Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 771 - 32: Support Valkyrie (5k)

Everyone practiced for six full hours, and even Xie Ruoxi, who had abundant True Yuan, had to replenish her Elixir Medicine four times just to barely sustain her True Yuan endurance.

After the training ended and everyone took a brief rest, Yan Yu began to chair a review meeting.

"Yun Jin performed well, but she could be more decisive when judging the landing points of spells; she should trust that her instincts are good enough," Coach Yan explained, "On the other hand, Hongyu’s performance was not so good, only blindly blasting Great Bright Fire. Are you a gas stove, always blasting away?"

Upon hearing Yan Yu directly address her as "Hongyu," the girls narrowed their eyes in doubt, while the men were shocked, their eyes wide open, fearing that an enraged Zhou Hongyu would spew out a Phoenix Sword next second and roast Yan Yu right there.

As expected, Zhou Hongyu’s expression turned icy cold, and she suppressed her anger as she said coldly,

"I came here to be a sparring partner; if I don’t breathe fire forcefully, how can I help her train?"

"You could breathe fire with more technique," Yan Yu said.

"Show me how you breathe a pot!" Zhou Hongyu retorted.

"Alright, alright," Tang Xiaolian intervened, smoothing things over, "Technique is something hard to describe just with words here; maybe we should all organize our thoughts into a written explanation afterwards!"

Zhou Hongyu fell silent, thinking since you complain about my technique, send a message to explain it to me clearly! Don’t respond until I understand!

"Moving on to the second group," Yan Yu looked towards Xie Ruoxi, who immediately shrank her neck in anticipation of criticism, but then she heard him switch gears, freeweɓnovel.cøm

"Qin Meng, your sparring isn’t up to scratch."

"Huh?" Qin Meng was startled, "What’s wrong?"

"You heard what Captain Zhou said," Yan Yu stated confidently, "You’re here to be a sparring partner, not to fight to determine a winner. Our Ruoxi indeed has poor accuracy, so if you run too fast she can’t hit you; thus, you should slow down a bit, keeping to a speed she can manage to hit with effort; otherwise, what’s the point of the sparring? Wouldn’t it be better to call Qiu Ze from the Shenxing Battle Team to be a sparring partner?"

Forget it, if it weren’t for the fact that you saved Captain Zhou in Jawa last time, and she owed you a favor to repay, which captain would willingly come here just to be your sparring partner?

Suppressing his desire to complain, Qin Meng responded with an easygoing smile,

"Captain Yan is right; however, Ruoxi did manage to hit me a few times in the end, so it wasn’t completely ineffective."

"Ruoxi has made a lot of progress this time," Yan Yu turned to look at Xie Ruoxi and said authoritatively, "Although she initially wasted too much time getting frustrated, she gradually found her form. Remember the touch of those times you hit your target well, and maintain that momentum in the future and practice more often."

"Understood!" Xie Ruoxi didn’t expect not only to avoid criticism but also to receive praise from the captain, becoming so excited she nodded repeatedly.

"Chen Lingyun and Tang Xiaolian..." Yan Yu spoke slowly, and Lingyun was all smiles, while Xiaolian appeared uneasy and clearly very nervous.

"...both of you did reasonably well, although there are many issues with the actual operations. Mainly it’s due to a lack of experience, which will improve with more practice."

Yan Yu then turned his gaze to the remaining members and said,

"Next are Xiao Zhang and Sister Zhao, you guys were sparring in the bowl, unseen by me, so Xiao Zhang, give us an evaluation."

The crowd was speechless upon hearing this. Zhang Huaide was "Xiao Zhang," and Zhao Yuanzhen was "Sister Zhao." The two people who were about the same age suddenly had such a gap in seniority?

Zhang Huaide was indifferent about this nominal issue and adjusted his glasses frame before saying,

"Sister Zhao was quite proactive, and her thought process was clear, but she needs to be a bit more flexible in adaptability..."

"The same three moves, I know, no need to mention it," Yan Yu interrupted.

The so-called three classic moves of the Demonic Sect Enchantress: aggressive attack, fierce attack, and frenzied attack! If the frenzied attack failed to make a breakthrough, she would lose her sense tactically and have no clue how to proceed—the same could be guessed about her defense: swift.guard, fierce.guard, and desperate.guard, blocking whatever comes without any basic mental strategizing or anticipating the opponent’s next move; in a nutshell, simply giving up if she couldn’t hold out, as using her brain was out of the question.

Zhao Yuanzhen pouted and turned her head aside, thinking what is the use of this defense-only training? It’s both boring and unsatisfying! I’m just too lazy to get serious; otherwise, with Xiao Zhang’s poor swordsmanship, how could he ever breach my defense?

Damn it! Damn it! The little thief criticized me again as being repetitive; when the day comes, I’ll show you the true essence of my Enchantress’s three moves!

Imagining a scenario where Yan Yu was begging for mercy under her torment, Zhao Yuanzhen quickly improved her mood and no longer cared about Zhang Huaide’s comments. Finally, Yan Yu looked towards Lin Ning and said,

"Ningning’s issues, we’ll talk about those after lunch."

"Hey! Why am I the only one being discussed later?" Lin Ning immediately protested.

"Like Hongyu, the areas you need to improve on cannot be clarified in a few words, I’ll write them down for you afterward," Yan Yu said.

Yan Yu was quite satisfied with the overall effect of this group practice session; after all, it was difficult to find someone like Zhou Hongyu, a superb Magic Cultivator for Su Yunjin to train with; and others like Qin Meng, capable of withstanding the least powerful Thunder Method as a moving target, were uniquely invaluable. As for Tang Xiaolian and Chen Lingyun, Zhang Huaide and Zhao Yuanzhen, their training effects were quite satisfactory, essentially reaching a passable standard.