Finally, the gravel on the ground stopped moving and became lifeless again.
"Oh, my sword is so unreliable." Casina rubbed her forehead. It seemed that it made a mistake again.
She didn't use the Sands of Time in battle, because she knew how unreliable the power of time was.
Only the people who really knew the rules of time understood how hard it was to use this power.
It seemed powerful to predict future, stop or accelerate time, but once they made any mistake, the result would be disastrous.
The things living beings could see through the river of time weren't something that human brains could understand.
For example, Ouroboros could see the future from the river of time, but it couldn't gauge the correct time.
Maybe it was a thing that would happen a year later, but it could also happen after one hundred thousand years.
Ordinary people could only live about 100 years. Even if they knew a thing that would happen one hundred thousand years later, what could they do? Even if they recorded it, they wouldn't know the people after one hundred thousand years would see it.
"Three months, or longer than the history of the endless god's domains..." Casina was speechless.
What a strange disciple!
Maybe it was because Hydra had found it a long time ago, so she chose him to be her bride?
Otherwise, it was hard to explain why a god would have partiality for a common human young boy.
Chapter 365: The Battle God's Gift
"Whoa, it's... amazing..." Sitting on Yun Xi's back, she poked his acupuncture points stimulating his body function and thought of the advanced practicing plan.
If the worst situation happened, and Yun Xi really had only three months of life, what could she do to change this?
The Sands of Time just predicted the target's lifetime by judging the target's life force. It was a theoretical value but not an irreversible prophecy.
In fact, most people couldn't live for 100 years, so the theoretical value would only be established in the most perfect state.
"Three months or shorter, is there any imperceptible defect in his body? No, I don't think so. His body is perfect..." Casina started to consider how she could help her disciple.
Her "soft body" had reached the acme of perfection. As a martial artist who knew the human body far better than anyone, she didn't think that Yun Xi's body had any defect.
On the contrary, his physique was the best amongst all her disciples, this was also one of the most important reasons why she wanted him to be her disciple.
"If it wasn't because of his body, then there should be another reason. Maybe there are problems about his mentality, soul or natal horoscope..." Looking at Yun Xi's sleeping face, Casina guessed.
Mentality was a basic to study magic. Casina heard that some people who had a natural autism could obtain strong mentality naturally, however, their minds were also easy to break down, because their bodies couldn't handle the burden of such a strong mind.
Soul was a mystery of the universe, just like the rules of time. Even gods couldn't interfere with it too much.
Natal horoscope was a person's fate. There were always special people or heroes appearing in the river of history, who could change their fates by exceeding many people’s expectations. For the people who had the Emperor Natal Horoscope, it was much easier to become an emperor than anyone else, and the people who had the Death Natal Horoscope were doomed to be lonely all their life.
Even Casina herself had the natal horoscope called "Battle God".
However, Casina wasn't good in these realms, therefore, she couldn't say if Yun Xi had some problem with his mentality, soul or natal horoscope. But if he didn't have any problem, how would her sword say that he could only live for three months?
Fortunately, in the long history, there were always some special geniuses who had these problems too, and there were thousands of cases about how to solve the illness of the soul.
Geniuses were valuable treasures, therefore, there were always forces who would do everything to heal them. In history, in order to help the geniuses who had the same problems, countless forces tried various methods to cure the illnesses of the soul.
Some of them didn't even mind using a forbidden skill that would sacrifice a million ordinary people.
"I think it's a problem about his soul." Casina hesitated, then put down a shell onto Yun Xi's chest.
"So, I will give you this."
"Even to me, it's a unique treasure. Don't disappoint me, my disciple."
Countless sand dropped from Casina's sword, the Sands of Time and gathered to the shell, forming a light hourglass like pattern on it.
It was Casina's "identity". In order to help Yun Xi solve the problem of his soul, she conferred unto him her "identity".
"Anyway, I don't need to go to 'that place' anymore. You should be able to find some treasures to cure your soul there. Don't waste it."
...
"Oh..." Yun Xi woke up. He felt that his body was relaxed and his chest felt warm. He could smell a trace of the bouquet of wine from his mouth.
He sat up and looked around, finding that he was sitting on the ground, an
d the floating ship was nowhere.
He heard Casina's voice beside his ears.
"My cute disciple, that's all for today. You did well. I need to leave for now, and the next training will start three days from now. Try to get used to your improved physique before that."
"Oh, and I left a gift for you. Remember to hold the shell in your hands and repeat 'Open, the Sky Tower' three times when you sleep. Something fantastic will happen after that!"