Time slipped away; the years flew by.
A month passed in the blink of an eye, steeped in sweat.
The training ground at Skywater Academy had already changed beyond recognition.
The pale-blue water-pressure barriers still enveloped every girl, but those within them were completely different from how they had been a month ago.
The initial hardship of barely being able to move, drenched in sweat and utterly bedraggled, had long vanished.
In its place was a resilience that allowed them to maintain relatively fluid movements even under crushing pressure.
Dugu Yan and Lan Xi showed the most obvious improvement.
They had already been exceptionally gifted, and after Jiang Zhen had personally trained them for so long, their foundations were extremely solid.
At that moment, they could even conduct small-scale tactical coordination drills under twice the initial pressure.
The changes in the seven girls of the Skywater Team were even more transformative.
Under Jiang Zhen's almost "extravagant" training regimen—unceasing, gradually increasing pressure training during the day, followed at night by medicinal baths carefully prepared with rare herbs that relaxed their muscles and strengthened their foundations—
he also had them consume Thousand-Year Whale Jelly and Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Jelly twice. Though regarded by outsiders as "aphrodisiacs," they actually possessed miraculous body-tempering effects—their foundations had been honed to an incomparably solid state.
Jiang Zhen did not directly tell them that it was whale jelly. He only divided it into portions after heating and melting it before giving it to them.
Their physical strength, the resilience of their meridians, the purity and density of their Soul Power, and even their Spiritual Power had all undergone tremendous, comprehensive improvement.
The results were obvious.
Vice-captain Xue Wu and Yu Hairou of the Assault System, relying on their solid accumulation and this period of tempering, both broke through