The Bamboo Stone Martial Hall is very large, with three training grounds the size of a gymnasium, but at this moment, there are not many apprentices in the martial hall.
"Under normal circumstances, only apprentices at the novice level live in the martial hall to receive strict training."
Lin Hongnian led Shi Yu to the rooftop of a training ground and said, "This is the basic training ground, used for the martial hall apprentices and the iron-eating beasts to exercise after meals."
Below, a number of beast masters and their iron-eating beasts were jogging on the artificial grass for a warm-up.
The beast masters were fine, but the pandas looked unwilling, making continuous whining sounds.
It was clearly just after lunch, and it should have been nap time, but to start running right away was too much for the pandas.
However, with the beast masters' strict orders, they had no choice.
"Iron-eating beasts are lazy by nature, and this trait needs to be gradually changed through daily training; otherwise, when it comes to real battles, serious problems can easily arise," Lin Hongnian said.
Lin Xiuzhu added, "But Eleven should be very disciplined, right?"
Shi Yu nodded, "Yes, generally speaking, it won't eat until it completes a certain amount of training; otherwise, it won't feel at ease."
Lin Hongnian: ?
He looked at Lin Xiuzhu, wondering if there were such iron-eating beasts.
Lin Xiuzhu also turned her head in surprise, thinking it sounded even more exaggerated than when Eleven was at the breeding base!
What did Shi Yu do to Eleven? Her gaze turned to Shi Yu.
"Cough." Shi Yu looked innocent, perhaps he had given Eleven too many boosts, which stimulated it?
Eleven: (*+﹏+*)~ It's shameful to gain without effort. The boosts given by the beast master must be compensated with hard training and sweat.
"After the warm-up, they will start the basic hardening training here, in pairs, practicing with each other."
Lin Hongnian looked back down. Hardening vs. hardening, saving a lot of steel plates, unlike Eleven, which can only train hardening strength with gravity and steel plates.
"Their iron-eating beasts are mostly at levels 8 to 10, so I'll just pick the strongest one for you," Lin Hongnian continued.
Just pick the strongest one? What does that even mean?
At this moment, the ten martial hall apprentices in the training ground had just finished their warm-up and were about to start the basic hardening training in pairs.
Under the organization of a tall young man with a crew cut, they quickly formed pairs.
"Jiang Rui." At this moment, Hall Master Lin Hongnian called out.
The tall young man with a crew cut, Jiang Rui, who had just organized the other apprentices into pairs, looked up.
"Let's go down." Lin Hongnian said.
A moment later, they arrived at the training ground below.
"Master Lin, what's up?" Jiang Rui and the other apprentices looked over.
Their gazes shifted to Lin Hongnian and Shi Yu, but quickly moved to the panda senior.
Great, the panda senior is at the martial hall again today, training suddenly feels more energetic!
At this age, teenagers are in a very vague stage of interest in the opposite sex, and after a day of monotonous training, they indeed need something to heal their hearts.
As Lin Hongnian's daughter, a famous genius, Lin Xiuzhu was not only very beautiful but also wore a panda T-shirt that highlighted her assets, making her the dream girl of all the apprentices.
Even the two young girls among the ten apprentices looked at Lin Xiuzhu's figure with envy and longing, and they looked down at themselves, feeling a bit sad.
"Pause your training for a moment," Lin Hongnian said, "Let me introduce you to Shi Yu, who will be coming to the martial hall to study."
Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!
Everyone's gaze finally turned to Shi Yu.
They had been wondering who it was, and it turned out to be a new apprentice at the martial hall.
Newcomer, good. With a newcomer, the one the hall master scolds for not adapting to the training intensity quickly is the newcomer, not them.
This is a shift in focus, and everyone's status in the martial hall instantly increased!
Everyone looked at Shi Yu more favorably, and the martial hall atmosphere became harmonious.
"Hello, everyone." Shi Yu also smiled kindly.
Everyone nodded, and Jiang Rui said, "I'm Jiang Rui. If you have any questions, you can come to me."
"Jiang Rui, don't organize the training for now. Have a match with Shi Yu," Lin Hongnian said.
Jiang Rui, the most outstanding among the ten apprentices, usually led the basic training when Lin Hongnian and other teachers were not around.
"Me?" Jiang Rui pointed to himself, surprised.
"Yes, you. If you lose, your and your iron-eating beast's training will double."
Jiang Rui's heart skipped a beat, but he quickly realized that it was just guiding a newcomer; how could he possibly lose?
