Chapter 294: If I was giving it to your mother... Part3

"Do you want to stand beside and fight as equals with your friend over there?"

"Or do you want to be simply left behind in the dust?" Miller looked at Charlotte and sternly asked.

The poor elf was visibly stunned. 

She was already very nervous being questioned and criticized by a Grandmaster no less.

But this time, the dwarf had hit the nail perfectly on its head.

He had exactly asked the questions which Charlotte was dreading about.

She was not blind to not see how Tang Yue was growing and developing at an exponential pace.

It would not be long now when the woman crosses her and soon becomes someone outside of her reach.

And in all honesty, Charlotte was unsure if she could ever keep up with Tang Yue even if she tried her best.

But that being said, it was always better to try and fail, rather than do nothing and fail anyway.

Charlotte again only nodded silently, but this time there was a spark of resolution in her eyes.

Even though it was very subtle, Miller could still see this small change in her attitude and scratched his chin in approval.

Teaching rich brats was a pain in the ass, but he decided to make an exception for Charlotte.

"I will later gather some materials on rune crafting for you."

"But since you are already in the Saint realm, you should quickly break through to the Demi-God realm first."

Charlotte, who had her head bent down until now, quickly looked up as if she had seen a ghost.

Quickly breakthrough to Demi-God realm? Was that a joke?

"Don't look at me like that brat. Did you think that I don't know about your body constitution?" 

"Your physical body is naturally pristine without even the slightest amount of impurities."

"While others have to go through strenuous physical body tempering, your body is already in peak condition."

"Your mana affinity is also incomparable."

"You should have already broken through to Demi-God realm by now at least in these two aspects."

"Don't squander the gifts given by the heavens. Cultivation is a long, arduous, and boring path."

"But without strength and cultivation, you will only be forced to helplessly watch as your loved one withers away."

"If you don't want such a fate, put the required efforts and get the things done."

The man continued barraging Charlotte for a long time and when he was finally done, he took her to the second floor of the smithy.

In one of the rooms, he quickly set up a fire elemental array for her.

Tang Yue was using these arrays to physically condition herself but the real purpose of such arrays, well less powerful version of such arrays, is to concentrate the respective elemental essences.

With the help of the array, now Charlotte would be able to cultivate at a much faster pace and with more efficiency.

The girl usually disliked sitting by herself like this and spending her time cultivating, but today, she obediently followed all of Miller's orders, bite the bullet, and silently cultivated.

While Charlotte was cultivating on the second floor of the smithy, Tang Yue was rigorously bashing the hammer against the hardened Kirrion metal using the full power of her cultivation base and her physical strength.

Kirrion ores were the famous supreme quality metal ores used for smithing spirit weapons.

But Miller had casually taken out a whole bunch of them for training Tang Yue's physical body condition.

If anyone else in the Dwarven Empire saw this, even if it was another Grandmaster, they would surely pop a blood vessel.

Kirrion ores were indeed one of the best ways to train one's physical body.

Every strike on the ore, as soon as the hammer touches the metal's surface, sends out a powerful backlash out which puts extreme pressure and stress on the person.

The meridians, the blood vessels, bones, muscles, tendons, and every single part of the body undergo repeated tempering and conditioning through these powerful backlashes.

Using this method, even without ingesting any herbs and elixirs, impurities from the body were kicked out through sheer brute force.

So surely it was a top-grade method for tempering one's body. 

However, no one dared to use it because the price of such ores was simply too ridiculous.

Instead of wasting resources on physical tempering, if one were to sell the ore or smith it into a spirit weapon, the money from this one sale itself would be even for seven generations to live peacefully.

Even though the Dwarven Empire had several mines capable of birthing Kirrion ores, it was still never enough.

The supply was ridiculously lower than the demand.

Not even the Dwarven Emperor himself had a complete set of spirit armor and weapons.

Not only were these extremely difficult to forge, but they also had an abysmal success rate.

So, in reality, these spirit weapons were humongous gold sinks. 

But it was still worth it because this was the best possible weapon and armor even at a Deity's level.

More importantly, the strength and power of the weapon and armor grow with the user. 

So when a cultivator steps into the Demi-God or Deity realm, their weapons and armors would also be of the same grade.

Because of all of this, no one would dare to use Kirrion ores for mere physical tempering.

But currently, Tang Yue was in fact training hard with this exact same precious heavenly metal.

Every time her hammer swung and hit the chunk of ore, her entire body shook and trembled from the pressure of the backslash, intense waves of pain and agony storming through her body, slowly but steadily chiseling it.

With just a dozen swings, blood started pouring out of her orifices and Tang Yue was already at her limits.

She could only rest a little, wait for the pain to become bearable, before once again hitting the damned chunk of ore with her hammer.

Just like this, the two women continued working hard, all the way through the night.

Because Charlotte was cultivating, she didn't necessarily need a break.

And Tang Yue was not even a little bit closer to finishing her assigned ten thousand hits, so she couldn't take a break.

As a result, the duo ended up training rigorously for almost an entire week without even taking a single night off to sleep and recuperate.

When Tang Yue finally managed to finish her first set of ten thousand hits on the 8th day, she simply collapsed on the spot.

Little Blue ran howled anxiously and ran towards its master, licking her face a dozen times, but Miller just chuckled.

He actually did not expect Tang Yue to finish the entire set on her first try itself, but the girl had stubbornly persisted till the end.

"Yue, your daughter is just like you. Stubborn and unreasonable." The dwarf covered his face and chuckled, a melancholic smile on his face.

He then stood up and left the smithy, leaving Tang Yue by herself.

The woman was collapsed on the floor lifelessly like a frog run over by a carriage.

But soon fire elemental and earth elemental essences started swirling around her body.

Mana from the air entered her body in large volumes as if she was a vortex sucking out all the energy in the surroundings.

Each strand of mana was a breath of fresh air and it nourished and healed Tang Yue's tired body like rain on parched ground.

This type of physical conditioning was almost the same as Tang Yue's evolution abilities. 

Her body was broken down completely and was now being rebuilt.

But unlike the evolution ability, where her innate magic and altered bloodline drove this process, here the backlashes from the Kirrion ores triggered this process and now it was progressing naturally without any driving factor.

This type of conditioning was even superior to her evolution ability in a way.

But the scary part was combining both her evolution ability and this sort of physical tempering.

Since her body was already an evolved one, Tang Yue would now be several folds stronger than a normal cultivator who had undergone the same physical tempering.

A couple of hours later, Tang Yue stirred awake and immediately sat down in a cross-legged position to properly cultivate.

She could feel that her earth essence mana core was already at the Broke rank bottleneck.

If she pushed through, she will be easily able to reach the Silver rank Emperor realm.

However, because of her training in the smithing process, her earth elemental core was progressing at a much faster pace than her fire elemental core.

Tang Yue couldn't help but wonder if this was what the old man had warned her about.

If one focused on two different elemental cores, it was inevitable that eventually one would become primary and the other would become secondary, and overall, this will create an imbalance.

Since Miller was not around, Tang Yue decided to talk to her other Master and see what the old man had to say about this.