More Training

More Training

"Mari, is it? I'll remember you. Now, use your strongest methods to attack me. Let me see what you're capable of."

Li Yuan nodded.

"Yes, Boss!"

With Li Yuan's permission, they surrounded him, drew their weapons, and attacked him.

Bang! Bang! Bang!!!!

These pirates were far stronger than Kano and the others, capable of dealing considerable damage to Li Yuan.

At the very least, Mari's blade could cut into Li Yuan's body, leaving a wound two centimeters deep. That level of strength was already quite impressive.

Yet Mari was now questioning his entire life. His all-out strike had only left such a small wound on his boss?

He had clearly seen that his boss had taken his full-power attack with nothing but his flesh, without using Haki or even Iron Body from the Marine Six Styles.

"Didn't you eat? Attack me with everything you've got!"

Li Yuan suddenly shouted.

"Yes!!!"

After Li Yuan's roar, none of the pirates dared hold back any longer, and they all attacked with their full strength.

They continued attacking until an hour had passed before finally stopping.

The pirates were exhausted, but Li Yuan did not feel tired at all. Instead, he felt refreshed, because he could sense that his physique had grown a little stronger again.

"That's enough for today. Go do whatever you want. If you want me to guide you in swordsmanship or anything else, come find me in the afternoon when the sun sets."

Li Yuan said after cleaning the grime from his body.

"Yes, Boss!"

Mari and the others said excitedly when they heard that Li Yuan would guide them.

They had joined Li Yuan not only for his protection, but also in hopes of receiving his guidance and raising their strength to the next level.

In this world, only one's own strength was the most reliable guarantee.

Feeling the goodwill from his subordinates grow even stronger, Li Yuan nodded in satisfaction.

These were the first subordinates he had taken in. There was nothing wrong with giving them a little incentive; that way, more people would sincerely come to join him in the future.

After finishing his daily morning training, Li Yuan put on his weighted iron armor and jumped into the Great Sea, diving straight down to the nearby seafloor. With a Longsword in hand, he began practicing his swordsmanship.

Li Yuan had finished reading the many Swordsmanship Training Manuals Shakky had sent him yesterday in a single night, and he had memorized all of them.

But memorizing them was one thing. Whether he could understand them and incorporate them into his own swordsmanship was another matter entirely.

After entering the Great Sea, he continuously recalled the cultivation method of the Gale Sword Style.

The Gale Sword Style was a sword style created by a powerful Swordmaster. It had been acquired by the Rocks Pirates, then seen by Li Yuan. Now, he was learning the Gale Sword Style.

"Let the sword swing as swiftly as the wind!!"

After recalling the contents of the Gale Sword Style, Li Yuan began practicing the Gale Sword Technique in the Great Sea.

The Gale Sword Technique emphasized one word: speed. Lightning-fast sword draws, swings too swift for others to react to, slashes too fast to be seen—the word "fast" ran through the entire sword style and was the essence of the Gale Sword Style.

Even in the depths of the Great Sea, under immense water pressure and resistance,

Li Yuan remained incredibly fast. His sword swings were so swift that it was as though the Great Sea had no effect on him at all.

Even the slashes he casually sent out were over a hundred meters long, traveling nearly five hundred meters before stopping.

To turn another sword style into nourishment for his own, he first had to understand its essence, learn the sword style, and then break it down.

Only by gradually integrating what he had learned and what he discovered during the process of dismantling it into his own sword style could he make his swordsmanship stronger.

Li Yuan was currently in the process of learning other sword styles.

As Li Yuan cultivated in the Great Sea, the calm waters suddenly became turbulent.

Massive slashes occasionally burst from beneath the surface. Anyone who carelessly approached that stretch of sea might very well lose their life there.

"Boss's training is way too outrageous."

Mari said in Shocked disbelief as he watched enormous waves constantly rise from the Great Sea.

"This is nothing. Back when Senior Brother trained, the commotion was even more ridiculous. You'll see this often in the future."

Kano walked over as he spoke. He knew that these were subordinates Li Yuan had taken in, and that they would be people on the same ship as them from now on, so he had come to introduce himself.

"You are?"

Mari asked as he looked at Kano.

"My name is Kano. I used to come from the same Sword Hall as Senior Brother—your boss. Later, we went out to sea together and joined the Rocks Pirates together."

Kano did not hide anything and told him directly.

"So you're Brother Kano. From now on, we're brothers on the same ship. My name is Mari."

Upon hearing that Kano was his boss's junior brother, Mari's attitude became much more respectful. After all, Kano had that relationship with Li Yuan, so Mari could not help but treat him with respect.

"That's right. We'll be brothers from now on."

Kano gladly accepted the goodwill Mari extended. After all, one did not strike a smiling face.

"The Gale Sword Style does have some merit. This way of using the sword can make my attacks faster, and it's very suitable for incorporating into my Limitless Sword Style."

After practicing the Gale Sword Technique for an entire morning, Li Yuan quickly mastered it thoroughly.

At his current level of swordsmanship, learning another Swordmaster-level sword technique was easy.

Next, he needed to integrate the essence of the Gale Sword Style into his own swordsmanship and elevate it.

In the afternoon, Li Yuan found an enormous boulder weighing roughly two thousand tons.

"Up you go!"

Li Yuan exerted both hands and lifted the massive boulder.

Geppo!!

The next moment, he pushed off hard with both feet, leaped into the air while carrying the boulder, then used Geppo to run through the sky.

This was a method he had devised to simultaneously train his stamina, endurance, arm strength, leg strength, and aerial sprinting ability.

After Li Yuan ran into the distance while carrying the boulder, Mari and the others could only see the boulder flying through the sky. They could not see Li Yuan at all, which showed just how enormous the boulder was.

"Boss trains far too hard."

Mari had not left from the beginning, watching Li Yuan train the entire time.

Only now did they realize just how brutally their boss trained. He truly did not treat himself like a human being.

"But Boss is already training so diligently. We can't fall too far behind either. From now on, we have to train hard too and catch up to Boss!"

Mari said.