Okey, now with that out of the way, remove the body of Lu Jiu, tell the family clerk to remove his name from tomorrow .
Instructor Lu ordered the guards without even looking back at them to remove the body of Lu Jiu from the courtyard, they will cremate him and that would be the end of his story .
The guy who was filled with vitality and looking quite energetic just now, had turned to look like a skeleton, even his bones began to crack as the guards tried to move his body, that was the consequences of his reckless actions, so he had no one to blame other than himself .
But i felt a bit depressed at the fact that no one seemed to have any kind of remorse towards him dying an ugly death like this, not even the guys who were helping him out just now, from tomorrow morning another name will be scratched off the family servants book and that was all there to it .
This was how easy can a person die in this world, this was how this worked, you die, your story die with you, exactly like Lu Jiu, this was no longer the same world i came from, my survival in this world will depend entirely on whether my fist was stronger than my opponent or not, what a chaotic world this was .
After the guards took Lu Jiu body out of the courtyard, the instructor called Lu Jong and asked him about the reason to why was he wearing the cloth on his head, looking to have regained his kind and approachable apperance, the latter then answered hurriedly that he had hit a wall while engrossed in his thoughts, the instructor didn't seem to buy it even a little bit, but still gave him a slight nod .
My mood lightened up a bit after remembering that i was the reason for him covering his head like a mummy, as i was thinking about this, the instructor then ordered us with a loud voice to get in position .
I didn't understand what was going on until i saw everyone standing firm, my body reacted to the words of the instructor and i found myself standing like them, probably out of habit, what we were doing here was a usual training routine, one that was used to strengthen our bodies in the beginning of the day using the rich Yang energy from the sun .
Weren't they just benefiting from basking in the rays of the, that was the thought i had in mind, but then the instructor gave the order to stand in Horse Stance .
I was completely baffled by what he said, unable to comprehend what was going on, but then once again my body Instinctively responded by standing in what i presumed to be the mentioned stance, it was like doing squats, but it has a weird mechanism to it .
It was a posture where you squat into a wide stance with your thighs parallel to the ground and you need to keep a straight back, i was able to see some people being punished with a bamboo thick stick to the thigh, some were able to hold it, some broke their posture, resulting in them getting another hit, but this time it was completely random .
I was looking around me to see who were the ones that seemed to be hanging up quite well and i tried copying them perfectly, i kept making adjustments to my posture, due to the fact that one by one, the guys i was copying began to fall on their butts, either due to being unable to hold it anymore or being struck by the ruthless bamboo stick in the hands of instructor Lu .
Luckily, he doesn't seem to be intent on keep punishing them, after two or three times of falling and getting hit by him, he would give them a way out, they will be tasked with sparring with one another .
But after they all sustained a varying degree of injuries to their legs and body, they were more like acting than actually sparring, i was able to tell and surely the instructor was too , but he just shook his head at them and cared no more about them .
The amount of people able to remain standing at this point was no more than 20 people out of 104 minus Lu Jiu and it have been over 15 minutes, among those who were still standing a few acquaintances of mine appeared, Lu Jong, Lu Fong, Lu Fu, Lu Nan, i was able to identify all the four of them due to the instructor calling each and everyone of them at least once, telling them to fix their posture .
Lu Jong seemed to be the one most relaxed, i attributed mostly to him getting something out of being one of Deacon Lu loyal dogs .
Damn, i almost slipped out of my right posture just now, due to the resentment of the body getting provoked and it affecting my state of mind, i was able to understand that discipline and state of mind seeming to be the requirements for keeping this posture, just directly behind staying in a correct posture of course .
Out of the other three, one look at them and i was able to tell that at least Lu Nan and Lu Fong would be eliminated directly in two or three breaths of time, one was all red body and face and the other had broke his posture before and was unable to get in the correct posture anymore .
And this was indeed the case, two short breaths later, Lu Fong was the first to fall in addition to 4 others, but he was the one who got reprimanded the most out of the 5 , due to almost injuring himself severely, for that he got 3 more hits before the instructor allowed him to go to the other side and joined the others .
A one breath passed, two short breaths passed, then the guy whose body reddened to the point he currently looked like a kettle, collapsed on the floor, unconscious, instructor Lu cursed that guy Lu Nan stubbornness, but in his tone i was able to see a hint of him seeming to favor this quality quite a lot .
He asked some of the already disqualified people to come and get him, surprisingly out of the three who decided to retreat yesterday, the one who stayed in his posture the most was Lu Fu .
A complete contrast to the opinion i have on him in my mind, i thought from his way of talking yesterday, that he was a bit unstable in the mind, so he would at least one of the very first guys to get disqualified, or even broke his posture at least once .
But this had never happened, in fact for the first 15 minutes his body was as steady as a rock, but now as we were getting close to pass twenty minutes, his face and body began turning red too and soon after we had stood like this for 20 minutes .
He together with 10 other collapsed on the floor in unison, leaving only 3 people still standing, me, Lu Jong and a third guy who seemed to be at his limit too .
