Everyone raised their eyes to her, their expressions serious as they listened carefully to their instructor's assessment.
"But your Soul Power reserves are still too shallow overall to sustain prolonged, high-intensity combat," Bai Qingqing said bluntly. "Combat tactics and the finer points of teamwork can be honed through more fighting and practice. But Soul Power can only be built up through meditation. There are no shortcuts."
"So, starting today, we're setting new rules."
"Every morning, all of you will assemble and spar with Mo Yuan and me to refine the details of actual combat. In the afternoon, everyone will go into secluded meditation and focus on cultivating Soul Power."
Not one of them complained or tried to shirk the rigorous training schedule. They all knew their instructors genuinely had their best interests at heart and were helping them grow stronger steadily. They nodded in agreement, committing every training requirement firmly to memory.
Everyone on this team possessed talent far beyond that of ordinary students and tremendous potential. Rarer still, they could endure monotony and withstand intense pressure. They followed through exceptionally well and never merely went through the motions during training.
Over the next twenty days, every member threw themselves wholeheartedly into cultivation, never slackening in the slightest. Their morning sparring involved pushing one another to the limit and intense tactical exchanges, refining combat details bit by bit and consolidating every gain in fighting strength.
In the afternoons, they secluded themselves to meditate, shutting out all outside distractions. They quieted their minds and circulated their Soul Power, nourishing their meridians and accumulating cultivation little by little.
Meanwhile, the medicinal potency left deep within their flesh and meridians after they had previously refined the whale rubber was continually activated by their daily Soul Power circulation and the tempering of actual combat,