"Alright." He nodded quickly.
The other apprentices, however, looked disappointed, thinking, "Why not me?"
They understood Master Lin's intention: to give the newcomer a taste of the strength of the martial hall apprentices.
At the same time, Master Lin probably wanted to know the newcomer's capabilities.
They could have done it too!
How could Jiang Rui get the chance to show their training results in front of the master and senior, and display their prowess in front of the newcomer?
Damn, so envious.
...
Because Shi Yu and Jiang Rui were about to have a match, everyone's training temporarily stopped, which made the apprentices and iron-eating beasts secretly rejoice.
At Lin Hongnian's gesture, the irrelevant people dispersed to the side to watch, leaving the two a space for the match.
"Shi Yu, send out your beast."
Jiang Rui said warmly, and his iron-eating beast walked out, having been outside for the warm-up.
This was a large panda about 1.45 meters long, which should be at a higher growth level than Eleven.
"Alright."
Shi Yu nodded and communicated with the beast space.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~~~
In the next second, ripples appeared in the surrounding space, causing a slight breeze to blow, making the artificial grass on the ground sway.
In front of Shi Yu, a transparent summoning array appeared, and Eleven, looking dazed, walked out from the water-like ripples.
It came out, looked up at the large figure in front of it.
Eleven's current normal height, without size amplification, was about 1 meter, clearly still a child compared to Jiang Rui's iron-eating beast.
"Juvenile stage?"
At this moment, with Eleven's appearance, the martial hall apprentices, who all had iron-eating beasts, immediately judged Eleven's growth level.
"You go first." Jiang Rui said after a moment of silence.
If they attacked directly, Master Lin wouldn't be able to properly assess the newcomer's strength, so they should let the newcomer go first.
"Eleven." Shi Yu didn't hesitate and directly ordered Eleven to attack.
"Roar."
In an instant, Eleven fiercely charged at the opposing iron-eating beast.
"Block it."
Jiang Rui was very confident in his iron-eating beast's hardening strength.
Although... this small iron-eating beast seemed to have strong burst power, it was still in the juvenile stage.
Jiang Rui's iron-eating beast stood still, showing off its skills.
Buzz!
It chose to harden its entire body, waiting for the small iron-eating beast to come.
With the small iron-eating beast's strength and hardening strength... it was impossible to cause any damage, Jiang Rui was very sure.
In fact, even knowing that Eleven's hardening strength was definitely higher than this iron-eating beast's, Shi Yu was unsure if Eleven could seriously injure the opponent with hardening.
The reason was in the basic attributes. Although Eleven's skill proficiency was high, its strength was definitely not as good as this level 10 iron-eating beast.
With only hardening strength and not enough power to match the opponent, the attack would not cause significant damage.
However, Eleven had more than just hardening to use against the enemy.
Zzzzzzzzzz!!!
When Jiang Rui and his iron-eating beast were very confident, using proficient hardening to assess the newcomer's strength, Eleven, which had approached, did not harden its claws to attack or harden its head to ram as everyone expected.
Instead... after approaching the opponent, it immediately pulled back its arm, and in the next moment, a blue and white interwoven light burst from its palm.
A high-intensity current enveloped Eleven's palm, forming a chaotic and violent current mass.
Zzzzzzzzzz—!!!
The sound was like a thousand birds chirping.
Intermediate skill, Thunder Palm!
Under the illumination of the lightning, Eleven's entire body was in a dazzling glow, particularly radiant.
This scene immediately left Jiang Rui and the other apprentices speechless.
This is...???
They widened their eyes, finding it unbelievable, because this skill was absolutely impossible to appear on an iron-eating beast below the Extraordinary level...
The high-intensity current condensed, making Eleven's palm as sharp as a blade, more suitable for attacking than hardening!
At this moment, due to the inability to move while in full-body hardening, Jiang Rui's iron-eating beast could only watch helplessly as the lightning-infused Thunder Palm pierced through.
It was too late to cancel the hardening and dodge.
With a "bang," the thunder roared, and blue and white interwoven lightning surged over Jiang Rui's iron-eating beast, piercing through the hardening and crazily eroding its body.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!!!
In the next second, with the lightning surging through its body, the iron-eating beast was immediately paralyzed, its body tilting involuntarily. Although it hadn't lost its fighting ability, it was clearly seriously injured.
Except for the silent Lin Hongnian, all the martial hall apprentices, including Lin Xiuzhu, opened their mouths, looking at the cautious small iron-eating beast, unable to believe it!