I was right once again, the third guy dropped out of the competition, cursing his luck as got up, leaving only two person still standing in the correct posture, me and Lu Jong, he was in the front and i was on the back of the courtyard, unable to look at each other directly, but somehow we were still staring at one another, at least that was what i felt .
I wonder what will his reaction be, if he were to know that i was adjusting my body posture to his, but to be able to perfectly execute something like this needed much experience, so i guess i need to be thankful for the original Tian Long, his experience had helped me a lot, not to mention that his well trained body was one huge factor to me still standing here like this with no much of a problem .
Neither i nor Lu Jong seemed to have reached our limit still, we were standing the same as before, balanced and untroubled, the guys who were disqualified began to stop practicing with one another and began cheering both of us, but the cheering stopped when the instructor who had taken a seat, stood up and said :
Able to hold on for this long is quite admirable, that goes especially for you Lu Jong, even if you weren't relaying on your own efforts to do so, being able to use other means to secure success was also an extension of your ability .
Even though i doubt you being able to afford doing this every time, anyhow, sadly time was running out from us, so next let me test how would you be able to stand under the pressure of external influences, for an example my killing intent .
And as if not giving us anytime to prepare ourselves, he suddenly unleashed his killing intent at us who were completely unprepared for it, i began to feel that the air around me was becoming cold, lowering the temperature of my body, distorting the balance i tried hard to keep in my body, then as if that wasn't already enough, the instructor began to take one step at a time towards us, with each step he took, the pressure acting on us increased .
I was beginning to feel like it was taking the tangible form of a rock, each step he took increased the size of that rock on our backs, at first it was a small piece that wasn't much heavier than a brick, then after he took two or three steps, that brick transformed to a boulder .
The boulder was small at first, barely working together with the terrible cold air around us to at most disturb our balance, but a few more steps later and i was beginning to feel as if the small boulder had become a small mountain and was currently pressing on my back and shoulders, not trying to barely destabilize us anymore .
It was now trying to crush us beneath it, weirdly enough, even though Lu Jong was closer to the instructor then i was, i was still able to tell that he was suffering from the same pressure as i do, that meant that he had complete control of his killing intent and it has nothing to do with how many steps he was taking, i was really beginning to understand how dangerous this world was more and more .
My teeth were chattering, chattering from the chilly cold air surrounding me and my body was shivering, yet i was still holding the same posture as before, if i was being stubborn and persistent about keeping my posture before for the sake of not being discovered to be an imposter, or fear of being struck by that bamboo stick, that was no longer the case .
I was now doing this completely for myself, any move out of balance now and my body would be injured severely, who knows how many days will it take me to recover this time, would someone as vicious as Deacon Lu wait for me to recover from injuries .
The last time the hitmen he sent were weak in both of their will and strength, thinking that i was too weak and to be able to defend myself, luckily i was able to scare most of them and deal with the one hadn't left, but luck won't always be in my side .
What if the next time the person who came to assassinate me was an actual Martial Artist, even though the probability of this happening was quite low, but if that were to actually happen and while i was injured here of all times, won't i be handing my head to them on a silver plate then .
That was the reason why i won't be breaking my posture or moving even an inch until this was over, no matter what it takes, i can't catch an injury here .
At least, even though my whole body was beginning to shake, i seem to be hanging up better than my opponent, Lu Jong posture was beginning to show signs of being broken at any moment now, that also was what i kept telling myself, so that i don't lose patience .
The instructor once again took another step forward and i felt that i was being crushed by the huge boulder, my mind seemed to believe i was now holding on my back, i was close to fell off, no, i fell off my body posture was broken for almost a second, before i was able to regain my balance .
The moment i took one step wrong, i felt that my ankles and knees were killing me, but that was only for a second, then the pain stopped, i then hurriedly fixed my posture back to what it was before, thankfully even though i slipped due to the sudden increased pressure, i didn't got injury, at this thought, a massage suddenly came to my mind, saying :
( Mild Knee And Ankle Injuries Detected, Mild Knees And Ankles Injuries Removed ) .
I didn't gave that any mind, thinking that it maybe my imagination, for now i was completely focused on one thing and that is to survive this .
Luckily or unluckily, the guy Lu Jong seemed to have finally reached his limit just as the instructor was about to take another step, he coughed blood as he fell down and his body collapsed on the floor, unconscious.
Even though i like this should have won, the pressure on me was still on, i was at my limit too, my mental fortitude helped me in reaching this stage, but i was beginning to feel my body beginning to give out and the same goes for my mind as well .
My whole body soaked with sweat moved breaking the posture and the moment i did so the pressure on me vanished, i was glad and unlike the guys that fell down before me, the moment the pressure was lifted, i had enough strength to stay up, i was a bit thankful to the immaculate control Instructor Lu had .
As i thought of this, i saw that the instructor Lu appeared in front of me and had a smile on his face as he began patting me on the shoulder, saying :
Good, good, good .
I believe he was complimenting me but even before i react to this or thank him, he continued to say still patting my shoulder while smiling :
You earned yourself a great reward, i will allow you to watch the practicing of Martial Arts next, just so that you understand the big difference between the different Martial Arts, so be grateful .
The moment he said that all the people around us gasped at that, i soon too realized why they were reacting as such .